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EDGEFIELD, S. C., ffURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1888 I VOL. XL vin--NO. u. Hu CnAnnonilrkP. TBE RETURN. once-more, Tb y golden gates ? I pass, my own fair Thy sunny smiles still greet me as of yore On evj^r^harid. The*long, grey, graceful moss Still weirdly droops from white mag nolia bloom : Into the air myrtle and oran ^ toss . ffwu u& bBim?sr; -r"r' From starry jasmine bowers Bright humming-birds with radiant plumage gleam ; Thro* dark green leaves, the red pome granate flowers - *Tfill/?bte Of wild delight The mocking-bird pours' out his thrill ing song,, I hear IhVwhippoorwill thro* all the height . His wails prolong. But with what 1 ear-dim med eyes I-greet thy birds, thy flowers, so sweet and gay I , E'en the glad light of thy blnosunbright skies Seems faint and irrev. TSVTfuTieavy heart I o me, Old^HM^Au^a?/back SCUD? Southern home, Youth's joys all fled. Dear mother ! on thy breast, W**riedoi toil and care, Life's lamp BbnrnffBw. MT9 I Ak once more tb e tender peaceful rest The New York-Journal of Commerce, in answer to<a lady correspondent who takes exception to some remarks otthe^cjjlqrjm woman's work, says fEfly* e^l its t m ember of the h?ueaffo?a oagt?t^t?^beaf a fair propor tion of the common barder;, and not leave the load to press with crushing waight upon a single pair of shoulders. While the husband is toiling from Monday morning till Saturday night to,f,r4tpigh.tbe: means of living, the wife'anbl daughters,'as well as the eons, should do something -practical with their own hands to save expenses and help in the good work. We have too many wasteful Bridgets in the kitchen, reckless Susans in the laun dry, and airieh waitresses, chamber maids and seamstresses in othei parts of the house, while the mistress andi her daughters, for all the r radical o ?nee the wife and daughters, having con tributed to this result, may justly be p?fcmi?ed to .enjoy their wpJl-earaed leisure, and devo;e it, if they will, to " public charities^ church work, and the keeping up their French." Peo ple of wealth should employ servants and seamstresses', apd/msjy devote themselves to>?rt'and the elegances of life, ahheugh^every^ ope should do something ttTnelp the world and earn thehiight to-hpv?; - -ik^-while the hos bairTro eaTniug*hi8 daily bread in the face no hands in the indent has givdfl 3 comlufl^Tifrmt his work and turning from the taste less messeeoi the cook to beg a broil ed Bteak .and mufti us from the wife's more skillful hand, instead of disgust ing as she doubtless intended, only excites our sympathy. Why shouldn't to such a request, proud and thank ful that she can do so much to replace the ignorant service with her 'more dexterous ministry '.' We protest ag?rnet the assumption that the proper: care of a household is not a noble, employment. " You see," says our writer, " the point on which Quarrel with you is that wom en was made for something better and higher than washing dishes, mak - ing fires and sweeping!'' Our com-s pDndent k?s forgotton perhaps the oft quoted lines of Herbert : Who sweeps a. room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' aotion flue. In our judgment there is. nothing* bet ter and higher fora wife than just such household: tasks, when she can thereby aid her husband ia the strug gie for a livelihood.: The picture of such a woman in the 31st chapter of Proverbs has-been set in gold for all the generations r " She worketh will ingly Wfil??b^r'-ianaa ;" " She riseth while ;t ?2 yet night and giveth meat to her household ;" " She layeth her haod4e4iie-<spindle, -and her hands holdthe'diataft';" "She maketh fine I?Q.4! *f? jell ?th it "She looketh well to the ways bf her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness." This woman, who so aids her husband that " he has^ircejd of-spoil," is not, according' lo theArecord, Vhelpless, ignorant drudge. .She may not have "kept op her French," but "she orxneth her mouth with wisdom" in her own mother tongue, and she is horiored'by ?er husband and among har children, who " arise up and call her blessed." "We are glad that what we said has been so widely copied and read in so many homes. We are willing that it should excite so much occasional criti cism, if thereby it stirs the heart of wife and daughter to question among themselves whether they are leading in any sense a trne and noble life. In the description above quoted we see that'thc husband was so helped by this active, industrious and self deny ing wife that he had " no need of spoil." This waa the moral of our former article. We insisted that a large part of the speculative gambling by which so many are seeking for spoil to their own min, grows out ol the impossibility of maintaining the present rate of household expenses, while one pair of hands and a single brain are expected to keep so many ic idleness. The change we invite is not such t hardship as it seems at first to those whose dainty fingers never grasped ? piece of honest work. A wife wh( will cook the ateak and make the innf fin when thowpok, Aft-put correspond ont suggests, cannot doit so that th< master.oLjthg house can relish it, wil find ???oiiniaF*'mQre rewardioj than she thinks. The daughter, wh will make the beds, sweep and dust th house, rr?t?T?ieshirts 'and rt?dH?r* am laces, and 'sometimes wash the dishef and it may be, cook the dirfner, ' wil carn a corn pe neat ion, not only i her own happy consciousness of usefi service, Wit in growing muscle, vigor ous health and actual rose? on her pallid cheeks. We most come to this if men without money are to marry and the household is to eat its daily bread honestly acquired. No young mau can start in life without a cash capital and honestly pay help to wait upon them. The sooner the meaning and force of this is understood by all concerned the better will it be for the morals of the race. Douglass* Brue? and Langston, Three Famous Negro Office Seekers* The oldest and most conspicuous of this class is Frederick Douglass, formerly a Maryland slave who had the manhood to flee from bondage and while beyond the pale of slavery acquired sufficient of pathetic elo quence to excite and secure sym pathy, encouragement and advance ment. Petted and coached by fool ish white philanthropists, this able bodied darkey became spoiled for all practical utility, except toconspicu ously display his bushy hair at wom en's rights gatherings end solicit kisses from the dear white sisters, but the younger one: generally shy from old Fred. The black progeny who bear* the name of this :'-old man eloquent" h ive been sadly neglected in their educational training, or there is too much negro in the offspring to admit of ordinary advancement in their cul tured attainments. There are hun dreds of solid negro stock in Wash ington who are the superiors of the sons of Federick Douglass in aptitude, administrative qualities and as lead ers among their people. By a com parison of the two sons whom Doug lass put in office during his term as United States Marshal of this district with another employe of Douglass, named Perry Carson, a thoroughbred negro, the latter, is as far their supe rior in tact, politeness, good behavior and judgment as the elder Douglass is the superior of Carson in sympa thetic eloquence. Blanche E. Bruce, Register of the Treasury, was born in Prince Ed ward's county, Virginia ; he removed to Mississippi, where he was elected Sherill' and Tax Collector of Bolivai county, and subsequently was elected to the United States Senate, his term of sex vice ceasing Maree 3,1881. When this colored aspirant f jr political dis tinction decided to take a legitimate helpmate, he did not seek a wife among the negroes of his Virginia home, or among the daughters of Mississippi freedom who elevated him to position. Tneae were too rough and uncouth for this aspiring mr.latto, and he went to the free State of Ohio and the brightest and most comely and lady-like of her class waa sought and won by Broce. It was go d judgment, and better still; the chil dren of Bruce are not allowed to bs brought into contact with negro nur ses. A white nurse__. ia preferable To throw some light upon the j workings of the register's office, under t Mr. Bruce, we preface the matter by 1 stating that the appointment clerk, ? James B. Butler, who takes special < interest in the promotion and dismis sal of female employes, not so much < in the interest of efficiency as to lill ] the positions with younger female I ?tock possessing greater " magnetic i affinities," and dispense with the older and less attactive females, and in con cord with such practice a wealthy and estimable white lady waB lately dismissed from position in the Regis ter's office. The lady referred to is the widow of a gallant Union officer who was killed in the battle of the Wilderness in Virgini t. In the same office there is a less competent negro woman retained who has no other c'aim on the Government than that she is the mother in-law of Pro leesor Greener. Further particulars, if desired, will be furnished the Grand Army of the Republic. The mulatto who now receives the salary and performs little service as Consul General to Hay ti is one of the successful officeholders who has held and received pay for two offices at the same period. He is a restless, dis satisfied mongrel, generally on leave of absence, to enable the haranguing of negroee in the United Stales on their political duties, and while ca tering to the society of white men and detesting all the negro qualities in his composition, he will, at the bidding of his political masters, land the honor and integrity of such mean ex rebels as Chalmers', of Mississippi, and Mahone, of Virginia; while the atmostphere of Hayti at the present moment is made very unhealthy by darker-skinned negroes, for all that class of light-shade mulattoes of the Langston grade. Oats Springing From a Child's Side. From the Charlotte Journal-Observer. Strange things are always happen ing, and a medical gentleman of this city tells us of a remarkable case thaf came under his observation last week. A little child in an adjoining couuty some time ago swallowed a grain ol oats without its parents knowledge. Shortly afterwards the child was ta ken sick, and, notwithstanding the attention of the physicians, it contin ued to grow woree and declined in health rapidly. A few days since a painful a Te spot came on the childe side, and shortly after it was noticed the child's parents were surprised to see a grain of oats come out through the sore place. Since the oats came out of the side of the child, its health at once began to improve, and the in ference is that its illness was caused by the grain. This is a case for cogi tation by the medical fraternity. They say that Judge Foraker, the Republican candidate for Governoi of Ohio, gets up early in the morn ing. He probably discovered th< necessity of getting up early and re tiring late. . Mrs. F. A. Glenn, Wallacevills S. C., says : " I had a serions attacl of malarial fever. Brown's Iron .Bit ters restored me to good health." Opposing the Lien Law, Is it true that the Lien law is the cause per se ot the illicit sale of seed cotton ? The lawful sale of seed cotton is no more criminal than such sale of any other commodity, but is it not the illicit sale of seed cotton that causes our State to be filled with cotton shops ? The sale of such cot toa would not be unlawful if it ba-' longed to the seller, and if there was no Lien law the seedL cotton would belong to the farmers instead of the merchant, consequently there could be no illicit sale made by the farmer. If credit was based upon integrity, thrift and property, instead ot' a "lieu on crops" we would have fewer firm era and more laborers, better cultiva tion and increased productious, self sustaining hu=baudry and free sales of farm products. Under the lien system the merchant controls the sale of farm products and fixes the price of farm supplies-th? farmer has no option but must take the price ottered and give the pried .asked. Then in the Fall of the year the country is Hooded with cotton shops to furnish the negro with supplies while he is gathering the cotton crops which he sold to the merchant before it was I planted. Of course the negro pays for these supplies with, or out of, the merchants cotton, and as he has thus made himself an agent (self constitu ted) for the sale of his lienee's cotton to obtain supplies, he goes farther into the business and converts all that he can of said cotton to his own use Necessity compels the negro to use the seed cotton of his lienee to ob tain supplies as his credit and crop are both exhausted and he has no money to buy necessaries for himsell or family and cannot " work out" for such because he is obligated to gather bis lieuee's crop for which he has al ready been paid, this illicit traflic in seed cotton is the cause of so many shops for the purchase of seed cotton and wheu the shops are once open the dealers usually ask no questions but buy all that is offered for sale. This traffic with all of its evil and demoralizing effects is the result of legislation that deprives the farmers of labor; forces the laborers to be come tenants; destroys the influence and supervision of the landlord and gives the control of the tenants and the supervision of the farms to the merchants who are utterly incompe tent to discharge the duties incident to such a position. Consequently the legitimate farmer is impoverished for want of labor and the landlord is ruined by deterioration of his lands. If you pen a hog and give him ac cess to corn and then forbid bim to eat you place him in the same posi tion the Lien law places the negro. The lienee takes the crop of the lienor, 11 pens" Lim in the cotton field to gather the crop and refuses to fur nish him with rations, and then for bids the negro to take cotton frvm the field to purchase supplies; the same result follows in both cases the hog eats fcli? corn ?t^g.,.7^"'L_ HIHI j nu ust as long as the meron-rit attempts ?o u=urp the functions o: thc land? ord and stands between the farmer md the laborer, juBtso long will seed iotton be stolen, and the traffic in ?eed cotton will flourish. By the aid )f the Lien law the merchant de prives the white farmers of negro la Dor. They organize a negro tenantry sut of persons unfit for anything but farm laborers; they furnish three months supplies to the negro in pay ment of twelve months labor, and then turn the negro adrift to get hi.-j living from his white neighbors any way he can. They doom the white man to a life of toil and poverty by depriviug him of negro labor-tue only labor that i? cr w.li be in the country while the negroes are tenants. The injustice resulting to the white farmera from this law c-iuses some to retaliate upon the merchant by opening cotton shops which results in dishonesty and de moralization. GREY?.F..\r:T\ A Thriving i ii), There are few places in thecountrp that can point to such remarkable growth as Birtringham, Alabama, which within a fe w years has developed into a great manufacturing centre, lu 1880 she had a population of4,030, aud now has 11,348. And yet Bhe growp, and the business boom goes on The last industrial report is thus sum med up : The assessed valuation of the prop erty in the county has increased with in the same period from $0,000,000 to $8,300,000. Three years ago there was but one furnace iu the county, and the total output of pig iron for the State was 79,000 tons. There are now eight blast cake furnaces in the county, five in Birmingham and the others close by, which will alone this year make not less than 350,000 tons of iron. Jefferson county thus makes over 200 per cent more iron than did the whole State three years ago. In coal production it is more remarkable. In 1880 Alabama produced 323,000 tons of coal. By the end of this year Jefferson county will havj at out over 1,000,000 tons. This is" an in crease for this county of over 300 per cent, ?hove the coal production of the State three years ago. The agricul tural surroundings of " the magic city" are the poorest in the State. The 8.000 men now employed in mining atid the manufacture of iron and in dustries tell the story of its growth. Building is brisk, real estate values steadily enhancing, and a much need ed sewerage system is in course of construction. c 8 t a Farish Furman left his widow and children in comfortable circumstances. He was iusured for $5,000 in the American Legion of Honor and $3,000 in the Royal Acanum. This will more than pay his debts and leave his estate unencumbered. His rental from hie plantation amounts to about 70 bales of cotton, and bis profits from the farm he cultivates will be about $1,500. His estate will get a royalty on every ton of fertilizers made by his compost, and sold by the Furman Fertilizer Comcany, which is estimated at $1,200 to $1,500 or the present season, and mere in the future. ea Wi sh au er ca is U P< Ii m tl ol S d n tl g ai g w d L Part of This Country Whore Negroes are Still Slaves. The New Orleans Times Democrat viii soon send out an expedition to ixplore the Florida Everglades. S?v irai attempts to explore this country lave been made by the United States government and, during the Seminole var, the troops- frequently attempted o follow the Indians into the Ever glades, but they never succeeded in )enetrating beyond the borders of the Everglades proper. When the gen irai government Bought to remove he Indians to. their reservations, nany of different tribes ried into the Everglades, and it is estimated that '00 or 800 are now living there. Only >0 appear npon the rolls ol the cen U9, because no census officer has been tble to penetrate the wilderness. The 50 Indians who appear upon the census rolls are those who come out to rade, but it is known thit the large uajority are averse to trading or uingling with ' the "whites. Indian lunters come out with bear, deer .ad panther skius, showing that the Everglades must contain good hunt ng grounds. A number of negroes, ay 30 or 40, are known to bs held ?y the Indians. They speak the lil lian tongue, wear thedress of Indian vomen and .ire made to do the wo ?en's work. These negroes are evi leutly the progeny of rina way laves, who escaped before or during he civil war, and are still held in lavery. .Only one missionary ever attempt id to carry the news of Lincoln's iroclamation into tho Everglades; ie lefc the border? of the Indian ountry with great speed. A few Qonth8 ago Chief Tiger Tail became lispleased with one of his colored ervauts, and brought him into Fort flyers to ofter him for sale. When; n tor m ed that the negroes were ail rei he ejaculated : " White man's ligger mebbe free, but Indian's mg ?er, no." Whereupon Tiger Tail ;rasped the darky by the nape of the leek, pushed him into the canoe and (addled -back to, the Everglades. ?he Seminoles are quite jealous ot ny interference with their domain, nd will not serve as'guides through heir country. So strictly is this ule maintained that an Indian boy 7ho has been raised by Col. Hendry, inder an agreement with the Indians hal he may stay six monthB of each 'ear with Col. Hendry and eix months nth his people, could not ba pre ailed upon, for any cc ^deration, o guide white men iuio the country. Southern Colton Mills. New Yo ri: Herald. According to the Commercial and Financial Chronicles figures, the imount of cotton used by Southern niils during the ye^r ending Septem >er 1 was taree hundred and thirty me thousand bales. This shows that he consumption of cotton in the louth bf.s considerably more than dueled within the past, ionr yearfcd 51 Wat nd bai s larger this season than it j is last. Tne figures lurthermore , o.v that in recent years the con niption has increased at a far great rate in South ra than in Northern ills. Tnese facts are proof th it the Sou"h miking rapid strides iu the niauu Cture ot its great staple. Tue pros jrity already attained his giveu a vely impetus to the construction ol sw miiis in various quarters ani ie enlargement of the capacity cf id ones. In doing this the Southern tates are simply developing an in nstry for which they have peculiar atural advantages. Tuey have it in leif rower to make the South a reat c ?tton mmnf.icturiug centre, nd it is a matter for national ou ratulation that they "are moving ith . encouraging ]progress Ur thal irection. The Raleigh Ob&rber, in commend lg to thc young men of the State he example -of Farish Furm tn, says: Bu-t it is said that agriculture is iOt an engaging occupation. Thie dea we would combat. In the fi ret dace, generally agriculture is more emunerative thau manufacturing, t is also generally more remunera ive than the professions. It is pre ?rable because iurther removed Irom emptations-less exacting, attended >y fewer vices and more pleasures. Che arara is not so splendid, but the ikillful, practical, eminent agricultur st, such as Forman was, and such ts many of our people are, have more weight, a better reputation and a aigher influence than the ordinary nanufacturer, lawyer or physician. We could wish to see hundreds of our poung men seek to walk-in the path way this distinguished Georgian has 30 admirably marked out. WANTS TO SIDE-TRACK THE BOYS -TTWO thousand miles of switches laid during the first'six months of the year by. the tireless railroad jnen. This example "should not be lost'upon parents and guardians. About a mile of switch laid daily, where it would do the most good, and put down tight and sealed with whacks, would safely side-track lots of boys now making limited express time on the broad gauge, down grade, which leads tc destruction.-Fittsburgh Telegraph, The Columbia -Register reports thal Mr. J. M. Crawford expects to makt four bales of cotton, on one experi mental acre. Mr. Crawford shoolc furnieh his formula, after the man ncr of Furman. But an experiment al acre is not exactly to be compar?e to Furmans little farm. The fact that good health, stronj muscles and sound nerves are attain able, should encourage every invalii to an earnest endeavor in the righ direction. Remember all disease owe its origin more or less to a lack c iron in the blood. Iron in the bloc means health, strength and vigoi Analyze the blood ?of an invali and little or no iron will be fount Heal thy ..men's blood is full of jroi The best method of supplying th lack of iron is by using Brown's Iro Bitters, a sure cure for dyspepsii generaT*"\3ebility, weakness and a wasting disease, Wetaeum thatdistiuguished man whos?raajheade ?uis paragraph, ? without th accessaries necessary to smailes m. His character is so sublijrg, alhis position in our South ern Juithoini so secure, that he can i well jbe ailed to go down to pos I teri ty witta other . name than that j which'he ceived in his-baptism. ! To thff*hor of our Church, let it be said.'that /is uo longer to lie buried in aa.'uninked grave. A late num ber of theblumbus (Ga.) Sun En (juk??*?&?& that a fit memorial hereafter mks the resting place ol' this sliper servant of God. It ia 17 fe t in ?ght, the base is of Stone Mont tain anice, and the phaft of New 5agid granite. On the sec ond baie ilie name PIERCE. Tue ''die'^ierisappropriately inscribed j ou eich sf as follow : On tne est-Rev. Lovick Pierce, born iu Hfax?punty, N. C., March 24,1785,:?d in Sparta, Ga., Novem ber 0, 187 On thetforth-A good nun, a grea^^fSaerhe i i ved uot uuto himself, bc unto Him who is the resurrejctioand the life. O?ujvhejast-"Bles.ed are the dead whc?e.in the Lord." On thejuth-"A long life of labor, self-de???-and consecratiou to tbe service oaau, and the glory of God, was crorcd with a peaceful death." . ftshine and Sleep. ?l?ep?s people-and they are manyyjumerica-should court the sun. ^T; very worst soporific is laudanu BD : the very best, sun shine.'' jerefore it is very .plain thaine sleepers should pass as many?te as possible in the sun shine, ai as few as possible in the shade~?any women are martyrs, and yetiey do not know it. They shut tbeunehine out of their houses and ttft-.' hearts, they wear veils, they cay parasols, they do all pos eiblgfrfreep off the subtlest, yet most pot?Epueoce which is intended io give^lhi strength and beauty and cheerfcess. Is it not time to change tbis,.i?jQ get color and roses in their pa cheeks; strength in their weak bks, and courage in their timid ads ? The women of America are palind delicate ; they may be blooiwyand strong; and the sun lightpi'he a potent influence in this ajuforniation. The clored people ia Texas have set afgoi example to their race eve ryv/i^nby declaring that they do not q?si? to be accommodated in the ( ars I or elsewhere along with the ?vbitLrople, but only ask such ac com?{ation aa will make them com lortafeand give them the worth of th^^^^ey. That is the sensible sflftM^^hcfli.to'take. " ^ 'olored cranks who from time to tijtfaohieve notoriety by thrust ing t?ri^elves among white people t^thS^eatres, restaurants and bo be ene(iQieB of their^own r'"ce. "*Tbey bring tuemseives anu their pt-'Ople into contempt by forcing their o* mpany wh^reit is not wanted ar.-l hrJuitiiitK the hulled ol the white psopiei against them. White and bUck Will not m;x any more than oil and rutter, and the attempt, to make theuimix is foolishness. Tue colored people can cultivate their self respect and increase their comfort and hap pinessby recogn zing this fact, keep ing away from the wh.te people ex ceot when nec-ssity requires them to do otherwise, and making the white people keep away from them. The two races c in be on tin best terms -ind exchange kindness and good le-ding all the tiene withDUt associa itiog with each other.-Qwni'ifU AW. A Gigantic Thiirouglibrcil. rnno^Charlie, the famous racing sui!fon, rwet.tly puichased in Eng laud tor SOf guineas by Mr. Danie ?wigert ot Kentucky, arrived tufelj a New Yoi k Monday on the steam ship Notting Hill, AVA will be take; io the grasa legion for stud purpose . s 8 ion as he has been re-ted. Pi inc Cuarliti is a grand looking horse o king-like proportions. He is seven teen hands high, ol chestnut oloi with white face and white stocking behind. His head aud neck resembl Longfellow's in shape of much large proportions. He has an enormou symmetrical frame, which is well fillet notwithstanding his . somewhat lon voyage. His legs are clean and fire and not over large for a thoroughbre of his size. He has large kidney eye Prince Charlie is fourteen years oh He was sired by Blair Athol, dal Kistern Princess, by Surplice, son i Touchstone and Crucifix. He defeate some ol' the best English horses dui ing bis racing days, winning the Tw Thousand Guineas and finishing se ond for the St. Leger. He beean a roamer,.and was withdrawn fro The^T??rfT Since, then he has eire Prestonpans and other fast horse Mr. -Swigert hopes that the progeny this great horse and his renown? Lexington mares will develop ama . iig speed and staying power. Tile Georgia Legislature has passt a bill thatsavs in effect oleomargari! must go. Tne bill requires that a dealers in oleomargarine shall nott customers when oleomargarine ia c fered to them. All manufacture are required to plainly label th? product, and hotels, restaurants a' other placea of public entertainme where oleomargarine is used are i quired to post signs in their dini rootae, as follows: " This hou uses oleomargarine." ' Fred Douglass s-iys that if B Butler be nominated by the Den crate for the Presidency he will ct tn re the negro vote of the Sou Fred's a donkey. He don't kn whit he is talking about. Did H ace Greely capture any negro vo in he South? and Horace was a ! champion of the negro. the Democratic State Convent of Massachusetts assembled atSpri field last week and nominated I Bugler for Governor. A few d before, the Greeubackers named 1 as th* bpst man they could suppi Changing the Colors of Flowers by Cultivation. [August Vogel in Popular Science Month ' ly for October.) Oui knowledge of the chemistry of vegetal le pigments is not yet suffi ciently advanced, for which reason the effect of artificial influence upon the color-tone of Howers has not yet received its merited attention. Accord ing to nay view, tannin is an im; ortant iactcr in the generation of vegetable colors ; it ie found in almost every plant, the petals not excepted, and by the action of the most varying reagents -alkalies, earths, metalic salts, etc. it assumes .the most manifold hues from pale rose to deep black. A darker color, therefore, is produced in tannin, when manured with iron-salts, since as everybody knows, tanniu and iron Balta dye black, and produc? ink. A practical use has been made cf this fact in the raising o? hortensias and dahlias. The former, which in ordi nary soil blossomed pale red, became sky-blue when transplanted into soil heavily manured with iron ochre, or when occasionally watered with a dilute alum solution. English gard ners succeeded iu growing black dahlias by similar manipulations. It is well known to every florist that a change of location, that is, a change of light, temperature and soil (replant ing), occasionally produces new colors, whence it may be deduced that an in terrupted nutrition of the flower m ty under circumstance?, effect a change of color. We se? no valid reason why the well authenticated fact of change of color produced by manuring with iron oxide, thereby changing the nu trition of the plant, should not be practically, employed by the hot house gardener. Another very sin gular and successful experiment, in producing a chacge of color in a bird, has recently been made. A breeder of canary birds conceived the idea ol feeding a young bird with a mixture of s'eeped bread and finelypulverized red Cayenne pepper. Without iojnr ing the bird, the pigment of the spine passed into the blood und dyed itt plumage deep red. The celebrated ornithologist Russ believes that the color of the birds might be .".itered to desire by using appropriate rea gents. Not Much of? Fool Alter 111, Sam Wednesday, an imspecuoioiitj citizen of Austin, was 6'ippoeed to be crazy, and his relatives brought him before the County Court to have a lun?tico de inquirendo jury pass on his mental condition, his delusion be mg that he was very rich. A lawyei proceeded to ask the crazy min questions to test his sanity.: " I hear that-yctr?re going to build a. $50,000 residence?-' " " It is going to cost $60,000." " You don't sny so !*' " Ye6; and I am goiug to statt ? daily paper, with $250,000 capital That's a mere tri.'ie For a man ol m j means.11 ' XiliVeem t? bave so much gurney perhaps you would not object to Lhct ing me a thousand dollars?" " I'd like to do it, Judge, bu^. thal would be such a ri-ky invpstrnpn everybody would suspect me of beinj cra>:y." Tbe iefusal of the suppose-i ionati to seriously entertain the idea o 'ending money to an Austin lawye caused the jury to decide that San was in tull possession of his reasonin; facnlties.- T>. xas fj-?inga. Never Vt ithun! Their Cmbrllas. The present fashionable craze arnon tba dandies of Paris is nevpr to b without their umbrell s. It is ver elegant, very ' received," very Eng hsh, ii short, and nob >dy who know anything is ignorant oi the fact tbs for some persons-and they are nc confined io Paris-English is ryuonj m MU with perfection. The umbrell has become as obligatory na pi im ir eil uc it ion and service in tho arm; although it is not yet gratuitous, a? five hundred franc umbrella in tl h iuds of a swell of 1888 is no rar than A cine of that price was amor tie dandies of 1830 and 18G9. Oi of the present D?ke de Moruya cc lecion-it is said thathe has 1.0( specimens--is said to h ve cost 1,01 francs, and the Prince ?le R. carri one, wiien it does not rain, the ha die of which is surmounted with genuine Louis Qairze bonbonniei which is estimated at 150 louis. THE OHIO MUDDLE.-If it we not for Judge Hoad ly, whom we gre; ly respect, and who has striven ha for success, we should say let Ol go to tba dev--. A crushing Detr eratic deicit may purge the party its McLeans and Bookwaltere, would-be bosses, demagogues a knaves. A victory may only etrengl en their purpose to dominate a disgrace the party as Foster et a have dominated and disgraced t opposition. A clock that will run four hund? days is now on exhibition in the w dow of Richbourg's jewelry store Columbia. It is a beautiful and genious piece of mechanism, and well worth close examination. It would be found better both the producer and consumer of et to sell by weight rather than numb for as the market is to day sn eggs sell for the same price a-i n large ones do. To cleanse br?t-s-catch your bi agent, hold him under the pump i sponge him with a bar ol sand so To destroy weeds-iutroduce y widuw to a bachelor, and let nat take its course.-Marathon h pendent. "Can a man be a cbristiau and long to a brass band ?" inquired si one of Mr. Spurgeon, thegreat Lon preacher. " Yes," he replied, think he might, but it would b very difficult matter for his i door neighbor to be a christian." Scotch minister : " John, Ji I'm afraid you are ou the bi road." inebriated parishioner : "V minister, as far as I'm concerned, breadth is a* required." To'Examine thc Stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Carpets. Rugs, Shades and Curtains, -.A. T MIME & HICKOK'S; AUGUSTA. GA. ofter Wc are filling up every department daily, and we can Beal Bargains io All Wfco Call ea Usu Good Holiest: floods ?? thc Lowest Prices, and no Hum bug practtcedtor allowed on our premises. Everything- guar anteed ns represented. Goods for rich and poor, and full value given for your money. COM DNE ! COME ALL ! and sec ns. DELANE & HICKOK. Sept. 12, I SSV 40-..1 ?:*o Bron?! Street, A t'Gi'STA, *A. ? fl orse Power Engine, 30-Hoise lower Boiler -A. HST 3D SA.W MILL, How Running at Treu?oii, $. C., foi* Sale Cheap. GEORGS E. LOMBARD & CO., At!? HST A, ?-?A. Foundry, Machino anti Boiler Works nour Wa '.er Tower. 30.1 PULLEYS. 10,000 feet SH iFTING Sept. 12, 1883 -ly] -REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE.*? ^ The above rut represents ?i 1.50 H. P. Standard Westinghouse Engine. The Engines ?ir*; built in efaiukerdsizex from 2 to 500 H. P., and the Com pany ip prepared to build Engines of any size on special order, either throt tle or antoinette The engine U applicable to any purpose for which power is required, it has no st. ding botes; is self-oiling; cannot be made to knock or pound ; is economical of first-cost ; economical of fuel, and any laborer can run it. Semi for Catalogue. D A. TOMPKINS. Eng'r. and Gen !. Agi WESTINGHOUSE MACHINE Co., Fourth and College Ste., CHARLOTTE, N. C. Work* at Pittsburgh, Pa. [June 2G, 1883. AI ft T?MAH?LL, ?33 illili 7.15 BROAD STREET,.ATM STA, GEORGIA, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF CARRIAGES, KUI KA WAYS, Bi 6GIE8 b??e?^ -, PLANTATION and ROAD WAGONS, CARTS, Eic. Manufacturers' Agent? for the sale of the Cortland Wagon Co's. Spring Wagons and Buggies, Wilson, Childs & Cos. Philadel phia Wagons, FRAZIER & BRADLEY ROAD CARTS, The Best Car'. TM ' '?/// Cu t. WCJ have added to our stock of linc Buggies and Rockaways, A Linc of Cheaper Trade Buggies, Made to our own order, with sjiecial mirani t?> Uie ? Quality of the wheels, ax les, and spring*, which we will sell Lower than any house this side of Cincinnati. NO CHEAP AUCTION WoKK SOLD. Also, a Full stock of Saddlory and Harness, Bridles, Collars, Whips, Buggy Umbrellas, Trunks, Coach material of ovory description, Cloths, Paints, Coach Varnishes. Also, Leather and Guua Bellin?, Packing, Rivets and Lacing, Hooks and Punches, Italian Hemps, and Soapstrme Packing. Also, Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather, French aud American Calf and Kip Skins, Linings and Goat Skins. A full stock of Shoe Last?, latest styles, jtU? received. US' Si nd on your orders,' or call and see us. Our charges will, at all time? be BOTTOM PRICES? AprH4,dS8f.-tfl"