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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1897. VOLUME XXXII." NO. Boys9 and Chil COMBINATIOI FULL SUITS Extra Pants Double Seat, Double Knee,! Patent Waist! Pistol Pockel Guaranteed n< STRONG SUjT. Double Sozi. Double K?eoSt Use them Once and you ALL SUITS are doubled at knee and seat of same on the buttons. Quality of Cloth and Linings is the be OUR YOUNG Is the Nobbiest of any on the market. The fit and mal ASK FOR THE And you will get the correct fits and styles. We are s< 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. mi THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat meam 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 and jolly like the typical Dutchman, (Mayor Tolly or our Senior,) you will lose no time to visit onr 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. Free City Delivery. Telephone No. 41. MS. II. POORE Sc CO., City Market. DEPOT STREET. TIIOS. A. ARCHER. CLARENCE OSBOItNE. ARCHER * OSBORNE YaTISH the public to know that they have recently onened up a new lino of FIRST YV 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 see our Goods and get our prices. We will treat you rigbt. We want your trade. We want to givo you full value for it. WeareaUo prepared to do all kinds of TIN WORK, such as Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is woll equ'p??l, and we will do your work on short notice- and at rea sonable prices. We are keen np for \ u incs?. I)jn't give us the go-by. Yours truly, ARCHER & OSBORNE. Of Handle Hoes Ever in Anderson. ;A WORD ABOUT HOES.?The thought ful buyer looks for good material, proper shape and set in a Hoe. The handle is a very im portant item. It should be good shape, proper size, and of durable wood. Our Hoes come up to all such requirements, and are just whs.t the intelligent buyer wants. MORE PLANTERS YET. Don't fool away time with your old worn-out Cotton Plauter?buy a bran new "BROOKS;' _ SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. WATCHES! WATCHES, WATCHES, I have the Largest Stock in Upper Carolina. One Show Case seven feet Song 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 tell you, and will save you money every time. I guarantee every Watch I sell to give entire satisfaction. A beautiful line of? Gold Riogs, Silverware, Clocks, Jewelry, &c. Tho prettiest line of LADIES' WAIST SETS in the City. ?? - Promptness in everything. ENGRAVING FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD. anticAciarnospna ATLANTIC SOLUBLE GUANO, And other brands of their well known High Grade Fertilizers, for sale by : : : : : : : : : TD. IF. SLOAIT. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVEE. A Most Fruitful Source Both of Pros perity and Desolation. New York Times. Those who live along the banks or in the extensive valley of the Missis sippi River are in constant dread of its capricious waters. The mighty river has no peer among the streams of the world. Through its channel flows a volumo of water drained from half a continent, and even its tribu taries are larger than the greatest rivers of most other countries. Its principal claim to distinction among its rivals is, however, its inconstancy and the wanton deetructiveness of its floods. It seems always ready to burst through the bounds within which its waters have confined them selves and to sweep away the homes and lives of those attracted to its shores by the astounding fertility of its broad valleys. The fellahin of Egypt know almost to the hour when the Nile will rise above its banks, and have been pre pared for its yearly visitation for forty centuries, but the Mississippi knows no law. The" present flood in the Yazoo Delta has again, by the fearful suffer ing it has entailed and by the destruc tion of property, directed attention to ( the terrible and constant menace of that uncontrollable stream. It has been seen that the levees are all that stand between the people and the fatal waters. Man has for a hundred years been aiding the river in deepening its trough and piling higher its enclosing banks. The levee is merely an artifi cial addition to the natural shore, "raised," as the French word indi j cates, upon the low and insufficient bank, over which the river would otherwise flow at high water. Up to 1860 the ''planters" in Louis iana and Mississippi had expended 824,000,000, besides the unestimated labor of thousands of slaves, in build ing and maintaining these levees. During the war and in the still darker years of poverty and distress that followed war the levees were left un cared for, and many of them were gradually washed away and thousands of plantations were abandoned before the invading water. At the present time the annual expense of maintain ing euch levees as are now in tolera ble condition amounts to $1,200,000. A single flood may sweep away all these works, denude the valley for hundreds of miles and overwhelm hu man habitation, growing crops and even whole towns. The danger that always threatens the Mississippi Valley can hardly be appreciated by any one who has not visited that section of the country. It must be remembered that the river is not only the father of waters, but that it is also the father and creator of the land. The great lakes of our northern border, and probably the still greater lake, long since evapora ted, Agassiz, in Manitoba, once pour ed their waters through the Missis sippi Valley. Below St. Louis the land is the creature of this mighty stream. Its onrushing waters have for centuries unnumbered been form ing that great alluvial tract, pushing further and further into the sea an ever-broadening tongue of land. ' As the river ploughed its way through its own detritus, it not only dug out a channel, but it forced up on each side a bank of sand and mud. Of course this bank rises above the normal stream, and is higher than the valley on eitner side of the river. "When, however, the trough of the stream is flooded by increased volumes of water from the Ohio, Missouri and the Ar kansas, these normal banks and the levees built upon them are overflowed, or broken down, and the water rushes through great "crevasses" or breaches in the bank, and inundates the coun try. The situation of the entire valley may be understood by a few minutes of observation along the levees of New Orleons. When a stranger in that city approaches the river for the first time he is astonished to find that, after walking up a slight ascent, he has merely got up even with the level of the stream. As a matter of fact, khe level of the river is higher than that of a great portion of the city. New Orleans now stands where there was formerly an extensive marsh stretching from the edge of the river to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain liind southerly to the shores of the Gulf. The only spot now within the city that rose above the waters of this marsh was selected bySicurBien viller in 1718, as the site for the French settlement. It is still known as the French Quarter, or the "Vieux Carre." Gradually embankments or "levees" were extended along the river, shutting out the water and slowly reclaiming the marsh for the expansion of the city, which has be come the metropolis of the great val ley. New Orleans, however, while lying lower than the river, is in less danger than would be supposed, even in the event of serious crevasses open ing, since it has its own levees, and so long as they are maintained the water from the river would rapidly flow into the lower level of the lake. When Gen. Butler was in possession of New Orleans in 1862 and 1863 he used the river for cleaning the streets. He found the city in a very filthy condi tion, and, cutting the levees in certain places, he turned the water through the streets, flushing the open surface sewers, and sweeping the accumulated dirt and refuse into Lake Pontchar train. What is now known as the delta of the Mississippi embraces about 14,000 square miles. It is a perfect network of lakes, streams and bayous, and as nearly all these bodies of water arc navigable, there is no point in the southern part of the State of Louis iana that is more than twenty miles from steamboat navigation. This delta is of comparative recent forma tion. The Gulf has not yet been pushed far enough away to make the existence of the land certain, and most every little stream leads both into the great river and into the Gulf itself. Through hundreds of chan nels and marshes the Mississippi pours its immense volume of waters into the Gulf. One of its mouths is known as the Atchafalaya, and is itself a river 217 miles long. Along the shore, between the ex treme outlets of the river, the process of delta building may be watched at any time. The Missouri contributes a great quantity of sediment to the Mississippi, aud this floating volume of mud is largely increased by the sediment from the Ohio and tho Ar kansas. All of this is rolled through the great trough, some of it settling along the river bed, partly filling up the channel, and causing overflows, and some being swept over the low banks in seasons of flood, and fertiliz ing the rich valley ; but a vast quan tity of the suit is carried on to the Gulf and deposited where the force of the river is checked by impact with the waters of the sea. Every day, it is calculated, 750,000,000 cubic feet of earth is thus laid down on the bot tom of the (Juif, and aids in thrusting the delta further and further from the shore line. The great bulk of this daily tribute to the sea may be appre ciated better from the statement that it is sufficient to cover a square mile with 27 feet of earth. The Yazoo delta, as it is generally and properly called, which is the scene of the recent disastrous floods, is a long tongue of alluvial land lying along the east bank of the Mississippi and between that stream and the Yazoo River. It is an extremely fer tile region, and produces a greater yield of cotton than any equal area in the world. The land is flat, and is either flush with or a little below the level of the two streams. The Yazoo is really an offshoot or bayou of the Mississippi, and is subject to all the vagaries of its parent river, with which it is connected at mouth and source. When the Mississippi rises the up per part of the Yazoo begins to flood first, and when the volume of surplus water from the great river reaches the Yazoo mouth its current is forced back for nearly a hundred miles, flood ing the valley with its own and bor rowed waters. The entire delta is overflowed, houses are swept away and crops are destroyed. Frequently, in sudden floods, when the dwellers in the valley are not warned of the threatened danger, the loss of life is deplorable, but unusually the rise of the water is gradual and its advance is known for some days, and the people either flee to higher ground or escape in boats and on rafts when the flood comes. One cause of the floods in these low sections of country is the constant formation of what arc known as "rafts," or blocks in the rivers. The Red River and the Atchafalaya are famous for their rafts. The first named is so sluggish a stream that it makes no pretense of keeping its own channel, but disembogues into the Mississippi atany place, shifting from one to another at its own caprice. At one time it probably flowed directly into the Gulf. The Indians have a tradition to this effect. The Atcha falaya is equally slow. The current in each is not swift or strong enough to carry dowu the mass of logs, trees and debris that is being continually washed into the channel. A large number of these logs accu mulate and begin forming a "raft." Very soon the obstruction is dense enough to catch bushes, leaves and mud. Then vegetation commences to grow, and binds the wholo into a veri table floating garden, which rises and falls with the stream. In this way a dam is formed across the channel and the water is backed over the banks and overflows the valleys. A raft of this kind began forming in the Atchafalaya in 1778. By 1816 it was ten miles long and had a living forest on it containing trees sixty feet high. The State Government of Louisiana finally removed it in 1835, at very great expense. The great raft in the Red River was even more extensive than this one, and was a constant menace to life and property for years. The present flood has not been, ap parently, as destructive as the earlier overflows. In 1874 the waters devas tated thirty parishes (counties) in Louisiana, and destroyed $20,000,000 of property. In 1885 the loss by the flood was $7,000,000, and in 1800 it was $11,000,000. Bicycle Built for Two. Pedestrians stared, horses reared up on their hind legs with fright, and wheelmen turned their heads and risk ed their necks in an effort to see when the latest bicycle girl rode down Broad street yesterday. She wa3 a "girl" in the sense that she was sin gle, but sbe had evidently been so for nearly fifty years. Her costume was a marvel of antiquity, but it was not her own personality nor her bloomers which attracted the most attention. On the handle-bar in front of her a green parrot wa3 perched. The bird's feathers were ruffled by the wind and Polly seemed to be enjoying the ride immensely, for she chattered and squawked and flapped her wings at a great rate. There was a string tied to the frame of the wheel and at the oth er end of the line a small dog was se curely tied. The little animal chased along as best he could, barking enthu siastically. The big reserve police man at Broad and Chestnut streets motioned to the rider to stop. "You're on the wrong side of the strect,".said he. "Don't do it again or you'll be fined." The lady was inclined to be pugna cious. She complained that she would not have been molested if her husband had been with her. "Well, why don't you bring him along," said the reserve. The lady blushed and replied, finite pathetically : "I have none." Tcll, run along, little girl," said the guod-hearted policeman. "Leap year will be here in seven*years." So she remounted her wheel and rode off. - "Hello, Jim, what arc you doing now ?" "Working for the same farm er I worked for last year." "Doing pretty well ?" "No. Last year I did well enough. I got $20 a month ; this year the old man played it low down on me, and made me take his crop for my pay." ? Mr. Ham, of Georgia, tells this story : "They brought a prisoner down to Atlanta from northern Georgia who had been caught revenuing. That's what they call it down where I live. The fellow had never been in a city before, and he looked at the stone paving of the streets with great inter est. At last he said: 'It's a good thing they built a city in this place. It isn't worth a darn for fanning land. Look at the rocks.' " During the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin, of Long Reach, West Ya., contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it, he says: "I used sev eral kinds of cough syrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which relieved me instantly, and in a short time brought about a complete cure." When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not find it necessary to try several kind3 be fore you get relief. It has been on the market for over twenty years and constantly grown in favor and popu larity. For sale at 25and 50 cents per bottle by Hill-Orr Drug Co. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Philosopher Tells of the Time When Postage Was Two Bits a Letter. Atlanta Constitution. There is perhaps no invention nor contrivance that has brought more comfort to mankind than that of let ters and their easy transmission by modern postal service. How wonder fully cheap they arc and how swiftly they come and go! Only 2 ceuts to the utmost limit of the United States say 4,000 miles, and only cents to be carried across the ocean. It takes only 2 cents to carry a letter to the City of Mexico, but it lakes 5 cents to bring one back. My wife says that it is hard on Carl, for besides his weekly letter to us he has many friends, and the girl he left behind him, and his postage is quite a tax. She thought I ought to write to President Diaz and Mr. McKinley and demand rccipocracy, just for Carl's sake, but I compromised by promising to inclose a dime in every letter I wrote to the boy. In almost every mail that comes she is on the lookout for a letter from some of the absent ones, and when she gets one she reads it two or three times and files it away on her side of the room. The morning and the evening mail has become as important an event in the routine of our daily life as our daily meals. It is an event that has grown on us and become indispensible. Time was when neither she nor I received a letter a month, for she had no lover but me and I had none but her, and our postal service was a darkey boy. It was like that of Zcb Vance, who received a note from society woman in Washington with the mysterious let ters, "R. S. V. P.," endorsed on it, and when he answered it ho pat on one corner, "S. . A. N.," just to keep up with society, he said. When ehe afterwards asked for an explana tion, he smiled and said: "Oh, they stood for " 'Sent by a nigger.' " I remember when the postage had to be paid at the last end of the line by the person who received it, and it was 25 cents if it came 500 miles. If less than that, but from out cf the State, it was 18$ cents, and if within the State it was 12* cents. We had no decimal currency then, but we had the seven pence (12* cents) and the thrip ((31 cents) and they were worn to the quick from constant use. Noth ing told their value except their size. We received the great United States mail twice a week, and the tooting of the stage driver's horn as he rose to the brow of the distant hill aroused all the people of the little village, and most of them gathered at the postof fice to hear'the news. Perhaps there were as many as twenty weekly pa pers taken in the town, but none of them made mention of murders, or suicides, or lynchings, or elopements, or baseball, or football, or bicycle ra ces, or the fashions, or rewards for guessing, or advertisements of celery compound, or photographs of men or women or babies, or the arrival of any body less than a president or a gover nor. But in our State papers there were some little pictures or cuts of hasty departures?runaways?and all were uniformly advertised: "Ran away from the subscriber, my boy Dick, etc., and I will give $10 reward for his apprehension." But now the letters?ah, the letters that come every day! Besides the family letters from kith and kin, there are scores from good people who are working for church or charity, or want information about Florida or Mexico. Very often I am comforted with compliments which I love to re ceive, and very often I get a good, long letter from some old-time Geor gian who, for half a century, has been living in Texas or Arkansas, or some where in the great West. It pleases me to reply to all and make the best answer that I can. But perhaps I had better say just here that I have long since ceased to write composi tions for the school girls or to assist the boys in their debating societies. I wish sincerely that I had time to help them, but I have not. I kni/W how it is, for I used to get help ray self. But some of these letters are amus ing. One received a few day3 ago is very urgent to have my opinion upon the propriety or impropriety of a Chris tian man digging a storm pit and get ting in it when the cyclone gives its warning. Is it sinful or not to show such lack of faith in God? He says they are making a church question of it in his community. I have had several letters asking for assistance in guessing the missing word that the Constitution offers a thousand dollars for. These letters, of course, are con fidential, and some beg me not to men tion it even to Mrs. Arp. But the de licious humor in one of them is the offer to give me half the reward if I would disclose to her the word. That is very like the generous fellow who told the boy that if he would furnish his own hooks and lines and bait he would give him half the fish that he caught. Siuce my last letter about how to rrise children was published I have had several very comforting epistles from friends and some from strangers. Rev. William II. Strickland makes mention of several families from old Gwinnctt whose children are all grown and are esteemed by all who know them as good people?honest, law-abiding and temperate. He names the three sons and five daughters of my old friend Jim Dunlap. Also the eight children of Rev. D. H. Moncrief, one of whom now lives in Atlanta and has five sons and five daughters, all grown up and all good men and women. John and Mary B. Sammons, his wife, had thirteen to grow to maturity, and they were all good. How rich those parents were!?richer than Vandcrbilt or As tor. And so were the children of D. W. Spense and Wash Allen. One had eight and the other ten. Well, now, one of the reasons is that all of those families came from old Gwinnctt, and most of the chil dren were from that old Sammons stock that lived on Alcovy Creek when I was a boy. The first couple l ever saw married outside of my father's house was Jim Dunlap and Rebecca Sammons, and Jim outmarricd him self when he got her. That was an old-fashion cd, country wedding, and it was a big one. They had turkeys and roast pigs and pound cake amaz ing, and they had thousand-dollarcan dlcsticks all about, for every likely negro boy had a torch. But my wife and i left there forty-six years a.-^o, and did not know that those good peo ple had had so many children. May all such bo perpetuated. And I have a good lettor from Buena Vista, tell ing of old Dr. Reese, who has raised seven boys aud two um is. and they are all good, sober, iudustrious, Chris tian children, and had a gentle, kind, loving, Christian mother, who is now among the angels. That is it, after* all?the mother?the mother?the gentle, kind, loving, Christian mother. So I am encouraged to recall my ap prehension concerning the black sheep being in all large flocks of chil dren. Bill Arp. Wonders in Par?e in 1900. Regardless of the war clouds that hang so heavily over Europe, the gay Parisians continue their preparation for the International Fair, which they have projected for the year 1900 Those ingenious citizens have devised some novelties for it which promise tc astonish the world. Among them monster bicycle?not ''built for two, but for two thousand persons. It wi be the largest wheel ever made, and it would require a giant more than twice as'tall as the Colossus of Rhodes to mount it and push the pedals Imagining that a rider of such huge proportions could be found to operate it, he would be able to scorch aroun the world in less than two hours. The big wheel is expected to be to the next Paris Exposition what the Eiffel Tower was to the last one?its most talked-of feature. It will stand out above the tallest of the exposition buildings, and will be in itself a com plete building, constructed of the best Bessamer steel. It will have two large entrances, one at the bottom of each of its wheels, cut right through the tires. "Winding stairways will lead up the front and back of each wheel, through the forward and rear standards, to the backbone of the ma chine. The handle bar and saddle will be reached by flights of spiral steps. The stairs will be lighted by numerous windows, through which fine views of the grounds will be seen The prospect from the windows of the handle bar will be the be3tof all. The saddle will support a broad platform on which open-air banquets and dan ces will be given. In the backbone of the great wheel there will be a grand salon to be used as a banquet hall The long table, which will run its en tire length, will comfortably acccom mudate six hundred persons at dinner While this is a large conception, it does not seem to us to do credit to the ingenuity of our Parisian friends. It cannot be called an absolutely original idea, for it is simply an adaptation to the bicycle of the notion which gave Coney Island its famous Elephant; and we suppose the story of the Tro jan horse was the original inspiration of all such structures. Much more novel is the project of M. Paschal Grousset, a Radical Deputy, for mak ing the French World's Fair of 1900 memorable. He proposes to bore a mine in the middle of the Fairground 4,850 feet deep. He puts the cost of this big bore at not over three million dollars. Of course, the fun for the visitors would be the descent into the hole in the ground, and, to make the downward journey entertaining, M. Grousset proposes that galleries shall be excavated at certain intervals, which shall he lighted electrically and filled with exhibits of underground wonders. The Deputy's prime object, howev er, in boring down so far is to test and settle < the very old conjecture that there is a central fire at the heart of the earth that burns endlessly with fervent heat. As far back as we have any records of human history there has been a widely entertained surmise that the surface of our planet was only a crust over a pie of fire. The old Stoics believed it, and that some day the heat would burst through the crust and consume the planet. The old Scandinavian bards filled their songs with prophecies of a like purport. In the books of the Apoorypha the same fiery "end oL! things created here" is predicted. It is found,- tioo, in the Bible. St. Peter certainly entertained it when he predicted that "the heav ens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fer vent heat; the earth also and the sun also and the works that are there in shall be burned up." Geologists, too, have speculated upon the exist ence of the earth, and miners have found that, in some instances, after passing a certain depth the tempera ture of amine risesi degree Centi grade for every 110 feet of additional depth. Now, if that ratio of greater heat to greater depth is maintained, then, at a depth of little lens than 10,000 feet the inside 'temperature of the earth is 100 degrees greater than that of the air above its surface. At the same rate of progression the tem perature of the earth's interior at 70, 000 feet from its surface is 666 degrees ?a point at which nearly all substan ces would melt. M. Grousset's belief is that the question whether this progress toward the melting point actually goes on or not, and whether our world is, as the ancients believed, a hollow ball of dirt enclosing a literal lake of fire, will be forever settled by his project ed bore of 4,850 feet. He assumes that by the time the borers get down that far they will find the temperature so much increased (if the ancient guess is correct) that a continuous increase until the melting point is reached will be practically verified. If the Paris exhibition of 1900 has this deep sub terranean shaft for one of its leading wonders it will have a scientific as well as a popular interest, and there will be a theological interest in it besides. Who knows but that the prying curi osity of modern man may provide pop ular excursions to the suburbs of Sheol, via "gay Paree,'1 in 1900. ? If you always do good as you have opportunity, you will never be idle. ? A sea captain aud a lawyer lived next door to each other. One very windy night the lawyer was reading a book in his study, when a terrific crash up stairs startled him. Upon investi gating, he found that a chimney had hurled itself through his roof, doing considerable damage. He discovered it was the sea captain's chimney. Hastening down to his library, he pulled out his law books and hunted up similar cases, devising and schem ing how he could secure satisfaction from the detestable captain. While thus engaged, a note arrived from his enemy that read as follows : "Sir:? If you don't return those bricks at once, I will put the matter in the hands of the law." 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 tne raucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the damago thev will do is ten fold to the good you can possi bly'derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manu factured by F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0., con tains no mercury, and is taken Internally, acting directly upon tne blood and mucous surfaces of t e syitem. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internajy' and made in Toledo, Ohio, by 1. J. Cheney 4 Co. Testimonials free. *?-Sold by Druggists, price 75c. r,?>r bottle, Commodore Taylor. The teacher in a country dist~ near San Francisco is a buxom wid with an interesting boy. Many tim she explained to her history class fcK she had named her son Perry becau of her great admiration for Commodo Perry, whom she considered one of t most heroic characters in America history. Among the admirers of the prett school teacher was Bob Taylor, on of trustees, and his attentions to he had been observed by the schoolchi dren. One day she asked her histo class to name a naval hero in tb war of 1812. Not a pupil could nam one. "Of whom do I think a great deal?" she asked, by way of refreshing the memories of her pupils. "Bob Taylor!" shouted the claps, in unison. Ever since Bob Taylor has been known as commodore. All Sorto of Paragraphs. ? Smiles are smiles only when the heart pulls the wires. ? If money is tight, avoid it?it ought; to know better. ? A newspaper is like a family?it is mighty easy to start. . ? Want of care does more damage than want of knowledge. ? .Every man believes he carries the heavy end of the log. ? A roan is little the better liking himself, if nobody likes him. ? IVIalice sucks up the greater pa of her own venom, and poisons hersyn. 4 ? In India there is a species' of crow r,hat laughs just like a butnan being. .? ? The average depth of the sand in the African desert is thought to be 30 to 40 feet. \ . . ? Cruelty and religion den't fit together. How can a man love God who mistreats a helpless dumb brute ? ? When you go home fill the house with joy, so that the light of it "will stream out of the windows and doors, and illuminate even the darkness. ? To keep back the sharp woril which you are tempted to speak may require more graoe than to face a great danger orto resist a terrific temptation. ? Perhaps your nJghbor is too polite to tell you so, but still he does not like to loan you his paper. Scib icribe for it yourself, and you will never'regret it. ? ? Those who have tried it say that if two or three dandelion leaves be chewed before going to bed they will induce sleep, no matter how nervous or worried one may be. ? It does not seem to be generally known that the turkey was domesti cated by the Indians long before the discovery of this, continent by white men, but such is the case. ? If a poison has been accidentally swallowed, instantly drink a pint of hot water in which has been stirred a teaspoonful of salt and one or two of mustard. A half glass of sweet oil will render many poisons harmless. ?There were 75 postmasters in this country, and the expenses of the de partment were but $32,000 a year in Washington's administration; and there are now over 70,000 postmasters, and the service costs $92,000,000 a year. ? The time to do a good thing is when you can. Unimproved opportu nities never return. If you find it in your power to-day and here to help a struggling soul, you are guilty before God if you fail to stretch out your hand. To-morrow will be too late. ? The supposed grave of Eve is visited by over 40.000 pilgrims in each year. It is to be <ieen at Jeddah, in a cemetery outside the city walls. The tomb is 50 cubits long and 12 wide. The Arabs entertain a belief that Eve was the tallest woman that ever lived, ? He?"I Buppose your thoughts were all on your new bonnet during the sermon this morning?" She? "No, indeed, they were not !" "I don't believe you can repeat anything that was said during the service.' "Yes, I can, too. I heard a lady be hind me say, 'Isn't it stunning?' " ? "I'm afraid your wife never tidies up things about the house, John." said the husband'? mother. "And I like her all the better for it." said the son, enthusiastically. "I like her all the better for it. I can always find my slippers and my hat just where I leave 'em, which I never could do when I was at home." ? It will be an agreeable surprise to persons subject to attacks of bilious colic to learn that prompt relief may 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. ? The Newark, N. J., Advertiser says: "The official salary of Vice President Hobart is $10,000. Mr. Ho bart upon taking office resigned posi tions and connections paying him probably five times the amount of this salary, and he assumed social functions that will increase his expenses about ten times. In a pecuniary way, the election of Mr. Hobart has been a dead loss to him." ? A new way to extinguish oil fires has been discovered by the chief of the Charlotte fire department. He says that water is powerless to subdue a flame that is feeding on kerosene. The thing to do when a lamp explodes is to run to the flour barrel, gather up a handful of flour and throw it on the fire. The blaze will be instantly ex tinguished. ? There are several species of fish, reptiles and insects which never sleep. Among fish it is now positively known that pike, salmon and goldfish never sleep at all ; also that there are several others of the fish family that never sleep more than a few minutes during a month. There are dozens of species of flies wh:.ch never iadulgein slumber and from three to five species of ser pents which the naturalists have never yet been able to catch napping. An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to 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 H. Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa. Sworo and subscribed to ibefore on August 10, 1894.?Walter Shipman, J. P. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Hill-Orr Drug Co.