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TO THIN& OWN SELF BK TRUR AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS TH? NIGHT TB? DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THBN BU FALEH.TO ANY MAN. Bt'JAYNIlia, SHE LOU, SMITH & 8TEOK. "V" WALHALLA, SOUTH CAHO^INA, FJBB, 13, 1001. NlffW SMRTES, NQ, 180-VOLT7MK LIL-NO, 7. A Clay \ in Black BLACK GIVE ? JP hone IVo- 4L-*Y. ? TWENTIETH CENTURY EDUCATION. That I? the Kind we Need-Reasons are Given Why the South is Behind the Times. The South is synonymous with opportunity. It is a theater of gol den hopes for ambitious men. Tho prizes bold out to energy and genius are larger and more varied in charap ter and more readily seized than in any other part of the glotte. Bht we should not blind ourselves to tho fact that in moat matters of indus trial progross we are not keeping abreast of the spirit of the age. Our system of education is respon sible in part for this condition of affairs. The popular idea of the scholar makes him a pale rod uso who'spends his .time in the contemplation of timid generalities. He studies mind as divorced from man ; essenoe as divorced from entities ; beatitudes as divoreed from bodies. The scholar is believed to sit on the arid moun tain-top of scholasticism, reading the starry leaves of heaven, feasting on the sunsets, his soul mellowed and glorified by high thinking and plain living, but without sympathy for the intensely sordid, practical, struggling humanity down in the fogs of the valley. When he condescends to minglo with the people for a season he is treated as the world treats woman, for the world believes not so ranch in woman's rights as in the right woman. Tho greatest need of the South to-day is tho scholar ra praotioal life. We need more twentieth century education for the twentieth century. To aobieve industrial success two factors are necessary : 1. The country must have natural resources. ? f 2. There must be skilled labor to develop the natural resources. A statistical array of the resources of tbe South reads like a ohapter from the Arabian Nights. There are Klondyke of wealth in its moun tainous regions, millions of acres of virgin timber on its plains, inexhausti ble coal beds and iron beds in oloso proximity; in short, no other por tion of tho United States has any thing like the natural wealth of the Southern States. Why have other less-favored sec tions surpassed us in tho race for industrial supremacy ? It is because we have devoted ourselves exclu sively to making and selling raw products. Such work does not de-, maud skilled labor or technical train ing." We have been living by our musoles, and not by our brains. Permit me to illustrate : The stu dents of the textile department in Clemson College are learning how to make fanoy weaves. South Carolina produces annually 800,000 bales of cotton, which, at seven oents a pound, is worth $28, 000,000. That orop of cotton, made into fancy twills,*would bring $800,000, 000. Or made into mercerized cotton figures would bring $700,000,000. Or made into imitation swivel silks wonld bring $800,000,000. .Now, why not manufacturo our staple orop into finished goods. Tho raw products are oloso to tho mills ; we have a oonservativo laboring ole ment; tim olimatio conditions are unexoe^&f; we have an abundanoe of water-power, and tho people of tho Sooth have an inherited genius for managing large enterprises. One thine is lacking. We need more eduoation along industrial and technological lines. Tho main ob ject of such training is to apply soi j enoo to the material intorests of man. The objeot is to combine knowing and doing-to teach common sense in a systematio manner. It would i not have us tako less interest in the past, but more in the living, throb bing ^present. It would not havo us iacw less about the aqueducts of Rome, but more about tho water supply of New York. The census of 1890 shows that Vfherc the public school term is long HAL CL Te secured some sp? Vorsteds an . In fact, anythini GOODS. Each an SATISFACTION J W. & J. E. est tho average productive capacity of the citizen is greatest. In the United States the average school period per inhabitant in 1807 was four and three-tenths years; the average school period for Massa chusetts is seven years. The pro ductive capacity of each citizen of Massachusetts as compared with that of each individual in the United States is as 66 to 87. If this bo true'for common school education, how muoh more strikingly must it be true for technical educa tion, that fits a mnn especially for productive industry. In 1882 England woke up to lind that Germany was competing with increasing success for the foreign trade of tho world. A commission was appointed to ascertain tho causo. This commission, after a careful in vestigation, reported that Germany's industrial growth was owing to hor splendid system of technological schools. Since then England has expended enormous sums of money in preparing her sons to compete with tho skill of other lands. In South Carolina it was known for years that immense beds of cal careous nodules containing numer ous fossil bones existed in the vicinity of Charleston. In 1867 Dr. Pratt discovered tho large percentage - ol available phosphate of lime whicl these rocks contained. A company consisting of Dr. Pratt, W. C. Bee Robt. Adger and C. G. Memminger was chartered to do business. Fron this little enterprise has grown tin great phosphate business of Carolina employing in the aggregate millioni of dollars. For 200 years these rooks wen looked upon as useless excrescence of nature, but the application o science opened up avenues of oppor tunity that lcd to fortunes. I would not have you think that am applying thc "full dinner pail' argument for more technical educa tion. I do not believe that th? ability to make rooney is a true tes of tho value of an education. I an pleading, however, for an eduoatioi that will fit a man for the duties an< responsibilities of citizenship. Th logic of circumstances compels th graduate in practical life to divid his time botweon biscuits and hooke Ii is between the 3oylla of bisouit and the Charybdis of books that th I '-actical man must sail. It is easy enough to sncor at a sc called bread and butter cducatior but I submit that bread and butte are oxcollont artioles to have i abundance. When our count, wakes up without a breakfast in sigl I fear that oven tho persuasive a< cents of Demosthenes and Cicero, i tho most finished Greek and Lati orations, could not give comfort t tho multitude. Technical education helps to pr< duce wealth, which insures ondov ments for colleges. Colleges aro n< self-sustaining. They must depon for their existence and growth upc government aid or private benet cenco. A calculation made from tl catalogues of twelve leading univo sities shows that the average cost i maintaining a student over ai above the fees ho pays is $246 p annum. Vory few colleges in tl Southern States have attained genuine leadership in American ed oation, for tho reason that tho Sou is comparatively poor, and has n been able to furnish tho money roeet^ the requirements of a gre modorn university. Industrial education, therofoi that promises to onrich tho Sou will bo watched with tho most aff< tionato intorest by all interested higher education. Teohnioal education has a oultti value not inferior to that of oth lines of education. It trail strengthens and energizes tho fao ties of perception, reason and obsi vation. Tho system is subjeoti and objeotive. To adopt an illustration from Gi field : A man muy rend you in Xoi phon's best Attic Greok that Apo iSayed th? tti?n?ippy. MttrnynH H ? ' ,'. '.. * : ' - OTHIHG jcially good values d French \? 5 you. want in ALL d every Suit guara: LND TO STAY BAU KN ICH hanged up his skin as a trophy, but he bas'never examined tho wonder ful struoture of his own skin. Men are look'ng so steadily away f/om themselves that they do not observe the wonderful things around. Coper nious discovered the oironlation of the stars a hundred years before Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood. . ^ " N We study the story of tho forges of the Cyolops, where' the mythical thunderbolts of Jove wero fashioned. How many have road the life of Bessemer? A fow years ago Besse mer, studying the nice affinities be tween carbon and the metalo, discov ered that a single ohango of combi nation would pro du oo a metal pos sessing the duotility of iron and the compactness of steel. One rail of this metal will outlast fifteen rails of iron, and it costs but little moro. That invention saves the oountry 1800,000,000 every year, and makes railway traveling muoh Bafer. Ie there as muoh culture value in the Btory of Bessemer as in that of Cyolops ? Culture is an inoident of orderly thinking. Culture results not so muoh from the subject handled ae from tho method. Con se on ti vo and systematic thinking along any linc will produoo culturo. There is nc reason why oulture and utilitarian ends should be separated in anj scheme of oduoation. A subject should not be barred out of the cur riculum because it has an eoonomk bearing. There is one danger in teohnioa training that should be very care fully guarded against. There is th? danger of accentuating specialization, An educated man "should know something of everything and every thing of something." Thoro should be a broad foundation of genera knowledge, and upon that should b< ereoted a superstructure of speoia knowledge. The educated rr.ai should take a telescopic view of al knowledge and a miorosoopio view of one subjeot.-Henry S. Hartzog LL. D., President of Clemson Col lege, in Manufacturera* Record. - < Reports show a greatly deoroasoi death rate from throat and lung troubles due to the prevalenoe of croup, pnoumo nia and grip. Wo advise the uso of On Minute Cough Cure in all of theao di ill owl ties. It is the only h sr sloss rew?od' that gives immediate results. Childrei Uko it. J. W. Bell. -: England is having a hard tim with tho Boors in South Afrioa though she has 200,000 men thor and Lord Roberts has officially prc claimed the war over and the Boer subjugated, they persistently refus to stay subjugated and are makinj things lively for Lord Kitchener ii Cape Colony. Ho finds that ho i 1 dealing with mer. cf different bloo from thc fanatical Mussulman of tb Soudan. These Boers sprang fror the same fighting stock that the Bri tish came from and they have th same love of homo and oountry an liborty, only the Britisher does nc recognize this right as belonging t any weak pooplo. Qon. De Wet I showing himself a military genius < a high order and a worthy successc of Cronje and Joubert. If he onl could put 100,000 men in the field h would make short work of thu Britta! A TEY?TwQr?DEE Hall's (heat Discovery for Kidney ai Bladder Trouble. Ono small bottlo of Hall's Great Di eovory ouros all kidney and bladder tro hies, rernovcB {travel, cures diab?te seminal emissions, woak and lamo haok rheumatism and all irregularities of tl kidneys and bladder in both men at women. Regulates bladder tumbles ohildren. If not sold by your druggh will bo sent by mail on receipt of fl.C Oho small bottle is two months' tren mont-, and will ouro any caso above mo tinned. Dr. B. W. Hall, solo manufn turer, P. O. Box 020, St. Louis, Mo. Sond for testimon?ala. Sold by i druggists. _ St. Louis, Mo., February 20, 1000. This is to certify that I have Buffered f 80 years with kidnoy and bladder tro bios and have beon treated by -over dozen different physicians and ha used many so-called euro ouros, wi only temporal j Irfcl???, One bottle Of t Toxas Wonder, Hall's Groat Disoovoi has given mo more relief than all t remedies I have used in the 80 yea; and I think the second bottle* will ma a permanent euro. Respectfully. m non ry Jeffords, 1,405 Market St, in 'eaves g??fc -WOOL ateed to BLACK. Walhalla, ?. O. NEQRO COTTON MILL LABOR. Why it Failed at the Vesta Mill In Charles ton-The Mill Will be Moved to Georgia. Charleston, S. C., is a place with ample oapital and whoso people havo been in the past and are still pecu liarly capable in financial and com mercial pursuits. Few men of the South realize to what extent the Citizen? of Charleston have con tributed to the promotion of tho manufacturing interests in the Pied mont section of the South. It has been claimed on good authority that more than half of the stook of the ootton mills in the upper part of South Carolina is owned in Charles ton. Some years ago there was built in Charleston a large ootton mill. It was designed by excellent and capa ble engineers-in faot, by the same engineers who had most to do with the development of the modern ootton manufacturing industry in the Piedmont, region. Its opera tion Was begun nnder what seemed to be normal and average conditions. The management appeared to be good and the white labor was similar to that employed by other mills in the State. Its selling agenoies have been the same as those who have moat suooessfully handled the goods from tho factories of the Piedmont region. After two unsuccessful ef orts to operate the mill with white labor and later two others with col ored labor it is now announoed that the building will be abandoned and the machinery moved to Gainesville Ga., in the Piedmont section. Natu rally the earlier failures were attri buted to bad management. But when 11 the property was put in charge of Capt. John H. Montgomery, of Spartanburg, all questions of good or bad management were eliminated His very superior ability to handle with marked sucoess a ootton mill on the class of goods for whioh the Charleston Mill was equipped re duced the question at issue to one outside of the management. His j demonstrated ability to prod nco j goods for domestic and export mar-11 kets in competition with the world ll places him in the front rank of manufacturera? not only of this ooun try, but of the world. Exoept for the two unsuccessful efforts to operate this mill with white labor and in view of the faot that Capt. Montgomery's experiment was with oolored labor, it might li seem that the removal of this mill 11 was because of the demonstrated unfitness of* the oolored raee for work in a cotton mill. The people not only of the South, but those of other manufacturing regions of the TTnited StSt?5? undoubtedly very much interested in this subjeot of the adaptability of the negro to ootton mill work. Besides tho general proposition of oolored labor in tho cotton mill and assuming that the decision as to it was adverse, this quostion arises: "Why did not Capt. Montgomery abandon colored labor in Charleston and organize a force of white labor then instead of moving the mill to the Piedmont region?" On these two interesting proposi tions, in behalf of the Observor, I oallod on Capt. Montgomery in his offico here and got tho following frank statement : ' The Vesta Mill was built in 1882 and it has 28,000 spindles and 748 : looms. We bought the mill nearly two years ago. Threo other oom panics had owned it before and ovor a million dollars has beon spent oh it. It was equipped for 8-yard sheetings. "Wo purchased the mill at an auc tion sale at a price so low that we i thought we oould run it with oolored labor. The mill company did not own the tenement houses and the operatives were soattered all over the oity. When out of tho mill we had no control over tho help, We could not oall in hands, as in our I country mill towns. "The principal causo of onr failure i at Charleston Hos in the faot that we had no control of the operatives outside of the tnill.. The public may aay that the negro, as a mill Opera tive, is a failure, but I do not believe it. I am firmly of tho opinion that a cotton mill corporation looated in tho country, as most of our mills are, with tenements owned and controlled by the company, can operate success fully a mill with odored labor. I oame to this conclusion because there were a number of negro opera tives in every department of tho Vesta Mill that were as efficient as any help. . "The negro has many shortcom ings, but the ohief. one is his inclina tion to do a job. He is indifferent about continuous work. Tho truck ing business "around Charleston interfered with our mill labor. When beans and strawberries were ripe pickers were in .great demand at a better prio? than tho mill paid. Though the work did not last long negroes who had rogular jobs at the mill sought it. "Then, too, it is easy to live in Charleston, as it is in most of our seaboard towns. Fish and oysters san be had for a song. Out of 400 or 600 negroes we had about 200 reliablo operatives. In the mill they (yere as good as any other help. Vye had to train a great many ope ratives. Our superintendent taught 100 or 500 moro than he needed. I :iavo learned from experience that if i new mill is built and green white labor scoured about half of the origi nal number will stick and make effi cient laborers. The same is true with tho negro, but to a very muob greater extent ; not nearly ap many will stick. "However, the negroes who took the proper training at the Vesta and who, were faithful to their work made good operatives. We had ae good lappers, spinners, speeder attenders and weavers as you would lind anywhere. Our superintendent taught two negroes to grind and sol sards. Ho said that thoy were at good as any workmen he ever knew "Some days we would have 60( looms at work and the next 10C would be idle. That was where tlu trouble oame. We could not eon trol the help outside the mill. Witl ill our machinery at work we om ployed between 450 and 500 bande "I think tho Piodmont is bette than the coast section for a cottoi mill. Farming is made more didi suit in the former and it is not s< aaBy to obtain a livelihoood from th ?oil as it is in tho low oountrv That is why the mill will be move? to Gainesville, Qa. The white poo plo as well as the negroes who woul work -in the mill at Charleston di tot oare to do it when they ca farm without muoh trouble. I "Had the Vesta mill* boon mpplied with tenement houses believe that wo could have suoceode with the negro help. We coul nave controlled it as woll as tb farmer does. The looation of tb mill was fine. Freight rates wet [>nly about one third of what the wo here. The health of tho pl ac svas good. Wo owned a fow tem monts, but not half enough. Ot maohinery was good. "I did not say, as I have seen stated, that the negroes were tc trifling and lazy and would not ?tic tb the work. Those who work< lid it woll. Our superintends ^old me he could pick out of tl mill 200 that would do as satisfa tory work and be as faithful as ai operatives." Capt. Montgomery is an entortai lng talker. He is well posted < the ootton ' mill business in tl South. In speaking of a bill th has been introduced in tho Legisl tare now in session at Columbia require all mills to keep a freesohc nino months in the year, for t benefit of the operatives, ho sai "Why, wo have had a free sohool the Paoolet Mills ever since th started, 17 years ago. Tho oompa built a sohool house at a oost $4,000, whioh is the only one in t dist riot. AU the trustees of t school aro oonncoted with tho n company in one way dr anoth The sohool is kopt open ten oaleo< months each year and it is ab lutoly free. The trustees taite wi money the district is entitled from the county, whioh is based the enrollment ot tho previous ye and whioh is not exceeding ono-h what tho company pays to county and State as a sohool t Tho tax amounts to about $2,1 and the district gets baok ab $1,200, and tho mill company a< enough to this amount to keep school going ten months, with f good toaolters. In addition, tho i contributes liberally towards eqt ping the sohool with all mod appliances. Misa Phoebe Fuller is the prinoipal and tho-enrollment has reaohod 050 out of a total population of about 2,700, all mill people. The sohools are second to none iu this county. "Besides, flrst-olasa leoturers are secured and oan be hoard for a small entrance fee. Theres are three churches in the settlement and the company contributes largely to their support.' "In employing a toucher the trus tees impress her with tho faot that it is her duty to oall on the mill people and try to get all the children in sobool. "The mill operatives at Pacolet have on deposit with us $27,244.25. Wo pay them interest on it. "The Behool at the Spartan Mills hero form a brahoh of the oity graded sohools. Tho mill gave the ground and tho house."-Spartan urg Correspondence, Charlotte Ob server. ?,??? ' Millions of peoplo aro familiar with DoWitt's Little Early Msors and those who uso thom find thom to bo famous little liver pills. Novor gripe J. W. Bell. Chief of Police J. B. Dean shot and wounded E. B. Dean, his cousin and brother-in-law, in the left arm on the 6th instant. The shooting took place on the corner of Main and .Church streets in Spartanburg and bystanders heard no words and knew nothing of any. difficulty until . tho pistol was fired. Mr, Dean was driving along the street in his buggy wben he was shot. It is said that ill feeling has existed between the young men for sotno time. '?? . i? The Southern Railway some timo ago put off a passenger between Newberry and Helena for refusal to pay 25 couts of an extra charge, the regular faro being 10 cents and the distance a mile, he not having pur chased a ticket. He sued for dama ges and the jury gave him $400. Setting Fire to Lies. A copy of the "History of the United States," issued by th? Col lier Company, of New York, under the authorship of Edward S. Ellis, was burned Jin a coffin in front, of the leading hotel in Forsyth, Ga., last Tuesday night. Addresses wCre made by three leading ci ti/.ons of the town, inoluding two Ex-Judges. The coffin ^as borne to the funeral pyre by Confederate . veterans. The ob jection to the book lay in the fact that it included tho words "rebel/1 "rebellion" and "insurgents." The speeches were not directed against tho Northern people, but only against the historian. , . Fearful Fire In Baku, Russia. Baku, Russia, February 7.-A fire broke out yesterday in the magazines of tho Caspian and Blaok Sea Com pany, which oontained six million poods of potrolium. (A pood is 86 pounds.) The conflagration resulted in a great loss of life and widespread damage. Tho fiamos spread to other depots, having a oapaoity ot twelve million poods of naphtha, which poured out like a stream of lava, in undating and sotting fire, to the dwellings of tho workmen, whioh were totally destroyed. Many per sons perished. Twenty oharred bo dies have been found and upward of fifty peoplo are terribly burned. Four hundred families lost every-' thing they possessed. The maga zines are still burning and neighbor ing reservoirs aro in croat, dancer. A~ general panio prevails. Eight naptha springs belonging to the Melikof?, Ralski and Caspian Com-, panies caught fire on February 3. . A later dispatch Bays 600 people perished in this great fire. Crouching In every cough there lurks, like a crouching tiger, the probabilities of consumption. Tho throat snd lungs become rough and Inflamed from coughing and the germs of consump tion And an easy entrance. Take no chances with the dangerous foe. For sixty years there ha9 ^)een a perfect cure. What a locar.dl Sixty years of curing colds and Of all kinds. ?yera soothes and beato the wounded throat and lungs. You escape an attack of consumption with all Its terrible Buffering and uncertain re sults. There ls nothing so bei tor the throat and lunga aa coughing. A 25c. bottle will cure an ordi nary cough} harder coughs will need a 60c, atze ; the dollar bottle la cheapest in the long run. rn BOY WITH X-RAY EYES. Toxav lt Bound to Com? to the Front-Ho j Can Locate WMor. Guy Fenloy, the fourteen-year-old boy with the X-ray oyes, is creating a big stir among the stockmen of Weet Texas. This boy, with his remarkable pair of eyes, can see water at any depth in tho ground, and has moated alargo number of] wells, eaoh having an unfailing sup ply of water, on ranohes in that* semi-arid seotion of tho State*. Hid sorVioes aro in Buoh demand, by ranchmen who want to put down wells for their livestook that he 1B kept busy at that work all tho time. This boy is the son of Jool O. Fen ley, a highly respooted oitv.on of TJvaldo, Texas, who is extensively engaged in raising livestock. Tho faot that his son was possessed of X-ray sight was discovered about four years ago. ile only has this "ower of looking far into the depth of the earth at night, abd the darker it is the better he oan see. On tho night that his wonderful gift was discovered, the boy and father were walking through a pasture of a ranch near TJvalde, when Guy/ oxolaimed "Look at that stream of water I" His father repliod that there was no wator to be seen in that looality, but tho boy insisted that ho oould see a flowing stream of olear wator far down in the ground. Upon roaching home tho experiment was m ado of a bucketful of water being sot under the tablo, and the boy oould see it plainly through the wooden top of the tablo when the room was ] darkened. Soon after this Mr. Fen ley determined to put down a stook well on his ranch, and taking his son with him one night, the latter soon lo oat od what he asserted was fine stream of water about 200 feet below the surface. The well was Bunk on the spot indicated by the boy, and one of tho finest flows of water ever obtained in that seotion up to that time was struck at depth of 187 feet. News of the boy's wonderful power of sight began to spread about among the ra nob men, but it wai? slow to be believed, and it was not until about a year ago that fur ther praotioal tests were made of his X-ray sight. Ho was taken by Thomas Devine to his ranoh in the northern part of Uvalde county, where thousands of dollars had been expended itt vain efforts to obtain ] wator. It was in the dark of tho I moon when the visit to Mr. De vino's) I ranoh was made, and the boy v/as taken out to a large pasture and led over the ground. After traveling! about fer nearly two hours he glee fully exclaimed that he had at last found a large stream of wator whioh was flowing in a southeasterly direc tion, and that it was located at a depth of about 176 feet below , the surfaoo.' Th? spot was caret tilly marked, and Mr. Devine followed the hoy for over sessile along thc oourse of the underground stream. Looations for wells were marked at a number of plaoes, and the work of digging for wator bogan. In eaoh instanoe a splendid flow of water was struck almost at tho ?exact depth named by the boy. Tho above is only one of manyi leases ii} whioh young Fenley has [been' successful in locating 'under-'' ground supplies cf water. In faot, was reoently bffeved $500 to looate well, on F. K, Moore's ranoh, in Edwards county. He refused to acoept money, but went to the ranoh and pointed out the spot where an underground stream could bo struck and named the depth the well would have to be put down. He said that he oould see tho water plainly, and that it was a splendid stream of pure wator. A well was dug at the spot indioated, and a great flow of water was Btruok. The remarkable gift of this boy in penetrating the my ?tories that lie beneath the esr th's HU rf nco has como to tho knowledge of a number of oil prospectors, and ho is being urged by them to go to East Texas and looate the flow of oil and designate at what, depth in the earth it ?is to bo found. He will accept some of these offers to looate t * deposits or flows as Boon as he finisncs looating underground water supplies for a number of stookraen of Wea'. Texas to whom he has already promised his services. Ho is now in Brewster oounty looating wells on the ranoh of Judge W. Van Slokle, of Alpine. Judgo Van Slokle is a member of the State Legislature and is now in Austin. He oomes of ,a splendid family and has fine concoctions. Ho is a modest, handsome; blno-oyed boy, and to all outward appesranoos thero is nothing about him to distinguish . him from oth^r boys of the same age;. While locating tho wolls in Brewster oounty ho rompod and played with other boys whoso acquaintance he made.' When riding horsobaok at night he oan seo streams of water under ground, his Bight passing right through thc horse, Ho says that, he 1 oan soe the bones of the animal, but that everything oise is opaque to his sight, ile oan toll with absolute certainty tho different stratas botweon the surface of the ground and the water. This leads to the belief that his powor oan also be used to looato veins pf mineral, and* he is soon to bo ,given a test in that lino. Ho has this X-ray sight only at night, and it is much stronger in the dark of tho moon. When he exeroisoB this wonderful powor for any great length of time he become* exhausted and falls into a deep sleep, which restores him to his former self. His eyes have boen carefully ex amined by looal medioal mon, but no apparent peculiarities in them have beea found. It is considered all the moro remarkable, and by some it ia looked 'upon as a miracle, that he should be a resident of a seotion of the country' whioh is seldom visited by rain, and is semi arid in " oharaoter. If* ho con tinues to 'exercise his powor of locat ing his underground supplies of water for the bonefit of the ranch men of West Texas, ho will add an untold measure to the wealth of that part of the State. Already many of the wells which ho located are fur nishing an abundant supply of water for irrigation purposes, and orops of grain and agricultural produots will o raised in localities this coming season whioh were never before known to produce anything but mos 2u i to grass-and not much of that, n other words, "ho is making the desert blossom as the roso." Thoro ia always danger in using coun terfeits of DoWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. The original is a safo and certain euro for piloH. It isa soothing and healing salve for sores and all skin disoasos. J. W. Boll. Answers to Bibi? Questions. In our issue of January 80 there appeared a list of Bible questions. Answers were received from two young, ladies-Miss Eva Reeder, of Walhalla, and Miss Emmie Sheldon, of Seneca-too late for publication on the 6th instant. They aro as fol lows : Whore were people first oalled Christians? At Antioch. Jesus's birthplace? Bethlehem.' Where did Jesus perform his first miraole ? Oana. What is the oldest city in the world? Damascus. Beautiful garden ? Eden. What wore three Hebrews oast into ? Fiery furnace. "What wicked oity was destroyed by tiro from heaven ? Gomorroh. Where did Sarah dio ? Hebron. Where were Paul and Barnabas persecuted fo? preaching? ?con?um. What is the ohief city of the Jews ? Jerusalem. From what place did Moses send the twelve spies ? Kadesh. What mountain is noted for ita . cedars? ''Lebanon. What was-Huth's native .land? Moab. Where did Moses die? Mt. Nebo. From what land was matorial for . Solomon's Temple brought? Ophir. What is tho hind of tho Jews? Palestine. Where did Paul preaoh as a.mis sionary ? Rome. On what mountain were the com mandments givon? Sinai. What was Paul's native oity? Tarsus. , What place, in a vision of Ezekiel, waa filled with dry bones? Urr. Whero did tho Israelites wander for forty years ? Wilderness. What is the heavenly oity? Zion. it comm syrup. Ta?to??ood. un Tho Newberry Herald and Nowa ronorts : "At n meeting of the Board of Health Thursday night pf Inst week a resolution was passed making vaccination ?compulsory. Tho doo tors of tho oity will vacoinato free of ch argo all who apply to them an<1 koop a reoord of such, and those not applying to tho ohysioians will be oompollod to do no under the law. The resolution requires .that every one bo vaccinated by the 10th in stant." That is the way to deal with thc smallpox opidomio, and ls a bet ter way, on the whole, than to ?& pond on legislation or othor State aotion. Self-help always han the quality to o?mmoiid it and that ia the surest kind and ususl?y "ftou*'