NEE WOMAN Startling Views !Pro # of thc "The redemption of the race can only be compassed by men and women joining hands and making common cause in every department of life. We hold fast ta the idea that woman's first mission must be her home." Countess of Aberdeen in Opening Address* Before the International j Council of .Women. i - The Countess of Aberdeen has an nounced a startling gospel for the newest of the new women. Hitherto the advance guard of the sex has been content to leave man out of her calcu lations; there was no place for him in her theory of life and thought and ed ucation. T,he more highly educated a ? , woman became, the more splendid her natural talents, the less consideration did she give to the thought of matri mony; she was a voluntary old maid. Now, according to the theory pro pounded by the International Council of Women, all this is wTong. Even Susan B. Anthony, that grand old maid, has come out flatfooted on the side of men, for she says : j ',1 have not yet given up my faith I in men. I believe they also have a j great future as weil as women." A statistician has recently been giving some attention to modern wo juan's attitude in regard to marriage. ?k He says: ' 'The finer and higber the education of a woman, the less likely is it that she will ever marry." Also: "The ? greater a woman's genius, the less probable that she will marry, or, mar- ' rying do her greatest and best work J for humanity as a wife. Nearly all j the great women of history have been j old maids or widows." They have been a glorious company j these partnerless dames, and their record is lost in the long forgotten j ' records of the past. Among them i were Queen Hatasu, who made glo rious the reign of her brother, the great Egyptian Thothmes; Semiramis, Benobia, Cleopatra, Hypatia, Joan of j Arc, Victoria Colonna, Catherine de j Medici, Elizabeth of England, Cathe-1 rine of Russia; Maria Theresa, Bosa Bonheur, Sappho, George Sand, George Eliot, not one of whom did her best work for the world asa wife. And now the International Council of Wo men goes back to the position that, genius or not, a woman's best work is done in doable harness. Statistics show that beautiful and clever girls seldom marry so quickly as plain, common place women. Aman dreads the ridicule of the world, and people are sure to say something slighting about the husbands of clever women. Beautiful women are usually coquettes, and men consider the tak ing of a wife in too business-like a way to risk after marriage flirtations. When a man marries he selects a wo man who is likely to make his path through life as comfortable as possible and calmly waits until he recovers I from his infatuation for the beautiful w girl (as experience in recovering from dozens of previous infatuations has convinced him he will) when he mar ries her plainer sister who rs content to settle down as a housekeeper, has a satisfactory dot, is willing to receive his dictum as the word of the-gods, and ha's no theories to make him 'squirm or wisdom to throw his owu lack of that commodity into unpleas ant contrast. The pretty girl is rather likely to leave a trail of broken engagements in her wake, for she is more exacting than her plainer sister, who knows 'she cannot dally with her once chance of securing a husband. Twenty en gagements out of a hundred, says the statistician, never amount to anything but returned engagement rings. Most of these are between young people who do not know their own minds. About 15 per cent of the women who j marry do so before the age of 20; 65 j per cent between the ages of 20 aod | 30; 14 per cent between the ages of 30 and 40. Between the ages of 40 and j 50 the chances are about 415 per! cent, while the woman who is over 50 has only 1 4-3 chances in 100. Women are marrying later in life than they used to, more women marrying betweeo the ages of 25 and 30 than at any other period. Southern women marry earlier than northern women, the hustling western girl following, and the eastern woman with her de votion to a "career" and business marrying latest of all. Among professional wo-Len hospital nurses head the Hst of marrying wo men. A pretty woman or even a plain one whose face is framed by the dainty uniform of the nurse is irresistibly fascinating to the man she has nursed through a dangerous illness. Actress es, stenographers and typewriters arc next on the list. School teachers, whose chances of raak i D g acquaintances are slight, have possibly the fewest opportunities. About one woman in 25 is likely to be an old maid because of the inequality of the sexes. After the age of 28 every woman's likelihood ON MARRIAGE. mulgated by Leaders 3 Sex. ! of changing her estate is materially lessened. Woman is said to be most fascinat ing at the age of 35; it was then that Gleopotra infatuated Mark Antony. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says a woman is at her best mentally and physically when she is 37 years old. Diana of Poictiers, the celebrated French beau ty, was lovely at 65, and Ninon de l'Enclos, Marie Stuart, Madame Re camier and du/.ens of other famous beauties have passed the usual age for loveliness, but the average woman is more likely to be passe at 30 or 35. While beautiful or fascinating any woman may marry, but even if a beauty at 35 she will by then be so wedded to her life of independence and so inclined to view a change of state from a matter of fact standpoint that only a very brilliant match will attract her, and in considering the chances for this the odds are very small. Of men who marry, three-quarters are commonplace individuals with small incomes. Only 10 per cent of the men who marry are handsome. Ten per cent have incomes exceeding $5,000 per year; 30 per cent have in comes between $1,000 and $5,000, and 50 per cent are both homely and have annual incomes of less than $1,000. From which one cannot wonder that since statistics have come into fashion matrimony has fot thinking women to some extent gone out. FRANCES HYDE. Didn't Fool Him. He was shaving away at the chin of a customer when the door of his hum ble shop opened, and a colored boy sneaked in and sat down. The barber looked at him two or three times and then asked him what he wanted. *;Jim." said the other, after fidget ing about for a minute, "yo' was in gaged to my sister, 'Linda." "I was, pah," was the reply. ' Yes-, sah, me an' 'Linda was engaged an' I was gwine to become yo'r brudder-'n> law." "'Linda send word." "She did ?' "Yes. 'Linda wanted me to stop and tell yo' suthin'." "I hope the deah angel ain't dun got sick?" "Oh, no. She jest done got mar ried to Bill Lee dis mawuin' an' she axed me to stop and tell you.' ' "Wh'what! Yo'r sister 'Linda done got married to dat nigger Bill Lee?" shouted the barber as he waved the razor around his head. "Yes. She dun changed her mind 'bout you'." "She did, eh? Boy, has you' got a flatfooted, black-hided, 'possum-faced sister named 'Linda? Great big gal, wid turnip cull'd eyes an' a mouf as big as dat doah? Sings like a mewl an' makes a track in the mud like a elephant? Has you got sich a sis ter?" "I reckon so." "Werry wel!; sah ! Yo* return to j dat sister an' give her my compli ments, and tell her I was married mo' dan two weeks ago, an' dat she ain't dun fooled me wuf shucks ! Good mawni? , sah-call again." Presbyterian War on Whiskey. LOUISVILLE, KY., July 14.-Henry Raubold, Sr., of Glasgow, Ky., a well known distiller and retail dealer in whiskey, was expelled from the Pres byterian Church of America to-day by the Louisville Presbytery. He is charged with promoting intemperance, and is suspended from communion in the Church until he shall have thor oughly reformed and repented. Raubold has taken an appeal to the Kentucky Synod, which body will meet ?o regular session this fall. lie con tends that the Church has discrimi nated against him; as there are still men on its rolls herc and elsewhere who sell whiskey. The action of the Presbytery is the result of a war that will be waged on distillers and whis key men by the Church. The distil lers in Kentucky are the largest con tributors to thc Church funds, and many are very angry and may with draw. Raubold wanted to retire, but the Presbytery refused and expelled him.-'New York Sun. Persons troubled with diarrho-a will be interested in the experience of Mr. W. M. Bush, clerk of Hotel Dorrance, Providence. R. I. He says: "For several years I have been almost a constant sufferer from diarrhoea, the frequent attacks completely prostrat ing me and rendering me unfit for my duties at this hotel. About two years ago a traveling salesman kindly gave me a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. Much to my surprise and delight its effects were immediate. Whenever I felt symptoms of the disease I would fortify myself against the attack with a few doses of this valuable remedy. The result has been very satisfactory and almost complete relief from thc affliction." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Little Classics. Rags is for little wrongs: despair is dumb.-Hannah Moore. Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have a word of your honors in the other life. Your gloiy, your shame, your ambitions and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life, only tarry with you while on this side of the flood.-Beecher. He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let the wo man beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself.-Talley rand. Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.-Byron. To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the fathers observed to be, not a vir tue. By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we ir.ay add hourly new vigor to resolution, and secure the power of resistance when pleasure or interest shall lend their charms to guilt.-Johnson. The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence: else who could bear it? Bowe. Whatever may be the means, or whatever the more immediate end of any kind of art all of it that is good agrees in this, that it is the expres sion of one soul talking to another, and is precious, according to the great ness of the soul that utters it.-Rus kin. When a man has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. Steele. All that a university or final highest school can do for us is still but Wuat the first school began doing-teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic- knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days isa collection of books.-Carlyle. When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never.-Mon taigne. Irritated one day at thc bad faith t of Mme. Jay, Mirabeau said to her, "Madam Jay, if probity did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich."-Dumont. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. Longfellow. The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.-Schiller. Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is le3s shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence. Quarles. The only praiseworthy indifference is an acquired one; we must feel as well as control our passions.-Richter. I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fash ion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to ba followed set the worst examples?-Bishop Berkeley. The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red.-Holmes. Most of their faults women owe to us, whilst we are indebted to them for most of our better qualities.-Charles Lemesle. The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. James Martineau. o not gripe or sicken. Kvans Pharmacy. - Some people were evidently born tired and some for the purpose of makine others tired. - There is a little story going the rounds regarding the rewards given the soldiers. Tt is said that in hattie the private- occupy the firing line, the cor porals arc one yard in the rear of the privates, tho sergeants are five yards in the rear of the corporals, the lieu tenants twenty-five yards in the rear of the sergeants, the captains 125 yards in the rear of the lieutenants, the ma I jora 200 yards in the rear of the cap tains, the colonels 500 yards in the rear of the majors, the general 5,000 yards in the rear of the colonels, while the commander general is at Washington, D. C. After the battle the commanding general gets 98 per cent., of the glory, the brigadier general li per cent., the colonel 1-8 per cent.; other commis sioned officers get the balance, while the privates get talked about on the 4th of July. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for years and alwavs with good results." says Mr. W. B. Cooper, of El Rio, Cal. "For small children we find it especially effect ve." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Somebody the other day repeated a story of Senator Jone9 which was told at a Roadside Club dinner not long ago, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer; The incident was the result of one of President Cleveland's ve toes. The President had vetoed an old woman's pension bill on the grounds that "she got drunk." "Once in San Francisco," said Sena tor Jones as he discussed the veto on the Senate floor, "a man fell into a hole in the sidewalk and sued the'eity for his injuries. The defense put in was that the man was drunk. This mightily incensed the Court. " 'There is nothing in such a defense,' said the Judge, savagely. 'A drunken man has as much right to have a perfect sidewalk as a sober man, and needs one worse.' "That," concluded Sen ator Jones, "is the way I feel about this old lady's pension." And he voted to pass it over the veto. The pension went through. You can't cure dyspepsia by dieting. Eat good, wholesome food, and plenty of it.-Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests food without aid from the stomach, and is made to CURE. Evans Phar macy. - "I wish George would shave off that fuzzy little moustache.'* "Why?" "He kissed me last night and I thought it was a caterpillar !" DeWitt's Little Early Risers benefit permanently. They lend gentle assist ance to nature, causing no pains or weakness, permanently curing consti pation and liver ailments. Evans Pharmacy. - No man who paints his nose ought to kick if his wife paints her j cheeks. - The worst that can be said of little vices is that they won't stay lit tle. WILL YOU ? Before you buy a PIANO see me. I have saved to some of my customers aa much as seventy-five dollars in the pur chase of OSE PIANO. Such makes as Checkering, Emerson, Stulz & Hauer and Mehlin to select from. None better. As to ORGANS you eau save from fif teen to twenty-Ave dollars by seeiDg me. Remember, I am in the SEWING MA CHINE business, just for fun. You can get prices on any of the high grade makes ; and do not forget that I sell any Machine Needle at three for 5c, 20c. per dozen. The finest Sperm Oil 5c. per bot tle. Nothing but new, select stock. Remember the place M. h. WILLIS, South Main 8t., Anderson, S C. YOUR HOME PLEASURES No intiuence lends BO much to home life aa music. No ??tock ?fters greater attractions than ours, and we wish io help you to happiness. It's not alene that we say it, but you know that we mean it, as we sell the fliest das? of PIANOS aud ORGANS, As well as small Musical Merchandise, and will give you full value for ev ery dollar. You are cordially invited to call in person aud inspect our .Stock, or write for catalogues and prices. We also represent the leading SEWING MACHINES Of the day, and are constantly receiving new additions to our Stock. We appeal to j'our judgment and will sell you the best in this line. We still handle thoroughly reliable Carriages, Buggies and Harness, And can save you money by an investi gation. Look to quality first-then prioe. Most respectfully, THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. Drs. Strickland ? King, ? - .... - DENTIST?; OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. ?St- Gas and Cocaine used fer Extrlet ing Teeth. - THE - HALL GEN ISTHEBEST. The demand for thia celebrated Gin grows with each year. They'satisiv the Ginner as to speed and durability and the customer with the out-turn and sample. _ Mr. T. F. Drake ginned nearly 800 bales with a G0-Saw Hall last season without paying a cent for repairs, and he bas a Gin that gives him per fect satisfaction. Among the advantages of the Hall Gio are'the Iron Cove (patented.) the Curved Seed Board, the Flanges on side of Cove to throw roll from the Roll Box Plate and pi event all friction on the ends ; the Linter for holding seed in roll ; to clean seed ; it is next to impossible to break the roll ; the Self-Oiling Boxes are on all the Gins. We have just received several Car Loads of all sizes, and can make you close prices and good terms. MeCULLY BROS. ? The Monarch of Strength is COFFEE. (ABSOLUTELY PURE.) Its strength comes from its purity. Ic ts all pure coffee, freshly roasted, and is sold only in one-pound sealed packages. Each package will make40 cups. The pack age ls sealed at the Mills so that the aroma is never weakened. It has a delicious flavor. Incomparable strength. It is a luxury within the reach of all. Premium List In ever;' package. Cut out your Lion'.s Head ar.c! cet valuable premiums free. If your Grocer does not L?TP ?.ion OoflW Sn hts store, hf-in; us hil came and aiidreen that vre may pince it cn cali- there. I >u not ucoept suv substitute. WOOLSOK SPICK 00.. Tole?o. Ohio. I A FIRST-CLASS COOK Can't do first-class work with second-class materials. But you can hold the girl accountable if you buy your : : : : GROCERIES FROM US ! We have the right kinds of everything and at the" right prices. Where qualities are equal no dealer can sell for less than we do. We guarantee to give honest quantity at the very LOWEST PRICES. Come and see us. We have numerous articless in stock that will help you get up a square meal for a little money. Our Stock of Confections, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., Are always complete. Yours to please, Free City Delivery. Q-. F. BI OBY. MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF yon need a Barrel of Molasses you can't afford to buy until you have seen us. We have just received a big lot-all gracies-and know we can please you ia both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Goods and Notions That we will seil cheap, and we have a few Shoes and other Goods that we are stiUj selling at ??c. ami 75c. on the dollar. Here aw only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses..33}c. per gallon. Good Molasses.12*c. per gallon. Good Coffee.,_. ll lbs. for $1.00. 400. Tobacco in 10 lb. Caddies for. 30c. Jeans Pants. 40c. Shirts.-.:. 15c. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. 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Hubbard will help you keep her. The young married couple goes there to beautify their little home. Hubbard beautifies it for you. The rich people go there because they Sin afford it, and the poor go there, also, because they can afford it. Jf Everything NEW and VP-TO-LUTE. jet* ENGRAVING FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD. Jewelry Palace, next to Farmers and Merchants Bank.