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BY CLINXSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON~sTc., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1897._VOLUME XXXIII. -NO. 10. . . . We will be found in our ... NEW PLACE, Next door above Ligon & Ledbetter. Our Stock will be .. ,; NEW, And of Popular Fabrics and Colorings. CUT PRICES StiU continue until we move. /' m AND Any kind you want. Don't fail to get our vpriees before buying. . . . ? We Have -Bought a TREMENDOUS STOCK GOODS For the Fall Trade ! And will sell you as cheap, and more often a little cheaper, than you can buy them anywhere else, and will pay you the . . . . . HIGHEST PRICES FOR COTTON. We have exceptional facilities for handling the staple this year, and will make it to your interest to see us before selling. McCULLY BROS Now the time to select your Mower and Rake. Shipped in Car lots?the buyer gets the advantage in freight. We guarantee these Machines absolutely. Une quailed, the latest, the best. THREE CAR LOADS STE??I ENGINES ,N S CK' ATLAS, ECLIPSE, ERSE CITY, And other standard makes. Our prices simply astonishing. SMITH GINS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES, GANE MILLS, And all kinds of Farm Machinery at figures to meet any hon est competition. Call on or address , ra 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 mi AFRICANA Will cure RHEUMATISM. AFRICANA Will cure SCROFULA. AFRICANA Will cure OLD SORES. AFRICANA Will cure SYPHILIS. AFRICANA Will cure CONSTIPATION AFRICANA Will cure Exzema, Catarrh, and all BBOOD and SKIN DISEASES. AFRICANA NEVER FAILS. It is the true Remedy for all Blood Diseases. For sale by Evans Pharmacy and Hill-Orr Drug Co. _ TllELDMESl?. WE sell PIANOS and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS to the best trade in this and adjoining Counties. Why not allow me to. sell yon a reliable Piano or Organ. We guarantee every Instrument that goes out of our Warerooms, and bave a large araortment to select from. Have just received new styles of? Ivers & Pond Pianos ? AND ? Fanand & Votey Organs, And we are getting in several other makes of high grade Instruments. Also, ft la::ge line of Guitars, Banjos, Violins, Antoharps,, &c, at lowest possible figures. HEADQUARTERS for the Celebrated New Home, nnd several otter leading Sewing Machines. Call and see us, or write for catalogue and prices. Respectfully, Tl6G.iM,I?SlS8. WE ofler at Privat? Sale on easy terms in quantity to please buyers : 3.000 acres Land in Oconee County. 8.C. 1,869 acres Land in Winston and Choc taw Counties, Mississippi. 1,024 acres Land in Upshaw Co., Texas. ? ALSO, ? Plonr, Grist Mill and Cotton Gin, in good order for work, with ample water power if developed for a large Ci>tton Mill or other manufacturing purposes. ' 95L aerea Land on Beaverda.in Creek, near Fair Play, S.O. 553 acres Land near Oak way, S. C 1381 acres Land on Cnnm-ross and Snow Crenks, nearSitton'e Mill*) 162 acres Land, with Flour Mill, &c , on Conneross Creek. Come and see us at on ce. AUG'T. J. SITTON. Antun, S. C. HENRY P. SITTON, Peodleton, S. 0., Executors. May 19. 1897 47_Oct 1 SHERIFF'S SALE. Iwill Bell to the highest bidder on the Court House Square in the City of Anderson, S. C, on Salesday in Septem ber next, during the legal hours of sale, the following property, to wit : One bay or dark brown Horse, one old Buggy and Harness, one Lintern, and one Mackintosh Coat. Seized from James Jackson and forfeited to the State under the Dispensary Act. / ' Terms?Cash. NELSON R GREEN, Sheriff Anderson County, S. C. August 18, 1897^_ 8 8 BELTON HIGH SCHOOL W. B. WEST. Principal. A. H. MARCHANT, Assistant. SESSION opens Sept. 6, 1S97. Our work in the past has been entirely satisfac tory to our patronp. Enrollment past Session twenty per cent greater than year previous. One hour given to all branches taught in High School department. A modern reading room is run by Lite rarv Societies. For further information confer with the Principal or Aesist-int. August 4. 1897_G_6 Mountain Land for Sale. SEVEN hundred acres, known os Black Swamp, in Oconee County, S. C. .Heavy timbered, well watered, arable Jand. Apply to MRS. JANE S. THOMPSON. Dean, S. C. August 18,1897_Jj__ 3 Kindergarten School. MISSES JEFFIE and AGNE3 ED WARDS will open a Kindergarten School on the G'h of September, at the residence of Mrs. C. R Mnrrsy. on Main Street. Entruoce Fee ?l 00, and ?1 00 per month fir Tuition of term of four months, be^innim? f,tu September a"ri closing 24th of December All nniiornOs for instruc tion and occupation* fumi-hed free. Chil dren admitted between th ? a ?a of three and pevf>n years Aug 25 18-7 !? 2 Administrator's Sale. A G REE ABLY to an order of the Court J\. of Ordinary o? Hart County, will be sold at pnblio sale at tbc Court House door of said County, on the First Tuesday in October next, within he legf.l honra of sale, Two Thousand acres <>f good Farm ing Lands, divided into one and two-horse farmy. Also, a well imr.ruved Plantation on Savannah River containing 400 acres. Terms of ?ale?One-third cash, one third November 15tb, 1898, balance No vember l?th, JS99, interest at 8 per cent from dute. A. J. CLEVELAND, JOHN M. V?OKERY JAS. E. VICKERY. Administrator of the Estate of William Vickery. deceased, For further information call on J. H. 3kelton, Attorney at Law, ?aitwell, Ga. Aug 2 ), 1397_9 _2 Administrator's Sale. AGREEABLY t<> mm order of the Court of Ordinary of li.ri Co. will be BulU at public tale at thu Court House door of said County, on thn First Tuesday in November next, within the legal hours of Bale. Fifteen Hundred A :res of Good Farming Lands in liait County; divided into One and Two-Horse Farms. Landa well impnmd. Term? ufSnle?One-third cash, one-third Nov. 15ib, 189S and balance Nov. 15th, 1899, U?l*r?wt ut 8 per cent, from date. MKS KATE B. GANES, JOHN B. GANES. Administrators of F. M. Ghdp8' eetate. For further information, call?n J. H. Skelton. Attorney nt-Law, Ilartwell, Ga. I Aug 2% 1897 9 2 Alone With a Maniac. It was on the fifth day of our voy age, as wc were amusing ourselves on deck, that a message was brought me to say that Mr. A-would like to sec me in his cabin. I had no difficulty in finding his room, and was met at the door by Mr. A. himself. He shook hands very cordially, and invited me to enter and take a chair. No sooner had I done so than he carefully locked the door. Thinking this rather strange, I in quired as to his illness. He did not reply for some time, and then said: "I am not. I sent for you," laying his hand on a large knife, "to cut your throat." He was a man I had not before par ticularly noticed, but now, as I looked up, I fully made up my mind that he was a maniac. ? I am not a coward, yet even now the thought of that moment makes me shudder. There I was, in a remote part of the ship, alone with a madman of twice my strength, without a chance to escape, or means to give an alarm, and, being unarmed, quite at his mer cy I had heard of other somewhat simi lar cases, and though a tyro 'in the profession, had had some experience among the insane. I knew, therefore, that resistance would be of the least service to me, and that apparent ac quiescence would be best. All this quickly flashed through my mind, and, accordingly, feigning the /utmost in difference I could, I said: "Ah, yes, Mr. A?, to be sure. It won't take long, will it?" "Oh, no," said he, calmly survey ing the knife he now held in his hand. "Oh, no, the job is quite a light one. Here he poured out a glass of . wine, and begged me drink it. As I did so. an idea struck me, and I said: "By-the-by, Mr. A-, your knife doesn't look very sharp; the trachea is tough, you know, and will want some cutting." He looked hard at me, as if to read my thoughts, but, after a time, con vinced that my suggestions was a good one, and examining his knife more closely, ho said: "Yes, doctor, Lthink you are right. A little grinding will do no harm; so, if you don't mind wait, I will just run to the carpenter's shop." This was exactly what I wanted, as feeling sure he would not lock the door after him, I thought my escape Vould be easy. What was my dis may, on hi.s departure, at finding that it was locked as securely as be fore I I passed up and down in despair, tore at the door, flung open the port hole window, and shouted with all my might, but all without avail. Time went on, minute by minute, and he could not be long now. In the frenzy of despair, I groped about, from corner to corner, in search of some weapon of defence, but no, not even the merest stick, not the smallest .thing upon which to lay hands. And j then I heard footsteps approaching in the distance. I felt my pulse quicken, my brow grow hot. Impulsively I flung off my coat, got to the farthest end of the room, and, standing as defensively as possible, resolved to fight to the last. I remember then the door bursting open, and the entry of A-, not alone, as I thought, but securely pin ioned and attended by two of the ship's crew in charge of the second officer. The relief of the moment was so great that it completely prostrated me, and my nervous system was m?ch shaken for some time, while the in tensity and reality of my situation often now make me feel something akin to what the condemned, about to be hanged, must experieuoe. I learned afterward that the peculiar and excited manner of the maniac, the large knife in his possession, and his anxiety to sharpen it, drew suspicion on him, which, with the fact that I had been called to see him, induced the officer to secure him and come to his cabin. For the remai oder of the voyage he was kept securely confined, and watch ed day and night, and on arriving at New York was handed over to the pro per authorities, who, on investigating the case,' found i;hat the man had es caped from a private lunatic asylum near Liverpool, dnd had by strategy and cunning eluded the vigilance of his keepers and taken passage on'our vessel. He was, I believe, transferred to England again, though happily not under my care.?London Times. ? Pleasure may be a shadow, but it uses a heap of substance. ? The Maldivian islanders cat alone. Before a meal they retire to the most secluded spot they can find, and eat with drawn blinds or surrounded by a screen. The explanation of this pre caution is more likely to be fear than modesty. In days gone by, the savage no doubt concealed himself lest some man stronger than he should snatch the hard-earned food away. The man may be able to whip the lion single-handed, but he is not taking chances, and is not going to disdain the assistance of help ers with hot irons. The same is true of a wise man who is o " ' having a tussle with ill-health. It is barely possible that he may have the natural inherent resisting power that will enable him to conquer disease without the assist ance of medicine, but he is not willing to take the chances and will not disdain the help of the right remedy. When a man feels out-of-sorts, when his head is achey, dull and heavy, his body lazy, his nerves jerky} his sleep broken, his ap petite finicky, his skin sallow, bis breath foul and his mouth bad-tasting, he is having a struggle with ill-health. If he is wise be will take Dr. Pierce'e Golden Medical Dis covery. It gives edge to the appetite and makes the digestion perfect. It invigorates the liver. It makes rich, red, pure blood. It puts vim into every organ and fiber of the body. It drives out all impurities and disease germs. It imparts the glow of health to the skin and the vigor of youth to the muscler. It tones the nerves and gives refreshing sleep. It builds firm flesh, but does not raise the weight above Nature's normal. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of consumption. All medicine stores sell it. An honest dealer will not suggest a worthless substitute for the sake of a lit tle extra profit. . The most valuable book for both men and women is Dr. Picrce's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser. A splendid thousand-page Sortej volume, with over three hun ~ dred engravings and colored plates. A copy, paper-cov ered, will be sent to anyone sending twenty-one cents in one-cent stamps, to pay the cost of mailing only, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. stamps, SAM JONES Greed, and not Religion, now Rules the World. Whatever tends to hurt or better our condition for this world is fur nishing themcB for the politician, po litical economist, the editor, and so on. Buy and soil and get gain, heap ing up riches and knowing not who shall gather them. In the social and business world conversations all turn towards business and bargains. "Eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow you die," seems to be the motto of those who -have money at their command and for the want of money to eat drink and be merry the balance of humanity is growling and complaining. Man has lost sight of his moral side and his moral nature. The Ten Command ments and the Sermon on the Mount find very little room in this country in the hearts and lives of the people. The average fellow does not ask, "Is this thing right or wrong?" but "How much money is there in it?" or "How much might I lose?" Charac ter does not count. If a fellow pays his bills ho has the right of way, whether he be a gambler, libertine or devil. If men are getting better it is be cause they are not financially able tobe worse. A man cannot drink as much whiskey and beer; he cannot gamble and carouse with an empty* pocket. I sat on the train yesterday with a Ger man, who lives in Cincinnati. He didn't know me. I never met him before, but we entered into conversa tion on the improvement of the times. He said there was improvemert. "But," he said, "these hard timas have brought good to me. I haven't the money to spend for beer and de bauchery that ' I once had. When I drank beer and caroused I didn't want much to eat, but now I am eating three square meals a day, living eco nomically and comfortably, and I am in better health and spirits," he said, *"than ever before. These hard times have taught me that I can live on less, and that living on less I am happier and healthier." , ' Really the statistics of the United States show that the death rate is de creasing in the last few years. The cities boast of the death rate decreas ing. . It is ? decrease of beer-gurgling and whiskey-drinking and debauchery that is prolonging life. I have no pa tience with the fellow who is.growling about hard times when he has had ev ery opportunity and facility to have made himself comfortable in life, but has thrown away his earnings in sin and man. God knows all of us are getting along better than we deserve. Most of us ought to be in the chain gang about the way we treat ourselves and Go'd. If we 'would devote more of our time to praying and reading the Scriptures and cultivating our moral nature andcorelating in our lives the graces and virtues of religion we would be-far happier and more con tented. A man's happiness does not consist in what he has, but it does consist in what he is. Think of a fellow going about weighing 200 pounds avoirdu pois with a little old, ?.hriveled-up, dried-up soul in his body that hasen't had a square meal from Heaven in ten years, shooting off his mouth about government and want of pros perity and all that sort of thing. Most all of the growling I bear is by the fellows who curse and growl both. He is some old godless backslider in the churoh or some mean old sinner out of the church who is doing the growling. I despise the man who kiek& the fill ing out of himself and then goes about complaining about being kicked. An old kicker ought to shun himself as studiously as he shuns the business end of a mule. I have heard more talk in the last thirty days about a fall in silver and a rise in wheat'than I have heard on the Ten Commandments and Bible ethics in twelve months. To call this nation a Christian nation is a mis-no mer. It is a nation of idolators; "for covetousness is idolatry," says the Book. The old farmer worships his farms, the doctor his profession, the miser his gold, the dude his clothes, the dudine her status in society, the negro worships watermelon!} and 'pos sums; and so on we go. I believo God has a quarrel with this nation and with this people. No man can read the Old Testament Scriptures how God dealt with them in former days but will see that his tory is but repeating itself. We have robbed God and robbed one another until it is a common saying fthat confidence is gone. Men lose faith in God, and have lost faith in one another; stifled their consciences, over-ridden that higher, inner light, and now only the things satisfy them which feed their gain and fill their pockets. The churches themselves are dead, unless they should show signs of life at a musicale or fall out over the removing or rebuilding of a church or differ on some policy, whether God is for it or not. The worst form of idolatry is self ishness. The best form of* Christi anity is that which sacrifices self and lives for others. In society it is a race for place; in business it is a stam pede for gain; in the church it is a run for position: in politics, it is to get office at the sacrifice of both man hood and principle. There are some good men in this world but they are not running this world. They are relegated to the rear as a rule. They have very little voice in the councils of the nation, and very little influ ence in the social or business world. A pious, Christian man is dubbed a crank. If he is in Rome and don't do as Rome does, Rome puts him out. Better be dead than be out of the fashion; when really I'd rather be dead than to be in the fashion these days. I belive the only hope for us all 13 a good case of old-fashined religion for each individual?a revival of pure, genuine religion in the hearts of the people, for a man's life is never better than his heart. A man can never have religion until he becomes relig ious. It is one thing to profess; it is another thing to possess. It is one thing to sing and preach; it is another thing to practice. W'hen precept em bodies itself in example and when church membership is a guaranty of fidelity and honesty in every day life, then wc may look for peace and pros perity together. Throw an ear of corn into a hogpen and there will be a scramble as long as there is a grain left; but you throw an car of corn into a room where there sits a dozen royal men who arc talking upon the higher and nobler things of life and your corn will lie there till the hogs come. But few of us have done as the Saviour paid Wary had fjon??chosen the bet Atlanta Journal. and now he against God ter part which could not be taken away from her; but like Martha we are cumbered about many this to the neglect of the soul, to ruin of chrac ter and the loss of immortality. I do not believe we pray enough. There isn't one member of the church, I dare say, in a thousand who spends thirty minutes a day in humble pray er. Itjis weil enough for those who do not believe in God and Christianity to criticise what I have said. The ab sence of the divine power is but the convincing proof of the want of pray er. The man who prays is the man who knows what power is, and power is as resistless as a cyclone. Think on these things. Sam. P. Jones. Private Smith's Story. \ Henry H. Smith, the well-known cotton broker of Atlanta, Ga., is a model business man, and apparently the last person in the world to take any liberties with a stranger. But appearances are sometimes deceptive, and Smith makes out a strong case against himself in a story which he told at the Kennesaw re-union of the legions of Cobb and Phillips. "In the early part of the war," said Smith, "I was a private soldier under Stonewall Jackson in Virginia. At that time I was a mere boy, and my gun was almost as big and heavy as I was. You can imagine how tired and hungry I was after I had marched two days without food. A driving rain storm came on, and I could hardly drag one foot after another along the muddy road. ' "A tent by the roadside attracted my attention, and I saw a gray-beard ed face peeping out at the marching troops. " 'Hello, old man!' I shouted; 'got anything to eat in there?' "'Yes, what's the matter?" the man in the tent replied. "I told him I was hungry, and had been marching two days without a scrap of ?Ood. " 'Come right in,' said the old fel low, pleasantly. "Into the tent I pluDged in a hurry, throwing down my gun and smacking my lips in anticipation of a square meal. "The stranger opened a camp chest and invited me to help myself. You should have seen the way I sailed into the /ations. I ate ravenously; without saying a word, ahd for the time forgot all about my kind host. "Finally he asked mc if I would have a drink of water, and handed me a guard from'a bucket in one corner of the tent. I took a big drink and got ready to start. " 'You have been very kind to me,' I said to my new friend, 'and I would like to know your name.' " 'My name is Lee," was the ans wer. " 'Lee?what Lee?' I asked him? 'not General Lee?' " 'That is my name,' was the quiet response. "Well, I was taken aback, o'f course, but I was young and cheery, and I made the best of it. Soldiers Jmd no handkerchiefs, and so I wiped my hand on my breeches and gave the general's paw a cordial shake. "He asked me my name and told me to take care of myself as I left. "A few days later my command was on the march, and had just reached a bridge when it was ordered to open ranks to let General Lee pass. "I was standing at the head of the line, and when the general dashed up, followed by a negro servant riding on another horse, I could not keep etili. " 'Howdy, general!' I shouted. " 'Why, Smith, ray boy,' he replied as he pulled up his horse. 'Here, Smith, get on this horse and follow me.' "The negro turned over his horse to me and I mounted him. "I rode off with my commander, feeling mighty good, I can tell you; but those rascals at the bridge were bound to have their fun, and about a thousand of them set up a yell. " 'Take him along, general,' they howled. 'He ain't no good?never was on a horse before in his life? can't do nothing but eat?take him and keep him!' "That was the send off of my com rades gave me; but the general under ntood the humorous side of camp life, and he merely smiled and kept straight ahead. "? accompanied him a short distance and returned to my company in the course of an hour or two, after the general's staff had joined him. "That is the story of my meeting with Bob Lee. Do you wonder that we boys all took a fancy to him? He was just as clever to Private Smith as he would have been to a general, and I could see that it was a^ pleasure to him to share his rations with me. "But the boys guyed mc about it for a long time. They told the story with lets of fanciful flourishes, and three years later, when I went to the West as an officer on General Forrest's staff, I found that the tale had preceded me and had made me well known in army circles. "Ah, those were grand days; full of great men and great deeds. Even now, after the lapse of a generation, my heart thrills with pride when I recall my two meetings with the Confedera cy's grandest chieftain, the idol of the people, the father of his soldiers? royal oldBobLec!"?Wallace Putnam Reed, in Chicago Times Herald. No Place for Getting Religion. They arc telling a story about a church with '"ritualistic" tendencies. It seems that an usher showed a col ored woman up to a front seat, and that during the beautiful services, with its wonderful music of sweet boys' voices and grand orchestral accompaniment, the usher suddenly noticed that the visitor was swaying to and fro in an agitated manner. Hurrying up the aisle, he seated him self beside her, and asked anxiously if she were ill. She promptly replied that she was not, but that she felt so queer that she thought she must be "getting religion." "Then, madam," indignantly hissed the offended usher, "you must get right out of here. This church is no place for that sort of thing !" ? Goldsmith thought people should write their own flattering epitaphs, and then live up to them. How's This. Wc nfler One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that caucot be cured by flail's Catarrh Cure. We, the undersigned have known P.J. Cheney for tuo last 15 yt-r.rs, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan cially able to carry out any obligations madu by their firm. % Wkst A Trita x, Wholesale Dri'geiSt?rr<fi*j??0, o. Waldini?. & Marvin, WhoKsalelk^ig giste, Toledo, O. \ Hall's Catarrh Cure le taken Internally, acttSB directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces m Cho ? ?lera. Testimoniala sent freo. Trico 75 ? I per bettle So]a by all drnjrgtsta. -\i BILL AUF'S LETTER. Gives Some Comparative Statistics on Lawlessness North and South. Aitatila Constitution. I have just received the third vol ume of "Compendium of the Census of 1890." Eight years have passed since the people made their returns and the time is nearing when they will be called on again. It takes a long time and costs millions of money, but it is a big thing and diffuses knowledge among the people. It is better that the money be spent that way. for there are no private schemes nor corporation swindles in it, and it gives employ ment to thousands of needy people. The census is the only mode of getting at the true condition of the nation's affairs and a comparative view of the wealth, resources, education and mo-, rality of the people of the different Statesi I have been very much interested in these comparisons and feel prouder than ever before of my State and sec tion. For more than half a century the partisan and sectional literature of the north has overshadowed and humiliated us with unfair, untrue and slanderous statements. By these un christian methods of their press and pulpits their own good people have been poisoned against us and immigra tion influenced in northern channels. Personally, I do not complain of this, for I esteem it a blessing that neither northern fanatics nor foreign paupers' have to any alarming extent infested our fair lands. The natural increase of our own people will soon enough occupy the South and secure to us a homogeneous citizenship that will continue to be the most moral and the most patriotic of any this side of the Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio man had the cheek to publish a letter about our lawlessness ?nd said it was amazing impudence for Georgia or the South to invite northern people to set tle here. Well, we don't invite him nor any of his kind. An unknown friend writes me of rom Nebraska and says: "Call off. your dogs. Let the yankees alone and blow your horn for Germans. I have lived for thirteen years right here -where both abound and I will take the Germans or the Swedes or the Swiss every time. The yankees have hated you for genera tions. They are born hatiDg you and are raised up in schools and churches to hate you. They can't help it. But these foreigners have no such prejudi-j ces.' They don't like your negioes, but have -got nothing against you. They are a fair-minded, industrious people, and I have always found taem honest and' kind and good neighbors whom you can depend on in time of trouble." But to the census. Look at these figures on crime and criminals in some of the States North and South in 1890: Massachusetts, convicted criminals in prison. 5,228 New York, convicted criminals in prison. .. 11463 Ohio, convicted criminale in prison 2,909 Illinois, convicted criminals in prison. 3,936 Total.;. 23,540 Now deduct the negroes. 1,795 Leaving whites. 21,745 Now, let us take four Southern States: Georgia, whites.242 South Carolina, whites.123 Mississippi.119 Virginia../....382 Total..860 Now, the total white population of the four Northern States is 15,477, 000, and the total white population of the four Sputhern States is 3,000,400, being about one-fifth. The negro has been eliminated in both statements, and as the popula tion of the four northern States is five times that of ours-we will multi ply our convicted white prisoners by five, which would give us 4,330, against 21,745. I said in a recent let ter that there were 50 per cent, more of felonies in New York or Massachu setts than in Georgia. I was mista ken. There are five times as many, which is 500 per cent., and this is the ratio according to white population. I tell you, my brethren, this census compendium proves an alarming con dition of things up North, and it is high time our Southern ohurches were organizing boards of missions and sending missionaries up there. We send them to Mexico and China and Brazil and to the Indians in the West; why not to Massachusetts and New York aud Ohio, where crime and im morality prevail to a greater extent than in any civilized country? That is just what Mr. Stetson said?the statistician of Massachusetts. His language as published was: "There is no country upon earth where crime is so flagrant and so frequent as in Mas sachusetts." Her population is about double our white population, and yet she has fifteen times as many white criminals in her prisons?and what ?3 worse than all, my brethren, 748 of them are women. Just ponder^ over it, and, like the prophet, exclaim: "How are the mighty fallen." Only one white woman in the jails or chain gangs of Georgia, and 748 in the puri tan State of New England! What shall we do about it? What can we do about it? But this is not all that the census tells. In addition to this vast army of prisoners, Massachusetts has 700 juvenile prisoners, while New York has 3,676 and Ohio 1,530. Then there arc over 8,000 paupers in the four States, besides the thousands that are in private benevolent institutions. How in the world do those States up North support such a vast army of criminals, paupers, tramps and non producers? No wonder they want protection and pensions; no wonder they plunder the public treasury. They are obliged to do it. Ninety per cent, of all the money that goes into it comes out of their pockets. Still they are not happy; they want the other ten. But what is the relative coudition of the common people of the sections? How about homes and mortgages and debts? It is the common people who constitute a State or a nation. They support it with their labor and defend it with their arms. In numbers they are as 500 to 1 of the aristocracy. They all deserve to havo homes? homes of their own, unencumbered. A home means more than shelter. It means rcics and vines and shade trees and fruit. Ask the poor renter who is bumped about from place to place every year. Ask his wife and daugh ters what they think of home. The census puts down 99,S90 white fami lies in Georgia who have homes, and says that 96 per cent, of these are paid for and have no incumbrance. Vir ginia has 97 percent, paid for; Missis sippi and South Carolina 93 per cent, each. Massachusetts has 175,000 families owning homes, but 37 per cent, of them are mortgaged. New York has 490,000 homes, and 41 per cent, are mortgaged; and the compiler says more than 90 per cent, of all the home encumbrance of the United States is in the north Atlantic and north Cen tral divisions?only 4} per cent, is on the homes of the south Atlantic States. The mortgages on Massachu setts homes amount to $102,948,196. Just think of it?ponder it?ruminate over it?over one hundred millions of debt against the common people of one little State having about double the white population of Georgia. Can they ever pay it? New York is but little better, having $245,000,000. In fact, the whole north, is covered as with a blanket by debt, and the mil lionaires are the owners of it. Debt! What a hard, unfeeling word it is. My old partner was wont to say it has a harder alliterative following,. viz: debt, duns, death, damnation and the devil. Is it any wonder that such ex ponents as Debs and George and Cox ey rise up and plead for th,e people? the common people?the toilers who have no homes at all? Is it any won der that strikes are made and the peo ple carry blood in their ey?s and des peration in their hearts ? Put yourself in their place, if you can, and then you will feel as they feel. But, while we sympathize with them, and pity them, let us be grate ful that we live in this Southern land, and are in the peaceful enjoyment of so many rich blessings. May the good Lord preserve us from their crimes and their debts! is my prayer. Fast Trains the Safer. "There seems to be an impression," said a railway superintendent, speaking of the fast service the-railways are now giving, "that the fast, trains ?re the most dangerous for people to ride on, and that m?re persons are killed in crossing tracks, etc., than by the trains which are slower. This is amis take. "Pennylvania Railroad Company has given this matter special attention, and has statistici to show that, in pro portion to the fast and slow trains run, more accidents have occurred to the slow trains and more persons not in the employ of the company killed' by the slower trains. Men in charge of fast/ passenger and freight', trains are constantly^on -the watch f?r dan ger. The engineer feels that there is more at stake, and one will notice that the blasts' of his whistle are more fre quent and sharper; that the fireman is more particular to ring the bell when passing through a town or a city or near a highway crossing* ; It would be difficult to find people living on the lines of the roads which run fast trains that have not heard of the Chi tines, the fast express. No.,27between St. Louis and New York, over, the Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines; the Empire State Express, the. Knicker bocker on the Big Four, andthe hun dreds of other fast trains. Fast trains run nearer on time, and people know their time and keep - out of the way. .The equipment of.the fast trains are kept at the best standard, and every thing conduces to make them safer to ride on and less liable to injure people at highway crossings and in passing: through towns and cities. The Penn sylvania transportation ' department is fully satisfied that the above statement is correct." ? The same remark will apply to the freight service. In 1888 twelve miles an hour was considered the highest speed limit for a freight train, and' J. J. Turner, when superintendent of the Indianapolis division of the Pan handle, was the first to increase the speed of freight trains in this section, scheduling a train at sixteen miles an hour between Indianapolis and Colum bus. Competitors soon took similar action and increased the-speed of the fast freights to eighteen miles an 1 -)ur, then to twenty miles an hour, which was the maximum for through freight trains for several .years, but the better track and batteri locomo tives some of the roads are rojieduling freight trains at twenty-three to twen^ five miles an hour, using the scheduled of passenger trains during the seven ties and eighties. -? .,?-?: A Terrible Heredity. A special study of hereditary drunk enness has been made by Prof. Pell mann, of Bonn University, Germany. His method was to take certain indi vidual cases, a generation or two back. He thus traced the careers of chil dren, grandchildren and great-grand children in all parts of the present German Empire until he was able to present tabulated biographies of the hundreds descended from some origi nai drunkard. Notable among the persons described by prof. Pellmann is Frau. Ida Jurka, who was born in 1740, and was a drunkard, a thief and a tramp for the last forty years of her life, which ended in 1800. Her de scendants numbered 834, of whom 709 wore traced in local records from youth to death. One hundred uad six of the 709 were born out of wedlock.1 There were 144 beggars and 62 more who lived from charity. Of ; the women, 181 Jed disreputable lives. There were in this family 76 convicts, 7 of whom were sentenced for murder. In a period of some seventy-five years this one family rolled up a bill of costs in alms houses, prisons and cor rectional institutions amounting to at least 5,000,000 marks, or about $1, 250,000 ? Medical Record. Rheumatism. Cured. ' After eminent physicians and all other known remedies fail, Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) will quickly cure. Thousands of testimonials at test this fact. No case of Rheumatism can stand before its magic healing power. Send stamp for book of par ticulars. 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It is said to drink sweet milk after eating onions will purify the breath so that no odor will remain. ? Who was the author of the say ing, "There is always room at the top ?" ' 'The hotel clerk, I believe." ? Cicero gives expression to a beau tiful thought when he says. "I go from life as from an inn. not as from home." ? Good character is above all things else. Your character cannot be es sentially injured except'by your own acts. ? The highest masts of sailing ves sels are from 160 to 280 feet high, and spread from 60,000 to 100,000 feet of canvass. ? "Everybody enjoys the best of health," says the Manayu nk philoso pher, "it's the worst of Health that bothers us." ? Your personal affairs are of mighty little concern to tho world un less you have been doing something that yon oughtn't to. ? Gold has Been discovered in 4 northern China. JrYhen. all the back' countries are heard from, perhaps there will he enough for us all. , ? Some philosopher ha? observed that "when a man considers himself one in a thousand, he naturally re gards others as ciphers." Venerala has 200,000,000 acres of forest, i a; which grow all;the varie .ties of ebony, as well as rosewood, satin wood and mahogany. ? A Horse ?teview vrag.affirms that "the market prices for Oregon horses for canning are $2.50' for two-year olds andovcr, and$1.50foryearlipga." ? ?ats and several other; animals have a false eyelid,, which, can be dr%wn over the eyeball either to cleanse or protect it from too strong a light; ? The bicycle skate is the latest fad.- It has wheels with pneumatic tires and ball-bearing axlesj and ean be nsed on any ordinary road, prefera bly on asphalt., ? The bigheiit temperature in .the world is recorded in the great desert of Africa, where the thermometer of ten marks, one hundred and fifty de 'grees fahrenheit. ? It is said that a raw egg swal lowed at orce when a fish bone -is caught in the throat beyond the reach ;of the finge:; will dislodge the bone and carry it down. ? A woman of 97, now living in the south, recently had a proposal of marriage. She is western by birth, is said to be wonderfully attractive, and looks 30 years younger than she is. ? No feWer than 21 persono a cen tury old and upwards are reported by the registrar-general-for Scotland to ' have died last year in that country. Five were men and 16 were women:.. ? "Opporchunities," said Unole Eben, "is pretty sho' ter come ;to ebery man?; .-But it's a mighty good* idee, jes' de same, f oh him ter hustle .'round an' send put a few invitations." ? One ?of the greatest English :r piano manufacturers says that his firm alone turn out 2,00? pianos it : jear ; ', that London turns out 35,000 a year, 'Germany:|74,G00," France 20,000, the United State* 25;000. ??rr Yardsley donated a castor, worth 90 cents, to his minister, ano! put a tag on it marked'$16. /The parson took the article to 'Yardsley's store, and traded it v for dry goods;, Tho storekeeper ?i?n'v, smile for a week. ? In the Louvre, at Paris/theirs is an interesting old vase of Etruscan manufacture, whose age ?. is computed at about 2,500 years. It is interesting as bearing a group of ohildrenin relief ? who are engaged i a blowing-soap bub bles from pipes. ? Barrow?"That's a dandy wheel you have there, old man. I'll take a little spin on it some day. By the / way, what kind of a wheel do you think I ought to ride?" Marrow? . "One of your own," ? ? "^ere there cats in the ark ?" ' \\ is a question that is troubling the reli gious editor of an exchange. Certain ly there were ; and the first thing they said after leaving the ancient craft was: "If there's .Ararat round here, we#want to gopher it." ? A child, a curiosity in his way, has been taken to the home of the United Charities organization, Wilkes barre, Pa. He is 3 years^old and weighs only 10Jfounds. His head is the size of a baseball, and ? 25-cent piece would cove- one hand. - The lit-. tie fellow stands 22 inehes high. ? Convict labor in road building is jbeing employed in Duval County,; I Florida, and in North Carolina. In the latter case twenty-one and a half ; cents per head per day per heactis said to cover the cost of food, clothes,- ; medical attendance and guards, com- . I pared with twenty-eight cents per dey. for maintaining the same prisoners in jail. ? The city of Chicago, so far as its - - superficial area is concerned, covers more ground than any other city in this country,- having by the addition^ of numerous suburb: lised ' area to'Jg 189.square miles. Ph.'ade?puiacornee^ next, with 129?, while St. Louis and ? New Yorkkor rather, that portion of ? I New York situated^on Manhattan Is land, have the same area, 61 and a fraction. ?? ? * \\ I ? Man is said to be the only crea ture that shaves. But this is not so. A South American bird called the . "motmot" actually begins shaving on arriving at maturity^ Naturally adorn ed with long blue Tail feathers, it is >? not satisfied with them in their natu ral state, but with its beak nips off the web on each side for space of about two inches, leaving a neat little oval tuft at the end of'each. ? Cuba's entire area is only about equal to that of the' State of Pennsyl vania, yet on the island are 13,000,000 acres of primeval forests, "where the woodman's axe has never been heard." In these forests, which cover nearly half the entire surface of the island, arc found among other timber, mahog- * any, cedar, redwood, logwood ebony, / 1 lignum-vitm, and a tree with exceed ingly durable wood called malignaran. ? The marriage ceremony practiced - ~ by the people of Borneo is short and simple. Bride and groom are brought before the assembled tribe with great solemnity, and seated side by side. A bctcluut is then cut in two by the medicine woman of the tribe, and one - . .. half is given to the bride and the other half to the groom. They begin to chew the nut, and then the old wo- * man. after some iort of incantationg?j, knocks their headt; together. jSjtf are-declared man ?ind wif?i*gH > ammm Hi