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One is tempted to believe so while, looking through the Treihen-^dous Stock ofJLadies?, and.Children's Goods with which

.y? ¦ M«^s-Iizzie WilMamViias just returned from; - T-v- Northern Markets.

Tee taste anc care displayed in the present selection outrival even lier grandest9ucces&eä in the past; and her reputation as a skillful Buyer, which has heretoforefeeeü tinsquatted, seems, if possible, to increase in strength greatly, tö the delight ofher customers, who are benefited more than herself. -.

: To see is to admire ! And to hear a quotation from prices is to wonder 1 Such

Style P. Such qrAlUy I.'And in return lor such a small amount of money I Washe like ever seen before? If not, come to the.

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IP.ÄHVAN & CO'S.

We extend a cordial invitation to any of our Friends who come to the

City to call in an d see.us. Jhey certain y owe it to them-

;. v'Tfizi vseJves to left no chance 'pass to buy theirMerchandise Right 11

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, PRESENT indications warrant the belief that* a large Fall trade will be realized, and we have

never before since our start in business usedmore cautioii. in "buying and selecting our stock.

Discounting every dollar's worth of goods thatcome into our house, whether it be Groceries or

!' Dry Goods, which enables to meet any'and all

competition. .

\ Come, in then, and you will find us with our

trends out of our pockets. Come in, and if'wedon't give yon cause to congratulate yourselves,why, we'll apologize, for we are here to do busi¬ness, and whatever is not right we will make

right.With thanks for past patronage, wo remain,

Respectfully yours,

J. P. SULLI¥AN & CO.

wE have already received a big portion of our large stock of Lamps for thisseason, and they are constantly arriving :

Library Lamps, Students' Lamps,Stand Lamps, Cltftfeh ^Lampa,: .

Store Iiampn, Parlor Lamps,Kitch.-,a Lamps cheaper than ever before.

PAINTS, PAINTS, PAINTS !^e h^ve the'largest and most complete line of Floor Paints, Carriage and

Boggy Paints, Mixed House Paints, Enamel Paints in all shades, White Lead andOil. Brushes, all sizes, from 10c up.

Don't forget that we keep the largest stock of.

(? Drugs, Patent.Medicines, Brushes, Combs, Toilet ArticlesOf all kinds, including Perfumery, Fine Soaps, Face Powders, &c.

Wo will take pleasure in showing you through our big stock. Call early andelegant line of Lamps.get a look at our el.

WIEHITE & WILHITE.

ROCERIES.OhR Establishment is now full and running over with the best selected stock of

FAMILY andFANCY IGROCERIES,

CANNED GOODS,TOBACCO, Etc.,

iver brought to Anderson. We invite you to inspect our goods, and we guaranteeplease your taste as well as yocr purse. Just received a big lot of.

T23XAS RED RUST PROOF OATS.

MoGEE & LIGON.

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TEjÄÖHß^'öoLUMN,.' *Ug^ Ali communications intended forthis Column should be addressed to T>. H.RUSSELL, School Commission 9r, Ander-son, 8. C._

Will some of the pupils answer thisquestion? Why does a ball of papersuspended from the ceiling of a heatedroom move about?

At the recent examination there wore

about ten whites and thirty colored, andof these not one received, a first gradelicense, and the teacher who came thenearest to getting a first grade was a ne¬

gro. It i3 not pleasant to us to writethese things, but facta are stubbornthings and we want the people to knowthe facts. It is true that in one or two ofthe branches, History and Geography,the questions were unfair, and were so

regarded by all the Board, but they were

no more unfair for the whites than forthe negroes. They were qtieBtlons out¬side of the line of the text books and ofwhat the teachers are required to teachevery day, but they wore not outside ofwhat every intelligent man and womanin South Carolina is 'supposed ito know,but they were not, strictly speaking,questions on the branches taught. Forinstance, one question was: "Explain theHampton campaign, its significance andits results/' No history yet printedtells any thing about it, and all theinformation to be had about it is fromold newspapers or from tradition. An¬other was i "How many provisional Gov¬ernors has South Carolina had since1865, and their names?" The same is-true of this as of the first question, andin this connection we would like to callupon the first and second grade teachersof the Cnnnty to answer this question.What say yon ? Let's have your opinion.We wish the teachers of the County

to send us their opinions on the follow¬ing question. We will publish a con¬

sensus of their answers: "Name threepoints of similarity between the Stateand the National Governments." Wedo this for the reason that the questionsfor the semi annual examinations are

partaking more and more of the natureof questions on Civil Government, andthose teachers who have come beforethe Board have shown a deficiency on

ques Ions of this nature that is to beregretted. Our institutions are foundedupon the popular will, and these youngboys now in the schools under the care

of the teachers need to be trained toexercise the highest function of sover¬

eignty, that of casting a ballot, and theyshould have an intelligent comprehen¬sion of our syetem of Government-There are many things not found in thetext'books that should be taught thechildren, and this of Civil Governmentis one of the most important. An. edu¬cation is lamentably incomplete thatdoes not qualify for the duties andresponsibilities of life, and a great manypoints on which the pupils will needinstruction the teacher must find outsideof the common school curriculum. Theteacher should not be an automatic ma¬

chine, wound up like a clock to pourinto the pupils for sis hours a day a

little reading, writing and arithmetic,but he should be like a fountain from-which they themselves may be able to,in some measure, quench their thirst forknowledge.

.Recently a teacher presented her arti¬cles to a patron of her school for his sig¬nature for another year. He declinedto sign upon the ground that the publicmoney ougbt to pa- for the tuition of hischildren, four in number, for the wholeterm, eight months. This man pays lessthan ten dollars school tax, and yet heexpects his entire tuition for eightmonths to. be paid with lens tfian tendollars. In other words, if he sends fourchildren eight months at s. dollar apiecea month, it would amount to thirty-twodollars, and he expects the State to paythe bill with less than ten dollars 1 Whatis the right name for this? Surely our

friend has not looked at the matter from,the right standpoint. If all his neigh¬bors thought the same way how wouldthey get a school ? We have no hesita¬tion in saying that no good teacher can

or will attempt to teach a school for justwhat public money there is in it, and toexpect a , teacher $o teach an eightmonth's school for the public moneyalone, is to ask her to devote a portion ofher time and services to the public. Thepublic schools do not average one hun¬dred dollars apiece all over the County,and an eight month's school at this pricewould not average more than twelve dol¬lars and fifty cents per month, and thiswould not board atad clothe the teachers.No, no, friends, do not try to see howlo '. yon can let out the contract, nor putyour teacher on starvation wages, but bejust and liberalin your dealings with theteacher, so that she, realizing that she iswell-paid, may be encouraged and stim¬ulated to give you value received forjour money. Poor pay, poor teach.

"Well, I guess I'll not sign the article,but I'll send to school if you get a goodteacher," said one neighbor to anotherrecently when presented with an articlefor a school next year. And yet thatsame man says he is interested in havinga school, interested (?) in the educationof his children ! How, pray ? Whore isthe evidence of it beyond a simple state¬ment of it? Men who are interested ina thing and believe in it will back theirjudgment with their money. This man

believes in his farm and is interestedabout it, and he puts time and labor andmoney all into it, he gives evidence ofhis faith by his works, but when it comesto making up a school and he is asked to

sign for one or two scholars at a dollar a

month he says "No, I'll not sign, but I'llsend." He is leaning upon his neigh¬bors, and is depending upon them to dofor him that about which he ought tolend a helping hand himself. In mostcommunities a school cannot be made upunless all hands unite and pull together,and no good teacher will undertake toteach a Bchool if all should say "I'll not

sign, but I'll send." If you want a

school and consider it worth anything to

you and .your community say so in dol¬lars and cents, and Bay just bow muchyou think so. In one or two instances

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known tö the writer teachers have Under¬taken schools upon the simple assuranceof the patrons that, while tj^ey would notsign the article, yet they would send allthe samej and in every instance thoseteachers failed to make enough to payforboard and clothing. This- is injustice,pure and simple, and deters our best menand women from entering the professionof teaching, and has driven out some ofthe best we had, "The laborer is worthyof his hire," and any calling in life thatwill not do more than feed aud clothewill be. and ought to be, abandoned.

THE SOUTHERN FARM.

A Batch of Practical Agricultural Infor¬mation.

Oapt. E. It. Walter and Mr. J.Weathersbe, two progressive farmers ofOrangeburg, who have tried the Baileycotton, a new variety for this section,have made the following report of theirexperiment:We will speak of the origin aa we get

it from the Bailey Cotton Company, ofRaleigh, N. C. During the summer of1885 Hector 0. Bailey, a colored man,living in Earnett County, N. C, near

'Lillington, discovered on the banks ofthe Cape Fear River a plant resemblingcotton. The growth and leaf of thisplant being so peculiar he determinedto watch it closely. In the fall he foundthat it had proddced cotton, the fibre ofwhich was remarkable for its length, andvery fine and silky in texture. Hecarefully saved the seed and plantedthem next season at a safe distance fromother cotton. In the season of 1887 heplanted a quarter of ah acre with theseseed. Each year the parent plant was

exactly reproduced in all its peculiarcharacteristics.So well known in Harnett and neigh¬

boring counties had this cotton becomethat in November, 1887, Bailey refusedan off r of $86 per bushel for the seed,as this had proved to be such a valuablekind of cotton, both on account of itsyield and the superior quality of the lint.In 1888 Bailey planted two aores withthe seed he had stved.In the fall of 1888 this cotton produced

on only fair land, without extra manur¬

ing, two bales to the acre, and of thesame long and fine fibre. In November,1888, Bailey sold bis entire crop of seedand the right to sell the-same to theBailey Cotton Company, who offer themnow to the faroiers of .the country andguarantee that-they are genuine.

THE ADVANTAGES.First. It opens more regularly and

evenly than other cotton. The peculiarformation of its leaves allows the sun

and air to have free access to the bollsand ripen them nearly at the same time.Second. Its staple is as fine and silky

and nearly as long as the sea island cot¬ton.Third. It is more easily picked than

the sea'island or any other cotton of thesame grade.Fourth. It yields more lint per acre

than Bea island. It produced two balesto the acre in the fall of 1888.

Fifth. It is the only variety of cottonthat can be successfully raised in theinterior capable of competing with thesea island in staple, and it should com¬

mand its price.THE PECULIARITIES.

FirBt. The leaves are different fromall other varieties and form one of itsmost remarkable peculiarities.

Second. It has very small seed.Third. It has usually nine seed to the

lock.Fourth. The bolls of this cotton are

larger than those of ordiuary cotton.Sixth. Having tested it and never

having it attacked by rust, Bailey be¬lieves it to be rust proof. It has never

been known to be attacked by cottonworms, though it is not claimed to beproof against tbem.In the early part of this year we met

an agent traveling in this country tryingto introduce this new variety of cotton,but was going away without having anyone to take hold of it, and we were some¬

what interested, and from the fair prop¬osition made by the agent and testimo¬nials in his possession thought it a goodcotton, superior in many ways to theordinary cotton, and from all we can see

of it up to this date think it will do allthat is claimed for it, and, should fur¬ther developments warrant, we will offerthe seed to the planters of this and Barn-well County, which is the extent of our

territory.We would be glad to show the plant

to any one who is interested in theadvancement of the growth, and wouldbe glad to have them come at once. Thecrop of Mr. J. A. Weathersbee is in thecorporate limits, so any who may can

see it at any time they are in the city.Shonld any one wish to come from a

distance by notifying either of us we

will take pleasure in meeting them at thedepot and carry direct to the field. Thisinvitation is to ail and every planter inany-part of the State to come and lookand Bee this peculiar cotton growing. Ifit is all that is claimed it will be thecotton to plant, and will be a great ad¬vance to the industry.There has always been a great demand

for a superior staple to the ordinary shortcotton, and if this variety .should fill thegrades between tue best ofthe short sta¬

ple and the lower grades of sea island,based on present prices, we think therewill be a value of at least. 15 cents perpound, as the mills want just such a classot cotton to mix with the manufactureof certain fine goods, which to reduce theprice they would use this variety insteadof sea island, at probably 10 cents more

on the pound. The firtuiug interest ofour country is making vast strides up¬ward and onward, and should this cottoncontinue to do as well in the future as ithas up to the present it will have doneas much towards advancing their inter¬est as anything could possibly do. Wewill, from time io time, make knownany change that may occur which wouldalter the statements made in this com¬

munication.

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. The vein of ore in the Treadwellmine, ' Alaska, is 464 feet wide, andextends along the mountain Ibree-quar-t-rs of a mile. The mine produces$100,000 in gold bullion montly, about40 per cent, of which is profit,

HURSDAY MOBNES

BILL AIIP,

fie tolls of 13.19 Boyhood and Its Trialtf.

Atlanta Constitution.I wish I was a boy and had as much

man's sense as I have got now. It makesme right sad to see Carl and his school¬mates plotting and planning for theirSaturday frolics. I want to go withthem, but I can't. I see them cleaningout their guns and loading up their shellsand patting the pointer dog and talkingso merrily about the birds they are goingto kill, but I can't go. 1 want to climb a

walnut tree and shake the limbs and hearthe music of the walnuts rattling down.I want to go chestnut hunting and cut offthe top limbs with a hatchet or if thetrees are large and tall show my skill in

knocking the burrs down with sticks as Iused to do on the old academy hill. Weboys used to take our bundle of stickswith us to school and hide them underthe house until playtime. I want to go'possum hunting and hear the music ofthe dogs on the track and the welcomebark when they had treed one of the oul-ky varmints up a 'simmon tree, or a

black gum or uuder a clay f'etot. Whata glorious frolic it was to cut him down Or

dig him. out, and then split a stick for his

curly tail and shoulder bim, and move on

for another victim. I want to go coon

bunting and see the fight. I want to gorabbit hunting in the snotf. I want to

climb a muscadine vine &ü4 hunt forblack haws and May pops. I want to goto the mill,aad run a horse race back andcry "school butter" as I pass the countryschool house ou the way. Then the boyswould lay for us the next time andsurround UB-and attack us With sticks androcks and thrash poles and the way we

ran the gauntlet was thrilling. I thinkof all these youthful frolics when I see

these boys start out and I want to go, butI can't, I'm too old, my time's out, Icouldn't keep up. The spirit is willingbut the flesh is weak, very weak. Itmakes me puffand blow to run or fox trota hundred yards now. My legs are over¬

loaded with corporcsity but my arms are

all right. I can chop wood on a

wager with most any young man and winit.

I was looking at the races at Piedmontyesterday and it carried me back to thegood old times when we boys used tomount our nags and ponies and slip downthe Covington road to the race tracks.not your round course nor an oval, buttwo long straight parallel tracks about tenfeet apart and the bushes cut away likethe right of way on a railroad. Fromlong use the tracks had worn into twolittle narrow paths, and the horses hadnothing to do but keep them. We al¬ways rode bareback, and it made goodriders of-us. It was a rough young life inthose days.rougher than it is now, forwe didn't wear shoes much, nor coats, norundershirts, nor drawers, and a homemadecap or a sealskin cap would last two or

three years, and then be banded down to

the next boy. Sore toes and stonebruisesand burrs in the feet or splinters in thefingers were common to every boy, forthere was no aristocracy then. Threeyards of nankeon and a shirt and a pairof gallusaes sot a school boy up prettywell for summer, and a suit of countryjeans and a pair of shoes was mighty finefor winter. Our mother cut our garmentsaud made them, and it didn't cost morethan five dollars a year for a boy, all told.But now it takes about three suits a yearof store clothes for the boys. Then thereare ten dollars more for hats and shoes.And there are collars and cuffs andcravats and handkerchiefs and gloves andgold buttons and so forth. I went into a

store in Atlanta yesterday to buy me a

coat and a young man measured me andgot out a coat and I put it on and he saidit fit me beautifully, and I said it didn'tand he said it was not the fault of thecoat but my shoulders were awkwardlybuilt. I asked him if he thought I wss

deformed, and he said no, not exactly de¬formed, but out of the proportion, and so

I departed those coasts. I tried anotherstore, aud they jerked me into a bobtailcutaway, and said it was just splendid/ Ilooked so nobby and genteel. I told himI wanted a frock coat.a black clothfrock coat and he curled up his lip andsaid that nobody but lawyers and preach¬ers wore them now, and they didn't havemy size. So I departed those coasts andkept on trying until I got what I wanted,but had to have the sleeves cut offa littleto suit my arms. Mrs. Arp told me to

buy her a hat.a black velvet hat withbright, modest trimming, and bo I crowded in among the women and told what Iwanted. They sized me up pretty quickand sized my pocket-book, and Bhowedme a hat that I thought would do, andasked me $18 for it. They hurt my feel¬ings and I departed those coasts. Afriend met me and I asked him if suchthings had gone up that way on accountof the Exposition, and he said he reckon¬ed not, and took me to another placewhere the same hat or another one justlike it, waB offered for $9, aud as I didn'tthink it prudent to go home without thehat, I bought it. It looked like a blackvelvet bat to me, but when I got it homeit had changed to a bottle green, which Ithought made it all the prettier, but mywife said no.that black would match a

dress of any color, but green wouldn't.And so I had to take it back and changeit, and now everything is calm andserene. It bus been a long time since shehad a nine dollar hat, and it does lookextravagant, but she says maybe it is thelast one that I will ever buy for her forher heart has been fluttering very strangeof late. I told her that mine had too,and I reckon we would both pass awaysimultaneously and not be separated atall.We had a big time at the exposition.

There were folks and people innumerable.Thousands and thousands, and all of themwere sober aud none were sad. A won¬

dering countryman said tome: 'StrangerI never seed as many people in all mylife, and there's nary two alike.' Anoth¬er man said: 'I can see now why landhas gone up so. God Almighty aintmakin' any more land, but keeps on,mak¬ing people.' Betsy Hamilton made an

assault on me iu the Agricultural Hallwhile I was peacefully meanderingaround and charged me with calling herAunt Betsy.

fG, OCTOBEE 31, 18"Your Aunt Betsy'" said she. "The

idea of such a patriarchal specimen ofantiquity, as you are presuming to callsuch a young blooming beauty as I am

Aunt Betsy. Aunt Betuy indeed." TheDeople began to gather around to see thefight, and so 1 surrendered and apologiz¬ed and begged forgiveness,.and retreatedin good order with no loss on our side.Not long after that I met Kit. Warrenand mentioned Aunt Betsy, and hebrightened up and said : "Where is she?I must see her. She and I were school¬mates when we were children." Iu a

quiet, unconcerned way I asked Kit. bowold he was and he told me, but 1 shallnot mention it for the present, I'm goineto keep that as ammunition to preventanother assault. Well,; Well, I do loveAunt Betsy.that is as a father or a

brother, and I'l lnever'call her Aunt Bet-By again.My wife and children and grand chil¬

dren were all delighted with the greatshow at the exposition. We took theground rounds and I pointed oat thegreat men on the grand stand and ex¬

plained the Wild West show, and we

visited the Indians' camp and saw MComanche Bill and Mrs. ComancheBill, and that reminds me of the letter Ireceived the day before which is as fol¬lows :

Mb. Bill. Arp: My husband, and-1desire to thank you for your kind allusionto our show. We have long known youand are much pleased at your apprecia¬tion/ I take especial delight and pridein the success of the exposition as I urn a

Georgian by birth, and my longings toBet foot on the dear old soil had much todo with our making the pleasant engage¬ment. If Mrs. Arp is not a literarymyth we shall be delighted to meet berand yourself when you visit the exposi¬tion. I beg you to accept the enclosedbill (ten dollars) for the benefit of thosesoldiers' graves. With cordial regards Iam Mrs. Comanche Bill.That's nice-that's all right. There's

no Injun gift about that. When I was a

lad and one boy gave another somethingand took it back again we called it Injungift and made faces at him for h:is selfish¬ness.

And this reminds me to say that MissMay Waring, of Clement, has iu the art

gallery of the exposition a beautiful oilpainted folding genius, and it is to berefilled for the benefit of those same sol¬dier's graves. Miss Maude Andrews hasit in charge and wants everybody to takea chance. If you don't draw it yourmoney will not be lost.

Bill Arp.

The Richest Ex-Slave.

The wealthiest colored man in theSouth since the war, who has born a

slave and set free by the emancipationproclamation, was Beh Montgomery, ofMississippi. He belonged to JosephDavis first, and then to Jefferson Davis.For years before the war he was the Sec¬retary of Hon. Joseph Davis, JeffersonDavis' elder brother. The Davises were

large planters and owned the "Hurri¬canes" estate, consisting of three cottonplantations at the extreme lower end ofWarren County, Miss., and about eigh¬teen or twenty miles below Vicksburg.There were between 12,000 and 15,000acres of the finest land on the Mississippiriver in these plantations and over 750slaves,

All the letters respecting the businessof these places for thirty years were writ¬ten by Ben Montgomery. He frequentlywent to New Orleans on business for theDavises and carried with him once

$90,000 in money. He traveled withDavis all over the North, and could haverun away fifty times had he. wished.But he remained loyal to the last. TheDavises were noted for tbear kindness toslaves. They had finer "quarters" on

their plantations, probably, than anyplanters in the South, excepting theHamptons. They kept a jphysicianalways on the places and in every waycared for their "colored people!," as theslaves were frequently called. WhenJefferson Davis and his brother Josephleft their homes, one as the President ofthe Southern Confederacy and the otheras a brigadier-general, they put every¬thing under Ben Montgomery's charge.He made the crops of 1861-62 and1862-63, about 3,000 bales of co tton, andshipped it to New Orleans and sold it toforeign buyers for gold. This money hecarefully sent to Davis. In 1865, whenthe slaves were emancipated, Davis soldthe "Hurricanes" to Montgomery for$300,000 in gold. When the federal"agents for the protection of abandonedproperty and lands" came to take pos¬session of the Hurricanes, they foundBen Montgomery with a title so strongthat it could not be upset and they lefthim iu peaceable possession.

After the war be continued to plantthese places, making every year from1,100 to.2,200 bales of cotton, besides an

abundance of corn and hay. In 1876there being a balance due on the pay¬ments, Davis took the property back, butleft Montgomery in charge. Theseplaces now yield a handsome income toDavis, who lives on the Mississippi sea¬

shore at Beauvoir, but visits his old homeonce a year. Whenever he goes back tohis former residence, all the old timenegroes within fifty miles comes to see

"Old Marse Jeff." When Ben Mont¬gomery died, in 3881, Davis went to hisfuucral, and there was no sincerermourner than he who once had the fateof a people upon his shoulders, at thegrave of his old and life long friend,though his slave.

The first cannon which came intouse after the discovery of the explosiveproperties of gunpowder, during the 141hcentury, were called - bombards. Theyconsisted of irou bars bound togetherwith hoops of the same metal. The firstcannon balls fired from these primitiveweapons were round stones. It is a mis¬take to suppose that breech-loading gunswere not tried till recently. They were

made when cannon firsfcame into use,but were soon abandoned because no one

knew how to make them strong enough.Among the early cannon were culverins,which were made four times the lengthof a man, the early artillerists havingcuueeived the idea that the longer thegun the further it would carry.

89.HEROIC DEEDS.

Old Sola let's Recount Acts' of Bravery Inttfar Times.

Atlanta Constitution.Have you ever thought of asking, an

old soldier "what was the bravest thingyou ever saw done during the war 7"That is just what the Constitution asked

a number of old Boldiers on yesterday.And here is the result", and a very prettycollection ofgallant things it is, too!Governor Gordon was asked the

most conspicuous example of bravery heever saw on the other side."The finest enhibition of courage I

ever saw on that side," said he, "wasat Sharpsburg. It wasi the major wholed their men agaiust us. They hadthree or four lines, and he brought themup against us three or four times. Webroke tbem as they came up, and whena line was broken he would put a freshline in front of the broken one and bringthem up again. In this way he broughtthem up until they w.ere all broken.Then he tried to lead them up again butthey would not Come. I had told mymen to hold their fibre and I could see

him gesticulating and urging his menon, but to no purpose. Finally he walk¬ed out about a third of the way, stuckhis sword in the ground and stood infront of us with his arms folded, now

and then looking over his shoulder at hismen as if to say, "I am going to standhere till I die or bring you up," andthey did come at last about two-thirdsof the 'way. I tried hard, to find out wbohe was, but I was knocked senselessabout that time and never Baw himagain. The men said the last thing Isaid before I fell was, "No don't hurtthat man.""Now give us one on our side," said

the interviewer."I could give you a thousand that

would make your hair stand on end,"said the Governor, "but I cannot giveyou one.'it would do injustice to tenthousand."v Captain W. H. Harrison, who was

on Gordon's staff in the army, tells thefollowing:

"It was at Harper's Fsrry, a short timebefore the surrender, and my companyhad been out all night on picket. Justat daybreak, when we began to see wherewe were, a man, named Miles Thornton,looked over his head and saw a pear treefull of ripe pears." 'Captain, let me go up and get some

o' them pears/ said he. .

"I told him to go ahead, if he wanted"to, but he might get shot."Oh no, I won't," he said, and began

climbing the tree. A yankee gunner on

the other side of the river saw him, andjust as he reached out his hand for apear a shell went through the top of thetree about six feet over his bead."Lookout, Thornton," said I, "don't

you see the yankees are shooting at you 7

They'll get your range in a minute, andthe next shell will knock yon out ofthere.""Oh, no, cap'n," said he, "I won't

get hit, just let me climb up where thatshell went through," and the fellowclimbed up and plucked a pear from thevery spot where the shell bad gonethroughr-"Tbat man was shot through the left

leg soon afterward. It was badly bro¬ken, but he got two muskets for crutch¬es, and was hobling off the- field whenanother ball struck his left elbow andbroke his forearm all to splinters, so thatit had to be amputated near the shoul¬der. He was captured and taken toBaltimore, and in less than a monthfrom the time he was shot he bad whit¬tled out a wooden leg, which he used foryears. He sat up in bed, and with hisone hand and the stump of the otherarm managed to draw the piece of wooddown with his pocket knife until it wasin the shape of a wooden leg, with a longpiece that came up to his hip, and was

held in place by a leather strap. Thatman was tax receiver of my country forseveral years, and died since the war."Judge W. L. Calhoun : "At Vicks-

burg our men were all heroes. Theyhad been through' a severe campaign,and every man wbo lacked grit had failedoff by the wayside long before the siege.I saw one example of deBperate courage'.A half dozen men were out in the trench¬es in front of our works, and a party oftwenty of the enemy made a rush to

capture them. They surrounded andcaptured tbem, but there was one man

who would not surrender. With a doz¬en guns pointed at him he defied them,and shot their lieutenant dead. Thenext moment his body was riddled withbullets, and the yankees buried him andput a stone to mark the spot where a

brave man died."I saw another instance of dare devil

daring which had a ludicrous end.When the enemy bad just corco up theybrought out a little rifle piece and beganout a little rifle piece and beflan shoot¬ing at our works. Lieutenant B. F.Walker got up and danced on the para¬pet, making all sorts of gestures at thegunners who were throwing shells over

his head. I saw that they were gettingdown nearer to his range and told himthey would take him off in a few minutesif he did not get down. 'No, they can'thit me,' be said, and as he could see theflash of the cannon he dropped downevery time and escaped the shells. Thefirst thing I kuev Walker came tumblingdown with the whole top of the parapetand a shower of clay. The thing was so

ludicrous that I could not help laugh¬ing, though I thought he was killed. Ina few momeots he came crawli? \ jut ofthe clay and brushed himself off, a verycrestfallen individual."Captain John McIntosii Kell:

"The engagement between the Alabamaand the Kearsage guns lasted an hourand a quarter before the Alabamabegan to sink. The Kcarsargc guns were

throwing eleven inch shells into us andwiping our men from the deck likechessmen from a board. The mangledlimbs so covered the deck that I had tohave them thrown overboard in orderthat the crews might work the guns.The shells had struck several times bythe Bide of ono of our big guns, and one

of them bad cut dowu nine of the guncrew. Then a shell struck the breast ofthe gun and dropped down on the deckwith a short time fuse burning rapidly.

VOLUM]The coxswain, Mars, who was one ofthat gun crew, picked up theshell andthrew it overboard through the port."A few moments afterwards when

Captain Semmes saw that the ship was

sinking, he sent the steward for the mostimportant of the ship's papers lashedbetween two cigar box lids, and givingthem to the coxswain told him to takecare of them. Mars put the papers insidebis pocket and jumped into the sea. Heswam to the first boat he couM see andclimbed in. Looking back to the sternhe saw the union flag flying. In an

instant he was in the sea again swim¬ming away. He was finally picked upby the Deerhound and" delivered thepapers to Captain Semmes in England.Colonel Bob Hardeman: "The

bravest or the most foolhardy act I ever

saw was at Chancellorsville. The enemywas strongly entrenched in a brickyardand Wilcox's division was assigned totake it, and Thomas's brigade chargedthe brickyard. _

Wilcox bad made com¬

plaint about Thomas's troops in some

actioD that had occurred recently and as

he came riding up General Thomas said.to him, 'You say Georgia troops won'tfight; you are ad.n cowardly liar-follow me and you'll see.' With that heput spurs to his horse and rode rightover the breastworks, his white horsesingle footing and the yankees shootingat him all the time. It so happenedthat there were not many of thembehind the breastworks and he did not

get hurt."Me. E. T. Shübbick : "Captain John

Wingfield, who now enjoys the title of'cow coroner' of the Georgia road, is a

brave man. A shell fell in his mess one

day with the fuse sizzing and burntnearly to the iron. Wingfieldjumped tothe shell and put the fuse out."Colonel J. R. Towers: "The only

time I ever saw the troops club musketswas at Farmville. Mahone was bard

pressed, and sent a courier to AndersonBaying that ifhe did not get them beatenoff his flank he would be overwhelmed.Anderson ordered my regiment to therescue, and we charged down the hill on

them. When we got to the foot of thebill they were there;, and to get out ofthe way it would have been necessaryfor them to go up a long slope with us

right after them. Rather than do thatthey stood their ground and it was toughwork getting them out^if there. Themen clubbed muskets and fought handto band. One man had bis gun leveledon me and a sergeant shot him just intime to save my life. It was terriblework, and as soon as it was overMahonecame riding by and said, "It was thefinest charge I ever saw, and it saved mefrom being overwhelmed. I will see

that you are prompted in a very fewdays.' That was just two days beforethe surrender."I saw another instance in which men

were terribly tried by a practical joke.We had trenches cut in a circle to escapethe mortar shells and stakes were stuckup in sight by ao the men could see wherea shell would fall and run round thecurve where the fragments could notstrike them it exploded. A party ofmen were playing cards in the trenchone day when some fellows got an emptyshell and filled it with fuse. They litthe fuse and rolled it sizzing toward thetrench. The card parly heard it, andpretty soon it dropped over in right bythem. «Tbey could not get out of theway and had to sit there and see it burnand wait for it to burst. When theyfound out that it was a joke they wouldhave killed the man who did it if theycould have foiind who it was.

"I have often seen men pick up a shellwith a burning fuse and throw it over

the breastworks." .

In the Heat of Passion.

"I hope I killed him !"The speaker was a slender girl of 19.

She bad just been arrested by a NewYork policeman for slabbing her hus¬band.During a year's married life the pris¬

oner's husband bad beaten, kicked anddegraded her. She fled to her mother'shouse for protection. Her master fol¬lowed and struck her a terrible blow inthe mouth.Then she stabbed him, and, exulting

in her new freedom, exclaimed : "I hopeI killed him !"The reader of our news columns will

almost every day read accouuts of horri¬ble tragedies in which the survivorsexpress their satisfaction with the results.The law has no terror for a man whoseblood is on fire.. The certainty of pun¬ishment will not check him. At thesupreme moment.in the tempest of hispassion.be cares nothing for the conse¬

quences.The law cannot control hot blood.

The only human power that can do it isthat sober public opinion which is theoutcome of a Christian and sensible sys¬tem of family government. The lessonof self control, instilled into children byprecept and example, with the liberaluse of the rod when necessary, will keepsociety tolerably straight. The child who,from infancy, has been taught to controlhis passions, will generally keen thepeace änd discourage lawless violenc j inothers.The proper training of children in

every home would give us an ideal soci¬ety under the reign of law and order.The courts can pnnish crime, but theycannot prevent it. The firmness andself restraint necessary to keep men outof temptation and lawlessness must beacquired at the family fireside..AtlantaConstitution.

You Know not Your Fate.

If you continue to suffer with indiges¬tion you will never know what your fatemay be, and it must come soouer or later.Dyspepsia after a time will wear yoursystem and digestive organs away andyou will be worthless to yourself andobnoxious to others. Begin immediatelyto remedy the evil by taking Dr. West¬moreland's Calisaya Tonic, the greatestremedy known for a torpid liver and dis¬eased blood. It will set the liver towork, purify the bloodaud give tone tothe whole system. Buy it of yourdruggist for 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle.. A colicky baby at night ie athletic;

it can raise the house.

E XXIV..NO. 17.ALL SOOTS OF PARAGRAPHS,

. There are 339 cotton mills in the^/Southern States. -f*-. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is said to be

writing her husband's biography.. Governor Biggs, of Delaware, made

a big pile of money on his peach crop thisyear.. The Japanese hifch their horses

in the street by tying their forelegs to¬gether.. Wild geese are flying southward

several weeks earlier than usual. A signof an early winter. """^

. It takes a smart man to tell a goodlie, but nearly all men grow smarter thelonger they are married.. Many hnvo an idea that they are rM

serving the Lord when they are meddlingwith what is notie of their business.. The Kuights of Honor have paid to. sjjj

the families of deceased members in thepast sixteen years of their existence, $27-500,000.. It is not putting thing3 in thejight

place that bothers a man so much as find¬ing the right place after be has put: u

things in it.. The Baldwin Locomotive Works

have recently turned out, for the North-',ern Pacific railroad, their ten thousandthslocomotive.. Railroad men say that more cars are

being built at present than ever before,owing to the great corn and wheat cropin the West.. The late King of Bavarialleft debts

which will be paid oh' at the rate of $275,-000 a year. The last payment will bemade in 1905. *

.

. It is stated that over 17,000 horses 'i/.are slaughtered for food every year inParis, and of this quantity two-thirds are:used for sausages,. The longest distance over which

conversation by telephone is daily main-tained is about seven hundred and fifty'miles from Portland, Me., to Buffalo, N.y.. Statistics furnished by manufacture r

.

ers of Massachusetts ahow that 85 percent, of the workers in that Stats receivewages ranging from 75 cents to'$l perday.. According to tho preliminary report

the receipts of the patent office for theyear ending June 30, 1889, were in excessof the expenditures to the amount of$186,000. - fgg. The heavy frosts last week did great

damage t*o the tobacco crop in Eentuckyand the Virginias. The Iotis in one

county alone in Kentucky will amount to500,000 pounds. %. It coats four hundred thousand dol- ):\_

lars a year to keep up Central Park, NewYork. The land originally cost the citysix million do lars and is now estimatedto be worth one hundred million.. The average annual death rats in

America from cholera, yellow fever,smallpox, typhoid fever, ..d.ir;the*ia. andscarlet fever, all combined, does not^y?reach the enormous total of deaths fromconsumption.. A carriage .junker of Armstrong

county, Pa., has lately shipped to Persia '

a carriage, packed in boxes to facilitatetransportation across the desert on cam-el's back. The freight bill was about onehundred dollars.. Ten well-known ladies are publish¬

ing articles on tho subject, "What WeWould Do if We Were Men." It is to behoped that one of them will be sufficient¬ly practical to say g>tu she would learn.,-how to sharpen a pencil.. Horace Sebring, who poisoned an

entire family at Three Oaks*, Ind., for thepurpose of securing property in orderthat he might ms.rry a girl who refusedhim because of his poverty, has been.sentenced to twenty-five years' imprison¬ment..Edward Bellamy, in "Looking Back-

ward," says that one hundred years hence '.the servant girl question will be solved,and housekeeping will be conductedwithout servants. This is encouraging,but one hundred years seems like a longwhile to wait.. The Campaign that is now. being

carried on in Ohio is said to be one ofthe bitterest and most heated ever knownin the history of the State. Both partiesare thoroughly aroused and making des¬perate efforts. There is no telling whatthe result will be.. The growing of cigar leaf tobacco is

proving a very successful industry in..Florida. Her soil and climate are wellsuited to the growing of the weed. Thereare five large plantations containing 100acres each and the yield, which is nowbeing cut and cured from these planta-tations, is estimated at 5,000,000 pounds.. A teacner put the following question

to a young Sioux: "How do you parse,'Mary milks the cow?'" 'Tho last wordwas disposed of as follows: "Cow is a

noun, feminine gender, third person andstands for Mary." "Stands for Mary!How do you make that out ?" "Because,"/^said the intelligent pupil, "if the cowdidn't stand for Mary how could Marymilk her?". The Australian government is

building a fence of wire netting S,000miles long to divide New South Wales>**'and Queensland, in order to keep therabbits out of the latter country. Aus¬tralia is paying not less than $125,000 peryear to keep the pests down in what areknown as crown lands. The offer h stillkept up to $100,000 to any man who willproduce something that will exterminatethe pests.. John Jacob Astor died worth $40,-

000,000 after beginning on a salary of $2a week for beating furs in a damp cellar.The $40,000,000 left by him in 1849 hasgrown in 40 years to $200,000,000. TheAstors know the vs.lue of money, andnever waste or spend it uselessly. Thohabits of the elder Astor were as regularas a Dutch clock. His only recreation'^was a game of checkers; his only bever¬age was a glass of ale after dinner.

Progress.

It is verj impoitant in llhis ageof vast material progress that a remedybe pleasing to the taste, and to theeye, easily taken, acceptable to the stom¬ach and healthy in its

%natures and

effects. Possessing these qualities,.Syrup of Figs is the ono perfectlaxative and most gentle diiuotfc ever

- known,