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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON, ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1897. VOLUME XXXIII --NO 1 GOING TO SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK : At 75c SPOT CASH. B. 0. EVANS i CO NOWTH For your Hoes. Count's Home-made Grain Cradle. Victor and Terrell Heel Sweeps, JoshBerryl4-FingerGrain Cradle. Se Hi I THE PLACE TO BUY THEM. "Where can I get the very best fitting and most desirable as well as stylish Shoes ? Why, where have you been all this time ? Come with me and just look at the most complete stock of Shoes, Slippers, and everything in the way of Footwear, at? THE YATES SHOE CO., Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. C, The only complete and special Shoe House in the City. Our prices are low because we buy close, and for cash, and we can certainly give you bargains and enable you to save money. DON'T FORGET The Yates Shoe Co. THE DUTCHMAN ONCE SUNG : "Meat means tinga dat's good to eat, Meet also means tiogs dat's brober ; 'Tis only mete to measure des? tings Ven steampoftts 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 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. Free City Delivery. Telephone No. 41. JE. IT. 3?OOOR.E ?Sc CO., City Marii?t. DEFOT STREET J. 0. WHITEFIELD, DENTIST. OFFICB-Front Room, over Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, ANDERSON, S. C. Feb 10, 1897 33 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Coukty of Anderson. IN COMMON PLEAS COURT. Robinson C*tor, William J. II Cator and other?, under the style and firm name of Armstrong, Cator & Co, Plaintiff*, against B. Lafayette Ho??/, Thomas J. Martin, as Assignees of it. Laraystte Hosrsr, Defendants : ALL Creditors of R. Lafayet:e Hogg are hereby authorized to prove their claims against the said R. Lafayette Hogg berore me on or before the 1st day of July, 1897, or else be barred the ' par ticipating in the funds in the hsnds of the Court under the proceedings herein. R. M. BUR It I SS, Probate Judge and Special Referee. June 2,1897 49 5 THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ANDERSON. COURT OF COMMON PLEA.?. A. C. Scudday, Plaintiff, against Mary Jane Scud day, A. E. Scudda7, Martba Watkins, II. G. Scudday, Ella Scudday, Bello Sharp?, Harper Scudday, Jet. Prultt, Ida Scudday. Annie It. Hodges, Kaum L. Davit, Kaie M. Davis and Dalsey Davi.-., heirs at law of II. II. Scudday, deceased, Defendant!.?Summoni f>r Relief? Complaint not SerTcd. To the Defendants abovo named: YOU are hereby summoned ?nd required to an swer the Complaint In this action, which Is filed in Ihcofllce of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office, at Anderson C. II.. S. C, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusivo of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the* Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Com plaint. Da:cd June 10;b, A. . 1897. TKIUISLE & 1T.INCE, Plnint'iri Attorneys, Anderson, s. C [Seal] Jon* <\ Waikiks, ecc. ?. To the abovf named Defendants : You will tako notice that the Complaint in this action, together with the Summons, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, were filed In the office of the Clerk of Court of Common pleas for the County of Andersan, State aforesaid, on this, lOtb day of June, 1897. No personal claim is made against you, or either of you. TRIBBI.E PIIINCE, Plaintiii's Attorneys. June 10, 1697 6 [ For too Anderson Intelligencer. Letter from Florida. McRae, Ga., June 7,1897. I left Greenville last Tuesday after noon to go to DeSand, Fla., missed connection at Jacksonville Wednesday morning by just thrco minutes,- so had to spend the day there. The time was not lost, however, as I put in some work there and got some new business. DeSand is on a branch road with only one train a day, but is only four or five miles from the main line, so to save time I telegraphed for a team to meet me and went down on the night traiD. Got to ihe junction at 1.30 a. m. and to DeSand about 2.30 a. m. The place is a very pretty one of about 1,500 inhabitants. It is the site of the "Stetson University," which is a very fino college with some exceptionally fine buildings. It was started and endowed by Stetson, the celebrated hat man of Philadelphia, who is very wealthy and a philan thropist. He owns considerable prop erty in and around DeSand, and has been spending his winters there for several years past. He owns a very fine orango grove and a beautiful dwelling just outside the town, has built one of the nicest and most com fortable hotels in Florida, where I have stopped several times, owns the "electric light plant" and ice factory. I met him a couple years ago and found him a very pleasant, agreeable gentleman. I have also been out to his place but he was not there at the time. The orange trees in this sec tion are coming on very nicely, and if they have no further backsets, in a year more will have full crops again. I spent half a day in DeSand and then went over to Titusvillc where I had some business to look after. This town is at the head of Indian River, which is a great orange section. It used to be quite an important place, being the receiving and shipping point for all tho country south of there and the point where the Indian River steamers started out with cargoes of general freight and brought back car goes of oranges. The system of docks is quite extensive and well arranged. Since the East Coast Railroad was built, however, most of this trade has been cut off and Titusville is but a shadow of its former self. Some boats still run on the river, but the trade is only a shadow of what it once was. I imagine the falling off is as great proportionally as Mark Twain speaks of in the Mississippi, and the differ ence as great in the Mississippi of his time and the same river of to-day. It is still, however, a very fair little town, although its former glory has departed. They have a plant there in operation for extracting tannin from roots of the Palmetto. They are man ufacturing quite a lot of it, but not making much money yet. The roots are very strong in tannin, but have a great deal of gum of one kind or an other, and the trouble heretofore has been to get rid of the gum. They have been experimenting and have nearly completed a process of extract ing the tannin pure. There is a ready demand for it, and they are shipping large quantities to England. The Sec retary told me as soon as the process was perfected there was big money in the business, and as soon as they made it a success commercially, they expected to put up a very large plant. If they do make a success of it, as now seems probable, it will be a great thing for that section of the country, for there are millions of palmetto trees that are now useless which will be utilized in this manufactory and bring in money. From Titusville I went up to Day tona, which is on the east coast about 120 miles south of Jacksonville. The river at this point, a continuation really of Indian River, is called the "Halifax River." Daytona is settled principally by Northern and "Western people, who spend the winters thore. Among others, Gamble, of Proctor & Gamble, big soap manufacturers of Cincinnati, makers of "Ivory soap," has a beautiful place. Daytona proper ? is on the mainland on the bank of the j Halifax River, which is about one-half j mile wide at this point. Across ';he river is a neck of wooded land about one-half to three-fourth miles wide and crossing that you come to tho ocean. The beach is magnificent, wide, smooth and hard, and extends for about thirty miles up and down without a break. There are many nice houses on this neck of land, and more are being built. Daytona itself is one of the prettiest places I have ever seen. The streets are 75 to 100 feet wide, and on either side of the roadway the forest trees are only trimmed out. The main residence street is lined on cither side of the driveway with sire oaks, covered with gray moss. You can look a mile or so up and down the street, and the oaks arch overhead with the moss hanging down and the white roadway underneath make an exceptional?y beautiful effect. Some distance down the street it looks almost like a tun nel, with the side and arch overhead formed of live oaks and gray niosu. In other streets the palmetto trees line cither side of the driveway and the effect there is also very beautiful. No one is allowed to molest the birds or squirrels, and as one walks or drives through the streets the squirrels scam per out of the way, run up the trees and jump from limb to limb while there arc a numbers of birds in every' direction. The houses are exception^ ally nice ones, all neatly painted dtui kept in trim, while all have large grounds, and some of them very hand some gardens. The roadways are made of a kind of chalk or soft rock found in the vicinity, which makes a driveway hard and smooth, very simi lar to shell roads. The river in front of the town is very pretty, and fairly swarms with fish. Taking the place altogether, it is one of the most attrac tive I have ever seen. The popula tion is about 1,500 in summer and 3,000 to 3,500 in Winter. I spent a day in Daytona and went from there to Jacksonville, arrived Saturday evening and spent Sunday there. The rainy season is now on in Florida, and they had fine rains every day I was FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE YOU must not infer that they are old and shop-worn or inferior in qual ity. We guarantee each article to be as represented, and will cheerfully re fund your money if dissatisfied. We take especial pride in our? SHOE 3 1 ' . 0 ^A: 1 > , And will maintain in it that standard of excellency which will compel your admiration for the values offered. Most of the styles are exclusively our own, and cannot be duplicated anywhere else in town. Our 31.25 Satin Finish, Solid Leather Shoe, in both Bal. and Congress, is stylish aud durable, and is as neat and handsome as any $2.00 Shoe on the market. We still have some of those 83.50 and $4.00 Gainesville Home-made Shoes which we arc closing out at the uniform price of $2.50 per pair. The large stock of JEANS we nave on hand arc now being sold at WHOLESALE PRICES. Some of these are extra heavy Goods, but at the same time it will be judicious economy on your part to invest in a supply for next Winter. "We always keep on hand a large and complete stock of? Groceries and Plantation Supplies, Which we sell as low as the lowest, and will be pleased to have either your cash or time trade. Car load Chicora Acid for sale at old price. McCULLY BROS. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. Are you troubled by Mites, Lice or other insects with your Chickens ? MEDICAL EGrGrS Will permanently destroy them. Do you intend sowing your stubble land when the grain is off ? : : : Try Grerman JVTillet. Do you ever drink anything soft Soda Water, Milk Shake, Coca Cola, Cherry Phosphate ? : : : : : : Try Frank McFY?l. Do you ever need fine French Candy bought fresh every week ? : : : Try Huyler's. Do you intend carrying out your promise of two or three years' and paint that house ? : : : : : Try the Mastic. Are you weak and nervous, troubled with Liver, Stomach or Kidney Complaint *? : : : :::::: TRY KING'S ROYAL GERMATEUR. One of our young men sleeps over the Store, and you can get anything you want in the line any time, day or night. HSLL-ORR DRUG CO. there, usually coming up in the after noon and raining quite heavily for an hour or too. It was very warm, ninety and over, but the rain each afternoon tempered the heat and made the nights pleasant. Charley. Tcnchers' Convention. Altamont, 8. 0., June 19,1S97. Editors Intelligencer : As yonr special correspondent at this place, -where the Stato teachers are soon to hold their an nual convention, I would like to have yon Inform those of your County who think of attending of the arrangements here being perfected for the occasion. The Hotel Altamont has been somewhat enlarged and will be occupied by the ladies, and the cottages, new auditorium, and tents (if neceesarv) by the gentlemen. Above the auditorium has been ereoted a beautiful roof garden, where the breezes fan away the* heated air and the views are perfectly grand. We can see the curling smoke of the factories of yonr city, and if yon look this way on the night of the 3rd of July, you will see the fireworks display that the citizens of Greenville will give often in front of the hotel for the entertainment of the teachers. It will cost the members of the Associa tion ?5 00 for the five days the Convention will be in seseion. Free transportation will be given all those who send notifica tion of their intention to come from Green ville to this point. Postals should be ad dressed to Prof. .- L. Hughes, Greenville, (member teacher's Fx. Com.) or the Hotel Altamont, Altamont P. 0., S. C, stating by what train the writer will arrivo and tbey will be met at the station with con veyances to bring them up the mountain. The railroad fare is the cheapest ever given to the teachers, viz: one fare both ways. A comfortable, free and easy time is assured, and a very instructive, valuable, session. Many notables will be present very likely the Goyernor amongst them. A fine brass band will furnish concerts every morning and evening. We have very cool nights, no mosquitoes and no dust up here. The views are glorious and the spring water cool and pure. A good time the teachers will surely have. Very truly yours, Altamont. Back from the Promised Land. New" York, June 21.?Thirteen colored persons, who formed part of the two hundred sent to Liberia by the International Emmigration Society in March. 1896, arrived in this port to day aboard the steamship Liberia. They say that the scheme was a total failure; that many of their number died of starvation and fevers; that the society did not fulfill the contract and many, members of the expedition are strajno'ed in England unable to get back to 'their homes. The plan of the African coloniza tion scheme originated early in 1S94 in the mind of Bishop Turner, who was traveling in the South. It was for mulated and carried into effect by Jeremic Millan, a white man of Bir mingham, Ala., who founded what was known as the International Em migration Society. It was claimed that the President of Liberia had promised the colonists land and farm ing implements. The advance guard in charge of ). L. Johnston, an intel ligent colored man of Hot Springs, Ark., in November, 1894, started for Liberia. With him was a committee to make arrangements for the colo nists. It was estimated at that time that there were four thousand colored persons who were ready to join the colony. They expected to build a town, which would soon be in a flour ishing condition. Each colonists waa to pay $41 for his transportation and was expected to have $200 in gold with him to lay the foundation of his fortune in the new land. The first large party of colonists, numbering 200, left Savannah, Ga.,in March, 1895, for their new home, and after that several smaller parties join ed them. Twenty-five acres of land for each adult and ten acres for each child was promised, and on landing each person was to be provided with a barrel of flour, two barrels of meat, a quantity of sugar and a complete set of farming implements. D. K. Klam mer, president of the society, accom panied the emigrants. According to the stories told by those who have re turned to-day, Flammcr deserted them when they landed in Liberia, taking whatever was provided for them ex cept the land, which they found thir ty-five miles from any town, and which was incapable of growing anything but coffee. The growth, even if suc cessful, would take from four to six years. Charles Patterson, of Madison, Ark., with his wife and family, is among those who returned to-day. He says that he lost all he had in going over and was nearly dead of starvation before he could raise enough money to return. Charles Moore, whose family live in ; Mississippi, said the emigrants could ' find nothing to do. The natives, who wear no clothes and live on little or nothing, did all the work for starva tion wages. The thirteen persons had no idea where they were to pass the night. ? A copper pan, said to be the lar gest ever made from one piece of met al, has been turned out at Swansea, England. It is 12 feet 4 inches in di ameter, 3 feet 3 inches deep and weighs 2 tons. The young married couple who are crown ed with good health arc really a king and queen. They are possessed of an armor that enables them to withstand all the hardships und misfortunes of life. Accidents aside, they will live long, happy Uves of mutuai Ucipfulacss, and they will be blessed with amiable, healthy children. They will sit together in the twilight of old age and look back without regret over a mutually happy, helpful, useful, successful companionship. There are thousands of young couples every day who start wedded life with but one drawback,?one or the other, or both, r.uffer from ill-health. There can be no true wedded happiness that is overshadowed by the black cloud of physical suffering. The man who contemplates matrimony, and re alizes that through overwork or worry or neglect, he is suffering from ill - health, lihould take the proper steps to remedy it before he assumes the responsibilities of a husband. Dr. Picrce's Golden Medical Dis covery is the best of all medicines for men who have neglected their health. It makes the appetite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver active, and the blood pure and rich with life-giving elements. It is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It invigor ates and gives virility, strength and vigor. No woman should wed while she suffers from weakness and disease in a womanly way. These are the most disastrous of dis orders from which a woman can suffer. They break down her general health. They unit her for wifehood and motherhood. They make her a weak, sickly, nervous in valid.!? Dr. Piercc's Favorite Prescription cures all weakness and disease of the deli cate and important organs that bear the bur dens of wifehood and motherhood. It transforms weak, suffering, fretful invalids lato healthy, happy wives and mothers. Both medicines are sold at all good med icine stores. [For the Anderson Intelligencer. The Problem of Crime. I find in Case and Comment the fol lowing: "The issue before thecountry is not money nor the tariff, but whether or not we are able to guarantee people protection to life." This is the startling statement, said by the American Laxo Register and Review to have been made not long since by Judge Parker, of the United States Court, in his charge to a grand jury. While most of us pay little heed to the endlessly continued story of mur ders in the daily press, our attention may be arrested by Judge Parker's statement that the persons murdered last year numbered more "than our standing army at the outbreak of the civil war." late issue of the Laxe Journal (London) comments upon a new volume of criminal statistics pub lished by the home office, showing that convictions for burglary, robbery, fraud and forgery are increasing even when reckoned per hundred thousand of the population, and that "nearly a third of the burglaries are committed by youths between sixteen and twsn ty-one." "If such crimes arc,really increasing, especially among the young, what does it signify? Pessimists will assume solemnly to mourn the decadence of mankind, and contemplate the increas ing solitude of their own virtue. But healthy, normal men, citizens of every class who have a thought above their own stomachs, and constitute the for ces of civilization, ought to be startled into earnest investigation of the caus es and the remedy. * * * * Never was there a clearer application of the saying that prevention is better than cure. Yet our chief remedy for crime continues to be the punishment of criminals, while we stupidly permit great armies of children to be seared as criminals without even attempting to train them for anything else. Be fore they reach maturity they begin a lifelong guerrilla war upon society," Our ablest jurists and writers are puzzled as to the best course to pur sue to stop increasing crime. How arc we to proceed? I would-suggest that we commence at home with ti e children. "What are the special characteris tics of children?!' Humility?seen in lowly thought of self. Modesty?in looking to others i.s wiser and better. Docility ? in readiness to be taught." "Terrible the sin to lead a trusting child astray." "Children arc to he honored, not de spised. Why? "Because their guardian angels ate near God." "Even a child is known by his do ings." "In the history of individual, as well as in the history of the humai race, decalogue of 'Thou shalt nots, precedes the new commandment 'that ye love one another.' Thus, 'law is v school-master,' to hold us by fear only so long as we need its discipline. Now, use doth breed a habit in a man." If children arc taught to love and fear God at their mother's knee thero would be no use of teaching the Ten Commandments to them in the schools. But unfortunately some have no moth ers, and a great many mothers deceive themselves by thinking that so long' as the child goes to school and staid:i well in his class that he is all right, forgetting that the child has been taught nothing whatever of his relig ion. I have often thought that it would be better to have the graded schools all over the State, where prac tical, to have all the children of each denomination taught to thcmselves for instance, the Baptist children by a Baptist teacher, and all other de nominations in the same way, and then the children would have the love and respect for parent or guardian, teacher, minister ard each other, which we should all cherish for one another. A few people who always speak without thinking, and invaria bly laugh at what they say because they think that they have said it bet ter than anyone else could have said it, and therefore they laugh. These pe,ople would oppose any such idea, and give as their reason that it would be against the Constitution of the U. S. to have religion taught in the pub lic schools. What does the Constitu tion say? Article I?Proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legisla tures of the several States, pursuant to the Fifth Article of the original Constitution reads thus: "Congress shall make no law respecting an estab lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press: or the right of the people peacably to assemble, and to petition the govern ment for a redress of grievances." Is it not a free exercise of religion to teach it to children when at home and in the school house? How can boys and girls grow up tobe God-fear ing and self-respecting without relig ious training? How can the graded schools be better improved than to have religion taught as suggested above? How can we expect to avoid crime who were never introduced in their youth to the Great Author of all good? Train the youth in the right way and the government will not be put to the painful necessity to reform the man by making him wear stripes ? keeping him under lock and key?fre quently strapping and sometimes let ting him die at one end of a rope while the Sheriff holds the other, all of which is demoralizing, to say the least of it?particularly so to the Sheriff as well as to his friends, relatives and acquaintances. Occasionally we meet a bigot who will venture to explain to us that there s no t!od. which reminds us of what Solomon said, "that the fool has aid in his heart there is no God." Bigotry is the author of much crime. An eloquent Irish orator once :iid in a speech at Dublin: "Bigotry! She has no head, and cannot think; he has no heart, and cannot feel; when she moves it is in wrath; when ic pauses it is amid ruin; her pray ers are curses, her communion is death, her vcngcsncc is eternity, her deca logue is written in the blood of her victims; and if she stops for a moment from her infernal flight, it is upon some kindred rock to whet her vulture fang for keener rapine, and rcplume her wing for a more sanguinary deso lation!" Oh, that wc all could be under the ? influence of some good woman when adversity overtakes us. I have read somewhere that the hour of adversity is woman's hour?in the full blaze of fortune's rich meridian, her modest beam retires) from vulgar notice; but when the clouds of woe collect around us and shades and darkness dim the wanderer's path, that chaste and love ly light shines forth to cheer him?an emblem and an emanation of the hea vens. In the language of a great Saint, who lived in the 13th century, "God him self, all the glorious spirits, and the whole family of the Eternal King wait for us, and desire that we should be associated to them; aud shall we not pant above all things to be admitted into their happy company? lie would appear amongst them with great con fusion, who had not in this valley of tears continually raised his^oul above all things visible to become already, in ardent desire, an inhabitant of those blessed regions." "If ChrisLians in every station en deavored with their whole strength continually to advance in virtue, the Church would be filled with Saints." Gentle reader, has it ever occurred to you that every day we either travel the road to heaven or the road to hell ?the one is narrow and straight and leads to eternal bliss; the other is broad and wide and leads to destruc tion and desolation? Which road will you take? Decide now. Don't wait. Delays, like explanations, are danger ous. U. K. Brooks. Terror in Midair. "Circus life has its incidental dan gers, as I found out in my experience of more than a half century, under the canvas." The speaker was Dan Rice, the veteran clown and circus proprie tor. "One of the dangers I encoun tered was recalled by a paragraph in a paper the other day about an aeronaut being killed in makiog a jump from a balloou with a parachute. I had a narrow escape from a similar death away back before the war. "I was always willing to act as gen eral emergency man, todo any work and fill any place in any circus with which I have been connected, and in such cases have been in imminent danger of being devoured by lions, crushed by elephants, and 'skined alive by candy butchers and other em ployes who handled my money, but the occurrence I am about to relate was as interesting as anything in my career. "I believe I was the first circus pro prietor in the world to employ a pro fessional to make a balloon ascension and a parachute jump prior to each afternoon performance, picking up an aeronaut named Ed. Billings in an Ohio town. "Now, Ed. was a good aeronaut, cn-' tirely devoid of ear, and made leaps with the parachut? from greater heights than had ever been' made be fore. The only trouble was that Ed. was too jovial, and at times drank too much whiskey. Moro than once I had spoken my mind to him on the sub ject, and, as he did not heed my re marks, I made every preparation for opportunely advertising my circus on the day when he should in the natural course of events fall from his balloon or parachute and be killed. With the same foresight I made a study of aero nautics and parachute leaping, until I felt competent to fill his position when made vacant. The occasion for my services came at White Water, Mich., when, at ascension time, Billings lay under a wagon suffering from 'sick headache.' "When it became evident turn I must make the ascension and jump, I did not hesitate, but, donning a tinsel suit, entered the car and began my first journey skyward, amid a chorus of half-suppressed exclamations of admiration from an immense throng of spectators. As I saw the earth drop ping from me and ths human forms below growing shorter and smaller, until they appeared like the tiniest insects, I contrived to maintain my nerve, and, leaning over the edge of the basket or car, bravely threw kisses to the gaping crowd beneath. When I had ascended nearer heaven than I had ever been before?say 1,200 or 1,500 feet?I prepared to make my maiden leap, being particularly care ful that my every movement should be seen by the crowd of spectators away down beneath on the earth. "After a time I pullsd open the es cape valve of the balloon, which slowly began to descend after remain ing stationary for a brief moment. Then I clutched the trapeze bar, which was attached to the parachute, kissed my hand to the expanse of upturned faces below, shut both eyes and made a bold jump out into space, and shot like an arrow earthward. My feelings at that critical moine at can best be described as one of all-goneness, but grimly and desperately I clutched the bar in my hand, and, with my heart in my mouth, anxiously awaited the sharp snapping sound which would announce the opening o!! the parachute. But the sound did not come. Great God ! how the seconds flew by, aud still the accursed canvas did not open. Though darting earthward fatally, hope did not desert me. "My mind, under the excitement, became unusually active, and. as I looked below and saw the earth rapidly approaching, I concluded that my chances of escape from figuring as the chief object of interest at a funeral was too small to mention. I resolved that my death should be the best ad vertisement Dan Rice's circus ever received, but the thought of how well the show was prepared to herald the sad event far and near was poor con solation at that moment." "Suddenly the sharp, snapping sound rang upon my cars. Thank (?od ! tho parachute had opened ! I was saved, and that, too, at the last possible moment. My descent was at once checked and the earth was not '200 feet away. It was with assumed case that I finally landed upon the ground, and I doubt if any, save the circus people, in that great crowd knew how near I had been to death." "When Billings subsequently learn ed of my perilous leap with the para chute and narrow escape from a peril ous death he came with tears in his eyes and, taking my hand, vowed that he would never again touch an intoxi cant. Ile was true to his vow, and remained in my employ until his death from natural causes several years later. Always I have been a stickler for temperance habits on the part of my employees of all kinds, and on set tling with them always made an allow ance of money for those who had re frained from overindulgence in strong drink. As a result I had better con trol over my company than had the average circus proprietor. If you want sobriety to prevail in a circus, or anywhere else for that matter, make it an object to the people to keep sober."?N<'in York Sun. BILL ARFS LETTER. Bill Talks About Birthdays. Atlanta Constitution. Another paternal birthday in my family. They seem to come about twice a year to me now. How every thing shrinks as we near the goal. The trees arc not so tall nor the hills as they used to he. That is very is it that even time should shrink? time that is so exact, so unchangeable and that is measured by the same ticking of the clock, and that is meas ured by the rising and setting of the sun and that by the revolving earth and that by its annual course around the sun ? I can't see why time should seem to shrink at all, or if any change, it should expand, for we can do more, learn more, in a day than when we were children. Seventy-two years ago to day I came into this sublunary world and have had my share of joy and sorrow, and am content with my lot in life. As David said, "The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yea, I have a good heritage." But poor old Job took it hard when Satan despoiled him, and he cursed his day and said in the anguish of his soul : "Let the day perish wherein I was born. Why died I not from the womb, for then I should have lain still and been at rest, for there the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest?" Poor old man ; his ead story always exeites my sym pathy. Then there was Jeremiah, who exclaimed : "Oh, that my hear! were waters and mine eyes a river of tears. Cursed be the day wherein I was born ; cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying a man child is born unto thee." I don't like thesesad people nor sad stories nor tales of misery. I never read a romance that ends sadly. I don't like the company of people who wear ?ad faces and are never happy unless they are miserable. I wish that Robert Burns had never written "Man was made to mourn," for I don't believe it. Of all God's crea tures, man is the only one that can smile, and he should smile as often as he can. Cowper was a sad poet, but he does say: "Behind a frowning providence He wears a smiling face." That is better. The. Creator who beautified and adorned the earth with fruits and flowers and gave us birds to sing and music to charm, and studded the heavens with stars, did not make man te mourn. If He had given us only buzzards for birds and dog fennel for flowers and the howling of the winds for music, we might have mourned ; but I rather like that poet who in the gush of his gratitude said : "This world is very lovely. Ob, my God I thank Thee that I live." Young was another sad and solemn poet, and says : .' Man wants but little bere below, Nor wants that little long. ' Sidney Smith was more genial, and says : "Man wants but little here bflow, As beef, pork, lamb ano venison abow." I wish somebody would tell me where I can find parody on that same text that was written by John Quincy Adams about half a century ago. It was a charming poem, and began : "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long, 'Tie not with me exactly an, Tho' 'tis so in the song." Then he sets forth a delightful cata logue of what he does want, and it ac cords with our desires and excuses as for indulging them. Let a maa, and especially a woman, wish as much a3 he or she pleases, but no good comes of a distressful longing for things we can't get. Woman is peculiar about that. She can want pretty things ever so badly and do without them ever so graciously. During the war and about its distressing close the wives and mothers who had lived in luxury came down to poverty and hard times with more fortitude than the men?I knew many men who gave up and pined away and died, but their wives didn't. They held up their heads and struggled on. I remember how crushed and helpless I felt when I got my family back home and found nothing but a shelter?not a bed to sleep on?not a cow in the county, no flour, no sugar norcoffee? not a enick-* en nor an egg, and no money to buy with, if there had been anything to buy?no wood to burn, no fence around the house, and so we had to burn the stable that the yankees built on our lot for their horses. It was desolation, and with me was almost despair, but my wife never surrender ed, and she hasn't yet. She wants as many good things and nice things as anybody, but when trouble comes she can suffer and be strong. It is a good time about now for a man of my years to look back and take a kind of inventory of what I have done all this time?what has been ac complished for the world's good or anybody's good, not for my own good, for that don't count up yonder. Be fore I go into the receiver's hands it is well for me to make up an invoice. When a schoolboy we used to debate whether or not there was such a thing as disinterested benevolence. I thought then that there was, but it seems to me now that almost every good thing I ever did was very much mixed with selfishness and that all that will excuse mc will be on the line of the poet who says, "They who joy would win, Must sbaro it?happiness was born in twin " There is some comfort in that, for I believe I have taken pleasure in divid ing with others the blessings that God has given mc. The retrospect is, however, not free from clouds and blurs, and I would that I could live those parts of my life over again, and live them better. Dr. Johnson said to Boswell that a man who lived for himself lived in vain, and that it was every man's duty to do something for his fellowmcn and also for those who wore to come after him. "Our fath ers and forefathers," said he, "wrote books and invented useful contrivan ce? and planted trees and viues for us, and so, as we cannot pay them for it, we should do something for posterity." I am about even on that line, for I have planted trees both for shade and fruit wherever I have lived, and my wife still keeps me planting vines. I have written many sketches and a book or two, without malice afore thought, and can say with Byron : ' What ?3 writ is writ, Would it were worthier." On the whole I am grateful that my life has been allotcd to the last three quarters of this century?seven de cades that have witnessed more pro gress in science, art, invention and Christian civilization than any previ ous thousand years in the world's his tory. A great leap forward has been natural, and is notti but how made since I was a boy. for I remem ber when there were but few " and fewer newspapers in the States?when there wasjn three little short railroads, telegraph or telephone?when there was no light but candle light, u? not a friction match in the world/ nor. a steel pen. But progress alwey s brings a train of evil things along with it Every light has its shadow. Tho devil is a lively cuss, and keeps u with the procession. "Man never builds a house of prayer But what the devil has a pulpit there." Anci his pulpit, though invisible, is . at the other end where the sinners love to congregate. I remember when there were no hip pockets nor pistols to put in them. I remember when there was no whiskey in this country, and the only spirits drank were wine, . peach brandy, cognac brandy, that was mide from grapes, and New Eng land rum th.it the yankees made from molasses. They made the rum to buy niggeru with in Africa, but some of it got down South. Whiskey came later, and was originally uskeybaugh, a gas tic woid, tl: at, strange to say, means. water of life. The last syllable was, happily dropped in course of time, for it means life?and uskey was pro? nounce? weesky. But it would take a book to tell all the changes that have marked the last sixty j'ears?the good of it and the bad of it. I would blot some things out if I could, and set the clock back, but God knoweth. Especially wouldy I blot cutevury bad thought and every^ bad deed of my own?every act that^ gave pain or anxiety to those who loved me. The worst word in the. language is remorse. I am free from that, I know, but not from regret. .1 wish that all the young people would stop and think?sometimes s top-and think and resolve to do nothing'that will follow them like Banquo's ghost when they get old Bill Abp. AU Sorts of Paragraphe. ? It is better to be disappointed in love than in marriage. ? People who borrow trouble are always giving it away. ? An inch of ~ain men' s 100 tons of water on cver> ere. ? Tej?as is harvesting tho larges, grain crop in its history. ? Tho man who never made a mis take in his life never got married. ? Clothing to the amount of $2,- ? : 205,000,000 is made annually in ?he United States and Europe. ? Louisiana claims to have the largest farm in the world; it is 100 miles long by 25 miles broad. ? During the last 25 years the . United States patent office has granted 711 patents to Thomas A. Edison. ? An absolutely fireproof chimney, 50 feet high, has been built of paper in Breslau. It is the only ono of the ' kind. ? What is a man profited who gains a h andred dollars worth of prop erty and loses $10,000 worth of char acter ? ? "There's one wise thing about haviogonly one leg," said the veteran. "A pair of socks lasts twice as long as ,; they would otherwise." ? She?"I never expected to work like this when I married you." He? "I didn't suppose you cared. You worked h;trd enough to get me, dL* 5v,-? you ?" ? Mothers will find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy especially valuable for ?..?;: croup and whooping cough. It will give prompt relief and is safe and ; pleasant. We have sold it for several years and it has never failed to give the most perfect satisfaction. G. W. Richards, Duquesce, Pa. Sold by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? "It's, surprising how impractical some very learned men are." "Yes; there's Professor Lingwist, for exam ple. He spent one-half his life in ac quiring fluency in nine orten different languages, and then went and married ; a wife who never gives him a chance ? to get a word in edgeways.'" ? Mr. James Perdue, an old eoldj__ residing at Monroe, MiSfcpiwS se verely afflicted with rheumatism but received prompt relief from pain by using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He says: "At times my back would ache . so badly that I could hardly raise up. If I had not gotten relief I would not > be here to write these few lines. -;; Chamberlain's Pain Balm has done me . ;v a great dead of good and I feel very ? thankful for it." For sale by -5 Orr Drug Co. ? Old shoes are utilized in Prance ? in several ways. Sometimes the leather ? is ground ond wrought into a paste^?^ which can be transformed into an ex- /id eellen t imitation of morocco. Another scheme is to soak the pieces of leather in water to soften them, and then to cut uppers for shoes of a smaller size. Any rubbish which is left canche- i turned, to advantage by farmers as fertilizers. ? If it required an annual outlay of $100.00 to insure a family against any seriou? consequences from an at- - tack of boffel complaint during the year there are many who would feel it their duty to pay it; that they could not afford to risk their lives, and those of their family for such an amount. Any one can get this insurance for 25 cents, that being the price of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aud 'fk Diarrhoea Remedy. In almost every neighborhood some one has died from an attack of bowel coraph.Int before?1 medicine could be procured or a phys ician could be summoned. One or two doses of this remedy will cure any ordinary case. It never fails. Can vou afford to take the risk for so small an amount? For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? Currituck County, North Carolina, ~~ has long been famed for the most stal wart men in the State, and now it adds a product of a fat boy thirteen years and six months old who weighed on April 6th 436 pounds. Iiis name is l\ Lewis T. Lewark. He has ten broth- s ers and sisters, whos3 weight ranges from 180 to 250 pounds. His parents arc under medium size and weight ; his ancestors were sometimes fat peo- ~M pie, showing that qualities skip chil- is dren and reproduce remote ancestors. ':i ?Atlanta Constitution,.' Deafness Cannot be Cur<d by local applications, as tbty can not reach tho diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono way to cure Deafness, and that Is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an Inflam ed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustacb iaL Tube. When this tube got* inflamed you ha*o a rumbling ?outd or imperfict hearing, and when it is entirely c osed deafness is the result, sod unless ibo inflamaUon can bs tafcon ont and this tube restored to its normal condition, bearing will-, bo destroyed foreier ; nino esses oat of ten ate caused by calarrab, which ?.1 nothing bui. an it. flamed condition of the cuco jssurfaaes. . We will gire One Hundred Dollars for any ease of Deafness (caused, by tat?rra) that cannot bo wrcdby HaU'e Caftr^jif^re^ vauuj maw caouofc do re. Send for circulara.