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TERMS: ubiibac? o?oiy Thursday morning. For subscription, $1.50 por annum, strictly In advance; for ?ix moisis, f? cents; for four months, 80 conto. Advertisement* Inserted at ono dollar por square of ono inch or loss for tho first desertion bud fifty cont? for each sub sequent insertion. Obituary Notloos exceeding five lines, Tributos of Itospoot, C'onununioations of a personal character, wlion admissablo. and Announcements of Candidatos will bo charged for as advortlsomonts. ted PrIntl"g nortt,y ftmi cheaply oxocu Noooasity compels us to adhere striotly to tho roquiromonts of Cash Paymonts. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & ,1 AYN JO H. To Thl?, Own B"li B. Tr?. n?d ?, Mmi Uh, ?. the mg** ?h. Day? Th? Cn?*, N" The? Bo F?l7el7?^^ IrVAluHALIiA? SOUTH OAU?LINA, OCTOBER 24, 1880. VOLUME Xii_NO 48. nine Humor says that Schumacher is polling tho bcBt Goods oversold in this town. For once rumor doesn't He. Small prices and large stock aro Sohumnohor's strongholds. Schumacher is never boat in buying and ho always boats in selling. Tho man who grumbles at Schumacher's prices would grumble nt twins-if bc had 'em. 14 Saved 1" cried the buyer, clasping the dollar to his pocketbook. Ile WAS trading with Schumacher. . Mjflg . ; . " Money makes tho mare go" to Schumacher's. Tho farmer drives thom to buy and save his money. Schumacher's store glitters with attrac tions and every ono is a bargain. Ladies who don't want to appear in Print should seo Schumacher's Dress Gooda. Thc cool air is a gentle reminder that you need some Wintor Goods from Schumacher's. Never say dye to your old clothes, when you can get now goods so cheap at Schumacher's. " How very cheap ! How very choice !" the people are ali crying. They praise Schumacher's goods willi cheerful voice and back it up by buying. Whore is thc man that couldn't afford a now suit? Send him to Schumacher's. Tlic largest and best stock of Rubbers ever seen is at Schumacher's. It will make you feel warm just to look at those Stoves at Schu macher':1. Von aro out of Pocket every time you trade at any place but Schu mac???. s. If a .nan can save a dime on every dollar lie sponds with Schumacher, how much does he loose when bc goes to any other atoro and lays out his hard-earned cash ? Hi ing your answer to Schumacher's store. People searching for a comparison for something small say, " As small ns Schumacher's prices." Tho pic nie season is not over. Buyers are having a daily pic nie at Schumacher's. For richness, variety, prettiness and profusion Schumachers stock is ahead of all. Hardware at hnrd-up prices is what is drawing tho people to Schu macher's. Tho*mah from Hogback say? he'll bedingod if lie ever saw tho Uko of Schumacher's stock. Tliosc who scent bargains will lind bargains in couts at Schumacher's. i It is a notorious fact that the only bargain store in town.is Schu macher's., "That's the Ticket!" cried the man who saw the figures on Schu macher's price tickets. Contented people are rich. According to that tho richest peoplo are thoso who trade willi Schumacher. Jinks says lie and his wife differ on all but OHO question, and that is, Schumacher sells goods cheaper than anybody in town. If you want, to buy goods cheap call on yours, truly, OTTO H. SCHUMACHER, Charleston House, WALHALLA, S. C Goods Packed and Delivered bree. Ootobor 24, 1880. mtf?n?WQ PM nMN "1 i ?iauauu M uuLu lu ri. . . -O-1- j (j^* All communications intended for this column should bo addressed to S. P. Stripling, Sohool Commis sioner, Walhalla, S. C. Tho Mt. Tabor Sohool, taught by Mrt Samuel Huntor, was our next stopping in our visits. Tho teaohor is strongly in fnvoi of illustrating tho principles taught in the-text books by black-board oxeroises. Grammar, geography, history, arith metic, physiology, vvriliog, Vending, spelling, all the elementary branches should bo taught by practical illus trations. Tho patrons of schools should feel free to send any proposi tion which presents itself te them to thc schools for solution, even if they can solvo it themselves. This kind of practice will give permanent im pressions to the pupil and make bim feol that tho rules of arithmetic are based on aotual experience. Noth ing moro firmly seen ros tho atten tion of a pupil than to draw practi cal conclusions from tho theories presented in thc school room. Hopewell School, taught by Miss Ellen C. Huntor, is tho next place that engages our nttontion. The house was very bad indeed and bad none of tho necessary furniture for a well equipped school room. The benches wore very uncomfortable and, as in many other locations, too high for tho little short logs to roach tho floor. It is not to be wondered at that tho little ones becomo tired and sleepy and fall off tho bench. Teachers can and ought to out tho honchos down till tho feet can rest on thc floor. Tho improved scats should be arranged to meet tho ne cessities of the pupils. Tho people should look well to tho comfort of their children. Many children incur diseases in such poorly fitted school rooms. Teachers should see that proper fires and sufficiency of fresh air and pure water is provided. Children on damp days should be re quired to dry their clothing before entering upon thoir studies, no mat ter if they are warm and tho fire is unple?Bant. The Cleveland School, taught by Mr. M. W. Wright, was our next point. Tho school was small in numbers, but Mr. Wright told us that ho employed all his time in teaching. Tho tendency of the present day is to crowd too many pupils into tho samo class without roforanco to qualification. It re quires a great deal of skill on the part of the teacher to manage thirty pupils successfully and do justice to all-thc diffident, those dull of com prehension-and. make proper ad vancement. Many teachers address their instructions to those who aro apt to learn and pass over those who aro not so favored by nature and surrounding circumstances. These teachers make great display over tho talents of the favored ones and heap their abuse Upon those not so fortu nate. Thc teaohor should take great pains in leading out thc dormant tal ents of those who have had limited opportunities fer development, Many boys who wero considered dull, I by diligent applications and skillful instruction by their teachers, have made distinguished citizens and I statesmen. S. 1'. STinni.iNO. Our Country Schools. Thc progress and efficiency of oui rural schools aro of tho very first moment to tho future of the people Upon these schools depend the edu cation and usefulness of at least three-fourths of the people of South Carolina. Thoir neglect or ineffi ciency moans then a lasting injury to thc great body of the people ol the commonwealth. Let u? not forgot, that nearly all our groat men werocoiuitry-brccl boys, who had stood "between, tho han dles." These country schools then, in all probability, aro charged with thc guiding of thc first footsteps of thc loaders of the public thought in all this groat land. Important ns this trust may bo, Ibero is a still more solemn responsibility attached- to these schools, insomuch that they aro largely charged with thc supreme function of forming the very body of society in these communities. For just ns these schools rear sub stantially educated men and women, just ns they regulato tho intellectual energies and moral force of those growing men and women, tboy aro planting doop tho foundation stone for a bettor, broador and braver civi lization ; and as all other things wore nddod to Solomon's clesiro for wisdom, go aro all otilar things added to an organized community of mond and intellectual forcer We cannot refuse ty) accept it as a truth that to raise a community wo must place the jack sorews under its wholo sooioty and lift it from its very foundations. This is oxaotly the work thc.t the good neighbor hood school does. It oarrios tho wholo community forward whilst it makes an educational atmosphere ready to receive tho moro cultured individuals, who, acotnding to natu ral gifts spring up out of the body of society.-Columbia Moy ister. v Crop Koport for September, Tho following report" was issued at the Department of Agriculture to-day : THK WKAT?lKIt. Tho sunshine forf- tho month of September was about flu avorago. The rainfall was about an avorago, reports of observers to the State Woathor Service showing that for tho month of September, LH88, it was 9.8 indies, while for tho same month in 1889 it was only 3.42 inohc8. No frost is reported. Reports received from 214 spe cial correspondents of the Depart ment of Agriculture" give tho fol lowing estimates of the condition of the various crops on Ootobor 1 : COTTON. Thc crop is estimated to bo from ten days to two weeks lute. Tho caterpillar has appeared in some sec tions, but only slight damage is re ported. Tho condition is reported as follows: Upper Carolina, 92; Middle Carolina, 89 ; Lower Caro lina, 87-average for thc State, 89 ; against 77 at thc same dato in J 888 j and 89 on September 1, 1889. The indicated yield is given at 181 pounds i of lint to the aero. COHN. Thc corn crop.is estimated to bo the imest for several years. Tho condition is roportod as follows : Upper Carolina, 105 : Middle Caro lina, 104 ; Lower Carolina; 102-ave rage for' tho Stalc/fc ; against 70 at the same dato in 1888 and 108 on September 1, 1889. "Tho indicated yield is fourteen bushels per acre. KICK. The rice crop is reported in good condition, as follows: Upper Caro lina, 98; Middle Carolina, 96; Lower Carolina, 90-average for tho State, 97; against 88 at tho same dato last year and 95 on .September 1, 1889. Thc indicated yield is twenty-three bushels per acre. OTU ICU C'UOI'S. Tito condition and prospective yield of the smaller crops is reported as follows : Peas-condition 98, against 72 at thc same date in 1888 ; indicated yield six bushels por acre. Irish pototoes-condition 93, against 91 at tho same dato in 1888; yield ? sixty-two bushels per acre. Sweet potatoes-condition 99, against 94 nt tito same dato in 1888 ; yield eighty seven bushels per acre. Sugar cane -condition 95, against 90 at thc same date in 1888 ; yield 123 gallons per acre. Sorghum-condition 97, against 98 at the same date in 1888 ; I yield oighty-two gallons per acre. Thc Department of Agriculture I has issued the annual pamphlet con taining thc oflicinl analysis of com mercial fertilizers sold in this State during thc past season. Copies may bc obtained by applying to Commis . sioner Butler. -. Mr. Edison says that in a few years "it will be unsafe to speak in ; a house until you have examined tho i walls and furniture for concealed phonographs." Thc tinto is rapidly approaching, therefore, when tho ; young man who would avoid damag ing evidence being unexpectedly I produced in a breach of promise , suit, must engage in a phonograph search before beginning to converse about ono thing and another with his best girl in the parlor. It will ! not bo necessary for deaf mutes to i : take this procaution. Deafness Can't lie Cured Hy local application, ns thoy cannot roach tho diseased portion of tho oar. TltOro is only ono way to euro deafness, and that is by constitutional treatment. Deafness is caused hy an inflamed con dition of tho mucus lining of tho Eus tachian tube. When this tithe gets in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is en tirely closed, deafness is tho result and unless tho inflammation can ho taken out and this tube restored to Ita normal con dition, hearing will he destroyed forever; niuo cases out of ten nr? caused hy ca tarrh, which is nothing hut an inflamed condition of tho mucus surfaces. Wo will givo ono hundred dollars for any caso of denfness, (caused by ca tarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Mend for circulars, froo. V. J. ClIKNKY St Co., Tolodo, 0) BILL ARR '.?>V '.? -\ . ' , . .'? ' 1 ;', i f;,' I ;S .k?(A^Ty.'*"-i iii -.-??????? . . m ARPHAS SOMETHING TO SAY ON TH li BACK QUESTION. [Atlanta Constitution.] What would wo do if wp didn't havo tho negro to write about and talk about? Tho newspapers and magazines are discussing the race problem continually and doing their best to solve it. Tho pooplo are pondering ovor it nt home by ibo fireside, and all this shedding light and spreading knowledge and pre paring tho way for whatever may happen. But still there is nothing dono nor likely to bo done. It is too big a thing to be hurried by any thing man can do. By slow and sure degrees it will work itself out, and I reckon wo had bettor lot it alone for awhile and watch thc work ings of manifest destiny. I think that General Stephen D. Lee's brief I reply to Mr. Grady on the subject is j the most 8onsiblo thing that has bcon said or wiitten. Ho is not alarmed about tho situation and lives in a negro country. The appoal to Pha raoh reads well and is tho result of thought and rescarclx, but in this agc theories uro rudely knocked as'dn by facts. We theorized on tho war and some of our prcaohcrs said that if wo didn't whip tho fight thoy would loso faith in tl providonco of God. Wc theorized about mak ing cotton and said that the white man couldn't mako it and tho freo negro wouldn't. Pharaoh says : "No two dissimilar races ever lived together in poace." When tho fact is tho whites and blacks have been living together in peace hero at thc South for a century. Tho last 25 years the negro has been a free man and wo aro living in poaco yet ; about as much peace as could bo ex pected-in faot moro peaco than there is between labor and capital in tho whito race. Ile says there would have been immigration to thc South long ago if the negro had not been boro. Then wo ottght to thank the good Lord for protecting us from the anarchists and communists and thc scum and paupers of Eu rope. We don't invito the immi grant who is afraid of tho negro. If thc negro has done us no othor good, ho has ensured us a law-abid ing, homogeneous, patriotic popula tion. Ho has some bad traitt but wo don't want to swap him off for trash His virtues aro too much magnified by tho North, and so arc his crimes of tho South. As a race they are kind-hearted, generous, do cile, good-natured, and, at the same time, wasteful, careless-concerned for to-day, unconcerned for to-mor row, and having moro religion than piety, more fear than conscience. Bishop Galloway said in his great sermon at the tabernacle that Sam Houston was once traveling over Texas in a diligence, and two rob bers stopped thc coach and robbed him and his companions of their money and watches and, worst of all, took their lunch of biscuit and sausage, and one of them unrolled it and greedily bit off half a sausage, when tho other jerked it violently away and said : "Don't you eat that, you heathen heretic-didn't I tell you this morning that to-day was Good Friday, and you musn't cat any meat." Ho had moro religion than piety, and so with most of tho negroes. A little stealing docs not conflict with their religion. If you hire one it does ot conflict with his contract. Wc all recognize that eight dollars a month means eight dollars and produis?tes. Tho law presumes malice when a man com mits a crime, but Ibero is not a bit of malice in a nogroc's heart when ho pilfers from you. He lov?es you all thc hotter for having something ho can pick- lip, Ho takes it upon the idea that you have got it to sparc and won't miss it, and he wants it that's all. Another mistake that Pharaoh makes is in arraigning somebody for over bringing tho negroes hero from Africa. We believe that it was a good thing and wisely designed by Providence. What would the 0,000, 000 have been if thoir forefathers had been loft in Africa? About thirty years ago there was a cargo of nogroes secretly landed on our coast just bolow Savannah, and thoy wore sold and. distributed among our farmers. I saw sonic of them at Colonel Motts', in Columbus. Thoy wore working in his garden, or try ing to work. Tlioy couldn't spoak a word of English and had to bo trained by signs. Thoy did't't want thoir moat cooked, but bogged for it with the blood. B"t tbov worn do. oilo and Boon learned to talk and got reoonoilod to wearing olothes' and eating Uko whito folks. They never pined away or grieved for thoir kin dred or their country. They rando excellent servants; and I have no doubt but thoir obildren are now well-bob lived and civilized citizen H. I have long ruminated over this and my faith ia that our Northern breth ren ought to sond over there and got somo moro and civilize thom as we have done. There is a broad field for their philanthropy. Why don't, those Northern negro preachers, who kioked up such a dust at In dianapolis tho other day, go ovor and begin tho missionary work. If tho other groat nations had dono ns much for tho negro ns the South haB dono Africa would bo civilized. But there is another serious question whioh Pharaoh's advanced shoots havo not discussed. If tho negro is sont awqy and colonized, will ho re lapso into barbarism liko they have in Hay ti and San Domingo ? If .his tory and observation provo anything, they provo that dose contact with tho whito man and dependence upon him is absolutely necessary for tho prosperity and happiness of tho ne gro. I don't mean slavery nor serf dom, but I mean a dependent asso ciation. Thousands of them aro in that condition now, und they are the best and happiest of their race. Thoy aro at work every day and earn their daily bread and givo no trouble. Our oolorod townsman, Gasset, struck tho koy noto in his card to tho Constitution. Lot thc negro go to work and attend to his business and ho will havo no trouble with tho whito race.' It is idleness that is making all thc fuss. But there is enough thoughtful conservatism in tho thinking mou the loaders of both racos-to kcer down a conflict. Such" negroes nf Taylor and Turner and Princo nm Gassott will control thoir race fo; peace and the best interests of al concerned. If thc timo comcB fo them to go it will bc beoauso. Pro videncc has willed it. I said th?8 V Mrs. A rp while she was sowing som buttons on the boys' garments am she said she wasn't ready for thou to go yet. She didn't want Sicil; Mimms to go at all ; nor Aunt An golina Peacock, for when sho cnn' got one of thom sho can got th othor, and Angelina makes tho bes silver cake in tho world, and Sicil is thc best nil-round cook in th world, and just goes along so quic and gives her no trouble. A big mouthed drayman carno to tho bnc door for a trunk this morning an walked big into tho kitchen and too his tobacco out of his mouth an took a drink out of tho kitchen di] per, and Mrs. Arp saw him just i timo and used language on him langungc, nouns and adjectives nu interjections. I'll bot ho don't cou here any moro. Mrs. Sicily Mimn says its just such impudent nigge as him what gets up all tho fuf Tho othor night my wifo and I wo coming homo from church and ove took a dude darkey, who had tl arm cluteh on his girl, and tin oropt along at a lover's pace, whi< is about a halt' a mile an hour, ai the sidewalk was very narrow with deep ditch on one side, and tin wouldn't let UB by nor turn out, b just spread themselves out in an a gravating way, and we had to ere along until wc got to a crosB strei and my wife says it made her mad that the preaching didn't i her a bit of good. Thero aro soi lazy, trifling negroes about and th ought to bo vngrantcd, and thc arc sonic white folks who seem think that it is ungentlemanly work-. The funniest thing is to s these educated negroes going abo with fans in their hands- and ni brollas raised on a cloudy day wh there is neither sunshine nor show* Tlioy are trying to imitato tho whi folks and just ovordo it a little that's a??, A negro girl is as fond finery ns an Indian is of beads. S will pick cotton all tho wock in t sun and strut around under a pa sol on Sunday. She will wear fashionable hat and high hool shoes and black stockings if sho 1 to wash a month to get thom. Thu after tho white folks, too, oxcepti the bad taste of tho stockings, 1 tho women do tell mo that tin ought to be u pleasing contrast 1 tween the color of tho skin and t color of tho stockings, bat as that a matter that doosn't oonocrn mo, havo no opinion. But I liko tho negro. I v I rnjsod wtyh hjrn and know Muli ? Old Pickens in i84o? -MOVJCD TO- ' Walhalla 1111808, Destroyed by Fire ?Jun 21st, 1887. Re-Established August ll 1887. know how to got ulong with him, nnfl l?avo no fours of trouble if Sherman & Co. will lot us alono. They haven't as many big. sins to atiBwev for as tho white- race, for money is at tho bottom, of most oAl Iniquity, and as tho negro hus not got much of that, nor much lovo for it, ho doosn't do as much big devil ment. Ho will steal and got into tho ohain gang, but ho is a very gc- \> norous stealer. I havo known him to steal watermelons from Nabor Freeman and bring them to my ca bins and get my children to go out flvd hob) eat thom. John Thomas would steal a melon for Carl in a minuto; for in tho first place ho loved to steal, and in tho next placo ho loved Carl, but ho was tho beBt negro I over uaw except my Tip-? Tippecanoe, who was named, foi* oki Gonoral Harrison, and tho Prosidonfc ought to do something for him right now, for I reckon ho is tho only liv ing dnrkoy who was named for , hi8 grandfather. A stingy negro is a rarity, but a stingy whit?'*nian is a very common institution. I was talking to Gus Bates about that and he said it was a raco trait of tho white folks-selfishness and covetousness and thoy couldn't help it,- said ho. "Ono timo I had a na bor who was so Btingy ho wouldn't dig fish bait on his ow?? land. He came to my house ono day for a basket of poaches and I helped him pick a basket full and then I asked him if his orchard had failod to hit and ho said no, he had right smart, but bc was feeding them to his hogB. I told a friend about it and he said : 'Why, of course, I'vo known Jack ever sinco ho was a boy, and ho used to make a fuss .?nd cry if his mo thor didn't givo him his full share of castor oil when she was dosing tho children for tho summer com plaint.' " Hut wo will wait a little longer oh this negro business. I was in Maco?), Mississippi, last year, whero there were thirty thousand negroes and six thousand whites in tho county, and they wore gotting along ? in peaco, and I reckon tho rest of us can. At all ovonts, letj us keep peg ging away on that lino-Shorman or no Sherman. Wo aro going to at tend to our own domestic affairs as long as wo have any domestic BILI. AK P. Of Uso in Diphtheria and Croup* W. li. White, of Chester, sends ! tho following, whose value he has tested : in a report to the French Academy of Medicine, Dr. Dioth?ll stated that tho vapor of liquid tar and turpontino would destroy tho librinous tissues which choke up tho throat in croup and diphtheria. Ho* described tho process of trcatmont as follows : Take a teaspoon each of turpentine and liquid tar; put thom in a tin pan or cup, set fire to the mixture, taking caro to have a larger pan under it ns a safeguard against thc spread of thc llames. A dense, resinous smoko arises, making tho room dark. Tho patient immedi ately scemB to experience rcliof ; thc choking mid rattle stop ; tho pattont falls into a slumber and seems to in halo thc smoke with, pleasure. Tho librinous membrano soon becomes detached and tho patient coughs up microbes, which, when caught in a glass, may be seen to dissolve'in tho ?moke. In thc courso of three days the patient ontircly recovers. This remedy has proven successful in many instances, and householders everywhere should boar it in mind. A prominent gentleman in Charles ton, who applied tho treatment to his child, after the sufferer was given over as incurable by bia family phy sician, suggests that beforo burning thc ingredients named, all such arti cles as would bo likely to be injured by tlic thick smoke should be re moved or covered up closoly. A Safo Investment. ls ono which 1? guaranteed to bring you satls inctory results, orlncnsoof a fiilluro o return of purchaso price. 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