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FARM, WATER POWER,
.'; - AND ' . ? . ? '
- MACHINERY FOR SALS.
?will .sell (if not; 3old previously) at An
| darsoq, S. :C, 9pSalesday inNovem
i at.the usual hours of sales, 80$ acres of
uand, with Grist;,Saw.and Sorghum Mill,
- : Cotton Gin and Press,-24-feet oversbotjwa>
%*f&$ic wheel,!:lOto 12 horse power? all in good
running order,--situated 8miles west of
Anderson, 2 miles west of Denver, adjoin?
ing lands of J. B. Do?tbit and others.
; x . -Terms of Sale-^One-tnlrd cash, balance
:\- ? ontfand two years, equal installments, with
10; per cent interest, and mortgage of the
place to.aecure purchase money.
For information see J. W. Bowden at
Denver, or the undersigned at Anderson.
^'^BM?ser.to P?y extra for papers.
J.30YCB BURRISS. Assignee.
Oct 11,1888 14 4
? SHERIFFS SALE.
?k-'/v ????-:.vSt*ii-?F Sdtr? Cabol?t.4;?' ;
? - ? C?xnxri ?f Anderson.
:H ? ^Vv Humpri reys." Master, vs. Nancy J.
: v - ?; . Strickland; j _ '
= v?TN-obedience tc a Judgment of Foreclos
X \ure in- the above entitled action, I will
^-^seU at Anderson 0. Hj B.X}foh Salesday
in November next, the mortgaged premises
" [below described, to wit r ~
. All. that Tract of Land, situate in Hall
Township, of Anderson County, 8. C, ad
;^;-:gbmihg.riSmda:;?C James Thompson. Lent
Hall and others, and:knbwn as the Robert
Hall Traot'.of the late. B..A. Strickland,
deceased, containing ?3 acres; iii?re ?r less.
T?tiis pFSaxE^HOhe-half cash, and:the
rem8lnder::oh. a credit of twelve months,
':>:! with interest from day of sale, to be secured
-by bond and mortgage of the premises,
with-leave to anticipate-payment at - any
y--:.:'.time;v'-; Purchaser to pay extra for jpapers.
.-" W. L; BOLT,
SaBsi ?J-":" Sheriff Anderson County.
^ ;" Octll,18?8 V. 14 ~ . 4- .
- SHERIFFS SALE.
: ' THE-STATE OP.SOUTH, CAROLINA,
Anderson County.
' W. W. Humphreys, Master, vs. Nancy J.
; ...-Strickland.
"N; obedience to the Judgment of Fore
L--- closure, "made by his Honor Judge J. J.
Norton in the above entitled action, I will
.. sell at Anderson C. H., S. O., -on Salesday
in November, 1888, the mortgaged premises
below described, to wit:
; - All that Tract of Land, situate in Hall
jOiTownship, anjoining'lands of Jas. Thomp?
son, Lent Hall, and others, known as the
McDowai Tract ; of the late B. A Strick-1
land, deceased, containing 166 acres, more
Termi? of Sale?One-half cash, and bal- I
- anc?j?rta; credit ofitWpive'months, with in-1
texeSfroni day, of.sale, to.- be secured by a
bond and mortgage of the premises^with
leave to anticipate payment at any time.
,v~r Purchaserto pay extra for papers.
WM.L..BOLT,
Sheriff Anderson.County.
- '. Oct llT 1888 .J. .14 4
MASTER?? |SMiE^
STATE OF SOUTHT CAHOIilNA,
: Anderson Couuty.
' .' In Sie , Court oft Common Picas. ...
?% Wm.A.Hall, etal. vs. Margaret E. Hall,
et aL?Partition.
-.. -TN -. obedience "to the' order of-Bale in the
. ?.- rJL': 1 ? above ]entitled action I will sell at
AndersoQ^G; H.,-.S/0.j7on^Salesday in No
^ vembef next; the. lands -below described as.
?'?tbeReal Estate of FentoaS. Hall, deceas
?-;<ed,' to wit: ?
Tract No. 1, sitnate in Anderson County,
and containing 107 .acres, adjoiningNo. 2
of said Estate, Mrs. Waters; J. H, Young |
and others. : . ? - ?. - ?-:-:
- Tract No. 2, situate in Anderson County,
S.^CL?c6nta1ning 119 acres,*; more ;or" less;
adjoining No. 1, D. H.-Hall, arid others.
* ' *i^rmWofr8al?^ne^tliird -jot Jne^jpur^
chase money and the costs to be paid 'in
: cash; the remainder oin,. a credit. of one.
-t; and.two years, with interest from day of
. sale,'"with leave to anticipate payment, se?
cured by bond and a mortgage of the prem?
ises. ' Purchasera to pay extra for all ne
W- ? cessary papers.: i .' :-l
W..W. HUMPHREYS, Master.
::';^?ct 11'1888 ; 14 . ' --4 ;
? ? M ASTJBIVS ?? -SAJLeV
P'
STATE OF 'SOUTH CAROLINA,
AnDEBSON COUSTTT.
In the Court OpmmonJPleas. -
.Thomas A. Sberard and Thomas A. Sher
,-ard. Assignee, vs. J. B.-Newton and
-. Eliza Newton?Action to Foreclose Mort
gage-.:
PURSUANT to the Judgmeni of Fore?
closure made by his Honor. Judge
Norton in the above entitled action on 3rd
March, 1888,1 will Bell at Anderson C. H.t
S. C, on Salesday in, November next, the
mortgage premises below described, to^wit:
:-... All that Tract of Land, situate in Ander
.;/--iOn County, S^ VC, containing' 100 acres,"
;-.v-;m?ro or less^adjoining lands of J. G. Hall,
John Spearman, Elias Spearman, and oth
'\-::era.: - . - -:
.'. -Terms of Sale?One-half cash, and. the
^' - balance on a credit of twelvemonths, with
'V- v interest from day of sale, to be secured by
V-:^: bond^'and' mortgage of the premises, with
r-cleave.-to; anticipate payment. Purchaser
to pay extra for papers. -
W- W. HUMPHREYS, Master.
:l -? Oct 11. .1888 .. 14 . 4 : .
' - MASTER'S SAIiE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, .
Counir or Andsbsoit.
In the Court Common Pleas.
Elizabeth Smith vs. Loucinda Shirley and
others.
- .
T)URSUANT,to the-order of sale made
J_ .'.. in the above stated case, I will %ell
at Anderson' C. H.j.S. C., on Salesday in
?r' .:, November next, the Land below described
v as Real Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Brock,
^ deceased, to wit:
..AU.that Tract of Land, situatein Ander
son County, ,S. C, containing 98i acres,
more or less, adjoining lands of Joel
Smith, Samuel Ragsdale, A. B. Shirley,
' arid others.
..Terms of Sale?One-half cash, and the
balance on. a credit of. twelve months, with
rV: interest from day.of sale, secured by bond
^.^-V'?nd mortgage o? the premises, With leave
to anticipate payment. Purchaser to pay
- - .extra for papers.
W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master.
Oct 11,1888 14 4
MASTER'S SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Akdeeson Cookty.
.r^d-: ' In the Court of Common Pleas.
Joseph N. Brown vs. J. W. Rogers, etal.
T)URSUANT to the order of sale made
jS_' in the above entitled action by bis
Honor Judge Norton, on 4th of May, 1888,
I will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C, on
Saiesday in November neit, the^premises
; 7 below described, to .'wit:
: 1; All that Tract-of Land, containing
- sixty and one-fourth (60?) acres, more or
less, situate in Anderson County, S. O., on
i/ : waters of Little Beaverdam Creek, adjoin?
ing lands of B. C! Martin. Mary J.Rogers,
" D. H. Rogers and others.
2. Also) all that Tract of Land, contain
- ing eighty-nine and three-quarter (892)
H| acres, \ more or less, on waters of Beaver
': dam Creek, adjoining lands of Alexander
Jordan. . {'??:.' .- ['.".
: . .' Terrris of Sale?Cash. Purchasers to pay
.extra for papers. ?
W. W- HUMPHREYS, Master.
.. Oct 11,1888 14 4
MASTER'S SALE*
: 8TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
;c0uhty of anoerson.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
C. C Reed, Asslgnoe^vs. J. D. Burton.?
j' F^reclbsure.
IN obedieDoe^fe the Judgment of Fore
? cldstfr?-552k:ifh'0 above entitled action,
T will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C, on
:. Salesday in November next, the mortgaged
premises below described, to wit:
All that Tract of Land, containing 106
acres, more or less, adjoining lands of I
Jesse Cann, H. J. Burton. G. F. Burton
" - and ethers..situate in Anderson County,
: South Carolina;Vv '
.Terirts.of Sale?Oue-third cash, and the
" ^balance on a credit of twelve months, with
^interest from day of sale, secured by bond
Vand mortgage of- the prennsw, with leave
;St6~antic5pate payment.. Purchaser to pay
i> extra-lor papers.
- ;W. W. HUMPHREYS, Master.
^?i"Oct'HM888 " 11 - .4, .
5 & L?NGSTON,
; Uli} :
. THE .
AHB EVERYBODY
TELLS i PRICE
FOR TELLING PRICES
COME AND SSE (TOE
LINE OF DRESS GOODS,
Embracing all the New Fall and Winter
Fabrics, in all the various new shades.
.Greens, from Myrtle to Beseda; Mahog
onys, Terra Cottas, Gobelin?, Gre;s, and
an endless variety of Stripes, Plaids,
Checks, Etc.; ail the new.-imported
Cloths, fresh from the foreign looms*
Henriettas, Bayetines, Alma Cloths,
Imperial Serges,Cashmerett?, Raye
Stripes, FouleB, Etc~ ?nr line:^f,Dress.|
Silks, "Velvets and- Plushes is - complete.
??s ? m :M
?7j t - .. .. v , .
Weiegin.with nice Felts at 50c. to $2.00.
. "- * f ? ??' .v.''.:
Straws from 25c. up. Ribbons, Moires,
Glaces,Gros Grains; Failles, Velvet and
Ombres. The largest, cheapest and
toniest stock of Ribbons tobe found any
where. Velvets, Plushes, Persian Goods,
Cashmeres, Silks, and all the Beautiful
Novelties that delight the eye this season.
With, especial pride we Tequest the in?
spection'of ocr Pattern Hats, the result
of weeks of careful study and almost'
endless research among all the leading
importing hbuses'tff.'theigreat Northern
cities, so as to iod .something:- becoming,
and to suit the pocket book of each of |
our many friends and patrons.
Trimming Department
Includes -Passementeries, President
Braids, Guimps, Milanaise Trimmings,
Fur and Astrakans, Bandeaux, 'and an
elegant assortment of Dress Lining*,
Buttons,.&c, to suit the different shades
of Dress Goods.
Ladies' Underwear.
The cheapest, most stylish and elegant
line of Ladies' Underwear possible.
Also, G!oves, Hosiery.! and Handker?
chiefs, from the cheapest to the finest.
Remember, we take special pride in
this Department, and with the aid of |
polite and efficient Sales-ladies it is
always a pleasure to show our Goods to
everyone.
Dress Making.
MISS MALLALIEU has returned
and taken charge of the Dresa Making
Department, with skilled assistants.
?aT We bought our immense Stock of
Goods direct from Manufacturers and
Importers for the Cash, aud the idea of
any house in the country underselling us
is simply ridiculous. We will guarantee
our prices in auy line at least as low,
and in many instances, much lower than
other houses. The crop prospect was
very promising while we were in-the
market and we overloaded; but if there
is a particle of truth in the old saying,
"Goods well bought are half sold," ours
are as good as seven-eighths gone
already.
BST Don't be tempted by any so ' '?d
bargains until you have seen our I ods
and heard our prices. Our plan is not
to sell one or two^ articles away* under
value as leaders, and then make up the
loss on something else, but to give the
full worth of your money every time,
whether you are posted or not. We have
an eye to the future more than to the
present, and propose to merit the con?
tinued confidence and patronage of the
people.
Very respectfully,
R. S. HILL,
Andersons. C.
HILL & CO./
Pelzer, S. C.
B. S. HILL & CO.,
Hartwell, Ga.
.43
THE ROD IN: SCHOOL,
BUI Arp's Views About Whipping Children.
Atlanta Constitutum.
Whether"the bad boys'should be whip?
ped at school or Dot seems to have pro*
voted discussion all over the land. I
bave received several letters from teachers
Upon thai subject,. and the-sum of them
!all' ia that home rule is a bigger thing
than rale in the school room, and if a
boy is governed at home by fear of the
rod nothing else will govern him at
school for a while. Time and association
may gradually educate him out of it.
Professor Boyd, of Bell County, Texas,
says: "I taught one year in a commu?
nity that warned me in advance that I
would have to be 'mighty tight' with the
boys or they would run over me, fof they
were a bad lot., And they were. I had
so much whipping to do that I sought
another field, and there I found an affec?
tionate, kind relation between parents and
children. I had no trouble in governing
that school, and never used, the rod or
the ferule;. ' The parents sie more respon?
sible than,.thb, teachers, He must for a
time follow their lead or lie will have no
government. The old way. produced
great men like Washington and Jefferson
and Ben Franklin and Madison, and it
will not do to make a sweeping innova?
tion. We are apt to swing from one I
extreme to another; and in departing
from the old iron rale, to adopt a system
softer than wax. We still need the firm:
ness of otir fathers without their stern
reserve. We need a closer companion*
ship between parents and teachers and
children. When this comes, and not till
then, can the rod be safely abandoned at
home or in shcool."
Another teacher refers to Solomon and
Moses for authority, and says that even
the Savior used a scourge or a whip and
threshed the money changers out of the
temple.
Another declares that "the trouble is
in the average teachers' unfitness to gov?
ern. Fitness to teach and fitness to gov?
ern are.very different things?' I believe
that the discussion will do good. It is
interesting the parents all over the land,
but it will never settle down to perfec?
tion, for there are parents in , every com?
munity who ate not fit to be parents, and
so there are boys who fear nothing but the
law and its terrors. Old Father Adam
made a bad start in raising Cain, and the
race has not improved any to speak of.
While ruminating over this subject my.
mind unconsciously recurred to a story
that my ^father jtold us ajlpng.time ago.
It may be an old Btory to old people, but
your young readers have not heard it,
and so I will relate it for their benefit.
Uncle Tom B?ker was ranch of a man.
He had been wild and reckless and
feared not God, nor regarded man, but
one day at a camp meeting, while Bishop
Gaston was shaking up the sinners and
scorching them ? little over the infernal
pit, Tom got alarmed, . and before the
meeting was over professed religion and
became a zealous, outspoken convert, and
declared his intention of going forth into
the world and preaching the gospel. He
was terribly in earnest, for he said he had
lost, a power of time and must make it
up. Tom was a rough talker, but he was
a.>good, one, and knew fight smart:of
i-ecripter," and agood many of the old
?faahipaed'-hymns by.heart..' The confer?
ence thought he was a pretty good fellow
to send out into the border country
among the settlers, and so Tom straddled
his flea bitten gray, and indue time was
circuit riding in North Mississippi. In
course of time he acquired notoriety, and
from his strong vigorous language and
muscular eloquence, tbey called him
"Old Sledge Hammer," and after a
while "Old Sledge" for short. Away
down in one comer of his territory,
called the "Devil's Roost,"'there was a
blacksmith shop and a Wagon shop and a
whisky shop and a postoffice at Bill
Jones' Crossroads, and Bill , kept all of
them, and was known far and wide as
Devil Bill, so as to distinguish him from
Squire Bill, the magistrate. Devil Bill
had "sword" an oath that no * preacher
should ever toot a horn or sing a "hime"
in the settlement, and if any of the
cussed hypocrites ever dared to stop at
the cross roads, he'd make him dance a
hornpipe and sing a hime, and whip him
besides. And; Bill-Jones meant juBt
what he said, for be had a mortal hate
for the men of God. It was reasonably
supposed that Bill could do and would
do what he proposed, for his daily work
at the anvil bad made him strong, and
everybody knew he bad as much brute
courage as .was necessary.* Uncle Tom
had theardt;:ok;rtheJej?tbre?ts;;' and was
advised to take rouodance, and never to
tackle the cross roads. He accepted. this
advice for a time, and-left;that; people
to the bad influence of Devil Bill and the
devil, but it seemed to him he was not
doing the Lord's will, and whenever he
thought of the women and children liv?
ing in darkness and growing up in infi?
delity be would groan in spirit and
exclaim "What a pity, what a pity."
One night he prayed over it with great
earnestness, and vowed to do the Lord's
will if the' Lord would give him light,
and it seemed to him as he rose from his
knees that there was nu longer any doubt.
He must go to the devil's roost. Uncle
Tom never dallied about anything when
bis mind was made up. I He went right
at it like killing snakes, and so next
"morning as'a habcr'paRsed oiThis way to
.BilL, Jones's shop, ,Uncle..Tom said :
^'My'friend.Vwiil you please.carry a mea
-8age"toTBilrJ?ne8 for me....Tell him that
if the Lord is williu* I will be at the
cross roads to preach next Saturday
morning at eleven o'clock, and I'm shore
the Lord is wiilin'. Tell him to please
norate it in. the settlement about and
about, and ax the women and children to
come. Tell Bill Jones I will atay at his
house, God wiilin', and I'm shore he is
wiilin, and I'll preach on Sunday, too, if
all things are harmonious."
When Bill Jones got the message be
was amazed, astounded and his indigna?
tion knew no bounds. He raved and
cussed at the "onsult" as he called it, the
onsulting message of Old Sledge, and he
swore that he would hunt him down and
follow him to hell's half acre and whip
him, for be knew that he wouldn't dare
to come to cross roads But the nabors
whispered it around that Old Sledge
mout come, for he was never known to
make an appointment and break it.
There was an old borsetbief who used to
run with Murrel's gang, and he said he
used to know Tom Barker when he was a
sinner and had seen him fight and be
was much of a man?"Gentlemen as
shore as you're born he's a bad 'in to
ondertake." So it spread like wildfire
that Old Sledge was comiDg, and that
Devil Bill was gwine to whip him and
make him dance and sing and treat to a
gallon of peach brandy besides, Devil
Bill had his enemies, of course, for he
was a hard man and had gobbled up all
the surplus of the naborhood, and these
enemies had long hoped for somebody to
come and turn bim down. They, too,
circulated the astounding news, and,
without committing themselves, said that
bell would break loose on Saturday at
the cross roads, and that Old Sledge or
the devil would have to go under.
On Friday the settlers began to drop
in, under pretence of business, but really
to get the bottom facts of the rumors that
were afloat. Devil Bill knew full well
what they came for, and he talked and
cursed more furiously than usual, and he
swore that anybody who would come
expectin' to see Old Sledge, was an infer?
nal fool, for he wasn't comin'. He laid
bare bis big strong arms and shook his
long hair and said he wished the lyin'
deceiving hypocrite would come, for it
had been nigh onto fourteen years since
he bad made a preacher dance. Saturday
morning by nine o'clock there were more
PERSON, S.C TE
people at the QroSd roads than" had ever
gathered there befof e, and Bill Jones Was
mad at their credulity, b?t he had an e?S
to business and kept behind his counter,
and sold more whisky in an hour than he
had sold in a month. As the appointed
hour drew near the settlers began to look
down the long straight road: that Old
Sledge would come if he come at all/ and
every man, Whose head Came in sight
just over th? rifle of the distant.hill was
closely scrutinized. More, thafj once
they said: ' "Yonder he comes; that's
him shore I" But no?it was not him.
Some half a dozen had old bull's eye
silver watches, and they compared time,
and just at five minutes to eleven the old
horse thief- exclaimed : "I see Tom Bar?
ker, arisin' of the hill. I hain't seed him
for eleven yearsj but gentlemen) that ar
him, ot I'm a liar.'' And .it Was him.
As he got nearer and neafer a voice
seemed to be coming along with him, and
some said, "he's talkin' to hisself." An?
other said, "he's talkin! to God Almigh?
ty)" and a tl other said; "111 be du med if
be ain'.t a pray in \ but very sooft it was
I generally agreed that he was flingin' a
Eime. Bill Jones was soon advised of all
this, and coming to tbe front said dam'd
if he ain't a Bingin' before I ax'd<him,
but I'll make him sing: Yankee Doodle
when be comes, and I'll pay bim for that
onsulting message. I'm not gwine ter
kill him, boys. I'll leave just enough
life in his rotten old carcass for him to
git away on, but that's all. If any of yon
want to hear Old Sledge -preach you'll
have to go ten. miles from the road to do
it and wait about a month on tell he can
talk.1'
Slowly and solemnly the preacher
came. As he drew near he narrowed
down his tune and looked kindly upon
the crowd. He was a massive man in
frame, and had a heavy suit of dark
brown hair, but his face was clean shaven
and showed features of firmness and
determination. "Look at him, boys, and
mind your eye," said the horsethief.
"Where will I find my friend, Bill
Jones?" inquired old Sledge. All around
they pointed him to tbe man. Biding
up close, he said: "My friend and
brother, the good Lord has Sent me to
you, add I ask.for hospitality for myself
and my beast;" And he slowly dis?
mounted and faced his foe as though
expecting a kind reply. The crisis had
come and Bill Jones met it. Tbe settlers
all leaned forward with" eagerness" as he
said: "You infernal old hypocrite. You
cursed old shave-faced scoundrel. Didn't
yon know that t had. sword an oath that
I would make you sing and dance and
whip you besides if you ever dared to
{>izen these cross roads with your shoe
eather? Now, sing; dam you, singj;
and dance as you sing;" and he empha?
sized his command with a ringing slap
with his open hand upon the parson's face.
Old Sledge recoiled with pain and sur?
prise. ? Recovering in a moment, he said :
"Well, Brother Jod'-" I did not expect
so warm a welcome. If these be your
cross roads manners, I suppose I must
sing, and as Devil Bill gate him another
slap on bis other jaw the parson lifted up
his voice with
"My soul be on thy guard,"
and with his long arm suddenly and
swiftly let fly and gave Devil Bill an
open hander that nearly knocked bim off
bis feet while be continued fn a splendid
tenor voice : " - ? w
''Ten thousand foes arise."
Never was a lion more aroused to
.frenzy than was Bill Jones. With his.
short, powerful' arm he made at Old
Sledge as if to annihilate him with one
blow and many horrid oaths, but tbe par?
son fended off the strokes as easily as a
practiced boxer, and /with his left
hand dealt Bill a settler between his
eyes and staggered bim as be continued
to Bing i
"Oh watch and pray and fight,
The battle ne'er give o'er."
. Bill Jones was plucky to desperation
and be saw that the.settlers were watch?
ing bim with bated breath. The crisis
was at hand, and he squared himself and
his clinched fist flew thick and fast upon
the parson, and for a while disturbed bis
equilibrium and his song. But he .rallied
quickly, and began tbe offensive as he
sang
"Ne'er think tbo.victory won j
Nor lay thine armour down.'* ?
With blow upon blow be backed hi*
adversary squarely to the wall of his shop,
and there seizing him by tbe throat with
one band, be mauled bim with the other
as he sang:
"Fight on my houI till death."
jj .In a moment the throat clutch" did its
'Work. Bill Jones turned black "in the
face and Bank down upon tbe ground
whipped and as humble as a wet dog.
Old Sledge called for water, and with his
own handkerchief bathed his battered face
and helped to restore him and begged a
thousand pardons. Devil Bill was soon
carried to his house, and was cared for
by his family, while Old Sledge mounted
a box in front of tbe grocery and
preached righteousness and temperance
and judgment to come to that people, and
sure enough he stayed at Bill Jones's
house that night, for Mrs. Jones was a
far better woman than Bill was a man.
The next day he preached, as be had
appointed, from tbe piazza of Devil Bill's
house, and Bill heard it all, and was con?
verted and joined the church, and it was
always said and believed that Old Sledge
ma".Jed the-grace into his unbelieving
soul,.and it would have never got it any
other way, ? "4 Bill" Abp;
r>Sitt -'????? ? i '?
More Awkward than Gllpin's Bide,
Louisville, Oct. 17.?Until recent
ly cattle, pigs, goats, and, in fact, stock
of all kinds were allowed to roam through
the streets of this city without fear of
molestation from tbe authorities. Three
weeks ago a stock ordinance was passed,
and they-are seen no more on the fash?
ionable boulevards. It was just before
the change that a very ludicrous scene
occurred on Fourth avenue, and it was
one which fairly convulsed all who saw
it.
An alley separating two large dry
goods stores was quite a rendezvous for
pigs. In this alley a deep, dirty hole
was a favorite place for a very large bow.
One day this huge swine was fast asleep
in this hole in the alley, when Mrs. M?,
a well known lady, had occasion to
pas3 along the alley. She noticed the
hog in the gutter, but thinking it fast
asleep, and not wishing to give herself
tbe trouble of passing around, she
determined to step over tbe big pig.
She is a very small woman. . She got one
foot over the dozing swine, and was about
to pass safely, when, much to her horror,
tbe sow awoke and started on down tbe
street with Mrs. M-squarely on her
back. Fearing she. would fall off?in
fact, scared half to death?the lady grab?
bed the ears of the grunting 3wine as the
latter galloped down tbe street.- Tbe
more the unfortanate lady screamed the
more the bow grnnted, and the small boy
and tbe passing pedestrians fairly wept
tears of hilarity over tbe funny sight.
A number of people began a chase, and
tbe race bad become quite exciting, when
the unfortunate Mrs. M-lost her hold
and was dumped into the middle of tbe
street, while piggy herself continued on
her mad career. Of course tbe lady was
assisted to a neighboring store, whence
after being brushed off, and after a
plentiful supply of smelling salts had
been administered, she drove to her
swell residence in a coupe. But it was
awfully funny, the Bcene.
? The experience of years furniBhee
the most convincing evidence that thou?
sands of lives are annually saved by the
use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It Bpeed
ily cures all affections of the throat
bronchial tubes, and lungs.
[TJRSDAY MORNINC
THE BENIGHTED CHINESE.
ftoelal and Political Conditions In the Era
Pke.
New York !Pimc$.
Residence in Ohina and a study of the
present condition and past history of the
Chinese throw a flood of light on ques?
tions naturally suggested by the bill to
exclude the Mongolians; and show that
the causeB of their non-asSimilati ve na?
ture reach back and down far arid deep.
The analytical observer of public events
has not failed to notice that the agitation
against the Chinese is a peculiar one. It
is not raised against certain specified
classes of Chinese, bat against them as a
race. Against no other nation is this
wholesale discrimination made or sought,
Laws have neither been enacted nor
proposed for the complete exclusion Of
the English, the Irish, the Scotch, the
Welsh, the French, the German, of any
other European people as a nationality,
bat for the proscription of paupers, idiots,
criminals, and contract laborers, from
what country' so?vef the? come<. Current
discussion of the Chinese .pfoblem has
made the public familiar with the proxi?
mate causes , .for ibis discrimination
against , the. Mongolians'?tbeir moral,
intellectual, social, ana industrial degra?
dation and their strange and almost
unique incapacity for assimilation with
the spirit of our political, industrial, and
social systems. The alembic of civilized
associations and environments in this
country seems utterly powerless to trans
mate them. The people of no other
nation on the globe, not even our Ameri?
can Indian*, are so refractory when placed
in the midst of the p'owhrful. forces of
American civilization. It is true, in a
deeper and more Berious sense than the
author said it, that "for ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain the heathen
Chinee is peculiar."
Many people have wondered why this
people, who emigrated from the Sooth
Caspian country into China twenty-four
centuries before the Christian era, with
the resources of Western Asian culture?
a knowledge of writing, astronomy, and
the arts that primarily, minister to man's
comfort?should in this late generation
be so inferior to us that we can neither
endure them as they are nor transform
them as they should be. Seeing the ap?
proximate cause for their exclusion, their
uufitness as a race, the spirit of investi?
gation seeks* the-more remcto causes-^the
causesi of that' unfitness. ..! -j.
Stated in the briefest terms, the Chi?
nese are not a progressive nation, first,
because they appear incapable of self
civilization from within, and secondly,
because they are impervious to civiliza?
tion from without.
Their incapacity for self-elevation may
be noted first in their system of govern?
ment. A hereditary despotism, it has
rarely bad at its head a man of great
capacity. Under marriage customs,
which place practically, no limit on a
young Emperor's indulgences upon his
arrival at age, it is a marvel if he do not
mentally and physically incapacitate
himself for the functions of government
by the time he ought to bring his greatest
powers into action. The Chinese throne
has been conspicuous for its lack of great,
strong, formative minds, and it is so
-hedged in with form, ceremony and ad?
herence to precedents that unless the
incumbent be a man of supreme ability
he falls under the guidance of bis entour?
age, and although an absolute despot, he
makes little positive impression on the
government of his people. The provinces,
are governed by viceroys or Governors,
who, so long as they follow certain min?
ute directions laid down for them, are at
liberty to manage affairs as they please.
And under them the mandarins do the
same. In the matter of taxation, if the
tax gatherers turn over to their superiors
their expected quotas, too careful exami?
nation is not made into the amounts over
and above those sums which they have
extorted from the people and put into
their own pockets. The civil service is
honey-combed with corruption. If from
no other evidence, this is apparent from
the fact that officers with utterly inade?
quate salaries retire with ample fortunes.
Mondarins, as a rule, seldom enter oflice
with large -possessions; and it is a
reasonable deduction that the wealth
with which they smooth their declining
years is illgdtten. Occasionally, the
official who has been more successful in
feathering his nest than in concealing the
fact, excites the jealousy of bis superiors
and suffers in consequence. Hang E"e,
who was superintendent of customs at
Canton prior to 1859, resigned his seals
with a fortuneof 300,000 taels, ($500,000,)
notwithstanding his salary was enly 2,400
taels a year, and the necessary expenses
of his yamun (official residence) were
8,000 a month. He was ordered to Pekin,
and before he had been many days in the
capital one-third of his $500,000 bad
been transferred to the "inside pockets"
of the members of the Government. Oc?
casionally severer punish mentis inflicted;
but the crime apparently consists of being
discovered, not of fleecing tbe people;
and, judged by the American standard,
tbe civil service is about tbe most corrupt
on the face of the earth. In their crude
administration of justice, without juries
or legal codes, the same venality exists,
and when cruel torture of witnesses fails
to evoke testimony, warranting a precon?
ceived verdict, the desired end is not
ihfrequentyobtained by sufficiently "in?
sulting" the magistrate in the sense that
Pooh-Bah is "insulted" in "The Mika?
do."
Without a strong elevating force on the
throne to lift them up, without represen?
tative government in which they can
participate and raise themselves (if tbey
wanted to,) without a well-developed and
equitable judicial and legal system to in?
sure justice and encourage right living,
with nothing to stimulate invention, to
ameliorate the condition of tbe race,
without anything to develop virility and
stamina, with almost everything to pre.-s,
subject, confine and servilize them, it is
little to be wondered at that they do not
rise, expand and advance.
But they do not seem to desire any?
thing better. They do not aspire to a
higher condition. With an inborn spirit
of subserviency, intensified by centuries
of heredity, which is reflected in a degree
of abject submissivenesa to parental and
civil authority which is unknown in this
country, they have not the spirit, courage
or energy to lift up their hand for any?
thing higher than they possess. The
same lack of animus which leads full
grown men meekly to submit to unmerit
ed and cruel flogging without even
raising a finger of protest, causes outraged
people to neglect one of the most potent
means of protection against oppression
afforded in the imperial censors. Ooly
the most aggravated cases are reported to
them, and the rest are meekly tolerated.
'Of individuals who are so callous to
their own condition little sympathy for
their fellow-man can be expected. - The
Chinese have not that quick pulsing sense
of the brotherhood of man that unites the
American people, that makes tbe afflic?
tion of a portion the concern of all, and
that causes us to jump with relief and
assistance to those in distress?. The
overflow of the Yellow Yiver?"China's
Sorrow"?pestilence and famine, carry
off millions of Chinese, but the disasters
do not stir up Buch popular sympathy
and such philantropic relief movements
as tbe prevailing yellow fever epidemic
in Jacksonville, Fla., arouses in this
country to day. To an astonishing extent
they lack the first great compelling force
of progress and civilization?the desire
to ameliorate their own and their fellow
beings' condition.
No doubt this condition of things is
due in a large measure to the intense and
superstitious reverence of the Chinese
for antiquity. We study the past to im
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prove upon it; tbey to fwUate lt. Tra?
dition and custom are everything to' thettf.
They are linked to the dead past by the
unbreakable bonds of precedent; tbey
are chained to an historical corpse. Their
Government, as has been-seen/Is crude;
their language, without alphabet, inflec?
tion or grammar, is unwieldly and
unsuitable for a progressive literature;
their blind prejudice against postmortem
examinations still leaves them in igno?
rance of human anatomy; the functions of
the heart, l?nge, liver, and other organs
are Settled books to them j they make no
distinction between ?eins, and after"leS, or
nerves and tendons. By, mere guess
work they have hit upon the gall bladder
as the seat of courage and assurance,
which, according to modern slang, is not
so far amiss. In medicine ignorance and
superstition prevail, and the medical
board at Fekin, in the exercise of its pro?
found wisdom, has sanctioned such
remedies as dried red-spotted lizards, silk
worm moths, t?ftois find oyster shells,
dragon's teeth, verdigris, hoar1 a g'all,
shavings of rhinoceros' borne, elephant's
skin, &c. In astronomy, their Chaldean
heritage, they have progressed no further
than popularly to believe that the earth
is square and dat, and that eclipses are
caused by some teonater attacking the
sun or moon. Their agricultural meth?
ods are of the most primitive sort. And
so it goes through all their so-called arts'
and sciences.' They have not the inher?
ent life and power to break their way out
of the cocoon of early superstition.
Although as a nation tbey are forty cen?
turies old, tbey are yet in the first stages
of evolution. We Americans live more
in one year than they in forty; we have
made more progress in one hundred years
than they in four thousand.
But in spite of their inherent draw?
backs to progress, the past of the Chinese
would not have been bo barren of achieve?
ment and the future would not be so
discouraging of any improvement if the
Mongolians were cot to impregnable to
the influences of outside civilization.
Some of the barriers to foreign influence
are natural, some artificial. Among the
former is their language. It is almost
impossible for a foreigner to learn their
inchoate language, which, as has been
stated, has1 no alphabet or syntax, which
is made up of about 50,000 different char?
acters, and in which the slightest, varia?
tion of intonation makes a vaBt difference
in significance,. The dialect of Canton
contains about 700 different sounds. It
is a literal fact that Englishmen go .crazy
trying to learn it. As a consequence, it
is rare, if ever, that a foreign resident
masters the native tongue, and our Gov?
ernment representatives conduct their
offioial business through tbe medium of
native writers and speakers, As the
gateway to tbe heart and mind of a peo?
ple is through their language, this
obstacle is a serious one.
Besides these natural impediments
artificial hindrances are raised. Tbe
Chinese Government is as anxious to
exclude foreigners as we are to exclude
the Chinese, Every substantial conces?
sion which tbe civilizaed world has
obtained from, and every inch of foothold
which it has secured in, tbe. Flowery
Kingdom has been achieved vi el armis.
One of tbe most striking evidences of tbe
Mongolian prejudice against innovations
is the utter absence of railroads in tbe
country. A few years ago some foreign?
ers secured- the right to build a dozen
miles of railroad and operate it for a short
time. Tbe Chinese viewed it askance,
and at length purchased it?not to run it
themselves, but deliberately to tear it up.
America and China are as complete aoti
podes in this respect as they are
geographically. We have half the rail?
road mileage of the world; they none;
and when one considers tbe vast civiliz?
ing influence and the great potency for
progress of a great railroad system, which
brings tbe ends of a country together,
gives quick communication among tbe
people, excites ambition, opens avenues
for enterprise, develops community of
interest and makes a nation homoge?
neous, it is evident that here one finds a
great factor of the disparity between
American and Chinese people.
While there are a few miles of tele?
graph, tbe use of this means of commu?
nication^ hampered by the unwieldiness
of the language and the impossibility of
expressing it in telegraphic symbols,
except through tbe cumbersome and
inadequote method of conversion into
numbers.
Another evidence of wilful conserva
tiam of the Chinese Government may he
cited in tbe recent recall of the Chinese
students who were being educated in this
country and who were becoming loo
much imbued with tbe spirit of en light?
ened, Christianized civilization. In
justice to .the capacity of the Chinese for
development and expansion when remov?
ed while young from their own depressing
atmosphere and placed in the inspiring
and stimulating surroundings of an
energetic and progressive people, it must
be said that these selected youths showed
evidence of bigh powers of acquisition.
If all Chinese immigrants to thia country
were persons of the same age and ability,
and it were possible to arouse in them
the same aspirations and ambitions,
China would not be what she is to day,
and America wonld not be confronted
with the problem which faces her to day.
From even this cursory glance over
a vast Bubject it is apparent that the rea
sons for the Mongolian's inability to
assimilate with Americans are radical.
We see here tbe leaves and branches, but
there are long, deep roots/beyond super?
ficial notice, striking back into past
centuries. China presents great oppor
tunities ' and great inducements for
enlightened government, but the nation
is bo inseparably joined to its idols?
literal and figurative?that were tbe most
intelligent, progressive and powerful
mind of tbe age to be given omnipotent
sway over tbat people to day, it would
be centuries before the enormous mass,
with its ponderous inertia, could be
severed from its dead weights, set in
motion and raised to the plane which
American civilization now occupies.
A Bible Puzzle.
This puzzle has often been published,
but perhaps some of our young folk3 have
not seen it. It would be interesting and
good practice for any one, young or old,
to find the anawer. How many will.
A young student was asked: "How
many boys are there in your class?" He
replied: "If you multiply the number of
Jacob's sons by tbe number of times tbe
Israelites compassed Jerico, and add to
the product the number of measures of
barley which Boaz gave Butb, divide this
by the number of Hainan's sons, subtract
the number of each kind of clean beasts
that went into the ark, multiply by the
number of men tbat went to seek Elijah
after he 'was taken to heaven, subtract
from this Joseph's age at the time he
stood before Pbaroab, add tbe number of
stones in David's bag when he killed
Goliath, subtract the number of furlongs
tbat Bethany was distant from Jerusalem
divide by the number of aochors cast out
when Paul was shipwrecked; and subtract
the number of persons saved in the ark,
the remainder will be tbe answer."
? Florida mourns the loss of the sweet
notes of tbe mocking bird. Formerly
hundreds of them could be heard singing,
hut their nesls have been so systematical?
ly broken up or robbed of their young
that they are rapidly disappearing.
? It uselesa to attempt tbe cure of any
disorder, if the blood is allowed to
remain impure. Neuralgia and rheuma?
tism are traceable to a disordered condi
lion of the blood, and in numberless
cases have been cured by taking a few
bottles of Ayer's Saraaparilla.
I The King's Daughters.
?'&o?t two years ago some very noble
women, the greater number residing in
New York, all well known es zealous in
religious and charitable worts, banded
themselves together in a circle of lea for
companionship and mutual help toward
more earnest work for the furtherance of
Christ's kingdom on the eartb. The
watchword! .of the society was "In His
Name," and no reasonable request made
in that form would be refused help when
it was found needed in a meritorious c'jtse.
"She stretches out her hand to the poor ;
yea, one reaches forth her hand to the
needy/' "She openeth her mouth with
m??ota, gnd in hei1 tongue Is the law of
kindness/' were, among the mottoes, and
the "King's Daughters*" was the name
reverently adopted. A little'Silver cross
with the letters L H. N. was the outward
sign of this society that now numbers
17,000. Thousands of letters are receiv
ed weekly at the secretary's office from
all parts of the United States, from Ger?
many, England, and even far-away Japan,
asking for information as to the means
adopted to become oie of the kings
daughters .and how to secure the iftoignja
of its association, the silver cross. In
one of our large city churches ten ladies
of the congregation who were associated
together in its different charities decided
to forf? a circle and become members of
the King's Daughters for fuller consecra?
tion of themselves to His service and, as
was the design of the first circle, for mu?
tual help and companionship. During
the latter part of Apr'it they met together
at the house of one of the members for
prayers, reading from the Bible, consulta?
tion, and advice as to the most efficient
manper and means in their work. One
member, an officer in the Girl's"Friendly
Society, to gain a personal influence over
the girls she had met in her work, deci?
ded to'invite a number of them on Satur?
day afternoons to her house. There
should be a .short programme of music,
reading, and conversation, the girls being
urged to take part, after which should be
added a substantial tea. Another mem?
ber determined to visit one afternoon in
each week a family in whom during her
ber work at the mission she had become
interested?a family the regular visiting
committee had complained of as'most
unsatisfactory. They refused not only
all sympathy and advice but material
help (a rather unusual experience), in
which they stood in much need from long
sickness. The mothef was a young
English woman, Whose rather superior
face, devout attention to the service, and
pretty faced children had won the interest
of this new member of the king's daugh?
ters. The father was a German not a
member of the mission, and was reported
by some of the teachers a "a regular
anarchist." To this family the self ap?
pointed visitor started the next afternoon,
dressed very plainly, with her silver
cross her only ornament. In front of a
dirty tenement in a dirty street they
stopped, to the disgust of the coachman
and the excitement of a crowd of children.
As she went up the long flights of stairs,
smelled the foul air, heard the loud
talking of men and women, thoughts of
her own beaUtiftil borne and luxurious
surroundings filled'her with remorse for
ber past thoughtless selfishness and doubts
of her worthiness to call herself a king's
daughter and minister to this woman "in
His name" filled her mind. An open
door showed her the family she was in
search of?the woman making.button
holes in a shirt with a pile of unfinished
ones beside her, the sick boy, and a little
girl sewing by her side. To the enquir
iog looks she commenced to explain that
Bhe was from S.-?'s Church, but
before she had finished speaking a sturdy
boy of about five, with yellow curls, ran
from behind a door, and with the fierce
ness of a yeung anarchist screamed out;
"I won't have my curls cut off. I do
wash my face every day. My mamma
don't like you; don't you come here any
more.'' The astonishment on the baby
face when he saw it was not the visitor
he expected, and his burst of baby wrath
was met by an irrepressible burst of
laughter in which they all joined. The
?visitor told of the new membership in
which she had enrolled herself and the
intent of her errand, and urged that she.
might remain with the sick boy and com?
plete the unfinished task while the moth?
er and other children should go for a ride
and get the fresh, pure air which they
needed; and as there was some demur
and hesitancy, added, "You will Dot
refuse this favor of me when I ask you to
accept it 'in His name.'" The request
was granted now;. the children brought
up some light shawls from the carriage
brought for this purpose, and the party
hurried off"by little Carl, who feared the
carriage would turn into a pumkpin, as
he bad settled in his wise head it was no
less than Cinderella's godmother to whom
they Towed this pleasure. The work
which to weary fingers seemed endless
vanished quickly before the fresh ones,
the sick boy was cheered and comforted
with promises for the summer, and the
room tidied up before the return. Two
more visits and two-more rides taken by
the children and their mother the result
of which was even more happy, and one
family went to the country for the
summer and the other remained at home.
But the work of tbe Zing's daughter did
not stop here. The invalid boy's two
weeks in the country lengthened into all
summer, dresses for the children and
books and papers found their way to tbe
tenement. Returning to the city for a
short time, finding her own church closed
she attended service at the mission. The
German and his family were all there
looking so materially improved that she
wondered why so little kindness on her
part should have wrought such a change,
unless because?and so she solved the
problem?it was offered "In His Name."
If this letter is read by the King's
daughter whose experience I have just
related I trust she will pardon me if. I
may have deviated from the facts told me,
and I also trust it may induce another
ten to join the army of King's daughters,
? Church Record.
Cotton Seed Romance.
The "Cotton Seed Romance" is thus
told by tbe Atlanta Constitution:
"Was there ever a history on this side
of Cinderella of the uprising humauity
like that of the cotton seed ? For seventy
years despied as a nuisance, and burned
or dumped as garbage; then discovered
to be the very food for which the soil
hungered and reluctantly admitted to the
rank of ugly utilities. Shortly afterward
found to be the nutritious food for beast
as well as soil, and thereupon treated
with something like respect. Once ad?
mitted to the circle of farm husbandries,
found to hold thirty-five gallons of pure
oil to the ton, worth fourteen dollars tc
the ton or forty million dollars foi
the crop of seed. But then a system was
devised for refining this oil up to a value
of one dollar a gallon, and the frugal
Italian placed a cask of it at the root 01
every olive tree and then defied the
Borean breath of the Alps. And tber
experiments showed that the ton of cottor
seed was a better fertilizer and a bettei
stock food when robbed of its thirty- fa ve
gallons of oil than before. And tba
the hulls of the seed ma'de the best fue
for feeding tbe oil mill engine. Ant
that tbe ashes of the bulls scooped fron
the engine drift, had tbe highest com
raercial value as potash. And that th<
"refuse" of the whole mado the bestan<
purest soap stock to carry to the toi et
the perfumes of Lubin or Colgate
Abont this time we began to spell cottoi
Feed with capital letters."
? He who steals a littlo, steals with th<
same wish as he who steals much, bu
with less power.
VOLUM
> Dining on Horse F'fesfi.
Philadelphia, Oct. 7.?Cut up into
big steaks and.served as a fillet of beef at
a dinner at the Philadelphia Club was
the fate of Pandora the famous steeplecha?
ser, who was the heroine of the Rose Tree
bunts, end known to all patrons of the
city turf ra'Ces and to the members of the
National Guard. Pandora was shot be?
cause of incurable lar?eless. After she
had died without a struggle, the choicest
meat was cut from her bones and taken to
the ensineof the Philadelphia Club where
meat was disgulsra as a joint of beef.
Dr. Bush S. Huidekopef/ who bought
Pandora thirteen years ago, gave* a dinner
at the Philadelphia Club, and one of the
dishes on the menu card read:
; "Filet a la Pandora."
Nobody knew except Dr. Hnidekoper,
that the course was a' part of poor old
Pandora's body. The guests supposed
that the disn was named in honor of the
old steeplechaser, whom they had eeen
take many a ditch and fence, and come
in the winner of many an exciting race.
After the filet bad been eaten and pro
nonhced very toothsome by the guests,
?tft. Huidekoper remarked tbat be was
glad of his guests7 appreciation for his fa?
vorite horse/ "for he said "you have just
eaten her."
The guests looked ?t each other in
amazement, and, after a short Interval of
deadly silence, there was a roar of laogh
ter. Then in an instant every one seem?
ed to remember Pandora as be bad seen
her at the lost meet, and in reverential
silence, the company rose to their feet,
: lifted their glasses to their lips and sip?
ped in solemn silence to the memory of
the old 'gray mare they had jnst devoured.
Pandora's first public appearance was at
the Rose Tree Hunt, in a hot steeple?
chase. The first few years that she was
Philadelphia she won eleven silver troph
I ies. She was quick to take a fence.
At the Pottstown encampment in
September, 2887, Pandora leaped over
the regimental colors that, were lying
across two stacks of bayoneted guns.
Colonel Bonnafon bad dared Dr. Hnide?
koper to make the jump. He pointed
Pandora's head toward the glistening
bayonets, gave her the bridle and she
leaped into the air, clearing the cold
pinnacle of steel and landing on her
haunches on the other side of the stacked
guofl.
Dr. Huidekoper, in speakin; of the
dinner,said: "All horse meat is as good
as beefj it is a pity tbat horse meat is
not eaten in this country."
The Bead Alire. *
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 17.?A
remarkable and long legal contest of a
will has just been ended in a most
unexpected manner in Winston county,
Ala. Twelve years ago Charles H.
Baker, was known as the richest man in
Winston. He owned several large
plantations and a store, from which be
supplied the small farmers for miles
around. He discounted notes and in
otber ways accumulated a large fortune,
a considerable portion of which was cash.
Baker was then living with bis second
wife and two children, also three sons by
a former wife.
In the summer of 1878 Baker went
to Memphis, Tenn., where be always sold
his cotton and did bis banking. When
the yellow fever broke out in Memphis
he was caught there, and could not return
borne on acconnt of the rigid quarantine
regulations. After the fever had been
raging several weeks, Baker's name one
day appeared among the list of new cases
and soon afterward the family beard tbat
be was dead.
. Then his widow filed for probate a will
which left her and ber children the
principal part of Baker's fortune, and
made her Administrator without bond.
Baker's sons by bis first marriage
contested the wil', and ten years of bitter
and expensive litigation followed, the
final result being that the widow and her
sons secured the bulk of what property the
lawyers had left them. The three sons
immediately secured an injunction
restraining Mrs. Baker from taking charge
of the property, claiming that they bad
secured evidence of a later will The
day after the injunction was served Chas.
H. Baker himself, now a very old man,
appeared ? at the old homestead and
claimed bis fortune.
It seems he did not die of yellow fever,
but after be recovered, after several
weeks, bis reason was gone and the past
was a blank to bim. He had drifted here
and there as a common tramp, finally
turning up in Buenas Ayres, South
America, where he was taken to a hospital
and under the care of a Spanish physician
recovered his reason. He then worked
his way to New Orleans as a common
sailor, and after many hardships, reached
his home. He confirms the claims of bis
sons tbat he had made a later will, in
which be made an equal division of his
property among bis wife and five chil?
dren. _
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 15.?A terri?
ble and remarkable suicide developed
tonight when the clerk of the Central
hotel broke in the door of room, No. 6,
and found the body of H. T. Hill stretch?
ed upon the floor. Hill was a well known
piano tuner and an Englishman who
came here just after the war and has
lately been traveling for a music bouse
here. Sunday night he came to the
hotel. This morning when the boy
carried water to his room, Hill was
walking tbe floor. He told the boy he
was sick, and not to have him disturbed.
Tonight, when be could not be roused,
the door was broken open and he was
found lying on tbe floor, bis feet cinder
the bed and a quilt spread out under him.
By his side was tbe slop bucket one-third
full of blood and tbe clotted razor.
Across his throat was a deadly gash.
There was scarcely a drop of blood on tbe
quilt or elsewhere outside tbe bucket.
Two empty morphine papers were close
by. Tbe motive of his crime is unknown.
He was only ten dollars behind with his
house. Sunday night he called on his
sister, Mrs. Newsome, and when leaving
kissed her and said she would never see
him again. Mr. Newsome was asked if
be knew why Hill killed himself. He
said he did, but neither he nor bis wife
would ever, under tbe circumstances,
divulge it. Hill was a cheerful, bright
young man, and not at all the sort of a
man to be suspected of wanting to kill
himself. Hill haa lived in Memphis a
while, and has a sister in St. Louis and
several sisters here.
? Maude and Willie Haywood, aged
six and ten years, respectively, the chil?
dren of Mrs. Ida Haywood, played hide
and seek at their home, 305 Kent street
B&oklyn, yesterday, during their moth
er absence, until suddenly Maud disap
peared. Her brother searched for ho
without success, and when his mothei
returned told her tbat his sister was lost
Mrs. Haywood notified the police and f
search was begun. Three hours latei
Maud was found lying in a bigSaratogi
trunk in the storeroom of her home. She
was unconscious and would have died i
confined much longer. It required ar
hour's work to restore her to conscious
ness. She had climbed iu the trunk tc
hide, and the lid was to heavy for her tc
lift.
Eczema, 1 toliy, Scaly, Skin Tortures.
The simple application of "Swayne1!
Ointment," without any internal medi
cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Sal
Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores
Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly*, Itchy Skli
Eruption, no matter how obstinate or Ion]
standing. It is potent, effective, and cost
A Careful Suicide.
but a trifle.
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AU Sorts of Paragraphs, -0M
? Commodore Vanderbilt made
great fortune of $120,000,000 af&i&gg
reached tbe age of sixty-five.
? In Chili the paper money k soJ
preciated that hotel charges are abl
$600 a day and bootblacks get. $16^
shine.
? If a man knew as much when he]
sober as be thinks he does when drat
Solomon's sayings would 'be nowhc
compared with his wisdom.
? A coroner's jury sat on a v. man*
Arkansas, killed by a stone in a'.brai
and returned a verdict'saying that^t
deceased was rocked to Bleep."
? It is said that a trust (Cabbas
Trust) has been formed by growejw[
Northern Ohio to put up the price ; 4
cabbage to five cents a head in the fiele
? Two Ehode Island Ioveers havej
beenmarried after a forty-ohr^ye
courtship. , A courtship so long as^Iuj
must project considerably outside of I
State.
? The toy factories are at their busi
preparing for the coming holidays,
many led in this industry a few
ago; now American toys are ship
large quantities to the Fatherland;
? While workmen were sawing timb
at Fredericksburg, Ohio, they louhdi
lock of red hair deeply embedded i
large tree. The hair had been there
many years, as it was covered by fifty-<
growths of the tree. L.
? About the oldest kid who wilW
this year lives in Texas, He is on]
years of age and his name is
Kidd.. We have a suspicion that he is
original "Captain Kidd," but as he w
vote for Cleveland, we will not give
away.
? The ex-Confederate colony in
York continues to grow. At al
every aocfal gathering may be. seen oflf
or two men who won the title , of gen
when they wore the gr^y. The South?
society, started a short time ago, now:
a membership of hundreds, and will si
have a building of its own.
? A railway train has just been cu,
structed in France for the Empe
China. It consists of six carriages, t
of which are for tbe Emperor's
They are magnificently^decorated^
each of them contains a throne. A'em
table for opium smoking is a barbaro:
piece of furniture that stands in front
each throne.
? A dry goods clerk, who had a
affected way of walking, had to go to
distant part of the store to fiDd bob
goods which a party of feminine-cost
mere desired to see. "Walk., this-twai
ladies," he called, as be swung himsel
off. "But we can't walk that way,"
a pert miss. "We never learne""
style, you know"."
? Dr. J. J. Boozer of Clinton had o
exhibition here yesterday a negro chil
which was born dead on Monday morn
iog, which had two well developed bodii
but only one bead. They joinedfjiboi
the breast showed two sets of. arms an
legs but one head and face, while th
shoulders though united could be dis
tinguished. Capt. Wren, the ph,
grapher, secured a negative of the cbi
which is an accurate representation
Laiirens Advertiser.
? A baby born in Kensin^oDjf
suburb of Ph ''adelpbiia, the ;other day|
supposed by the people in that locaji
to ue the devil. It is a boy baby, with,
black face, two horns and a cloven foo
The people in the bouse decided to.-k
the monster, but the child [ astound
them by running about the.' room;a]
defying'them to touch him. As the sto
goes, his mother objected to having
crucifix in the house, saying that
would rather have the devil. When tl
baby, was born tbe neighbors all said tha
it was tbe devil sent as a punishment fo:
the woman's wickednefs.
? The following order was '*enU_ _
farmer to a merchant in Troy,? Al?|
lew days since: "Our father" v.hieb :ai
in Troy, Wiley & Murphey be
thy kingdom of provisions comerthy
be done on my farm as it is insyou;
store, give us this day our daily bread
forgive us our trespass* on your ;barn ai
we forgive those who trespass upon oiirp
lead us not into temptation but deliyexF'
from mortgages and.our teems from hn
grin ess, for tbine shall be. the crop, "
mules and the?land forever^
if we don't pay?Amen. If this
for ten bushels of corn and three
pounds of bacon, fling it in the wa
? On Wednesday morning ofv
week Mrs. John Croft of the - Antioc
section had just swept up the kitchen, an
stooped to move some wood from a co
ner, when she was struck by a snake"'
was under the wood. Tbe fangs err)
the band between tbe tbnmb and fore
finger. She immediately gave the ala"
and help came. The snake was kill
and it had five rattles on its.tail^
doctor was summoned and on his arrival
he found Mrs. Croft in terrible agon,
Antidotes were * 'ministered, and it w;
with great difficulty that her life w,
saved. At last accounts the arm w
still swollen up badly, but it is thong
that she would be all right in a week
two.?Camden Journal.
? It is seldom that there is mtfc
rejoicing in a big penitentiary, but
Monday there was a scene of heartfel
rejoicing in the Sing Sing prison of Net?
York that has in all probability l ue" '
had its equal in this' country. Mitch
Gorman, who for thirty-three yei
been a life prisoner, was pardoned, and
he marched out of his cell to freedom.!
was greeted with shouts of joy from h
fellow prisoners. They danced an
shouted for joy that "Old Mike" w,
free again. When a lad of 20 years of a^
Gorman, in a frolic killed a companion
He was convicted and. senteuced to "
banged; but bis sentence was finally
muted to life imprisonment
bad a friend, James Dolan, who
that the homicide was justifiable/
went to work to prove it, and after man
backsets has at last succeeded in seenrin
the release of his old frie: i and class
mate.
The chancellorship of the Univerai-j
ty of Georgia, which has been vacant for
tbe past nine months, has been filled'bj
tbe election of tbe Rev. W. ?.
D. D. Dr. Boggs is one of the .jnort
prominent preachers in the Presbyterian
Church of tbe South, and is at present in
charge of tho leading church of Jiis^de'
nomination in Memphis. He ip iraU
known in Georgia. About eight yean
ago he succeeded Dr. Leftwich as pastoi
of the Central Presbyterian Church ?l
Atlanta. Two years later he accepted a
professorship in the Theological Seminary
at Columbia. He is a warm friend of Dr.
Woodrow, and stood by him through 1
tbe various stages of tbe celebrated conj
test over Dr. Woodrow's conduct1-^
teaching that tbe theory of evolution??
probably true. Dr. Boggs led the defen^j
of Dr. Woodrow in the Georgia Sync"
and in tbe discussion displayed ?
powers as a debater. His ability iB'i
cognized wherever he is known.-"~
Boggs is about 45 yeBrs old.
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