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OLDEN TIME CHIMNEY SWEEPING. How It W.-vi Carried on Forty Years Ago?Talk With a Sweep. "Chimney sweeps long since found their occupations gone," said a dealer in fur naces, who makes a speeiulty of the cleun ing of moderized chimneys, to a reporter. "Over forty years ago the trade of chim ney sweep was a good paying one. At that time nothing but soft coal and wood was bnrp'H Th?? chimney* wre theo tmide largt! enough to allow the passage of a man's body. But few chimneys are now made over two feet square. Chimneys are now cleaned by the mennsof huge brushes < which reach from kitchen to roof. .Many tenants believe they suffer from smoke caused by defective lines, when the real cause is? clogged chimney. Hard coal makes little else than dust, but if a chim ney is uiicleaned for many years the accu mulated dust drops down and interferes with the burning of the lire. Prices paid for clea'iinir chimnevs are much smaller than in former years. Formerly %? was charged Now the work is done for half that sum." Chimney sweepiug forty years ago was monopolized by the colored people, who made it a fine art. The manner in which a chimney sweep heralded his approach was novel. Sometimes, if the block was short, he would commenco to sing in alow tone which iucreased with every step, and when the end of the block was reached he would break out iu a volume of sound. good voices, and their singing was greatly appreciated by the children along thoir routes. This class ha3 wholly disap earned their livelihoods as chimney sweeps have engaged in other lines of trade. The reporter called on an aged colored man recently, who many years ago car ried on the trade of chimney sweep in this city. He has ciranged his occupation to that of white washing. lie said: "Chimney sweepiug is played out. When I started in the busiuess nearly fifty years ago a good sweep could make $?10 and $15 a day. The kiud of fuel used nowadays and the size of the chimneys has ruined the busiuess. Before the use of hard coal became general chimneys were so arranged that they might be eas ily cleaned. Steps were made upon which the sweep might stand while per forming his work. I narrowly escaped death many times while at work. Once I we* i<p<'ci?','*,it0d. down a pV,ir,inf>v of fifty feel. Al'ter bouncing from side to sine i reached the bottom with a contused body and a broken leg. In the olden time fire places and chimneys were used as a hid ing place for valuables.?Brooklyn Eagle. 'i in- Iti.sks a Joekey Kuiih. Ike Murphy, the jockey, who in the esti mation of those Avho have won money on his mounts is a bigger man than old "Any body;" is generally regarded as a very fortunate individual indeed. Lucky Bald will is to give him $10,000 next year, and in addition to that comfortable sum, which is almost equal to the average in come of a newspaper reporter, he can sell his services to uny other horseman when they are not needed by Mr. Baldwin. No doubt his regular income will be at least $1,000 for every thirty days in the year, and to this amount may be added the winnings he is sure to earn through his command of reliable "tips." But there is another side to the picture that is not so rosy. In addition to the constant perils of the race course and the liability to accident, Murphy is bartering ten to a dozen years of his life for tne princely income he is re ceiving. In order to ride ho is obliged to keep his weight at least twenty-five pounds below what he wouldnow register if in a normal and healthy condition. In order to keep himself in trim he is obliged to subject himself to exhausting swu-ats and deny himself much that would con tribute to health and long life. Jockeys are generally short lived if they continue in the business much beyond the period of youth. "I'was ever thus?there is no rose without a thorn, and those who dance mutt whack up when the fiddler brings iu his bhU.?Chicago Herald. The Western Cattle-Ilalsing Industry. ~* The inducement to engage in cattle-rais ing in this country several years ago was so great, says The Chicago Times, that eleven companies, with a capital of $20, 000 non. xvprf? orenrdznd in Orent Britain They now own t>72,013 head of cattle, and lease or own 3,319,072 acres of grazing land in the west. In 1853 one of these compa nies paid dividends amounting to 20)4 per cent., but for two years past they have paid only 10 per cent. The rate of return is now very low, and the whole business seems to have suffered a serious deteriora tion. Ol nine of these British-American companies in 1S85, one paid 7 per cent., one (J, two 5, one 4, and four paid nothing at all. Last year there were nearly 50, 000,000 head of cattle in the country, and of these British companies owned only 672,013, as noted above. The reasons for decline in profits is part due to the action r?f ?>.<. ^n.rl.Unl irko nWiimil ivnipn to vacate public lands and pay for their grass. Besides, in the year 1885 the yield of calves was behind that of the year be fore. The chief reason for the decline in dividends is the smoller selling price of steers, the falling of! reaching in some cases $0.00 a head. Tho immense profits made at first invited excessive coinnoti tion, which cut down prices and profits.? Bradstreet's. Comjue:;ts by Cohl-I-uuil Nation?. The learned editor of The Progreso pre dicts that if the "United States of South Ji>Tvir.riro" ?Tifvnld "vnr lmpnipp ^ frier tl)f> consolidation will be effected by a north ward conquest under the hegemony of Chili or the Argentine Pepublic. "The political nisiory oi manaiud, says he, ia nothinc but a record of conquests by cold land nations (uaciones tlerra fria) of their warm land neighbors. Jforlh of tho etpia tor Norsemen buBy the children of the sunny south: south of the equator the bullies of Chili knock down the children of the suntiy north. It is a law of nature, just as much as the repression of equa torial by polar air-currents. Rome would have beaten Carthage with or without tiie Sclpios. The Gothic giants would have smashed the civilization of Rome with or without an Alaric. Cyrus, Alexander, King Frederick, Ulysses Grant and the Chilian trlgadisi-i were but the mfdl iton of inevitable events. From both poles the march of conquest moves toward the pon'itnr.? Dr. Felix L. Ckwpld. The " Thirteen " Suporstltiou Exploded. Mme. Patti-Nicolini and twelve guests survived the year following. The Uuited States of America, composed originally of Imrieuii ?tal?s, nui vn*y uiu uuv^u Ltmcva ?**t+Vt(vi ? Toor frnrr, tTlfitr /^oflnr'itinn tn dependence, but soon formed a more per fect union, and have preserved it against the most formidable rebellion recorded in history.?New York Herald. A PUBLIC INSANE ASYLUM. An Ex-Patlcnt's Word* of Warning? How to Avoid aiental Dltieaitc. I would earnestly entreat the relatives and friends of lunatics never to put thein in an asylum if there is the slightest ho;>e of their recovery. In these institutions everything is against their improvement ?the associations for one thing. Imagine a consumptive, for instance, shut up with fifty other consumptives; the sympathetic action wotfld certainty inci".;*y?v the vio Ience of his disease and retard its cure Tlie same thing is true of mental disease-?. Again, a person is taken from a home where he has delicate food on a table fur nished with respectable, for want of n better word I will say, furniture, clean cloth, dainty dishes, glassware, etc. There he must cat off a bare plank, with iii tasting knives and spoons, made of pewter, while all his food is mixed together on one p'.uto. All around him are his fellow luna tics, eating like hogs with their fingers and muttering to themselves. The keep ers meanwhile are cursing and swearing or throwing potatoes at the men for a joke. Your appetite is destroyed, and the little food you manage to force down is not digested and barely suffices to keep body and soul together. I have no special fault to llnd with the quantity or quality of my food, although I was never able :n cut the beefsteak, ami as for the tea im.l coffee?well the paupers hud enough to eat such as it was. Finally the patients In nsvlnms nre nl ( ways more or less cruelly treated. The medical attention is purely perfunctory and all the officials are indifferent to every to see poor human nature at its worst spend three months In u madhouse. If you want to realize the value of money and what It can do for you live in a public insane asylum. I've been a miser ever since I left it. A good private nurse and | a skillful doctor can often restore a pa tient to reason who would never recover if placed.in an asylum. A. word or two to individuals suffering from nervousness, n mild form of insanity, and which is always liable to develop into a serious mental disease. Never, under any circumstances, use either liquor or tobacco: the fewer drugs, the better. All these things render the nerves more sen sitive and I can say from bitter experience do far more harm than good. Avoid anodynes as you would poison. Von bad better lie pwake all night than suffer from the effects that invariably follow eise?violent exercise is very injurious? and suitable employment are the reme dies that will alleviate this disease. Don't think about yourself; get outside of your self as much 'OS possible. I accomplish this by frequenting places of amusement and losing self in the woes of the hero. I forget myself and my troubles, most of which are equally fanciful. But the best of all specifics is music, which acts like a charm to soothe the aching and feverish nerves. Make up your mind to avoid everything that injures you, screwing your courage up to the sticking place, bearing always in your mind the mad house. If you do not exert your will power, Its doors may close on you, per haps for life.?Maqnes" in Brooklyn Eagle. "JLlvo" Ivory mitten from "Deed." "That knife handle Is worth twice as much as the other," said an ivory dealer to a reporter, as he pointed out two hand some knives in a case. They looked ex actly alike, so the reporter asked in what the difference lay. "Well, one handle is formed of live ivory and the other of dead," replied the mer chant. "By live ivory I mean ivory taken from an animal recently killed. That sort, of ivory is expensive, because it is hard to get. It is strong, because there is life in it, and It Is used for the handles of the best knives, and where dead ivory c;.u:.l not be used. When an elephant loses a tusk that tusk becomes what we call dead ivory. He sheds the tusk, and it has ro strength in It. It is brittle and breaks easily, and can only be used for the handles of pocket knives, or in other forms where the ends are protected. If they were not, the ivory would split and crack in a very short time. The ivory taken from the tusks of the antediluvian mammoths buried in the soil of Siberia is, of course, all dead ivory. Its iwes are, therefore, limited. If you ever want to buy any ivory goods, bo sure to ascer tnin Yt*!:?ther It Is 1!?? ?r d2ad**"ar~ fore purchasing. If the former it Is strong and durable; if the latter, it is brit tle and liable to crack, even where fast ened. "The same rule npplies to the horn. Deerhorn and buckhorn, so commonly used, especially In the handles of pocket knives, is much of It mado from the horns shed by the deer, and of little value. The live horn Is more expensive.?New York Sun. A Jockey Winning a Knee. Oue who was close to the rails on the Derby day seems to have been an observ ant man for he describes his impression shot by: "To some extent," he says, "ho has a countenance peculiarly suited for the expression of pain or anxiety. The short upper lip displays nearly all bis teeth, and the face, long and thin, with high check bones and yellow asheu com plexlou, suggests a grim likeness to a death'.; head. Just as ha passed be was still fighting for the race, and indeed one horse was in trout of him, but it was the hor.-c Immediately behind Lim that; eemcd to trouble him. He was looking around at this horse, and, heavens, what a look! It was like that of a man about to b Imaged; a dueilist lighting wan a loa at once feared and hated, a man, in short, in any position of awful strain, with the c mplex emotions cf t**T? hop and r solve. It was all the observation of a.sec ond, but it brought home to tiie mind tie abysmal depths of life or death, exultant joy or horrible despair, that underlie the gayety ami*the blare, the bright dresses, the smiling women, the popping of cham pagne bottles, and the vacuous noises of the Epsom race course."?London Detter. The Mnnufiictnrc or Itasu Ball*. Mr. S. W. Brock, a veteran authority on the subject, said: "People have the idea that the base ball business does not amount to anything. Why, i remember ihi?t thus** who Ktn**t*Hl to ;ro into it a fi-w mouths ago were hooted at as throwing their time and money away. They wen; told that there were not enough lese tolls - i.t .<- *i -.Uki .1 e v But you may be surprised to know it, yet it is a fact, that one house alone in this -J... ? , . ? 1.'..nm ? -r ?-A 'V..-.1, .. .... ... :. making nothing else."?New York Mail and Express. Witttn n " Hitrrirton and Tyler" Hudici-. I .I UugC blOVUli, oa AlCUUIflC, Ua., Was 11 delegate to the Whig nutional convention of 1S40, and still wears his "Harrison and Tyler-' campaign badge. AN ANCIENT SALEM INDUSTRY. The Process of Making: Hides fata Lenthe*?Opcrntlons in Detail. Yean ago tanning was done in tan yards- not under cover, bo that the men were exposed to the weather, however In clement. Now, rough wooden sheds arc erected over tan vats. The time required to make leather out of raw hides is from f<mr to six months. The hides come to S dem by rail, and now spur tracks take 1: cm to the very door ot tue tannery. Some hides from China, Which your cor respondent saw in one shop, wer? done up in bundles of 120, each weighing about 19 ?pounds, making a bundle of 1,410 pounds. These hides measure fourteen or fifteen feet, while an ordinary American hide covers an urea of seventeen or eighteen feet. They were dried and pressed into bundles and bound with ropes before shipment. These hides are first put into a soak of clear sea w;;tcr, and remain six or seven days, when they are taken out mid put Into thcJ lime vats filled ivith Ilms water. There they remain from six to ten days. They are then taken out and uuhaired and green shaven, the hairs be in^ scraped ofi on one side and an/ parti cles of fle>h removed from the other, side. The next course is to put the hides into the drenches and then mill them to soften them. After being thoroughly rinsed in clean water, they are "put into the bark," that is, put into a vat where there Is a strong liquor made from bark, with j,..r..,.?i y-.rfi C7*rfa?Fle<3 IW'-mr. t>prh layer. Sixteen days here fit them to be be brought out and laid away for 30 days, after which they are split, shaved and to split it from one side to the other, but to take oft a small piece weighing from one to two pounds, about in the centre. Tins sjilit is eventually curried like other leather, and is used largely for backs of shoes. Splitting is done by machinery, a:.d ii a voiy dangerous business. Every few weeks the press records ri smashed d ? r broken arm from the use of this machine. After splitting, the Idle gees through the bark liquor once more, re maining this time but a few minutes, when it Is again laid away for thirty days, at the end of which time it is put into tho tnn vat and remains ten or twelve days. This i< the end of the tunning process, nud when the hides come out of the bark liquor this time they go into the currying shop. j Curring is an entirely distinct business I from tannins, ?ud few men who learn one paii kjl Luv uUaiiiCdS dCA ttiiun ?.... *-*".?? about the other. The manufacturers mostly run only one business, although now and then a man tans and finishes leather both. In the large majority of cases, one firm takes the hides into its yards and tans them, and another firm takes them and curries them into leather. Not all tanners and curriers own tho hides which they put into leather. Very frequently they do the work for other par ties. Tanning leather Is a very dirty and un savory business, but probably not un healthy, and those who have worked at it A long time say they are not troubled by the smells. But this seems almost in credible to one who goes among the vats and beam houses for the first time and sniffs the odors from the old hides, the fumes from the luu vats aud lime holes and the general waste and decay.?Salem (Mass.) Cor. Boston Herald. Editor Childs' Stablos. "A merciful man is merciful _ta-. his beasts." Mr. Childs is a merciful man. That goes withont saying, but 2 will say it nevertheless. His stable is lurge, line and fitted with every comfort for horse and convenience for attendants. It has nunc of the brass-mounted frippery or nonscme that made me think, when I vis ited Frank Worth's equine palace in New Yorjc, liiat there ought to be a law ?.?? pre vent men wasting money in such a man ner. Mr. Childs' stable is not only com fortable ana convenient, but It is aLio architecturally beautiful and in harmony with the house of which it is so necessary on adjunct. The stable for his Jersey cows is plain, but fitted with every comfort de sirable for the beautiful animals. What a blessing it would be if all dairymen were to have their kine as clean and us well kept a-s his la. There Is plenty of running water at Wootlon. A little creek is being trainen at present to run with multifarious water iulla. xio itmOi la Ukuuieii ill uutilj ?Vuya and cools the milk In the mo?>t perfect spring house I ever saw. The troxtgh in which tlie wnter runs around the milk vessels is of white glazed tile and the water flows through it as clear ns crystal. The interior of the building itself is ol white flint and I never saw anything cleaner or sweeter looking.?Cor. Phila delphia News. He Found Hin Heart. "I remember," said an old phyei cian, "a man who in the forty or fifty years of his hard-working but prosperous life had never giyeu place to a tender senti ment. Children had come to him nnd gone, ami ms eyes nau never uoeu wet witn a man's tears, but when four of his group of stalwart boys went away to the army that mun found his heart. When these boys In their make-believe indifference and their affectation of jollity came to shake tho old man's hand they were sur prised to see tears running down his clucks, nud in many a trying ordeal tuey remembered that old man's face. From that day he grew in tact and tenderness, and lived in his declining years the emo tional life that should have come to him as a boy aud young man. Tho whole country ?tpw wfwi<iprfiill-y during th" war. I do not mean in prosperity, but iu emotional feeling."?Inter Ocean "Curbstone Cray ons." Woman on the Witness Stand. A woman on the witness stand in a di vn??! c.??(? in which she is the plaintiff, as a rule seems incapable of making out a very dark wise against her faithless lord. Whether It is pity for him that moves her heart or an inability to express herself that leads to this result is hard to say. Perhaps tho two qualities arc mixed, but at any rate the female plaintiff generally depends upon her witnesses to relate tho blackest features of her case.?-Pioneer Press '"Voices." Preferred It In Hook Form. "There is a man, .Mr. Spicer," said a pi azza promenader, indicating an untiring conversationalist who was wearying the cl...i o. fj.tiXIii i?c(i?*a, '>.'.*.* ,i vi. Information, a perfect encyclopedia." Waiting until out- of earshot, wary Seth "Yes, I know he is, but I prefer the en cyclopedia in book form. Van can shut ...a. i.p, fc. u.i. ., . -.#.ii The Rev. Dr. W.iyiand Hoyt, of Phila delphia, has gone for a bicycle tour of England. 9\ 31 "?'A EEMEDY NOT POE A DAY, BUT POET m~ HALT A OENTiraP-fc? BELIEVING SUFFEELNG HUMANITY! ?5 AN INTERESTING TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES SENT FREE JO all APPLICANTS. IT SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYBODY. ADDRESS THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. Wniiisutta or New York .Mills Mus lin xt 11?I I fie liest 2200 power Loom Linen. Tliey have four-ply raised oiigr Linen fronts, Linen line-! put out reinforced I nicks, four-ply neck bunt's with hnml-madc buttonholes ami continuous tarings in buck ami sleeves. ."Warranted and for sale bv GEO. IL COR NELSON. JOHN C. WHETSTONE, ROWESVILLE. S. C, Practical Machinist and Millwright, AGENT FOB mmm ? THE^TH IMPROVED GIN, FEED?]?? AM) COVDENSEK. ALSO AGENT FOR THE TAY LOU AND BAY STATE ENGINES, GRIST MILLS, &e. fejjTWill order Machinery of any kind when requested to do so. SSTRepalring of all kinds of Machinery a specialty. All orders .promptly attended .Inly l-am to. Address as above. .T. Yr. HP?: ?tti T^n? no \/ Q-p ' S ?1 C?C2/ia deae-ek i> Ii FAMILY GROCE Wines, Liquors an? Segars, \ T MY ESTABLISILMEXT CAN BE FOUND ALL THE STANDARD WINKS, i,P^'01^\1^(^/M.^V!oly'\\hen?.,> Also il'ic ciioieesi SEGARS AND I < ( < <?? to lie found in the market. JAMES VAN TASSEL. Tom.- I'ahiic. II.AlLTO.VS IXSHUME AGENCY T A K E I'L K A SC i! K I X A X nouiieing that 1 will run the LICENSE. Ixklttivk I >k".\i:tmk.v.v. Bltsi- ' r..\r.iiinr. it. .-. i. j .nr..-. ;. ^ lies, from Mav 1st, issii. Customers please I OKKtCKOK COMITUOI.I.KIlGKNKItAI., ? reserve yon. orders and oblige. . CiilA'MBIA. S </.. April 1. I?SU ) Yours trnlv. f certify that Mr. John A. Hamilton,o| Jan-* CllAi:Lfc.S 1\ idtl\\><?N. 1 ?':?...._: ?tuA, . ;;.t;; -?-.-V- .TV- |. j BRITISH ami MEKCAMTLE, QUEEN ??or: .no. Insurance Companies of North America, TM|(il:t"ir< II I: I' F 1) .1 KKS KY! WFSTKL'X VSSCRAXI-'E FACTOR'S awl ? Calves. One yearling rcgisleroU .lei- I ii.iur.iii r.i> .i.N ami ii> ?.u ??? L?Si i. Miy Bull. Kcui-te'ied Ayreshire heifers, j ANCE COMPANIES, has complied Several grade heifers as also several Mi Mi with the reqiii.-titioiis of the Ael of the 'E. X. ClHSOLM, llowesvilie, S. '' late the Agencies of Insurance Companies not incorporated in the State of South Curo Ii. H. .MOSS. I . O. I'A.s w.l.l-.li YS <)ss cv DAXTZLKR. I A. HAMILTON Agent aforesaid, to take , i lsi.s aial U .ili-.i'i an o i-on - ? ?', o..s.mi i in this State in the County of Oraiigcbiirg VTTOKN EYS \T L\W I for and in In-half of said Comoaiiics. Ex ' piles March Slst, ISS". W. E STONEY, Ouasgebuiig, s. C. Comptroller General. lew Store! New Ms!! J C LEA I) EH OF LOW PRICES AND dealek ix Staple ?uO E-'ancy Sivy ?iloods Clothing, Notions, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, ALSO ?ROCBiRlES, PROVISION?, Sec. Knsnvll Slrccl. A midland inspection Di goo-.ts solic ited. FOUTZ'S SEED WHEAT, docs not rust. CAROLINA GROWN RYE, well cured. RUST I'KOOF OATS, good color and grain. All in store for the fall planting. MACHINE OILS, &c, k A clear, good oil for lubricating at .10 cents. Tkain, Neatskoot, Cotton Seed, Lard and Engine heavy. Cotton Gin Insurance, I am writing on Cotton Gins, Cotton in store, and every class of farm property. John A. Hamilton. ESTABLISH ED L877. Twi'iitv-li\*e Yours Experience. T. DeCliiavett^ Watch Marek and Jewei.ek, And dealer in Watches, (.'locks, .Jewelry Spectacles, Silver and ['luted Ware and Musical Instruments. All werk warranted for one year. Orangeburg. . G f ha tics A. Calvo, Jr.. BOOK AND JOB PRINTER ?and? 69 RICHARDSON STREET, CO Id'.M MI A, S. ('. i LL KINDS OF IMHXTIX?. UUL i - iug and Rinding done at low figures and in the very liest manner. Catalogues of Schools, Colleges and Church Assocla ii..;... a specialty. Lawyers' !';'. !'-?1 per printed page for ?_'.'copies "Id liouks j;i>. hound and Uepttiivd. Cash Hooks, Ledg ers, Dnv [looks, .liiuruals k>\. made to order ai short notice. Orders.solicited and satisfaction giiaraul.I. Subscribe fur TiikCoi.i :.mi;ia Wkkk . , ??? , .: ..;..|.> ,.,..... ..< r.. :. ,.. ..>;.... mailer?the lutes! Iclrgrapliic news?clear large print. Onlj one dollar a year. McCormick's Mowgrs. LIGHT, STRONG. SlMl'LK AND DURARLE. TIIKSK MACIIINKS ALT ALL - i*,.iiu -I "> 1.1 ii .ir, io;ii <>( good material. Fanners will consult their ihteresl U\ examining these Mowers before .:. . ;..'.. '.'....|.? . I r,.;?n5-< fnr same always on liatid. Sample Machines can be ?i'ii at Mr. I?. Frank Mater's in Prrkctt's in Matthews. Illustrated lespoiideiicc solicited. Ihiy a McCotmiek iron Mower, and save your liaj and pea vines. U. W. WANN AMAKER, Aug. Ill-3ni0. St. Matthews, S.C.