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IrVAluHALIiA? SOUTH OAU?LINA, OCTOBER 24, 1880.
VOLUME Xii_NO 48.
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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.
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(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
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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.
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