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Tho Little Children’s Joyful
Holiday.
GOOD ADVICE TO THE YOUNG ME
School's just out. There are two hundred chil
dren turned loose on this town and a hundred
thousand on tho state and several millions on
tho nation, And they are kicking up a racket
wherever they are. Wo have to give the roads
and sidewalks to them now. They think that
Christmas belongs to them, and I reckon it
does, I know it does at our house, ft is tho
samb old story every year, for just as last as
one set gets too big for the romance of Ciirist
mas?. another set is ready to take it in. When
the children are too big the grandchildren come
gushing around,and now.my folks are fixing up
a little evergreen tree for them ana they know
it. Old Santa Claus is to prance round on our
roof and Comd down our parlor chimney and
fill up the Htpckingsand Idad the tree with good
tilings, and it will take grandma a day or two
to clean up after them when the show is all
over.
Christmas holidays are a healthy, beautiful
rest for the "children, and it does us all good
to see them happy. Penned up in school for
weeks and months: puzzled and perplexed
I over thoir books; now head and now foot and
I now about half way between, with many a
| heart ache and many a joy all mingled up to
gether they need ar< 4 , a good long rest, and
Christmas is sure to bring it. But nut to all—-
no not to all—ami that is the shadow that
karkens every joy. There are thousands us
children to whom Christmas never comes —no
Santa < laus, no tree, no presents, no anything
but poverty and want. If the warm heart
bl-eds when thinking about them let it bleed
and maybe the pocket will, 100.
Pleasing the children is the biggest part of
life, mid is what mo«t every family man
i; living for, though he don’t realize
it. and would hardly acknowh <igo it if
he did.f It is the power behind the
throne, the incentive that stimulates every
parent to be up and doing. Their daily pres
ence, their depend* nee, their helplessness, en
larges his love and biu.'idens his charity. He
has more resn<*' t n r himself, for he feels that
the love of children is a nobler thing than the
Jove of money or power or fame. Mankind
must have something to love, and so th* y will
love mom’s or L'.i.h if ti.i y have no children.
A rich man without children ought to adopt
some just fur his own sake. The paternal rela
tion is the natural relation, and no man or wo
man is happy outside of it—not as happy as they
might have l>een. (mr young men ought to
marry—marry whether they can afford to or
nut. It is the law of God and ui nature. Marry
when the I’irst i ure love of woman comes
over yon. don't gut alarmed at i
her silks and satins, for she is just
wearing them to attract you and will sober •
down to busiimS' when you marry. There !
will soon be otb.ci*s to live f<»r and work for, I
and the finery must go if you can’t afi’ord it. i
I always tacmble fur tlie_>e travelers whom 1 1
meet everywhere on the rail—these nice young
men of good families who are doing the com
mercial business of the country. They are not
mating -hardly ever. They don’t stay long
enough in a place to fail in love, and by ami
by tho whole outh lend will !<• full of con
firmed bachelors—biuihelois who will soon get
old ami seedy and wear out and die w ithout
mourners and only en High friends to bury
them. They will die and leave no sign. Let
the young man and if he docs
have to travel h«. will get home {
now and then and there will |
always be a light in the windw for him. The |
faithful dng will bark a good welcome at his |
coming, ami the wife and the children bo so j
happy, never go happy.
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man.
so are the children of tho youth who marry.’’
“Happy is the man who hath Lis quiver full
He should not b. ashaim d and .shall speak
with the enemy in the gate.”
That is so. Exactly so. The best security
for any government is the parental relation.
When a man reads of anarchy and corruption
h*‘ <hu , .-> n
children and it arouses his indignation and
provokes him to action. I have gn at re
spect for those large patriarchal familn s. Not
long ago I traveled with an old gentleman in
Stewart county who had tw<‘nty-two children by
two wives, am) they had all settled around him
and doing well, very well, and he bore himself I
a king. Not long after 1 me! ago d look- i
ing matron who had thtrt4?en children by one ;
husband and tho oldest was only nineteen
years old, and she told mo that eight of them
walked two miles to school every day, ami i
every morning she hail to put up their dinners.
My goodness, what a picnic. My wife has to
fix up the basket for two and makes as much j
fuss over it as if she was going off on an ex- i
cursion. She is so afraid that it wout be good 1
enough what there is of it, or enough <4 it such i
as it is. The next da> I gut down to Camilla *
and sojourned with my friend Cndcrwoud —the
reverend editor of Jtho Clarion, and he intro
duced me to thiru n ;uid looked out of the
door for more, but I reckon that was all. I
never visited a happie rhe usehold. His home
is tallied Evergreen and the name suits the I
place and the family, but the mystery still re- !
mains how a man who had nothing when he |
went into ti e \ ar and lc s when ho out ,
and manied. a poor gid and settled down in
the pine.v wo <.s and run a one horse paper amt I
pKuu hud just f'»r the love of God could ever *
raise sm h a family and own such a beautiful
home. \ t iily. tl.eio is no excuse for a drum
mi ■ i mj ot) ci •it ■•* I n. Camilla would be
a good town ca< n it m b dy lived there, but |
Mr. Tndorv.eod and li i. u.ily.
1 most always visit the schools when 1 go to
a new place 1 don’t like these
i long winded examinations, but 1 do like
to < .’Jeh up the uupils all of a sudden and pe
ruse their hopeful fa* •. There is a healthy
1 emulation amor.c the si bools and < v< ry town
. tliii \s it bas the b< st in th<‘ world. The school
at Lumpkin is a very prosperous one and has
the supi ■rt of the whole community. Then
there is the chool a' Blakely where there is a
‘ blackboard all round the largo room and the
class arc all chalking away <m the same sum at
the same lime and they work so fast t makes
your head swim. They don’t care what kind
of a Mun and g »t me all tanglvd up in trying
to follow them. Mr Eit/patrick asked mo to
gi’ them a Mim mJ in tlm lxw»k and I said “a
third and a half third <f my age added to a
sixth and a sixth of it and that sum in
ert, a “«I by two ami a half will give a sum tho
s.air? n t ur which multiplied by my ago
WHI be 4.4
Ik y fox 1 through th.J in a hurry,
and a via k < ved girl, whugot the answer first,
lu..k» at m*? and sanj *1 dident think you
were that old Mr. Arp.”
Tin n 1 n hl them that one time there was a
man who had a diamond necklace that the
king wantv«l, and he aold it to the king for
* Cuin on ct.nditiun that the king would take a
chess board that has sixty-four squares upon it
I and give him a grain of corn for the first
square and two grains for the second, and dou
ble it every time until nil tlie squares were ta
ken up. Now , counting a thousand grains to
an ear of corn and a hundred ears to the bushel
and a thousand bushels to a crib full and a
’ thousaud cribs to a barn fall, and a thousand
burns to a granary, bow many granaries would
; it take to pay the debt ?
Well, they would have done that
but the blackboard give out and figures got
scarce uud so we nil quit for dinner.
I put on the airs of a very smart man when
1 ,o tu these schools but the children id this
g’Miuratit'n are smarter than we are. It is a
lightning age ami they keep up with it and
always makes us fv< l belploss and insignifi
cant. 'The truth is our time is most uut and
we dont know it. I want to retire on a pen
sion. I just want credit for the little good I
have done as a pioneer—as one who helped to
blaze tho way and open tho road ami dig up
the stumps for the generation. Then they
ivay have this world and all there is in it. Our
1 itlu . o it to us ami now wo w ill ghe it to
our children. How th. years are growing.
It used to In- an age (rum Chri>imas tu
Christmas but time is shrinking fast.
I'l:e“ days : •<« n t :is long as they um d to be.
and as the Irishman said, 1 don’t believe there
arc a> many of them. I wonder Low short the
il " • sh it V. ;s it tu M* PrusuVh! "l expect Im
tild stairn in the iniddlo of tho
year nd lu« k I. -k am! s. e tho
tail of one Chris t uv< ami kx»k ahead and
i ov .lie fr nt of ; not r. But whet ler long
' or short L t us all so li\v that wo may not l»e
n Jiamed of um H\uid and regret t’. at we
lived al all. Bill Aitp.
Palpitation of thu lu nrt, nervousness, trem
blings. nervous Itvadm he. cold Lands and feet,
pain in the back, and other forms of weakness
are rvbuwd b\ Cui'tvi » Iron Pills, made spe
; dally for tho blood, nerves ami complexion
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY DECEMBER 27, 1887.
A CHRISTJIAS STORY.
Written for Tho Constitution.
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"It was Christmas night. 184—continued
Plunkett, "when I first seed J’etcr Simpson,
though it had been norated erround for some
time that there was er stranger in the settle
ment, and that he was erkin to old Billy
Brooks, and was ergwyne to settle ennong us
if ho could finder place to suit him.”
Brown drew his chair up closer to tho old
man and remarked:
"Them war the days when you played the
fiddle, and I hain't much to brag on myself
nor on my kin but I nover seed no music that
coino up to 'Sugar in the Gourd’ when I was
er handling the straws and you was er pulling
of the bow.”
“I’ve seed the day I could fairly make er
fiddle talk,” nodded Plunkett, and then con
tinued :
“On the Christmas night of 184— tbar was a
party at old man Jimmie Lawrence’s, and we’d
all gathered, and the young folks had played
er game cr two of sich as •Thimble,’ and ‘Tim
othy Tuburbntm,’ and ‘Snap Out,’ till at last
they gathered partners and begin to walk
erround and erround and Peter he was there
a stranger and he didn’t have no partner and
wasn’t er having nothing to do with the walk
ing erround. So Lucy Coats, as good or girl
as over lived in Georgia,(wanted to make him
feel at home, and so she axed him to be the
‘middle fellow.’
"That's the way the play is. They all have
partners but one. The odd one gets in the
middle as they al! walk erround and sing and
when they git to the part in the song where it
:ays ‘Bight here I’ll find her,’ they all change
partners and the middle man has the right to
jump beside some of the girls if he is quick
enough and then that fellow that loses his
girl gets in the middle, and so it goes.”
"Oh, I know that old play,” spoke Brown,
at the same time drawing his chair a little I
nearer to the old man.
■‘Well,” continued Plunkett, “Peter he got
in tho middle, and the youngsters walked er- I
round and erronnd er singing so as you could
er hered ’em er mile:
•It rains au.l it hails, ami it's cold stormy weather
A !un,j comes the termer drinking all the cider;
: ii reap the oats and who’ll be the binder?
1 lost my true love and right here I’ll find her.’
"And then the change come '"and Peter he
throwed himself erround and got by the sideof
Lucy and he Ims told me since that he loved
her from that very minit.”
Old man Brown was unable to contain him
selt longer and he remarked:
“Ami Lucy made him as good er wife as
ever er man had.”
Plunkett frowned at being disturbed, but
soon continued:
"The young folks went on with their play
ing—fir >t one thing and then another—till
pretty soon they got partnersnnd went walking
erround and erround ergin, singing:
‘Very well done, said Johnnie Brown,
This is the way to I. mdon '.own.
i-mml you still, stand you by,
Til! yo;i hear the watchman cry.
On this carpet you must kneel,
Kiss your true love in the field.
Kiss ti.c one that you tm e best
Just before she goes to rest.’
“Pretty soon,” continued Plunkett, “they
cried out.‘Seat your partners,'and Peter and
Lucy was right close to me and I.ucy she
turned and lowed:
‘Mr. Plunkett, let mo make you acquainted
with Mr. Simpson.’
“Then Peter he shook hands erlong with me
and took er seat by me, and it warn't no time
till me and hi tn was just like old friends and
he lived by me er long tin e and I never had er I
truer friend or better neighbor and Christmas '
makes me think erbout these old timesand !
these old neighbors that have passed away i
forever.
»
“Well,” continued Plunkett, “Peter and
Lucy married during of the year 181 —, and
that’s what I want to tell you about.
"In that old hewed log’house that yon pass
ed on the road where the moss is er’ growing
on the roof lives cr nigger man by the name of
old Tom that was the first nigger that ever
Peter and Lucy had. Tom was some eighteen
years old when Peter’s dada give him to them,
and old Ton; and Peter had been brought up to
gether, and Peter done just as much work as
he required Tom to do, and they made good
crops and in two or three years Peter had er
right smart meney layed up and so he bought
some mere land, alter that he bought another
nigger or two and they helped him, and soon
paid for themselves and Tom and Lucy got
ambitious to be rich and they went in debt,
thinking they cauld work and pay out. and so
things were moving erlong when old| Tom,
over yonder on the road, wont to his young
master and mistress and told ’em he wanted to
marry one of old Squire Crawford’s nigger
gals. Tom’s master was willing for him" to
marry the girl that he loved, but tho old
squire he fixed up and before anybody thought
erbout it he'd sold out his plantation and puLa
out for Texas. Folks were crazy on Texas
them days and it didn’t take er fellow long to
git off for them parts when the fever once
struck ’em.
“After Squire Crawford'wont off to Texas
old Tom never was the same fellow. He
didn’t sing and dance erround like he always
had and he’d sot erround by himself and
wouldn’t have much to do with anybody and
Peter and Lucy noticed it and tried to ait him
to forget the girl that went oft to
Texas but they couldn't and old
Tom he begin to talk erround ennong
the other niggers that slavery was wrong
and that he’d rather be dead than submit to
it. Things wont erlong this way till Tom lie
got worse and worse, till at, last one night
when the niggers had gathered out in their
yard and were er playing and er singing under
a big oak on the grass, Tom be jest set out on
er horse-block mid whittled with his knife and
looked down at the ground, till he hered the
uiggers sing the old song:
"Old masse give me holler day
He sold he d give me mote.
And 1 thanked him very kinnly,
And 1 shoved my boat from shore.
It s oh, my dearest May:
You’re lovely as the day.
Your eyes so bright
They shine at nlirht,
When the moon has gone away.”
And from across the branch came the plaintive
sound of negro voices trout I'reeniau’s quar
ter and as Tom listened bis heart seemed to go
out in sympathy to the singers, for as they
progressed he slowly raised his headand leaned
forward, as if to catch the sound, and his lips
moved in unison as the words
I took her hand within my own.
A teur was in her eye,
I asked her if she w ould be mine,
Her answer was a sigh.
Oh Knuna, dear, dear Emma,
From the Mississippi Vale,
tn all this wide world over.
There suone like Emma Dale,
swelled upon the breezes, and at tho finish he
arose from Ids seat and walked towards the
woods.
"When the niggers got through with their
frolick, Tom was gone, and the next morning
when the other niggers went to work thar
wan’t no Tom there, and it was soon known
that Tom was a runaway.’
“Peter and Lucy wouldn't here to putting
hounds after Tom and so he was not heard
from any more and they had quit talking about
him on the place. Thus it went for a year.
Tho eivjts were sorry and Peter failed to pay
anything ou his thousaud dollar note to old
man Smith but had to renew and borrow a
little more. Peter was confident and Lucy
was cheerful and so they pitched another cion
and resolved to economize and work hard,
■ never thinking that luck had turned ergin 'em.
"Krlong in Judo, though,”continued Pluuk
l ett, "the niggers that Peter bad bought got
i the smallpox ennong them and all three of
tin m diet! and the crop w. s lo t but Peter
rolled up his sleeves and worked the harder
i and Lucy she was jist tho same good little
w..man and they made er pretty good crop
tutd got it housed <tud I don’t t i; v o
ot ’em evil• thought erbont hit I > . ... u
* "Bnt.” coutiured the old man. u the id
dav ot I'i cemlti r- -on the night of that day -
1 never would forget it if I were to live er
. thousand years. I'eter’s barn ketched er tire
; and burned up his whole crop and all three of
his horses and the very uext morning old
Smith was over there er pressing him for the
twijve hundred dollars and said lie bad to
| have it or he'd take possession of the farm.
I T'm? tuone; would be duo on the 2Jlh day us
z-q, -< -f given awny to
Si,oooGold on January Ist.
First present is
SSOOingold. Only ten days left. Subserl-'. renew,
or e : a >ul-s< r.ber at once and got vour uame in. .
Half hour's work may give you S- ’ 0. i
December and old Smith wanted his money
or possession on that day. The prospects for a
happy Christmas war nnghty gloomy for Peter
but Lucy said:
“ 'We'D. Peter, you've got me and tho chil
dren yet.’
Yes,’said Peter,‘and you've never hcr’d
me complain, but I do bate to give up the
home.’
“That, was erbont as much to do as there
was erlmnt it. until nt last Christmas eve night
rolled around ami the little children hungup
their stockings and talked tlicmselves to sleep
about old Santa Claus, and Peter and Lucy i
listened with hidden tears, and all through the
long night they sat until the hands on the
clock pointed to the hour of three, and then
Peter raised his head and 'lowed:
“ ‘Lucy, we will have to give up our homo to
Smith.’
"Before Lucy could answer a soft cat-like
tread was beard upon the porch and the latch
string was pulled and as the door opened there
was revealed to the sight of the astonished
pair:
Old Tom, tho run-away.
" I’se worth §2,000 of aary man’s money
and that will pay off old Smith’s mortgage,’
said old Tom. as’ ho unslung a clean pillow
case from his shoulder that was filled with
goodies for the little ones, and that soon
swelled the little stockings that hung on the
mantle.
• »»»«*
“With tho return of old Tom came pros- |
perity to Peter and Lucy, for when old Smith !
found that Tom had returned and if put up
for sale would pay the mortgage, ho mad
terms that enabled Peter and old Tom to go to
work upon the farm and not only got out of
debt, but grew rich, and Tom was set free long
’fore any yankees knowed him and Peter he
went out to Texas and found old Squire Craw
ford and bought the woman what Tom loved
mid brought her back to Georgia on Christmas
day, 184-. mid give her to Tom for his Christ
mas present and they live at yonder moss
covered log house aud I wish them a merry,
merry Christmas, s Sahge.
letters from the people.
The Biggest Statue.
Editors Coosf itution : Where is the larg
est statue in the world? 8. R. S.
Near the smell town of Bamian, in Afghanistan,
at the foot of the Hindo Koosh chain of mountains,
several colossal statues were discovered about a
year ago, which in point of size excel any o resen
tutlon of the human form ever carved by the baud
of man. The valley in which Lamian is situated is
bordered by precipitous ell sis of a hard conglomerate
rock, and in the side of one of the cliffs five Im
inen- ■ statues have been cut out of the solid rock,
the large: tof which is no less than a hundred and
szventy-lhrce feet in height. When it is remember
ed that the statue of liberty in New
York I.arbor is but a hundred laud
thirlyseven feet high, the immense pro
portions of this remarkable work of antiquity will
be better appreciated. Rude g: llaries and staircases
are cut in these figures, by which octets can be
gained to the heads, the same as in our modern col
ossal statues. Some time after the completion of 1
the statue its draperies were formed by masses of j
stucco molded into thgir proper shape and fasten e l I
to it. Numerous holes, still visible, are said to have
been made for the purpose of holding the stucco in |
place. The gen ral appearance of these statues in- ■
diei.t. t that they were the work of tne Buddhist ;
monks, who were very numerous in this region
about the time of the Christian era. The largest
one at least was doubtless meant to be a representa
tiau of Buddha. They wm probably made about
nineteen hundred years ago.
Evolution.
Editors tion.—Will yon please give me
a brief synopsi o t .e evolution theory. 8. F
The evolution or development theory declares the
universe as it now exists to be the result offlt long
series of changes, which were so far related to each
other as to form a scries of growths analogous to
the evolving of the parts of a growing organism.
Herbert Spencer defines evolution asaprogreas from
the homogeneous to the heterogeneous, from gen
eral to special, from the simple to the complex ele
ments of life, and it is believed that this process can
be traced in the formation of worlds iu st ace, in
the multiplication of types and species among ani
mals and plants, in the origin and changes of lan
guages and literature and the arts, and also in all
the changes of human institutions and society. As
serting th: general fact of progress in nature, the
evolution theory shows that the method of this pro
gress lies been (1) by the multiplication of organs
and functions; (2), according to a defined
unity of plan, although with (3) the in
tervention of transitional forms, and (4) with modi
fications dependent upon surrounding conditions.
Ancient writers occasionally seemed to have a glim
merlug knowledge as the fact of progress in nature,
but as a theory ‘‘evolution’’ belongs to the en
lightenment of the nineteenth century. Leibnitz
in the loiter part of the seventeenth century, first
Wittered the opinion that the earth was once in a
fluid condition, and Kant about the middle of the
eighteenth century definitely proimuuded the nebu
lar hypottiesis, which was enlarged as a theory by
the Herschels. The first writer to suggest the
transmutation of spteeies among animals was Buf
fou about 17t>0, and other writers followed out the
idea. The eccentric Lord Monboddo was the first
to suggest tho possible descent of man from the
ape, about 1771. In 1813, Dr. W. C, Wells first pro
posed to apply tho principle of natural selection to
t bolnatural history of man,and iu 1822 Professor Her
bert first asserted that the probable transmutation of
species in plains. In 1814 a book appeared called.
"Vestiges of Creation," which though
evidently not written by a scientific
stu lent, yet attracted great attention by its bold
and ingenious theories, Tiie authorship of this
book was never revealed until, after the death of
Robert Chambers a few years since, it became
known that this publisher, whom no one would
over have suspected of holding such orthodox the
orie*. had actually written it But the two great
apostles of the evolution theory were Charles Dar
win and Herbert Spencer. Tho latter began his
great work, the “First Principles of Philosophy,”
showing the application of evolution in the facts of
life, in 1852. In 1859 appeared Darwin’s "Or.’g’n of
Species." The hypothesis of the latter was that dif
ferent species originated tn spontaneous variation,
and the survival of the fittest through natural selec
tion and the struggle for existence. This theory
was further elaborated and applied by Spencer, Dar
win, Huxley, and other writers in Europe and
America, an 1 though today by no means all ti e
ideas upheld by these early advocates of the theory
are still accepted, still evolution as principle is
now acknowledged by nearly all scientists. It is
taken to be an established fact in nature, a valid
iuductiou from man’s knowledge of natural order.
The Longest Balloon Voyagc.
Editors Constitution: Who made the
longest balloon trip ou record, and when and
where? Scientist.
Professor John Wise, a world famed seronaut,
sailed through the air in July, 1859, from St. Louts,
Missouri, to Henderson, Jefferson county, New York
—a distance in straight line of 835 miles. He laid
claim to 1,050 miles, by reason of tho many turns
taken during tha trip, which took his balloon out
of a direct course into circles and curves. This voy
age is the longest on record iu balloon history. The
balloon was In the air over night—a period of about
twenty hours. Professor Wise tried more than once,
but without success, to equal or exceed tho famous
trip mentioned. Finally a few years ago, he left St.
Ixiuls iu a balloon on a long trip, for the last time.
He has never been heard from. A reporter who
went with him was found dead aome weeks later
on the shore of l.ake Michigan. By reason of this
and other disasters, the suggestion of a long air voy
i are g.ves rise iu the public mind to a keen sense of
the perils which attend every' attempt to stay in the
I skye’. er right.
Negro Inventors. *
Editors Conbtttiitiox.—Has a negro ever
! natented nr.v useful invention? H. R. J.
; The ns'onls of the l atent office at Washington
I show that negioes nave patented such inventions
' as improved gridirons, corn stalk harvesters, shields
f r intautrv and artillerymen, fro extinguishers,
coi on cullivnu rs. Joiner's clamps. ftirnUnrc cns
u»r<. printing presses, tire e*cai'C la-idvr-, loe noLi
* e-a eve i<*.>ieutoi¥, window vcutiulAUWs, hand corn
; sau He is. and other thirgs.
Stevenson the Novelist.
Editors Coxsthvtiox : Is it true that
‘ Robert Louis Steven.ou commenced his liter.iry co
tOir, s'and be was unsuccessful. He was employed
‘ in the offi.e of the Century Magazine, but our
vmerictui puWxihetii did not diieo\er ins BDUity.
; Mr Stevenson returned to England, somewhat dis
ani>o'.uied. but «itti the determination to t ush hi*
wav to the front. Uls stories are now ui demand u>
every English country, wad be can name his owu
, price for bis work.
RICHIES _OHHE
How Coon Allen Didn’t Get Bis B cakfast.
Bv Al. AT. B.
Written for Tho Constitution.
Wc left Augusta rather precipitately, for tho
reason that old Sherman and his troops wore
anxious to look at tho town themselves, and
very decidedly objected to our remaining there
more than a few hours.
Taking the cars we arrived at Midway (I be
lieve they called it) after dark. It was raining,
of course, and tho Edisto river at this point
had risen aud overflown its banks until it was
perhaps half a mile wide.
Here tho fun commenced. All old soldiers
remember what dead loads of fun were lying
around loose during the war! It was so plen
tiful that it was frequently necessary to kick it
out of your way as you would a “shinny” ball.
The only means of crossing this sluggish
little stream was by means of a tramway of
pine polos. It's quite unnecessary to stop here
to tell anybody how utterly slippery a wet pine
pole is with the bark off, for by this time surely
everybody knows it.
It was dark I
And you couldn’t navigate a wet skinned
pine pole at high noon and tP.e thing white
washed with tar and sand and tied to the
ground! It’s a feat that can’t be performed 1
with anybody's feet. It is a bilious impossi
bility.
A. polecat would break his neck were he to
attempt such a job.
“Forward,march!” commanded our officers.
And then we inarched I
Or, rather, we crawled; but before we
reached the other side, or When we “struck the
grit” on the side farthest from Sherman, it was
discovered that two-thirds of the boys were in
a condition to be hung out to dry.
But time was too precious to allow us to air
our wet dry goods too long, and so we had to
trudge through the sand and cold, aud trust
to friction ami swearing to dry us off. I mean
those who were accustomed to swearing, for it
tnay be probably remembered that during tho
war swearing was a very rare accomplishment I
The next point reached was Orangeburg,
where we remained just long enough to get
directions to Columbia. We didn’t even have
time to wait for the train from Branchville,
and so our inarch was continued on foot.
A few miles from Orangeburg we went into
camp for the night, as we thought. But we
were caught up with again thinking wrong;
for wo had scarcely got our fires kindled and
our kettles to boiling to manufacture into hash
the chickens and “taters” (South Carolina
nigger for “potatoes”) we had maliciously
grabbled en route, when it was whispered
around that Sherman had selected that very
spot for a camping ground, and if we wanted
to live to smell any more gunpowder we would
do well to organize a hasty foot-swapping right
on the spot.
In less than a handful of minutes our grub
skillets with their uncooked contents were
tumbled into the wagons, and we were again
ou the road.
Again.it was dark!
But we were not hungry and mad. Shucks!
A hungry soldier and a mad one at one and the
same time was an unknown quantity. I don't
remember ever seeing such a combination!
A soldier never lost his temper, because it
was about all lie had, and he couldn’t afford to
lose it. And. if he suffered himself to get mad,
there was no method, in it, for nobody cared
for it. You might inform a respectable briga
dier that one of his men had gone to roost in a
bad humor, and I am doubtful if tho informa
tion would cause him to lose an hour’s sleep.
I said we were not hungry, but I have
changed my mind; we were—at least I reckon
I was, for I caught myself wishing it would
set in aud rain fried chicken for a day and
night without clearing up.
But the hungriest man I ever saw was Coon
Allen, of my company. We had marched till
near daylight the next morning, and. he and I
had straggled to the rear, fairly “fagged out.”
“Mat, said he, hitting the pine-straw full
length on the readside, "durned es I ain’t as
hungry as an army mule!”
“1 don’t believe it!” was my reply.
“Well, that’s what’s the matter with me,”
lie groaned; “and I’m goin’ to have something
to eat in less ’n hour or kill somebody.”
“Maybe yon will, but unless you gobble me
up, I’m afraid you’ll remain hungry two or
three hours yet,” I consolingly answered.
“Come on.”
Ho scrambled to his feet, and we continued
our wearisome march.
We knew that if we followed in the track of
the hungry army wo would be morally certain
to starve, and no thanks to anybody, so we
determined to take the first oblique path that
presented.
Wo hadn't gone but two or three hundred
yards when we discovered a blind trail leading
off to the left. Not knowing nor caring whither
it led, we turned into it, and had gone perhaps
half a mile, when we saw the sickly glimmer
of a light a few yai'ds ahead of us.
By this time daylight had come home, and
wc discovered that the light was in a little
eight-by-ten pine-pole cabin with very black,
sooty smoke lazily, but with unmistakable
determination, getting as far from the place as
possible.
llieht here is a number one place to put on
record the fact that everything in this portion
of South Carolina—except the better class of
whites —is as black as a quart of charcoal in a
jug. The negroes are invariably smutty, the
bogs are smutty,the chickens are smutty, hens
lay smutty eggs, and our boys in passing
through got to looking like a huge minstrel
company —all the result of pine-knot smoke;
but a more generous-hearted people never
divided a crust.
“Coon, do you think you will get enough
grub at that wayside inn to produce a respecta
ble case of colic?” I asked as we halted at the
rail fence that enclosed the uninviting prem
ises.
“Do you think,” he replied, “that the
blamed bats have kindled a fire in thar to
warm their toes?”
"Not likely,” I answered.
“Well, do you s’pose the inhabitants of that
ranch live on lightwood-knots?”
"I wouldn’t be surprised, judging from the
surroundings.”
“Mat, you’re the most overwhelming fool in
the army. Hello!” he yelled.
An old inky-looking nigger wench, who was
several shades blacker than the famous gross
darkness that enveloped the people, shoved
her wool out at the door and asked:
"What yo’ want? What yo’ cum here fur?”
“Come here to git some grub,” snapped
Coon.
“To git what?” . „
“Somethin’ to eat. you old ink factor}'.
“Who’s yo’ talkin’ ter, yo’ greasy sarpint?”
“None o’ yer gab, you old three-legged
skillet. Es you’ve got anything to cat in thar
I’m going to have it or trim the wool off’n
yer head with a load of buck-and-ball,” re
torted Coon, straddling the fence.
"Jes dar yer to cum inside dis yard.”
| Just then a rooster commenced laughing
I back of the cabin.
“Mat,” suggested Coon, "less nab that gen-
I tleman,”
“Do whut? Here. Tigo!” she screamed.
I That ended the controversy, for the next
I minute a smutty-lookitig hound with not the
slightest evidence of sympathy in his counte
j nance rolled out from under the cabin, Coon
1 rolled off the fence, while I was several lengths
' ahead, going through the woods like a “saud
i *As Coon left the old darky in her glory, he
yelled back:
i “Never mind, my darlin'; old Sherman 'll
' be along this way before night. He'll fetch
yer.”
"I ain’t fear'd er ole Shummon as yo’ is!”
i she tired back.
An unmerciful fact!
I We seen regained the road, and early in tho
, morning landed in Columbia, where we had
the good fortune to belli our mess dis ect a
thirty-pound gobbler which they! ad purloined
during the night, and which for the time gave
i us tome relief from our trouble*.
FROM "GRANT IN PEACE.”
Points from Badeau’s Book About tlio Great
Union General.
“GR ANT don’t CAItE A D—N.”
“But although ho (Grant) never felt over
shadowed, for a long while when lie looked atSher
m.in’s achievements he was dazzled; and when he
recorded Sherman’s attainments and peculiar gifts,
which were just those he did not himself possess, he
fell his own deficiencies. Sherman was eloquent,
animated, magnetic, learned in military history,
ready to quote the examples of other commanders;
above all, lie was brilliant; Grant knew that be him
self was n lie of these; and though never lacking in
self-confidence, he waso.tcn impressed by Sherman’s
splendid qualities till he forgot tho weight due to his
own soberer but more e-rentlal merits. To thes-a
Sherman, however, was never blind. He appreci
ated fully Grant’s remarkable poise, and that "al so
lute confidence in success which he likened lo the
faith which a Christian has in the Saviour. He
knew that Grant's very lack of imagination waa
sometimes an advantage in battle; for he once ’said:
'When I go into battle I am always thinking of wha*
the enemy will do, but Grant don't care a damn."
GRANT’S FIRST rOLITtCAL SPEECH.
Grant’s first political speech was macle jiist after
he was nominated for president at Cincinnati in
May, 1868. It ran as follows:
Gentlemen: Being entirely unaccustomed to pub
lic speaking, and without the desire to cultivate tha
power, it Is impossible for me to find anpropriate L n
guage to thank you tor this demonstration. All
that I can say is. that to wl atover position I may be
called by your will 1 shall endeavor to discharge its
duties with fidelity and honest? of pur;iose. Os rnv
rectitude in the performance of public duties you
will have to judge for yourselves by tl e record ‘be
fore you."
THE GREATEST TRAVELER. IN HISTORY.
. Turning to “Graut as a Traveler,” we find soma
interesting facts: “Grant was undoubtedly the
greatest traveler that ever lived. Not, of course,
the greatest discoverer or explorer, though he was
admitted to probably in r secret and exclusive re
cesscs and haunts than any other one man, but he
ab?> visited more countries and saw more people,
from kings down to lacke vs and slaves, than any
bod.v who ever journeyed on this earth before.
Others, of course, have made the tour around the
globe—the prince of Wales did something of that
sort, but lie went not so far and siw oulv the unper
strata of society; others have had triumphal 'pro
cessions, some have aseen led higher mountains or
penetrated nearer to Ethiopia; but no other man
was ever received by both peoples and sovereigns,
by sayants and merchants, bv presidents and 'ov
eruor-geneiab, by tycoons and sultans and khe
dives and school children and work people and
statesmen like Grant."
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Sectionalism Dying Out.
From the Anniston, Ala.. Hotblast.
One year ago last night, Henry W. Grady
made the speech at the Forefathers’ Day dinner in
New Y'crk, which so electrified tho country and
gained for Mr. Grady a national reputation. It was
a grand speech. No single utterance since the war
has done as much town d breaking down the bar
riers of sectional feeling and inaugurating the era
of fraternal good will throughout all sections of our
land as did that after dinner talk of Henry Grady
at Delmonico’s. Tha year that has passed since
then has been a bad year for the fanatics ou either
side who strive to foster the spirit of sectional strife
aud ill-will. Wherever this feeling has shown
itself in the past year, it has been instantly met
withastotmof disapproval from the fair-minded
men of all sections throughout the country. Some
few old fossils like Tuttle and Foraker and Fairchild
still occasionally must give vent to their spleen, but
the year drawing to a close has certainly greatly di
minished their number and changed the spirit with
which their utterances are received.
We are rapidly nearing the time when we can say
in all truth that our country knows no north, no
south, no east or west, as far as fraternal good fel
lowship, peace aud good will are concerned. All
honor to the men like Henry W. Grady, to whose
patriotism and broad-mindedness this blessed result
is so largely due.
The Way that John Jacob Astor Always
Advocated.
From the Detroit Free Press.
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John Jacob Astor used to say that a man who
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the battle—is on the highway to fortune. Not that
Astor thought 810,000 much; but he knew that in
making and saving such a sum a man acquired
habits of prudent economy which would constantly
keep him advancing in wealth.
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