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Cfc* fteotoiet ?imxhx. PUBLISHKD CV ICR V WEDNESDAY MORNINO. -BY JAYNE?, SHELOR, SMITH * STECK - ?-- . ? J* W\JBHW?HK, I KD-* I PUM* I J.' A. 8TKCK. ?USSCRIPTION. SI.OO Pin ANNUM. ADVERTISING RATES REASONABLE. :?if~ Communications of a personal oharaoter oharged for as advertisements. ?jf " Obituary notioes and tributes of respect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of oharge. AU over that number must be paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to so company aiHiiuBoript. WALHALLA, 8. C. : .VBUNEMUAViAVU. 1,190?. THE MUNDAH THE HOME. QUEEN MARGUERITA, OF ITALY, HAS SENSIBLE VIEWS ON THE 8UBJECT. A repent dipatoh from Home con tains the following account of an* interview with Queen Margherita on one of the mont important subjects confronting the Amerioan people to-day. It fellows : The dowager Queen of Italy is probably the best authority in Eu-*| rope on the subjeot of the educa tion of her sex, the proper bringing up of girls, how they should be pre pared for the duties of life, inoluding wifehood and motherhood, etc. Queen Margherita believes that the most effectual way to prevent race suicide is to bring up young women with a becoming sense of the duties of life, and she holds in the highest esteem the dignity of motherhood. With President Roosevelt, her majesty de cries the childless family and de nounces those who shirk the duty of j motherhood. In addition to her many and varied accomplishments, Queen Margherita is a well-equipped Shakespearean scholar. Her majesty has especially I studied the women of the Bard of Avon. As the first queen of United Italy she has worked wonders for the women of her race ; as daughtor of the house of Savoy she herself set a rare example of filial duty ; as wife of Humberto, her virtues were com pared with thoso of Queen Viotoria ; as mother of Victor Eraanuell II, she developed in the present King of Italy high ideals, sober wisdom and wide culture. Such is the anthority who has given me her views on the all-important qu ?tions of family life which President Koosevelt, American mothers and others have made aotual in the United States. NO EXTRAVAGANT THKOKIKS. "I am absolutely opposed to any extravagant theories of what is called the emaucipation of women," was thc first shot fired at me by Queen Mar-'| gherita upon the questions under con sideration. "In whatever condition of life," continued here majesty, "a I woman may be placed, her first duty is the negative one of not giving up the qualities that distinguish her sex. s, Poor or rich, high or low, a woman should be educated so as to contribute to her own needs and requirements and to those of her family. She should not assooiate unreservedly with men ; nor should she meddle in politics, as the word is broadly under stood. Above all, she should guard against developing the traits of men. .A blending of ancient reserve with modern independence would give us| the ideal woman. Let her study, teach, work, shine at sooiety or stay | at home, she should, nevertheless, look to her father, her brother or her ! husband for counsel and support in difficulties. Why? Because a woman, as a rule, cannot have the wide ex perience of a man. "In Latin oountries women have been kept in too much subjection to | men. But this is gradually disap pearing, and duriug the past twenty years the women of Italy have made great progress. "Your majesty believes in larg? families ?" < Ml I,Ol,r.ss FAMILY INCOMPLKTK. "Yes. How else is a nation to progress exoept through its people ' A childless family is incomplete. There is a poetry and a pathos about j childhood which appeal to ever right hearted woman. Most women, though they may not be able to put this idea into words, feel it. They have the ?maternal instinot. Fence the re , motoness of race suioide. "The woman to whom the blessing I of mother is denied misses the best in life. I speak not of the necessary exceptions. They may have another mission in life. A holy oall may claim their soul and senses all. Unmarried women need not of necessity be unhappy or useless. They may have wide fields of useful activity and they can make theil lives beautiful, as well aa useful, by working for the welfare of others. Altruism is but another name for the charity cf Christ, or for the love of humanity, and the greatest thing on ourth is love. "Women show their intellectuality by rearing healthy and great ohildren just as muoh as they do by writing books or painting pictures. "The wife who deliberately refuses to bring ohildren into the world must have something wrong with her moral make-up. Her shirking of the obligation may even amount to a heinous orime. -Her aotion may be even contrary to patriotism. I am very pleased to know that there is a movement in the United .States in favor of large families, and that the President has put himself upon record as favoring them. European women have begun to look for light to their sisters of the United States. FORCE OF EXAMPLES. "People are still influenced very much by the foroe of example. ] have frequently heard that the good example Bet by the late Queen Vic toria of England has worked untold good for her people. I do think thal the foroe of example is particularly effeotive for young girls. They arc susceptible of the highest powers ol imitation. Improve the condition oi the women of the oountry and yoi elevate that whole seotion of thc human raoe. "Extravagant theories about th< emancipation of women do not im prove her condition." "What should be the basis of cul ture, your majesty?" "Religious instruction should b the basis of oulture, particularly fo women. Their oharaoter will groy with it. A religiously trained girl i always better able to take care o herself than a strong-minded unbe liever. This is true of all circum stances of life. "The unbelieving girl is oalle strong-minded ; she is not reall strong-souled. "Furthermore, she loses the grao of imagination. Her heart is hat dened by prosaic experiment sue as cannot give her thc strength need e in difficulties and sorrows. Whe the world fails her, as it is sure to d some time, suoh as she will not b able to trust in a Heavenly Powei A woman without religion is a flowe without perfume. She is an objec to be pitied. CHILDREN AND RELIGION. "From infancy religion should b instilled into ohildren, more espeoiall girls. This should be followed by ger eral oulture, keeping in view a pra< tioal aim for girls, particularly fe those who have to make their way i life. "If wo exoept the United States, is not so long since there were fe callings open to women. Now the can enter the institutes of fine arts an the universities and almost all wall of life suited to their sex are open 1 them. As a result, men, even i European countries, are beginning 1 consider and to respect women af ti the fashion of America, and thoi who are called the weaker sex ai commencing to exeroise a strong! influenoe on society. "In Italy a quarter of a oentui ago women had only needle woi and teaching between which 1 choose, so that they could scarce earn a modest living." "Will your Majesty state what the basis of domestic or family life ! "It is love. This is true regard lc of social conditions. Society or tl body politio, to bo successful, mu be founded on love. The boc politio is formed from the families < the nation. If these be not ind vii I ual ly oemented by love sooie cannot hold together. A lovele marriage is a ourse, a marriage bas? upon love is a blessing. From sui marriages spring a kind and a oap ble people. The human family blessed and cheered by the heart i fluenoe of brave spirits whose we! spring of 'ovo ever flows fresh and never oheoked by sorrow or disa pointment. WOMEN 8MOULD BE USEFUL. "The teaohing of woman shou not only make her useful to horn? and others, but should tend to mal her good, kind, loving ; should he her to fill her life with sincere friend ships, intellectual pursuits, charitable interests and domestic affeotion, while always preserving that charin of reserve which is the crooning glory of her sex." "Will your Majesty state whether or not the toue of sooiety is improv ing?? "In Italy, at least, I am sure it is. It is more elevated to-day than a was thirty years ago. Then amusemeuts, carnival and dress were the foremost pleasures of women of position;. Now muoh of their time is given to useful social work, thus greatly ameliorating the condition of the less favored." "What is thought of Anglo-Saxon women ?" ".In Italy we appreciate them very muoh. An English nursery governess was engaged for the King when he was a ohild. The same has been done for the little princesses and the baby prince. English is a familiar language at the court. Of course, we speak French and German also." "What of coquetry in women ?" "It is quite reprehensible. Thc coquette is usually cold-hearted and cold-blooded. She has not oapaoity for love. She seeks admiration, not affeotion. She lacks cheerfulness. She plays upon man's vanity." THE QUEEN ON LA Ol KS. "And a lady, your majesty ?" "Is soft of speech and pleasant of I manner. A lady always has perfect | control of herself, keeps her engage ments and is not oblivious of her lia bilities. She has the courage of her convictions. If there be an occasion of self-denial, she is oapable of it. She cannot help having nerves, but she should not make a display of them to the discomfort of others. A lady is the complement of the gen tleman as defined by the late Cardinal j Newman." "Will your majesty please explain how a woman in easy circumstances should pass her time ?" "Great is the power and the pleas ure of altruism. She should help others. The laws of nature and the common teachings of Christianity point to this. "She should proteot, befriend and help suoh enterprises as are worthy of support. She should improve herself mentally and otherwise. A woman can, and ought, to make her j conversation deeply interesting. She should read. Personally, I am very fond of Shakespeare. A woman of culture should know the classics of her country and of other countries, also. "Should she have talent for \ isio or the fine arts, why not oultivt ij it?! She should set up lofty ideals. A woman's sunny smile promotes cheer fulness. Every woman has domestic duties which should not be shirked. It is a most pleasant sight to see a refined woman helping children." MARRIAGE AND WOMEN. "Is marriage a help or a hindrance in life, your majesty ?" "The question scarcely admits of discussion. For those who have vocation to the married lifo, and they constitute a majority, it mast be great help. A sympathetic woman oan do much to encourage and in spire a man in any work. The encour agement of a good woman may pre? vent a man from losing faith in him self. Happiness helps. A suitable marriage brings happiness. There fore it helps. A tactful and amiable wife is a most valuable aid to any man. She may also be an orna ment." "Has woman much influence." "Yes, she has always had an enor mous i nfl uenoo since the world began. It is either for good or evil. If some of the heinous orimes of history oan be traced to woman, so also can some of its most heroic, virtues. Men owe their boat qualities to their mothers. When sooiety is correot and courteous it is beoause of the influence cf! woman." J. J. Conway. The best debt a young man oan contrae*, is a debt for land. It never wears out for building purposes, and ?Ines not deprooiato in value from use. Hump Back ISCOTT'S EMULSION won't make a hump back straight, neither will lt make W s short leg long, but it feeds soft bone 1 and heals diseased b^ne and \i among ? the few genuine means of recovery ba rlckeU and bone consumption. Sand for free ?ample. SCOTT ? BOWNE, ChcmUta, 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. 50c. ?nd $ ooo; all druggists. Ol Importance to All Interetlod in Education. To Superintendents of Education, Teachers, Trustees, Ministers and Parents, of the Third Congressional District : As a member of the executive committee of the Woman's Associa* tion for Improvement of Kural Schools in South Carolins, i am aux* ions that the Third District shall lead, and I write to you and ask you to "be up and doing" that my wish shall oome to pass. Our State Superintendent of Edu cation is making every effort to bet ter the rural schools. Let us follow and carry out his plans. My six years' experience in work ing for rural schools shows that where the people will unite, and de sire to improve, the way and means will come. Let "Seek first a good teacher" be our motto, and everything else will be added. Every teacher should join the county and State teachers' associa tions, every woman the woman's as sociation for improving rural schools. "In union there is strength" and "the most important faotor in an eduoation is intimate association with trained and cultured minds." Take teachers' journals, read all books on teaohing. Let the teachers secure funds and place in the office of the oounty su perintendent a library of books on teaching. I am sure that ray friend, Miss Sara Brigham, of Lend-a-Hand Sooiety, Boston, Mass., will aid you. The trustees should organize an association and study together for mutual benefit. Every minister is invited to preach to the parents on training up the child. The mothers should join the woman's association and improve the sohool. As the crops are finished, set a day, go to the sohool house, plow up a plot for a lawn and flower yard, but be sure not to forget to fix a ball ground for the boys and croquet and tennis grounds for the girls. Make scats for the lawn, arrange drainage | and have the lot ready'for fall work of planting. Clean out the well, make a nioe shelter, plant, or fix to plant, this season, roses "or vines I around the well. Plant evergreens and vines as blinds for the out-houses. Have the wood cut and sheltered for winter use. I truly believe in a fUg. Have a pole and raise it daily. Appoint a ohild each day to raise the colors, and guard it as in an army. Make the interior of the sohool room as attractive as a parlor. Read the booklets sent out by Miss Nance. Give instructive entertaii ment to the children. Invite the teaoher to your home. Teach the child to love the teacher. Send her flowers and fruits by the ohild. Teach your ohildjto help the ohild who has poor parents. If I were a teacher I certainly would be per suaded to "beat" a child who treated a poor child meanly injsohool. To win the prizes offered by the State association should be the in tention of every school. Teach the ohildren to learn to love music. Be sure to have songs of their country. A graphophone for a school is an ideal thing. Classic music can be had for small cost. Play each day a tune until the ohil dren beoome familiar with it. I certainly bolieve in Friday after noon being the children's^afternoon -for their societies, etc. Teach them the form of conducting a sooiety ; how to conduct a "primary election" in their sooiety. The Sunshine Society meeta the wants of every community. It is en dorsed by the leading educators, for each child is taught to be kind to one another, \nd if a kindness is shown "pass it on." A successful plan for this sooiety, whioh has been tried in one of my schools where I visited as sohool vis itor, is to have a Sunshine Traveling Club. On Friday we f?ke "Colum bia." Each ohild in the room an swers, when his name is oalled, what he has handed up about Columbia; They tell of the churches, colleges, trees, streets, shops, stores, writers, cdc. This, interspersed with mosio, makes a most interesting afternoon. Try it in your sohool. I want, by November 1st, a pio ture and full description of every SOhool in this district. Teachers, please send it, good or b?d, as your sohool may be. These will be placed in an album to show, in the future, the progress. I THE "DODGI > ! Afr of a woman's Ufo, ts tho namo of Your menses come at long lnterv $|j stop. Some women stop sudden!; ? ? or tour years, and lt is the caus W , which can, however, be cured, by WINE OF CA Woman9 It quickly relieves the pain, r ness, forgetfulness, fainting, dtzzlrv. ness, tired feeling, eic. Cardul w "dodging period," and build up you At all druggists In $ 1.00 bottU WRITE US A LETTER freely ?nd frankly, telling us all your troubles. We will send Free Advice (in ptain, sealed envelope). Address: La dies* Advisory Dept., Tho Chattanooga -Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. We also ask the ex-county super intendent of education to give a oabinet pioture of himself, neatly framed, to be placed in the superin tendents' offioe. This will keep up history. The same will apply to the teachers in the different schools. An educational edition of the oounty papers would help greatly. The success of the country depends on advertising. Good sohools bring oitizens here. Let the superintend ent of education arrange these edi tions. I will gladly aid any school, provided they send writing material, as I have no funds and do not receive a salary. The school, if made attractive, and if the toaoher teaohes to better i the oounty, will be an inducement to ! tho children to come. While we are working to better schools let us plant Howers around our homes, give the children good books to read and take the ohurch papers for them to read. We must make the tenants' homes attractive and bring them back to the farm. I now solicit, your aid in giving every white child a chance. Sincerely, Marye li. Shelor. Westminster, R. F. D. County papers in Third Congres sianal District please oopy. TutfsTills w?l save the dyspeptic from many days of misery, ana enable hun to eat whatever he wishes. They prevent SICK HEADACHE, cause the food to assimilate and nour ish the body, give keen appetite, DEVELOP FLESH and solid muscle. Coated ??? Take No Substitute. and solid muscle. Elegantly sugar coated.. -? Contesslon in Lyerly Cate. A recent dispatch from Salisbury, N. C., says : A new turn was taken to-day in the case against the mur derers of the four members of the Lyerly family, when a written con fession was placed in the hands of Sheriff D. R. Julian, of Rowan county, having been forwarded from Mecklenburg jail. The statement is signed by Alexander Massey and W. N. Mitohell, two of the five prisoners charged with the crime. It deolares that Jaok Dillingham, another pris oner, and a white man, whose name is withheld, killed Lyerly, his wife, a son and a daughter, because of a dispute between Lyerly and the wife of Dillingham, a tenant of the Lyerly farm. The statement recites that Dillingham does not deny the deed and is not afraid to confess, as he is now assured of protection in the Charlotte jail. All efforts to ascertain the name of the white man said to be connected with the orime have thus far been unavailing. The story that a white man had a hand in the orime is not believed by the officers here. -lf>ftW O A. 19? TP O J0L X Jk? m >Ttie Kind Yo i Haw Always Boag? She-How mnoh do you earn a year? He-About $2,000. She-But. wo caa't live on that ! He-You asked me how much I earned. I make about $20,000. ENG PERIOD" ten given to the "change of life." 'ala, and grow scantier until they ir. The entire change lasis three e of much pain and discomfort, tailing iRDUl s Relief lervousness. irritability, mt3erable 3ss, hot and cold flashes, weak Ill bring you safely through this ir strength for the rest of your life. ?S. Try lt. 11 EVERYTHING BUT DEATH I suffered," writes Virginia Robson, of Easton, Md., "until 1 took Cardui, which cured me so quickly it surprised my doctor, who didn't know 1 was taking lt.*? Dr. John B. Morton. WE HAYE another doctor added to our list in and around Walhalla. Dr. John B. Morton has moved down from the foot of the Blue Ridge moun tains, highly recommended aa a botanio physician. He uses no mineral medi cines whatever. He uses weeds, herbs, roots, otc. He makes rheumatism, fever and female oases a specialty. He comes highly recommended as a horse and cat tle doctor. He is living at the Knittiug Mills, below and adjoining Walhalla. His oharges are reasonable and he will attend all oalls. Cancers and minor dis eases cannot stand long before his medi cines. 20-40* MASTER'S SAU3. 8TATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, I ' COUNTY OF OCONKK. I In the Court of Common Pleas. Warreu Dean, et al., Plaintiffs, agaiust Clara Carter, et al., Defendants. PURSUANT TO A DECREE OF THE AFORESAID COURT, In the above stated case. I will sell at publio auction, to the highest bidder, in front of the Court HOUBO door, at Walhalla, S. C., on Salesday in August, 1000, (same being MONDAY, August 0th,) between the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed real estate: ' All that piece, parcel or traot of land, situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Ooonee, on waters of Conneross creek, waters of Seneca river, adjoining lands of J. L. O. Barker, .lames Addis, Clara Davis and Wilbnrn Alexander, and supposed to contain forty-seven acres, bo the same more ur less, it being the tract of land oonveyed to Ben Dean by H. E. Hayne, Seoretary of State, by deed of convey ance dated 8th of January, 1875, which deed is recorded in the office of Clerk of Court for Ooonee county, South Caro lina, in Meane Conveyance, Book D, Page 418. TERMS OF SALE : One-half cash on day of sale, balanoe on a credit of one year, with interest on the oredit portion at the rate of seven per oentum per an num from date of sale, until paid in full, with privilege to the purchaser or pur chasers to anticipate payment of the credit portion at any time, the credit portion to be seoured by bond of the purchaser or purohasers, and' a mortgage or mortgages of the premises; that in the event of the failure of tho pur chaser or purchasers to comply with the terms of the sale promptly, on the day of sale, that the Master do re-sell the premises bid off by such purchaser or purohasers so failing to oomply with the terms of sale, on the same or some convenient salesday there after, at the same place, and on the same terms as hereinbefore set ont, at the risk of the purohaser or purchasers, and that he do continue to do so until he has found a purohaser or purohasers who shall comply with the terms of the Bale. Purohaser or purchasers to pay extra for the papera. ? W. O. WHITE,. Master for Oconee County, 8. C. July 18, 1000. 29-81 OF SESSION 1900-1007 BEGIN8 WED NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH. Five courses leading to B. A. degree, four to B. S. degree, one to L. I. degree, and one tod,. I,. B. degree. Certificates given for work complote! in any one of the departments. Expenses: Tuition fee, $40; Term fee, $18; Room fee, $8; one-half of each must bo paid at the beginning of each term. Tuition fee may be remitted upon pre sentation of certificate of inability to pay the same. ?BENJAMIN SLOAN, President. July 4, 1000. 27-8? Backache Any person having backache, kidney pains or bladder trouble who will take two or three Pine-ules upon retiring at night shall be relieved before morning. The medicinal virtues of the erode rums and resine ob tained from the Native Pine have been recognized by the medical pro fession for centuries. In Pine-ules we offet all of tbs virtues of the Native Pine that are of value in relieving ?ll Kidney and Bladder Troubles Propared by P1NE-ULB MEDICINE CO., CHICAGO SOLD BY DR. J. W. BELL.