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BY CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C , WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1897. VOLUME XXXII. - NO. 46 IF YOU ARE AN EXPERT In CLOTHING you can buy anywhere, as your knowl edge of material wi?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. At each price you will find Quality and Fit beyond compari son. YOUR MONEY BICH IF YOU HT IT. B. 0. EVANS & CO. CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS. BUGGIES, BUGGIES! DON'T think of buying a Buggy unMl you inspect my line, which iif one of the largest in the upper part of the Slate. I always keep a large stock on hand for you to select from, and all makes and grades. "BABCOCK'8" BUGGY on "Happy Thought" Springs is the easiest riding one made. "TYSON & JONES" cannot be beat for wear and tear and for superior workmanship and finish. The "COLUMBIA" is the best on earth for the price you pay for it. Also, several other make3 equally as good, but too numerous to mention. WAGOSS.-1 always keep a full stock of the old reliable "Tennessee" Wagons, which need no introduction to the people. A full line of BUGGY and WAGON HARNES3 (single and double.) extra HAMES, TRACES, BACK BANDS, COLLARS, BRIDLES and SADDLES always on hand. Also, a beautiful line of LAP ROBES. Don't bny anything on wheels until you see me. If it don't suit yon to pay Spot Cash for my Goods will sell them to you at same price, on good paper, and charge you eight per cent interest until paid. DON'T FORGET ME. J. J. FRET WELL. P. S.?Please caRat my offico arj'- r:ve your Note for Fertilizers purchased this Spring. All these Accounts must be settled by Note by May 1st. J. J. F. 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. WE are now offering some Goods that were slightly dam aged by water in the recent fire? AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. These goods are only slightly damaged, and it will be to your interest to call and examine them, as they are cheap. We have just received a beautiful line of? GENTS' RUSSET and OXBLOOD BALS For Summer wear which we are going to sell very close. We are still closing out our Heavy Winter Goods at greatly reduced prices to make room for Summer Goods. Give us a call, and you will be convinced that our prices are right. THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat means tings dat's good to eat, Meet also means tings dat's brober ; 'Tis only mete to measure des? tinga Yen steampoata meet the stabber." That Dutchman caught the idea on the first jump, and if you would be wise and want to get fat end jolly like the typical Dutchman, ( Mayor Tolly or our Senior,) you will lose no time to visi tour 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. JE. II. POORE & CO., Cit. Marltet. DEPOT STREET. TIIOS. A. ARCHER. CLARENCE OSBORNE. ARCHER * OSBORNE 3 the public to know that t'iey have recently onened up a new lino of FIRST W CLASS Cooking and Heating Stoves, Cooking Utensils of all kinds, Crockery, Lamps, Glassware, Tinware, Woodenware, &c, And that they propose soiling them as cheap as anybody in Anderson. Como and see oar Goods and get our prices. We will treat you right. We want your trade. We want to give you full value for it. Wearealao prepared to do all kinds of TI NWORK, such as Roofing, Guttering and Repairing. Our Shop is well eqnippe 1, and we will do your work on short notice and at rea sonable prices. We are keen np for budoos.". D >n't give us the go-by. Yours truly, ARCHER & OSBORNE. THE EBENEZER SECTION. ANOTHER GOOD CITIZEN OF A GOOD COMMUNITY. Francis Marion Kay, l?onorcd and Esteemed by Every One. Mr. Editor : Francis Marion Kay, though not so prominent i public life as Col. John Martin and Rev. . Rice, yet like them contributed largely to the prosperity and popularity of the Ebenezer section of An derson county. He was the eldest son of Gabriel and Mary Ka}', nee Clinkscales, and was born near Broadmouth church, in Abbeville county, on the 22nd day of May, lblG. When he was a small boy his father moved from Abbeville into the Ebenezer neighborhood, where he grew to manhood and afterwards lived and died. His was quite an extensive family connec tion on both sides, as I presume all the Kays in Abbeville and Anderson counties are more or less related ; and then his mother, being a Clinkscales, brought him into con nection with that very extensive and re spectable family. At a reunion of the latter family a year or two ago, Col. John G. Clinkscales made a speech in which he humorously said he had often read and heard of A^atu, but never knew his sur name until he came to trace back the Clinkscales family, and then found that it was "Clinkscales"?1 dam Clinkscales be ing the elder ancestor. F. M. Kay, the subject of this sketch, was rather of a quiet and unassuming disposi tion, and consequently never aspired to or sought public office of any kind. As a matter of accommodation to his neighbors he held the office of postmaster, at his own house, for some length of time before the war. The name of the office was Orrville. In addition to the oversight of his farm, his life work was that of a blacksmith, and not only one of the best, but the best I ever saw. I have often watched him as he put his labor and skill on a piece of metal, sparkling hot from the furnace, and it seemed as if he knew exactly \vhere and how to strike it so as not to give one lick more, nor one less, than was really neces sary to perfect the thing desired. As evi dence of his skill, he left his family quite a number of well-made and nicely-polished tools of various sorts and sizes. He was twice married. The first time to Miss Rebecca Manning, a daughter of Esquire Manning, and sister of Rev. Jo seph Manning, a well-known local preacher of that section. To this union were born two sons and four daughters, several of whom are still living in the county. His second marriage was to Miss Mary ?. Pratt, of Abbeville county, who bore him seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom are now living in this and ad joining counties, except one son who died in young manhood a few years ago. Mr. Kay was converted and joined the Methodist church at Ebenezer early in life, a relation lie well maintained until he en tered the church triumphant. He took much delight in religious services, and greatly enjoyed a good sermon, under which the big lean; could often be seen rolling down his cheeks. As the Rev. Mr. Tyler used to say, a few such earnest and devoted men as that in a congregation would make a preacher preach himself to death. Mr. Kay \va3 a very quiet, peacenble? kind and sympathetic neighbor. Free him self from a spirit of bitterness and nuai ness, he greatly dispised it in others. Near the ciose of the war he went into camp with the old men on the coast of South Carolina, and remained there three months. As he was the only blacksmith in a very large section of the county, he was dis charged from the army on a petition of the people. Prom this time on he continued to work at his favorite occupation until 1887, when he had to retire on account of failing health ; and on the 21st day of October of that year, after a lingering illness and much suffering for several months, he died^at his home where for more than half a century he had lived. His remains were laid to rest in Ebenezer cemetery, where he had witnessed and assisted in many buryings, and where sleep the dust of many of his loved ones. The funeral services were con ducted by the late Rev. W. A. Hodges in the presence of numerous relatives and friends. Senrab. THE ble for : Cotton a of Steel. The I of a A W( ful buyei and set i portant i size, ano up to all the ititeli Don't Cotton SULLIVAN Y _____ WATCHES, I have the Largest Stock in Upper C One Show Case seven feet long fill nothing but. GOLD, SILVER AND At Prices that will make you Buy. IF you want a Watch I am the man to time. I guarantee every Watch I sell to giv< Gold Bings, Silverware The prettiest line of LADIES' WAI! ?&? Promptness in everything. ENGli 1 [lanticACK ATLANTIC SOL And other brands of their wel known High Grade Fertilizer for sale by r ? : : : : : : D. .Dogs-nokPropcrty. ??? ->1& Washington, April] 26.?The United States Supreme Court to-day decided a case involving a claim tor damages for killing a dog, which (the case, not the dog,) had made its way from the lower Courts of New Orleans through the various phases of litigation, to be finally decided here in opposition to the claim. The suit was instituted by George W. Sentell, Jr., vs. the New Orleans and Car rollton Railway Company. The dog, a Newfoundland, valued at ?200, was killed by a car owned by the railway company. The case turned upon the validity of an Act of the Louisiana Legislature recog nizing dogs as personal property only when placed upon the assessment rolls. In this case the dog was not assessed Justice Brown delivered the opinion of the Court, sustaining the constitutionality of the law and refueing damages. Justice Brown laid down the law in regard to dogs in general in the following terms: "The very fact that they are without the protection of the criminal laws shows that property in dogs is of an imperfect nature, and that they stand as it were between animals ferae naturae, in which until subdued there is no property, and domestic animals, in which the right of property is complete. They are not con sidered as being upon the same plane with horses, cattle, sheep and other do mestic animals, butrather in th'ecategory of cats, monkeys, parrots, singing birds and similar animals kept for pleasure, curiosity or caprice. Unlike other do mestic animals they are useful neither as beasts of burden for draught nor for food. Bricks of Brass. Macon, Ga., May 1.?Two good-looking young men who registered from New York city, reached here a few days ago, and one of them sent a telegram to Phil lip Jackson the wealthiest cotton planter in Sumter county, asking him to come at once to this city to look into a good in vestment. Jackson is as shrewd as he is rich, bnt in this caso he swallowed the bait, and came on at once. The strangers treated him royally, and introduced him to a satchel full of yellow metal, which they said contained real gold bricks. They told of owning a mino in a secluded spot in Nevada, which they intended to open as soon as they sold enough bricks to get the machinery. Jackson applied some old-fashioned tests of his own to the brick s, and satisfied himself that thev were genuine. Then he turned over to the strangers ?6,500 in cold cash and a check for $5,000 more. The strangers took an express train north, and their victim brought his bricks to Atlanta, where an essayist informed him that they were of unusally good quality of brass. He had payment stopped on his check, and notified the police to look for the strangers. Loss to Abbeville. Atlanta, Ga., April 28?Another en terprise in which Harry A. Casein, the de faulting cashier, was interested, is now in trouble, and it is a little doubtful where the ramifications of his extensive stealing will end. He was a very large stock holder and one of the officers of the Hart man Colony Company, which rwneabout 20,000 acres of land in South Carolina and is incorporated under the laws of that State. The Hartman company built a ho tel, a few stores and a large number of houses and then sent agents north to so licit emigration. They did not succeed very well, however, and a few months ago they sent quite a number of represen tatives to Germany with a view of secur ing colonists over there. At least one large steamship company in New York city was Martily interested in the venture and the , >speots became so promising that Mr. Casein put many thousands of dollars of the money which he took from the bank into the enterprise. To-day, while the application for a re ceiver is still pending in court, there is a whole steamship load of emigrants fron Germany bound for Hartman, each on 9 enjoying a posPive guarantee from tha company of a homestead and the oppor tunity to make a good living, With Mr. Cassin in jail, the fate of all these poop] ? is a matter of a great deal of doubt. Casein is still in jail, his friends having been unable to secure the necessari bonds. The grand jury meets to-morro ir and doubtless indictments will be found against him. _ _'^mm?^mmmit - A.TSD ? Mit tell CnlM?or. Take your Choice. Roman Harrow is perfect! Adjusta first to last cultivation. Adapted to ud Corn. Simple and strong. Made No Castings. Price low. liggest lot mdle Hoes Ever in Anderson. )RD ABOUT HOES.?The though t f looks for good material, proper shape a Hoe. The handle is a very im teni. It should be good shape, proper I of durable wood. Our Hoe3 come such requirements, and arc just what [igent buyer wants. ?ORE PLANTERS YET. fool away time with your old worn-out lauter?buy a bran new "BROOKS." [ARDWARE CO. :HES! WATCHES, larolina. led with NICKEL WATCHES, eel 1 you, and will save you money every ? entire satisfaction. A beautiful line of? , Clocks, Jewelry, &c. ST SETS in the City. LAVING FREE. WILL R. HUBBARD. ?BLE GUANO, 1 s, A FORGOTTEN EMPIRE. A Gallant Frenchman Organized the Cherokees in Georgia. Few persons of to-day are probably aware that up among the Georgia mountains a daring French adventurer once founded an empire with a capital city, an emperor, a court, grand officers of State, an army and thousands of subjects ; that the imperial design of the founder only came to grief through an accident that checked the further growth of power which, developed, might have changed the destinies of the continent. The story of this purely American sovereignty, which died a-borning, is peculiarly interest ing and romantic. In 1736 the French had settlements at Mobile, New Orleans and a few scattered points along the Gulf coast and a short d?3tauce up the navigable rivers in what is now Alabama, Flori da, Louisiana and Mississippi. Simi larly, the English had their posts and settlements on the coast of the Caro linas 'and Georgia. The colonies of both nations were few in number, weak, scattered and feeble. The vast country of the interior between these rivals was inhabited by a number of powerful and warlike Indian tribes. Principal among these were the Chero kees, the Creeks, the Choctaws and the Chickasaws. In 1700 the Chero kees alone possessed 64 inhabited towns. Later, in 1771, the single Choctaw tribe mustered nearly 5,000 warriors. In 1777 the town popula tion of the Creeks was 15,000. These tribes were far in advance of the wild Indians, who lived in tempo rary wigwams and depended on the chase for subsistence. Their towns were collections of well-built log houses, fortified with palisades or walls of logs placed end to end and encircled by deep ditches. They cul tivated the soil and raised peas, beans, squashes, corn and fruit. In the autumn they stored away their crops in granaries and put up cured meat for the winter. From a mixture of the inner bark of trees and flax they made cloth. The government of the tribes was Democratic, and the very essence of home rule. In the centre of each town was a large open square, in some cases 500 to 900 feet long and of pro portionate width. This area was ex cavated to the depth of 2 or 3 feet and was perfectly level. Around it rose a terrace, sometimes two, one above the other, built from the dirt of the ex cavation. Around the square were the houses of the chiefs and big men of the town, and also in every instance a large building for the use of stran gers. In this square the leading men met every day to drink black tea made from the cacina plant, to smoke, to talk news, to discuss public and do mestic affairs. Here all complaints were entered, heard and all wrongs re dressed. Once a year in the month of May all national affairs were settled in a grand legislative assembly in the council square at the principal town of the nation. The delegates were the wise men. This was the condition of affairs when the king of France sent one M. Pribus?his first name has been lost - an officer in his majesty's army and a man of great sagacity, to proceed through South Carolina, to give an account of that colony and thence to journey to the Cherokees and seduce them from the British to the French interests. Without molestation Pribus went through South Carolina and arrived among the Indians. He professed to be so charmed with his new acquain tances that, though possessing all the qualifications of an accomplished gen tleman, having passed his life amid the refinements of the most polished nation in Europe, he exchanged his clothes for the Indian dress, gave away all he brought with him save his writing material and weapons, made friends with the warriors and became a member of the tribe. He ate, slept, danced, dressed and painted himself as an Indian and looked like one. He married an Indian girl and took her to his house. His retentive memory and strong understanding enabled him to shortly master the dialect. Never hastily, but by gradual advances, he impressed the tribesmen with a bad opinion of the English colonists, representing them as avari cious, fraudulent and encroaching ; then, having instilled a proper dislike of them among the Cherokees, he im pressed the red men with a high opin ion of their own importance in Amer ica, the situation of their country, their martial disposition, the great number of their warriors. It lay within their power to check all efforts of the ambitious British, but they must have organization, be taught the proper development of their possibili ties. The Indians listened and ap proved. He formed a government a kind of constitutional monarchy. He was careful not to shock old traditions. The head chief he crowned as emperor of the Cherokee nation with ceremo nies and forms, invented by himself, pleasing to the savage mind and eye. A court was established with high sounding titles, a council of State or ganized and his majesty's cabinet ap pointed. M. Pribus became his im perial majesty's secretary of State. The government formed, Pribus began to organize its power. In the moun tain caves he discovered nitre in vast deposits. He knew of iron ore ready for the smelter ; of great resources that time and patience would develop. Meanwhile the Cherok nation be gan to look up, smaller tribes and scattered bands of harrassed Indiane came in to take refuge under the im perial aegis. The empire was begin ning to form. Word of these things reached the English colonists. Angry letters of remonstrance were sent up into the mountains, to all which Pribus sent answers that the business of the Cherokees was no business of the En glish, ever subscribing himself as the secretary of State to the new empire. This seemed to forebode so much of danger that the colonists followed up the letters by sending a commissioner, Colonel Fox, to demand Pribus from the Indians as an enemy to public peace. Unmolested, the commissioner made his way to the capital of the empire, lie was escorted to the great capital square. There was Pribus, surround ed by all the dignataries of the nation. Col. Fox was a brave man, for he walked straight up to the Frenchman, informed him he was under arrest, and in a short oration he detailed the rea sons thereof to the Indians. Before he had finished a warrior arose and interrupted him, bade him at once to j ?lesist and go Iiis way, because the , man whom he was seeking to euslave was the best beloved of the nation, one of their own people, whose heart was honest and who had never lied. History has it that Fox desisted then and there. Then the secretary made a speech in the Cherokee dialect, which was translated to the impotent commissioner as it was delivered. The secretary said that he had come among the Indians a stranger and in a peaceable manner ; that he had grown to love them as a brother ; that, see ing their poverty and insecurity and to preserve their liberty, he had con solidated their power and intended to further seek their advancement; that he also intended in pursuance of this purpose to open a waterway to New Orleans ; that the distance proved his motive good and lie intended to return with a number o? skilled artisans, who would teach the Indians how to make their own guns and powder ; how to improve their appliances for living and to develop the raw material with which the land abounded. He concluded by saying that the tyrannical purpose of the English was plainly leveled at the Cherokees, because before he had come among them he was never accus ed ot having done any ill against the British, hence his offending must be the things he had done for his red brother and his crime of loving the Cherokees. The secretary's position was impreg nable. Col. Fox was in danger. The man whom he sought to arrest could have had his head had he desired it, but Pribus had him kindly and polite ly treated, gave him a passport insur ing a safe return, furnished an escort from the emperor's own guard, and when he was about to leave wished him a safe return home. English colonists became more seri ously alarmed as they began to com prehend what the formation of this new power meant. It meant a wall in the west that would forever hem them in. The wisdom cf the Indians was clearly apparent in their trust in such a man as Pribus, whose sagacity had directed him to choose a proper spot, a position in the mountains impregna ble to attack, wheie he was forming an empire by sure and slow degrees. The Cherokee empire was beginning to attract the attention of the Ala bama tribes, the Creeks, the Choctaws and the Chicasaws. The influence of Pribus was beginning to work for the amalgamation of all into one powerful nation. The seed had been planted and was ready to grow into the plant, when the accident happened. In the fifth year of the empire the secretary set out for New Orleans es corted by a few Cherokees. He trav eled by land until he reached an In dian town on the Tallapoosa named Tookabatche, which was at the head of navigation. Now this Tookabatche was outside the sphere of Cherokee influence, and there were several En glish traders there who had gained prestige with the inhabitants. These traders had heard of Pribus, and tell ing their Indian friends that the new comer was a dangerous man, they overpowered the Cherokee escort and took monsieur prisoner. By forced marches they at once took him to Frederica, in Georgia, an$ delivered him to the Governor there. That official placed him in close confine ment, not with felons, however, as he was a foreigner and a gentleman. For nearly a year Pribus bore his impris onment with great fortitude and con stancy, but confinement began to tell on him, he was taken sick and died. The Cherokees, way up in the Georgia mountains, never again saw their be loved brother who had never told them a lie. So perished a man who might have changed history. He was evidently capable of great ideas. He labored unceasingly toward the accomplish ment of his imperial dream. When he was gone the keystone of the arch was taken away and the Cherokee em pire fell to pieces.?Philadelphia Times. Bicycle Tires. With proper care a pair of tires should last at least two seasons, no matter how hard they are ridden. Few riders understand the peculiar nature of rubber, and therefore do not give their tires the care they require and deserve. All animal and mineral oil are death to pure rubber. Petroleum is a posi tive solvent of rubber, and a drop of it on a tire will leave its mark. A wheel should never be left in the hot sun for any length of time, for in the intense noonday heat the vulcanizing process goes on, and the rubber grows harder and is liable to crack. For the same reason never lean a wheel against a steam radiator. When winter comes, and the wheel is to be put away, first remove the tires from the rims and wash them. Put them in a cool, moist place. On a shelf in the cellar, if possible, deflated and lying flat. Do not hang them on a nail or peg. The small cost attending fi.steningthe tires to the wheels the next spring will be more than compensated for in the fine condition of the tires. If the machine is equipped with a brake, use it sparingly as possible, and when it must be applied do so gently and gradually. It is always better to "back pedal" than to use a metal brake on a pneu matic tire. The tires; should always be kept pumped to a riding pressure. When partly deflated and soft they not only lose their resiliency, but have a tendency to creep and cut the valve stem, and become chafod from constant rubbing against the rims. The more firmly the tires are inflated the greater is the tension on the rim, and the less liable they are to be a surce of acci dent or annoyance. It has also been proven thata well-inflated tire is hard er to puncture than one from which any quality of the pressure has been allowed to escape. The tire on the rear wheel should be pumped slightly more than the front tire. ? Regard not much who is for thee or who against thee ; but give all thy thought and care to this?that God be with thee in everything thou doest; for whom God will help, no malice of man shall be able to hurt. How to Treat a Wife. Fror' Pacific Health Journal First, gota wife; second, be patient. You may have great trials and per plexities in your business, but do not therefore, carry to you a cloudy or contracted brow. Vou;:wifc may have trials, which, though of less magni tude, may be hard for her to bear. A kind word, a tender look, will do won ders in chasing from her brow all clouds of doom.?To this wc would add always keep a bottle Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. It is the best and is sure to bo needed soon er or later. Your wife will then know that you really care for her and wish to protect her health. For sale by Ilill-OrrPrug Co. SAM JONES. Mr. Jones Favors the Rods In Schools Atlanta Journal. I see it has been a matter of newspaper discussion, pro and con, the question of corporal punishmen in the public schools. First?I am unalterably opposed such public schools as we have. Secondly?I am everlastingly in fa vor of lickiDg the kids when they it. I think if the public has got to ed ucate Tom, Dick and Harry's childre the public teachers ought to have th privilege of thrashing them when don't come to time, A boy has four things that' you can appeal to a last resort: First, his sense of hon or; second, his pride; third, his con science, and fourth, his hide. Some boys, like some men, are ut terly devoid of the first three, and you shut the teachers in the pubi schools off from appealing to hides, the question of discipline is farce and anarchy will rule in the schools. I repeat it, some boys seem to be devoid of the sense of honor Their sense of right and wrong is so obtunied and so utterly lacking that you hud as well talk to a billy-goat as to them. They lie like a dog trot ting about anything, and when you knock the bottom out of the boy's, or man's integrity, the lash, the jail or the hangman's rope is the onb means left by which you can reach him Some boys have no pride of character, they are like their daddies. If their daddies were not so old I would be in favor of licking them. But you can' make an old horse pull by thrashing him; he will balk, rear up and kick You can whip a colt a long when it takes the studs. A boy who is devoid of pride is de void o? ambition. He has no ambi tion to be anything or anj'body. His sense of manhood is as utterly lacking as his integrity. I know some horses won't go along without a thrashing, know some boys who are worse than horses. They are like mules, and like the old negro's mule at that, when he said he tried to lead him and tried to toll him, but finally had to "take a stick aad 'suade him along." Again, some boys have no con science. A pang of conscience is something they are strangers to. They never think or care, but, like a hog in a pen, eating and sleeping is a big thing with them. The young buck that loll and lay around the billiard rooms :.nd baseball grounds, and bet on Corbett and Fitzsimmons, and gos sip about the virtue of women, and carry a pistol around in the hip pock ets?they have no consciences. I'd as soon preach right and wrong to an old govsrament mule and expect re suits. Then, if a boy has no sense of honor, :3or pride, nor conscience, the only thing left that you can work on is his hide. Burns was right when he said: The fear of hell is ahangmans whip To baud tbe wretch in order; But where you feel your honor grip Let that aye be your border. But a boy with a fine sense of hon or needs peach-tree sprout. A boy of pride may be shamed into right living and studious habits, and a boy with a conscience that makes him live up to his sense of right and wrong needs no shaming. I have some hopes of him. But I repeat it, some boys ought tobe thrashed, and, I expect, some girls, too. I have said it repeatedly, and stick to my proposition?if you want to raise a boy well you have got to raise him often. We have children in our home that we had to lick, and have licked them and never gave them enough. Other children in our home never needed licking and they never got it. I repeat what I have said before oft times, the sense of manhood is dying out in this country. I received along letter to-day from an old educator of prominence in this State. He said in his letter that he would have to retire from the field of education in this State; that it was now a question more of politics than proficiency, as an edu cator has to hold a position of public chool teacher. I believe that the most gigantic trust or combination that will ever be formed in this world will be the public school teachers in the next few years. They will com bine and elect their own members to the Legislature, and servants of such men must do their bidding, and the treasuries of every State in this Union will be gutted to pay their enormous' ly increased salaries and furnish pla ces for additional pap-suckers on that ne. I don't want any office and I don't want any school to teach, but I speak my honest sentiments. I know it is true that in the last egislature of Georgia these public functionaries were there lobbying more intensely than railroads or anything Ise ever lobbied in this State to get their appropriations through ; and the real lobbyists of the future will be the public school teachers. And as long as men love office more than honor and public school teachers see that it is to their interest to combine and put such men in the legislative halls of the State as will feed their greed and fur ish them additional pap to suck, then then the thing will inevitably grow worse instead of better. If I had said out publicly ten years ago that Georgia would be now appro priating nearly $2,000,000 annually to public schools I would have been ca.ll d a liar in public print. But we are gettiog there with both feet now. I don't see how a sense of manhood can e maintained in this country if the trend of things keeps on. Instead of sovereign State standing for the ad ministration of law and the protection )f rights it has turned into a sort of utual benefit association, a kind of communistic mob, a kind of secular agananism, and thus it goes. We have seen the beginning, but we have not seen the end, and many men who think hardly of what 1 say to-day will later along rise up and say Sam Jones not only told the truth, but he was a prophet besides. Greed is like a drunkard's appetite ?it grows with the diys and weeks until all else is forgotten but the ques tion of how the appetito shall be sat isfied. I know whisky will make an honest man steal, if he will drink enough of it and hang to it. I know greed has robbed banks, swallowed railroads, pauperized labor, cursed God and shamed the devil. I have many personal friends who arc public school teachers. I would not bo understood as saying that they are helping to organize this combina tion and trust. If they are not, they will not take my words as being di rected to them. If they are, then let the hit dog run and howl. I come back to my proposition of months ago: It is no more my business to educate Bill Smith's boy than it is my dutyjto clothe him, and spank him, and put ? him to bed. I think more and care more for the honor and manhood of men and boys than I do for anything else, and I do say it frcm the depths of my heart that the ser se of indepen dent manhood is dying out in this country and that whenvor you take the responsibility off of any man to feed and clothe and educate his own chil dren then you have cut the grit from under the whole gang. Them's my sentiments. Sam P. Jones. A Curions Dispensation. When the Hon. Ben Tillman be came sultan of South Carolina he had introduced what is known as the dis pensary system. This was not a tem perance movement, but a plan to en able the State to make whatever mon ey there might be in the liquor busi ness; in short, a plan to make the State of South Carolina one grand sweet saloon. Very few persons have understood the practical workings of the system, the fact that it was in troduced by Tillman leading most peo ple to dismiss it as one of the mare's nests of a somewhat freakish era. Bat a case has just come to light which illustrates the modus operandi so well that it ought to be made known all over the country. Some time ago a genial South Carolinian of the old school was caught with a jug of whis: key in his house. "Whether he was sporting a nose which led to the sus picion that he had a jug to which the world was a stranger, or. whether it was that he carried a jug of other than the regulation dispensary pattern is not known, but at any rate the officers of the law concluded that all was not as it should be in his domicile, so they broke into the house and discovered the jug. That does not seem to be a very serious matter, but the jug in question did not have upon it the la bel of the State inspector of liquor, or bar-keeper-in-chief of South Carolina showing that it was purchased from the State. Under the Tillman regime to have unlabelled liquor in your house is to be guilty of a crime, and so the unfortunate citizen was arrested for having foreign liquor on his premises, was tried and sentenced to three months' hard labor on the chain gang. Of course he appealed his case, but the Supreme Court, which is of an Tillmanesque complexion, affirmed the decision of tlhe lower Court, and we presume thai; the victim of the unla belcd jug is now serving out his sen tence as a common felon. . If the law in South Carolina were directed against the manufacture-and sale of liquor in the State, we might be able to understand the severity of a sentence like this; but there is no moral motive in the dispensary law whatever: it is purely a device for turning the saloon business over to the State and enabling it to make the profit arising from the business. The case in question, though on its face farcical enough, illustrates the dan gerous trend of legislation in this country. The law referred to invades a man's castle, makes it a crime vir tually to buy a certain commodity out side of the State, allows the citizen to buy liquor providing he buys it of the State, and treats him as a common criminal if he buys it elsewhere. In the face of such things, we cannot but marvel at the patience of the people; nor can we v'Sry well escape the ex pectation that some day they will rise in their wrath against those who make a monster of government and do some things that the Statutes do not pro vide for.?Memphis Commercial. Worsrilp by Machinery. This is the day of the sensational preacher. He no longer depends upon his own antics and peculiarities, but is continually calling to his aid me chanical appliances to illustrate his meaning. A Chicago preacher recently exhibi ted to his congregation an elaborate collection of gambling apparatus and explained how hard it is to beat the games in which these tools are used. A New Jersey preacher has intro duced the phonograph as an aid to worship. His name is Sammis and he is entitled to a high place on the roll of preachers of the What-is-it ? varie ty. When his congregation was as sembled on Easter Sunday they were surprised to see him duck down into the pulpit and come up with a square black box in his hands. This he opened and from it produced a phono graph which had been loaded for the occasion. The Rev. Mr. Sammis set the thing going and the services be gan. The machine played a violin solo in excellent style. Then it read a psalm. This was followed by a phonograph hymn. During this part of the performance the preacher modestly kept himself in the background, but asserted himself when the time for the sermon came by preaching with his own mouth. The phonograph then sang again, prayed once more and finally pro nounced the benediction. This is the farthest advance yet made in mechanical worship ; the heathen with his prayer wheel is no longer "in it." We cannot understand why Mr. Sammis stopped where he did. He should explain why he burdened him self with the delivery of the sermon. A machine that can play the fiddle, pray, sing and pronounce the bene diction can preach and it was unfair not to permit it to carry on the entire service. Mr. Sammis has suggested a strik ing reform in pulpit methods. Under his system fully carried out all a preacher will ha ve to do is to load the phonograph with an appropriate col lection of music, prayers, sermon and benediction, turn on the spring and sit back and enjoy the services along with his dying congregation.?Atlanta Journal. ? Renan tells a story of a church service in Brittany where the priest delivered such a touching appeal tu at his hearers, with one exception, shed tears. 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People lock at you six days in the week to see what yon mean on the seventh. ? A woman on win a man's love J without tryiDg, but she can't keep it that way. ? Never criticise your wife. She's \ a mighty poor woman snd an auomaly if she is not a great deal better than you are. ? "Name sonic of the most impor tant things existing to-day that were ~ unknown 100 years ago." Tommy? "You and me." ? "I have alvrays wished," solilo quized the coroner, pensively "that I could have held this oflice immediate- ?g ly after the flood." ? "I saw a ms,n to-day who had no hands play the piano." "That's noth ing ! We've got a girl down in onr flat who has no voice and who sings." ? Aa engagement ring is joyfully worn by the girl who imagines she is a captor when she is really a captive, doomed to worse than penal servitude. ? "Are any of the colors discernible to the touch?" asked the school teacher. "I have often felt blue," replied the boy at the head -of the class. ? Josh Billings says he knows peo- >?;< pie who are so fond of argumcn* hat they will stop ;.ud dispute wuu a guide-board about the distance to the :} next town. ? The Treasury Department an nounces that in the counterfeit $20 silver certificates the nose of Daniel : Manning is sharp und pointed, whereas in the genuine bill it is round and jg broad. ? Coatempt for holy things is the highest road to ic?delity. Once let a Jj man begin to mako jest of any part of Christianity, and I am never surprised to hear that he is a downright unbe- v:~ liever. ? I ? Daniel Webster was once asked : "What ?s the mosi important thought you ever had?" He replied: "The most important thought I ever had was my individual responsibility to God." ? Watch crystals are made by blow ing a sphere of glass about one yard ^ in diameter, after which the disks are ? cut from it by me&ns of a pair of com passes having a diamond at the ex tremity of one leg. ? A Canadian lawyer, whose sign read, "A. Swindle," was advised by a friend to have his first name spelled out in full?Arthur or Andrew, or :?|? whatever it might be. He didn't fol- .7? low the advice, however. His first ? _ ??.'? name is Adam. ? Juc.ge?Prisoner, you are charged with impersonating an officer. What have you to say for yourself f Prisoner ?Your honor, I was merely standing on the corner asleep. Do you .call that impersonating an officer ? Judge ?Yes. Thirty days on tibe island. 'J9 ? An Irishman was asked if he could define an Irish bull. "Yes, | mum," be said. "If you are drivin along the road, and you see three cows lyin' down in a pasture, and wan of thim is iitandin' up, why that wan is ^ an Irish bull." ? The Fourth Bridge, in Scotland, is constantly being repainted ; in fact, no sooner have the painters reached one end iban they have to commence again at the other. It takes fifty tons of paint to give it one coat, and the _ :3 area dealt with is something like 120 ~ acres. ? An old gentleman finding a cou ple of his nieces fencing with a broom-, 1 stick, said: "Come, come, my dears, -."J that kind of an accomplishment will ; ^ not help you in getting husbands." "I know it, uncle, responded one .of :J the girls, as she gave a lunge, "but it will help to keep our husbands in or der when we have got 'em." ? "Darling," he said, falling upon his knees before her and covering her little hands with kisses; "darling, afl can't you see, can't you guess that I ? love you ?" She drew herself up to her I full height, looked at him for a mo ment, and then said: "Well, I should ^ hate to think that this was just your in natural way of behaving in company." -jX ? I'm proud of this tovrn," said a little man sitting behind the stove, with a pipe in his mouth. "Proud of it," repeated the stranger at the bar, who turned around as he heard the .J words, and looked at the speaker with ^ a look of infinite contempt. "What are you proud of it for?" "That's an easy one," returned the little m?n. "There are four cemeteries, here, and ,< I've got a wife in every one of 'em." ? For every quarter in a man's pocket there are a dozen uses; and to :V? use each one in such a way as to do- V.-2 rive the greatest benefit is a question * every one must solve for himself. Wc >? 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. ? "Dot vos a mean man vrhich went shoost now der door oud," said Mose to a friend who had dropped into his store. "Why so ?''inquired the friend. "He inshultme mit my own store." _ "Well, what did he say ?" "He says dot bile uf bants ud make good miluck sdrainers mid a geese factory." "Why 'j| didn't you talk back to hica ?" "Vy didn't I? Bet your poots I did." %:r "What did you say?" "Vat did I zay ? I dold him to come to hell ?" ? Mr. D. P. Davis, a prominent liveryman and merchant of Goshen, . ;| Va., has this to say on the subject of rheumatism: "I take pleasure in re commending Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, as I know from ,': ] personal experience '.hat 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 aud the use of one bot tle completely cured bini. For sale by Hill -Orr Drug Co. ? A young man in the city has an English terrier of remarkable sense. _ He has been trained to do many things that the average dog never dreamed of. Recently while at this young roan's home, the reporter saw the terrier say his prayers in this manner. His mas- ~H ter told him to say his prayers ; ho ' immediately trotted across the room . \ to a chair near the wall, and placing his fore feet on the top of the chair's '. { back and his hind legs in the seat of the chair, he bowed down his head and remained in this extremely difficult posture for about five minutes. Then j the young man called 'all right," and \ the dog jumped off the chair and made off quickly. He does this every night, . u his owner says, and that is more tban [% many people, say can.?Spartanburg lier aid.