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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, APEIL 7, 189' VOLUME XXXII. - NO. 41, IF YOU ARE AN EXPERT In CLOTHING you can buy anywhere, as your knowl edge of material w?l protect you from the over-priced mer chant. If YOU ARE SIMPLY A JUDGE, How much better it is to buy here, where your money is just as good as your neighbors, the poor the same as the rich. SUITS FROM $5.00 TO $20.00. Af each price you will find Quality and Fit beyond compari son. YOUR MONEY BACK IF 100 Ml IT. B. 0. EVANS & CO. CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS. WITH a view of making a great change in my business I have decided to sell my entire Stock AT A SACRIFICE. In order to reduce the immense Stock we invite each and every one to avail themselves of this opportunity. We mean iust what we say, and will certainly save whoever comes some money, We want to get rid of our Goods and you want to save all you can, so here is a chance for all. MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. PROGRESS MACHINE THREAD HAS COMH TO STAY. 4. There are thousands of people who use it and will have nothing else. It is a loft finished goods, and can be used on any Machine. It is sol??V-. TWO SPOOLS, 400 YARDS, FOR SC." One Dozen for Twenty-five Cents. Can be had in Anderson only from? D. C. BROWN & BRO. WE are now offering some Goods that were si _,htly 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 usjL?all^and youjwill be convinced that our prices are right. Yates Shoe THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat means tings dat's good to eat, Meet also means tings dat's brober ; 'Tis only mete to measure des? tings 'e eteampoats 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 lo.'.e 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. Freo City Delivery. Telephone No. 4L ?D. H. POORE Sc CO., City Market. DEPOT STREET. TIIOS. A. ARCHER. CLARENCE OSBORNE. ARCHER * OSBORNE ?TTISH the public to know that taey have recently onened up a new line of FIRST W 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 anybndv in Anderson. Come and see our Goods and get our prices. We will treat vou right. We want your trade. We want to give you full value for it. We are also prepared to do all kinds of TIN WORK, such a3? Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is well equ'pje 1, and we will do your work on short notice and at roa sonable prices. We are keen np for budnes?. D.)n't give us the go-by. Yours truly, ARCHER & OSBORNE. - AND - e Take yonr Choice. THE Roman Harrow is perfect! Adjusta ble for first to last cultivation. Adapted to Cotton and Corn. Simple and strong. Made of Steel. No Ca&tings. Pi ice low. The Biggest lot Of Handle Hoes Ever in Anderson. A WORD ABOUT HO?S?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 what the intelligent buyer wants. MORE PLANTERS YET. Don't fool away time with your old worn-out Cottcu Planter?buy a bran new "BROOKS." _ _SULL1 VAN HARDWARE CO. 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, lit Prices that will make you Buy. IF you went a Watch I am the man to sell you, and will save you money every .ime. I guarantee every Watch 1 sell to give entire satisfaction. A beautiful line of? Gold RiDgs, Silverware, Clocks, Jewelry, &c. The prettiest line of LADIES' WAIST SETS in the City. Promptness in everything. ENGRAVING FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD. ? -d ? tota OLUBLE GUANO, A.nd other brands of their well known High Grade Fertilizers, for sale by : : : : : : : : : ID. IP. SLO-A-I?T. Z?i SAM JONES. i the and - rney ae,,8t ha8 been 00 a Tour ,n auit. the Water Swept Miseissipp send Atlanta Journal. I have just returned from a tour through a dozen States on a week' lecture trip, beginning in Kentucky, on through Indiana and Missouri, then south through the Indian Terri tory and Texas, and via Shrevcport into Louisiana and Mississippi. It has been a trip of great interest to me personally, because I have seen many things of interest, and some that sad dened me profoundly. I lectured two nights in the Indian Territory, at Muscogee and South Mc Allister. I was charmed with the Ter ritory. Though I had passed through it before, this is the first time I ever made a etop there. Muscogee is a beautiful town of perhaps 3,000 inhab itants. There are many charming people there, including a number of Georgians. South McAllister is a railroad center and a town of much pluck and euoerprisc with perhaps 10,000 or 15,000 people in a radius of a very few miles. There I saw something of the "Big Injun." I saw many mixed bloods. I siw some very fine people among the mixed bloods, and they were very proud to tell that they had Indian blood in them of the Chocktaw, Chica saw and Cherokee brands. Indian blood, whatever else it does, gives a fellow a home in the Indian Territory, and as much land as he can fence. I suppose that is one of the reasons why they are proud of their Indian blood. I met some nice, well-educated young men, and als?som? charming young ladies, who told me they had Chero kee blood in them. But I was told by my old Georgia friends that the Indians back in the reservations were very primitive in their life, and not advanced much in civilization to what they were when they emigrated West a half century 3go. The full bloods wont last anoth er hundred years. They are being ibsorbed. I found the people of the [ndian Territory very much stirred up jver the commission appointed lately by the President to adjust all ques tions between the whites and Indians. There is no government in the In iian Territory but the United States government ; no municipal govern ment, no State nor county government, *nd no taxes to pay. And no whiskey jan be sold in the Territory without ?ommitting a felony, I believe. But they tell me they get along as smooth ly as any town in the whole country. With no whiskey and no taxes I felt like moving out there myself, for I lespise whiskey and taxes are get ting to where they bleed a fellow to ieath in the States. But I wish to write more particu larly of the high waters along the way Df my trip. I first struck them at the Missouri River at St. Louis. From thence on to Kansas City the river was high. Thence on down Shreveport the Red River was not so high : but when I struck the Mississippi River below Shreveport on the Texas and Pacific railroad she certainly was on a rampage. The levees held intact the high waters up to the 16th. They had a break at Briggs just below Vicks burg on the other side of the Missis sippi River from us which will, of course, flood a vast amount of the richest country in the world. Cotton plantations abound in that territory. There was another break in the levees just below New Orleans which flooded some corn plantations. But the-'interesting part of it was between Baton Rouge and New Or leans. The levees are thrown up on either side of the river almost to the gulf below New Orleans. The bayous have been closed up by these levees ilong the river, and they are nature's outlet for these floods of water which i;ome down the Mississippi River, und having shut out nature's outlets it is a fight for life when the water is high to keep the levees intact. These levees are run .along one hundred feet, we will say, Jrom the banks of the river?sometimes farther off and some limes closer ;^ to the river. It seems to a casual observer that if these levees were out a half mile from the river on either side the security of the people would be much more assured. On the Mississippi Valley railroad below Vicksburg?for it has been drowned out above Vicksburg almost to Memphis?the train on which I rode ran through five miles of water and in some places it was twenty inches deep, putting out the fire in the engine. Thousands of people are at work upon these levees patching them, building them up higher and placing a bulwark in the way of a plankcd-up abuttment for the waves of the river to wash against, thereby taking some of the pressure off of the levees^ inesu '?t'?L>*|M>a?uiltof the richest alluvial soil along the o'Snks of the river thrown up from ten to thirty feet high. The base of the levee when it is ten feet high is perhaps nearly thirty feet wide, and the base broad ens proportionately as the levee is built higher. These levees arc all sodded with either white clover or bermuda grass. But they leak like a tub with loosened hoops, for all up and down the river on the outside the seapage from the levee forms a run ning branch, at some places more and it places less water coming through. NTow with the dirt of these levees thoroughly wet the pressure of from ten to thirty fee.t of water, and some times forty feet, is immense, and it is uo wonder to me that a sense of un jasiness and unrest abides with the people. And while thousands arc stretched along the levees, guarding them lest they be cut, repairing them if they show that they are impaired : thousands of others are plowing their 30rn and cane and cotton in the level bottoms along the way. When a crevasse occurs the tcn lency of the flow is from the river. The whole country up and down the Mississippi river, as a rule, has its incline towards the river and decline ?rom the river. These crevasses turn flood of water loose and this water :omes like a mill tail down upon the regions around about till it strikes the level or basin section of the country ?the richest the world ever saw. Iben it flows out and drowns out iverything. The tale of woe that moines from the upper Mississippi from below Memphis is heart-rending. vast area of delta above Vicks burg, which is the best country through which I have ever traveled, is from one to twenty feet under water to-day. Hope is dying out in the hearts of the people lest the water shall remain with them beyond seed time. Down below Vicksburg no one knows where the levees will break or when they will break, A sense of constant dread and apprehension is upon the people. The United States govern ment has a large force at work and supplies a great deal of material for protecting these levees, and the men on these levees fight the water like an army meeting its foe ; but when the water breaks through then the inhabi tants flee like the jack-rabbit and buffalo flee before the prairie fire. The question is frequently asked, why do people live in a country sub ject to such dangers and such visits ? First, because it is the richest part of this great country of ours.* If they can make two crops uninterruptedly there and then loose the next crop they make largely more than we can make in Georgia, Alabama or South Carolina with four crops. Really, where the soil is rich men will be there to work it in spite of the floods, swamp-fever and snakes and mosqui toes. I have traveled all over this country of ours, and I have seen no place that didn'thavc many commend ing features and many features that would drive one away from it. In the red hills of North Carolina and Geor gia we have a pure atmosphere and pure water. Amid the swamps and level soil of the Mississippi delta we have large crops but malaria, abad at mosphere, and bad water. All in all, I will take North Geor gia in mine, though its land may not be so fertile, yet we have bread for the eater and seed for the sower and health and a thousand blessings which off-set the want of fertility in our soil. So I have decided to remain in Geor gia. Sam P. Jones. A Method for Killing Flies. "The big alligator in our menag erie," the old circus man said, "didn't always take his feed very well. Some times he wouldn't open his mouth at feeding time, and then we had to re sort to strategy. Alligators are very sensitive about the nose. When this alligator wouldn't open his mouth we used to rub the top of his nose very gently. That always made him mad, and he'd throw back his upper jaw like a cellar door on hinges. Then we'd throw a chunk of beef, maybe five pounds or so, down his throat, and down would come the cellar door shut again, and he would swallow the beef. In that way we used to give him about 25 pounds of beef at a feeding without much difficulty. "The old alligator was very fond of flies. You might think a fly would be pretty small game for a 12-foot alliga tor, and one fly would be; but this old alligator would throw his upper jaw back and go to sleep, apparently. Flies would light around inside the al ligator's mouth, just the same as they would anywhere outdoors, and when there were about a million there the alligator would shut his upper jaw down with the flies all inside. Pretty soon he'd throw the cellar door back and set the trap again. "I've often thought that alligators would make good fly traps for houses. Of course, you'd want to keep any small children there might be in the house away from them, but if you looked out for that I should think they'd be great. 1 should say that about four 12-foot alligators could keep a moderate sized house free of flies all summer without the slightest trouble." _ Our Country a Hundred Years Ago. Every gentleman wore a queue and powdered his hair. A gentleman bowing to a lady always scraped his foot on the ground. All the population of a village as sembled at the inn on "post day" to hear the news. The church collection was taken in a bag at the end of a pole with a bell attached to arouse sleepy contributors. An old copper mine in Connecticut was used as a prison. Imprisonment for debt wae a com mon practice. There was only one hat factory, and that made cocked hats. Virginia contained a fifth of the whole population of the country. Two stage coaches bore all the travel between New York and Boston. The Mississippi valley was not so well known as the heart of Africa now is. Quinine was unknown. When a man had ague fits he took Peruvian bark and whiskey. There was not a public library in the United States. The books were very expensive. "The Lives of the Poets" cost $15. A day laborer received two shillings a day. A horseman who galloped on a city street was fined four shillings. Crockery plates were objected to because they dulled the knives. A man who jeered at the preacher or criticised his sermon was fined. Dry goods were designated as "men's stuffs" and "women's stuffs." Stoves were unknown. All cooking was done before an open fireplace. Six days were required for a journey between New York and Boston. SARGE PLUNKETT. He Greets the Coming of Memorial Day with ?te Sad Memories. Atlanta Constitution. Memorial day is upon us again in all its sacredness, and with all the memories that it brings. Thirty-six years have passed since the guns lumbered at Fort Sumterand ushered in the bloodiest war the world had ever known. Thirty-six years may seem a long time to the young people, but it seems short to the old people who were here thcD, so short that the incidents of those troublous days seem as but the happenings of last week or the last month?time is mighty short when it passed. These memorial occasions lend a hallowed sweetness to everything upon their re currence upon a day of every spring, and it is hoped that the interest in the occasion will never gro\> less, but, rather, go on increasing down through the ages as long as time shall last. It should be thus, and especially it occurs tome that little children can not be impressed too forcibly with the importance of the occasion, and of the sacredness of the things it rep resents. Children should be taught to take the liveliest interest, not only because they owe it, but to them will be left the duty of perpetuating and forever celebrating on the occasion? Lct the children, sweet and lovely, Bring that day the sweetest fiowerp, And their bands in loving kindness Scatter tbem in softest ebowers Above where these dead heroes sleep, And thus perpetuate and keep A eacred day. It will not be long until the children of fo-day will be grown-up men and women. I was impressed with the quickness of such changes upon yes terday, as I watched a mother at her work whom I had seen in the cradle in the year 1861. It did not seem long as I mused upon it, since this mother of the present was a tiny babe and I watched her mother as she iron ed just as the one irons to-day; but mighty have been the changes and great the difference in the occasions. The old mother of 1861 was ironing the clothes to go in her husband's knapsack?the one of yesterday was fixing the clothes of her own little children to join in the parade of Memorial day, and to-morrow they may be seen, looking prim and sweet, with flowers to scatter over the graves at Oakland. This is as it should be, and I hope the enthusiasm will never grow less, nor the sacredness of its performance ever be forgot. Thirty-six years ago, as I stood over the cradle of this very mother of to-day, I little dreamed of what was to conic, and come so quick ly. She had a sweet mother and a good father?as good and as sweet as any of to-day. It was upon the occa sion of the father's preparing for the war that I speak. The circumstances had passed my mind, but it came back upon me yesterday as I watched the mother. As I watchc'l many memories came back?some of them were sweet, but many were sad, so sad that I could but shed a tear as I mused. The father came to my mind, and it seemed that I could see him just as he appeared. He was waiting for his sack to be packed and kept a foot upon the cradle, and up and down, up and down, this way, that way, he rocked and sang while the mother packed the clothes. I could see her as she folded the gray jacket and packed it down smooth in the bottom, and then each garment was folded so nicely and packed away. Every garment that went into that knapsack caught a tear, though itW2.s plain that the mother was trying to be brave and hide her sorrow?many times she turned away and I know it was just to h'de the tears. I saw the parting wh?n the knapsack was at last ready. I saw many sorrowful part ings. Their hearts were ready to burst when the little babe was lifted from the cradle to be kissed by the father for ? last time. The little babe thought it was great fun, and jumped and crowed, as all sweet ba bies will; and yesterday as I looked upon her I wondered if she had ever truly realized what a good father she had lost when John got killed atMal vcrn Hill. Lot all women?let all mothers, And the sisters and the wives, Of departed southern heroes Who for country gave their lives, Magnify Memorial Day Teach the children in this way? And keep it sacred. I want you to watch the old veter ans in the procession to morrow. All their heads are tinged with gray. The younger among them are grewiug old, and their line is shortening mighty fast. Some of them impress you a3 almost pitiful, and, if you have been oae tc begrudge them their little pen sions you may feel sorry. They are bent with age and limping from infir mities, but I can tell you that thirty six years ago these same men stepped proudly to the tap of the drum, and I )ubt if there will ever be again such lysical manhood as was found in an trly Georgia regiment of volunteers, ley were Btrong, brave, true and illing? and survivors of the conflict? '"Rebel" veterans, old and lame? lise your heads in pride of conscience; |For with the dead you sbare the fame tat was won through tribulation, a loved, but short-lived nation, Bless this day. [It strikes me that the good old luthern women have not received |eir share of honors. They should )ecially be remembered on these oc ?ions. It was their part to suffer I solitude. They had not the privi le to die. They could not join in songs of the camps nor the excite nt of the battles, but they bad their jp sorrows and their most important Ities; and they performed them in a )nner that will never be surpassed? 2y can never receive too much con [eration. [What changes have the past thirty years brought! r)Vhat changes will the next thirty years bring? ?his cannot be answered, but I feel jy heart that? lien other thirtv years have passed, [nd all have gone that wore the gray, pet little children with their flowers 'ill meet and magnify this day? South's warm heart is beating yet, never, never, can forget Who were the gray. Sarge Punkett. - m m mm How's This. oder One Hundred Dollars reward for any lof Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Irrh Cure. p. the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney ?he last 15 years, and believe him perfectly rabie in all business transactions and finan able to carry out any obligations made by Arm. 3t & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. di?o. A Marvin, Wholesale Drug , Toledo. 0. M'a Catarrh Cure is tnte-i internally, acting :tly upon the blood aud uiucou3 surfaces o? [stem. Trai i menials sent free. Trire 7.5c. "tie Sot?l by nil dntjrgRts. A BRAVE DEED IN BATTLE. The Act of a South Carolinian at Spotteylvanla. New York Sun. There were three of them. They met at the club at the same hour every afternoon, and their fellow clubmen had come to call a certain cosey alcove "Their Corner." Everybody knew whose corner was meant, and no one thought of intruding unless invited to join the trio. Two had served side by side in the Union army, and the third ?well, as Le put it himself, he had served as a mark f?r them in the Con federate ranks. But they were the closest of friends for all that, and only very occasionally did Mr. Johnny Reb show any feeling about the late unpleasantness. Last Thursday he was late. This was out of the usual, for as a rule he is the most punctual of the three, strange to say, since he is a full-blooded Southerner. "Where can he be ?" said one of his companions. "Where?" echoed the other, and then they discussed their respective thi its for a time. "Where can hebe?" Number one would suddenly break out again, and number two would respond each time a little more emphatically, "Where ?" Then they discussed and compared their liquid capacities some more. At last Mr. Johnny Reb appeared. He came shuffling in unconcernedly, and took his own big armchair. "Well, boys," he drawled, looking from one white-haired veteran to the other, "what's the news to-day ?*' "Why are you so late?" asked number one. "Where have you been ? You have never been late before since we begau to meet here," said number two, giv ing the usual order, "two manhattans, dry, and a whiskey straight." "Well, I reckon I am a little late," admitted the Southerner. "But you see I met a fellow from home and we got to talking about old times and I forgot, to tell the Lord's truth." "You should have been here," said number one. "You knew we wanted to decide on our seats to see the Grant parade." "I don't know as I want , see that parade, after all," said Mr. Johnny Reb, with a great show of stubborn ness. "Not seethe parade!" ejaculated number two in amazement. "The devil you say! The idea of not seeing that parade, when we refused to march in it because you wouldn't, and we wanted to sit with you. That's a fine game. What made you chaoge your mind ?" "Been talkin' over war times with my old friend," answered the Confed erate, looking them square in the eyes. "I'm all stirred up, boys. I can't help it. Heaps o' times when yoci fellows get to talkin' about the war I boil up inside until it seems to me as if I would choke to death and then 1 take a few extra glasses. It acts as a sort of counter irritant, and you chaps do me a great injustice when you accuse me of liking the stuff too well. I just naturally hate the taste of liquor. Well, as I was sayin', I met this friend, and he says to me : 'Say, Jim, ain't they making a great to do over puttin' up a monument over Gen. Grant,' and I had to admit that that was the truth. Then he reminded me of as brave a deed as a Confederate soldier ever accomplished on the very day when Gen. Grant massed some 10,000 troops for the purpose of pierc ing our line near Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia." Here Mr. Johnny Reb deliberately stopped, and, blowing his nose vicious ly, began to talk about something else. "Tell us about it," insisted his two friends. He thought a few minutes and then went on : "Well, I reckon I will, for it's the story of a hero well worth tellin'. It was on May 18, a lovely day, in 1864. As I said, Gen. Grant was after us hot and heavy, but he struck us at a strong point, and the stormin' columns were engaged in a deadly cross firin'. Bullets whizzed around like snowflakes do in blizzark times in these parts. We repelled your first advances, gen tlemen, with fearful loss. Before we knew it you made another gallant charge against us, and we gave you a still warmer reception. Your lines melted away?I can see 'em now? under the storm of musketry, grape and canister that swept the intervenin' space. Oh, it was a day of days !: Your troops fell back, gentlemen, and you didn't stop to remove your dead and wounded from the smokin' field. You had business/ which required your immediate presence further on. At once our skirmisn line was thrown out to watch your movements, and was located at a point where the slaughter was most fearful. Our men had hastily dug rifle pits to protect them from the sure aim of the Federal sharpshooters, and dead and dying men were heaped up even to the edge of those pits. "In one of the pits were found four or five members of Company H, 1st regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. An ungainly, angular, red-headed lad was among them. His name was John M. Nicholls, and he hailed from Spartanburg, a little Carolina town in the beautiful Piedmont belt. The wounded had been lyin' for hours un attended. The sun beamed hotter, and hotter upon them, and they were sufferin' terribly from pain, loss of blood, and thirst. Their groans and curses were sickenin' to hear. Not fifteen feet from the rifle pit protectin' the South Carolinians lay a mortally wounded Federal officer. "'Water, water!' he cried. 'Will no one give me water ? Just one drop, that's all. I'm dying for want of wa ter.' "As the day wore on his cries, in stead of subsidin', grew more pitiful, and it was evident that he was sufferin more and more. Finally Nicholls could staud it no longer. He was one of those effervescent boys, who was always lookin' out for things to do for other people. At last he cried, with the tears streamin' down his cheeks : " 'Boys, I can't stand this any longer. I'm goin' to take the poor fellow my canteen of water.' "Everybody tried to dissuade him. To show him the danger of his under takin' some one stuck a hat ou the end of a ramrod and held it above the pit for an instant. Instantly dozens of bullets from theguns of the Yankee sharpshooters passed over their heads as a rcmiuder that the Yanks were still in the ring. "In the meantime the dyin' officer moaned on, 'Water, water. Just one drop, somebody, please. Only one tiny drop.' 'The tender-hearted boy could not be scared out of his determination. After makin' three unsuccessful at tempts he at last succeeded in clearin' " the little embankmeut. Once on tbo other side it was an easy matter for him to throw himself flat upon the ground between the furrows of the cornfield where the battle had been waged. He crawl::d slowly along and got as near to the dyin' man as the protectin' furrows would allow; then, breakin' a stick from a numac bush, he tied his canteen to the end of it and landed it into the sufferer's handf. Talk about gratitude ! I never beard gratitude expressed as that Federal officer expressed it. Nota man'who heard him had a dry eye. lie begged young Nieb?lls to let him tie bis gold watch to the' stick, that he might in that small way show his appreciation. But the boy soldier scoffed at the very idea, and returned as he had come, amid a hailstorm of bullets. When he reached the ec'ge of the pit he yelled to his comrades to clear tbc track for him, and with a mighty leap he was among his friends once more without so much as a briar scratch to call to his mind his heroic act. That was the kindest and bravest deed I saw duriti' the whole war. It was no act of impulse, but a deliberately cal culated risk of his own life to give aid and succor to his enemy." "What sacrifice to relieve a friend would be too great for a man who jeoparded his life to allay the suffer ing of an onemy ?" risked number one. "Let's drink a silent toast to John Nicholls, the hero," suggested num ber two, and they did. The scats for the Gran t parade have not yet been selected. AH Sorts of Paragraphe. ? No one ever thinks that a boy is tired. ? The more people know the less they talk 8 bout it. ? An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his cj es. ? Hard and steady work is a good antidote for hard times. ? The way to have good times is to help make them yourself. ? A man is frequently known by the company he keeps out of. ? Govern your thought when alone and tongue when in company. * ? There is a constantly growing demand that other people be good. ? ? The surest way to become poor in earnest is to try to keep all you get. S ? To keep your own secret is wis dom, to expect others to keep it is folly. ? When people arc crazy to marry they attach no consequence to conse quences. ? There is more snuff used in Bos ton than in any other city in the Uni ted States. ? A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it. ? The rolling stock of the railroad of the United States is valued at a billion and a half of dollars. ? Not one unmarried woman in a hundred tells the truth when she is asked why she never married. ? Said an Irishman in the course of an eloquent speech, "Mr. Chairman, the gals is the boys to do it." ? The secretary of war says tbo United States could pat into the field an army of about 9,000.000 men. ? Happiness consists not in having vast and rich possessions, but in be ing fitted to enjoy what we have. ? "Paralysis ?" said an Irishman. "It's the disease thatraak<^ye so that ivery time ye move, ye eau t stir." ? Fear of what people will say has amore religious effect on the world than the fear of what; the Lord will think. ? An exchange truly says that the grip is the only thing that can make some tough people feel meaner than they are. ? The letter I in the Chinese lan guage has 145 ways of being pronoun ced, and each pronounced has a differ ent meaning. ? A Wisconsin girl has refused an offer of marriage, on the ground that her father was not able to support any larger family. ? "Do you enjoy novel reading?" "Yes; one can associate with people in fiction that one wouldn't dare to speak to in real life." ? Many men imagine that the world couldn't get along without them, but when they die the town in which they live experiences a boom. ? The man that forgets a great deal that has happened has a bet .er mem ory than he who remomben a great deal that never happened. ? A harmless lotion for removing freckles is as follows : Lemoi juice, one ounce ; powdered borax, one-half dram ; sugar, one-half dram. ? The London telegraph office is the biggest in the world. Over 3,000 operators are employed, and upwards of 30,000 batteries being used. ? When a man makes up his mind that he is a good man, he should be ready to show others what he is good for, remarked the N. O. Picayune. ? Usually, the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. ? True happiness never flows into a man, but always out of him. Hence heaven is sometimes found in cottages and hell in palaces. Heaven itself is more internal than external. ? For every quarter in a man's pocket there are a dozen uses; and to use each one in such a way as to rie rive the greatest benefit is a question every one must solve for himself. We blieve, however, that no better use could be made of one of these quarters than to exchange it for a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy, a medicine that ev ery family should be provided with. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? Overpaid labor is not the sort re ferred to in the supreme judicial court of Maine, sitting at Bangor, where an old farm laborer said that he had re ceived as compensation for 11 years' toil on a farm "his board, a few pairs of pants, a second-hand overcoat or two, some tobacco and a licking." Evidently he had not suffered too much protection. ? Mr. D. P. Davis, a prominent liveryman and merchant of Gosh en, A'a., has this to say on the subject of rheumatism: "I take pleasure in're commending ^Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, aa I know from personal experience that it will do all that is claimed for it. A year ago this spring my brother was laid up in bed with inflammatory rheumatism and suffered intensely. The first ap plication of Chamberlain's Pain Balm eased the pain and the use of one bot tle completely cured him. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co.