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LIAI _A.bout Xjiars and th There is io our time no historian, DO Judge, no tesoh?r who ie not con tinually hindered i? his work by the omnipr?sent lie. For the historian it is made difficult to separate the real fasts from the mixture of truth and lies whioh always constitute his material. The task of the Judge is almost superhuman, be cause there is always the possibility that the acoused, tbs witnesses or the counsel on either or both sides may tell things that are not exactly true .nd very often barefaced lies, and every teacher and educator knows that truthfulness and sincerity are the very foundation of all morals, that the child who lies will very often do even worse things, and that the person who does not hate the lie will not have the will-power to resist the temptations of all kinds whioh offer themselves to all of us during onr life. I shall try to explain the origin and nature of this vice of lying that we find in all classes and all ages. I shall try to analyze the complicated soul of the person who lies. First of all let us try to discover how a child begins to lie, what mo tives drive him to lying and what so phisms he uses to justify his lie, nd then afterwards a few words as to low to counteract the lie, how to fight against it and, if possible, to drive it out. How does a ohild become a liar, how does it disoover how to lie, and hoir does it get into the habit of lying? The child in its very first years neither liss ncr simulated; its thoughts, its ideas, its feelings are immediately transformed into facts. This is the great, natural, primitive law. Every idea, every desire imme diately becomes an aot. The act is only the idea, left to itself and follow ing its natural course, and this is what we see in all impulsive or all hypno tized persons whose personal will power is not strong enough to control. In the child oil thoughts are imme diately expressed in movements in cries or later in words. Its body is the perfeet and constant expression of its inner self. How is it then possible that a child may take up the habit of lying? In this passing from the primative sincerity to mendaoit> we are able to discover a oertain number of mo ments. First, the ohild discovers the lie, then it notices that lying is practiced all aronnd it, then that lying is useful or even necessary, and finally it starts to lie itself. The ohild first disoovers the lie by playing. To play is to live in a world of dreams, of unreality, of illusion. To play is to transform the monoto nous reality into an alluring fiction whioh is mord in accord with the de sires of the ohild. A little girl, for instance, plays with her doll and tells that she has a baby, that it will soon ?grow, that it has taken cold, that it egina to talk, and so on. From this to lying the step is very short, and what proves this is that we are often deceived ourselves. A ohild will come to us crying, say ing that another ohild has struck it, or has broken its toys, and we believe in it until suddenly the child will burst out laughing and tell us that it was all said for fun. Of course, from a moral point of 1 view, there is a world of difference between playing and lying, but from tbe psyohologioal point of view the difference is almost imperceptible, be cause both are in contrast to the truth. It is very natural that the child should discover the lie through play ing-it is sufficient that it sees that grown people are taken io onoe or twice, that it disoovers it can fool us. ft amuses itself over our credulity ind then it will soon know how to lie. The second moment- is thc teaching Iof lying by example, the revelation ?bat the lie is hot only possible, bat real; that it is praotioed by the per lons that surround it, and what is the worst of all, by its own parents. Weall Ho before our children; we *" tell any number of fibB that we consider excusable; we let the ser vants tell that we are out, when we ?re at home; we compliment people to tbejr face and criticise them behind jbeir back; we aay that we are de "guted to see a person whom we do ?oteare to see at all. Theab tolera* ted lies are sufficient, the example is |?t, but still worse is it whim a ohild !s made an accomplice in c He, as ?ben a mother will say to her ohild: 'Now you must not tel) p?pa any thing about this." To treat a ohild ?kia way, to teaoh ifc that things may * done but not told, is to show it the ?traight road to moral ruin.* Tho third moment comes when the 'bild faees its first cenfliot with so is ty. It already knows t>?t lying is e Evil that They Do. i possible; that it ia practiced by almost everybody, and it now discoveis that lying is, BO to speak, necessary. Every child makes ita start in life with perfect candor and sincerity; it says everything chat it thinks and feels; it immediately transforms its impressions into words and sots; it wears absolutely no mssk. ' But very, very soon it discovers that this will not do. Sooner or later it suffers for its frankness. . In the first plaoe its own parents will show their dissatisfaction, will tell it thst it must not repeat every thing that it hears ?r say everything that it feels. They do not directly teach it to lie, but they do teach it that to be sincere in everything is to make yourself ridiculous, to say the least. Very soon the ohild loams not only to conceal its real feelings, but also to pretend feelings that it does not pos sess. It soon learns that confidence is abused; that promises sre given only to be broken; that the whole social life is one rotten, hollow empty shell. Thus the ohild lesrnc that absolute sincerity, absolute straightforwardness is an utter impossibility, that there are many reasons why it must be im possible; that politeness forbids us to be truthful; thst modesty and poliey are continually fighting sincerity, and the ohild becomes a conventional liar as everybody sround it is. Af ter this comes the oritioal point. Will thc child stop here, will it not slide further down, will it understand to go beyond the line of these neces sary conventional lies? Until now the chiid is still relative ly sincere, it has seen that lying is possible; that its own parents are guilty of lying almoBt every day. It has even seen that lying is necessary. But how prevent it from becoming what society calls a liar? Education has much to do with this. It is very important that educators understand when to punish and when not. The child that gets into the habit of lying is very often thc child who is too often and too severely punished by its parents or its teach ers. The child who is always afraid of punishment, the ohild who is beaten for the smallest offense, will very soon find oat that if it oonfesses having done something wrong it is sure to be punished. The first and seoond time he offends he may have > the courage to admit frankly that he has done wrong, but very soon he will begin to eonoeal, partly because he is afraid of the hu miliation and partly because he does not want to shook his parents, or his friends, or to cause them any unne eossary sorrow, and lying becomes easier every time it is practised, Sud ' at last ? person will lie at the very smallest temptation, and ovei. without any temptation at all, hardly realizing himself that he is not telling the truth, and when it comes to this point it is only a very strong oharaoter that will be able to redeem a person. These ar** the different reasons that make a sinoere ohild or person become a liar, and the most prominent of them is the desire to appear to be liv ing a respectable lite, when yon know you are not. The lie is a mask that we wear when we do not want people to see us as we are; we get into the habit of lying when there are too many things in our life that we are ashamed of and that we dare not admit.-Prof. Camille Melinaud, in St. Louis Re public. Both Lady and Gentleman. In answer to an advertisement for somebody to take charge of a ohuroh choir and play the organ, the follow ing reply was received, to the great joy of the advertiser: "Sir: I noticed your advertisement for. an organist and musio teacher, either lady or gen tleman. Having been both for several years I offer you my services." It reminds one a little of the pomp ous fellow who inquired after a lady's "dean little ghi." "Thank you, said she, "my little boy is quite well." "Little boy, is it!" exclaimed the man; "ah, well, I knew it waa one or the othah."-London Globe. j ?hla Signatare ls era every box ot tba gennie* 1 Laxative Bro?o^paiae TM*U tko remedy-thai ctsswa a said a - - Yon can palin off on any woman admiration for the real thing in love. - As between jewels and* babies it is a closo thing in temptation for wo men. - The more men yon lend money to the less there are from whom you cen borrow. ^ - Beware of the woman who loves money more than she loves love. A BUMPER COM CROP. We Caa Supply the World This Tear, and Next Tot. In the h it tory c? -c. ?al productions there has never been euch an tnor mona erop of eora at ia being gather ed in tho United Sutes tait year. It will aggregate ?,589,901,000 bushell, or mort than the entire eora erop of the world for 1901. Tho eora rtited in the United States will be suffioieut to supply the needs of the world, for this and next year, even should there be a total failure in 1903. Corn harvesting is now in progress in the United States and not until snow flies in Deoember will this enor mous task be ended. Even then far ra rs further south will not have finished husking the golden ears stand ing in their fields of brown. They know it makes little difference so far as prices are concerned. A reoord of sales of oom in the past ten years shows that the highest prices are ob tained in late fall and winter, and that prices are 25 per cent, below the average immediately after the gather ing of the erop begins in early au tumn. Last year the corn burned as it stood ripening in the fields, just a few reeks before it had matured. But this sea son there have been no droughts in the corn sections. Nor have there been floods of a general nature. The weather, in faot, has been ideal for eora growing. The stalks have grown rank, the ears have spread and length ened until 12-inch ears and 15-foot stalks are not uneommon in the corn belts. In Kansas they are telling of farmers getting lost in their cornfields. The orop for 1901 fell short of the expected yield by 40 per cent. ; this year it goes ahead of the predicted yield by 10 or 15 per cent. Eight States last year did not raise enough eora for home oonsumption. The exports foll short 8;000;0QQ bush els. The yield waa only 16 bushels to the sore and 4,000,000 aores were not cut at all. In 1896 the averago yield was 28 bushels to the aore, ex cept in Kansas, where it was 40 bush els. Kansas last year averaged ten bushels or leBS to the sere. The Sun flower State always runs to the ex tremes. The acreage of oom this year is muoh larger than last. It is 3 per cent, more or 102,869,928 seres. This large aoreage is due to the faot that three and one-half miUion aores of wheat, sown the preoea.^g fall, had been frozen out and were ploughed up for eora. Consequently, these 3,000, 000 aeres, which are largely in Kan sas, Nebraska and Iowa, will not yield their owners muoh profit. The cost of the wheat ploughed up was $6 an aore, and the cost of oom $5. The yield must therefore he above 30 bushels and yield 40 cents a bushel, to profit at all. This is improbable. So 3 per oent. of the eora erop will yield nothing above the expense of sowing and gathering it* The principal oom states are thoBO of the middle and central states. The summers are too long for good eora produotion in the south, and it is too droughty in the far southwest for cer tain yield. Illinois is the leading oorn state, but Kansas, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Nebraska are big corn producers. Crra is handled in much different manner than a dozen years ago. Then the man did all; now machinery does it. Little eora is husked by hand; in faot moat of it is gathered as is wheat; husked by maehinery and ?helled by a patent sheller. The co J is ground up with the fodder and makes good feed; in faot the fodder is considered 1 per cent, of the crop. There are are cornfields in Kansas and Okla homa that cover 3,000 co 5,000 acres, and from 10 to 20 corn harvesters run through them, one following another. The eora stalks, with the ears, are stacked in rows by these harvesters, later they are hauled to a thresher or sheller, the ears torn from the stalk and the grain from the cob. The cost is very small. In 1900 the United States raised 2,000,000,009 bushels of corn; in 1901, 1,500,000,000 bushels. In 1896 the erop was near to the present bumper yield, making 2,285,000,000 bushels. Last year, because of the scarcity, oorn sold at excessive prices. In Kan sas the farmers obtained 90 cents a bushel for the orop. The average price was 60 oents. The whole erop sold for $929,555,768. In 1899, when the crop was twioe as large, the pri?e I obtained by the farmers was $629,210, 110. TV- value of the corn crops last year was $10 an aore, while in 1896 the greatest corn year, prior to this one-$6 wac the average price obtain ed by the farmers. In 1899 oorn sold in some parts of the United States for 10 oents a bushel. The lowest price ever known. The oom crops of the United States are worth from $600,000,000 to $900, 000,000 every year. The exports average from $170,000,000 to $200, 000,000 annually, or one-tenth of tho yield. Only 25 per eent. of the oorn raised is exported from the states where it is grown. Some states never raise enough eora to supply the home needs The middle west states aro tho principal oom produoers, IIUQO?B is the prinoipal exporter. There are about 5,000,000 farms in the United States, of which 3,000,000 produoo eorn. The average coat of producing an acre of cora is $5.73, divided in this way: Seed, 77 cents; planting, 78 cents; cultivating, $1.02; basking end putting in orop, $1.16; wear and tear of tools, 23 cents; rent of land or interest on value, $2.47. Tho.ayerage cost of production per bushel is H cents and during this last 10 years the aversge pries of oorn, to the farmer, has been 26 cents. -The average yield in 10 years ia 20 bushels per acre, hence the profit upon oorc land per acre can be reokor jd at $2.40. This is lesa than the profit on wheat, and for that reason corn, whioh has for many years been a popular orop, is slowly giving way to wheat. Bc* it will be a great while before the United States ceases to be the prin cipal corn-raising country of the world.-New York Sun. Had to Obey Orders. All doctors are not as careful of the welfare of their patients as they might be. Here is a story of one who went the limit. He is the proprietor of a famous health resort not far from Washington. When he receives patient for treatment he says: "Now, I want it understood that unless you do exactly as I say, there is no use of you staying." This rule sometimes requires him to be very harsh, but he never hesitates. He acts on the theory that he oan better afford to offend a single patient and lose him than to have that patient I go baok home and tell his friends Dr. So-and-So had done him no good. Not long ago a Washington clergy man went to this resort for treatment. The doctor looked him over npon his arrival and said: "While you are here you must take long walks every day." "But I can't take walks," replis the parson. "I haven't done any walking in years. My heart won't stand it." They argued the question quite warmly. As the olergyman and the dootor were good friends the latter was more lenient than usual. How ever, lie bided his time. The next afternoon the physician said to the olergyman: "It's a nice day. I would liko you to go horseback riding with me." Biding they went. When they were about eight miles from the sani tarium the physician said. "Oh, doo tor, won't you get me that flower by the roadside. I don't like to leave this horse." As soon SB the olergyman was on the ground the dootor galloped off with both horses and the olergyman was compelled to walk baok to the sanitarium. Upon his arrival he was very angry and was for paoking cp and leaving at once. There was no train that night, BO he was forced to stay a few hours longer. The next morning he oame down radiant sud good natured. "Doctor," e<id he, "I was pretty sore at you lae uiflht, b>'t I forgive you everything. 1 have had the first good sleep I have enjoyed in months.- Hereafter I'll obey your or ders implioitly."' - After a woman gets married she wonders three times a day as long as she lives what to get for the next meal. - If old Noah had left the job of building the ark to a government con tractor the chances are he would have got wet. - A pessimist has no use for a per son who is afflioted with ohronic mirth fulness. - The balance of a man's wedding present account always shows up on the wrong side. DISEASED KIDNEYS Cause more deaths than bullets. Their aymptoms are not alarming, hence they are neglected and quickly become dangerous. Prickly !?n Ash Bitters Is a kidney medicine of great value; it strengthens the kidneys, allays Inflam* mation, eases backache and arrests the progress of the disease. It xs an honest remedy that can bj depend ed on. AT ALL DRUGGISTS. PRICE, $1.00. Brans Pharmaojr. Special Agents. WHEAT GROWERS. Anderson, S. C., Aug. 1, 1902. To the contestants for the prizes ?Sered by the Anderson Fertilizer Jorapany for erop of 1901-1902 : We find that T. M. Welborn, of Pen laton, 8. C., has won the first prize or the yield of 108.937 bushels from ix sores, and the first prize for yield tf 54.266 bushels from three sores, md tho first prise for the yield of 181 mahala from one acre. This crop was grown on land previ tusly planted in cotton ; was preparad >y turning with a two-horse plow, fol owed by a two-horse subsoil plow. Dne bushel of Blue Stem wheat was lown per sore with a wheat drill, ap plying at the same time 800 pounds of Anderson Phosphate and Oil Company LO-2 aoidand 200 lbs. cotton teed meal 3or aere. This test is duly signed by the three ludges, and dated July 1st, 1902. The second prize for ?he best yield >a six acres is won by Mr. Allen J. Sullivan, of Sullivan, S. C., for the field of 108* bushels. This crop was grown ou land previ >usly planted in cotton : was turned t>y a two-horse Oliver Chilled Plow to m average depth of eight to ten inch ss, then harrowed with Tarran t's har row, then sown with Farmer's Favorite iced drill, applying one bushel Ken Luoky Ked W heat per acre, at the same time applying 340 pounds of Standard Fertilizer per acre, manufactured by the Anderson Phosphate and Oil Co. Mr. Sullivan says that ho used acid JD another piece of ground, but got better results where he used Ammoni Etted Fertilizers. This ie dated July 9,1902, and prop erly signed by the judges. The second prize for the best yield an one acre is won by Mr. M. B. Rich ardson, of Pendletoo, S. C., being l?t bushels. Mr. Richardson grew this crop where he previously had cotton. He plowed up the stalks, and ran over the land with a cutaway harrow ; then turned deep with a tvo-horso plow, applied 600 pounds of Anderson Phos phate and Oil Co's. 16 per oent aoid to an acre, and ran the smoothing har row over it ; then sowed three-quarter bushel of Blue Straw Wheat to the sere, applied 200 pounds of meal to the acre, and plowed in with side har row, followed with smoothing harrow. This communication is dated July 7th, 1902, and properly signed by the judges. Mr. L. O. Dean, of Dean, S. C., is the winner of the third prize for the best yield on one acre, having thresh ed 155 bushels from one acre. He is also tbe wionerof the second prize for the three acre contest, having raised 48 bushels. Mr. Dean is also the winner of the third prize for the best yield on six acres, having threshed 96J bushels. Mr. Dean raised this crop where he had oats and peas sown the year before. The land was turned with a two-horse turn plow five or six inches deep, then harrowed with a 20-inch solid disc har row. This was followed with an Aome harrow, whioh was followed by a plank drag. He then applied 200 pounds of Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company's 16 per cent. Aoid Phosphate and 150 pounds of cotton seed meal and 15 lbs. of Muriate of Potash through a Farm era' Favorite Grain Drill on Nov. 5th; the same application was made on Nov. 6th. and then on Nov. 12th he sowed H bushels of Blue Straw Wheat to the acre through a FarmerB* Favorite Grain Drill. This communication is dated Joly 1, 1902,and properly signed by the judges. Yours truly, Z~ ANDERSON PHOSPHATE & OIL CO. ? Some Reasons Why You Should Insist on Having ??PlKfi HARNESS OIL Unequaled by any other, genders hard leather soft. Especially prepared. Keeps out water. A heavy bodied oil. HARNESS 8n excellent preservative, educes roct of you?- harness, ever 1 Me'leather ; its Efficient .iicreased. Secures best service. 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