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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN. BY TH031PSOX, SMITH & JAYXES. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 27, 1893. VOLUME XLIV.-NO. 17. Gold M High? * Gcx - : r nev Patent Go x- . . -.ins Molasses Best Open Kettle New Orlean? RICE ! Good New Orleans Rice Best New Orleans Whole Carolina Head ?5 50 -1 50 3 5U 35 50@60 SEEDS-Ferry's and Buist's Garden. OATS-Texas Red Rust Proof, 60 cents. POTATOES ! Early Pose and Early Goodrich^.. ' - - ?2 00 - / - - 75@1 00 Mountain Potatoes - -< Pe?s, Corn a" Strictly Pare and I Ion* TRY OFi ()STrx-N TRY Or;; GILT EDO DB?EN'S SH *0 cents. . grades cheaper. x?NTS' SHOES. LADIES' AND CHIL ;? MARKET. yT' 1 DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS. SHOES, Etc., arriving now. . Don't fail to call on us before you buy. We will save you money. Respectfully, O. H. Schumacher. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. h 16, 1893. Important Rules of Cond ucl. .Xever fail to bc }? tnctual at the time appointed. Xever fail to give a polite answer . to a civil question. Xever make yourself the hero oi your own story. Xever forget that, if you are faith ful in a few things, you may be ruler over many. Xever exhibit too great familiarity with the new acquaintance ; you may give offense. Xever will a gentleman allude to conquests which lie may have made with ladies. Xever fail to offer the easiest and best scat in the room to an invalid, an elderly person or a lady. Xever negiert to perform the com mission which your friend entr?ste? to you. You must not forget. Never send your guest, who is accustomed to a warm room, off into a cold, damp, spare bed room to sleep. Xever enter a room tilled with people without a slight bow to the genera: company when first entering. Xever accept of favors or hospi *alitb without rendering an exchange T civilities when opportunity offers. Never fail to answer an invitation, :ther personally or by letter, within .)ek after the invitation is received. ??i?f~ 92ver cross the leg or put out one J,'?vJot in the street car, or places where v, it will trouble others when passing by. Never fail to tell the truth. Iii truthful you may get your reward. You will get punishment if you deceive. Never l>orn>w money and neglect to pay. If you do, you will soon be l known as a person of no business integrety. Never fail to say kind and encour aging words to those whom you mett in distress. Your kindness might lift them out of their despair. Xever refuse to receive an apology. You may not receive friendship, but courtesy will require, when an apol- j oscy is offered, that you accept it. Never examine the cards in the card basket. While they may be exposed in the drawing room, you are not expected to turn them over .unless invited to do so. Xever, when walking arm in arm j with a lady, be continually changing and going on the other side, because of change of corners. It shows too much attention to form. A Million Friends. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and 1 not less than one million people hi ve found jurt such a friend in Dr. King's I New Discovery f??- consumption, coughs j and colds. If y I..;.e never used this great cough medicine, one trial will con vince you that it has wonderful curative ! powers in all diseases of throat, chest*] and lungs. Each bottle is guaranteed to do all that is claimed or money will bc j refunded. Trial bottles free at any drug : store in Walhalla. W. J. Lunney. Seneca. ? and Quillian & Cox, Westminster. Large ; bottles, 50c. and ?1. His Life Saved by a But. [Washington Post.] A few days ago a party of Texas Congressmen called upon the Presi dent to introduce Judge Jacobi Hodges, who is a candidate for thei attorneyship of the Eastern District of Texas. "Oh, ves,'' said the Presi dent, instantly, "you are the man who ; divided time with the negro that was burned." Judge Hodges was naturally sur-? prised that the President should have : rea?! so closely the account of the terribie vengeance which was wreak ed upon the Texas negro, but think- j ing that the President had not heard i the whole story, he said : -I thought that I would prevent the tragedy if I could," said Judge, Hodges, "and so I rode into the yrowd with the air of a field marshal. I ascended the platform, which was already prepared for the negro, ami looked out upon an angry mob. 'Fel low-citizens,' I began, 'you are about to commit a crime that will bring disgrace upon our fair and growing city. It will return to plague our children's children and will redound to t.' e discredit of our State. It will-' '.Just at that moment some one in thc crowd whipped out a revolver, pointed it at me and shouted 'Shoot the-' "Instantly it seemed to me as if every man, woman and child had revolvers levelled at my unprotected breast. My wits ?lid not desert me. "'Bat,'" I exclaimed. "dint,' I again shouted, still louder, 'if we are to lay aside the slow processes of law and resume our sovereignty as individual men, let us do so in an orderly and quiet man ner." "That simple word but'but,' "said Judge Hodges to the President, "saved my life." A strong movement is being made in Georgia to inatfgurate a system of village farming. The idea of the "village farm" is that all the resi dences of a number of contiguous farms, embracing a tract of country say live miles square, should be grouped into a village somewhere near the center of the tract. Each residence could have enough ground about it for its outhouses, barns, gar den, etc., and yet they would be near enough together to avoid the deso late solitariness of farra life. The advantages of the arrangement in the way of schools, stores, social amusements, religious advantages, etc., are too manifest to make it nec essary to enumerate them. The ad option of the system in the rural dis tricts of Georgia has l>een strongly advocated by Gov. Xorthern and other promineut people. "A place for everything and every-1 thing in its plrtce" pays. ] A late invention* is a cradle which rocks by clock-work mechanism and plays baby tunes. TEACHERS' COLUMN. S3r" AU communications, intended for this column, should be addressed to PROF. J. W. GAINES, Principal of Westminster High School, Westminster, S. C. Vacation Work. Teachers, it is now nearing vaca tion. How will you spend those months, in better preparing yourself for the grand work of teaching or in doing nothing? There are many good normal schoois which you can all attend -by making an effort. If possible attend one of these, where you will be much bene fited by association with your fellow ; teachers, besides learning the ideas j ? ; and methods of the masters of our ' profession. This investment will pay a large dividend, as you can do in?.re work and better vork with less effort. This will soon bringyouinLo a better position, as real good teach ers can always secure good positions. If this cannot be done, write to some good publishing house for a catalogue of teachers' books ; see what books you can obtain on your work and map you out a course of reading to do at home. Swett's Methods of Teaching and Baldwin's School Man agement are two good books which j it wo.ild be well to read first, and which every teacher should know as well as he knows his arithmetic. Prepare yourselves for your work. Horace Mann says, "Special prepara tion is a prerequisite for teaching." Fractions. A class of twenty were requested to bring small sticks. Nothing was said to them about what was to be done with them. Every one brought their sticks. Each was asked to break a stick into two equal parts. This all did accurately after one or two trials. The following question.! were asked then : Hold up.one piece. How much is that? Can you write it on the board? Hold up the other piece. How much is that? Can you write it on the board? How many halves will one tning make? Can you write \ plus 4 on the board ? How many whole ones will 2-2 make? Numerous examples like this were given them. Then they required to add 24 and oA, and many such problems, involving only whole num bers and halves. The sticks were then broken into thirds and treated in the same manner as th'-halves; so with fourths. They were not allowed to leave halves until they thoroughly! understood them ; so with thirds and fourths. Fifths were omitted. The sticks could not be easily and accu rately divided into sixths, so a circle was drawn on the board, and divided by the radius into six equal parts. This taught them geometry as well as arithmetic. By continued efforts they learned to do this easily j and accurately. From this they ! learned that 1=6-C, 6-6=1, 6-6=3-3 ! =4-4=2-2=1, 2-6=1-3, l-3=2-?\ ! 4-6=2-3, 2-3=4-6, 3-6=1-2, 1-2= 3-6=2-4. By dividing the sixths into equal parts they obtained twelfths, and learned that 1 = 12-12 =6-6=4-4=3-3=2-2, 2 12=1-6,3-12 = 1-4, 1-4=3-12, 1-3=2-0=4-12. When this was learned they could, after a little practice, add anything containing halves, thirds, fourths, sixths and twelfths, which is no lit tle thing for a child to do. They do this without going through a long process of finding a common denomi nator. They see at a glance what is. This is an accurate description of part of the work done by a class of small children since January. It was my first trial, and has delighted me as well as the children. Often they would say, "Please let us work half an hour longer," and if I granted their little eyes would gleam with delight. If you have had any trou ble in teaching fractions to children, try this. Maj. E. B. Murray hr-s accepted the invitation to deliver the address before the Westminster High School on May 19. Those who will hear him may expect something entertain ing and practical. The public are cordially invited to be with us on that occasion. Seven Laws of Teaching. [President Gregory.] 1. Know thoroughly and familiarly whatever you would teach. 2. Gain and keep the attention of I your pupils and excite their int?r?t in the subject. - ' j 3. Use language which your pupils understand; and clearly explain every new word required. 4. Begin with what is clearly knoten and proceed to the unknown by easy and natural stepc. 5. Excite the self-activities of the pupils and lead them to discover the truth for themselves. 6. Require pupils to relate fully and correctly, in their own language and with their own proofs and illus trations, the truth taught them. 7. Review, review, revi v, care fully, repeatedly, thoroughly, with fresh consideration and thought. uThese laws underlie all successful teaching. Nothing need be added to them ; nothing c3n be safely taken away. No one who will thoroughly master and use them need fail as a teacher, provided he will also main tain the good order which is required to give free and undisturbed action to these laws."-Baldwin. THE ISLE OF LONG AGO. Oh, a wonderful stream is the river.Tirae, As it runs through the realm of tears. With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme. And a boundless sweep and a surge sul> lime, As it blends with the Ocean of Years. How the winters are drifting, like Hakes of snow-; And the summers like buds between; And the year in the sheaf, so they come and they go On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow, As it glides in the shadow and sheen. I There's a magical isle up the river Time, IWhere the softest airs arc playing; There's a cloudless sky and a tropical clime, . And a song as sweet as a vesper chime, Aud the June with the roses is staying. And the name of the isle is the Long Ago, And we bury our treasures there; There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow, ' There are heaps of dust-but we leave them so There are trinkets and tresses of hair. There are fragments of song that nobody sings, And a part of an infant's prayer; There's a lute unswept and a harp with out strings; There are broken vows and pieces of; rinsrs, And the garments she used to wear. There are hands that are waved when the fairy shore By the mirage is lifted in air; And we sometimes hear, through the turbulent roar. Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before, Wien the wind down the river is fair. Oh, remembered for aye be the blessed isle, All the day of our life till night; When the evening comes with its beau tiful smile. And our eyes are closed to slumber awhile. May that "G "inwood'-of soul be in sight. WAGE EARNERS IN CONVENTION. The Wage Earners' and Industrial j ' Democratic League of the State met ; ' in Columbia on Wednesday, the 19ih of Ap-il, 1893. m '< We copy the proceedings from the Gre- ville Daily Nexcs as follows f T?v State convention of the Wac- -s'and Industrial Demo cratic i,ea>ue was hold in the opera hcJse at Columbia Wednesday night, j Tf?e galleries were filled with inter- j ested spectators. One hundred and | ] eighty-three delegates fro? nineteen j ' counties were present, as follows: j | The roll of delegates as finally made ! up, which showed 182 men present, waa as follows : Abbeville*-!. A. Russell, A. K. 1 Svfan, W. W. Marshall, L. V. Young, ! T. L. Douglass, li. P. Hughes, W. P. ' ! Beard, G.*W. Milford, T. C. Seal, W. 11 F. Beard, John Chalmers, J. L. Bar-11 nett, J. H. McD?l, F. A. Spellman, ! J. C. Eilis, S. M. Williams. ? Anderson-J. F. Evans, K. M. Rus- J sell, I. W. Anderson, R. A. Sloan, j M. M. Lander, B. I). Dean. Aiken-h. I. Johnson, E. II. Stol- ? J hardt, A. J. Jones, W. A. Edwards, i W. A. Gills, J. II. Coursev, B. W. ' Hard. Charleston-G. H. Cleary, J. L. ' Brodie, J. E. Corbett, R. G. Ward, ' W. C.Onolev. L Chester-J. M. Brawley, J. R. Sim- i1 ril. W. II. Murr, S. D. Scarborough, ! J. VV. Means, M. Sellers, John Fen- - nell, J. C. Corpewler, M. A. Corpew- j 1er, W. A. Davis, L. T. Nichols, W. ' J. Corden, R. L. Horsey, Harry Sam- i uels, H. Heyman, M. Wachtel, Jr., ' j J. L. Connelly. Edgefield-G. D. Mims, R. L. Fox, \l H. A. Smith, L. A. Ashley, C. War ren, W. W. Adams, George B. Lake, < j M. I. Hook, W. W. Hendrix, George Ward, W. W. Wright, J. W. Mc- \ Creight. Fairfield-H. Heins, E. RenbertJ J. M. Crumpton, J. R. Broom, W. S. ! Gregg, W. R. Rabb, E. R. Lipscomb, John Boulwore, John Ruit, J. M. Hawley, W. H. W?lling. Florence-M. L. A. Gardner, W. ? H. Beck. ' Greenville-C. D. Randolph, R. E. Grubs, C. E. Cook, S. V. Howard, J. T. Bomar, W. X. Brissey, J. R. But- ' 1er, J. F. Hillhouse, A. VV. Edens, : W. J. Smith, C. E. Watson, A. M. j Alexander, W. C. Black. Lexington-F. C. Caughman, A. L. Hartley, O. F. Lester, L. Kvser, H. O. Smith, L. J. Miller, J. E. Mor- , gan, E. L. Corley, J. E. Wooten, R. j V. Ganth, George Reynolds, Jasper Long, W. Leapbeart. Laurens-W. M. Scott, W. C. Win ters, M. Stribbling, G. F. Young, W. F. Young, L. L. Copeland, L. W. Warren. Newberry-W. A. Shealy, G. M. Shealy, L. D. VV icks. Oconee -Ff \. H. Gibson, G. W. Pratt, J. W. Bell, J.J. Haley, W. C. Jaynes, J. W. Todd, H. W. Cren shaw, M. S. Hasi'ngs, E. A. Fripp, H. J. Gignilliat. Orangeburg-Geo. E. Whaler, M.1 D. Keller. Pickens-V. E. Hndgens. Richland, Ward 1-H. Allworden, G. M. McIntosh, V/. H. Monckton, J. Irvin, F. J. Brown, H. <}. Gasque, ?G. V. Hennies, F. N. Bauskett. Ward 2-0. E. Hughes, W. II. Cas son, J. T. Rideout,"!). L. Bryar., W. J. Rice, A. M. Riser, H. Steel. C. D. Eberhardt. Ward 3-J. A. Fetner, A. T. Vernon, W. L. Williamson, J. W. Robinson, J. L. Casey, B. N. Lowrance, M. A. Bridges, W. G. Bateman. Ward 4-T. L. Mathis, R. J. Ferguson, W. J. May, J. B. Reidlinger, J. McCabe, W. H. Green, Sr., J. M. McDougall, S. L. Long. Killians-S. B. Davis, J. W. Thorn ton, J. M. Thornton. Spartanburg-J. H. Bullington, W. A. E. Black, P. J. O. Smith. Union-R. A. Whitlock, W. H. S. Harris, R. W. Hamilton, C. R. Long, N.S. Fowler, J. F. Fowler, R. W. Scott. York-H. H. Beard, J. R. Wal Richland-J. B. Motley, J. 0. Mor gan, J. A. L?rick. J. R. Rideout, of Columbia, a rail road man, called the convention to order. A proposition to exclude reporters was voted down. H. A. H. Gibson, of Oconee, a farmer, was elected temporary chair man and W. "A. Corder, of Chester, and Wade Robinson were elected sec retaries. Messrs. R. G. Ward, of Charleston, a railroad man, and Col. Cal Caugh man, of Lexington, made speeches. .Alter several men bad been, sug gested for permanent chairman and had declined, G. W. Pratt, of Oco nee, a saw mill man, was elected. W. G. Bateman, of Columbia, was elected secretary. The "declaration of principles," heretofore published, was adopted, with some modifications, as follows : L The constitution of the State, and of the United States, guarantees equal rights to all and prohibits spe cial privileges to any of its citizens. It is, therefore, the duly of those who may feel themselves aggrieved through the enactment of unjust laws, the effect of which is to deprive sonic of their constitutional rights, while bestowing upon others unlaw fol privileges, to assemble and pro test against such unjust, inequitable and unlawful legislation, and to take measures to accomplish its repeal. More especially is this a duty when, from the decision of partisan officials, empowered to execute and enforce such laws, the right to appeal to the courts is denied ; a right wisely guar anteed by the fundamental law of the land, and recognized as one of the cardinal principles of Democracy; a right which experience ha? proven to. be a shield of safety to the weak against the strong, to the few against the many; aright which has been, and must be, cherished among the dearest privileges of a free people. 2. We condemn the vicious class legislation attempted and enacted by thc Legislature at its recent session, and endorsed and approved by the Governor of this State, the pernicious effects of which will be to put to hazard all industries dependent upon corpo rate capital, to lessen the volume of currency, to increase the cost of credit and to render uncertain and precarious the occupation of all W3ge workers within the State. 3. We denounce the inconsistency of the promises made, which, pro claiming salaries too large, omits to reduce them ; declaring taxes too high, increase them; professes oppo sition to monopoly, conspires to make the State a monopolist; preaching prohibition, legislates the State into i rura-seiler. 4. Wc declare our principles to be embodied in the simple, but sound, Democratic doctrine of "Equal rights Lo all, special privileges to none," and our purpose to repeal and oppose j ill legislation inconsistent therewith, j 5. We acknowledge agriculture to be the master-wheel of industrial mechanism, but we declare that in I the enactment and execution of just j ind wholesome laws it is essential to j consider that Che quality and quan-1 city of the product depends upon the; harmonious working of the whole i machine, and that upon no industry j more than agriculture will fall the j injurious effects of a departure from j this just principle. 6. We believe the interests of capi tal and labor to be the same, and we ; issert that a blow aimed at one will ; fall upon both, and that legislation j lirected "against" either will react i upon the people of the whole State. And we assert that the employment >f convict labor in competition wich free labor is contrary to the best interests of thc State. 7. Wc recognize the propriety of just laws, restraining the abuse of rights and privileges granted to indi viduals or corporations, but we con temn all laws tending, unrighteously, Lo lessen inducement to capital to livest in the development of legiti mate industries, within the State. We strongly urge our people to ?ncourage immigration, and"'' we believe that South Carolina offers unexcelled inducements to the agri cultural class with small capital as well as manufacturing industries, and that it shall be a part of the declara tion of principles of thc Industrial and Wage Workers' Democratic League to encourage and assist any enterprise whose object is to bring immigrants to our State. 8. Wc assert the necessity of main taining the independence of the judi ciary, anti condemn any and all attempts tc? curtail the one or lower the other of these safeguards to tue enjoyment of individual rights. 9. Adhering strictly to the sound principles of Democracy, living within their limitation, and believing that "a people is best governed which is least governed," we . ll undertake to maintain to the highest standard the financial credit and political dig nity of the State. A bureau of information was pro vided for. The following members of the executive committee were nominated and their names recorded. The other members will be selected by the dele gations and their names sent in to thc State chairman : Edgefield,G. D. Mims; Charleston, R. G. Ward; Orangeburg, A. P. Amaker; Rich land, R. N. Lowrance; Greenville, W. J. Smith ; Oconee, F. W. Pieper;j Spartanburg, P. J. D. Smith ; Lau rens, David E. Barnett ; L'nion, W. II. S. Harris; Lexington, II. D. Smith; Chester, L. T. Nichols ; Fair field, Henry Heins. The executive committee will meet at an carly day in Columbia. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such arti cles should never be used except on pre scriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney <K Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon thc blood and mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genu ine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists. Price, 75 cents per bpttle. Search thy friend for his virtues, thyself for thy faults. Slander Dot others because they j have slandered you ; bite not a rep ' tile because you have felt his bite. SUCCESS IN LIFE. There are two things to be .borne in mind in estimating what success is: 1. Lives which, according to some, are successful, must in the highest : sense be pronounced failures. T?he idea of many is that success consists in the gaining of a livelihood, or competency, or wealth, but a man may gain those things who yet can not be said to have succeeded. If he gets wealth at the expense of health, or if he gets it by means cf trickery, or dishonest practices, he can hardly be said to have suc ceeded. 2. Lives which, according to some, are failures, must in the highest sense j be pronounced successful. The life of our blessed Lord, from one point of view, was a failure. It was passed j in poverty, it closed in darkness. We , see him crowned with thorns, bnf-! fettcd, spit upon ; yet never was i Christ so successful as when he hung! upon the cross. He had finished the ; work given him to do. He "saw of the travail of his soul, and was satis fied." Milton complete his "Paradise Lost," and ' Her only gave him fifteen poui.^tor it, yet Le can not be said to have failed. What may seem defeat to some may be in the truest sense success. There are certain things which di rectly tend to success in life. The first is industry. There can ! be no success without working hard | for it. There is no getting on with out labor. We live in times of great | competition, and if a man does not ! work, and work hard, be is soon jos tled aside and falls into thc rear, j It is true now, as in tKe days of Solo- I mon, that "the hand of the diligent! | maketu rich." There are some who think they j can dispense with hard work because ,: < they possess great natural talent and j < ability-that cleverness or genius '. ca* be a substitute for diligence. '?, Here the old fable of the hare and ; the tortoise applies. They both ( started to run a race. The hare, trusting to her natural gift of fleet- ! ness, turned and took a sleep ; j. the tortoise plodded on and won the prize. Constaat and well sustained . labor carries one through, where j, cleverness apart from this fails. His- ! j tory tells us that the greatest genius ! is most diligent in the cultivation of ' its powers. The cleverest mm have? j been men of great industry and un - jj flinch i ng perseverance. No truly ,, eminent mau was ever other than an !. industrious man. j j There are some who think that [ . success is, in the main, a matter of j what they call "luck," the product of J, circumstances over which they have ; j little or no control. Lt circumstances y are favorable, they need not work ; if they are unfavorable, they need not work. So far from man being the creature of circumstances, he should , rather be termed the architect of cir- ? * cumstances. From the same mate rial one tuan builds palaces and ano- j thor hovels. Bricks and mortar are ; ? mortar and bricks till the architect \ makes st.mething of them. In the j same way, out of the same circum- } stances, one man rears a stately edi- - fice, while another, idle and incompe- ! tent, lives for ever amid ruins. Cir cumstances rarely cotiquera strong j} tuan ; he conquers them. Against all sorts of opposing ob- !, stacles the great workers of the world j fought their way to triumph. Milton : wrote "Paradise Lost" in blindness and . poverty. Luther, before he j * could establish the Reformation, had ( to encounter the prestige of a thou sand years, the united power of an imperious hierarchy, and the ban of j the German empire. Linnaeus, studying botany, was so poor as to be obliged to mend his shoes with folded paper, and often to beg his | meals o': his friends. Columbus, the i discoverer of America, had to besige . and importune in turn the States of j Genoa, Portugal, Venice, France, . England and Spain, before he could j get the control of three small ves- : sels and one hundred and twenty < men. Hugh Miller, who became one - of the first geological writers of his . time, was apprenticed to a stone- j mason, and while working in the i quarry had already begun to study j . the stratum of red sand-stone lying ( below one of red clay. George Ste- \ phenson, the inventor of the locomo- ? live engine, was a common collier working in the mines. James Watt, ? the in ventor of the steam-engine, was a poor, sickly child. not strong enough to go to school. John Cal- ? vin, who gave a theology to the sev enteenth and eighteenth centuries, which has not yet been outgrown, , was tortured with disease all his days. When were circumstances favorable to any great or good at tempt, except as they were compelled by determination and industry to be conr; favorable? Even if circumstances seem in every way favorable, industry* is nec essary to success. Though we be born, as the saying is, "with a silver spoon in our mouth," we cannot afford to dispense with work. Un less wc are hard-working, life will become a weariness "o us. Work keeps life full and happy ; it drives all diseased fancies out of the mind ; it gives balance and regularity to all movements of the sonl. If, then, we expect to succeed in life, we must make up our mind to work hard. We roust not Itt it be our notion of a fine lady or gentle man to do nothing. The idle life is a miserable life ; it is bound to be so. God has promised many a blessing to industry; he has promised none to indolence. God himself works and be wants his children to work. The second thing that tends di rectly to success in life is a distinct aira. A man may run very hard in a race ; the perspiration may stream from his brow, and every muscle be strained, but if he is not running in the right direction, if he is. run ning away from the goal, all his ac tivity will not help him. Some in dustrious habits are not sufficient, unless we have a distinct idea of what we are aiming at. The world is full of purposeless people, and such people c-?me to nothing. Tho third essential, to success in life is moral character, in its various elements of honesty, truthfulness, steadiness, temperance. "Honesty is the best policy" is one of those worldly maxims that express the ex perience of mankind. A small leak will sink a great ghip. One bad string in a harp will turn its music into discord. Any flaw in a mor. - character will sooner or later bring j disaster. We may have other, qualifications that go to command j success such as.those we have noticed j -industry and a distinct aim-but want of principle will render them useless. The last essential to success in life is religious hopetulness. Our indus try, our purpose, our principles, may be all that they ought to be, yet the "race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." Chris tian faith keeps mer in good heart j amid many discouragements. Even if a man or woman becomes rich or clever, and have life pleasant around them, they cannot feel, at the close of life, that they have succeeded it the future is dark before them. When Cardinal Wolsey, who bad been the favorite of the king, and had long held the government ol England in his hand, fell from power, he said, "If I had served nu God as truly as I served my king, he would not have forsaken rae in my gray hairs." The world is a poor comfc.ter at the last. , 1 COMPARATIVE PRODUCTIVE POW ERS OF FERTILIZERS. Restfttsof Interesting Experiments on Laurens County lauds-Various Ma nures and Combinations and n'hat They Brought in Cotton-Common Sense Talk by a Farmer to Farmers. [Aaron Cannon, in Laurens' Advertiser.] I laid off a plat ?56x176 feet and iivided it into 16 plats 16x171 feet, 2ach plat contains four rows 4 feet ipart and each plat contains 1-6 of an acre. The fertilizer for each plat was divided into four equal parts and carefully applied to each row. The land was well prepared and olanted with fruit cotton seed April ?Stn. The cultivation was as good as the excessive rains permitted. Cotton ?vas thinned to one stalk every two feet. ? i Only thc two middle rows of each ! [dat were used in the test, hence each ' .est area contained one thirty-second ! [1-32) of an acre. The stalks in each 1 ;est area were counted and the . culled stalks from each until all th y. lest areas contained the ?me num- ' j >er of stalks. j v The picking was not begun until % if ter dinner and was finished before I * light, so ail of the cotton was dr. . ' vhen weighed. Great care was taken , vith every part of the experiment to j * tecure accuracy. j j. The yields on the experiment were LS follows, calculated to acres: Amount *Se?-<i cotton per .u re. per acre, ii trate of soda.. 12$ lbs. :>>4 U*. l Vcid phosphate 200 7u4 " fi Caiuit. 160 " ".I*; " j \? sit. soda and | ^ .. M acid plies... ; io manure.- " 240 " Cit. soda ?.nd / .><s .. .. I kainit.J ^ **.'- ! :1 \cid pho! and k unit. 360 .' SIG .Cit. sods, acid ph >s. and / 4SS " 5^2 '* t kai nit. ) STo manure.. .. - " 20O *' j bloats.200 " 520 *. ; s Cit. soda and / .,.>, t? .. : r floats.} 028 304 ' t Jot. seed meal j JAA .. . and floats... S 400 Jot. seed nie.".-; j and acid ' 400 " 672 J ph? is.) Stable manure. .426*1 "' 656 " j > Jot. seed mea!, j ??cid phos. . .?) " 7::-; '* j6 and kainit.. ) S As will be seen by a comparison < i .hese ligures the average yield when- s io fertilizer was used is 202jj pounds..s :\n application of 200 pounds acid v phosphate per acre gave an increased * yield of 50? pounds and an applica tion of 2U0 pounds acid pho^pha e ! ind 160 pounds kainit gave an in- 1 crease of 613 pounds, lint i have 1 ilready taken too much of your <pace: those interested cnn study the ! ?gures and make comparisons. The experiments this year will in- ' to plant the plat used last year with out any fertilizer to ascertain whe- . Lher or not thc fertilizers last the : second year; ami a new plat will be ' used to experiment with differer' amounts of fertilizer* per acre, i 5 know, Mr. Editor, that advice to ' farmers is generally thrown away. T but after a careful study of the situa- 1 tion in the South, West ami in J Europe, I have formed the following! conclusions : - 1. That cotton will sell at a bw ? price for years to come. 2. That bacon will bc high for at least 1 wo years. 3. That corn will sell at from 70 j} cents to il per bushel, when wo can raise it for 25 cents and less. 4. That the low price of flour will not continue indefinitely. 5. That as we will be compelled to take 7 cents or less for our cotton, we should prepare to raise it for 5 cents or less. We cannot control the selling price, but we can reduce the cost, and the time to begin is right now; cut off a few acres of cotton and put it in corn and be ready to feed some hogs next year. Sow four acres to the plow in wheat next fall, and if you raise your own flour, corn and bacon, what ne_jd will you have to spend money or use credit? and how cheap can you raise co?ton ! I have one negro hired for wages. | Ile will have to cultivate the two ex- I perimental plats, potato and other j patches. I am going to try to make j him make six hundred bushels of corn on cpland. I do not say I will make that much or that it is proba ble that I will make that much, but I ara going to try. If I succeed I will tell you how I did it. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price, 25 cents per box. For ?ale hy all druggists at Wal halla, W. J. Lunney, Seneca, and Quiliian & Cox, Westminster, " V'ELL-GROOMED YANKEES." [Homer Rued, in Atlanta Journal.] If I bad time to write a full page sketch of St. Augustine, Fla., I might give those of The Journal readers who have not visile?! the ancient city some idea of what Fla ker's millions have done in trans forming this obi town into a fairy land, with domed cathedrals and [daces of whose ?.orv and grandeur no Kastern monarch ever dreamed. Among the heavy-weights who were registered al the PoUce at the Lime were George M. Pullman and family, Fred. K. Vanderbiltand fam ily, including Mrs. General Logan. lt will put any thinking man to morai ?zing to stop at these big Flor ida hotels and see the mauuer in which our brethren from the Norla squander their sheckeis. I was at Tampa last Mareil, and while lhere I heard, or rather over heard, a conversation in the wine -oom of the Tampa Bay Hotel. Everything is served bu?'et, and seated at thc dainty tables were lumerous parties of ladies and gen tlemen discussing their wines or iquors, as their tastes (or exchequer) night d?elate. At the adjoining table were the jreat Chicago pork packer, Armour, jreorge Gould and four others. The ?est and the wine went round, and i nally the conversation turned to .he great deal in meat which the Armour Company consummated in I listened with all my ears. Mr. A. signed ihe waiter and, feei ng in his fob, produced his fohl <> jills and peeled off one. I eyed hin ,-losely, and I am certain that h lever noticed the denomination, bu ie placed it on the tray, and the parr rave their orders. The sextette were feeling good and Sir. A. was especially voluble. "When I arrived in Chicago,"' said ie, "in answer to a telegram from uy brother, I bought instantly one mildred and twenty-five thousand >arrels of pork. This did not affect he price of the market a farthing, ?o I bought on and on till we got the narket right; Int I can tel! you we md a hard fight of it. 1 bought all he pork in th?? United States three tines over bet?re the deal was com pleted. * "Oh, it was splendid generalship," oraebody chipped in. "I never saw i deal so admirably managed ; and if l's a fair question, Mr. Armour, how auch did you realize out of it?" Here the waiter returned with sun iVy glasses, several of which had ?.heat straw accompaniments, and he change. The drinks were handed. Ir. A. pushed the six dollars change vcr tO the COOn, who bowed low. "Why, I hardly know," replied Mr. L "Four or five millions, I OHOS." Think ot it. Four or lise mil ions ! Here's food for thought for Igua las Donnelly. The clerk at the register told me hat Mr. A. was paying '<\ )-> per day i>r his suit of rooms-his carriages, is wine, boats, tips, telegrams, ex ras--5200 a dav easy. I simply signalize Mr. A. because happened t<> hearthis conversation, nd because the general public, at east all we Gentiles, are assisting m giving this great pork-packer a good imo. Mr. A. is only one in many thou ands. The Tampa Bay has 65? uoms, the lowest rate is per day, he average is fully il", and they are irging people away, and have been ll this season from twenty-five to ?tty per day. 1 don't think there were twenty southern people there during my tay of a week, and most of those imply looked in. What does this prove? Why, it's impie enough. Then- arc a very m il! per cent of people in the South chose fortunes will justify such ?xpense. / The great fortunes which have ?cen massed al the North are largely rom the manufacture of our staple, ?otton. We lei Coats Spool Cotton Com ?anv or the Willimantic bag '.ur long tapie at 20 cents a pound ami sell it >ack t?? us at S1? a pound. Then we let Armour sell us his ard and hams and clear rib sides and ill tn it, when we ought to raise it at lome. That's the woy that thc::" big iidewhiskered, well-groomed Van t?es can come down to Florida :n .heir \acht< and private cars while ve look on and wonder. A strange scene was enacted in the Texas House ol Representatives the ?tiler day. The chaplain's prayer iad offended some of the members, md one of them introduced a resolu tion to the effect that "the portion of the prayer which read. H ) God, open ihe eyes of those who have allowed the love of money to oe balanced against virtue that they may see that purity is above rubies, and that in their hands is pia.-ed the power t ) save those against whom thc false standard of society 1ms dosed the churches and ali avenues of reforma tion,' be expunged from the journals of this house." An earnest followed, in which it was c that the prayer was a refievtioi the character of the members, :. attempt to dictate to them in r toa proposed measure. The H< - vere sensibly rejected it as depi th', chaplain of liberty in his lions. The point seems to have . i overlooked that the prayer was beyond the reach of the Le?, .ature and it propriety in the hands of a higlu-r power, and that to expunge it Would not counteract it. ?V beserving Praise. We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have Leen selling Dr. King's "\'ew Discovery for consumption. Dr. King's New Lite Pills, bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universa .atisfac tion. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refui d thc purchase price, if satisfactory results do not follow their u?e. These remedies have won their great popularity purely on their merits." For ?ale by all druggists in Walhalla, W. J Lunney, Seneca, and Quilliaa & Cox, Westminster.