The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 07, 1897, Image 1
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, APEIL 7, 189'
VOLUME XXXII. - NO. 41,
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. 0. EVANS
CO.,
Clothiers and Furnishers.
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WHEN THE FIT IS RIGHT,
WHEN THE STYLE IS RIGHT,
WHEN THE QUALITY IS RIGHT,
WHEN THE PRICE IS RIGHT,
WHEN THE GARMENT IS RIGHT,
Then you may rest assured that you bought it from ....
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$5.00 SUITS.
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$7.50 SUITS.
Our $7.50 Suits in Plaids, Brown and Grey and Broken Plaids are up to the standard,
well tailored, perfect fitting and stylish made.
$10.00 SUITS.
Take our $10.00 Blue Serges. They are quite the correct thing, either as an entire
Suit or with separate trowsers, in Stripes or Shepherd's Plaids. We give you quali
ty, style and fits, all combined, for the least money that any first-class, reliable firm
can offer. Our garments in prices and quality are successfully meeting the severest
competition.
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The strongest line the market affords. We can't say too much about this line. In
French weaves, Worsteds, Diagonals, Clays and Whip Cords the colorings are a thing
of beauty. Blue, Black, Gray and Steel Mixtures. Perfect in every respect?fit,
quality, style and price.
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our house unless they are fully up to guarantee, which is honest goods, honest made, perfect fits.
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pecans and blacks. Price $1.00, $1.25 to $2.50.
We will appreciate a call from any one wishing to examine the Spring and Summer styles.
Money back if dissatisfied.
. O. Evans & Co
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 0XBL00D 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 lates Shoe Co.
THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG :
"Meat means tings dat's good to eat,
Meet also means tings dat's brober ;
'Tis only mete to measure dean tings
Yen steampoats meet the stabber."
Thai Dutchman caught the idea on the first jump, and if ycu would be wise and
want to get fat and jolly liko the typical Dutchman, f Major Tolly or our Senior,) you
will Jose no time to visit our Establishment, where you will find everything that is good
to eat, such 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.
F-ee City Delivery. Telephone No. 4L
JE. H. 3? O ORE Sc CO., City Market.
DEPOT STREET.
Our Trumpets !
Our Ads. are our Little Trumpets !
Our Big Trumpets . . .
Are the voices of the thousands on every hill and in every vale
of this mundane region which tell where the good things of
IRON and STEEL can be had for the LEAST MONEY.
Tnirupet-tongued they speak for?
Our Cotton Planters.
The Genuine Brooks,
Improved Brooks, and the
Celebrated Dow Law.
Our Steel Plows.
Georgia goods?made by Towers & Sullivan.
Our Blacksmith Tools.
Going like hot calces.
Our Barbed Wire.
Well-drawn Steel?light twisUd.
Our Fence and Poultry Netting.
Very best.
Our Handled Hors.
Quality superior?set perfect.
Our Oliver Chilled Plows.
Turn down all others.
Our Leather Collars.
To fit anything.
Onr Doors, Sash, &c.
Make building cheap.
Other things in the Hardware and Implement Line,
Too numerous to mention.
_SjJLLlVAN HARDWARE CO.
WINTER'S IRON RULE IS BROKEN,
A
TIIOS. A. ARCHER.
CLARENCE OSBORNE.
ARCHER * OSBORNE
\ 8 the public to know that they have recently onened upa new lino of FIRST
IT CLASS?
Cooking and Heating Stoves,
Cooking Utensils of all kinds,
Crockery, Lamps, Glassware,
Tinware, Woodenware, &c,
And that they propose selling them as cheap as anybody in Anderson. Como and Bee
our Gjods and get our prices. We will treat you right. We want your trade. We
want to give you full valuofor it. Woaroaho prepared to do all kinds of TIN WORK,
euch as
Roofing, Guttering and Repairing.
Our Shop is well equipped, and wc will do your work on stort notice and at rea
aonab e prices.
We are keen np for business. Djn't pive us the go-by.
Yours truly,
ARCHER & OSBORNE.
ND NATURE rtjoiccs once more in ber freedom. Toe time of sowing has come.
Our supply of?
Garden Tools and Farming Implements
Cannot be surpasseil, and wo have prices that are sure to sell you if you only give us a
chanca We are soiling POl'LTR?" WIRE at prices never before heard of" in Ander
son. We aro iole Agents for the?
Genuine Terrell Cultivator.
It produces tbo best results. Saves time and labor. Beware of imitations. Don't be
hoo d'joed, but como straight to Headquarters and get the genuine article.
Yours vory truly,
I?. s.-Wo have COTTOX PLANTERS world without ond. We sell the Im
proved Brooks, the Old Brooks and the Dialogue.
DOSDM
ATLANTIC SOLUBLE GUANO,
And other brands of their well
known High Grade Fertilizers,
for sale by : : : : : : : : :
ID. ?. SXtO^IsT.
BILL ARFS LETTER.
Solhern Cotton Cotinues to be King.
Allanta Constitution.
' 'Cotton is King!" I don't know
who first said that, but it is a fact. It
is the most useful and most important
product in the world and has the most
influence on its commerce. I was rumi
nating about this because of some let
ters of inquiry that from time to time
I have received concerning cotton.
The last from an old friend, Colonel
Saxon, says he cannot learn from the
department at "Washington when cot
ton clothwas first imported to thiscoun
try.
And so I will venture a few remarks
on this subject in general, for it is
full of remarkable facts and illus
trates the kindness of Providence to
His creatures. Providence is always
kind and whenever we need anything
He unlocks another door of His treas
ury and says here it is.
There is no doubt at all that the
cotton plant was created "in the
begining," and with a design for the
use and benefit of mankind when it
should be needed. Attention was at
tracted to it away back in the
centuries. Four hundred and fif
ty years before the Christian era Her
ordotus wrote about it as a plant bear
ing fleeces more delicate and beautiful,
than those of sheep, and of the In
dians using it for the manufacture of
cloth. From India it was introduced
into Greece and Rome, and C;esar
used it for his army tents and covered
the forum with it. The cotton fabrics
of the Hindoos have been excelled
only by the most perfect machinery of
modern timc3. We read of a Hindoo
princess who came into a court of re
ception and the king said, "Go home
?go home, my child?you are not de
cently covered"?and shereplied,"Fa
there. I have seven suits on," but they
were of cotton muslin so thin and del
icate that the king could see through
them. The famous muslins of Decca,
in Calcutta, were called "webs of wo
ven wind," and when a piece was laid
upon the dew covered grass, it was
not discernable.
Imagine the wonder of these fabrics
when there was not a spindle, but the
distaff and only a loom that the weav
er carried about-with him setting it up
under a tree and digging a hole in the
ground for his feet to work the tred
dle. But the manufacture of cotton
for the common people was smothered
during all the centuries, and only wool
and flax were used for clothing. The
ancient Egyptians used it to some ex
tent, spinning it with the distaff and
weaving it with the primitive looms,
but the plant was not cultivated. It
was not until the tenth century that
the cultivation began and that was by
the Moors in Spain. The Venitians
engaged in it in the fourteenth century
and the English in the early part of
the eighteenth. But its use was very
limited, for the seed were in the way.
But not comes the revolution of cot
ton; the revolution that in a few years
made it king. Nothing so wonderful
has ever transpired in commerce and
manufacture. There was a conjunc
tion of the three things that were
necessary to bring about this revolu
tion: The gino by Whitney in 1793;
the spinning jenny by Arkwright in
1789, and the power loom by Cart
wright in 1789, all startled the world
about the same time and gave impulse
to the growth and use and manufact
ure of cotton that was pregnant with
great results. One of these results was
theofixingof slavery as an institution
upon the Southern States. Up to that
time it was not considered either safe
or profitable to encourage their impor
tation from the Northern States. But
of course, it took several years for
these inventions to become generally
introduced. My mother told me that as
late as 1818 she used to spend most Gf
the winter evenings picking the seed
from the cotton by hand?with half a
dozen or more of the family servants
sitting in a circle around the fire. She
vied with them in trying to excel in the
quantity seeded. This was 'in Liberty
county of this State, and the cotton
was probably the long staple variety.
Whitney became involved in inter
minable law suits and his gin which
was for only the short cotton, was not
in use for many years after it was in
vented. My father put up the first
gin in Gwinnett county in 1S28, and
seed cotton was hauled to it from all
the adjacent country. Previous to
the use of the gin it was considered a
fair day's work to make a pound of
lint. But the gin with two attendants
picked 400 pounds in a day. At that
time the old-fashioned spinning wheel
was in general use and a day's workjfor
the spinner was six cuts?a cut being
140 rounds on the reel, but the first
spinning jenny with one attendant did
eighty times as much and did it bet
ter. Later on it did 2,000 times as
much. The saving in weaving by the
power loom was in similar proportion
and hence it suddenly came about that
ten men could do the work of ten
thousand. No wonder that Ilargraves I
and Arkwright were driven from their
homes by the spinners and the spin
sters. Excuse me for telling the girls
just here that a spinster is the femi
nine for spinner, and used to mean a
mairiageable girl who had made her
self eligible and fitten to be marriedby
spinning and weaviug enough cloth for
her own trousseau, and shects'and cov
erlets for the bed and table cloths and
napkins for the table. This was the
dowry she brought her husband. But
these inventors went to Nottingham
and put up mills and made a monopo
ly of the business. They and their
associates grew rich so fast that they
determined to exclude all mankind
from acquiring a knowled? of their
inventions. The doors were kept lock
ed and the operatives sworn to secre
cy. New England tried in vain to
buy the right and could not compete
with English yarns.
But the dclivereuco was not far off.
Samuel and John Slater who had
worked for Arkwright in England for
seven years, saw large money on this
of the water. "They came and brought
with them a full knowledge of "all
three of the inventions and how to
use them and how to build a factory.
Of course they met with a warmrecep
tion, and in 1806 they erected a mill
and planted a town and named it Sla
tervillc. They soon made a fortune.
When John died he left his millions
to his son, and when John, jr., died
he bequeathed a million to our Dr.
Jiaygood in trust for the education of
the negroes of the South. It was a
gift fit to be made, for the fathers and
mothers of these negroes grew the
cotton that made the Slaters rich. The
Slaters not only spun their yarns, but
wove them, and the cloth was called
homespun, because it was woven at
home and not brought from England.
But, although cotton was now king
commercially, it was ranked socially
by ether fabrics. It was not so beau
tiful as silk nor so strong as ilax"no
so warm as wool, and hence for year
it was woven only into the commoi
fabrics for the common people. Tin
calicos that were imported from Cali
eut in Turkey, were spun with a dis
taff and woven in the old-fashione<
hand loom. The nankeen cloth tha
came from Nankin in China was madi
by a similar process. I remember tha
my father, who was a merchant
bought some of that nankeen when '
was a lad and my mother made me ?
pair of pants and a round jacket ou
of it and I was proud and yellow. I
was not until the 40's when the fine
fabrics, such as muslins and lawns
were made of cotton. In 18-12 a ma
chine was invented of so delicate ?
nature that a single pound of cottoi
was spun to a length of 1.100 mik s
and in 1851 some cloth of exquisit?
lincness was woven expressly for
dress for the Queen of England am
was exhibited at the Crystal Palaci
Fair in London >in that year. But i
is asserted that no machinery has eve
surpassed the liane1 work of the Hin
doos and that Montczuma presentee
Cortcz with robes of cotton interwove
with feather work that revealed tin
delicacy of the finest painting.
But notwithstanding the invention
of the spinning jenny and the powe:
loom, our country people continu?e
for years to spin and weave their owt
cloth, and the female slaves wen
made to do so by their master. Tin
spinning wheel was the first to sur
render, and the factory yarn, or "spur
truck," as it was called, came int(
general use along in the 40's. In i
few years more the home-made loon
had to go, and since the war thewhee
and the loom have ceased their mush
in the homes of our people.
It was not until after the close oJ
the war of 1812 that even thenorthen
people bought any cloth from Er
gland. Until about 1810 England h;.c
none to sell or expert, but from thai
time until 1824 its exportation in
creased very rapidly and almost paral
yzed our New England mills. But rr
that year and in 1828 and 1832 Con
gress placed a duty of 25 per cent, i-.c
volorem on all English cotton, aid
this rprotection greatly revived oui
own manufactures. This tariff w;i?
reduced in 184G and the outside world
given a fair chance to compete.
But cotton is still king?king in
the southern field and the facto
ries and in the carrying trade on the
ocean and Liverpool and other gre;il
markets of the world. Whether we
make large crops or small ones, it is
still the greatest factor in the world e
comfort and prosperity. Long live
the king! Bill Art?.
Lion Cub Tet.
Some few years ago, in an old Vir
ginia home, I chanced to see one o?
the strangest sights one could well im
agine?a full grown lion with throe
children as playmates. The home be
longed to a relative of mine, where ]
had come for a short visit; but at tte
gate I paused in consternation to see
the beautiful "king of the forest''
leap out just like a tame dog. The
children called and the handsome ani
mal bounded to them and commenced
to play. I was amazed, fori had ne1'
er conceived that a lion, of all animal.?,
could be domesticated. He played
with the children as one of them, lick
ing their hands; again taking them in
his "huge arms," as it were, and en
tering into their games and amuse
ments. A dog ran up, but Leo was
jealous of their attention, and with
one blow of his big paw the dog w&?
unceremoniously slapped over, leaving
the lion rnasterof the field.
On reaching the house one of my
first questions was to ask my cousin
the history of the children's pet,
which I will give in her own words:
"One day, some two years ago, a
circus was passing through the coun
try, and while they were in the town
a lion cub was born. It was not lar
ger than a good-sized puppy, and, as
the circu3 was on its summer trip, and
they could not be bothered with it.
they were going to kill it, I begged it
from them; they were glad to be rid o?
their unwelcome visitor, and gave him
to me.
"Leo was a pretty little thing, and
very gentle. He was fed out of a bottle
like a baby, and grew up with the chil
dren till he became their companion
and protector.
"As he grew largor people became
alarmed to see a lion running at large,
and talked so much about it that at
last it even made the grown members
of the family nervous, and they deter
mined to part with him. lie was a
magnificent specimen, far more beau
tiful than any kept, in confinement,
and my cousin sent word to the me
nageries in Lincoln Park, Chicago
that if they would send for Leo thej
might have him, well knowing that
the keepers would give him all care
and attention. Many tears were shed
when he was sent away, and the chil
dren refused to be comforted for the
loss of their playmate.
"Two years went by and the famous
'world's fair' in C ?cago was the ab
sorbing topic of Jie day. My cousin
and her eldest girl visited it, but not
even the beauties of the 'White City'
with its many attractions could kcq
them from Leo. As they came neai
his cage he ran to tho side nearest
them, and seemed to know the child
Her mother was afraid, and called tc
her to stand back, but the girl an
swered: 'Leo will not hurt me, mam
ma; see, he knows me;' and indeed h<
did. The mighty lion put his front
paws through the bars, pressed his
face against them and pulled his play
mate to him, holding her in his arms
as he had done many times in his far
away home in Virginia, licking liei
face for joy. Mother and child hat1
tears in their eyes when they at last
left their dumb friend."
Strange as this may seem, it is :
true story, many people knowing al
the circumstances. It is well to shott
what kindness to dumb animals ruaj
make of them. Leo might some da}
have shown his savage nature ane
harmed the children, but it is bardi]
probable.?Our Animai Friend,
During the winter of 1893, F. V
Martin, of Long Leach. West A
contracted a severe cold which lei
him with a cou.crh. In speaking !
how he cured it. he .-ays: "1 used sov
eral kinds of cough syrup but foutu
no relief until I bought a bottle o?
Chamberlain's Cough licmcdy, wind
relieved me instantly, and in a shor
time brought about a complete cure.'
When troubled with a cough or cob
use this remedy and you will not fim
it necessary to try several kind.? be
fore you get relief. It has been oi
the market for over twenty years am
constantly grown in favor and popu
larity. For sale at 25and 50 ccuts pei
bottle by Hill-Orr Drug Co.
? No man doth safely rule but hi
that hath learned gladly to obey.
an indian legend.
An Indian Chiefs Curse.
A llanta Journal.
Many years ago the rich bottoms
and fertile lands bordering on the
Chattahoochcc, in the lower part of
the State, were the abiding places of
many indian.s. Here they lived and
J thrived until the pale face came with
* his firewater and his firearm. Now
1 the pale face holds the land and the
r laud holds all that is left of the -
dians who did not leave immediately ;
for those who remained are there yeti
1 The one grand theme of American his
1 tory is that the pale face and the red
man cannot abide in the same place,
B unless separated by a certain quantity
jj of earth?with the redskin on the un
1 der side. Shot and "half shot" the
& poor Indians were all taken off?some
1 by bullets, and the others by "balls"
1 ?and now only a few worn mounds
" mark the spots where once proud chiefs
* held sway.
3 The names of counties and of towns
2 once the villages of the redskins, are
all reminiscent of the early inhabita
3 tion. Both in the adjacent sections
r. of Georgia and Alabama it is noticea
* ble. There is Muscogee and Chatta
I hoocbe and Oswichee and Chunnenug
5 gee. The whole country is alive with
1 legends and tales of the departed sava
ges.
1 All that portion of Alabama situa
} ted just opposite Muscogee county
1 was once owned by a great and very
j wealthy chief. Over his thousands of
1 fertile acres roamed herds of fat cattle
' and fine horses. Tradition is not to
, be relied upon as to che chief's name.
* Some say "he was called in the Indian
1 lauguage Wamachoochco; butisoften
f er said that it was Amaquoiwaista
1 chatta." Whatever it may have been
' ?whether longer or shorter?it does
not matter. The stary is the same.
His name was not talisman enough to
' save him from his fate. It was too
j long, just as his acres were too broad.
The first act of despoliation on the
I part of the greedy invaders is respon
r sible for this historical doubt. They
i stript him of his proud title and
' branded him plain Sykes. To this
was coupled another insult?Tom.
1 The stately diphthongs were replaced
by harsh consonants and Amaquoi
; waistachatta became Tom Sykes. Ugh!
The stranger in those parts now is
s s truck by the appearance of the coun
1 try. Huge gullies and ravines every
1 where meet the eye. Ditches, once
1 dug to drain the soi l, have since be
come great crevasses and huge land
slides show where the earth has begun
to slough away. Through these vast
channels the soil drifts into the Chat
tahoochee and great bars are left pro
' jecting out into tha center of the
stream. The rest is washed down
? stream to add to the clifficuties of nav
igation and create impediments only
. to be removed by government appro
: priations and the ceaseless toil of the
dredging boats.
Tradition says thin is the curse of
! Amaquoiwaistachatta!
The legend is weird and when it was
1 related to me I could not but feel a
creepy sensation and afeeling of some
awe as I gazed upon the ruin wrought
I by the treacherous soil. A blight
seems surely to have falleu upon the
land!
The story was told me some years ago,
but it made a profound impression. It
? continues thus:
It sounds like a profanation to call
the unfortunate chief by the uncere
monious name bestowed upon him by
his white neighbors. It is equally im
possible to use his own title ev
ery time I speak of h.\m, so Tom Sykes
he must be, even though it ruin the
story nid strike a discord in the ro
man^ I feci a great sympathy for
the poor Indian, but I am not lacking
in appreciation for the motives which
led to the contraction, of his name.
Tom Sykes was one against many.
He was likewise no trade. He is fur
ther said to have be been over fond at
times of firewater. All of this shows
that Tom Sykes was destined to mis
fortune and ru'.n. In the present day
he would be called an "easy mark."
They didn't call it that way in those
times, but the process was just the
same.
Little by little did the broad acres
of the great chief dwindle, and great
er and greater became the acquisitions
of his neighbors. His herds and
flocks were thinned and the herds and
flocks of the others increased and
multiplied. Everybody pushed Tom
Sykes along and the goose was work
ed overtime to provide golden eggs for
the greedy pale faces. They bought a
little and took much, and in a few
years the great Amaquoiwaistachatta
became poor Tom Sykes, whom every
body looked down upon and plunder
ed. When he could no longer be
plundered he was kicked.
The Indian's proud spirit was atlast
broken, and his great, high brow be
came wrinkled, his straight figure bent
and his eagle eye dimmed. Finally
he became a discord in the community,
a bone?though a dry one?of conten
tion, and the people decided that he
must go.
Tom Sykes, broken in spirit and
will, had no heart to protest. He
bowed in resignation to the dictates
of his now powerful nighbors and pre
pared to do their bidding. The pre
paration was short. He had little to
carry away with him except a heart
full of fierce hate anda soul full of
bitter curses for the advance agents of
civilization, who had first robbed him
of his worldly goods and had now come
to drive him away from the home of
his fathers?nothing else. The faith
ful squaw rested beneath a mound near
by. The faithful steed had already
gone to the happy hunting grounds to
await his coming. The bow was stiff
from long disuse, and the quiver was
empty and shattered. Only the aged
and broken warrior remained, and he,
too, must uow depart.
Amaquoiwaistachatta drew himself
up to his full height and surveyed the
group of insatiate white men. He was
no longer Tom Sykes. He became
once more the proud chief. His eyes
'lashed with their old fierceness and
his voice was full and strong as he be
gan to speak:
"Amaquoiwaistachatta was once a
great chief, the owner of these broad
fields where the men of the pale face
tribe now dwell. The great chief has
become a poor Indian and the pale
face chiefs arc rich and powerful. Will
the pale face chiefs grant a last re
quest of the poor red man? Can he
oiler a last prayer to the Great Father
of both (lie white man and the red
man?"
Ho cast his eyes around the assem
bled band. lie saw that his request
was silently thouch impatiently grant
ed.
Gathering his blank"! about him he
fell upon his knee? and began again,
with voice lifted toward the great disc
r
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of the moon which cast a weird light
upon the scene.
"0, Mighty Chief, Father of all
tribes, judge between the pale face
and the red man now. The great chief
is about to he driven away from the
home of his fathers. The pale face
has taken all he possessed and is still
not satisfied. If this is right the red
man will bow down. If it is not, the
red man calls down the curse of the
Great Chief upon them. May the pale
face never profit by what he has thus
acquired. May the land sink and
! crack open ! May the waters that come
from above sweep the soil into the
Chattahoochoe, and may every grain
of sand find its way into the ocean!
Great Father, the red man has spok
en!';
His head drooped upon his bosom
and he remained motionless upon his
knees. Several started toward him
and hade him rise and depart. He
heeded not. They caught hold of
him and tried to raise him. His head
fell back, and then in the soft moon's
gleam they saw he had already done
their bidding. The once-proud chief
had gone. He had departed from the
home of his fathers. His soul was al
ready riding free again over the infinite
stretches of the Happy Hunting
Grounds.
This was the curse of Amaquoi
waistachatta!
W. A. Macdougald.
The Yalne of the Bible.
"We are grateful to Mr. Edward Bok,
editor of the Ladies' Home Journal,for
his candid reply to a young man who
inquired, "Why is it that so many in
telligent men are disbelievers in the
Bible?" "It is not," says Mr. Bok.
"it is exactly the contrary; the vital
truths of the Bible are more fully ac
cepted and more thoroughly believed
by intelligent men at the present time
than at any other period in the world's
history; when a man becomes too in
telligent to believe in the Bible, and
too progessive to be a Christian, his
usefulness as a business man, as a
member of society and as a companion
for other men is over; every young
man should bear this fact in mind;
there are no two sides to the question;
he can make no greater nor fatal mis
take in life than to harbor or accept
the notion that lack of faith in the
Bible means progressiveness; on the
other hand, it means everything that
is contrary to right, reason and prog
ress." That is a secular opinion, but
nothing coming from the pulpit or re
ligious press could be more dogmatic
and perpendicular in its affirmation;
but it is not too clear and emphatic, for
nothing is so dogmatic as truth, and
Mr. Bok, in the above lines, has spok
en a truth which is too often forgotten
in the world of today, and not infre
quently by faint-hearted Christians
themselves. Remember this. The bat
tle for God and for truth is not wan
ing; it is waxing stronger constantly,
and for evidence of this, we do not go
to the pulpit, but to the secular ora
cles, which are sometimes even more
infallible in the testimony?more in
fallible because strictly impartial.
Girard, the infidel millionaire of
Philadelphia, one Saturday ordered
all his clerks to come on the morrow
to his wharf and help unload a newly
arrived ship. One young man replied
quietly:
"Mr. Girard, I can't work on Sun
days."
"You know our rules."
"Yes, I know. I have a mother to
support, but I can't work on Sun
days."
"Well, step up to the desk and the
cashier will settle with you."
For three weeks the young man
could find no work, but one day a
banker came to Girard to ask if he
could recommend a man for cashier in
a new bank. The discharged young
man vas at once named as a suitable
person.
"But," said the banker, "you dis
missed him."
"Yes, because he would not work
on Sundays. A man who would lose
his place for conscience sake would
make a trustworthy cashier." And he
was appointed.
It is said that John Wesley was
once walking with a brother, who re
lated to him his troubles, saying he
did not know what he should do.
They were at that moment passing a
stone fence to a meadow, over which
a cow was looking.
"Do you know," asked Wesley,
"why the cow looks over that wall?'
"No," replied the one in trouble.
"I will'tell you," said Wesley; "be
cause she cannot look through it.
And that is what you must do with
your troubles?look over and above
them."?Rain's Horn.
Just an Easy One.
"Let the children ask all the ques
tions they want to," is the domestic
motto of a gentleman connected with
the Smithsonian institution. In his
case the rule is safer than it would be
in most homes, for he is regarded by
his acquaintances as a compendium of
almost any branch of learning that
happens to come under discussion.
His boys, having his reputation as an
endorsement of their natural confidence
in his wisdom, regard him as infalli
ble. Being youths of active intellect,
they never allow him to run any risk
of ennui. He had just put on his
overcoat and had his hand on the door
knob when one of them hailed him.
"Father, will you please tell me
something."
"I haven't time now."
"I only want to ask one question."
"Can't you wait until to-night?"
"I might forget it." _
"Try to remember it. It will be
good mental discipline. Goodby."
"I wanted ever so much to know
right away," he persisted.
"But"?
"It won't take you a minute."
"Are you sure ?"
"Yes."
His father looked at his watch and
said.
"Well, go ahead. What is your
question ?"
"Why, all I wanted to know is how
they work miracles and make conden
sed milk."?Washington Star.
? Silence is the best weapon to use
against a vulgar and spiteful tongue.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell
and completely derange the whole system when
entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip
tions from reputable physicians, as the damage
they will do is ten fold to the good you can possi
bly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manu
factured by K.J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O., con
tains no mercury, and Is taken Internally, acting
directly upon t?c blood and mucous surfaces of
two pystem. In buying Hail's Catarrh Cure be
6urc jou eel the cenuine. It is taken internally'
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney A Co.
Testimonials free.
45-SoId by Druggists, price 75<?. per bottle.
All Sorts of rara;?rapbs.
? "Will your father make any ob?
jections to my proposing ?" "Ishouldfl
think not ! I have six sisters."
? "I would send you a kiss, papa,?
wrote little Lucy, who was away on afl
visit, "but I have been eating onions.'?fl
? There are 48 different materiale
used in constructing apiano, whiqhjfl
come from no fewer than 16 countrieSfl
? She?Yes, I am very fond offl
pets. He?Indeed ! What, may I aefefl
is your favorite animal ? She (franktyjBl
? Barbers say that i;hcy.can tel?i
which side a man habitually sleeps onfl
because his mustache grows longer onfl
the other side.
? A law has been p&sscd in Wa?H
deck, Germany, forbidding the grantffl
ing of a marriage license to a pcrs?atiB -
addicted to the liquor habit. Ufi
? Fathcr-in-law?Do you save anygfl
thing up for a rainy dav. young man SB
Son-in-Law?Yes, sir. ' "What i'dlflB
like to know?" "Umbrellas."
? For inflamatory rheumatism, dis9fl
solve into a pint of sweet oil, oneB|
ounce of pulverised saltpetre, andai '*
thoroughly rub the parts affected. 9
? The name of Maine was given to IS
that State descriptively since in thefflH
original charter it was considered w
"the Mayne land of New England." '
? Said a little boy, who, during a, I
visit to Florida, was obliged to drink 1
condensed milk : "Mamma, I just;'|l
wish that condensed cow would die. "is
? Benedict?Do you think a man
will have bad luck if he gets married 1
on Friday ? Bachelor?Oh, I don't fl
think it makes any difference whether
it's Friday or not. fl
? Andrew Bair of Warfieldsburg,. fl
Md., is a vigorous and active man osfigfl
83 years. He has not eaten a pound j
of meat in all his b'fe, bis diet being * E
strictly vegetabl'"
? A man wir no for want of air in 9
five minutes, lor want of sleep ten a
days, for want of water in a week, and fl
for want of food at varying periods, 9
dependent on circumstances. J
? "Who is the master of this house?" ?
asked the agent of the man who aa'Vjjfli
swered his ring. "Well," was'thejfl
cautious response, in a resigned tone, *S
"I am tie husband and father."
? A Kansas young man has caused "fl |
the arrest of a girl on the charge that fl
she "did suddenly, forcefully and in- fl
tentiona ly lug him, thereby causing ?
him great confusion and mental an-' fl
? At Coggins' mill, near Sisson,^flfl
Cal., the loggers cut a tree a short |
time ago which was estimated to bcSfl $
just 404 years c f age. It was 8 feet in '' i
diameter and produced 15,000 feet of-9
? The average man takes five and'a j||
half pounds of food and drink each :
day, amounting to one ton of solid and ..fl
liquid nourishment annu?illy. In 70jfffl|
years he eats and drinks 1,000 timcs'.?J
bis own weigbt. fl
? "I i;ell you," said a rabid free-H
thicker, "the idea that there is a God flj
never came into my bead." "Ah! IH
precisely like my dog. But there is fl
this difference?he don't go around 9
bowling about it."
? "Stap right in, ladies and genfle^ -M
men !" cried the showman. "Step
right in, and see the educated pig add m
and subtract !" "Pshaw !" interrupt- _.E
ed Farmer Backlots. "My old hog at fl
home^ has got way over to-square
? "I have come to ?isk f?r your fl
daughter's band, Mr. Herriek," said .fl
young Waller, nervously. "O, well, fl
you can't have it," said Herriek. 9
"I'm not doling cut my daughter on
the installment plan. When you feel
that you can support the whole girl j|
you may call again."
? Bather a neat way of stating an m
awkward fact was adopted by a recent 3
applicant for a pension. The appli- fl
cant bad been wounded while his reg
iment was in retreat, but he -dioVnot
say it that way. "I received ray ^
wound," be said, "while marcbing^^
rapidly in front of the enemy."
? It trill be an agreeable surprise ' ?
to persons subject to attacks of bilious - -
colic to learn that prompt relief may
be had by taking Chamberlain's Colie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy. In I
many instances the attack may be pre- J
vented by taking this remedy as soon j
as the first symptoms of the disease I
appear. 25 and 50 cent bottle for sale ~\|
by Hill-Orr Drug Co.
? A good joke on a (school ma'am
comes from Cumberland Gap, and is \
told by the Middlesborough (Ky.)
News. A lady teacher told one of the
boys to name all the Presidents, and
when he replied be couldn't the teach
er said ; "When I was as old as you l ~~
could name all the Presidents in their
order." The boy replied: "There
were only a few Presidents then."
? Two sorts of Christians maker^^g
most of the trouble in a church. Thtrrlifl
are like the waiters in a certain restaufl
rant, who stumbled into each othcgflfl|
and smashed some crockery. One was-, fl
absent-minded and the other waa'5^9
cross-eyed. The cross-eyed man said,
angrily, "Why don't you look where
you are going ?" The other retorted, 1
"Why don't you go where you arc ''-^j
looking ?"
C? The police of San Francisco have
recently been enforcing the law pro
hibiting work on Sunday, especially
against Chinese laundrymen. One
Sunday recently, as a large load of
these oeffnders was being carted to
jail in the police ambulanze, a resident A
of tbc Western Addition asked the Mb,
reason, and w?is informed by a police- 9
man. "Yep," grunted a disgusted ^1
Chinese, who titood near, "man workec '
Sunday, he go jail, 'gainst law workee
Sunday. Mau no workee, he go jail?
vag. Amelica L^ap bell of country."
? An Irish priest had labored bard ..jj
with one of his flock to indncc him to.
give up the habit of drinking, but the i&
man wais obdurate. "I tell you, Mi- fl
chael," said the priest, "whiskey is 1
your worst enemy, and.you sbould i
keep as far away from it as you can." J
"My enemy, is it, father ?" responded m
Michael. "Anditwasyourriverence's --fl
silf that was tellin' us in the pulpit ?H
only last Sunday to love our inimies !"
''So I was, Michael," rejoined the ffl|
priest, "but was I anywhere telling fl
you to swallow 'em ?"?YoutlCt Coni-A
^ -mm flfl
An Affidavit. fl?
This is to certify that on May lltbJB
I walked to Melick s drug store on fl
pair of crutches and bought a bottlfl
of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for in-fl
flammatory rheumatism which cripfl
pled mc up. After usiug three botfl
ties 1 was completely cured. I caxfl
cheerfully recommend it.?Charles Bflj
Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa.
Sworn and subscribed to before osfl
August 10, 1894.?Walter Shipmajfl
J. P. For sale at 50 cents per botrafl
by Hill-Orr Drug Co.