The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 21, 1897, Image 1

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BYCLTNESGALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOBBING, APKIL 21, 1897._VOLUME XXXII. - NO. 43 | Oar Statements are approved by the People?oar word is the bond between Bayer and Seller. . . . We believe in giving oar Castomers the World's Best at the World's Cheapest, and oar belief i? strongly exemplified in our NEW SPRING and SUMMER assortment of - -- -- -- -- - MEN'S and BOYS' ?S MOISI?. We have a small lot?fifty Suits?one of our $5.00 kind, to be cleared at $3.95. These are values that make our competitors groan under the burden of their high prices. Buy our $10.00 Suits. Then your responsibility ends< Ours begin when you buy of us We are right behind every transaction we make. $12.50 and $15.00 Suits. Did you ever notice the individuality and excluuive designs put in them ? The prices, too. Well, they are so low they speak for themselves. You will find the correct styles in Straw Hats. Prices 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50. NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, endless variety, in all the popular Plaids and Checks. Attached and detach ed Collars and Cuffs. Seeing is free. It won't cost you a penny to examine our Stock. You will not be urged to buy. Your judgment will tell you what to do. B. O. EVANS & CO., CLOTHIERS and FURNISHERS. 4> 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 0XBL0OD 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 THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat means tinge dat's good to eat, Meet also means tings dat's brober ; 'Tis only mete to measure des? tings Yen steampoats meet the stabber." That Dutchman caught the idea on the first jump, and if you would be wise and want to get fat ond jolly like the typical Dutchman, ( Mayor Tolly or our Senior,) you will lose 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, arid at the lowest prices. Free City Delivery. Telephone No. 41. i?. H. POORE Sc CO., City Marltet. DEPOT STREET. TEE GREAT R0I?N HANOI ? A. INE) ? Take your Choice. THE Roman Harrow is perfect! Adjusta ble for first to last cultivatiou. Adapted to Cotton and Corn. Simple and strong. Made of Steel. No Castings. Pi ice low. The Biggest lot Of Handle Hoes Ever in Anderson. A WORD ABOUT HOES?The thought f .: fui buyer looks for good material, proper shape and set in a Hoe. The handle is a very im portant item. It should be good Ehape, proper size, and of durable wood. Our Hoes come up to all such requirements, and are just what the intelligent buyer wants. MORE PLANTERS YET. Don't fool away time with your old worn-out Cotton Planter?buy a bran new "BROOKS." SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. THOS. A. ARCHER. CLARENCE OSBORNE. ARCHER * OSBORNE WISH the public to know that they have recently ooened up a new line of FIRST 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. Come and see our Goods and get our prices. We will treat you right. We want your trade. We want to give yon full value for it. We are ateo prepared to do all kinds of TIN WORK, such a?? Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is well equipped, aid we will do your work on short notice and at rea sonable prices. .?$t~ We are keen np for busino?. Djn't givo us the go-by. Yours truly, ARCHER & OSBORNE. WATCHES ! WATCHES, WATCHES, I have the Largest Stock in Upper Carolina. One Show Case seven feet long filled with nothing but. GOLD, SILVER AND NICKEL WATCHES, At Prices that will make you Buy. IF you want a Watch I am the man to sell jon, and will save you money every time. I guarantee every W^tch I sell to give entire satisfaction. A beautiful line of? Gold Rings, Silverware, Clocks, Jewelry, &c. The prettiest line of LADIES' WAIST SETS in the City. ?&~ Promptness in everything. ENGRAVING FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD. anticAcidPhosphate, ATLANTIC SOLUBLE GUANO, And other brands of their well known High Grade Fertilizers, for sale by : : : : : : : : : 3D. JP? SLOA2T. REMINISCENCES. Prominent People of Good Old Ebenezer Neighborhood. This neighborhood is generally known as "the Ebenezer neighborhood" because Ebenezer church, one of the oldest churches in the county, stands in the center of it. This church is within a mile of Rocky river and directly on what used to be known as the Abbeville road, leading from Anderson to that place. It is distant about ten miles from the city of Anderson, and about two miles from Emerson's bridge. It is quite a central point, several public roads crossing and diverging near by. From lime imme morial a public school has beer, located there, at which many people now scattered abroad have received a part or all of their education. Many have gone to that "bourne from whence no traveler returns." This neighborhood used to be noted as one of the best, if not the best, in the county. It has, I think, been so regarded by two well known and observing citizens, Hon. B. F. Crayton and Rev. W. A. Hodges, neither of whom lived in this community. And so it evidently was, for it was chiefly composed of the right kind of people?good citizens, intelligent, moral, peaceable and religious. The last trait is evident from the number of old churches of different denominations in and around this center. We have seen that Ebenezer, a Methodist church, has had an existence of one hundred years; while Varennes, a Presbyterian church, just on the other side of the river, is not much, if any, behind her in age, and Bethel, a Bap tist church, just below a short distance, is not far behind either. More recently others have been organized at ho great dista nce off. Quite a number of persons who attended church or went to school at Ebene::err en tered the ministry of the different denom inations; three Brownes, one Norris, one McLin, one Walker and several others, names not remembered. Not only were the people generally good citizens and Ch ristians but they were industrious and frugal, which naturally resulted in their being "well-to do" in the world. Quite a number of them accumulated handsome property, much of it in slaves, who were taken from them. In giving a sketch of a few of the more prominent citizens of the Ebenezer neigh borhood I will be obliged to confine myself to those with whom it was my pleasure to become acquainted. And, as I believe, Col. John Martin was the oldest man in it when I became acquainted with that community, I will write of him first. The colonel was born Sept. 1, 1703, on the place on which he afterwards lived and died, within half a mile of Ebenezer church. As well as known his father was Roderick Martin, and lived in or near the Varennes section. His mother's maiden name is not remembered, but she was a widow Taylor when Martin married her. John Martin was the only child by this marriage. When about 10 years old he volunteered into Captain Thompson's company, made up on the line of Abbeville and, what was then, Pendleton counties, and served through the war of 1812. At the time of his death the colonel was no doubt the only surviving member of that company. For his services in that war he drew a pension up to his death. Soon after his return from the army he married Mise Cynthia, a daughter of Jesse Rutledge, who lived on the place now owned and occupied by Jas. T. Drake. To them were born sixteen children, eleven of whom lived to he grown?eight sons and three daughters. All the sons have passed away except one, and the three daughters are still living, two in this county and one in Mississippi. In his active days, Col. Martin became a very popular man, hard to turn down in elections. Beginning as captain of the Bear creek company of the militia be rapid ly went up to the position of colonel of the 4th regiment, an office held by him for some time. In 1832 he was elected to the Legislature, and in 183G, Ordinary of the county. He was elected Sheriff in 184G, and then again in 1854. He was a delegate from Anderson county to the State conven tion which passed the ordinance of secession in 1859. When troops were called for he volunteered in Copt. Anderson's company and went with it to Columbia, taking with him his old rifle he called "Old Friday." The colonel being too old and feeble for service, his friends persuaded him to return home. Col. Martin was a great sportsman and hunter. Though "diligence in business" was his watchword, he found time enough to do a great deal of hunting and attend "shooting matches," which were popular in those days. The abundance of game of all kinds encouraged him in his fondness for hunting. Wild turkeys were then plentiful and these were his favorite game. He has been known to go out early of a morning on a turkey hunt and return with four or five fine gobblers. There was hardly a prominent pine tree anywhere near him but had let drop at the crack of "Old Fri day" one or more turkeys. A somewhat serio-comical incident oc curred between Col. Martin and Rev. W. A. Hodges. As pastor of Ebenezer church, Mr. Hodges often visited the colonel, for whom he had great respect and in whose present and eternal welfare he felt a deep interest. The colonel had never made any profession of religion and was then some what advanced in years. It was often his custom when visited by his friends in the summer season to invite them over to his mother's old spring, a very pleasant, shady and cool place. It was here that Mr. Hodges embraced the opportunity of speak ing to the colonel about preparation for the life to come, reminding him of his nge and feebleness, and the importance of becoming a Christian. During the time the colonel wa3 looking around and about, and when Mr. Hodges finished his lecture he said, "Mr. Hodges, do you see that tall pine over yonder? Well, sir, on that tree I once killed one of the biggest turkey gobblers you ever saw." Mr. Hodges felt badly "chawed." But the colonel took his ad vice, became a Christian and joined the church afterwards, and died a Christian. Col. Martin was a man of great firmness .ind decision of character, yet at the same time one of the most sympathetic men I ever saw. lie could not bear to see anyone suffer. Twice or thrice he broke himself up by going security for people, and while Sheriff, would sometimes pay people out of debt rather than sell their property. Not withstanding his great losses he accumu lated a pretty properly, real estate in Mis sissippi and this county, and negro prop erty which of course he lost. Many other incidents in the life of this useful man might he mentioned, but this article is already too long. The township "Martin" was named for him, a well de served mark of respect for his memory. On the 29th day of December, 1880, the spirit of this good man passed away, and the follow ing day his remains were laid to rest in Ebenezer cemetery, and the spot is now marked by a suitable tombstone. Sen rab. ? "You told me last week that you would try to raise my salary," said Briggs. "Oh, yes,-' replied his em ployer; "well, I did. I raised it after some trouble. Believe me, I had a Vdry hard time raising it this week." WHAT ONE HEBEL DID. A Thrilling Story of Actual Experience Related by a Federal Sharp shooter. Not long since a small party of men were seated around a fire in a store in a Maryland village, talking about the war. Several good anecdotes had been told, when suddenly one of the party who had been up to this point a quiet listener, inquired somewhat abruptly, "Did you ever hear how I killed reb els?" The speaker was a man of good physique, with bronzed face, and he had the appearance of a soluicrly make-up. He was old enough to have been in the war when a young man. The general expression of his counte nance gave evidence of candor, min gled with a palpable appreciation of the ludicrous. There was something about him that instinctively left the impression that he could enjoy a joke to the uttermost, if it is at his own ex pense. "No, how was that?" exclaimed the party in unison, as well as in marked astonishment, for there seemed to be a pretty general conviction in the crowd that Bill "Wilson, despite his appearance of candor, had not killed any too many rebels. I shall call the hero of my story Bill "Wilson, because for matters of delicacy, I do not care to give his rsal name, but the story shall be related just as Bill "Wilson told it. "Well, you see," said Bill, as the crowd seemed disposed to listen, "when the war began I did not go into the army. When I read about the different battles and the defeats sus tained by our troops it used to make me awful mad. There was first and second Bull Run and the battles around Port Republic and Cross Keys, and so on, and I could not understand why our troops would let those blamed rebels lick them.. So I cussed the rebels for licking our boys and le?ss ed our boys for letting the rebels lick them. You see, I was very impartial in my cussing, and had plenty of it to do. Now, when I found fault with our boys I was fond of telling the folks what I'd do if I were in the army, and how I'd kill rebels. I was known asa crack shot the country around, and people agreed with me generally that I could kill many rebels, thousands of them if I had the opportunity." "Well, one night I went over to the store at the cross roads, and there was a big crowd around, reading and talk ing about the news. It was the same old story, another rebel victory. They were all mad and I was mad, too, and 1 began telling what I would have done if I had been there, when up spoke one of the crowd who had been in the army, and was home on a fur lough, recovering from a wound, and says, pretty savagely: 'Well, Bill, why in h?1 don't you go and kill some of those d? rebels, instead of loafing around here and cussing our troops and bragging about what you can do?" "'Then the crowd all laughed. The fact was they were awful glad to find something to laugh at just at that time. I left the room as mad as a hornet, and as soon thereafter as pos sible I enlisted. "When I left for the army the folks all guyed me; said tobe sure and keep account of all the rebels I killed, and this I promised to do. I knew I was a good shot, and all I wanted was to get a shot at them. The fact was, gen tlemen, now that I had started out to kill rebels, I became very anxious to meet them, and suddenly I was pos sessed with great anxiety lest the war might end somehow without my get ting a chance to kill any rebels. "Well," contiuued Bill, as the par ty showed interest in his story, "I finally got into the army and into the sharpshooting corps, as I had demon strated that I was a good shot. I had been in the army some four or five months and still I had not killed any rebels. All this time, too, I kept get ting letters and messages from home asking how many rebels I had killed, and why I would not write and tell them about it as I had promised to do. "Finally, at Sharpsburg, my long denied opportunity came. My com pany was deployed, and soon rebel bullets were whistling all around me and I was sending hot balls rebelward. This kept up for some time and still I had not killed any rebels that I knew of. After a while I noticed a puff of smoke from behind a log in the rebel line and as often as that smoke arose a man in our ranks fell. 'There's my rebel!*' said I to myself. I looked the situation over very carefully and saw a tree that would make a good cover, somewhat flanking the log, and a great deal nearer than I could approach from the position I occupied. I made for that tree. It took me over an hour to reach it. I had to lie down flat on the ground aud crawl toward it by a very circuitous route, all the while keeping my eye on that log, for I knew it would never do to attract the atten tion of that aim that dropped a man at every shot. Finally, after toilsome work in a broiling sun, I reached the tree. After resting aAvhilc I looked for that log. The reb was still there, for every now and then came the puff of smoke and the inevitable man in our ranks dropped. It was a long time before I could make out the reb, and then I was not sure, as his almost col orless clothes were the hue of the sur rounding parched herbage?a dull, un certain color. At last I thought I spied him, and I said exultingly to myself, 'Mr. Reb, I got you.' I wait ed until another puff of smoke show ed his gun was empty and then I blazed away at him. 1 waited; there was another puff of smoke from behind that log and 1 knew that another one of our men had fallen. I lircd three or four times cautiously, only when I knew his gun was empty, but that reb was the hardest thing to hit that I ever shot at. Yet I felt that must kill him and stop his slaughter of our men. At the same time 1 could not really see him, and only shot in the direction of the smoke made by his gun. The fellow did not seem to mind me a bit, but kept on knocking our men out. "Presently, zip! and a bullet grazed one side of my tree, just skimming the bark ol?. Then, zip! and another bullet cut the bark off the other side of the tree with c<|ual nicety and pre cision. " 'Ah, Mr. Heb.' said 1 to myself, 'now you've got me.' I knew well enough that he was not aiming at that tree, for he could shoot too well not to put a bullet in the centre of that tree if he wished to do so. Then I knew he was on to my little game and that he was feeling for me. I drew myself up as slim as possible and kept as still as a mouse. Then that infernal reb would alternately knock over a man iu our ranks and then skim my tree with his bullets to keep me quiet, and I tell, you, gentlemen, I kept quiet. I dared not expose the least portion of my body in order to watch him, for a man who could skim the bark off a tree with a bullet was not looking for much of an exposure, and did not need much. "After a while I grew very tired of my rigid and cramped posture and hoped our line would advance and re lieve me, but I hoped in vain. I thought of the folks at home and what they would say about this way of killing rebels. And every nrv-- and then that rebel would send a ball barking that tree, first on this side and then on that side, now down about my knees then up even with my shoulder. I began to think how it would be if he should load his gun, and then, keeping the tree covered, slip around to a point from which he could hit me. In that case I knew it would be all over with me. "I imagined that this was just what he was doing, but I dared not peep around to see. I thought of home again and grew sick at heart. For the first time the thought of a rebel kill ing me entered my head, for up to this time I had been so infatuated with my rebel killing desire that the idea of a rebel killing me had never entered my head. Tbc thought and the realization of its probability flash ed through my mind with a shock that unmanned and terrified me. Finding I could not stand the agony of sus pense any longer, I concocted. "I immediately set about to carry my'plan into execution. It was an old trick, but I thought it would do. I slowly loaded my gun under the "most difficult circumstances, for, had I ex posed the tip of my elbow, that rebel would have sent a bullet through it that would have made that arm use less for life. Then, cocking my gun and holding it at a ready, so I could spring out ancl shoot him before he got behind his log after I had drawn his fire, I took off my cap and held it around the tree this way, as of a man peeping," and Bill illustrated his method of fooling the rebel. "Now," demanded Bill, who saw he had aroused the interest of his hearers to the highest pitch. "Do you know what that d? rebel did?" No one knowing what answer to make, Bill continued: "Took the ends of those four fingers off as slick as a whistle," and he held up to the as tonished gaze of those present a hand on which there were four short finger stumps, the ends forming a line as straight as if they had been chopped off with one blow of a meat axe. "He got all of me there was beyond the edge of that tree," Bill added pathet ically. "That reb was one of those fellows who could knock the eye out of a squirrel 300 yards away," said one of the listeners, in a tone as if recalling some half-said reminiscence. "Lord, but it hurt!" added Bill with unction, "and I thought I would die sure." "I bound up myhandwith my hand kerchief and stopped the flow of blood. I grew so sick and faint that I could hardly stand, and I knew that if I dropped 'that rebel would send daylight through me, and I never wanted to lie down so badly in all my life. I prayed that our line would ad vance and relieve me, or that night would come, but our line would not advance and it seemed that nght would never come. Then I thought of the possibility of the rebel line advancing and how I regretted the rebel killing mania that got me in this scrape. Somehow I imagined that rebel divin ed my bloodthirsty desires towards his whole race and would advance straight toward that tree and kill me without mercy and without compunc tion. I was in an agony of pain and terror. "At last it grew dark and I dropped to the ground and crawled away to a safe distance. Then I got up andran. I came straight -diome as soon as pos sible, and I have never had any desire since to kill rebels." Mar-eck. He Twisted, and? The man sitting on the salt barrel had a right hand on which only two fingers were left, and, sizing him up for a veteran of the war, I asked him he hadn't been wounded by an explod ing shell. "No, not as I remembers of," he replied, as he held up his hand anc. turned it over and over. "I thought that might have been the case, but you probably got it caught in some kind of machinery?" "No, not exactly machinery, sir." "Gun explode in your hands?" "No, no gun didn't explode." I gave up at that, but after a few minutes the man looked up and asked: "Stranger, you've seen a lion, I reckon?" "Oh, yes." "Seen 'em caged and lookin' as harmless as cats?" "Yes; they generally look that way." "That's the way I sized one up in ? cage with a circus. He lay there, looking so sleepy and good-natured and harmless that I thoughtit was a swindle on the public and I'd try to rouse him a bit." 'So you poked him?" I queried. "No, sir; no pokin'. 1 jest calcu lated to gin his tail about three twists and make him feel that life wasn't all beef and bones and sunshine. I wait ed for my chance and then reached my hand in. How far is it from a lion's mouth to the middle of his tail?" ''Several feet, at least." "I thought it was about a rod. but I know better now. I hadn't more'n got hold of his tail when he got hold of me, and was gulping down those missin' fingers. He wanted the hull baud and arm, but :they beat him off. I thought at first I wouldn't explain matters, but then I thought I would. I look a good deal like a fool, don't I?" "Hardly that." ' Well, you do, and that's why I explained. I was fool 'nuff to want to twist a lion's tail, and you may be fool 'nuff to want to poke one in the eye. and so my advice is?don't!' ? .V. Quad, in St. Louis public. ? Let us remember that peace as well as charity begins at home, and try to keep back the unkind word and the angry look. - m * m-?? (I) davit. This is to certify that on Ma. , 1 walked tu Melick s drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm for in flammatory rheumatism which crip pled me up. After using three bot tles I was completely cured. I can cheerfully recommend it.?Charles II. Wctzel, Sunbury, l'a. Sworn and subscribed to before on August 10, 1894.?Walter Shipman, J. P. For sale at ) cents per bottle by Hill-Orr Drug Co, BILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp Writes About how Children Ought to be Brought Up. Atlanta Constitution. An esteemed friend requests that I write a letter about how to raise a family of children so that they will all behave, the boys make good citizens, good husbands, good fathers and the girls make good wives and good moth ers. "Is it possible to do this ?" he asks. When the lawyers determine that a thing cannot be legally done they say it is "ultra vires," which means beyond strength. In the first place, it is not possible to devise any plan or method by which all children can be raised to do right and behave. It is "ultra vires," and even if it were possible, it is "ultra vires" with me to make it known. Ever since the failure of Adam to raise Cain, this thing of raising all the children to be good has been an unsolved problem. Whether the difference in children of the same family is due to the laws of heredity or the doctrine of election or to differ ent anvironments and associations or to the devil himself we cannot tell, hut one or more of these causes have been at work. My wife and I were discoursing about this last night and in all our acquaintance of half a cen tury we could not name a single family of six or more children of whom all were good. Anxiety and grief of trouble because of children is the common lot. It began with Adam and came on down to Noah and Jacob and David and Solomon, and yet these men had the special favor of God and were blessed by Him in every way ex cept in the conduct of some of their children. Poor old Eli, the high priest and judge of Israel for forty years, was cursed with two bad boys and God at the last cursed him for not retaining them. "There shall not be an old man in thy house forever, and all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. Because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not." What an aw ful curse was that. These sons of Belial ! This word means worthless ?bad?naughty?vile, and fits many a bad boy in our day. It is a fact that reflects on our sex that the son3 of Belial are mentioned more than a dozen times in the scriptures, but there is no daughter of Belial. "He restrained them not." Well, the good old man did talk to them and re prove them most earnestly. "Why do ye such things. It is no good re port that I hear. Ye make the Lord's people to transgress. If one man sin against another the judge shall judge him, but if a man sin against the Lord who shall entreat for him ?" I wonder what kind of restraint the Lord expected or required of Eli. It was not talking or pleading with them, of course, for he did that. I wonder if the old man dident experiment on the modern Atlanta plan of raising the boys on his love and their honor, for fear of breaking their spirits. It makes an old man very tired to read the wise utterances of the modern So lons against corporal punishment of bad boys in the public schools. I had rather go and ask the convicts in the chaingang for an opinion. Nine-tenths of them would say I began in disobedi ence and was not restrained. The lamentable fact is that at least one fourth of the boys at these schools have no restraint at home and if they are not punished at school they get it nowhere, and so these sons of Belial go to the bad very early and become victims to the rigor of the law and the courts. There is many a boy in these schools who is right now on his way to the chaingang. These Solons say that corporal punishment is brutal and barbarous and must give away to the progress and refinement of the age. About what time did the youths of this generation become better than those of half a century ago ? Read the daily papers and answer. How many houses in Atlanta are in mourn ing because of the bad conduct of their boys ? What good results can come from expulsion of a bad boy from school ? He is not wanted any where by decent people, and so he associates with this kind and becomes worse and soon comes to grief and brings sorrow to his kindred. Obedience to law, to government, to parents is absolutely necessary for the peace and welfare of society. This obedience is enforced among bad men by the fear of the law. It- cannot be enforced among bad boys except by fear of corporal punishment. Their honor or their shame is too feeble a factor to be considered. Obedience must begin early, even in infancy. My little two-year-old grandchild loves to play in the dirty coal box. "Caro line, you must not do that," her mother says, and enforces her com mand by slapping her little hands and then washing them. That is corporal punishment, and is just as severe to the little child as the rod is to a boy of ten, and both arc right and both j effectual. The enforcement of obedi ence in early childhood saves all ne cessity for punishment in later years, and it saves a sight of scolding. What a world of worry bad children are to other people ! What a comfort are good ones at home and abroad. Some mistaken parents say that their boys are too high-strung to be whipped. Yes, and those boys are in danger of being still higher strung when in a fit of passion they kill somebody. The poet Shelley said "Obedience is the bane of genius, virtue, freedom and truth ; makes slaves of men and of the human frame a mechanical auto maton." He was one of these high strung sublimated creatures whose rule of life was to do as he pleased, to follow his own sweet will. What a miserable life he lived, and was drowned when only thirty years old. He alarmed his schoolmates by his storms of passion. Was expelled from Oxford when nineteen. The same year he eloped with a hotel keeper's daughter and married her at Gretna Green. Three years later he abandoned her and she drowned her self from grief. Soon after this he married another woman, with whom he had been living previous to his first wife's death. He was the inti mate friend of Lord Byron and heigh Hunt, and they witnessed the crema tion of his body and deposited the ashes near' tb grave of Keats, in the Protestant c .etery at Rome. No, I cannot tell anybody how to raise their children. It is a fearful responsibility. 1 have known preach ers to undertake the task and fail, and the congregation smiled inwardly at the preacher's failure to raise his own in an exemplary and orthodox way. I said something about the laws of heredity coming in as a factor in the ieariDg of children. I knew two good men in Rome before the war, who had a like number of boys growing up, and these two families were close neighbors and their boya mingled together and went to the same day school and Sunday School and Church. One set of these boys was good, manly, industrious and a comfort and an honor to thei:: parents. The other, set was bad, mischievous and untruth ful. In fact, they were several ''mes caught stealing or with stolen goous in their possession. And yet the par ents in both families were always ex emplary in their conduct and conver sation. I asked Dr. Miller how he accounted for that. "Heredity," said he. "One set of these boys have bred after their grandfather, who was a very bad man. I knew him well, and , he was a terror to the community. These grandsons have started out on his line. Bad blood in horses will some times skip a generation and then crop out. Just so it is with human blood." "Can it not be eradicated ?" said I. "Oh yes," he replied. "These boys should have had more restraint in infancy and youth. It takes more for that sort. The whippings they are getting now come too late, and I fear will not reform them. But most any dis position to vice can be reform ed if begun in time. ? It is the samo in animal and vegetable creations. You can cut off a kitten's tail from one liti;er to another until they will ultimately be bom without tails. T|ou? can dwarf a peach tree or enlarge ai tomato." , . Now, while I have my settled con victions on these r.hings, I do not wish anybody to suspect that there has been any brutality at our house. Some of our boys received corporal punishment at rare intervals. Others had none?not a stroke, except spank or two from their mother. Like,.' most parents, we thought that other' people's children needed more thah?, ours. But even the punishment they , did get they have not forgotten and still talk of it as a big thing. Now, as to the girls, of course they should uot suffer corporal punishment in the schools. In the first place, they do not need it. Secondly, if they did, there is no natural and suita ble place to receive it, and if there was, it cannot be found with pro priety. Bill Abp. ? All Sorts of Paragraphs. -?The inhabitants of the United States consume more than half the quinine produced in the world. ? She?Pfwin did this<nreat money question start? He?Pfwin Eve ask ed Adam for her weekly allowance. ? The combined ages of a Virginia couple who recently eloped were 170 7ears?groom 90, bride 80. The silly ?oungoth:-gs. ? Old Gentleman?You had gold en hair when I saw you last. Old Lady?Yes, senator; but now I have gone over to the silver party. ? "Why, Franki?, what are you reading in that book about bringing up children?" "I'm just looking to see whether I'm being properly brought up." ? It is calculated that the Missis sippi annually deposits into the Gulf of Mexico sufficient mud to cover a square mi, e of surface to a height of 240 feet. ? James McConnell, a 70-year-old negro, swam in twice and saved a mother and her stepson, who had been thrown into the water near Chattanooga by a frightened horse. ? Insects are for their size the strongest members of the animal crea tion. Many beetles can lift a weight equal to more than ?ve hundred times that of their own bodies. ? If men were aa zealous for tho Christian religion as they are fox par tisan politics, Jesus, the Prince of Peace, would soon become practically the ruler of this country. ? "I am a plain man," said Blough ly, "and I believe in being practical. I love you and I want you to be- my wife." "Well," replied the fair.o "how much are you worth. ? Two Irismen were disputing. One of them, speaking of himself, .said : "lam a brick." "Sure, and I ama bricklayer," said the other, at the same time knocking him down. ? A Missouri mother has hit upon an excellent plan for getting her daughters home at satisfactory hours in the night. She requires the last one in to arise first and prepare the family breakfast. ? Bobbie?"Mother, were all the bad men destroyed by the flood?" Mother?"Yes, my son." Bobbie-, (who has just received a whipping from his father)?"When is ?bero going to be another flood ?" ? The cheapest summer resort? are in the mountains of Japan. There are mineral springs there to which peasants bring their own bedding and rice, paying only three cents a day for lodging and use of the water. ? Daniel Clay, of Strafford, . ., carried a bag of meal weighing 100 pounds a distance of three miles re cently on a wager without putting it down. He is seventy-six years old, and the feat was a test of endurance. ? The oldest actor in the world is Kenry Doel. He will be 93 on his next birthday, and was an actor for sixty five years. As a child he was rowed out to Plymouth Sound and saw Napoleon walking the quarterdeck of the Bcllerophon. ? It will be an agreeable surprise to persons subject to attacks of bilious colic to learn that prompt relief imay. be had by taking Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In many instances the attack may be pre vented by taking this remedy as soon~ as the first symptoms of the disease appear. 25 and 50 cent bottle for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? F. M. Grover, a blind justice of the peace of Topeka, has a collection of more than 100 razors, each with a history, and he cau identify each one and the case which belongs to it. If a strange razor is placed among them he detects it at o:ice. ? In a ledger of 456 pages which was found in an Auburn, Me., curios ity shop among a set of business books used a century ago by a New Glouces ter firm, there is not a blot, though all the pages arc full of entries. The books were kept with a quill peu and home-made ink. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sonso of smcV acd completely derange the whole system Trhej ent?rine it through the mucous surfaces. Sua articles should Lever be used except on preterii tions from reputable physicians, as the dami they will do is ten fold to the good you can pos bly derive from them. Hall's catarrh Cure mauu faciurcd by F .T. Cheney Co, Toledo, O., coe?i? talus to mercury, acd is taken internally, acting directly upon tne blood and mucous surfioaj t*e system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Curo sure you get the genuino. It is taken internali and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney ? f Testimoni?is free. *3-Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.