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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1897. VOLUME XXXIII.- NO. 13. BOYS' KNEE PANTS SUITS! While your Boy has been play ing we've been^working?work ing for him. RESULT : Ready with everything he can want for Fall and Winter. As good SUITS as money can buy, and as low as $1.00. Your money back if you want STRONG SUIT. U;ublc ? ". Piuila Knees* RED FRONT. We have them in StocK and they Must Go. The best and cheapest line of Ladies' Oxfords to be found anywhere, and we are going to close them out at Factory prices. We also have leaders in Men's and Ladies' High Cut Shoes?the best that can be bought for cash. Call and see us at once and get a bargain. mi J.JL Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. C. We have made big preparations for an immemse business this Fall. . . WE have one of the LARGEST and best selected Stocks ever brought to Anderson, consisting of? DBY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, ITS ? GROCERIES. They vere bought very low, and are bound to go at the prices we?have made on them. REMNANTS. We have been very fortunate, indeed, in our purchases of Remuants. We have thousands of yards of Calicoes, Percales, Duck, &c. You cau find just what you want at unheard of low prices. STAPLE DRY GOODS. Prints, Bleached Goods, Shirtings, Outings, Dress Goods, Sheetings, &c., at very low prices. 52 inch fast color Turkey Red Damask at 15c per yard. MEN'S S HIRTS. This is where we will do you good. Outing Shirts 15c, Buckskin Shirts 24c, Wool Overshirts 34c, Laundered Negligee Shirts 34c, 49c, 75c, worth ?1.25. Our line of White and Colored Shirts are unsurpassed. SHOES. This is our pet Hue. In our Shoe Department you can find anything you waut, any style you want, from the cheapest to the finest pateut leather. Remember, we are Headquarters for Shoes. Now, one word in regard to our way of doing business. All our Sales men are instructed to refund money as cheerfully as they receive it when Goods are not perfectly satisfactory. We are always anxious to correct any and all mistakes. Polite and courteous attention to all. Very respectfully, D. C. BROWN & BRO. Now the time to select your Mower and Rake. l?t J0HK?0N MOWERS 1HD BAKES Shipped in Car lots?the buyer gets the advantage in freight. We guarantee these Machines absolutely. Unequalled, the latest, the best. THREE CAR LOADSSTE?WI ENGINES ,N ST0CK' " ATLAS, ECLIPS?, ERIE CITY, And other standard makes. Our prices simply astonishing. SMITH GINS, COTTON PRESSES, SAW MILLS, CANE MILLS, And all kinds of Farm Machinery at figures to meet any hon est competition. Call on or address o mm tiaiWuiT to. SAM JONES. Rev. Sam Jones Writes on Kow to Get Dollars. Atlanta Journal. A man can vrork for a dollar, or gamble for a dollar, or steal a dollar, or borrow a dollar. There are many ways to get money, but there is but one right way, and that is to give in exchange for the dollar you get value received. When a man, white or col ored, plows all day for seventy-five cents or a dollar, he gives in return for the dollarhe receives its full worth. The men who wield the blacksmith's hammer, the house carpenter's imple ments, the miner'3 pick, the mason's trowel, if they be honest men, give in return full worth for all they receive. Money that comes by inheritance is not, as a rule, the best money. Money that comes from a disreputable busi ness, such as selling liquor, is bad money from start to finish. Money that a lawyer receives for doing a dirty thing for his client will dirty the law yer that gets it. So all the way down the line, honesty is not only the best policy but it furnishes the only basis and foundation on which the perma nent structure of good character can stand. I know, in these days, that money not only makes the filly go, but it makes everything else that wears hair go ; and it moves a bald-headed man tolerably well. And I know it is true largely that a man's bank account de termines not only his business stand ing but his social position, and fre quently his position in the Church of God ' itself. In the last few weeks gambling in stocks?futures, corn, cotton and wheat, has made many rich and many poor. Klondike and dollar wheat catch the boys coming nnd going. I wish i could be so that every man who deal in futures in the next ten years would lose every dollar he put into it?bears and bulls alike. That would have tendency to check this greedy spiri that speculates and gambles on the bread and meat and clothes of the honest laboring men of this country We cannot legislate cotton and corn wheat and oats exchanges out of the country. The fellows that run'these machines can buy legislation off ; an can run and be assured of perfect im muity in their reckless schemes an dishonest methods. It is a sin in the sight of God, and whatever is sin we had better let alone. I have in a sense k^pt the record of these speculators from the millionaires down to the lit tie patrons of bucketshops. Sooner or later, as a rule, they go down in financial ruin and moral wreck. I wish the young men of this coun try could see that a legitimate busi ness, honestly conducted, giving value received for all incomes, was the only way to permanent success. Oh, the wrecks along this river from source to mouth?the river of speculation, of gambling ; and I believe a buckctshop is as much a gambling institution as any faro bank run in Chicago or New York. To play on the puts and calls of the wheat pit is as much gamblin as any game of studhorse poker ever played in California. Some of the brightest, brainiest, cleverest young men Georgia ever produced have been swallowed up in the maelstrom of spec ulation. I see the Journal this week reported that a game of poker was going on in Atlanta undetected by the police, and so on. I am as much op posed to poker, faro banks and seven up for the dollar as any man on this continent, but one dirty buckctshop in Atlanta will wreck more young men in a month than every faro bank and poker gam? that has been run in At lanta since the war. I care not how pure the motive may be, how honest the endeavor may be when a man goes into speculations?I don't care how honest he thinks he is, he is like the True happiness does not begin for a wo manly woman until she becomes a mother. The fear of death stands between thousands of women ;nd this supreme joy. 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The preacher re plied he would certainly do him the kindness to bring him the money. Ile rode on into town and when through with his business went to the bank, got the money, put it in his pocket, got on his horse and started home. He hadn't ridden more than three or four miles from town before a man stepped out from behind some bushes with a drawn pistol, saying : "Give me that five thousand dollars." The local preacher replied : "I won't do it, sir." "Well, if you don't I will kill you," replied the highwayman. "All right," said the preacher, "you can get the money after I am dead, but not while I am alive." "What do you mean ?" said the highwayman, "don't you know that I will kill you for that money if I must kill you to get it ?" "Yes," said the preacher, "I think you will, but you will have to kill me to get it." The highwayman then said to the preacher : "What do you mean by this ? Do you think more of that man's five thousand dollars than you think of your life ?" "No," replied the preacher, "but I do think more of my character than I do of my life. I have a wife and sev eral boys and girls at home. Their husband and father is known as an honest, upright man. If I give you this money and then go to the man whose money it is and tell him that I was robbed on the highway, he would never believe me. My character would be gone and my children dis graced. So I affirm to you, sir, that I think more of my character than I do of my life. If you will have the money, whack away with your gun." The highwayman looked at him and said : "I haven't it in my heart to shoot a man like you. Go on with your life and money too." A few month's afterwards this high wayman did kill a man, was convicted aud sentenced to be hanged. To a visiting preacher he confessed, among other things, these facts in reference to the local preacher, The visiting pastor went to the local preacher and asked him if itwas true. "Yes," said he, "it occurred just as the highway man has related it to you." "Why," said the visiting pastor, "you never said anything aboutit." "No," said the local preacher, "I never have said anything about it. I never told my wife about it." "Why ?" "Because I didn't think itwas any thing to talk about. Some people might have thought that I was telling a falsehood or trying to give an illus tration of my bravery or something of that kind ; but the thing occurred just as related." "Oh, if we had a citizenship like this, where every man and boy thought more of his character than he did of his life, and would die before he'd bring reproach upon himself or his family. Then we wouM have a world worth living in. But chattels are put above character now and men ruin their character, kill their consciences and damn their souls for dollars and cents. And in the end they realize that they made a bargain that -bank rupted them here and ruined them hereafter. Let every man be true to his own character and honest with all those with whom he has dealings. Sam P. Jones. A Boy's Wondrous Travels. Traveling from Finland to Alaska without speaking a word that anyone uuderstood, without a single travelling companion or without meeting a per son who knew him, from one end of the journey to the other, is no small undertaking, but it has just been com pleted by an eight-year-old boy. Magnus Nessier left a pleasant home in far-away Finland on June 3 to join his father and mother, who are work ing at Douglas City. He made his long voyage across the great pond in the steerage of one of the big ocean steamers. Here he was not so lonely, as there were other Finlanders on the boat, who talked the language he could understand. At New York there was no delay, owing to a carefully written shipping card which had been sewed securely on the back of his coat before he started on the long journey. This did away with the necessity of talking as far as his getting through without delay was concerned. His ticket had been purchased to cover the entire distance, and the card directed him to Circle City Hotel, at Juneau. He reached Seattle in time to make good connections with the Alaska boat, and was forwarded to Douglas by friends. His father and mother have not seen him since he was a babj', over seven years ago, when they left Finland to come to the United States. Magnus is a well-built boy, with hair and eyes characteristic of his race. He is ex ceptionally bright, and has already picked up some English. He made friends with everybody on the steamer whom he came in contact with, al though he could only talk to them by signs.?Seattle Times. ? Wild horses have become so much of a nuisance in Northern Ari zona that Attorney General Frazier has been asked if they may not legally be slaughtered. That vicinity has been overrun by several large bands, hundreds in number, unbranded and unclaimed by any one. They have rapidly increased in number, and have become wilder than deer and vicious as well. The matter lias been referred to the live stock board. ? In the house of a deaf mute brother and sister, William and Julia Panics, who have lived alone on a farm near Columbus, Mo., an investi gating committee of neighbors found, after the death of the brother at 77 years, money to the amount of $5,000 hidden about in all sorts of places. ? A good ripe, raw apple is one of the easiest of vegetable substances for the stomach to deal with, the whole process of its .digestion being com uk^Jin eighty-five minutes. WIDOW SKININER'S BIKE. Jep Jones tells how it Aroused Public Opinion. Squan Creek folks never did take kindly to the bike, but when it fust appeared the town was agin it fur all she was wuth. It wasn't a fish.-net, a lobster-pot, a pair of oyster-tongs, or anything else that could be made use of in our bizness, and we set our faces agin it, and determined to keep 'em sot. Deacon Spooncr's son came up from Philadelphia ridin' a bike; and the Deacon met him at the gate, and sez: "Jim, I'm powerful glad to see ye, but we are all agin the rbikc in Squan Creek." "What's the matter of the bike?"says Jim. "Tain:t nateral. It ain't a wagin nor it ain't a Avheclbarrer. It's jest an invenshun of Satan's to captur' more souls. Any pusson as will ride around on one o' those things will gamble, hoss-racc, chaw terbackcrand steal a dead widder's gravestun. If ye'll cast it aside and git a hand sled, I'll kill the fatted calf; but if ye won't, I'll hev to forbid ye the house." At that Jim got mad and rode off, callin' his pop a lunatic and everybody else a fuie, but Squan Creek was with the Deacon. We called a public meet in' and passed resolushions in his praise, and sich was. the feelin1 to wards him that he could hev borrow ed a dollar of any man in town without giving his note as security. Two weeks later sunthin' more hap pened?sunthin' that stirred up socie ty clear down to the mud and kept things bilin' fur several weeks. The widder Skinner, who had all along been daring public opinion by sittin' on the fence, skatin' on rollers and playin' billiards, scut to New York fur a bike, ft got around town that she was going to hev one, and we talked it over and sent Silas Codding ton to her to find out all about it. He found her smokin' a cigarette, and as soon as he could choke his hear? back down into his chest, be sez: "Widder Skinner, is it true that you hev sent up to New York fur one of them soul-destroyers called a bike?" "You bet your life I hev!" replies the widow. "And ar' ye goin' to ride it?" "I am, and don't ye fergit it!" Silas had to wait until his knees got over wobblin' before he could go on: "But rnebbe you don't know that Squan Creek is agin the bike, even fur men?" "I don't know and I don't keer!" says the widder, as she lighted anoth er cigarette. "It'll be the destruction of society, and mebbe the town itself," sez Silas. "Can't we coax ye to civc over on yer idea?" "Not a coax!" sez the widder. "Then we might raise a purse of ?50 to buy ye off. Sodom aud Go morrow was destroyed fur bein' wick ed, and we don't want Squan Creek to be sunk 50 feet in the mud. Will ye gin up the bike and attend prayer meetin' if wc raise$50?" "No, nor fur $5,000!" sez she, and she pitched into him and into the town till he was glad to pick up his hat and skip. Three or four dayslatcr the bike ar rived, and one evenin', jest as we had all got through supper and turned out on the street to smoke and tell lies and scandalize everybody who was ab sent, the widder Skinnerbrungouther wheel and begun to perform. She had never taken any lessons, but meant to learn right there and then. She had on a short skirt, and a shud der of horror went up and down and across Squan Creek. She had on leg gins and a cap, and when Silas Cod dington took notice of them of them he fell agin a fence and smashed three rods of it as flat as a pancake. All that didn't begin with the wid der's performance, however. She got on and she fell off. She fell ker splash and she fell kerplunk. Chil dren wept, women turned pale and hid their faces, and the men looked at each other and felt chills crccpin' up their backs. It was finally decided that Joel Carter should wrassle with the widder and let her know the drift of public opinyun. Ile hated to do it, but we urged him on and he finally went up to her and said: "Widder Skinner, if this thing gets noised about, and of course it will, town lots in Squan Creek won't be wuth $50 apiece next week?" "What d'ye want?" sez she, lookin' up with both eyes full o' sass. 'We want ye to stop this perform ance. I hev never bin to a circus, and thar ain't money 'nuff in New Jersey to hire me to go, but I guess this is even wuss. Squan Creek calls upon ye in the name of humanity to quit!" "Squan Creek kin go hang herself !" sez the widder. as she tries to mcunt and makes another tumble of it. "Then let me appeal to ye in the name of the Lord," sez Joel as he grows more airnest. "He is lookin' down on Squan Creek and on you, and I'm fearin' you'll be turned into a pillar of salt and the town overwhelm ed by a high tide." "Now, then," says the widder, as she gits up with blood in her eye, "I'm goin' to rido this bike or break my neck, and all you can do or say won't stop me! (?it outer my way and gimme a show, and any of you who don't like it can go hang ycr selves!" That was the last appeal made to her. Everybody realized that she was sot, and that tal kin' would do no good. Jim Hopeful, the Constable, ogcred to arrest the widder fur bein' a circus without a license, but it was decided to hold an indignashun meet in' instead. One was called that very night, and seven different speakers got up and said that the morals of Squan Creek was ruined forever, and that bizness would fail off till a crow couldn't find pickens. Then it was? "Resolved, That the widder Skin ner. bovin1 busted up Squan Creek by pcrformin' on a bike, she ar' to be no longer recognized in this community as a female and a human bein', and may ( ! od hev mercy on her soul! Also, that special prayers he prayed all next week tint the Creator don't hold this thing up agin us and bint out the town." A copy of the above resolushions was writ out and handed to the wid der in person by I'hilctus Jackson, but she tore the paper up and laughed in his face, and within a week she was cavort' 1 around on the soul-destroy in' niashccn and makin' hogs and dogs and human folks git outer her way or take the consckenccs. Some folks thought she'd move away, or that the Lord would call her hence, but she stuck right to Squan Creek for two or three years, and when she left it thar' was over 20 wimin folks ridin' wheels and tellin' society to go to grass. Even old Silas Coddington was coax ed to try and ride one. and if he hadn't broke two ribs and busted his shoul der the fust time he got up thar' we would likely hev bin treated to the awful spectacle of a gray-haired man goin' down to the bottomless pit at the rate of 20 miles an hour. M. Quad. History of Horseshoeing. The very recent strike of horsc shoers in London, which was happily of short duration, may serve to call to memory some facts and traditions that go to prove the high antiquity of the craft, says the Pall Mall Gazette, and its immense influence on the progress of civilization, as far as the services of the horse are concerned in advan cing the interests of mankind. Though the horseshoer is very often, if not generally, designated, '"farrier," yet this term is misleading nowadays, if it ever was correct in indicating his special function. The faberferrarius, from which the term "farrier" is doubtless derived, was a worker in iron of any kind or fashion, and, though in the earliest periods of his history he shod horses and forged various weapons and other articles, yet the designation of "smith" was usually applied to him in this country, and when he began to be called a farrier his vocation was morn than of a shoer of horses, and later their physician and surgeon in addition. The antiquity of the horseshoer is, states Mr. George Fleming, writing in the Live Stock Journal, coeval with the origin of the art, which is lost in the mist of 2,000 years. In Western Europe it was probably known to the Celtic tribes at a very remote time, and it may be that the Druid priests were the teachers of horseshoeing in those days, as they were the men who were best acquainted with theprimi tive arts and sciences, a knowledge of which they contrived to surround with a veil of mystery that clung to these for centuries. The horseshoer was, in the early centuries of our era, evi dently considered a mysterious kind of workman who pursued his calling in a weird-like manner in a place where no one was allowed to enter until the steed was shod. It is certain that for hundreds of years the shoer was an important per sonage, as he held a high social posi tion and enjoyed certain special privi leges in this country long before the Norman invasion. This is shown iu the Welsh triad of laws, which were revised by Howell the Good in A. D. 911, Out which were doubtless in force long before that date. In these laws and regulations the Court smith, while in the palace, was allotted a seat at the e:ad of the bench, near the priest of the household, and he was protected from the time he began work in the morning until he finished at night. He was to be presented with clothes for what he did for the officers of the palace; he was entitled to the first liquor that came into the hall, and he was to have food for himself and servant from the palace, as well as the heads and feet of all cattle slaughtered there, and other privileges. In the Gwenthian code d*f these laws it is stated that the smith was to sit in a chair near the Judge beside a column, and this columu was to be struck by the silentiary on the side farthest from the King when com mandiog silence. Among the Anglo Saxonn the shoer was also held in high esteem, and would appear to have received certain possessions in land through his craft. Such was the case with (Jamelhere, of Welbect Notting hamshire, at the Norman invasion, as he held certain lands on condition that ho shod the King's horses when ever the latter visited the Manor of Mansfield. To Simon St. Lix, a Nor man nobleman, who accompanied him in his invasion, William the Conqueror gave the town of Northampton and the whole hundred of Falkley, to pro vide shoes for his horses, while an other follower, Henry de Ferres, or Farrarlis, had bestowed on him the honor of Tutbury, in the county of Stafford, because he was intrusted with the shoeing of the King's horses, or perhaps the control of the shoers. In 1235, during the reign of Henry III, Walter le Brun, or Bruin, a shoer, or mar?chal, as he was then designated in Anglo-Saxon, had a piece of land granted him in the strand, parish of St. Clement's Danes, whereon to erect '? forge, on condition that he would render at the exchequer annual ly for the same a quitrent of six horse shoes with sixty-two nails belonging thereto?-a payment, Etrange to say, which it] still continued every year at the sweiring in of the sheriff of Lon don and Middlesex to the representa tives of the sovereign, though the said piece of ground has long been city property. At this time, too, the price of horseshoes and nails, as well as shoeing, was regulated bylaws, and these are still in evidence. ? Dr. D. C. Brinton, the archeolo gist, said in a receut lecture that in North and South America no less than 120 or 130 absolutely distinct languages exist. As the growth of language is very slow he thinks the fact of the existence 'of so great a variety of speech on the western continents proves that the native red men have inhabited them for many thousands of years. Another proof of the antiquity of the American Indians, according to Dr. Brinton, is the fact that they rep resent a distinct human type, and the formation of such a type requires thousands of years. Rheumatism Cured. After eminent physicians and all other known remedies fail, Botanic Blood Balm ( . . B.) will quickly cure. Thousands of testimonials at test this fact. No case of Rheumatism can stand before its magic hcaiing power. Send stamp for book of par ticulars. It contains evidence that will convince you that . . B. is the best cure for all Blood and Skin disea ses ever discovered. Beware of sub stitutes said to be "just as good." $1.00 jier large bottle. 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If domestic peace and love could be purchased with money, what a price it would bring, and yet it can be had without money if every member of the family would do right. I was ruminating about this and wondering if even the devil was mean enough to take pleas ure in destroying the peace of a house hold. The book of Job does not make him that mean, for Job suffered no sorrow from any bad conduct of wife or children. Satan wants worshipers, and even dared to try to seduce the Saviour to his allegiance ; but he did it in an opeo, manly way, and lost. He is an adversary?a bad one?a powerful one ever since he was thrust out of heaven ; but according to scrip ture he has not yet lost his power or his consequence, for the Lord talked to him in Job and the Saviour had a conference with him in Mathew, and Michael, the archangel, had a dispute with him about the body of Moses. He is a bold, self-po?3ed, defiant spirit, and uses many arts to seduce mankind from their allegiance ; but surely he wouldn't take away and destroy the only bliss of paradise that is left us. He hasent done it from Ingersoll, for that notable man has a most loving household, and so have many infidels and atheists and skeptics. My opin ion is that our original sin has more to do with bad conduct than the devil. We are born to sin as the sparks fly upward, and the devil urges us on and apologizes for every mean thing we do and tries to comfort us, but I believe that it is in the power of every man and woman and son and daughter to preserve the family peace and to make home the most attractive place upon the earth Then, why don't they do it? It sickens us with sorrow to read the family troubles in the daily papers. Sometimes it is the husband, some times the wife, sometimes the daugh ter, but oftener than all together it is the son that brings the blight and dar kens the doors and makes parents and sisters seek to hide from the gaze of men. What makes the young men do so ? Every day there is anew case somewhere?murder, suicide, embez zlement and all is mixed up with the jails and courts and pictures in the papers and the misery of kindred and the world's cold criticism. How many families that once moved proudly with the social swelling throng have retired from it to grieve over the crushing fate of a wayward son or a daughter's shame? How many families have been broken down by reckless sons-in law? I know some aged parents whose hair has grown prematurely gray, whose brows^are furrowed with lines of sorrow and whose smiles are always sad, if they smile at all. Young men, please stop and think. The happiness of home is worth mil lions of dollars. It beats the Klon dike, and is right close by, and no frozen hills to cross. The pleasures of a happy home excel anything upon earth, and can be had so cheaply if father and mother and children will make.it so. "He thc.t troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind." A cross husband, a contentious, com plaining wife, a selfish son or an indo lent, discontented daughter can de stroy the peace of the household. There are some things that are worth so much they cannot be valued. Health of body is one of them, but peace of mind is worth more than that. Some years ago there was a verdict rendered in our Court at Rome giving $32,000 to a young man because of a fall from the train at night and a per manent injury to his ?pine. He was a man of brilliant mind and high am bition and splendid prospects, but the doctors testified that be would be a mental wreck, and his eloquent lawyer drew such a sad pictura of the wreck that the jury gave this large amount as compensation. No bones were bro ken nor did he suffer any pain. He walked about and visited his friends, and showed no sign of imbecility, but his mental force was impaired, his high ambition gone, and this verdict was only an approximation of the damage. .... What, then, is the peace of a family worth ? Not 'merely peace of mind, but of heart, for the heart outranks the mind as the miud c.oes the body. I was ruminating about these ill-as sorted, unhappy marriages that seem in these later years to be more fre quent than in the olden time, and are the prolific source of so much domestic trouble. The poet says : 1 How sad and dreary is the home Where love, domestic love no longer nes tles. But stricken by some cruel doom I s corpse lies on the trestlos." I wonder how many modern marria ges maybe called happy?in how many families do peace and love rule the household? Not many among the children of the rich. I know, for they have known no waut nor self-denial, and cannot bear patiently any misfor tune. And even among the poor there is misery that the hard times have in creased. Only yesterday a sad-faced woman came to us begging food and clothes for her children, and her story was that her husband had to run away for trying to make a living by running a blind tiger. What a curse is this marriage tic when hastily and unhap pily made. If I was a girl, it seems to me, I would rather remain single all my life than bind myself bodj' and soul to a young man who had no moral principles to govern him. Tin; chains of matrimony ! If a man commits a crime he can give a bond and keep out of jail, but there is no bond provided for a poor woman who is chained to a bad, unprincipled husband. She tim idly shrinks from seeking a divorce, for even that does not erase the scars of the shackles she has won:. Her life and her hopes arc blighted. There is no more pitiful sight in all nature than a good woman chained for life to a bad unkind, unprincipled man. She clings to her children as her only com fort and lives only to shield them from her shame. But why write about these things of sorrow ? I know they are unwel come to my readers, but I have thought it a duty, and that maybe some one or more might be influenced to stop and think. On yesterday I received a long letter from an old friend asking me to plead with the young people and beg them to Btop this mad career that seems to be in creasing in our Southern land?this unhallowed thirst for getting money by short cuts and dishonest practices ?this drinking and gambling that leads to suicide or the jail?this infi delity to their marriage vows that de stroys the happiness of the family. But this will do for this time. It is not a good day for me no how. It is not Friday, but it is o:ae of these hard, unlucky days that brings trou ble in various forms. The old cow got out last night and went foraging in the suburbs and eat up a whole cotton patch, and I'm expecting the darkey every minute to come for his damages. But that's nothing. A little girl was rolling our little Caro line through the long hall on a tricy cle. The child is only two and a half years old, and is my comfort, a little blue-eyed beauty that we borrow almost every day from her mother? and I wouldn't take a million dollars for her love. But, somehow, the nurse cut the wheels around too sud denly and threw Caroline violently forward on to the iron shaft, and the bolt on the top of it mashed out two upper teeth and one lower one, and bent the others in and cut her chin badly and bruised her little lips to a jelly, and when I took her up and saw it all it made me heart sick. I wanted to weep and cry aloud for grief. For an hour or two I was nearly heart broken, for I can't bear to see such a helpless child suffer such agony. Her little mouth was all broken up and deformed. But the good Lord tem pers such things to little children, and now the dear little girl is getting along nicely and sings a lisping song to her dolly. The good book tells about a place where there will be no more pain or sorrow. Well, I want to go to that place as soon as the Lord wills it ; aod I want all my folks to go with me, and everybody else's folks, too. Bill Aep. l'or the Housewife. It is said that a good way to keep flies from specking gilded frames is to boil onions and dip a cloth in the juice and rub the frames. The odor is short lived and the flies avoid the frames for weeks after their unique bath. , . Sometimes in preserving the syrup begins to rise so rapidly that there is scarcely a chance to remove the kettle from the stove. In this emergency a few teaspoonsful of cold water thrown in will cause the syrup to subside im mediately. Just as good a way as any to clean willow furniture is to make a good strong soapsuds of some nice white soap, with plenty of borax in the wa ter. Use a clean scrub brush and rinse in cold water; then place in the bright sun to dry. It may yellow a little, but that is not a bad fault. Vaseline and lamp black mixed make a good shoe black, better than the liquid stuff you buy, but always put it on aud set the shoes aside for the blacking to dry in for at least 24 hours. Then rub the shoes well with a flannel cloth, otherwise the dust will gather on the leather and make it grimy and gray. Teach everybody about the house to save all the strings that comes into, it. Start a ball and wind, each new bit of string on that. Don't tie it, but just wind on. When about as big as a baseball begin a new ball. Keep these balls for ready reference all over the house. You have no idea what a convenience they soon become. The greasy stains made by heads on the paper back of the couch can often be removed without trouble by mixing pipe clay or fuller's earth to a paste with water, of which apply a thick plaster to the wall paper. Leave it there to dry, and when brushed off it will be found that the clay has absorb ed all the oil. If not quite all gone apply it again. In preparing mashed potatoes, re member that the potatoes should be just done, and no more. Do not let them wait until you are ready to mash them, but pour off the water and mash at once if you would have them light. If they need to be kept hot, set on the back of the range or over hot water, covered with a coarse meshed towel, that will allow the moisture to escape. If treated in this way they will keep sweet and light an hour or more; but if they are covered close, they will be heavy, dark and strong flavored. To boil apples, and they are better than baked ones, get them well of size, wash and core. Put evenly in a tin pan, pour over them a cup of wa ter and let them cook for 10 minutes. Then nearly cover them with boiling water, fill the holes where the cores were with sugar and pour two cups of sugar to a dozen apples over the top of all. Let the apples cook till done turning over once. Pour ofl' the juice and put it over the fire to cook to a jelly. Then pour it over the ap ples. A single clove in the boiling juice gives a delicious flavor. Never wash black hose in which white clothes have been wash ed, because the lint will stick to them, and soon make them look gray. The best way to wash black hose is to take them by themselves and wash in ammonia water with some good soap. Rinse, in very blue water and hang wrong side out, in a place sheltered from the sun, but where they will dry quickly. Always shake and iarush stockings well before putting into the water and turn all colors wrong; side out. Then if they have a mind to streak the streaks will be on the in sides, where they will not show. A new way of serving the large, soft peaches is to cut them iu two, that they may be eaten out of the skin with a spoon. Always serve a doiley with peaches, as there is no fruit stain so difficult to remove. An old housewife's superstition used to be that if the peach stain of one year laid aside until the next, when the peach trees were in blossom,- the com bined action of sun and grass bleach ing would remove the stain. The modern housewife, however, feels that a year is too long to wait on a ven ture, and, with characteristic promptness, attacks the offending spit with renew ed applications of javelle water or chlorate of lime until it disappears. ? The railways of the world carry every day between 10,000,000 and 17, 000.000 passengers. ? If a man has horse sense he al ways knows when to say neigh. How's This. ^BTc offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any ca '( Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall'? Cai -rh Cure. We, the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the Ut 15 years, and believe h ira perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan chilly able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West A Truax, Wholesalo Orugelsts, Toledo, O. Walding. Kinnan A Marv*. Wholesale Drug gisti, Toledo. O. a 'e Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces oi the s^lfm. T^?mcrnlftl? sent free. Price 75c. pcrWttle 8dia orati druggflte. STEAL THE NAME ! STEAL THE MAN! Eight years ago we began busines in Anderson, S. C, on an principle. Oar capit?r?n" sisted entirely of an "Idea." If that Idea had been lost, all wont have been lost. That idea was si cash always, and the most goods the least money?or better goods foi the same money. The. idea proved a good one and! catching in the extreme. Oar little! store-front was painted red. In ten days another store was painted red.] We marked at a certain and lew, cent, and in less than a week anc store opened up and advertised. the same thing. We gave our am significant name and in two wee) terward one of our competitors! out a sign bearing the same namejj another sign bore a similar name<? adopted Red wrapping paper, ani less than two months two other et?jj were wrapping with red papen adopted a certain way of signing'< name, and from time to time since);* notice the same style is used, sionally we have heard of otKer met being called by the name originally! given to the undersigned. They take our name-andTadopt our plans, but these eventually fall through. They sometimes fall of their own weight, as for instance, when they are paying up old debts by con tracting new ones. By buying old and second-hand or auction-house goods, in order to make a low price, with which to meet onr figures on. Fresh, new goods,, bought direct from the manufacturers ioTr-.-spot cash and shipped in oar load lots; thereby sav ing from 40 to 50 per cent of the freight. They can steal everything but our figures on first-class, new goods and those they can't touch. As for in stance, watch below. ^We have been selling and will continue to sell The Red Star Match at 3c. adosen < boxes. The Parlor Match, 200s, at 10c. a dozen boxes. Extra LoDgSlale Pencils, 3c. per box; short ones are worth less money. 50 good sewing Needles, 2 papers for lc; others charge lc. to 2} cents per paper for same. 6 good lead pencils for lc. or 2c. a dozen. Good envelopes, at lc. per pack of 25. 2 pairs good heavy Sox. 5c. 3 pairs good Black Sox, 12c. Fine dress Shirts, already laundered, at 15c. each, or 2 for 25c: 3 - battons given free with each shirt. Good Shirts, 10c. each. Children's waists, 10c. each. B oy's heavy Undershirts, 10c. or 12ic. each. 1000 good Pins for 5c. 5c. Handkerchiefs, at % for 5c. Good table oil-cloths, 10c.-and 12}c. per yard. 10c. and 15c. grade perfumery, at 5o. per bottle. 288 good shirt buttons for 5c. Good Tur* key red Table-cloth, 15c. per yard. Finest class Table-cloth, 24c. per yard. A very heavy Jeans pants, at 50c. per pair. But the thing of all others that tears loose the very heartstrings of compe tition is?well, shall we say it or not?' Yesj let her gal Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may: Let Competition stand it if they can. It is! It is! It is our Free Silk Soap! The largest bar of good Soap - for 5c, and absolutely given away with each bar a 10c spool of the best . Silk. One barrel of Tea Spobnsto go at lc. per set. One fair, legitimate profit is all we want and all we expect to get. If others want more don't pay it. We have saved you money in the past and will do so in the future.. Come to see us often. Yours always truly, CT S. MINOR and the TEN CENT STORE, 27 South side of Public Square., 6 big bars of good Soap and 600 yards of best Sewing Silk for 25c READ, READ! COLUMBUS BUGGY CO., Manufacturera of FINE VEHICLES FOR THE TRADE, ' It Columbus, Ohio, August 28,1897. MR. JOSEPH J. FRET WELL, Ander son, S. C. Dear Sir : Throagh oar Mr. Ratherford we are banded jour order for twenty vehicles. We desire to thank yon for this order and to say that wo-will do our part *ts to try and send yon nice goods and each as will help to sell themselves. For the past year the Cjlumbns Boggy Co. has been our. of active business, and a great many competitors have given to the trade the idea that we either would not resume business, or that if we did, we would not make the same high grada vehicles which we have been building for the past fifteen years We want to say that we expect to be in the trade and to get onr share of it, and besides tbat we expect to build the same bigb grade vehicles that we alwavs have and improve wherever practical. We can not afford to do anything else. A great many concerns, and some of them from this city, bave been selling goods to dealers who bave given their , customers the idea that they wore boyhig_ a genuine Columbus Bag*y Co's. baggyT^^' not doing their customers j astice In advis ing them that tbere la a ' vast difference between a Columbus buggy and a Coloni* ' . bus Carriage Co's. buggy. Dealers well know trn* reputation of our goods and their high quality, and try io give their customer the' idea tbat they are - selling our goods. In this way' they un willingly pay a tribute to onr work. Anything tbat we can do for you to correct this wrong impression or to assist you in disposing of the vehicles, We shall take pleasure in doing. Again thanking you for the order given us, we are, Yours truly. COLUMBUS BUGGY CQ. Sepfl5 1897 12 Take J?T???. We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleckley & Fretwell past due papers that owing to^S: the death of our senior, Syl vester Bleckley, that the same must be paid at an early day,|1 not later than Nov. 1st next, as a settlement must be made with the heirs at law. Your ^| prompt attention to this notice and a compliance with same will be duly appreciated. Yours very truly, JOS. # Survivor Bleckt Sept 15,1897