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BF CLINKSCALES & LA.NGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1894._ VOLUME XXIX.-NO 25 WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR XMAS PRESENTS ? These words are in tho minds of all of ns now. We want to giye something? That isn't too expensive! That wUl be appreciated! That is useful! That is needfal! If you want something for your male friends it will pay you to inspect the line of Gents' Fuanishings at iL (X EVANS & CO. They have just received the very latest "fads" in Cravats, Shirts, Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Etc., made up specially for holiday trade. Call early and look through our line, then look else? where. . We have faith in our goods and prices, and court the fullest comparison. 33. O. EVA.1NTS & CO. CLOTHIERS, HATTERS, and HH^iv _FURNISHERS. The Successful Ad?ertizer! Is the man who writes something the people will read, and reading, believe. In this oge of education and enlightenment, when men read and think for themselves, all that stuff about "selling goods cheaper than, your competitors buy them," being the "only competent dealers in the line," "handling better staff than anybody ehe," etc., is mere clap trap, and subjects, the writer and the firm back of it to the contempt of all right-thinking people. The man who has something to offer, and then tells thefilks about in a plain, business way, Is the man who "gets there," and getting there, stand?. Lots of people handle Paint. Some handle one kind, some another, but they all realise, If tbey have any business sense at all, that in order to make that business a permanent success it is absolutely neces? sary to give the people the very best ma? terial. This we have tried to do, and at a price that puts it in the reach of all. In this connection we call attention to the fact that crops are about laid by, time is plentiful, and a little paint not only freshens and beautifies, bntimproves vron derfully the sanitary condition of the premises. If your house is.all right may? be the fence needs'a coat. A little Paint would keep that bid bopgy from falling down, and the wagon might last a year or ttvo longer .by spending seventy-five cents . ox a dollar in Paint on it. Remember this, the longer you put it off the more it takes and the less good it 'does* Remember another thing, it costs just as much, and tat-a just as mach time, to have cheap paint put r. as it-does good Faint. Always buy the ?ist, even if yon payjr.ore for it. HILL BROS., Druggists, ANDERSON, 8. C. YELLOW PINE LUMBER FOR BALE AT REMARKABLY LOW PRICES. -?o- x CALL and see us before you bny, as we can and ?111 Save you Money. We are in the Building Business, and Contract ior all classes of work. :. We do all kinds of Shop work. Plans and Estimates fam bhed at she notice. All work guaranteed. S?t" Office, Shop and Shed on line of Railroad near Cotion Platform and old C. & G. Depot. Yours truly, THE ?tfDEBSON LUMBER CO. J. M. SMITH, Manager. Oct3I.1894 . 13 3m . FBaHK. M. MtJBPHT. J. FCBIUV EVAHS MJBPEY & EVANS, Attorneys at Law, ANDERSON, - - S. O. COLLECTIONS and Commercial Law given special attention. >OmcB?Over Farmers' and Merchants' Bank . June 6,1891 49 6m HfililCfiffltiiBMCo. S MASONS' SUPPLIES, 276 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, 13- C? IMPORTERS OF ENGLISH POETIAND CEMENT, ASD DEALERS IN Eastern_and Southern Rock Lime, Rosandale Cement/ N. Y. Plaster Paris, Hair, Laths, Shingles, . Tiles, Bricks, Fire Clay, All sizes T. 0. Pipe, Best Full Size Fire Brick, Roqffing Slates, AND .ILL BUILDING MATERIAL. Telephone 291. Aug 22,1894 8 6m ?-: W. L. Douclas ??*| ^HI^E? ISTHEBEST. ' i&& ?ffiWto NOSQUEAKING. *5. CORDOVAN, french&enameueocalf: ^.^RNEGALF&I?NfiA?Ja $ 5.5? P0LICE.3 Soles. *2.*I.5??Y?CI100LSHDa LADIES r* ?? irs fan ^it*r AMirr 0 SEND FOR CATALOGUE JW*L*DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, mass. Yon eon save money by. purchasing W. L. ' Douglas Shoco, Because, we are the largest manufiicturers-off advertised shoes in the world, and guarantee the value by stamping the name an! price on Ihe bottom, which protects you against high 'prices and the middleman's profits. Our shoes canal custom work in style, easy ?t?ng and wearing qualities. We have them sold every? where at lower prices for the value given than any other make. Take no Substitut'!. If your dealer cannot supply yon, we can. !>oldby C F. JONES & CO., ANDERSON, S. 0. GEEOROS., Baiton, S. C. "VTOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. JA The undersigned. Ad mi cist rat or of Estate of S. Jackson Mattison, deceased, hereby gives notice that be will, on the 13th day of December, 1894, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discbarge from his office as Administrator. J. J. T?USSELL, Adm'r. Novl4,1894 20 _5 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Tbe undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate of D, H. Hammond, deceas? ed, hsreby gives nntic-t that she will on the 15th day of December, 1894, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun? ty for a Final Settlement of said Eatate, aud a discharge from her office as Execu? trix. MARY A. ELROD, Ex'x., J formerly Hammond. Novl4,1894 20 5 NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. Tbe undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate of Joab M. Clardy, deceased, hereby gives notice that she will, on the 2l8t day of December, 1MH, apply to the Ja Ige of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from her office as Administratrix. MARY CLARDY, Adm'x. JTov 28,1804 22 6 -Dealers in all kinds ofJ? CARPETS, RUGS, WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES, LINOLEUMS and STRAW MATTINGS, AT WHOLESALE ARID RETAIL. A.ND without any purpose or desire to bo extravagant or high-sounding in what we have or what we can do, allow us to whisper the fact that our Stock is very fall in nil its departments, and to further say yon had better see us before baying anything in oar lines. We have recently added a complete Stock of? UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES, And having secured the services of a practical and experienced Em balmer, and? AN ELEGANT HEARSE. We respectfully solicit your patronage in this line, promising, at any hour, promptness, consideration and efficiency in these sad services, ENTERPRISE FURNITURE CO. THREE THINGS! JFlour, Shoes, Tobacco. WE could mention over a thousand things which wo h*ve packed in our large Store room, and at remarkably low prices, but w? want to call your especial attention to the three above named articles. Wo have been trying for years to get a Flour whiob we could eel I in competition with the cheap goods with which our market is o-owded. We have a Flour now which we guarantee to give the most exacting customer entire satisfaction, .end at the low price of $?25 per barrel. We have also a large lot of onr famous $2.75 Flour On Shoes we have done our very best, and we think if you will come and jook you will be convinced that we have one of the largest and best select 2d stocks to be found in the city. We have Shoes of all kinds by the thousands, bought at the low est possible price for spot cash, and wo will Bell t) em to you with all the discount off. Tobacco is our pet line. We have the satisfaction of knowing tbat we are band* ling some of the best goods made-, We will mention a few of onr leading brands : Rebel Girl, Sweet Mash. Cannon Bali, Brer Rabbit, Jack Rabbit, Tar Heel, National Chew, Haney's Natural Leaf, &c-, <fcc. We cordially invite yon to come and see us. We will do our best to please you, and sell you goods as cheap as any one living can sell them. Yours anxious to please, D. C. BROWN & BRO., No. 17 Peoples' Block. LEND ME YOUR EAR! I won't keep it long, for I simply want to tell you that in addition to my usual stock of? STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, CANNED GOODS, CONFECTIONERIES, &C, That I have a fine stock of FRUITS?Bananas, Applep, Oranges, etc.? which I am offering cheap. SANTA GLAUS Has also opened his headquarters with me, and I have almost everything to please the little folks during the Christmas holidays. And don't iorget I have a line lot of TOBACCO and CIGARS, Give me a call, see my goods and get my prices, and if I can't please you no harm will be done. Yours to please, Gr. F. BIGrBY. "A WORD TO THE WISE" Is an old adage generally understood but often Misapplied. "^7E mean it for you to take the hint offered by us in our? BIG DRIVE ON DRESS GOODS, And call to see our BARGAINS before it i3 too lato. We have a magnificent Stock in all grades and prices, and your opportunity fur providing yourself with Drees Goods at small cost was never better tban now. , We carry in addition a handsome line of Ladies' and Children's SUuES, Men's, Youths* and B<jjs' Shoes and Hook, Kats, Trunks, &c , &c. Heavy Groceries and General Merchandise, At prices LOWER than ever known in the history of this country. Flour and Bacon by the Car Loan'. WE AEE ALWAYS IN THE COTTON MARKET McCULLY & CATHCART. SHsKEM UP ?ND LETGO GROCERY! WE beg to announce to our many patrons in Anderson and throughout the County that we have moved our place of business to the elegant and commodious salesroom? IN HOTEL CHIQUOLA BLOCK, NO. 5, Formerly occupied by D. S. Maxwell & Son. We will be better prepared than ever to supply you with the BEST GROCERIES at the lowest price consistent with the quality of Goods given. We haven't disappointed you in the past, and hope to do even better for you in the future. No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food at popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make things lively. Shakem up and letgo, J. A. AUSTIN & CO. BLUE STONE AT ORR & SLOAN'S, BE?KT Squire Fe well's" Letter. Editors Intelligencer : I have been on a sort of quandary about kill? ing my Christmas hog. I wanted to save it until just a few days before Christmas, so that we could have back? bone and spare-ribs and sausage, for our Christmas breakfast, and turkey for dinner, but the moon will not be right, according to what Joe Moore says. I killed one two weeks ago'and Joe said I was killing it exactly on the wrong time of the moon. If I turn in and kill it now?that is on the right time of the moon?the chances are that we will have all the ribs and sau? sage eat up against Christmas, and if I wait until Christmas to kill, the moon wont be right, so I am at a loss to know what to do about it. "They" say if I kill meat on the increase of tbe moon that it will hold its size in cooking better than if killed on the decreasing or waning period, but if killed between the full and change that we will get more grease out of it than if killed after the change?that is on the new of the moon, but for all that, I can't see but what the hog we killed two weeks ago is doing very well. It tastes very well and "turns out grease" well enoughT I have heard some folks say that if wc cut a board tree on the new of the moon the boards will "curl" up in half moou or crescnt shape. So they say it is best to cut your board timber on the full of the moon. Old aunt Ester Gantt, an old colored woman, who use to belong to Mr. Hugh Gantt, near Honea Path, always made her soap on the new of the moon. She said it made better soap and was easier made than at any other time. She also "set up" her blue pot on the new of the moon. She said that she never could dye as pretty blue on the full of the moon as she could when it was new moon. Said she: "I want to put me up a pot of Indigo next week, for it will be new moon a Chuseday, and I want to get the warpf or Mars Hughey's winter clothes dyed, and the wool for the filling dyed a deep blue, and get it wove before cold weather." Aunt Ester was the old man's boss house? keeper, and looked after the making of his clothing with as much interest and pride as if she had been a white woman and his wife. Some folks wont plant corn on the new of the moon. They say it will grow too tall, and does not ear near as heavy as if planted on the full of the moon, but I planted a field last spring on the full of the moon and neighbor Jones planted a field adjoin? ing mine two weeks after, which was on the new of the moon, and both fields of corn grew very tall and both was well .eared. So that experience has unsettled ray mind somewhat about which would be the best time to plant. Notwithstanding all that, Jay Murphy still clings to the idea that on the full moon is the proper time to plant to get large ears of corn. They all say I am hitting it exactly right in getting our wheat sowed now. Some folks is alowing that as how Governor Evans was inaugurated on the waning of the moon, that the power of the 'Tillman movement' will begin to wane, too, and that in a few years it will all be dead, but I don't know about that? there is too much strife, too much animosity engendered in the minds of the Tillman followers, and too much greed after office, for it to cease very soon. I have, heard it said that if we see the new moon the first time after the change clear and over the right shoul? der we will have good luck, and will prosper in all our undertakings for the next four weeks to come, but if we should be so unfortunate as to see it over the left shoulder, or through the limbs of a tree, or through skirts of clouds, we will be doomed to disap? pointment and failures for the next month to come. I never knew till last Saturday that it was hard luck to take up ashes on Saturday. It so happened that ours needed taking up and somebody said that an old lady in Pickens said that it was bad luck to take ashes out of the house on a Saturday, "for," says she, "I knew a woman who had been in the habit of taking up her ashes on Saturday all her life, and had taken them out on a Saturday morning and went to the Pendleton factory that day, or in a few days, and got her clothing caught in the machinery and was killed, and," says she, "I have always knew ever since that it was bad luck." When I was a boy, several of us boys of the neighborhood would get together on some day in the week, pretty generally when the old folks were gone?to Church?and go fishing. Steve Stone and Hamp Stone and a negro boy belonging to Franklin Gay lord, would go with us, but it was absolutely against the rules of the party for one to step across another's fishing pole. If one did happen to step across another's pole he had to immediately step back across it back? wards, so that he wouldn't lose his luck. It was supposed to be bad luck for one to hold his fishing pole across another's while he was fishing. Some people will not commence any kind of work on a Wednesday or Friday?they say that it is bad luck. I reckon that is why some people never accomplish anything?its bad luck to commence. It is bad luck to turn back when you start off on a journey. Some people dread to meet a negro first?they want to meet a white man first. Then they will be successful in their journey. It is br.d luck for a rabbit to cross the roai in front of you when on a journey, unless you roll up your right sleeve und say the Lord's prayer. As it is iretting close to Christmas it is well i enough to warn the people that it is bad luck to take anything out of the house between Christmas day and new year's day. You must take up the ashes clean the day before Christmas and not take them up any more until the 2nd day of January. If a white man comes in your house first on new year's you will prosper that year, but if a negro or a woman comes in first you will not succeed well. In spite of all our advancement in science and knowledge we have these and a thousand or more such supersti? tious notions in our minds. They cling to a great many people and they can't help it. A great many of the signs -about ^the-'moon^etc.^ jjis* like Mike Nioeley said^an old lady he knew in Virginia was about judging good indigo. She said that she could tell good indigo by rubbing a piece of it on her:thumb nail, "for," said she, "if it coloredoher 'nail green it was a sign that it was good or not good," she had forgot which. So it is with our notions about the moon. But one thing sure, moon or no moon, my wife says she is going to butcher a turkey or two for Christmas anyhow. She also gives me notice that that "big bundle" was getting to be very small, and I began to get uneasy, for if sugar was going up at the rate of half a cent a week I wouldn't get more than 12 or 13 pounds for a dollar next time. So I inquired at Piedmont last Saturday about the price and I was surprised when they told me they would Bell me from 18 to 25 pounds to the dollar. I suppose the 25 pounds to the dollar was brown sugar. So if I lived away off from town like people do around Five Forks, where they have to pay eight or ten cents a pound for sugar, I would go to town where they sell it for five or six cents a pound, to buy my sugar for Christmas. I see in my last week's paper that a number of "reformers" have signed a circular signifying their willingness to lay aside all past differences, and wants us all to get together and elect dele? gates to the Constitutional Conventien without regard to past factional differ? ences. That seems to be fair and all right, but why did they not make some such proposition sooner? For instance, when the Intelligences proposed to the Reformers for them to nominate three and the Conserva? tive two of the five Representatives to the General Assembly? No doubt but those who have signed that paper are in earnest, and mean what they say, but I don't think that arrange? ment would suit "our Noble Leader." It would tend to set aside the ill feel? ing and strife which he has heretofore been so eager to keep burning, and by which he has gained his office and share in the rich spoils accruing there? from. But I suppose he will be safe in.a few days when he is elected to the United States Senate. Of course he will be elected, because he is "for Tillman," and you know that has been all the qualification that a man needed for the last four years to get elected to office. "Are you for Tillman and how long have you been for him?" was the question put to a candidate when he got up to address the people. If he said "I am for Tillman first, last and all the time," that was enough; he need not say any more, for he had already said enough to insure his election. I reckon if any one outside of this State reads this, who does not know much about our situation here, will think this is.a mighty funny way doing, but there is more truth than poetry in it, notwithstanding the "Dons" to the contrary. "We can Ltar Geo. D. Rogers' saw mill whistle blowing every few days down the Hurricane, but he says he will have to pull up his stakes and move in a few days to newer fields, for he has about cleaned up all the timber in reach of him. George Jones, nephew of Mr. H. R. Jones, is quite sick with typhoid fever at his uncle's. The doctor says he is doing well as one could with fever, and we hope to see him up soon. With this exception the health of our neighborhood is generally good. At a regular communication of Grove Station Lodge, No. 166, A. F. M., held December 8, 1894, the fol? lowing officers were elected to serve the ensuing Masonic year: A. S. Rowell, W. M.j S. J. Dalton, S. TV.; J. D. Tice, J. W.; J. F. Her, Treas? urer; B. C. Crawford, Secretary; John Lyons, S. D.; W. P. Morgan, J. D., W. D. Rambo, Tiler. Mr. Rowell goes to Charleston today to represent the Lodge in the Grand Lodge. Squire Fewell. I ? A little girl was wondering what was the matter with her thumb, and complained that it hurt every time she squeezed it. Her mother advised her not to squeeze it. "But," she re j sponded, "if I don't squeeze it how lean I tell whether it hurts? This little girl may be taken as a sample of the human race. How we nurse our wrath, and coddle our grievances, and pet our wounds, and are continually squeezing them to see if they hurt! The better way is not to squeeze them. Let them alone to get well, and avoid a good deal of pain. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order I to cure it you must take internal I remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio, j Bg^Sold by Druggists, 75c, MURDER AND LINCHING. Two Horrible Tragedies at Williamston, Special to Qrcenville News. Williamston, S. C, Dec. 12.?One of the most brutal murders ever com? mitted in this State was the butcher? ing'of Gus Cromer, a step-son of Au? gustus Williams, of Williamston, last Monday afternoon by Ed Sullivan, a Negro boy about 15 years of age. Last Monday morning Mr. Williams and his step-son, aged 12 years, went to Pelzer. Williams remained there, where he worked, but started his son back to Williamston with a new axe, three yards of jeans cloth and a bas? ket, not knowing that the boy had not returned home until yesterday after? noon when Williams came home him? self. His wife informed him that Gus had never yet returned. Then the alarm was given and an immediate search was made but without effect until this morning when right inside the corporate limits of our generally quiet town the body of poor little Gus was found with his head and face split to pieces, showing the force the blows with the edge of a sharp axe had been driven. Either of the wounds would have produced death instantly. After finding the body a large crowd gathered. A jury was empaneled, and search was at once made for the demon who committed the foul deed. It was soon ascertain? ed that when last seen Gus Williams was near where he was killed, going in company with a Negro boy, who proved to be Ed Sullivan, in the direction of a piece of woods. A party suspecting Ed Sullivan of being the murderer, went at once to his mother's house and there found the cloth Gus Wil? liams had started from Pelzer with. They then arrested Ed Sullivan, who confessed the deed. Later.?9.30 p. m.?The consta? bles have started for Anderson jail |-with the prisoner and are being pur? sued by five hundred armed and in? furiated men who say they will lynch Sullivan or die. Later.?11.45 p. m.?Mayor G. W. Sullivan and other citizens of Wil liamston have been at work faith? fully trying to protect the life of Ed Sullivan, the murderer, and allow the law to take its course and to this end they started the prisoner with two officers in a buggy toward Anderson but after driving about five miles in that direction they were overtaken by a large crowd of armed men. Sulli? van was taken from them by violence and brought back to Williamston, and just outside the incorporation his body was swung to a limb of a hickory tree and then riddled with bullets. This act will be greatly deplored by most of our citizens. The party con? sisted-of about five hundred grown men. Governor Evans hearing of the trou? ble telegraphed A. M. Guyton's mili? tary company to come at once, but the telegran was not received until 12 o'clock to-night, one hour after the lynching. Trial Justice Roberts, who held the inquest over Cromer's body and who had official charge of the prisoner, evidently did all in his power to pre? vent the lynching. It was impossible for him to communicate with Ander? son but he telegraphed the facts to Governor Evans. A. B. Williams, of the Greenville Neios, learning the facts by telegraph from Williamston and by telephone from Pelzer, sent an urgent message to the Governor stating the facts at more length and adding that plenty of help could be secured in Greenville to prevent the lynching of the boy. The Governor acted promptly. Just before midnight he telegraphed Capt. W. P. Conyers, of the Greenville Guards, as follows : "Order out your company and pro? ceed at once to Williamston. Protect the prisoner threatened to be lynched. You have full power to use every means necessary to prevent the lynch? ing." John Gary Evans, Governor. At 12.30 a. m., just thirty-five min? utes after the receipt of this message in Greenville, the Greenville Guards were at their armory in uniform and under arms ready to move. Considering that the men were all at their homes, scattered in different parts of the city, and in bed, the promptness with which they reported was astonishing. Meanwhile, the lynching had taken place and when Captain Conyers re? ported to the Governor that the Guards were under arms and awaiting orders he received an answer to the effect that there was no need for his services and that he might dismiss his men. Later last night the following came from Pelzer by telephone and was sent to Columbia on the loop in the Greenville News office: Pelzer, S. C, December 13. Governor John Gary Evans Columbia, S^ C. : The party lynched is probably only an accessory in the murder. I expect to arrest the prin? cipal tonight. Will need protection at inquest in morning. The train leaves Greenvill at 10:15 a. m. If you decide to send Greenville Guards they will need notice tonight. L. B. Roberts, T. J. About 2 o'clock this morning the following was received here from Co? lumbia: Columbia, S. C, December, 12. Capt. W. P. Conyers, Greenville. S. C. : Proceed to Williamston with your company on the 10:15 train Thursday morning and report to L.B. Roberts, trial justice there, at inquest and protect any person arrested. JonN Gary Evans, Governor. Unless orders are received to the contrary the Greenville Guards will, therefore, leave here this morning for Williamston and will act under the orders of Trial Justice Roberts to pre? vent further lynching. The latest report from Pelzer last night was that the man to be arrested was supposed to be the principal in the crime?the actual murderer?the boy who was lynched being only an accessory after the fact. In killing this boy the mob destroyed the best evidence there was against the man who slew Gus Cromer. ? Any one who has children will rejoice with L. B. Mulford, of Plain field, N. J. His little boy, five years of age, was sick with croup. For two days and nights he tried various rem? edies recommended by friends and neighbors. He says: "I thought sure I would lose him. I had seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy adver? tised and thought I would try it as a last hope and am happy to say that after two doses he slept until morn? ing. I gave it to him next day and a cure was effected. I keep this remedy in the house now and as soon as any of my children show signs of croup I give it to them and that is the last of it." 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill Bros. Mnslc In tbe Home, In these days of discovery and in? vention men are finding cures for every evil under the sun, and lately an anti? dote was suggested for one of the worst moral diseases with which hu? manity is afflicted, that of social scan? dal. It was given in these words: "I never knew of a scandal in a family that loved music, and wherever you find a musical family there you will find a happy family where no breath of scandal ever reaches. In all my experience I nevor knew a divorce case to occur in a family where the hus? band and wife with their sons and daughters gathered in the parlor when the day's tasks were done and let mu? sic entertain them. I know of many such families in this big, wicked town and every one of them are happy families." The speaker then went on to name a number of prominent New Yorkers who were in the habit of spending their evenings in this way, many of them men who are chiefly known to the world for their wealth or great literc-.ry talents. He said that in every case especial pains had been taken with the musical education of the children so that they could, and often did, have in their own homes concerts of a very high order of merit. And as he enumerated them his speakers were forced to confess that in no instance had any breath of ncan dai touched the family life of those he named. The quarrels, jealousy and general ill feeling commonly reported as ex? isting between professional musicians forbid one's attempting to lay down as a rule that music has in all cases a refining and elevating effect upon human beings. It is possible, we know, for singers to produce the most entrancing harmonies with their voices while they are as far as possible from being personally in accord with one another; but at the same time it is reasonable to suppose that when a husband and wife have such a strong bond of sympathy as a similarity of tastes and accomplishments they are less likely to disagree than when their talents lie in opposite directions. If a man sings well and is fond of music it is an additional attraction in his home to have a wife who can accom? pany him upon the piano or who can sing with him. but if she can do neither he is very likely to spend a good many of his evenings with those who can ; and, of course, the same is true with regard to one whose talent is for instrumental music. The world is becoming quite too critical with regard to music in these latter times. In the far away days of our youth tastes were simpler and the knowledge of music by no means so general, but we question if the enjoy? ment of it was not all the greater be? cause people's ears were not so quick to detect every false tone as (they now are. In those times opera tiouffe was unknown, and the country was not quite so overrun with travelling con? cert companies as it is now; and so in country places the opportunity to hear music of any kind was not often given. In consequence, singing schools, prac? ticing for church singing and music at home, were about all the musical train? ing people had. . Naturally this was not music of a very high order, but there is no question about the pleas? ure it gave, and in spite of its faults and crudities we cannot help thinking there was more real devotion in the congregational singing of those simple country folks than there is in listen? ing with critical ears to the well trained and well-paid church choirs of to-day. There was a pretty custom, too, in those old times, for the mother to gather the children about the piano of an evening to sing ballads with her, and there are certain songs which can never be heard without such a sweet and homely scene rising before the mind's eye and the ear seeming to catch again the faint tones of loved voices that have long been still. But it is most of all with the old familiar hymn tunes that these associations are connected, because moot of them were heard for the first time from our mother's lips. Those dear old fash? ioned mothers did not leave the re? ligious instruction of their children to chance or the haphazard teaching of the Sunday School, and part of their system was the learning of hymns, both words and music. We do not mean to claim that the sons and daughters they brought up were one whit better than the children of to? day, or that they grew up to be more Christian men and women than these may be, but at least they had through all their lives a sweet and tender memory that' these young people will never know. It has ^ften been asserted that the custom of family prayer is dying out even among persons who are very exact in the performance of public and personal worship, and in these families r-herc it is still observed the singing of a hymn is commonly omit? ted as a superfluous part of the rite. Every year we drift farther and far? ther away from the simple patriarchal idea of family life, and of the father as head of the household in things spiritual, as well as in the ordinary affairs of life. The picture Burns paints in his "Cotters' Saturday Night," of the sweet old custom of family worship?than which there is nothing finer in all his writings?may still be true in some parts of his na? tive land, for Scotch people are pro? verbially slow to forsake old customs or the religion of their fathers, but we know of very few other places where it could now be found. It is, of course, chiefly in the power of women to decide whether this bond of family union, found in home music, shall exist in their families or not. Whether the wife be a musician her? self or not, she can do much to en? courage a love of it in her children, and if her husband enjoys it, or can take part in it, so much the better; her task is all the easier and more pleasant. Within a recent period a great number of young people have learned to play the violin, guitar, banjo and mandolin, and so, with a little encouragement from the heads of the family, very enjoyable evenings may be spent at home without the re? quirements of very great knowledge or j skill. If mothers and fathers are wise they will do all they can to pro? mote the enjoyment of their young people in this way, since every hour thus spent is just that much gained in the effort to protect them from the temptations to evil which ever await them beyond the shelter of home.? Sunday .News. ? For rheumatism I have found nothing equal to Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It relieves the pain as soon as applied.-?J. W. Young, West Liberty, W. Va. The prompt relief it affords is alone worth many times the cost, 50 cents. Its continued use will effect a permanent cure. For sale by Hill Bros, Wife and Daughter Slain. ? Florence, S. C, December 11.? A shocking tradegy occurred about four miles from here this morning. Mr. Etsell L. Adams, a prominent planter, who has lived in this county for years, became suddenly insane and killed his wife, his fourteen-year-old daughter and himself. E I Mr. Adams' insanity was inherited ?his father having also committed suicide by drowning himself in a well, and a brother having shown evidences of an unsound mind. There were no witnesses of the ter? rible scene. Mr. R. Y. Hc-nagan and Mr. Ezell Hoole who were in the neigh? borhood, heard gunshots and hastened to the Adams house. The body of the girl lying dead on the ground several yards from the house, was the first thing that they saw. Her head had betn horribly crushed with a gun used as a club?the broken stock lying by her side. It is supposed that she was trying to escape to a barn where some hands were at work. But the madman overtook her and his mad work was soon done. Mr. Hoole rescued Mrs. Currah and her child who had been in a room in the house but had not witnessed the killing. Mr. Henagan drove off in his buggy to summon help. Mr. Moole took Mrs. Curran away. When the neighbors arrived they found that Adams had killed himself by shooting pistol bullets through his breast and head. He had also cut his own throat and had even swallowed strychnine?this last before the killing occurred. Mrs. Adams was found lying on the floor in the dining room. It is thought that she was the first victim. Her head was mangled in a shocking man? ner. Two of Mr. Adams' children escap? ed and were taken care of by neighbors. One of these was at school in Florence and the other at the Confederate Home in Charleston. Mr. Adams was a brother-in-law of the Rev. W. T. Thompson, of Charles? ton, and was closely related to the family of the late Judge Pressley. He has long been known to be unbalanced in mind, but such a terrible act as those thus described was of course con? sidered impossible.?Special to Col? umbia State. m il m The Reckoning of Time. The division of the years into 365} days comes to us from the Egyptians. So far as history reaches back into the darkness of the ear-y ages we are led to believe that the dusky brown people by the banks of the Nile were the first to study the motions of the sun and stars, and make them the measure of time. And some recent discoveries in Egypt, by careful students, seem to show the way in which the earlier as? tronomers were enabled f;o count the days in the solar year. The great temples on the Nile were built with a long entrance of columns leading from the river to the interior of the shrine? a kind of tunnel; sometimes it was lined with sphinxes or huge granite figures. Its mouth was tamed toward a certain part of the heavens where the light of the setting sun could enter it only once a year. It was either at the summer solstice, when the sun was farthest in the North, or at some other periodic position of the sun or star. I We may imagine the Egyptian astron? omer watching in the inner shrite for the opening of the new year. The line of columns served as a telescope by which he could catch the first beam of the setting sun. Suddenly the red light would flash through the tunnel up to the Holy of Holies: the moment it reached the shrine the philosopher would mark the hour, and know that another year had begun. From that point in time he could count day after day until, when the 355 days had passed, once more the red beam of light streamed into the tunnel, and an? other year had passed away. In this it seems probable that our days were first counted and divided. Other na? tions, and even the Greeks and Ro? mans, used the moon as their guide, and divided the year into lunar months. But it was found, as time passed on, that great irregularities crept in, the months no longer corresponded to the seasons; April became June and the autumn months winter. The Egyptian sun year was then generally adopted by the ignorance of the Roman priests, and at last Julius Caesar, who was fond of astronomy, resolved to correct the calendar; it is his year we now use, and to his friend, the Egyp? tian Sosigenes, we owe our division of time. Caesar fixed upon the fir3t of January as the beginning of his year? a season of feasting and joy with the Egyptians and all modern society. Another mode of calulating the days of the year in Egypt was the rising of the dog star, Sirius. This was known as the Sothic system, and is another proof of the careful study the Egypt? ians gave to the starry skies. ? The word "pea" is derived from Pisa, a Greek city of Elis, which seems to have been the center of the pea-growing industry for years before the time of Christ. The antiquarians aver that the "mess pottage," for which Esau sold his birthright, was a dish of pease. In those times they were called "lentils," and even at the present day the English common peo? ple of several of the English shires, notably Middlesex and Oxfordshire, still call them "tils," dropping the "len." In the time of Mary they were called "pcasons." and in the time of Charles I., pease." Prof. L. H. Baily is authority for the state? ment that pease have been in cultiva? tion in Europe for more than 2,000 years. ? Lynch law, pure and simple is not lawlessness. Originally it was frontier justice. A man on the fron? tier was accused of crime ; there was no organized court within hundreds of miles. The people in the mining town, or the emigrants, held a court; the captain of the train, or the oldest man, was judge; others were jury. The accused defended himself and might be acquitted ; if he wascondmn ed, he was put to death promptly and decently. It was justice, not law, per? haps, and rough, as justice, is apt to be. In time the trial was omitted. Charles Lynch, according to the Cen? tury Dictionary, is responsible for the name. He lived in Virginia, and died in 1775. Mr. Ira P. Wetmore, a prominent real estate agent of San Angelo, Texas, has used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in his family for several years as occasion required, and always with perfect success. He says : "1 find it a perfect cure for our baby when troubled with colic or dys? entery. I now feel that my outfit is not complete without a bottle of this Remedy at home or on a trip away from home. For sale by Hill Bros, ' All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The labor question will come out all right. It is the loafer question that hinders industries. ? The amount of money coined during"November was $3,207,000 of which $1,207,000 was silver. ? It is sad to see family relics sold at auction, but the most painful thing under the hammer is generally your thumb-nail. ? Dealer?Does that shoe hurt you ? Miss Beacon?I think not; unless I am greatly mistaken it is my ' foot that hurts me. ? Kitty?"What do you suppose her age is? Tom?I don't know. But a woman's age doesn't matter so much as how long she has been that age. ? A New York doctor says he has examined the men who work in a large brewery and found that it is the custom of those who have free access to the beer to drink a keg a day. ? "When Adie Johnson, the twelve year-old daughter of a prominent man at Palestine, Tex., was accused of stealing 25 cents last Saturday she took rat poison and died. ? Mrs. Winthrop?What did your husband mean by saying he would bo thinking of Christmas all the coming, year? Mrs. Penfield?He bought the ? presents on the installment plan. Rudy's Pile Suppository, is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp for circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin Rudy, Lancaster. Pa. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite, drug gistp. ? ?If a lion and strong horse were to pull in opposite directions, the horse would win the tug of war easily; but if the lion were hitched behind the horse, and facing the same direction, he could easily back the horse down upon its haunches. ? Artificial whalebone is now being made from leather, which is soaked for two or three days in sulphate of potassium then stretched, slowly dried, subjected to a high temperature, and then to heavy pressure, which makes it hard and elastic. ? When an Armenian maiden at? tains her seventeenth year, and is not engaged to be married, she must un? dergo a strange punishment. She is forced to fast three days; then for 24 hours her food is salt fish, and she is not permitted to quench her thirst. ? It is said that Queen Victoria is proficient in 11 European languages, and that she has, in the last four or five years, completely mastered Hin doostance, in which she converses with great correctness and fluency with any of her Indian subjects who are presented at court. ? Japanese workmen bathe the whole body once a day and some of them twice. Public baths are pro? vided on every street. They are fed by a constant current of cold and not water. The bather plunges in, re I mains immersed some 10 minutes, then comes out and receives a warm douche of fresh water. ? "See here," exclaimed the.red? headed woman in wrath, "if you ainZtr* out of this yard in 10 minutes I declare I'll run this umbrella down your throat and open it." "There ain't a bit o' use of that, mum," re? sponded Dismal Dawson; "anybody that's as dry inside as I am ain't needin' no umbrella in him." ? A wife in Australia died just in time the other day, if she had only known it. Her husband maintaining that'his marriage vows were only ""till, death do us part," refused to pay the funeral expenses. The court, it is pleasant to record, promptly convinced him of his error, deciding that a hus? band's duties only cease when the un? dertaker's bills are paid. ? The most wonderful hailstorm on record as having occurred within the United States was that at Dubuque, Io., June 16, 1882. It began at 2:35 p. m. and lasted but 13 minutes, but within that time hail fell to the depth of three feet. The hailstones, which weighed from one ounce to 2$ pounds, were of all kinds of fantastic shapes and were woven around rocks, sticks, earth beetles, frogs, etc. ? It is said that the smallest piece of painting in the world has recently been executed by a Flemish artist. It is painted on a grain of common white corn, and pictures of a mill, and a miller mounting stairs with a sack of grain on his back. The mill is repre? sented as standing on a terrace, and near it is a horse and cart, while a group of several peasants is shown in the road near by. The picture is beautifully distinct, every object being finished with microscopic fidelity, yet by careful measurement it is shown that the whole painting does not cover a surface of half an inch square. IS: ct of Machinery. In mechanical weaving the progress, says the Manufacturers' Gazette, has been great, not only in the quality and character of the work done, but in the amount of production. There is scarcely a woven design that cannot now be produced on the power loom. But the advancement in power loom weaving is more appreciated in the speed at which the loom can be run and the facility with which it can be tended. In this, England is much ahead of the Continent, and the United States of the world. In 1830 the average speed of the cotton loom on plain goods was 80 to 90 picks in England, while to-day it is 195 picks. In some instances the speed is run np to 240 picks a minute. These speeds are theoretical, and indicate the possi? bilities of the machine. As a fact, the effectiveness of the loom is 8 to 16 per cent less, due to stoppages from various causes. The difference be? tween the theoretical and practical efficiency of the loom is owing in an important degree to the efficiency of the operative that operates it. This is seen, somewhat, in the number of looms that one person runs, which is considerably greater in the United States than in England, and greater in the latter country than on the Conti? nent. The records of a large weaving mill in Hyde, which has remained in the hands of the same family for the period covered, 1832-90, show an in? crease in the weekly production per operative of over 140 per cent, and at the same time a decrease in the unit cost of labor, while the earnings per weaver have been increased nearly 90 per cent, notwithstanding a reduction in working hours, per week, of over 24 per cent. Not only have the earnings increased in this proportion, but their buying power has increased even more, or 220 per cent, based on the price of flour. According to Ellison's statis? tic, the productive capacity per oper? ative increased 2', tiaics from 1844 to 18S0, and the cost of labor per pound of cotton manufactured declined nearly 35 per cent.