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BLACKSBIinG BUILDUR1" H P Portraits and Sketches of Some of the Men i( ti WHO HAVE THEIR SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL, n f( ) tl mH\\ W ,, i ' 1 P1 ft i\ si i^MJ^B^^M|^H|E|l5^^Bragy^H! n W^^^^^^Mf^BMBBMimflTCTirsB^I 01 ^^ HnfflHmn si fl^^HHHB^H^HEBnSSI t( SHHHSPEiiiSnHHHBH li DR. J SO. (;. BLACK. tl Among the hard working, deep think- h ing, sincere and patriotic men of York r< who have contributed their time, brains t? and energy to the promotion of the gen- Vl eral welfare of this county since the war, w there are probably none who have ac- ** eomplished more in that direction than ir Dr. John G. Black. Dr. Black is a son of P the late Win. C. Black, one of the most "i prominent of the many eminent states- 11' men that York county has furnished to tc South Carolina. The war coming on just ei as he was preparing to enter college, he en- f* tered instead the Confederate service, and ^ continued in active duty u}> to the time ei of the surrender without having lost a day (1' from the front. Commencing the study of 111 medicine immediately after the war, he j11 received his diploma from the Charleston ? Medical college, in 1808, and at once achieved flattering success and high standing in this profession, which, however, he has since abandoned in order to devote his energies to business better suited to the wide range of his enterprising spirit. In 1880 Dr. Black was sent to Columbia to represent York county in the house of representatives, and after serving one term in this branch of the legislature, declined reelection ; but in 1884 he was elected to the State senate, where he continued until 1888, rendering the county and State conspicuous service and proving himself to he one of the most able and influential members of the legislature. Since the expiration of this term, as indeed for the past twentyyears, he has been devoting his time and labors to the development of the natural g resources of Western York, and largely 9 to his efforts may be assigned the credit of * inducing the Charleston, Cincinnati and | Chicago railroad to locate its line through this county. Immediately upon the in eeption of this project in the latter part 01 1884, fully appreciating the wonderful advantages to he derived to this section through the consummation of such an enterprise, he at once entered upon the w work with a zeal and earnestness that has Ci been the means of making its successful N completion possible. Commencing in sc Cleveland and Rutherford counties, N. C., b< he rendered the project the most signal ir service in smoothing away prejudices, ad- h< justing differences of opinion and in remov- w ing various obstacles that stood in its way. oi This accomplished, he became instru- es mental in changing the previously de- h< termined location of the line so as to as bring it through Cherokee and across w the county. No sooner was this object at- al tained, than immediately setting about ir calling attention to the natural resources of Ik his section, he has already been the means vi of accomplishing sufficient development S< to abundantly prove the wisdom of the e: foresight which led him to devote his en- A ergies to this great enterprise. w I)r. Black is a hard worker and a deep at think A with the courage of his convic- bl tions, always practicing the "be sure you tl are right, then go ahead" motto, and nev- bi er hesitating to leave the developments of ai time to prove the wisdom and sincerity of tl a beneficent purpose calculated to be de- p< feated by a present explanation. Although ol retired from politics, he is essentially a al public man of unusual depth and breadth, gi and enjoys the fullest confidence of his le own section, which has learned by ex- ce perience to respect his soundness of judg- gi ment and honesty of purpose. af h: M||| ai - '^^^HHHB r $ ilj COL. JXO. L. BLACK, managing director of the Magnetic Iron n and Steel Ore Mining company, is a native NV of Cherokee township, having i>een born \\ near the site of Cherokee Falls Cotton facto- p rv. in 1830. and is a son of the late Captain ^ James A. Black, who represented this dis- [, trict in congress for three consecutive [., terms, beginning in 1842, and died in & Washington while still a member of that u body. The Colonel received his primary e; education in the old field schools of the neighborhood, learning his "A, B, C's" in () the columns of the "Yorkville Miscellany." v When about twenty years of age, he en- 'p tered West Point, and finishing his edu- r( cation there, returned to South Carolina ti and settled in ltichland county, where he remained until 1859, when he moved to ^ Fairfield county and engaged in farming. When the war broke out, the Colonel was ? among the first volunteers to tender his a, services to Governor Pickens, which he (j did two days after Major Anderson moved (j from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, lie tl entered the service in the First regular in- a] fantry, and in January, 1881, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the First battalion of South Carolina cavalry, and afterward S( commanded the First regiment of cavalry sj until the close of the war. When John- e. ston surrendered, the Colonel left the front, 0( in command of his regiment, which he () marche<l home and disbanded in the streets j( of Yorkville, telling his men, like Jubal Early, that he was "not sorry for what he 1 11--. I -A l..wl + 1,/i/iU mm uone, oui whs smrv uv nuu nm uvcu able to do more." After the war, Col. Black engaged ?? farming, and was for a number of years connected with the fertilizer business at Charleston. Always interested in Cherokee, however, and familiar with that section from boyhood, no sooner had the building of the Three C's railroad commenced to assume definite shape, than returning to Blacksburg, he set about locating and securing the most valuable iron lands in the vicinity, and the organization of the Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore Mining company is the result of his work. -- - - -4- - ? SnciDK Among Womkx.?'The most common cause for suicide among women jg is the realization that they have been ru- 3 ined and abandoned by the man to whom they had trusted everything. Nothing is "5 more terrible than this sense of shame aggravated by base desertion. No innocent woman' who has been betrayed through her affections can well survive such a blow. But it is a fact that there are three or four times more suicides among men than among women. Women are s< more religious than men ; they are more C hopeful; they possess infinitely more ai fortitude, and when their misfortunes are p from no fault of their own, they are far i> less humiliated and chagrined. Nothing c< can equal the courage and hopefulness of N a good woman who is supporting a bus- In band or son who is overwhelmed by mis- tl fortune or unmanned by failure of his , e< plans. ai +- w Business Maxims.?Maintain dignity tl without the appearance of pride. I'erse- M vere against discouragement. Keep your |> temi>er. lie punctual and methodical in li< iisiness, and never procrastinate. Pre*rve self-possession, and do not be talked at of conviction. Never be in a hurry. ,ise early, and be an economist of time, ractice strict temperance. Manner is imething with everybody, and everylinjj with some. He guarded in discourse, ttentive. and slow to speak. Never ac uiesce in immoral or pernicious opin>ns. Be not forward to assign reasons to lose who have no right to ask. Think othing in conduct unimportant or indif>ront. In all your transactions remember le final account.?[Selected. ?? ? Remarkable Memories.?There was Corsican boy who could rehearse forty lousand words, whether sense or 11011?nse, as they were dictated, and then rei?at them in the reversed order without taking a single mistake. A physician, bout sixty years ago, could repeat the hole of "Paradise Lost" without maklg a mistake, although he had not read it >r twenty years. Euler, the great mathelatician, when he became blind, could reeat the whole of Virgil's "JEnied," and juld remember the first line and the last ne in every page of the particular edition hich he had been accustomed to read be>re he became blind. One kiud of retent;e memory may be considered as the relit of sheer work, a determination toard one particular achievement, without ?ferenee either to cultivation or to meniry 011 other subjects. This is frequently lown by persons in humble life in regard > the Bible. An old beggar man at Sterng, known about fifty years ago as Blind Alick," afforded an instance of lis. He knew the whole of the Bible by eart, insomuch that if a sentence was jad to him he could name the book, chap>r and verse; or if the book, chapter and ersc were named, he could give the exact ords. A gentleman, to test him, repeat 1 a verse, purposely making one vernal mccuracy. Alick hesitated, named the lace where the passage was to be found, at at the same time pointed out the verbl error. The same gentleman asked him > repeat the ninetieth verse of the sevlth chapter of the Book of Numbers, lick almost instantly replied, "There no such verse. That chapter has only ghty-nine verses." Gassendi had acuire'd by heart six thousand Latin verses; id in order to give his memory exercise e was in the habit of daily reciting six undred verses from different languages. GEN. JOHN T. WILDER as born at "Hunter Village," on the atskill mountains, in Greene county, e\v York, January 31, 1830, and is deended from revolutionary ancestors on )th sides. Educated and trained to the on business and mechanical engineering, 3 began his business career as a contractor hen 21 years of age, and at the outbreak ' the war owned a large and prosperous itablishment in Indiana. In April, 1801, 3 entered the service of the United States i a captain, and serving through the ar, rose to the rank of brigadier-gener. While in command of the mounted ifantry of the Army of the Cumberland, 3 became acquainted with the great adintages for making iron in the Central luth, and after the war made a careful camination of the ores and coal fields of labama and Tennessee. Shortly afterard he moved to Tennessee, and locating ; Rockwood, in 1807 built the first coke last furnace ever established south of le Ohio river. Shortly afterward he uilt another furnace at the same place, id these two furnaces, the pioneers of le vast enterprises that have been such itent factors in the rapid development f the South, have been in successful oper:ion ever since. In 1870 he built the reat mil mill at Chattanooga, and also Ka.4 oiul m/wf on/*. 11 Oil 111 1IUU1(Y U1 Lilt: ucni imvt IIUMI wsful manufacturing enterprises of that rowing city. Having recently sold out ; Chattanooga, he is now concentrating is interests at Johnson City, Tennessee, id at Blacksburg. At the former place, so on the Three C's railroad, of which le General is vice-president, he proposes > build a blast furnace for the manufacire of Bessemer pig iron, in which he ill use a mixture of Blacksburg and ranberry ores, with Pocahontas coke for lei. At Blacksburg, he has purchased a luare of land opposite the Three C's ?pot, upon which he intends to erect le "Cherokee Machine and Iron Works," le proposed plan for the buildings of hich appear in another column. Gen al Wilder is also largely interested in le Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore company, f which he is one of the directors, and ?s made a number of other significant l vestments in and around Blacksburg. Overwork.?Said the matron of an inme asylum, speaking of the women unsr treatment within its walls, "It is as nishing how many of the patients have 3Come insane through overdoing. Take iv advice and do not overdo." It is very easy to preach and often dittiilt to practice, and some of us have so mch to do that we sigh in despair when e are to be careful lest we pass the safe mit. Yet, who would not pause, if told y some one whom she implicitly believ1, that at a certain not distant period lindness, or paralysis, or insanity, would ly an arrest for the remainder of the irthly life on all the varied activity 'hich now appears so inevitable and so ssential ? What are the signs of over ork? How are we to know that we are verworkfng? One token is in irritability of temper, lie nerves are near the surface. They 'spond in pain, annoyance, keen impaence, to touches too light and trivial to ir the equipoise of a nervous system in ealth. Another token is in impaired cheerfuless. "The "low-mood" hangs like a mi$111 a over the horizon of life, closes and arkens everything, weighs the spirits own, down. Mother is melancholy, and ie household walks softly, like mourners t a funeral. Take care, mother is overworked. Another sign not to lie slighted is innnnia. Look out when that danger gnal flaunts itself in the way. If you mnot sleep, you are at the mercy of wast;1 tissue unrepaired. Cease the baneful verdoing, or die of too much to do, and ave your task unfinished. (;. M. MOOItK, nior member of the firm of Moore ?fc roshy. Mr. Moore is a native of Cherokee, ml was horn six miles northwest of the resent town of Blacksburg in ix:m, his eople being anions the first settlers of the tuntry. 11 is father was a farmer, aiul Mr. [oore followed that pursuit up to the reuking out of the war, when he entered le Confederate army as a volunteer and mtinued in active service up to the battles round Petersburg, in one of which he as wounded and taken prisoner. From lere be was carried to Point Lookout, in laryland, and kept in the prison at that lace until after the war. Returning home n again located on his farm and resumed | his old occupation. In 1869 he purchased hi a tract of land of about 17K acres, including L about one-third of the present site of Blacksbur#, and upon the building of the Air c< 1 iine railroad donated the necessary ground for right of way and location of the depot. A When the plat of the town was made, at ol the individual expense ofCapt. J. A. Deal, ? one of the most enterprising spirits who tl ever lived in this section, Mr. Moore volun- h tarilygave the corporation all that part of s his jirojierty which the streets called for. h By disposing of town lots at reasonably b low prices, and offering all the inducements in his power to desirable citizens seeking a change of location, Air. Moore has con- If tributed a liberal share toward the upbuild- d ing of the town. Since 1884 he has been h interested in the mercantile business at I tc Blacksburg, but for the past seventeen a: years has given his personal attention to I si railroading, having been connected with I li the Air-Line, the Three C's, and is now i 1> engaged on a construction contract in ! tl Virginia. ei + O; a; tl I). L. BROWN, jv senior member of the firm of D. L. Brown i{1 & Co., dealers in general merchandise, and te one of the leading business men of Blacks- ti burg, located here in March, 1888. Mr. jr Brown is a native of Spartanburg county " and was horn near Cowpens in I80G. He s( commenced merchandising in that place h in 1884, and meeting with the success that 01 is always the reward of careful attention to business, by his own efforts has accumulated a good working capital. He located in Blacksburg after a careful consideration of the outlook of that town in all its bearings, and since establishing himself here, ? ' a ' r* 1 r% 1 xi j. i_ J ? mils neen grauneu u> mm umi ins j augment has not been mistaken. He lias built up a considerable trade and lias exerted a most healthy and favorable influence on the character of the mercantile business of the town. Mr. Brown entertains broad ideas of the principles of development, is liberal and enterprising, and is to be depended upon for valuable cooperation in all movements that have the flavor of being prompted by good judgment, and are to lie pushed forward under reliable manage | Skkixc; Both Ways.?Nature has enabled some animals to see objects behind '? them as well as in front without turning around. The hare has this power in a marked degree. Its eyes are large, prominent and placed laterally. Its power of seeing things in the rear is very noticeable in greyhound coursing, for though this dog is mute while running, the hare oi is able to judge to a nicety the exact mo- w ment at which it will be best for it to IS double. Horses are another instance. It pi is only necessary to watch a horse, driven tl invariably without blinkers, to notice ai this. .Take for instance those on train- ti ways." Let the driver even attempt to d< take the whip in hand, and if the horse is tl used to the work he will at once increase \v his pace. The giraffe, which is a very fc timid animal, is approached with the ut- ti most difficulty, on account of its eyes be- A ing so placed that it can see as well be- al hind as in front. When approached, this st same faculty enables it to direct, with fc /ww/t>\4- ?\MAnhiiAn +l\A t<nt\i/l of/vl*ntL< /\f Iriol/k! /\t ^icat |ncvioiuii) uiu ia^iu oiuiiuo vi AIVI\O */J with which it defends itself. N si X. \V. HARDIN, C( intendant of Blaeksburg, was born in at Cherokee township in 1857, and was edu- hi eated in the common schools of that vi- B cinity, .where having the advantage of ti good teachers, and being a hard student, he secured a thorough English education. After studying law under the late W. C. Black, and acquiring sufficient proficiency to secure his admission to the bar, he entered the service of the Richmond and Danville Railroad company,takinga position as depot agent at Cornelia, Georgia. After entering upon this work, he found that a knowledge of telegraphy was necessary to his success, and beginning its study at once, in thirty days mastered it sufficiently to enable him to transact all the telegraph business required of his office. Continuing his law studies in the meantime, Mr. Ilardin resigned his position on the railroad in 18,S7, and upon being admitted to the bar, settled down to the practice of his profession in Blacksburg in the same year, lie at once began to take an active part in the progress of the town, and is a contribu- | tor, directly or indirectly, to all of its en- 1 terprises. Besides being intendant, to which office he was elected a few months ago, he holds, among other responsible positions, those of attorney for the Cherokee Building and Loan association, and attorney and secretary and treasurer of ? *1- - I-.... ...wl Uf,u,l ? 1m, Mlnnwr V, IIIU II mi auu wiv/ Auiinia^ 2' company. He is also an attorney for the (j Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago rail- st road. 0 j, LARGE FEES AND SALARIES. i, Thenewspapersarerecordingthe fact that t< Mr. II. M. Flagler gave Dr. George Shel- hi ton, of New York, $CJ7,000 voluntarily as a g; fee for medical services to his daughter, si Forty years ago this would have made a a large fortune for any man, one that he g would have felt justified in retiring from a| business on. tl Hut the value of personal services and c< fees has grown with everything else in d recent years. It is interesting to note what vast sums professional people have earned simply by their personal labors, without counting business investments of any kind. Patti, the only Patti, has undoubtedly cleared a couple of millions by that wondrous bird warbling of hers. Nobody who has ever lived has ever earned so much. Bernhardt, Booth and Joseph Jefferson have each rounded up a million dollars during their professional careers. So probably has Henry Irving. It is said that Henry Ward Beecher earned a million in his lifetime from preaching, lecturing and writing. Among doctors and lawyers, too, the sums earned by those in the first rank are enormous. General Butler's law prae...........k, iv??. iuiii ?->nnniin A every year. In one single case lie receiveil a fee of $1(10,1)()(I. Colonel Ingersoll's law practice brings liini $7.5,000 a year. The earnings of one law firm in New York, Butler, Ktillman A Ifuhhanl, foot up $050,(?(M>. The head of this tirm is William Allen Butler, who wrote the poem of "Flora McFlinisy." lie dropped into poetry in his youth, hut wisely dropped i d out again and into something that paid b vastly better. Helping people quarrel is h a far more paying investment than rhyme J o: stringing. The business of this law tirm e< is chiefly the re-organization of railroads, j ti Thev sometimes receive $50 (inn for one n fee. | H Among doctors the figures are not so g high, but still there are millionaires among e< them, too. Dr. William A. Hammond tl had for many years in New York an an-' v nual practice worth $15,000. He will still C retain much of it, now that he has gone to st reside in Washington, "as a matter of sen- ol tinient." | ti In business the sums earned are equally pi rgo. The president of the New York ife Insurance company lias a salary of )0,(|<H>. The Equitable Life Insurance impany pays its president $ I, (1(10 a year, everal railroad presidents get $f)0,(HH). A 'ew York house thatmakes a specialty f the sale of roasted coffee, pays its buyer i0,000 a year. He saves that much to lein. The general manager of a varnish ouse in Brooklyn also receives $f>(),(MK). o that it pays better in the long run to ave a successful private business than to e president.?[Lowell News. 4 ? A Few Mistakes.?It is a mistake to ibor when you are not in tit condition to 0 so ; to think the n\ore a person eats the ealthier and stronger he will become; to go 1 bed late at night and rise at daybreak, ud imagine that every hour taken from eep is an hour gained; to imagine if a ttle work or exercise is good, violent or rolonged exercise is better; to conclude lat the smallest room in the house is large nougli to sleep in; to eat as if you had illy u minute to tinish the meal in, or to it without an appetite, or continue after has been satisfied, merely to gratify the iste; to believe that children can do as iucIi work as grown people, and that the lore hours they study the more they ;arn ; to imagine that whatever remedy luses one to feel immediately better (as Icoholic stimulants) is good for the sys>m without regard to the after effects; > take off proper clothing out of season ecause you have become neated; to sleep xposed to direct draught in any season; ) think any nostrum or patent medicine i a specific for all diseases the flesh is heir ).?[American Analyst. I?1" The other day an important-looking entleman took a seat beside a quiet man 1 an Arkansaw railway carriage, and bean a conversation. "I am going up to little Rock to get a pardon for a convicted lief. I'm not personally acquainted rith the governor, but he can't afford > refuse me." "Is the fellow guilty ?" iked the man. "Of course he isj but lat makes no difference. His friends ave agreed to give me five hundred dolirs if I get him out, and the thermome;r is very low when I can't put up a good ilk. Where are you traveling?" "Golg to Little Rock." "Do you live there ?" Yes." "Perhaps you might he of some irvice to me. What business are you i?" "I'm the Governor?" He wasn't f the least service to him. 33?MjESMKShyw6fc?S3SBM^j^ 1)11. WM. ANDERSON, no of the most prominent physicians of astern York, was born in ltutherfordton. '. C., ill 1847. J lis father, who was also a hysician, came to the United States from le North of Ireland, about the year 1840, id his mother, who is still living, is a nave of Rutherford ton, though now a resisnt of Blacksburg. The Doctor joined le Army of Northern Virginia in 18(18, hen only sixteen years old, as a courier ?r Major General Wilcox, and served un1 the close of the war, being paroled at ppomattox. In 18(1(1 he attended school : Bingham, N. C., and commenced the udy of medicine at his home at Iiutherirdton, in 1878. After attending a course f lectures at the University of the City of ew York, and another at Charleston Medal College, he graduated from the latter istitution in .March, 1880, and at once nnmenced the practice of his profession, i 1884 he was married to Miss Georgia eal, of Ilollidaysburg, Pa., and two years ter located in Blacksburg, where he has nee been engaged in building up a large ractice and contributing a most valuable ifluence in the social and industrial progss of the town. I)r. Anderson is a man "exceptionally high Christian character, ne intellectual attainments, and a physian of tried ability, and his practice, Inch consumes nearly all of his time, ex(nds among the best people of that whole ;cuuxi? 1ST Ainon^ the many startling contrasts 3t\veen the industries of one hundred ears ago and those of to-day, one of the lost impressive is the vast expansion of ie production of that indispensable artie, iron. A century ago, it is stated, only uircoal iron was produced, and of that uly thirty thousand tons a year. Even reat Britain produced, in 1778, only xtv-eight thousand three hundred tons, o-day there are several furnaces in this mntry, each of which turns out annually 5 much as that, and a single railway now Liys yearly more iron than both Great ritain and this country produced a ceniry ago. PKOK. J. T. MOO UK, rincipal of the Cherokee High school, rofessor Moore is a graduate of the South arolina college, after leaving which initution lie was elected principal of the rangoburg (traded school, and continued 1 that position for several years, acquirig proficient experience as* a tutor. lie >ok charge of the school at Blackshurg ist year, and beinga young man of enery, ability and exceptional character, soon lcceeded in building the institution up to high standard, greatly improving its eneral efficiency and increasing tlic averse attendance. I'laler his management, le school facilities of Hlackshur^ can hut tntinue to develop in proportion to the annuals of the town. I)K. T. 1$. WINTESIDES, ruggist, has been in business in lllacksurg since lss;{. lie is a native of York, living been horn in the vicinity of I lickry (J rove. Raised a farmer, he continu1 in the successful pursuit of that oecupaon until early manhood, when he eonilenced the study of medicine under Dr. 'j. R. Darwin, and finished his course hy raduating from the Charleston Medical illege in ls"?;i. At the breaking out of io war, he entered the Confederate serice as a member of the Seventeenth South arolina Volunteers, and continuing in rvice until the surrender, returned to his Id home and resumed his farming operaons in connection with the practice of his i rofession. Since locating in Rlacksburgl the doctor lias abandoned the practice of medicine and devoted his attention to merchandising. Dr. Whitesidos is the owner of various valuable properties in Blacksburg, among which is the celebrated Whitesides' Limestone spring. COL. ATiEX. UIMirilAKT, Southern agent of the Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad company, and for the past two years a citizen of Blacksburp, is a native of Canada, hut has been a citizen of the United States since Col. Urquhart came South with the Massachusetts and Southern Construction company in 18Hf>, and has been located at Blacksburg since the completion of the Rutherfordton divison of the Three C's. He is well known throughout this county in connection with his business of securing rights of way, etc. Hints to Sick Callers.?Only call at the door unless you are sure your friend is able to see you without harm. Enter and leave the house and move about the room quietly. Carry a cheerful face and speak cheerful words. In order to cheer you need tell no lies. If your friend is very sick do not fall into gay and careless talk in order to he cheerful. Don't ask questions, and thus oblige your friend to talk. Talk about something outside, and not about the diseases and circumstances of the patient. Tell the news, but not the list of sick and the dying. If possible, carry something with you to please the eye and relieve the monotony of the sick room ; a flower, or even a picture, which you can loan for a few days. If desirable, some little delicacy to tempt the appetite will be well bestowed. The perfume of some flowers is poisonous, and they should never be carried in the sickroom. Especially is this true of the tuberose, oleander, heliotrope, hyacinth,orange, lilac, syringa, and lilies. Stay only a moment, or a few minutes at the longest, unless you can be of some help. Self-Control.?Self-control on the part of the mistress is really all-important. To lose one's calmness because cups and saucers are chipped, because breakfast is delayed, because the cook is in a fractious mood, or because anything below stairs is a little crooked, is altogether unworthy and ill-bred. Besides, it defeats itself. You can never possess authority over those less carefully educated and less fortunately placed than yourself, unless you have yourself well in hand. It is well, in our dealings with servants, to remember that it is as unreasonable and as vain to look for absolute perfection among them as to expect to find it in their superiors in station. Do not limit yourself to finding fault with them when they fail; encour age them with judicious praise when they do well; take an interest in their welfare, and let them see that you regard it, and you will have less cause to complain of their unfaithfulness. SSP It is false economy to work all night and remain for hours in bed next morning; when if you retire at a seasonable time, you will gain a good night's rest, and arise refreshed and ready to commence work in the bright sunlight, which is far better than any artificial illumination that can be produced. ? ? ? I)K. J. T. DARWIN was born about three miles from Smith's Ford, and is the son of Dr. It. It. Darwin, widely known as a prominent physician of this county. Receiving his primary education under thorough and painstaking instructors, no eniereu mo King's Mountain High school, King's Mountain, N. C., in the fall of lssi. During three years spent in that institution, lie maintained a standing at the head of the honor roll, and was awarded three medals for superior excellence in debate, oratory and scholarship. In January, ISSN, after taking a special course in the South Carolina college, preparatory to the study of medicine, he entered the University of Maryland, and last April graduated from that institution with the highest honor in his class, which was the largest in the history of the university. After passing a severe examination by the faculty of the university, and and another by the State board of medical examiners 'for South Carolina, he received his license to practice on the 2nd of May, and is now located at Hlacksburg. Dkijts of Dishonor.?Every debt is a debt of honor in the sense that honor calls for its prompt payment; but the term is usually reserved for debts which are improperly* incurred, and legally void, and which might be more appropriately called debts of dishonor. Of course we refer to gambling debts. There are a great many so-called, or would be fashionable men, who persist in calling black, white. They will strain every nerve to pay their losses incurred at cards or betting on horse-races, while their tailors and their shoe-makers call in vain for payment. They do not mind deceiving an honest tradesman, but they would not for the world tarnish their honor by neglecting to settle with the fools or knaves Willi wiiom nicy j;;uium- iiim mi. Their solicitude for their honor is entirely superfluous. It is needless to protect a sooty kettle from smuts. Their perverted morality is a curious instance of the ethical degradation which results from gambling. Better it would lie not to gamble at all in any way. ART TlimfrHK MAN? There is an old story of a certain minister who, in arranging his toilet for his parochial calls, found a button gone from his shirt collar, and all at once the good man's patience left him. He fretted and scolded and said undignified and unkind tilings, until the tired wife hurst into tears and escaped from the room. The hours of the afternoon wore away, during which the parson called upon old brother Jones, who was all bowed down with rheumatism, and found him patient and even cheerful; upon young brother Hall, wasting away with consumption, and found him anxious to go with Christ; upon good old mother Smith, in her poor miserable hovel of a home, and found her singing one of the good old hymns, as happy as a bird; upon young Mrs. Brown, who had a few weeks ago buried her only child, and found her trustful and serene ill view of (Jed's love which had come to her through affliction. The minister went home filled with what he had seen, and .tiwl liu ll'.ij clitllml ill WIIUXI rwillll^ U?.IIV, .1% MU.7 .MHUU ... an easy chair, his good wile near him busy with her needles, he could not help saying: "What a wonderful thing grace is! How much it will do ! There is nothing beyond its power! Wonderful! Wonderful! It can do all things." Then the little wife said, "Yes, it is wonderful, indeed; hut there is one thing the grace of God does not seem to have power to do." "Ah, what can that he?" said the husband. "Why, it does not seem to have power to control a minister's temper when a shirtbutton is gone." This was a new version of the doctrine of grace to the parson, hut it was such a version as many another religious man needs to remember. There is many a man who can stand up before a multitude and "confess Christwho can be most meek when insulted in some public place; who can rub his hands and bless (iod for the power of religion; but who is too weak to keep his temper at home. The value of art is the fineness of the work; the perfection of music is in the little accuracies. So the beauty and power of our religion are seen when we manifest grace to little things. As it takes greater skill to engrave the Lord's prayer on a five cent piece than upon a broad steel plate, so it takes more grace to live a good Christian at home than in public. ?[Golden Rule. WHAT IS A GOOD EDUCATION ? Knowledge is a certain kind of power. It cannot directly turn turbine mill wheels or drive locomotives or lift and lower elevators; but it brings the skill that yokes and trains water and steam and wind and makes them our servants. The power of j knowledge is acquired by education that may be obtained in or out-of schools. ! None but the girl graduates of a seminary ever finish their education. Of the knowl! edge that is power there is always some I thing to he learned. Richelieu wits a feeble | old limn when he found the power of the I nen mightier than the sword. The sword ! had dropped from his trembling hands; j but the old man's knowledge of men and I Statecraft made him a single power that ' was a match for all the stalwarts of France. A liberal education in one sense, is one . that has cost a boy's father a great deal of i money. The young man goes to college, i That does not educate him ; hut it shows him how to learn, and if there is anything in him the opportunity may do him good. The finest education that can be bought for a young man and dosed into him by tutors and professors, goes for nothing if the young man lacks common sense, j What is a good education ? Edward Ev, erett, one of the purest and most polished men this country ever produced, said: "To read the English language well, to write with dispatch a neat legible hand, t and be master of the first four rules of arithmetic, so as to dispose at once with . accuracy of every question of figures which comes up in practice?I call this a ' good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These 1 are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are hopeless without them, j They are the foundation, and unless you begin with these, not with flashy attain! meats, a little geology and all other ologies and osophies are ostentatious rubbish." K. R. DARWIN', M. D., was horn near the mouth of King's creek, in York county, in the year 18.33. Attending school in that vicinity until about | thirteen years of age, he entered Flint 1 Hill academy, ahout ten miles from Yorkville, where he was prepared for college, entering the junior class at Davidson in the fall of 1851. Continuing at Davidson until within a few months of finishing his , course, he was forced to withdraw on ac( count of a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism which for a long time confined him to his bed. Upon his partial recovery, in 1854 he began the study of medicine under Dr. A. White, and in the fall of the same year went to the University of Virginia," and spending a year in the school of medicine of that institution, entered the Charleston medical college in 185(5 and graduated in 1857. Thus thoroughly equipped, the doctor commenced the practice of his profession in the neighborhood of his old home on King's creek, and has built up an extensive practice, covering a large portion of Western York. He has been located at Ulacksburg since 1884. AU,v*T,xnnT.,TTT rFf\rt^ T/\hri I WU HWiM/MVrt U n.un I I IA HP. uuiiu Huntington and his son, W. T. U. Huntington, of Cleveland, ()., own two of the l>est watches in the world. They are duplicates, and were ordered by the senior Huntington in 1H81 in Geneva, .Switzerland. He agreed to pay $r>,o<H) in gold for two watches that should combine every movement then known to the art of watch-making. A description of one answers for both. The ease is of pure gold; the works number 400 pieces. On the large dial appear four smaller dials. The one at the top shows, by a diagram of the sky, the changes of the moon, the firmament being of lapis lazuli, studded with golden stars. The next dial to the right shows the leap year, the tiny hand moving round the circle once in four years, and an auxiliary hand shows each month. On the , dial at the bottom is a hand marking the ! quarter seconds, and one showing the day , of the month. At the left, on the fourth miniature dial, is a hand pointing out the : day of the week, and another the tide as it ' ebi)s and flows. Around the large dial, | beside the usual hour and minute hand, ( moves a second hand and an extra horse l timer, so arranged that the distance be tweon two horses at tne nnisn is iituuruicIy noted in <|uarter seconds. By pressing a button, the past hour is struck on a deep toned bell, one of a chime; the quarters are a more silvery note, and a rapidly tinkling companion gives the minutes. The watch isa stem winder and one spring furnishes the motive power. Where there is friction the pivots are set in rubies. Tilb I'llksiiiknt's Salahv.?The president of the United States is allowed a salary of $o0, 1)1)0 a year, and there may be | those who suppose that he pays all the ' expenses connected with the White House : family out of that $">0,000. Besides a private secretary, the president is allowed an assistant secretary, six clerks, a telegraph operator, a steward, an usher, four messengers, five doorkeepers, a watchman, an j engineer and seven policemen. The gov1 eminent makes an appropration of $40,000 | a year to pay these employes, and an ad1 ditional sum of $57,000 to meet contingent j expenses. Thus it is seen that the ex| penses of having a president are $147,000 a I year. After all, the people take pretty good care of the chief ruler of the na' tion.?[Kldorado Ledger. M. U. KKKSK, dealer in real estate. Mr. Reese was horn in Warren county, (foorgia, in INf>o, and secured his early educational training in the old field schools of that section. He commenced to make a living for himself and a large family, at an early age. Having a turn for machinery, he started out in the world as a journeyman machinist, and after about ten years of faithful work and economical saving, managed to accumulate his first thousand dollars. With this sum he located in Blacksburg in 1S7!>, and commenced to deal in real estate, mineral property, etc. He has been eminently successful in all his ventures, and up to the present time has never lost a dollar on an investment, though he has probably handled more property of this class than any other dealer in the town. During his residence in Rlncksburg, Mr. Reese has built ten houses, ranging in price from throe hundred to one thousand dollars, nearly all of which he has sold at low figures, his idea being to divide up interest in the town and thus render the remaining property more valuable. As might be inferred, he is thoroughly posted on Blacksburg real estate, and will gladly furnish any information on the subject that may be desired. His information may be depended upon as reliable. The Bible is upon its face and in fact a book of divine revelations, directions, admonitions, warnings and promises addressed to this world. The one question for each man to settle, having the knowledge of this book, is whether he will heed its teaching and act as he should in the light of it. Upon his decision of this question depends his eternal destiny. A. B. CROSBY, of the firm of Moore & Crosby, and since I880 a leading citizen of Blacksburg, is a native of York county, having been born at Blairsville, in October, 1H4"). Mr. Crosby received his academic education in the King's Mountain Military school at Yorkville, and was a cadet at that institution at the breaking out of the war. Volunteering in Company B, (>th South Carolina infantry, he entered the Confederate service before he was quite sixteen years of age; was discharged 011 account of youth, and returning home remained a few months and volunteered again. This time he entered Hampton's 1 cavalry, M. C. Butler's brigade, and servI fwl until tlm f?ln<n nf t.ho u':ir A ffpr tin' war he engaged in farming, in which occupation he continued until his location in Blacksburg, since which time he has been engaged in merchandising. Mr. Crosby has served the town two terms as intendant, declining re-election in 1881). SklIj Eggs nv Weight.?Here is a scene in a grocery : Two farmers brought in some eggs to sell. The one was evidently proud of his eggs and proud of the birds that laid them. He had a flock ol fine Plymouth Hocks, and the eggs they laid were beauties. A dozen of them weighed thirty-nine ounces, an average ol three and a quarter ounces each. The other farmer brought in his eggs without saying a word, had nothing to say for them or the fowls that laid them. A dozen of his eggs weighed twenty-one ounces, an average of one and three-quarter ounces each. Both lots of eggs were enrrieel to the rear of the store by a clerk, counted, and each man got a cent apiece for his eggs. As he of the small egg> passed a bystander in going out, he winked knowingly and said: "That man with the big eggs is a fool; his hens eat a heap more than mine, make no more eggs? though they are bigger?but he gets nc more for them." -. >JlMKg?^BM|^M^^^^MWBV^JBlj^PggggBK'g5JgggH8ggggCy. J. L. HART WELL is one of the recent acquisitions to the town, induced to locate here because he was pleased with the people, the climate and the prospective development. Mr. Hart-well comes from Massachusetts, and was horn in Littleton, Middlesex county, in that State, in 1814. He was educated in the celebrated Philips Exeter academy, and after engaging in merchandising and farming for a number of years, went into the railroad business in 1845, in the various branches of which he has been engaged ever since, and has been connected with the building of a number of the most important railroads in the east. He came south in March, 1887, as paymaster of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction company, and continued in that position until the company's New York office was established, when he determined to locate permanently in Hlacksburg. He has built for himself and family a comfortable home and invested in town lots, and though having retired from active business life, has proved to be a citizen of the character, in the possession of which the town is to be congratulated. don't like housework," says a young wife; "it is so commonplace," and she breaks up housekeeping and she and her husband go to boarding. That in its turn becomes commonplace aad housekeeping is again resorted to. Most of the things of life are commonplace?the same dull routine every day?but, commonplace as it is, it has to be done, and it is these commonplace things that make the world go round. The ordering of the household, the sewing and economizing, and tending the baby, are all very commonplace duties, but duties to which love gives luster, and duties which are missed ! if taken from us.?("Detroit Tribune. TWO PHASES. On a farm. Early at morning, just as the birds have begun to twitter in the locust trees, a lusty voice shouts: "John, oh, John !" A sleepy boy turns over in bed. "Ho, John."' "Yes, sir." "(iit up now, and feed your bosses. Daylight long ago." How delightfully somnolent the morning air is?the very bloom of sweet drowsiness. "John, if you don't get right out this minute I'll come in there after you." John knows what this declaration means, hut how harsh and rasping is the thought of breaking the golden doze! He puts one leg into his trousers, and, with the silken strand of a dream still in his mind, he sinks back upon the pillow. "I am coming!" he exclaims. He hears his father's footsteps. He mutters as lie starts toward the stable: "I don't believe in people working themselves to death. Hope there'll cornea time when I can lie ! in bed as long as I want to. This thing of ! ^nnfnliiiwr .? tnllnur /nit /if lioil .it wii/tli .111 t* iv uu i? wuv wi t/vvt in nuvii tin I hour is all wrong. The hogs and dogs are ! all asleep, but I've got to poke around here and feed the stock. Wish 1 were a man? , or a dog, I don't care much which." The years pass on. The trees in the orchard have grown old. It is early morning on the farm. A man gets out of bed and looks at the clock. "What time is it John ?" his wife asks. "Only three o'clock. It does seem as if ' day will never come, and that bottom | fieid of corn has been literally run away with by grass. Ileigho, it does seem that we can't get time to do anything." He goes back to bed and vainly attempts to sleep. Rheumatic pains are sending dispatches up and down his legs. An hour passes. A cock crows and birds begin to twitter in the locust trees. "Well, it's time we were stirring. Jim, oh! Jim." "Yes, sir," comes a drowsy answer. "Come,get up now and feed your horses." Ten minutes pass. No Jim. "Confound that boy, he's as lazy as a dog. Jim, Jim!" "Yes, sir." ! "Hustle out of there now or I'll come after you." Ten minutes pass. "I'll go in there and take si strap to that lazy rascal." He starts ; Jim comes out. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, wanting to lie in bed this time of (lay. When I was a hoy you couldn't have kept ine in bed at this hour." Jim starts towards the stable, mutter- V ing as he goes, "Hope the time will come 1 when I can sleep as long as I want to. j Wish I was a man, or a dog, 1 don't care I much which." ^ Ah, Lord, how we do forget. The les- I son we learn is that everything comes too J late. In youth we smell the ripe fruit, 9 and we long to eat it; at last it falls within B our grasp, and lo! our teeth are bad and . M our taste gone. 9 ttgr "Doctor," said a patient, "I believe * j| there's something wrong with my stom- fl ach." "Not a bit of it," replied the doc- 9 tor, promptly. "God made your stom ach, and lie knows how to make them. 9 There's something wrong with the stuff 9 you put into it, maybe, and something 9 wrong in the way you stuff it and tramp I j it down, but your stomach is all right." I 1 And straightway the patient discharged him. My, how 'a man does hate to have J the doctor tell him the truth! M ! tea?" When Franklin was ambassador to V ! Franco, being at a meeting of a literary so- fl ciety, and not well understanding French fl when declaimed, he determined to ap1 plaud when he saw a lady friend express fl j approval. When they had ceased, a little M 1 f '' 1 * * W 1. ;,1 cnuu. wno unuersioou r rcncn, sum m m Franklin, "Why, you always applauded when they were praising you!" r ninklin laughed heartily, and explained hisdilem- iff ? ? ? BH S3?" It is well to keep in mind that no day leaves us just where it found us. We IH ! are with each departing day older in time , and nearer to the grave. Some addition ^ for good or ill is made to the record of life. 1 We are made better or worse. Habit be- J comes a little stronger. Our opportunities A in life lessen. The need of dispatch in the 5 work of life increases. We have less time A to waste. The danger of delay augments. fl jgy This is a little story which we cannot jS vouch for, says an exchange, that an editor A once applied at the door of Hades for admission. "Well, replied his sable mag- * esty, "we let one of your profession in V here many years ago, and lie kept up a J continual row with his former delinquent " subscribers, and as we have more of that class of persons here than any other, we have passed a law prohibiting the admission of editors." W. M. JONES, 5 manufacturer of sashes and blinds. Mr. . Jones is a native of Wake county. N. C.. i and a graduate of the Baltimore Coinmer- 1 , eial college. For the past few years lie M . has been extensively engaged in the luni- ^ , ber business in connection with which he 4 owns and operates a sash and blind factory at Carey, near Raleigh. Very much pleased with the advantages offered to his line 1 of business at that place, Mr. Jones has recently purchased a lot in Illacksburg, on the Three C's railroad, and determined to establish a large plant for the manufacture of sashes and blinds in that town. Mr. Jones has a wide reputation as a business J man of thorough training, sound judg- J nient and untiring energy, and will prove a valuable acquisition to the enterprising ' spirit of the town. In another column is J an engraving representing the factory Mr. Jones is now building. . The Real King.?A writer of great 1 intellectual ability and fame, being reproved for carrying in his winter's coal, re- I plied: "The man who is ashamed to carry ] 111 his own coal deserves to sit all winter | by an empty grate." Honest toil, to the noble mind, brines no disgrace. As l>etween the man who lives by his own labor and the one who lives by the labor of oth- ^ ers, the first is the real king and hero. It ' deserves the stongest enipliasis with the young, that labor crowns life with honor, and idleness with shame.?[The Contribu c MA.T. JOHN F. JONES, superintendent and traffic manager of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad, was horn at Springfield, Massachusetts. His first business experience was in 1 the ofiice of the Daily Union of that city. a ITe resigned a lucrative position to take 1 up civil and mechanical engineering, and ^ in this profession had a valuable experi- H ence covering a dozen years, part of which fl time he was superintendent of the most H extensive bridge building concern in New England. This period was followed by several years of railroad experience in an expert capacity?improving old and creating new properties, etc. He was next called to the Hartford and Western railroad as general freight agent, and soon after becoming superintendent, was next elected a director, and as agent of the trustees successfully saved the property from bankruptcy, on the verge of which it was then pending. Upon a re-organization of the company he was made managing director with the*office of vice-president, and by his application, ability and fertility of resources, won a distinguished reputation as a skillful, competent and economical mana ager. Under his management the system was extended and new properties purchased, and an enterprise that had previously proven a miserable failure turned out to be a most profitable investment. Major Jones severed his connection with the Hartford and Western railroad in lS8f> to come South as chief engineer and superintendent of construction of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction company, to build the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad, and after building that portion of the line between Blacksburg ' and Rutherfordton?one of the iiiost creditable pieces of railroad work to be seen in the South?organized its working features into a carrying company, lie then helped to complete the Southern division, and was appointed superintendent and trnttic nninsit'er of the whole conmlotcd portion of the lino. Becoming a citizen of Blacksburg two and a half years ago, he has thoroughly identified himself with all the interests of ' the town, and is always found either as a leader, or among the most reliable followers in every enterprise calculated to promote its progress. Besides having constructed for himself a beautiful home, the Major is largely interested in real estate, and has built so many houses in the eastern part of town that the other citizens of the place have named that end "Jonesville," in bis honor. The admirable plan of the school building, printed in another column, is a free contribution of his skill, and in different parts of the town are to be seen several other beautiful specimens of his architectural genius, all the plans having been donated by him free of cost. >Iajor Jones has generally selected as bis assistants and employes in the operation of the railroad, men born in the South. He has in his service, however, several Northern men after his own patent?capable and courteous gentlemen, who, with their families, are most desirable additions to York county's citizenship.