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Ni BYCLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 38. Mg ?C?^ <N ^\ /TN ON ^S.' wi' w.> i? WE have just received a big line of Boys' and Children's CLOTHING-, which we have placed on sale to-day. They are all new and strictly up-to-date in every particular. All Wool ? Yes, that's the only kind of cloth we have made up into Suits. Children's sizes from 3 to 8 years. Boys' sizes from 7 to 16 years. We invite a thorough inspection of our Goods. Your money back if you want it. D ) ? >> ?i I I ? (Ii) 1 ?gj \& ^ Vi/vi/ ^vC - <^ ?f^- ?<P>v WE are now offering some Goods that were slightly dam aged by water in the recent fire AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. These goods are only slightly damaged, and it will be to your interest to call and examine them, as they are cheap. We have just received a beautiful line of GENTS' RUSSET and OXBLOOD BALS For Summer wear which we are going to sell very close. We are still closing out our Heavy Winter Goods at greatly reduced prices to make room for Summer Goods. Give us a call, and you will be convinced that our prices are right. The Yates OBELISK "Friendship is all right in its place, but bus iness is business." Lots of Flour in Town, and everybody wants to sell you, but no one ex cept Brownlee & Yardivers can sell you Bal lard's "Obelisk," "Favorite," -Blue Bird," "Waterlop" and "Old Hickory." If you need any Flour, from 21 lbs. to a car load, we can sell it to you for as little or fur less than you can buy cheap suit!" elsewhere. In every oth er barrel or sack you get a pnzs which costs you nothing. MOLASSES. We thought some time ago that we had over bought but are nearly out, and are expecting another car by every freight, which we can sell you for le39 money than you can buy the sanie goods for on this market, and we guarantee them not to sour. See ns on Molasses and we will do you good. ? OFFEE-All grades, from 10c. per lb. to the finest grown. Try ona dollar's worth of Leygett's Breakfast Java and enjoy good Coffee for once in your life TOBACCO-We can sell any sane man his Tobacco. Eighteen grades to relect from. If you don't see what you want ask for it. This is our Grocery season, and we aim to sell every fair mined person that honors ns witt, a look on his Spring bill ; but while we are pushing Groceries we have not for gotten Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, &c, and'can show you a slick, honest line of Goods cheap for cash. Yours for traffic, BROWNLEE & V?NDIVERS. ^"'Always Reliable. Atlantic Acid Phosphate ATLANTIC SOLUBLE GUANO. And other brands of their well known High Grade Fertilizers, for sale by : : : : .T.-1 r. JD. JP. SLOA?J. THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat means tings dat's good to eat, Meet also means tings dat's brober ; 'Tis only mote to measure des? tin^s Yen stcampoats meet the stabber." That Dutchman caught the idea on the first jump, and if you would bc wiso and want to got fat and jolly like the typical Dutchman, ( Mayor Tolly or our Senior,) you will loso no time to visit our Establishment, where you will find overy thing that is good to eat, snch as Fresh Meats, Vegetables, Fruits and Canned Goods, Cured Meats, Flour, Meal, Sugar, Molasses, And everything necessary for seasoning and shortening. "We handle everything to eat-the best that can be procured, and at the lowest prices. Free City Delivery. Telephone No. 41. ?3. H. POORE & CO., City Marlcot. DEPOT STKEET. THOS. A. ARCHER. CLARENCE OSBORNE. ARCHER * OSBORNE YTTISH the public to know that they have recently oncned upa new lino of FIRST VY CLASS Cooking and Heating Stoves, Cooking Utensils of all kinds. Crockery, Lamps, Glassware, Tinware, Woodenware, &c, And that they prr>po3? selling them as cheap r.s anybody ?ti Anderson. Como and see our Goods and get our nrico?. We will treat you.right. Wo want your trad<\ We want to Rive you full val un for it. We are abo prepared lo do all kinds of TIN Wi >RK, such a: Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is wf ll equipp3d, nnd we will do your vrorfc on <diort notice and at rea sonable prices. ?S" We are keen up for bu-intss. Don't give U3 thc go-by. Yours'.) ul v, ARCHER &IOSBORNE. HOW ESPINOSA DIED. He Was America's Greatest Bandit a had Eighty Murders Charged to Him Atlanta Journal, . It was while out on a deer hunt the mountains of Southern "Califor I that I heard for thc first time, t true facts regarding the killing America's greatest haudit, Jesu Es] nosia. Our guide, "Capt." Jeni was a survivor of a type which t encroachments of civilization ha almost exterminated. For over fif years he had heen alternately hunt< scout, guide, Indian lighter, trader a I pioneer. Like Othello, his occupati was now gone, and he lived a hermil life in a little cahin nestled anio the crags and peaks of thc San B( nardino range. By dint ol1 much pt suasion we had succeeded in gaini: his"consent to join usas guide, fe while the old fellow enjoyed huntii above all else, he did not want li sport ruined by "dcrncd tender-feet as he disparagingly termed us. Oi evening, after an especially good day hunt, we were buried in our blanke around a huge camp fire, enjoying post prandial pipe, when some 01 called on Jenks for the most excitii experience of his career. Fortunat ly, he was in a reminiscent mood, ai after a few moments'.silence he pufft his pipe vigorously, and without pr face began : "In the fall of 1S6G or 'G7, I don remember which, now, flic govcrnmei sent a regiment of regulars to Colorai to put a stop to making moonshir. whiskey and selling it to the Injun It warn't long before they had wc nigh broken up thc whole busines: but they took mighty stiff ways c doing it. Among others that wa making a fortune out of whiskey wa Espinosa. Ile was a quiet, sober ol greaser, but a man who it warn't bes to rile, as he was the best shot i Colorado. When the regulars got ont him they confiscated his whiskej horses and wagons, and cverythin else he owned. In thc fight that fol lowed Espinosa was thc only one o his family that escaped. The old ma wasn't eddicated, 'cept in Mexican and it was impossible to make hil understand that he was breaking th law. Ile swore that he would hav revenge, and, Santa Madre, he got it For the next three years a man's lif warn't safe outside of Denver. H never killed a woman nor robbed tin men he murdered. Ile would taki the money out of their pockets am pile it on their breast and leave 'en dead in the road. This thing went oi until over eighty murders were charg ed to Espinosa, anda reward of $5,001 offered for his head. There were ; good many brave men scattered abou Denver to whom that pile lookec mighty big. but, somehow, we weren' fascinated by the prospect. How somever, I turned the matter over ir my head, and came to the couclusior that 1 was going to corral that cash oi eat hot lead a-trying it. There wal only one man I could depend on to gc with me, and I immediately went tc see him. While on my way to hi; house word was brought in that c wealthy rancher had been killed ter miles out of Denver, and eight thou sand dollars in gold and notes founc piled on his breast. His wife was tice between four trees, a hand or lep bound to each tree, and almost deat from pain and exposure. That set tled it. I reached Tuhb's place thal night, and talked it over with him. '"That is to say, I did the talking, for Tubbs was known as a silent man. He never spoke more than one sen tence at a time, and seldom that. When I had spun my yarn, he turned to me and said : " 'Who's going to git killed ?' "Knowing his drift, 1 answered : 'The man who's seen first.' " 'Correct,' he says. Then, after a long time, he looks at me and says : 'I'll let you know in thor morning.' He must have made up his mind dur ing the night, for he went to thc jus tice of thc peace and the priest after breakfast, made his will and took the sacramei D, I believe they call it, and then told me he was ready. That afternoon wc started for the scene of the last murder. After an hour's search we found a trail through the woods, and here let mc state Espinosa warn't alone. Ile had a nephew, a young fellow about 25 years old, who he had taken with him. Well, wc followed their trail till night, and then lost it. Off and on during thc next three days we would find signs of the greasers, but always a day or more cold. Finally, our trail led us to the foothills, and we knew for sartin Es pinosa had gone to some rendezvous in the mountains. There was one peak directly ahead of us which was separated from the rest of the range, and wc made up our minds our birds were on it. After a consultation we decided I was to return and bring re inforcements from tho military post at Denver. I reached thc town next day and was given a squad of ten men, including a sergeant and lieutenant. On our arrival at the foot of the mountain Tubbs was gone, so we con cluded to cam]) there that night and await his return. Just before sun up bc came back, with news of a fresh trail. We broke cam]) at once and, leaving our horses picketed on the ci?naga, began thc ascent of the mountain, single file. After wasting half the day with no result, wc decided to separate. I taking the back trail, while the lieutenant and six men should round thc mountain on one side, Tubbs, thc sergeant and one soldier go the other, both squads to meet and report at thc same place. I left thom and worked my way down thc side nf the mountain until I reached a creek that wound round to thc valley on thc opposite side from which wc ascended. lt was about 5 o'clock in thc evening, and I had almost roached the foothills, when 1 was brought to a halt by the sound of voices coming from a ci?naga .rn thc other side of the .stream. The banks was lined with a thicket of brushes, and I could not sec my man, but 1 was morally sar tain it was Kspi noza's voice. 'Now or never.' 1 thought, as I worked my way across the ravine. I know that thc snapping of a twig or the rustling of a leal* would Dican instant death, for Kspi nosa never missed his man. 1 must have been near on an hour making my way through four or live feet of brush, and 1 could still hear thc voice talking in a low tune. Seeing that the car tridge was in good order, and slipping several more in my month for an emergency, I drew a lon,;: breath, brought my gnu to a level, and sprang out into tin1 ccinaga. There stood a drunken soldier from the ?'ort, his arm around his horse's neck, talking to him ! "You fellers can laugh, but that ar blue co;it was nearer death fer the next minute than he had ever been afore. I could a shot him to see him wiggle, but I knew the sound of a gun would ruin all our plans, so after I cussing the fool to thc best of my ability, I struck a back trail for our rendcsvous. I was the last one to get in and Tubbs brought the joyful intel ligence that our game was coralled. About a mile from whore wc had separated, he had struck a trail of fresh blood, only a few drops here and there, and hard as hell to follow, but succeeded in tracing it to the mouth of a blowhole. Ever see a blowhole ? Xo ? Well, it's a cavity like a fun nel, sunk deep in the mountain, usu ally from GO to 100 feet deep, and most always choked up with a growth of pine trees and old logs, stones and brush. Thc trail ended here, and he couldn't Gnd a path down, but he was certain that Espinosa was cached somewhere in the hole. That night we worked our way to the spn' nd no Injun ever stalked a deer . e care fully than wc did in gettn.0 there. When we reached thc mouth, Tubbs ordered the lieutenant to place his men around the hole and to kill any body that came out, on sight. Twarn't no use to try to capture the greaser alive, and besides, 'twas his head we wanted, anyhow. The men were sta tioned as ordered, and I took my stand where the blood trail ended. Then Tubbs began the most wonder ful piece of scouting I ever saw. His hunting knife was as keen as a razor, and with this between his teeth, and his rifle in hand, he began the descent of the blowhole. To do this he had to lie down on his belly, his head at an angle of 45 degrees below his feet, and go through that mess of brush, twigs, dry leaves, stumps and logs, dragging his gun, and all without a sound. The least noise would bc a signal to Espinosa to send a shot in that direction, and it would bc all over. But Tubbs was too old a bird not to handle himself correct. Each leaf was picked up carefully and ! aid aside ; each twig cautiously cut away, and several times he spent anlnur cutting through a log with his knife, that he dared not climb over. After eight hours of this creeping he had covered near about 33 or 40 feet, and reached a point where a view could be obtained of the bottom of the blow hole. It was about 30 feet below him. A log had fallen across the ground, reaching to either side, and beside this sat Espinosa, his back turned towards Tubbs. He was mend ing a saddle, and every few minutes he would reach up and take down a sinew from a lot he had hung on the log above him. On the opposite side of that log, cleaning a gun, was his nephew. Tubbs drew a long breath, and, sliding his rifle into position, took aim. He felt that his hand was a bit unsteady, and, as his life depend ed on the shot, Le lowered it again. Twice more he covered Espinosa, only to rest again. At last, feeling that his nerves were in proper shape, he took aim and pulled the trigger. As the report rang out, Espinosa sprang to his feet, threw up his hands, and fell backward. Thc shot had broken his back. "Hun, nephew, run," he shouted, in Spanish. "They have killed mc." Thc young fellow started off up thc bank, but Tubbs called his game with a bullet through the heart. The soldiers had been given positive orders not to move from their positions under a.oy circumstances, but an excitable Dutch man started down thc hole at break neak speed. Espinosa heard him coming, and, although his back was broken and he could not rise, he raised himself on his shoulder and fired. Thc soldier fell with a bullet through his brain. Tn the meanwhile, Tubbs had finished his descent, and another shot from his rifle put an end to the devilish greaser's life. The regulars made their way down, and Tubbs or dered one of the soldiers to cut off Espinosa's head. The feller was a half-breed greaser, and did't like the job, but Tubbs, persuasive power with a rifle was always something remarka ble. 'The head was placed in a sack, to be carried to Denver. We found a deer with its throat cut, and an arrow in its heart, which helped us so much. Espinosa must have known he was followed, as he only used a bow and arrow when the bark of a gun would be heard by his pursuers. In his pocket we found a diary which he had kept ever since he became an outlaw, with a list of every man he had killed, always followed by a prayer of thanks to Jesus Christ, for thc sacrifice of a "gringo." This made me believe that the old devil was loco (crazy). Wc returned to thc fort, and soon afterwards Tubbs and I received thc reward. J. W. Climen. Ile Hot His Match. One cold and stormy evening la:;t winter a prosperous-looking business man stopped in the vestibule of a large office building, on his way out, ami attempted to light a cigar. An urchin with an armful of papers also stood within the arch, stamping his feet on the stone step to warm them, as he lustily cried his wares. The wind blew out the last match which the fur-coated broker had about his person, and he turned to thc boy and said : '?{1?re, boy. give me a match." Thc lad eyed the gentleman furtive ly as he inquired, ''Say, mister, is that a demand or a request ?" Instead of being angry at this report, the gentleman-for he was such-re plied kindly : "A request, my boy, an humble re quest, and I'll take a couple of even ing papers, too, I guess," he added, as he received the match from the youngster's band and passed him a quarter, "and you may keep thc change." "That" man's got manners if he's a mind tn take the time ter usc'cm," said the boy, as his patron boarded a car. "That boy won't always have to sell papersif he practices what he preaches, thought thc broker, as he sat down to read tilt; news. - "Shall I ask your father, dear?" he inquired, after the worst was over. ".Just see mamma, George,11 she re plied." Daubers of tho Grip. Tile greatest danger from La Grippe is of its resulting in pneumonia, li reasonable care is used, however, and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy taken, all danger will bc avoided. Among thc tens of thousands who have used this remedy l'or la grippe, we have yob to learn of a single case having result ed in pneumonia, which shows conclu sively that this remedy is a certain preventive of that dread disease. 1. will effect a penna nen I cure in less time than any other treatment. The *J."> and 50 cent sizes for .-ale by Iiill Orr Drug Co. BILL AUFS LETTER. Fifty Years Ago he Predicted Many of the Appliances of To-day. A dania Constitution. We old people are thankful that wc began life early in thc century and have lived to close it. No such pe riod of progress has transpired since the world was made. Progress in art and science, the diffusion of knowl edge and thc spread of Christianity; progress in invention and contrivance for better living and thc comforts and pleasures of life; progress in mental and moral intelligence. There is no equal comparison between thc last six ty years and any that preceded them. Progress made a great leap forward, and seems to have come to a halt. We cannot imagine that thc world needs anything more in the way of invention but it will in a few years, and then it will come. A kind Providence never fails us. One by one the doors are un locked-the mysteries of nature are revealed. Just fifty years ago I was chosen a Junior orator from the Phi Kappa So ciety in Franklin College. It was es teemed a great honor then to be one of the four, and I am proud even now to tell my children and grandchildren about it. There were forty-four of us in my class and I was one of the four. The honor was not for my oratory, but more for my scholarship and popular ity among my society members. I did not expect it, I did not deserve it, and 1 was grieved that some of my low country classmates whom I love were left out and I was chosen. In that day the Savannah boys were not pop ular in college. They were looked upon as swells and aristocrats, and from then until now nothing in the way of honors or offices has been given to Savannah. I have lamented this for all these years. There arc no no bler people in all the State than Sa vannah people. I admire them and respect them, and whenever one of them offers for office I am for him on general principles. The good princi ples, the integrity of thc old Hugue nots and Carolinians who settled in that region has descended to their pos terity and they are still the best peo ple wc have in the State. The cradle of liberty was there, and if ever wc have to fall back on men to perpetu ate our revolutionary principles, I had rather depend upon the old-time peo ple of Savannah than any others. I was in college with John Screven and Charley Hardce and Henry Law and Monroe Mciver and many from Sa vannah, and they were the best boys wc had. But I started to tell that the sub ject of my junior orator's speech vas "Au Hundred Years Hence." It was a prophetic speech, and, of course, I got my father to help me write it. All the boys do that. It was a good speech, and made an impression, but I have often thought how little we then knew of what was to happen in the next fifty years. No telegraph, no telephone of phonographs, no air brakes on railroads, no antiseptic rem edies in surgery, no X rays, no elec tric lights, no oil stoves, no refrigera tor cars, no fruic or vegetables from Florida or California, no ice factories, no elevators, no bicycles, no manufac tured fertilizers. My prophetic speech was not prophetic, though it did tell that in less than lifty years the people would travel in the air on flying ma chines. Just fifty yeats ago I traveled to college at Athens on amule train from Union Point and thought I was doing pretty well, for we were perched on top of a caboose, and had ample time to peruse the country on both sides as we jogged along. It was only forty miles, but took all day to make it. I remember that I had on boots-home made boots-and I wore straps to keep my pants down. That was thc fash ion then-leather straps that were buttoned on the inside of thc pants. They kept the legs of the pants down so straight that thc knecpan made a depression and looked like a goose had laid an egg in them. What a momen tous event it was for a boy to enter college. At that time it took three years to go arouud the world, but this was a bigger thing than the world bigger to mc-bigger to my dear moth er, who had long cherished the idea that I was to bc cither a preacher or a president. But now I am . almost alone and have been neither. Almost everybody I then knew is dead. Bris coe and Cody and Ferrell and Thorn ton and Montgomery and Henry Law and Grant and thc King boys, and not long ago Willoughby Lumpkin died the boy whom 1 specially loved, for he was always lovable and true. Chess Howard and Jim Warren are still in thc land of thc living where peace may bc sought and pardon found. Chess is always genial and kind, and I had hopes for Jim Warren, for he is as solid as a rock and has been a govern or's secretary for about twenty years. With pride I have pointed to him as one among thc few who have prosper ed and maintained their integrity. But of late a change seems to have come over him. Ile has been to Flor ida on a vacation and has fallen from grace. But few men can go to Florida and tell the truth afterwards. I sec by thc papers that Jim-thc steady, unexcitable Jim-had gone off after Florida gods, and writes back that he caught a string of sheepshead and a conger eel in a fog-just threw out a line in a Tampa bay mist and caught a whole string, thinking that he was fishing in the water, but found out when the mist lifted that he was half a mile from the inlet and had been fishing in thc fog. It beats Bud Kcr nodle, who swore that thc fish were so cager thai he had to get behind a tree to bait his hook. 1. expected the like of that from Kernodlc, but from Jim Warren, never. 1 have boen refer ring my grandsons to him as an exam ple of truth and integrity. Jim and I arc about the same agc. and I wanted us to go along down together and have thc same epitaph, but there is no re liance on a man who goes fishing in Florida. Thc devil, who is thc fath er of liars, must live there or there abouts. Speaking of thc old times, I was ru minating about the advantages that we veterans have over the present rising generation, who never knew the want of modern inventions. These young people who were born in an age ol' electricity and newspapers and books without number and store clothes and bicycles. Contrast sweetens every thing. A man who was reared poor can all the belter enjoy riches. A prisoner appreciates liberty. A sick man enjoys good health when it conies ttl him. We read id' a man who after years of confinement in a gloomy dun geon who was so overjoyed at beinn suddenly released (hat he devoted all his earnings to buying the birds in ev ery ca?e that he saw and giving thom their liberty. 'T was a prisoner myself," he said, '"and know how it feels." Eut habits arc like chains, and wc old men still stic*. to the ways of our fathers. Yesterday T bought a home made basket from an old darky, and 1 had respect for him just because he continues to make baskets. Ho said that nary one of his children or grand children knew how and didn't want to know, but that he could yearn a quarter of a dollar every night and not miss the time. And now thc spring is upon us again, and thc robins are on dress parade in our-grove. The peach trees are budding. The plum trees are in bloom, and all nature is putting on her vernal robes. Everything that is artificial changes and decays, but Dame nature is thc same in her rota tions. * Spring follows winter now just as it did thousands of years ago, when the poet said : "Thc winter is over and gone. Thc time for the singing of birds has come and the voice of thc turtle dove is heard in the land." May it bring peace and comfort to all who aro in distress. BILL ARP. Workwoman Becomes Rieht Mary Ann Bascombe of Stapleton. S. L., is one of the most remarkable women in America. Born in a little frame house at Gordon and Broad streets. Stapleton, 56 years ago, she began life at 12 years of agc as maid of all work, receiving as wages but $15 a year, yet from this humble begin ning she has succeeded through her own unaided efforts in amassing a fortune of over $500,000. She lives in a modest house at the comer of Gordon and Broad streets, Stapleton, on the site where she was born. "My maiden name was Mary Ann McDonough," she said to a re porter thc other day. "My father was Thomas McDonough a contractor of Bichmond county, and during his lifetime I did not want for anything. When he died I was still a young girl, but it was necessary for me to lind work or starve, as he left us very poor. At first I was paid only $2 a week, but I put my whole heart and soul into learning to do piece work, until by the time I was 17 years old I made on an average of ?ll a week. I saved a great deal of money. For five years I worked as factory girl." Miss McDonough was married be fore she was 20 years old, but her hus band died after two children were born. She then began work as a washerwoman. All the time she saved money and married again. She con tinued washing for wages and invested her savings in real estate. She-was so successful that one of her brothers entrusted her with his savings to invest, and the investment yielded abundant returns. She now has 65 houses and not one of them is encum bered by a mortgage. By her second marriage Mary Ann Bascombe has six children, so that she is the mother of eight children, all of whom are living. She is a model landlord. Said she : "When a tenant comes to me and says, 'Mary Ann, I haven't the rent this month,' I do not tell him to look for lodgings elsewhere, but I ask him if he has plenty to eat in the house, or is in need of any money. When that man leaves me he no longer looks upon me as his landlord, but as his friend, and he will slave his fingers to his bone when he does get work in order to pay me my due. You sec, I am a believer in the honesty of the poor." Whenever a tenant needs advice he has only to apply to Mrs. Bascombe. If a father is in doubt as to what trade to apprentice his son or a mother is uncertain as to a career for her daugh ter Mary Ann Bascombe settles the question. If a tenant has money to invest Mary Ann's advice is invaria bly asked. She is not only landlord over her tenants, but she exercises a direct influence in their lives, even drawing up wills and having their lives insured. Thc insurance policy is made out in her name with the un derstanding that she will pay the ex amination fees and all the dues. When the person insured dies Mary Ann collects thc policy, pays the fun eral expenses, ia'rea out what she has advanced and remits thc balance to those entitled to it. In paying dues on the lives of tenants shebas insured she spends about SI,000 a year out of her own personal income.-Chicago Chronicle. How He Meant to Settle lt. Judge Murphy was trying a case in San Bafael once. It was a murder case, and bitterly contested. It had not proceeded very far before the attorneys got to loggerheads. The attorney for the defence did his best to imitate the attorney for thc pros ecution, and the prosecuting attorney retaliated with all his might. Finally matters got to such a pitch that the attorney for prosecution turned upon his opponent and called him down in open court. Judge .Murphy inter rupted, saying : "Gentlemen, gentlemen, this won't do. This sort of thing is very disre spectful to the court. This is no place for such exhibitions. If you goutlemen have any differences to set tle, settle them out of court." The attorney for the defense inme diately rose and said: "We have i differences, if Your Honor please." "If Your Honor please," said the prosecuting attorney, "I wish to say that we have differences. And I wish to give notice that when court adjourns I intend to crack that man's head over there." Judge Murphy exploded. "How dare you, sir? How dare you ? Tins is the grossest contempt of court ! How dare you come here and attempt to terrify counsel ? 1 fine you $50, sir ; $50." The attorney replied : "That is rather hard on me, if Your Honor please. Your Honor distinctly sug gested that I. should settle my differ ences with this man out of court, and I gave notice of my intention to do so. That was all. I have the highest respect and appreciation of Your Honor's judgment in such matters, and I felt proud to accept Your Honor's advice." Judge Murphy was not proof against such subtle flattery, and the fine was promptly remitted - Sim Francisco Bulletin. STATE OF 'Uno, ('ITV or TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUSTY, | FKAKK J. CllRKEY makes oath that lie la the scniar pail ncr of Hie firm of P.J. CHENEY \ C<>, doini; business ?II thc ? 'itv of Toledo, County and Stat? aforesaid, and I bat said finn will pay tho Bum ul' OXEHUNlJREU DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH thal cannot occured hy the usc of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. PRANK J. CITENEY. Sworn lo hefore me mid subscribed in my pres ptico, ilii-, titli dav of ivcemlier, A. I) is?i?. [SEAL] A. \V. GLEASON, Notary Publie. Ital!'.- Catarrh Cure is lakcn internally and arts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of thc system, bend for testimonial!:, free. Address. F. J. CHENEY &? CO.,Toledo O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. TOLD OF JACKSON. AND LEE Flapjacks of Leo':; Darky Cook Saved the Union. Strange, is it not, that Jackson, like Sheridan, should have been con sidered "crazy" the first year of the war? Indeed, before the war so ec centric was he that he was called "Crazy Jack" at thc Virginia Military Institute. Nobody seemed to under stand him. But so it has ever been and ever will be. when we ordinary mortals can't comprehend a genius wc set even with him by calling him crazy. 1 remember well how uneasy some of the Confederate generals were when placed under Jackson's command in early 1862. Kwell didn't like it, and Dick Taylor didn't like it. They were afraid Jackson would lead them into some awful scrape or other. And when Ewell, with his division, was lying near Gordonsville in late April 1862, but subject to Jackson's orders, Ewell and Taylor were very unxious to get from under him-either to go down to Joe Johnson at Yorktown, or to have some general sent to the valley who would rank with Jackson. So, at Taylor's instance, he was sent to Richmond by Ewell to see Mr. Davis, his brother-in-law, and Mr. Benjamin, then Secretary of State, but recently Secretary of War, about getting away from Jackson. But while Taylor was gone Jackson ordered Ewell to '-'come a-running to the valley ! The camp he had left in the morning at Swift River gap, on the northwest side of the Blue Kidgo, Ewell occupied that night. Jackson was gone, he knew not where. The valley campaign had open ed, he was making his strategic detour back southwest over thc Blue Bidge toward Charlotts.v?lle ; hence by rail past Staunto Buffalo Gap, and thence northwest by long marches to Mc Dowell, where he struck Milroy. But there wc were for a few days at Swift Hun gap, without hearing a thing of Jackson. General Ewell may have known where he was, but I doubt it. Meanwhile, Taylor returned from Richmond to the old camp near Gor donsville, to find that Ewell had gone to Jackson in the valley. Taylor was thunderstruck. One of his commands happened to be a little way out from camp on the road toward Gordonsville, when Taylor came ratling down the mountain side in his ambulance. He asked me what meant General Ewell's being ordered to the valley. I told him I did not know. He then asked mc where General Jackson was. I again had to confess my ignorance, and could only say that he had broken camp on a certain morning, going with his own division southwest, no one seemed to know whore, and that Gen eral Ewell occupied his camp that night, and had been there ever since. "v'dl," dd Taylor, "this is strange. Nobody at Bichmond knows anything about it. But," he added, "there is one consolation. We won't be under this d-d old crazy fool long. Gen. Longstreet is coming up here to take command." It was too late, however, to change commanders. Jackson was then fight ing Milroy far to tho west of us. He probably never knew how ncarhe came to missing Iiis great fame in the val ley, and that in that campaign he not only defeated four Federal command ers, but "outflanked" two of his own best generals and the "folks" back at Richmond. Jackson disturbed his immediate subordinates by never telling them his plans nor consulting them. They had simply to follow him blindly. Ile never explained any proposed cam paign to a subordinate nor called a council of war nor aslicd advice. Soon after Ewell joined him in thc valley. I remember riding with Gen. Taylor and coming upon Gen. Ewell. Tay lor asked him. wh?.t the movement meant. In his curt, half-abstracted way. Ewell replied: "I don't know. If Gen. Jackson were shot down I wouldn't know a thing of his plans !" "What !" said Taylor, "you second in command and don't know ! If I were second in command I would know!" "You would, would you?" smiled Ewell in his old way, holding his head to one side like a sapsucker peeping around a tree. "No, you wouldn't know any more than I do now. You don't yet know the man." But Ewell and Taylor found their "crazy," reticent commander to have more war sense than, all of them put together. So they ever pinned their faith to him, admired him and loved him. I have said that Taylor was often sick and suffering intense bodily pain; yet, that battle or emergency, with its responsibility and danger would soothe his pains, make his head clearer and his disposition more amiable. Not so with some of our generals, as it was not with Bonaparte. Our great Gen eral Lee was thc victim of an indiges tion and it cost the South dear. It lost us the battle of Gettysburg ! Thc battle of Gettysburg is a singular con ception to Gen. Lee's battles. It wasn't Gen. Lee who fought it; jt shouldn't count against him. His usual skill is wanting at Gettysburg. There must bc a cause for it. Ile was sick, and not in possession of his -suai equanimity, and fine mental powers. Those near him at the time tell us this ; and from some of them the story of how it came about has leaked out. Gen. Lee was very fond of old Vir ginia flapjacks-wondcrous cakes of African invention. Thin as a wafer and big nearly as a cart wheel, and when made uf new flour and served hot with fresh butter and maple mo lasses and folded, layers thick, they are a feast for thc gods. Hut Ger.. Lee, the best and tenderest of men. as well as the greatest, hadn't it in his heart to fare well-much rs his ample means would have allowed, when his men were suffering for food ; and if one wanted a poor dinner he had only to drop in on Gen. Lee at that hour. Ile lived but little better than his men. This greatly disturbed his darkey cook : and when the army advanced into Pennsylvania, flowing with milk and honey aud other good things edible, he said: "Well, I'sc gwiuc to git something good for Marse Robert for once, if he never gits none no mo." So. skirmishing around, he got up the necessary ingredients for thc general's favorite cake. Thc darky, in his pride as chief and zeal ous love for his master, outdid him self nn that 30th of .lune. Thc cakes were loo tempting: thc general ate tno plentifully, was sick accordingly and Gettysburg was lost. The nigger and thc flapjacks saved the Union ! Some time ago it was a "craze" to lind a national flower; why not have a national cake. 1 suggest th at at Thanksgiving the fla;-: .> k have equal honor with th<- '"pumpkin" pie. Times-Democrat. Troubles of a Backward Lover. Sister Eui came into thc ki and exclaimed excitedly: "Oh, Matilda, Joe ?is going to a pa for nie, to-day." _ , i "Humph !" said I, for I never los a chance to snub her, for she is ways sneering at me for being an maid. Now I am all practicability and and hurry, and moving from morn: till night ; my hands are big and and rough ; I am stiff and long an angular ; all the graces oi my girlhood have been scrubbed, washed and iron ed out of me. But Em's different. She is one thc lolling, languishing kind. She can simper and giggle, and ^Oh, don John-ah," in a "Oh do John-ah" tone of voice, and she has had beaux with out number ever since she was born After she had been deluged with lovers of all nationalities, she caught a real Yankee, not one of the sharp driving, money-making ^ind, but gentle, soft-headed, tender-hearted fellow. He never failed to put. off to-morrow what ought to be done to day. Well, as I started out to say, E had announced that Joe was going tc ask for her, and I had "humphed in my most incredulous style ; for during the last five years Joe had had period ical spasms of courage. Full nineteen hundred times he had made up his mind to ask pa for Em and then begged off. I could nsver understand why it was such a bugbear for pa would have been perfectly de lighted to give her away, for she has always been quite a bill of expense to him. After a few days Em woul prod him to the verge of distraction Then he would brace np again an promise to do it, but it always ended in his postponing it indefinitely. So I said "humph !" as aggravating ly as possible. That made her furi ous. "You act as if you thought he wouldn't ask pa." At that moment J oe unluckily came into the kitchen. "Em, hadn't you just as soon wait until next Sunday?" "No, I wouldn't," ?he cried, an grily. "But, Em, by that time I might get a raise in my salary." Poor fellow, he was only earning $15 a week, and it was the dream of his life to get a "raise." "Yes," Em answered bitterly, " raise has been your excuse for the last four years ; why don't you ask per mission to put it off until after thc Nashville exposition ?" He evidently did not notice the cut ting sarcasm of her voice, for he said eagerly, "Why, that's a good idea; suppose we wait until then, so you can be at home to help your folks entertain your relations?" . Em was in such a rage that she almost cried, but instead she fairly screamed, "?oe, do you want to marry me ?" "Of course I do," he responded placidly, "or else I wouldn't come to see you." "Well,-then, you must ask pa, for I am not going to get married without his consent." "But I am going to ask him." "When?" "Now, see here, Em, do be reason able ; he knows what I come here for, and, of course, he is willing, or he wouldn't let me come." "When are you going to ask pa?" she repeated angrily. - "Why-ah, I don't know-ah !" "Well, now, I'll tell you one thing, Joseph, that if you don't ask him to day, I'll never, never marry you." "Oh, Em, don't be hard on me !" ;' You march up this minute, 3ir, and ask pa for me, or I'll never marry you !" anci she rushed out of the room, flung opea the piano and began to play so violently, that I thought every cori in the instrument would snap. Joe looked at me appealingly. "What do you think I had better do ?" "Go upstairs and see pa," I replied. "Do you suppose she'll feel better in a few minutes ?" he inquired anx iously. "No, she is in dead earnest, and if you want her-" "I'll have to ask for her, I suppose," he answered, with a disconsolate sigh. I couldn't help feeling sorry for him, for he looked as dejected as if he were going to the stake. "It won't bc very hard," I ventured to say. "Oh, it's a terrible thing to do." His lips grew white, the perspiration stood out on his forehead, and he was shaking from head to foot with a ner vous chill. So he went upstairs, and was gone about five minutes, and they both came tearing out into the kitchen, where they danced, and embraced, and kissed each other like two mad crea tures. She was so proud of him, and he was so glad he had the thing off his hands, that they nearly strangled each other. Then he had to tell her about 40 times how he felt when he went up stairs, and what pa said, how ma look ed, and what they thought, and how they acted, and all about it, until I was forced to come to' the conclusion if this is the nineteenth century style of "asking pa," I am glad no one ever asked for me. What Kind of Warming. A patient was arguing with his doc tor on thc necessity of taking a stim ulant; he urged that he was weak, and needed it; said he; "But;> doctor, I must have some kiud of a stimulant. I am cold, and it warms me." "Precisely," came the doctor'scrus ty 'answer. "See here; this stick is cold," taking up a stick of wood from the box beside the hearth, and tossing it into the fire. "Now the stick is warm but is it benefited?" The sick man watched thc wood first scud out little puffs of smoke and then burst into a flame, and replied: "Of course not; it is burning itself." "And so are you when you warm yourself with alcohol; you are literal ly burning up the delicate tissues of your stomach and brain." - Let tho car bc more diligent than the tongue. From Cripple Creek. After the big fire in Cripple Creek, I took a very severe cold and tried many remedies without help, the cold only becoming more settled. After using three small bottles of Chamber Iain's Cough Remedy, both the cold and cough left me, and in this high altitude it takes a meritorious cough remedy to do any good.-G. B. HEN DERSON, editor Baily Advertiser. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. All Sorts of Paragraphs. - Dwell not on misfortunes ; look forward to retrieve them. - All men are good actors when they perform their duty. - He only is a well made maa who has a good d?termination. - The devil might still be an angsl if he hadn't got into politics. - The reward of performing" one duty is the power to perform another. - Bear little trials patiently, that you may learn how to bear great one-ST - Until forty years ago Japaneae were vaccinated on the tip of the nose. - In China to salute a person by taking off the hat is considered an in sult. - A great many pairs of shoes aie worn out befor? a man does all ho says. - In nursing their disappointment/, some men find it thrives best on the bottle. - A man ic a 100I who marries for love alone ; * woman is a fool who doesn't. - Make tbcjj devil let go of tho children, and he will soon have to givii up the world. - No man has any better religion than that which he actually exhibit! - in his daily life. % - The Dutch people consume moro tobacco per head than the people o\l any other country. - Florida, of ajl the States. tia3 th', most water within its boundaries,, 4,440 square miles. - The only vengeance which a good man desires is to have his enemies know that he ip ight. - The best cure for drunkards, says an old philosopher, is, whilst sober, to observe a drunken man. - Formerly revivalists seemed to think that only the wicked could be saved. Now there seems to be some chance for a good man. - It requires 15,000,000 cows to supply the demand for milk in this country, and the. products of 60,000, 000 acres of land to feed them. - The "year without a summer" was 1816. Ice half an inch thick formed in New England and in the' Middle States in July and August. - It. is said that posts planted in the earth upper end down will last longer than those which are set in the natural position in which the tree grew. - A great many people believe in being just before they are generous; and it takes them so long to be just that they never get around to be gen erous. - He (angrily)-"Was there any fool sweet on you before I married you?" She-"Yes, one." ?Tm sorry you rejected him.: ' "But I didn't re ject him ; I married him." - Numerous experiments to deter mine the best fire resisting material for the construction of doors have proved that wood covered with tin re sists fire better than an iron door. - A Populist legislator in Kansas has introduced a bill to make the Ten Commandments a law of the State. Each commandment is made a section of the bill, and a heavy fine is provi ded for the violation of any one of the sections. - Yeast-"Do you believe there is such a thing as a hypnotist ?" Crim sonbeak-"What's that?" "Why a person who can make yon do some thing you don't want to do." "Oh, yes; my wife's one. She makes me bring up the coal every night." - According to recent French sta tistics, France lost 136,000 men by death through wounds, sickness or accidents in her war with Germany," while 139.421 were disabled on the field of battle. Germany's losses were 79,155 dead and 18,543 wounded. - A gentleman traveling in Persia says he has been in a town where the bells ring for prayer five times a day, and business men rush out of their offices to the churches, leaving their places of business alone and unlocked, and nobody ever has a thing stolen. - Kites will likely be used in future warfare for carrying such explosives as dynamite. For this purpose a series of seven kites, built on light bamboo frames, will be employed, and thc explosives could be oarried to an enormous distance and then automati cally dropped by pulling a string. - A grocer in the "levee" district displays a sign reading : "Eggs, guar anteed, twenty cents." A customer, finding half his purchase unfit for nse, sometimes comes back to complain. "Veli," remarks tue proprietor bland ly, "ve guarantee dem tobe eggs. Dot is all."-Cldcago Times-Herald. - Translations of the Bible have been made in almost every language. It exceeds all ot..er works not only in its circulation, but in point of territory over which its circulation extends. During the present century the Bible societies of America and Europe have distributed over 230,000,000 copies. - In the year 1893 Great Britain took 13,707 American horses. In 1894 the same purchaser received from thc United States 22.866 horses, and the succeeding year 34,092. During the first nin-? months of the year 1896 there had been shipped from thc United States to England 34,642 horses. - She-"I don't see what reason you have for expecting anything but a refusal. I never gave you any en couragement." He (just rejected) "Oh, Miss Gotrox-Maud ! You did -you most certainly did greatly en courage me ! You told me you were worth two hundred thousand dollars in your own name." - A verdict for fifty thousand dol lars having been given a husband in Brooklyn in a suit for damages against a prominent physician, for alienating the wife's affections, the Louisville Courier Journal inquires: "If the af fections of wives that can be alienated are worth $50,000, what are the affec tions of true wives worth?" - An exchange is responsible for the following : Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to him self hath said, "I'll pay, before I go to bed. thc debt I owe the printer?" There are some, we know full well, who never such a tale can tell ; but they, we fear, will go to-well, the the place where there's no winter. RhouniatiRm Quickly Cared. After having been confined to the house for eleven days and paying out $25 in doctor bills without benefit, Mr. Frank Dolson of Sault Ste. 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