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Che Cauieus "Mmximx. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. BUBOItlPTION Sl.no PER VI-:A It BiiT Arp Tends Flowers His Wife Watches Him Work and Praises ? Nel?blH>r?He Meets a I Friend of Oblldhood Days. Now tbat the elections are all over, let us wash our hands and turn over a new leaf. It Is a curious paradox that as a general rule a man can't be elect ed until he first falls from grace. Pol A itlcs makes a strange mixture of Cal vinism and Armlnlanism. But I reckon we will all survive our disappoint ments and, as Dr. Miller used to. say, learn to spell the word acquiesce. Ho always pronounced it with tho first o long like it was acquleeoe. This seems to be the youug men's era and I reckon they can run the machine, but I must say tbat it has been a long time since I have had my choice in any thing outside of home. I am doing reasonably well under my own vine and fig tree, where I am elected all the time. The fact Is, I never fall from grace inside of my own premises, though sometimes things are not calm and serene even there. I worked hard yesterday cleaning up tho flower garden and got in quite a sweat of perspiration. The leaves from our big trees had blown all over the beds ana the chrysanthemums had fallen down and had to be staked up and tied and the old oanna stooks had to be out down and removed. By the time I had got everything in good order and the leaves all burned and the walks raked out I thought it was about time to receive some praise from somebody, for I had observed that Mrs. Arp was sewing by the open window and occasionally gave me an uxorlal glance. And so I sat down on the iron Seat and mopped the honest dew from my aged" forehead. Suddenly sho drew near the window and remarked : " I wish you could just seo Mrs. Crawford's front yard and ilower gar don ; they are as clean as a parlor. I was there yesterday at the meeting of tho aid society and everything was lovely. Mr. Crawford certainly knows how to keep a place in order." Well, that disturbed my tranquillty a little and I was about to say maybe Eou bad better get him to come up ere and fix this one, but I dident. But I wasent Berene at all and ventured to remark that Mr. Crawford dident do it, for he had to weigh cotton all day and I reokon it was Mrs. Crawford's work. I paused for a reply, but sho resumed her needle and thread and I sat and ruminated. When I eamo to dinner I continued my broken remarks and said that Mr. Crawford dident have four acres of big oak trees to lit ter up his little front yard and I thought that a carpet of rich brown leaven wasent an unsightly thing no how. She asked me to send down my plate for some chiekon. After another pause I remarked that I had long since found out that we couldent have every good thing in one place. Wo couldent ave a beautiful grove and a fine flow , er garden near it for flowers won't grow under shade. Those beautiful roses that Mrs. Laramore sent me have the sunshine all the day. " Let me help you to one of these poached eggsi" she said. " But I reckon," said I, as I handed my plate, "Mrs. Crawford had things fixed up extra fine beeauoe the aid so ciety was coining." "It is going to meet here next week," my wife remarked in a mollifying tone of voice. ** Won't you have a glass of buttermilk ; it is fresh and good." And so I gave it up, and after din ner she came out and was quite pro fuse in her admiration, for shb knows that it takes lots of encouragement to keep me at work. I'll keep on clean ing up until that aid society comes and goes. I'll watch the leaves as they fall and catch 'em in my hat. I'll sweep and sandpaper every walk and then Mrs. Crawford can go home and praise me to Mr. Crawford and put him in pouts. I'm going to put out two more rows of strawberry plants to-day, for she hinted that we hardly had enough. I heard her tell the girls that she was ashamed of that old patched-up carpet in the dining room, for it had been down for four winters, and she wished she did have a large rug to put under the table. I'll surprise her with one some of these days when I sell my gold mine. It will sell now, I reokon, since McKinley was elected, for there is gold in it. It was the only thlug I had that Sherman's bummors dident pick up and carry off. I traveled the other day with an old soldier from Atlanta to Oartersvllle. He couldent find a Beat, and looked troubled as he toted his old valiso up and down the aisle. So I pulled his coattall and made him sit by me. He looked thankful and in reply to my in quiry, said he was going to Calhoun, and from there to his son-in-law's in the country, a couples of miles ; said he wanted to seo Sally- and her chil dren mighty bad. " Sally i6 a powerful good woman," said he. " and she has a good, indus trious husband, and they are gittin' along mighty well consideriu'. My old woman died eight years ago, and I'm so lonesome at home that I go about and about vnd stay with our married child ren. That's all that an old mad can do for comfort." This old veteran was nearing his four score and was still quite alive and lively. He followed old Joe Johnston all the way down from Chicamauga and had never been ovor tho ground since. How the old man's eyes bright ened as I pointed out Kennesaw moun tain, though he said he marohed on the other side, toward New Hope ohurch. M We had a hard fight over thero," he said, "and wo everlastingly sali vated 'em, as the boys said. We kept old Sherman powerful busy burying of his dead." I pointed out Lost mountain, and when we reached the station that they used to call Big Shanty, the old man ntrotc.hrd up another inoh and point ing his trembling hand, said: "Right over there is tho spring where I used to fill my old canteen. Yes, I would be glad to stop long enough to walk over there and take one more drink of that water. We licked them yankees all around here, but there was too many of 'em?too many. They just come up out of the yearth like locusts in Egypt."T The old man was familiar with every place we passed, and talked fast and eagerly. When he told me ho was from old Qwinnett and had a farm on Yaller river, I was drawn closer to him and asked him about the Oral a.9 and Vaughans and the old Moses Lid dell place and Shoal oreek and Mont gomery's mill pond and Falrvlew church and the old manual labor school. The old man looked at me again and again with a bewildered curiosity and finally ventured to ask what mout my name be. " Did you know the Alexanders and Strickland* and Nathan Hutohlns ? " ?aid I. Oh, yes, I knowed Dr. Alexander and all his boys, and all the Stricklands from old Mllza down and I knowed tho Hutohlnsos. I come down to Atlanta with Fits Hutohlns this morning. He's our Judge, you know, and he's a Et od friend of mine. I knowed all the m a. Clarence ain't fur from me. ? " What mout- your name be ? " said ho. " Did you know an old man in Law r*nceville named Asa Smith ? " Mtld I. "Wby, of course I did; everybody knowd him. I traded in bis store for | {ears and years. He moved away to loyd County just before tbe war. Did you ever live to Lawrenceville ? " " Do tyou remember a little dark 9kin, black-eyed girl who u<ed to ride horse-back up that road. She was Kit/. Hutoblos slater. M Why, of course I do. Everybody knew ber. She used to go to tbe old judge's farm on the river, twelve miles, from town and go alone, and she went In a hurry and come back with a bag of apples or peaches banging to the horn of her saddle. She married old Asa Smith's son, If I don't mistake, I think Fltz told me that. I was think lag that maybe you were him. but then you are too old a man, I reckon." "My friend," said I, "you forget that it hats been over fifty years since you saw that little girl, yes, she is my wife and is not a little girl any more.1' ?" Well, well, shore enuf," said he, with a melancholy tone; "I do forglt? I'm always forgittin'. An' you are old Asa's son. Well, well; I used to trade with you and your pa and the Strlok lands. Well, well; I am so glad I come aoroas you." Tbe whistles blowed and the bell rang and I gave tbe old man a warm shatce of tbe hand and said, "Good-bye ?God bless you." Bill. ARP. A SOUTH BUN CORN TEST. Farmers Most Burn the Corn Stalks to Get itltl or tho Borer?Rotation of Crop ? Necessary. Entomologist Howard, of tbe agricul tural department, in a reeent oiroular on the larger corn-borer, says that the pest will have no ohanoe for its life in the North, where careful and thorough methods of cultivation are followed, but in the South it has already done more or less damage in most corn fields from Alabama to Virginia. Mr. How ard reports having seen more than 30 holes in a single stalk in South Caro lina, and in Virginia, last year, a Bingle planter 06ttmates his loss at more than 9500. The inseot is identi cal with the sugar-cane borer of Louis iana, and is found in all Southorn States as far north as the Potomac river and as far west as Kansas. The adult inseot issuos from tho old cornstalks in the spring. Soon after the young corn comes up it lays its eggs upon the loaves near the axils and tho young larva upon hatching penetrates tbe stalk at or near the joint and commences to tunnel, usually upward through.the pith. Tho growth of the borer is rapid und It is very active, frequently leaving tbe stalk at one place and entering at another, making several holes in the course of Its growth. When ready to transform It bores to the surface of tho stalk making a hole for the exit of the future moth,' thon changing to the pupa state. The entomologist says that where old. corn stalks are systematically re moved from the field and burned after the harvest or during winter, or where a constant rotation of crops is practic ed, the corn stalk-borer will never be come a serious pest, and tho Virginia and South Carolina farmers havo it in their hands to chock it at any time by pursuing these methods. Aside from corn, sugar cane, and sorghum, this borer has only one other food plant, so far as wo know. This is the gama grass, or sesame grass, which grows very high in swampy ground. Farmers whose corn-fields adjoin swampy ground will do well to burn over this grass during the winter. Aside from these simple remedies, there is only one more point to be made, and that Is, that rotation of crops is reasonably efficient against this insect. Where the custom of allowing stalks to remain In the field during winter is practiced it naturally follows that corn following corn w 111 bo badly damaged. Observations made by this ollieo show that in 1891 the average damage to crops planted upon land which was in corn the pre vious year was 25 per cent, while the average Injury to corn planted upon sod land was only 10 per cent, even where this land was reasonably close to former corn land. THE DOCTOR'S WITNESS. The Danger to His Pationt Jjasted While He Took the Medicine. A certain physician, who shall be nameless, once brought suit against a man who had been bis patient, for the recovery of the amount.of fees charged in his bill. The patient pleaded, in defence, that the doctor had visited him many times after he was entirely well, or at least, after he?the patient ?had deolared that he did not need him. He was willing to pay for those visits which hau been made while he was really sick, but not for visits which had been porsistently made after he was just the same as well. He bad been hlessed with the attendance of a good and faithful nurse, who could havo carried him safely through his convaloscenco, and to whom, he really believed, he owed his recovery. Upon this the doctor chuckled glee fully. Said he: " Your honor) I will prove by this manN) own nurse, of whoso faithful ness he hoi'Hts, that Bhe considered him not ontlroly out of danger at the tlmo of which ho spoaks." The nurse was summoned, and she made her appearance, and was sworn. She was a widow of middle age. " Mrs. lllinkor, you attended the de fendant in this case during his recent lllnoss ?" She answered that she did. Thon the plaintiff's attorney took her in hand. " Mrs. Blinker, do you remember the condition of the patient from tbe 15th to tho 25th day of April past ?" " Yes, sir, I remember very well." " And did you not think that, during that time, he required the attendance of a physician'."' " I did not, sir." "How 1 Did you not say more than once, during that very time, he re quired the attendance of a physician ?" " Yes, sir, 1 said that." " And you now tell us that he re quired no physician? I don't under stand you." "Well, sir," aald Mrs. Blinker, with a firm steadfast look, " I think I can explain it. I said that man was In danger, because I consider any man to be in dangor while that doctor was giving bim modiolne !"?Philadelphia Recorder. ?Rev. Thomas Raysor, D. D., of the Methodist Episcopal Cburob, South, died a few days ago at the parsonage of the Lower St. Matthews circuit near Cameron, Orangeburg County. Strick en witb paralysis several weeks ago, he never rallied to any appreciable extent, though at intervals he was conscious of things around him and recognized his family. Dr. Raysor was woll known all over South Caro lina, having in his long connection with the Methodist ohuroh served numerous oharges as pastor and dis tricts as presiding elder. He leaves a largo family of ohildren and a widow. All of the ohildren are grown and one or two of them resided with him. He was near the three score and ten limit, and had served his ohuroh and bis God faithfully. Her Presence of Mind.?"Yes, Harry and I went out riding on a tan dom, last evening, and he gave me such a fright I have hardly got over it even yet." "How was that?'* " When we were going through an avenue of trees, and there was nobody in sight, be leaned forward on his handle bars and reached his head around and kissed me I" " Why, that was dangerous, wasn't It? If you had swerved ever so little, the machine would have upeot and thrown you both .. off." "Yes, but I dldnt ?werve^-! qcj WOMKN WHO KAT TOBACCO. The Tobacco Take? a Stronger Hold on u Woman tban it Does on a Man. *? Therea lots of talk nowadays about women who smoke," said a man who keeps a tobacco store on Seventh avenue, near Twenty-third street, "but the woman who uses plug tobacco is going to be the next to attract public attention. People have no idea how many women tbbuooo eaters there are in New York, i have a score of women customers who use plug, tobacco reg ularly. They are not the old hags who ?mokeSplpes, not by any means. Very few of them look dissipated. More than half of them are young. One of them who was in the store only a few moments ago does not look to be over twenty. She lives with her family down on Twenty-second street, and people who know her say she has a good character. She has been buy ing plug tobacco from me for two years, but I never supposed for a mo ment It was for herself until about two months ago she told me of her habit in a burst of oonfidenee. She buys almost as muoh as any man. "There are many women who buy snuff, but their number is not on the increase, as is that of the tobacco eaters. There are more women eatlog tobaooo every year. It's a mystery bow In the world they ever contracted the habit, but it sticks to them just as tightly as to men. There's a certain married woman who comes Into my store twice a week to lay in a stock of tobacco for herself. Uer husband is a well-to-do business man. He doen't use tobacco in any form and never touches a dropof liquor. She wouldn't have him to know she took tobacco for the world. " Most of these women put up tbeir bluffs about wanting the tobacco for their husbands or brothers until you get acquainted with them. Then tome ot them got confidential. But I can usually spot them. When they begin to como for tobacco they are timid, and It's an easy matter to see that thoy aro lying about somebody olse wanting it. " I've come to tho conclusion that the tobacco habit takes a stronger hold on a woman than it does a man. W men who have been smoking ciga rettes for years go nearly crazy when they oan't get tbem. It is the same way with the woman who uses the plug tobacco. She is bound to have it, no matter what means she has to take to get it. And a woman with a watch ful husband sometimes has to use all her wits to keep him from discovering what she is about. "I think it is the snuff habit whioh leads to the tobacco habit in women. As many women in this part of town buy Bnuff as buy cigarettes. You know bow they take the snuff ? They hold it between the lower Up and the teeth. They use tho tobacco in the same way. They seem to go from snuff to plug tobacco just as a morphine fiend tires of the drug and turns to cocaine." TEN GOOD THINGS TO LEARN. 1. That salt will curdle new milk; hence In preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., tho salt should not be added until the dish Is prepared. 2. That clear boiling water will re move tea slain-* and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent Its spreading over the fabric. 3. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth, also from the hands. 4. That a tablespoonful of turpen tine boiled with white clothes will aid In the whitening process. 5. That boiled starch is much im proved by the addition of a little sperm. Bait or gum arable dissolved. 6. That beeswax and salt will make rusty flat irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax In a rag and keep It for that purpose. When the Irons are hot, run them first with a rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. 7. That blue ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and ap Klied to the bedsteads is an unfailing Bdbug remedy, as a coat of white wash is for the walls of a log house. 8. That kerosene will soften boots or shoes that have been hardened by water, and render them as pliable as new. 0. That kerosene will make tin tea kettles as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag and rub with it. It will also remove stains from varnished furniture. 10. That cool rain water and aoda will remove grease from washable fabrics.?The Sanitarian. A Bad Woman.?-" Now, the best thing you can do," said tho judge to an old negro who had applied for a di vorce, "is to go home and behave yourself." " Yae, sah." " I do not see why you do not get along all right." " Yes, sah." " We all have to make sacrifices." " Yas, sah, so I heah 'em say ; but mighty few men kaster put up wld sich er wife ez I'so got. I ken stan' de common run o' wimmon, but dat pus eon, jedgo, Is rank plzen. W'y, sab, If sho wuz er sleep an's w?ster dream dat I wuz enjoyln' myso'f, she'd wake her se'f up an' see dat de enjoyment wuz stopped right dar. She like ter died some timo ergo. Wuz mighty in hopes dat I wuz gwineter lose her, but when she found dat I wuz pleased, blame ef sho didn't turn ober an' git well. She's a bad 'oman, sah." ?An important legal point, involv ing the jurisdiction of magistrates in olvil oases, was argued a few days ago in Spartanburg before Judge Gary. The new constitution of .this State abolished the office of trial justice and provided for magistrates, but did not fix tho duties or define tho jurisdiction clearly. If magistrates have the right to render judgments in olvil caseo It is given them by implication as neither the Legislature nor tho consti tution gives it in express terms. The case is attracting muoh Interest from the fact that it will affect vested rights growing out of judgments rendered in every part of the State. After ex haustive arguments, Judge Gary re served his decision. Magistrates Have No Jurisdic tion.?Judge Karle has just made a decision in Barnwell that the magis trates of this State have no jurisdic tion in either oivil or oriminal cases. This condition has brought about by Govornor Evans having vetoed tho bill giving them jurlsdiotiou and defining their duties. The Governor vetoed tho bill because it took from him the power of removal. - If this decision stands, South Caro lina was no officers to try petty offend ers and the verdicts rendered in olvil cases by magistrates Can not stand. ? ?A man went home the other night and found his houso looked up. After infinite trouble, he managed to gain an entrance through a back window, and then discovered on the table a note from his very thoughtful wifo reading: "I have gone out. You may find the key on the side of the step." ?Every wind that blows is caused by the nested and expanding air ef some locality rising, while the cooler air rushes in to All its plaee. Tampa Day Hotel, Florida, the most tropical resort in the world. Tampa Bay Hotel, Casino, Opera House, Swimming Pool, Bowling Alleys, all open December 3d, lftte. Address B. W. Wrshk, I'o-Ckaer Trsflio Manager Plant Hyatem, ICE Ot 12 w*t ******* *#w Y Pecan Culture. Iu an article published, in t've Southern States, the writer suggests pecan culture in the South as a {irofitable industry involving but ittle trouble or care.. I have had some little experience in a small way, and a pretty general observa tion of the results of the p.can "industry," (if indeed that may be called an industry which does but little to aid nature,) and I don't know anything in which money might be invested with greater cer tainty of large and continuous re turns. No surer foundation for a fortune can be laid than in the planting and nurture of a pecan orchard. In Texas there are fine pecan groves growing wild all along the river courses and bottom lands, and many farmers make more olear mon ey from the wild pecan groves that grow along the rivers and creeks that border their farms than they do by the cultivation of their arable lauds. Many of these native groves, without care or culture or one dime of expense, save in the pioking of the nuts, yield to the owners a net profit of $500 and more a year. The wild nuts sell in this market at from three to seven cents per pound according to quality and the extent of the crop. A fair average estimate of the yield of these forest trees is about 200 pounds each. Of course a welluurtured orchard would produce a much finer nut and much more abundant yield. I would suggest the following plan to any enteriug into the busi ness of pecan growing: Prepare the ground thoroughly as if for planting grain, and then check it off in squares of say 40x40 feet and plant several nuts six or eight inches apart in each hill. This will give twenty-five trees to the acre. When the scions are two years old, I would graft in February or March, from trees bearing the best Hoft-shell nut, in two or three of the scions, leaving one or two in each hill to be beaded in, say in May or June, if the grafts should fail to live. In that way one, two, or three trees or scions could be re lied upon in each hill. At three years old remove all but one from each hill by digging carefully around the roots and removing the tree by means of a soft rope and pry in as gentle and careful a manner as possible, so as not to bruise or tear the skin from the tap root, and re plant them in other ground pre pared as above. In this way an orchard could bo had in bearing condition in five years from the planting of the nuts. In the fifth year from planting we might safely calculate on twenty pounds of nuts to the treee, giving, with twenty-five trees to the acre, an aggregate yield of 500 pounds... At, say, five cents per pound (which is a very low fig ure for good nuts), we have a net income of $25 per acre. This yield will increase every year, and at ten years old we might safely calculate on a yield of $250 per acre, and at twenty years old double that amount. Now this is the yield from the pe can alone, but the land should not, by any means, be left idle to pro duce no other crop in the mean time. When planting the pecans a row of peach trees or other fruit suited to the soil and climate might be planted between every row of pe cans. These will not interfere with or retard the growth of the pecatiB, and if peach trees wore planted they would, in three years and until ten years old, yield a very handsome profit. At that age they would either die out or become unprofita ble and could bo cut down, leaving the pecan to yield its revenues. Nor is this all": the land should every year bo cultivated in cotton, Irish potatoes, peas, onions, or in fine any crop that would not obstruct the growth of the young trees, and this cultivation would hot only be a source of revenue, but would be of great advantage to the growing trees and greatly aid in making a finer growth and better fruit. This cultivation might be kept up until the trees attained great age for the lateral roots do not ordinarily rise near the surface. The conditions of soil necessary are such as the hickory requires. Where the hickory flourishes the pecan will do well. There is a great difference in the size and quality of the nut; some are small with hard shells, while others are large and have shells so soft that they can be easily crushed in the hand. I have on my home lot here in San Antonio one large tree that produces little hard nuts that are not worth the gathering, and I allow the little boys to pick them up at their pleasure, while other trees bear large and richly flavored fruit. Of course tho size and quality of the fruit would be greatly enhanced by cultivation, and the price would be proportionately higher. The large soft-shell nut would probably bring in this mark et ten cents per pound, and thus my estimate is made at five cents per pound, would be doubled. A few years ago, before the pecan was generally known outside of lo calities in which it grows wild, and before a market for it had been es tablished, it was so little regarded that a pecan grove had but little Ereater value than the same area in ickory or other hard-wood timber. The demand for the nnt has inoreas ed, however, every year, as it has be come known and prices have stead ily advanced. It is quite reasonable to believe that as it becomes more widely known, and as the quality is improved by cultivation, it will have as wide a sale and bring as high prices as the English walnut. I believe it is very generally the case that where the soft-shell pecan is known it is preferred to the wal nut and to most other nuts. It is an undeniable fact that as the sup ply has inoreased the demand has grown and prices have advanced. There would seem to be, therefore, no reason to fear that there will ever be an overproduction of the nut. The likelihood of this is fur ther lessened by the fact because of the long period of waiting for re Highest of all in Leavening Power.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report Royal S absolutely pure -1 suits not a great many persons will undertake the business. In this restless and rapid age, when men can not wait for the slow fruition of their toil, hut must see invest ments grow, like Jonah's gourd, into a fortune in a night, compara tively few will plant a crop from which adequate harvest can he ex pected only after many years. And yet even to a man past middle age there is in the planting of a pecau orchard the promise of a certaiu in come through his decliuing years, while for the next and succeeding generations he could provide no more sure and permanent legacy.? Elias Edmonds in the Southern States. Co-Operation Among Birds. Once upon a time while Olive Thorne Miller aud Florence Mer rium, two charming writers on bird life, were taking notes in Lewis County, Now York, they found a widowed redstart and her baby in the wood lot. Like all babies, the little redstart was constantly teasing for something to eat, and like most mothers, the redstart was just wear ing herself Into thp g;ave trying to supply the demuud. And then camo the kindly hand of a good-hearted and wholly unsel fish neighbor to help her. A jolly bachelor of a chestnut-sided warbler heard the baby cry, and saw the weariness of the overworked mother, and he fluttered his wings at the thought that here was a ch-uice to be courteous to one of the other sex without any one's being able to say that he hau an ulterior purpose in the kindly attentions he might give her. Gathering a goodly worm, the bachelor carried it to tho baby. At first the poor widow" didn't know about that. She might be without her natural protector, but no meddling strangers need think her unable to take care of herself and her little one; and she made some pretty harsh remarks to the chestnut-sided warbler. But he, good fellow, did not mind that. He would havo taken the baby in his arms, and walked up and down to soothe it, had that been the fashion with baby birds, but as it was, he kept on bringing worms and other things until even pert little Mrs. Redstart was calmed into a peaceful state of mind, and, the baby being satisfied, was able to smooth out her much-rumpled skirts, and attend to the gloss of her beautifully contrast ed breast and arms. It was a most charming little episode in bird so ciety.?Colette Smiley, in The Chait tauquan. Don't get the blues. Don't look on the cloudy side of everything. Don't he pessimistic. Don't think that the gx>d people are all dead, nor thut bad people are to he allow ed to turn this world wrong side up. God reigns. His glorious cause is as dear to him as it ever can be to us. He will take cure of those who trust in him and do their best. If we suffer, good may come from it. What are we living for but to get right with God and eternity, and stay so ? Let us make the best of our opportunities. Be hopeful, hap py and pure. Work hard. Die on ly when you must.?Michigan Chris tian Advocate. ?Congress will convene this year on December 7, the latest possiblo date. With the holidays taken out, it will make an unumally short Bcason. THE LAURHNS BAR. H. Y. SIMPSON. C. D. bark8dalk SIMPSON & BABKSDALC, Attorneys at Law, LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA Special attention given to tho investi gation of titles and collection of claims s. W. HA i.i,. r.. W. SIM HI NM. w. W. BAIiL BALL, SIMKIKS & BALL, Attornoye at Law, Laurbn8, South Carolina. Will practice in all State and United tttainu Court. Spooial attention given collections. W. H. MARTIN, Attorney at Law, Laurens, - South CAROLINA. Will practice In all Courts of thia Stan Attontton given to collections. I. T. JOHNSON. W. 11. Kirn KY JOHNSON & RICHBY, attorneys at law. OrriOB?Flomlng 'Coruar, Noriuost side of Public Square. "Look on the bright side," said a young man to a friend, who was dis contented and melancholy. "But there is no bright Bide, was his doleful reply. "Very well?polish up the dark one," said the young man, promptly. Are you ever de spondent ? Then adopt this advice, and remember that the best way to "polish up the dark side" is to work ?work hard, and work with cease less devotion and energy. I once had the honor of working for a time I with a famous and eloquent digni tary of the church. He lost his wife very suddenly, and I knew that this was tho most crushing blow he could possibly suffer. I quite ex pected, therefore, that he would go away and rest, perhaps for several months to come. But in a week he was busier than ever. His zeal in creased tenfold, his energy appear ed to be boundless; no burden of work seemed too heavyr It was evi dently a daily struggle to concen trate his attention on what he had in hand?but he did it, and by de grees the awful load of grief seemed to grow lighter. .Honest work well done is the sure path to a cheerful spirit. Try it.?Churchman. The Wliolo Globe n <;n\v?>ynr?7. Tho Parisian doctors and speculative philosophers are great fellows for mak ing odd calculations on nil subjects. Ono of too very latest is ouo concerning tho human family sinco the beginning of tiino. It is a long mugaziuo article and givos much that is interesting in tho way of human family statistics, but tho most striking portions nro those which give figures on tho number of human beings that hnvo inhabited tho earth and have died and boon buriod in it siiice. the first man was created. Ac cording to these ourious figures, tho earth has been peopled hv no less than 60,637,849,1)87,075,266 human inhabit ants sinco Ilm beginning of time. To bury this vast, number tho whole landed surface would have to bo dug over 130 times. Had yon over thought that you woro living in the midst of such a gi gnutio cemetery??St Louis Republio. A Strange Coincidence. A certain peasant and his wife, in Germany, woro married on tho same day as the emperor and empress, tho peasant's Christian namo being Wil liam. Their first child, a boy, was born on tho same day as tho crown prince, after which they had fivo other sous, eacli of whom was born at the snmr time as tho five younger boys of tho cm poror. The royal couplo woro informed of tilia und were exceedingly interested in tho very strange coincidence, but this interest was intensified when, on tho last ocoasion of n royal birth?viz, tho littio dnughtcr of tho kaiser?it was learned that tho peasant's wife in ques tion had also given birth to a daughter on tho same day. So astonished were the emperor and empress that they stood as godfather and godmother to this lit tio girl and hnvo well provided for her future.?Philadelphia Ledger. A Trusting: Prluoe. A ourious story is going the rounds Of*the European press concerning Princo Nicholas of Montenegro. A few years ago tho prince, who is far from being won!thy, found it necessary to borrow 40,000 florins from the Lloyd bank, in Cattaro. A few days before tho debt bo camo dno tho prince saw a peasant, driving a pig, pass by Iiis palace. He rushed out and asked tho countryman whore ho was going. "To Cattaro, princo," replied tho Montenegrin. "All right," said tho prince, "you can do mo a great service if you will leave this at tho Lloyd office. " And ho gnvo him a packago of bank notes, which the peas* aut carried faithfully to tho cashier of tho bank. II i chilli id Urn til il. Pennant, in Iiis "Tour of Scotland," tells that, on ihe death of a highlander, tho corpso being stretched on u board and covered with a coarso linen wrap per, tho friends placed a wooden platter on tho breast of the deceased, containing a small quant it}- of salt and earth, sep arate and unmixed?tho earth an em blem of tho corruptible body, tho salt an emblem of tho immortal spirit. Mliw Scrlhblc'ii Good Fortune. Hoax?Miss Scribbles has had a story accepted by a New York publisbor. Joax?Indeed! That's a step toward tamo for her. Honx?Yes. By tho way, her mother has married again. Joax?Ah! That's a stepfather for her.?Philadelphia Record. Columbia, Laurens an 1 New berry R. R. Northboua Southbound ITl a !n 4 13 10 30 4 CO 10 02 3 f>4 if 4? 3 40 0 '27 3 42 1? 16 3 34 8 31 3 '24 8 30 3 '21 H '2 2 3 12 8 00 '2 ft') 7 30 2 17 7 0f? 2 41 0 ftft 2 40 0 40 ?2 35 0 3ft 2j'2? 0.22 2;2o 0 ir> Stations. .Columbia. . Lenphart . . Inno . .. .. Baientino .... . . White Kock .... ... Chaplain . Little Mountain . Slight* . .JProsaorlty. . Newherry. . Jalana . .Qray's haue .... . Kinard . . Ooldvillo . . Dover . . Clinton . pin ntn 4 30 11 15 I ftft 11 28 4 OS II 37 ft '2ft 11 4ft ft .?:.?> 11 fto ft ftft 12 09 ft ift 12 13 ,0 '22 12 1H ,0 41 12 2? .7 OS 12 13 ,7.3ft l'2ft!? ,7|47 1 0ft .7 ft7 1 10 8310 1 17 H 23 1 2ft .8 30 1 30 b' E. SOHUMPERT, Acont at Prosporlt.? For catarrh, snuff up considerable salt and water from the hollow of the hand every morning. Salt and water used as a gargle just before going to bed strengthens tho throat and helps to prevent bronchial troubles; it is also excellent for sore throat. ?THE? Liquor, Morphine, Opium and Tobacco Habits; Thousands in the Throes of Torture. Prompt, decisive action eau save the Many already saved prove that there .s way. Are these the days of freedom? 1b every body out of bondage? Would that we could answer, Vas, everybody's f reo 1 Uut in this enlightened age hundreds o thousands of men are in the clutches of a tyrant worse than any in history, uuable to tight their way to liberty, impotent 10 break their fetters. When once the habit gets its grip on a man it destroys his nerve and will power, robs him of his only means of defense. Iiis life is sapped out or him, his manhood de stroyed, his brain deadened, and lie be comes a wreck of a man?existence a liv ing death, himself an object of disgust in stead of love and affection to those who are dear to him. Is there no hope ? There is?even after years of slavery a cure without failure guaranteed. Come and bo treated and if in a week or two you do not like gaining weight, feel ing new manly vigor and making your loved ones happy, you can quit and there will be no charge. No cure?No pay I HEXT M. PERRY, M. D We Desire To Introduce our furniture business into every community In tho South ora state.', and In order to do so in thn quickest time, havo concluded to make sotno very liberal otters In bed room suites to sccuro at least 0110 customer at every post-Oltlce in the next ?0 days, rfeaso road this advertisement carefully and send at once for ono of our special offen. Our sront offer No. l consists of one Solid Oak Bedroom Suite with largo : dresser with 80x31 bevel mirror, one ; largo Wnshstand, with doublo door i anil drawer, one (t-foot liudsteud full I width. This suite of furniture is ! worth in any furniture store not less than $35. Do not think for onco that it is a little cheap suite, for wo ussuro you it is not, but a large, full-size Hinte couul toanythitigon tho market 1 u ordor to start the sale of theso suites and to keep our men busy and Introduce our business in your neigh borhood, w? ajm.-o to.Ship one suite only to oaoh shipping point in tho South for $15, when tho cash comes with the order. This advertisement will possibly appear twico in this pa per, therefore if you arc Interested, out this out and send with $15 and tho suite will bo shipped to you. If It Is not just as represented you may ro t iien the suite at our oxpenso and your |1S will bo refunded to you. Our catalogue containing many Illustra tions of rare bargain? aud house fur nishing goods will bo sent to you up on application. The i-mte above detcrlbed Is a spec ial bargain and does i otappcar in the catalogue, therefore it is useless to write for Illustrations of this suite, and while you aro delaying writing some ono olso may get the bargain. Wo assuro you that we will not ship but one suite in your neighborhood at this price. After one suite has boon shipped in tho neighborhood tho price will go to at least $30. L_. F. PADGETT 846 miOAD ST., AUOU8TA, OA. South Carolina and Georgia Railroad C(< "THE CHARLESTON LINE Sobedulo in ofTtct March 10. 1896. COLUMBIA DIVISlON.-East.Bound. Lv Columbia. 6 60 Ar Branohvlllo. 906? LvBranchville. u20an Ar Charleston. .11 o? an Lv Columbia. 4 20pn Ar Charloaton. 8 40 pn West Bound. Lv Charleston. 7 20 bb Lr Columbia.11 03 an Av Charleston. 5 30pn Ar Rranchville. 8 00 pn Lv Branohvlllo.8i6pn Ar Columbia. . 10 10 pa AUGUSTA Dl VISION.?West Bound Lv Columbia. * 60 am 4 20 pa Ar Rranchville. 7ifinm 6 30 pa Lv Branchville. e&">im soopa A A ukustii.12 15 pm 10 45 pa Rast Hoc lid. Lv Augusta. 8 40 pl Ar Branchville. 0 26 pn Lv Branohvlllo. 7l0ao Ar Columbia.10 40 pn CAMDKN BRANCH.?East Bound. Lv Columbia.? 50 an Ar Caindcn.12 06 pa West Bound. Lv Camden.,.3 40 pi. Ar Columbia.10 10 pn CONNECTION. At Columbia with Southern Railway to an< from all points in upper South and Norti Carolina. Through trains between Chariot* ton and Asheville. N. C. Any other information, folders, MM Otv will be luruished ? plicat.cn te E. S. BOW EN Go 8. C. It. A. EMERSON ton, S. C. O. H. PARKS, Travo P Manager, Co.umbU Managor, Charlos Agont, ColumbU PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. Wilmington, N. O., Mv.lMh, 189t. fast line: ?BETWEEN? Charleston and Columbia and Upper South Carolina, North Caro lina, and Athens and Atlanta. CONORN8R0B0HEDULK Going West No. 62. 7 00am* Ly....Charlofllon . 8 31 .Lanes.... 943 .Sumter. 10 65 Ar.Columbia.. 1158 .Prosperity... 12 10pm .Ne wherry... 12 60 .Clinton .... 1 15 ....Laurens .... 2 33 .... Greenwood .. 8 04 .Abbeville ... 6 10 .. ..Athens Ga.. 1 46 ? ? Atlanta.... Going KhbL No. 63. .Ar r> 10pm 7 40 6 20 5 00 8 13 2 67 2 10 1 45 Lv 0 03pm 8 25 ,. Winneboro. S, C. .Charlotte. N. C. 11 41anr, 036 2 lopm Ar . ..Anderson, H, C. .Lv 12 16am 4 20 .... Greeenville .... 10 80 3 10 .... Spartan burg.... 1128 6 03 Hendersonvillo N.C. ?15 7 00 . ..AshfivHle,N,C... 8 20 ? Dally, Nob, 52 and 63 Mol id trains bot ween Charleston and Columbia.S. C, and c arry through coach between Charleston anl Atlanta, 'H, M, KMKRSON, Ass't Gen'l Passenger Act. f, R, KBNLY, /T. M. KMKRH?N, Uen'l Manager. I TraffloJMauager ft*. SCHEDULES. CHARLESTON A WESTERN CAR - Una Railwav Co. u Augusta and Asha vitle Short Line." Schedule in effect l ot. fst, 189?. Lv Augusta. 9 40 aui Ar Greenwood.12 17 pm Anderson. 7 30 pm Lauren*. 1 13 pm Greeov.llo. 2 65 pm Glenn Springs..... 4 05 pm Sparianburg.3W)pm Saluda.5 2 > pm Hendorsmville. ..6 61 pm Asheville.0 46 pin 7 15 11 ?0 am 7 00 ? 45 10 20 ton am l.v Asheville. 8 20 am . Spartanburg.1146 am 4 00 pm Greenville.1165 am 4U0pm Laureus.... .. 116 pm 7 00 pm Anderson.10 26 am. Greenwood. 2 28 pm 6 00 Km Ar Augusta. 6 05 pm 9 35 t.ra Ar Aiken. 0 50 pin VO ATUKNB, ATLANTA AND POINTS WEST. Lv Greenville.11 55 am Ar Raleigh. 120 am Norfolk.7 00 am Petersburg. 6 00 am Richmond......... 6 40 ata Lv Greenville. * 00 pm Ar Iii nerton. 2 88 am Abbeville. 1 42 am Athens. 3 3 am Atlanta.0 am i.v Atlanta.~..910 pm Athens.11 40 pm Elberton.12 45 am Abbeville.1248 am Ar Greenville. 946 am 4 00 pm 12 00 :iu ii 20 pm 5 48 pm 0 46 pja ii oftum .4 oopm 4 65) m 5 lOnm 0 46pm Close connections at UrcOUWood for ul points on S. A. L. and C. ii 0. Railway, H id at Spartahburg with Southern it dlway. For Information relative io tickets, in cs, scheduleo, etc., addresH V. . J. CltAlG, Oca. Pass. V-^cr.' Augusta, G; . J. B.Guroton, AgentjU. H. Speights, 6 in? pent Greenville. S. C? SOUTHERN RAILWAY, PIEDMONl' AI? vixs% Oondrniad Sotted (lie of Pa-MOOger Tn*I ja> In tEflWot Rot. 100?. If MPthbeand. No. 8?! No. 30 * ??** Ontly.i ?>>?ii>-1 "'Uly Lv. Atlanta, 0. T. M Atlanta, It T. " Norcross. M Buford. GuiiicHvllle. " Lulu. Ar. t'^rnoHn. Lv. Mt. Airy . .. " TOCOOA. Westminster * Se neca. ?* Central. " Greenville. . " Sparlsnburg. Guffuevs. . " BlaoKsburg - King's Mt.. " Gasten!?. Ar. Charlotte " Danville .. Ar. Klch.nund is oo... n w 1 to p is w .ii :.0 8 ?9 p g $? 8 4$ pi S 4f ft iV 4 is 4 u> b so 0 18 7 08 p d jo p 12 00 I 48 fit all 7 40 8 05 8 *7 V It. 1 80 T 60 n f !V> (i 0 81 n l. 0! a] n:ii <n hi 11 ? a 1 i S 11 M a 12.W pi 12 4ft p 1 no p 2 1 V 8 17 p 4 p 4 17 p ?, 18 p 6 ?5 p ,?, 8 JO p pill 25 p No. 1.8 ? -. ft* 4 i f I ? I 7 i ip - , 'ij . .p I 'D c oo a o 40 p Ar. Washington 0 49 a' 0 40 p Baltm'ePRR.I 8 00 n il 2? p Philadelphia. 10 lo a; 3 00 a New York . |12 43 u?! 0 20 a ve*. I rat. mi No. 37 No. 3.1 llall.v.; Unit i . Southbound. Lv. N. Y..V.U. Ft Philadelphia. Baltimore Washington.. Lv. Richmond Lv. pAHVtlll! .. ci. 4 80 p 19 16 ? 86 p /<> a p 30 pi A 22 a 10 t:> p 11 16 0 00 a N'n.ll D.ol> Nn.1T ?>. Sni). 2 00 a 12 55 p 2 00 a 6 50 a 0 20 p| 8 15 9 35 ajlO 15 p;l2 2e p 10 49 11 37 12 28 1 16 1 86 3 18 p 8 18 p 8 81 p 4 55 10 60 p 11 82 11 47 12 20 1 20 2 05 2 20 8 15 4 01* 4 ?5 1 10 p 1 .15 p 2 00 p 2 20 p 8 15 p 4 2.1 p 6 26 p 6 54 p ? 1 TOO p T80 p 7 SX p em p 986 p pot p . I p 43 p 8 10 a 10 do p 6 10 a] B 40 pi 8 :?> a M" noon. "N" night 0 38 a Of.v a 7 20 a 7 *t a 8 27 0 ;<o liarlotto .... QaKtoitia. " Kinj's Mt.... ** ICsoYoiburg ?. " (inftlUiVB. " SpartAiiburg. " OrpcnvlUc.. . " Otmtral. " Fonoca . " Wextm1nst?r. " Toeoon. " Mt.Alry.. " <>>rD?lla.... " Lula. ?* Gainesvilla. M Buford. " Nerxiross ... Ar. Atlanta, K. T.l Ar. Atlanta, C T.! 8 65 p[ "/ " a. m. ")J" p. in, i. 87 anil ss? Daliy. Washington and Sou! v woHiern Vestlbnls Lfmited. Through Pullmta sleepiiiK oa:s li<>iVf???m. Naw Yt.rU and Kovr ()> Irans, vlu NVaslilnjjton, Atlanta and MtmtgOlH* ery, and a'.m linwocn No..- York aix'. Momphii, vlaWaibliiKton, Atlni'ta and Birininirham. 1-^u. r> iv.au sloanir.f oars between New Yoi I: and N? T Orleans, in eonnsotion with the "Sunset U?/ ited" traini for 1>?d BVanoisro, sci.d-waakl \ leaving.Torsey Ott/Tttesdaya snd Baturday. i rftttiriLeiyt, Iwive New Orleans Wednesdaysai 1 Saturdays. This tratu also onrrios tichmox. - Aug;.j?ia slo<>-iliic vur* liotween Di' tTlllo ai I Charlotte, t ;r?i oIsbj thoroiinhfnve con?r ? s V. \w on VVashlngton end Atlanta. Linings servo all uiC!iV> rr routo. ^os. 35 ar.d 80?United Statos Cast KfA runs so!i<1 between Wnshtugton ar i Xo\vO~ leans, via S'.utHor.i Jtallwny, A. & W. 1*. R. I ( and L. & N- K fi., being oomposod <* bagrtb * ear and coaches, tiirotign wltimut ciianga frr iMUMcngers of all elaasoa Pallium pals > flrawin-' . min rilcepli'tr cars betwi-on W?<? ?? Ingtoii and Galveston, Tex., via Atlanta. N? t Oricniisaii'i Southern Pu ilflo RaUway jFuilms i drawlnt: room slaoping mr? between .lorn^f City and Allat ia. l.uavin^ WashitigtOO la^l BaturUay. a tourist nluepmg car will r\ i tlirotigh botweon WasltL'gton and .'*un Fra. ? olseo witli -at chaiif ??. K03. Ii anil l2~Piillnian sloopliigoi.' sbetvt o*. i Richmond ntid Danvlllo, The Air Line l'.<-:ir> train, Nos. 17 md 18, h ? tweon Atlant? on<l C< rnolla, Qa., d.oly ex. u. t Bunday. W. H.ORRBN, J. M. f!n..P, Gc:> i Biipt.. Trafu. M'g'r., Washington, I). O. Wotthln ;iou, 1?. 1'. W, A. TURK, H. It. HAUI.W KJK, tien'l fftss. An't., Ass tOcn'IPaiS. Aii'i, \S a?diia?tu.i. D. U. ANW, SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed BehedUle In EfTlaot NOV. 15, IKPrt. STATIONS. Lvi Ofcsri cTt on._~7. Lv. Columbia .._...' 'rosnerlty. ' ^ber Ax. Newberrt At. Nlnety-Sfi " greenwood "_Hodges Ar. Abbovllla~ ir. Bolton Ar. iinl?rson ... Ar. GroanvTlTo" Ar. Atlanta. STATIONS. Lv. Orcoiivllla Piedmont Williatnston TialrV * No. fL r fo ?7il n ?o a ii. 12 11 p in 12 22 p Ii. 1 20 p rr. 1 45 p in 2 25 p in 9 RS p in ft 10 p ru 8 !i5 p m 4 20 p in " 9 80 p n ") " f)ally No. f^ lO .To a m 10 .v? a in 11 Is a ni v. AnifcrBon^ Beiton Ar. Donnaida tyjAW ?irvlli? ?v. irfMlgoi " Greenwood " NinotySlx Lv. Newl>orry " Prosperity v.- Columbia Lr. (ibarleHton TfjOpiTTSaLv7 T?oa iT?7)? ,T~. ?07ii 1216p "..Alst?? 16 04a 1 25p ".Saul no 10Wal ao2p *?.Union. lOWh.i 2 2yp " .... JonoMvIU*.... 16 54ji ?87p " .. Paeolpt." 11 toal U 10p!Ar.. Spartaiiburg.. Lv 1146a Brablhv.. Bpartanparg. Ar \ 4Qpl 700i)IAr.... Ashoville.. . .Lv 8 20?! 8 TO "Pf P- m Trains 0 and 10 carry natt. elegant Pullman hla and Asheville, Jacknonvlllo and Cincln ?looping cars between Oolnmbla'ftnd AshevUI? ?girouta dally hotweas Trains leave flpartanbnrK, A. A O. division, Jortbbound, 0:42 a. to., 8:47 p. m., 0:1s p. in.. Vestibule Llinlted)| southliound 12:^1 a. ru., tU p. ru.. ll-Ml a. m., (Vestllmlo Limite.?.> Tramafeavs OreenvUle. A, and ?. dlvlslou. Borthboun?, IJM a. rn., 2:81 p. ra. et. i . p. in . (vestibuled LUnlto<l)Mi<)uthtK.ui.il. 1 :J. a. in., 4:T) p as., 12198 p. in (Ve^llbuled Limited). Pallman Sorvlr.e. Pnllman pslnce slrxmlng cars on Tralnt 35and On, or and 88. in A. and O. division. WA H. QRKBN. J. M. Cl 7LP Truffle M'cj'r Ofn. Superintendent, Washington, D. 6. WAA. fuitl 1. Pf 'ASS. A?'t. Wav.ilnRtoi. l5 O. S If. HAHl.Wli K, t. Olon. Pass. Vn't.