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v THE AIKEN RECORDER. BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, S. C., TUESD*, FEB. 17, 1885. VOLUME 4.—NUMBER 17. Miscellaneous Advertisements. KM EMM -OF- Pure)(codXliverXol| -WITH- IRISH MOSS AND Hypophosphites of Lime anc Soda. The Most Efficacious Remedy for Coughs, Colds, Consumption AND GeNKRAJL DeBILIxY. This preparation is retained by the most delicate stomach, the taste oftheCod Liver Oil being so thor ougly disguised as to render it pleasant and palatable. •'Each fluid ounce contains fifty >ercent. of pure Cod Liver Oil, with eight grains of Hypophosphite ot Litiie and fourgrainsof Hypophos- >hite of Soda. Price, $1 ; Small Size, SO Cts. Prepared by— ANDREW A. KROEG, Pharmacist, Charleston, S. C. tyFor sale by all Druggists. Professional Advertisements. -PRIVATE- Boarding-House! -BY- H. A. SMYSER, COR. JOHN & WALKER STS., SUMMERVILLE, NEAR AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. D. 8. Hexpebson. E. P. Hexdeksox. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. Geo. W. Ckoft. J. Zed Duxlap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C James Aldbicu. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. W. Quitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. GORDON ASSASSINATED. THE FATE OF THE BRAVE GEN- ERAL. SOLVED AT LAST. 0. C. Jordan, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C James E. Davis, Attorney at Law, Barnwell Court House, S. C. j. w. DEVORE. Aiken, S. C. M. B. WOODWARD. Aiken, S. C. THE MCOSTA HOTEL! Augusta, - - Georgia. L. E. DOOLITTLF, Proprietor. L ARGE and well ventillated rooms, centrally located near railroad crossing; headquarters for commer cial men; best $2 house in the South; telegraph office in building; electric lights. Special rates by the week or mouth. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, S. C PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. ■ Pfi V’Unn Trnq^r INm.-liea «nd DeVore & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Aiken, S. C. James E. Davis,) (Ahthur B. Sawyer Barnwell, S. C. f (Columbia, S. C. Sawyer, Davis & Sawyer, Attorneys-at-Laav. Will practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention will be given to bu siness entrusted to our hands. Special attention given to collections. Edwin R. Cunningham, 641 Broad St., - - Augusta, Ga. Commissioner of Deeds for South Carolina, New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and Notary Public “with seal.” Drawing of and Probating Papers “a specialty.” The City Given Over to an Unparal leled Saturnalia of Blood and De bauchery. London, Feb. 11.—The following additional details of the killing of Gen. Gordon and the fall of Khar toum are at hand. On the day of the capture, which is variously stated as January 2G and 27, Gen. Gordon’s at tention was attracted by a tremendous tumult in the streets. He left the so- called palace or government buildings, in which he had made his headquar ters, to ascertain the cause of tiie dis turbance. Just as he reached the street he was stabbed in the back and fell dead. The tumult was caused by El Mahdi’s troops, who had gained access to the town through treachery, and who were soon in full possession of the place, including the citadel. A fearful massacre of the garrison followed. The scenes of slaughter are described as surpassing the Bul garian atrocities and rivaling the worst horrors of the Sepoy mutiny. The panic-stricken Egyptians were captured in their flight and put to death with most fiendish tortures. Some were transfixed with spears and left to bleed to death. Most of the victims were mutilated in a most hor rible manner. Eyes were gouged out, noses were slit and tongues were torn out by the roots. In many cases mu tilated parts of the victims’ bodies were thrust into their mouths while they were still living. The massacre included many non-combatants, and Egyptian women were subjected to shameful indignities. More than 100 women and young girls were given over to El Mahdi’s followers to be used as slaves. After the slaughter many Arabs were seen rushing about ISuildiug- for the Children in the South. Bv A. D. Mayo. I propose, under the title “Building for the Children in the South,” to give the results of a four years’ careful ob servation, through the States beyond the Potomac and the Ohio, concerning the most practical and elfective way in establishing THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF EDUCA- v TION. By the American system of educa tion, I mean notone kind of schools, exclusively, but all good schooling that has been found valuable in our country. The American system of education means, first and foremost, the free common school for all chil dren, supported by public taxation, administered by experts who art chosen by the people, in public educa tion, as in Government, the fiua court of appeal in this Republic; the free secondary, normal, technical, anc higher education, held as matter ol undoubted public right, to be exer overture which is but a , season, ” for the children. And if all variations on this one theme, I other devices fail, perhaps the Lord of lin and note caught and tix- He score as it has flouted in 'solitary music breathe into ^f some little child. Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Check to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Wright’s Hotel! S. L. WEIGHT & SON, Prop'rs., COLUMBIA, S. C. T ABLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. Rates reasonable.. Graniteville Hotel. MES. N. E. SENN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving parties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. Private Boarding. Most comfortable accommodations can be had in the healthiest section of Aiken, at $8 and $10 per week. In quire at tins office. Private Board!! C0LMBIA, S. C. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. Eichland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. OFFICE AT Graniteville, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. B. Smith, Dentist. -OFFICE AT- Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. £3?” Will attend calls to the country. THE Georgia Chemical Works. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fertili zers. M. C. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged. -AT THE- “FATR BUILDING,” No. 16 Plain Street, just east of the Central National Bank Permanent and Transient Boarders accommodated. Terms given by the week, month or day Good rooms, good table and prompt attention. Mrs. WINTHROP WIT LIAMS, P. O. Box 137. W. A. RECKLING COLUMBIA, S. C. P ICTURES sent can be enlarged to any size, and will be returned for inspection. If unsatisfactoiy no charge. Correspondence solicited. J. A. Wright, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, At the Old Post Office on Richland Avenue. The best of material used, and any tyle of boot or shoe made to order. HEADACHES -GO TO- CORMANY’S Art Gallery ! 712 Broad St. - - Augusta, Ga For the finest work in all branches of jiortraiture, copying and enlarging in Crayon, Pastel, Ooil or Photograph. Frames in great variety. Each pic ture a work of art. ^“Entrance to Gallery near Con federate Monument. Boyoe’s Barber Shop. I WILL be happy to receive my old customers at my new stand, on Park Avenue, next door to Warneke’s Bakery. < UF* Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing executed in first-class style. JOHN R. BOYCE.fll Are generally Induced by Indigeetion, Foul Stomach, Costivenees, Deficient Circulation, or eome Derangement of the Liver and Dlgeetive System. Sufferers will find relief by the nee of Ayer’s Pills to stimulate the stomach and produce a regu lar daily movement of the bowels. By their action on these organs, Ateb'S Fill* dlvsrt the blood from the brain, and relieve and cure all forms of Congestive and Nervous Headache, Bilious Headache, and Sick Headache; and by keeping the bowels free, and preserving the system in a healthful condition, they Insure immunity from future attacks. Try Ayer’s Pills. PBBPXXXD BT Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co. l Lowell l Mat8. Sold by all Druggists. - D O YOU KNOW THAT LOEILLAED’S CLIMAX PLUG TOBACCO with Red Tin Tag; Rose Leal - Fine Cut Chewing; Navy Clippings, and Black, Brown and Yellow Snuffs are the best and cheapest, quality considered Cormick’s Barber Shop. I HAVE opened my shop on south side of Curve Street, first door from the corner of Maiu and Curve streets. Shaving, Hair Cutting and Shampooing executed by good work men. W. F. CORXIICK. the streets with the heads of Egyp tians impaled on their spears. The next night was spent in a saturnalia of blood and debauchery. Since the capture of Khartoum El Mahdi lias repaired the fortifications, and has made the place well nigh impregna ble. He lias made it his permanent headquarters, and is said to have an abundance of guns, small arms and ammunition. The London Daily News, which ap pears this morning ip mourning out of respect for Gen. Gordon, publishes the following from Gakdul: Natives who escaped from Khar toum say that Gen. Gordon was killed -w4iiI>/J44-tI»c^»cIv,of 4 ieaM.inoL Ills house. to rally the faithful troops. The latter were cut down to a man and for hours the best part of the town was a scene of merciless slaughter, not even the women and children being spared. All the notables were killed except the treacherous Pashas and their fol lowers. EL. MAHDI’S LETTER. A letter recently sent by El Mahdi to the British otticers on Col. Wilson’s steamer contained a postscript saying that it was El Mahdi’s first and last letter to the English, and that unless they submitted he would kill all the Kaffir dogs. The bearer of the letter, who was a Dervish, urged the Egyp tians on board the steamer to joifi El Mahdi’s army, saying that God had sent El Mahdi to convert the world and that El Mahdi intended to march to Stamboul. On the day after the steamer stranded, which was Sunday, El Mahdi’s Emir landed on the island and urged the British to surrender. On Sunday evening Hamid Bey, two skippers and seventeen natives de serted* El Mahdi caused the massacre of all Gen. Gordon’s men, together with their wives and children. Gen. Gor don was killed on the morning of January 27. Tiie garrison at Gubat is exasper ated over the news of the massacre. A Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that it is under stood in Vienna that Italy lias con sented to occupy Cairo, Alexandria, Suakim, Suez, Port Said and Ismalia. If tliis is done the British troops in Egypt will be enabled to proceed forthwith to Soudan. Egyptian stocks have recovered from last week's decline, owing to the action of the government with refer ence to tiie Egyptian campaign. There is great rejoicing at Cairo at Eng land’s quick dispatch of troops. DEATH OF GEN. EARLE. London, Feb. 12.—An account of thedealh of Gen. Earle, dated Korti, to-day, says: Gen. Earle was killed in action yesterday. The fight oc curred near the Nile, a few miles above Dulka Island. The Arabs had fortified a pass and had built a small fort on the left bank of the river. \\ hen Gen. Earle’s forces reached the pass they were subjected to a heavy fire from the field guns which the Arabs had placed in commanding positions. Gen. Earle had- no artillery and commanded his troops to charge. It was more of a scramble than a charge, but the Arabs were driven from the heights at the point of the bayonet and fell back slowly toward tiie river. All that there remained to be cap tured was u little fort on the river bank. As the British column ad vanced it was met by a steady and well directed fire from behind the sand and wallings which composed the Arab fort, and many men of the attacking party were killed. Gen. Earle again ordered his men to charge, and put himself at tiie head of the eolumn. He was killed during this charge. The fort was ultimately captured, but at terrible cost. In addition to Gen. Earle, three officers and eight men were killed and thirty-five men wer* wounded. cised in every State according to high educational expediency, of which the people are tiie final judge; both elementary and superior public schools being kept as near the people in their local capacity* as is consistent with efficient administration; even State supervision being confined to things that are general and essential, and national aid invited only at the most critical points, with the sole purpose to stimulate local effort, with no as sumption of national supervision or control. Of course, public education, thus defined, lias its general function in tiie elementary training of mind, dis cipline of character, and imparting of common information, which every wise man knows is essential to the humblest citizen and the loftiest statesman alike. Of the six millions of American children and youth actually in daily attendance, and the ten millions loose- Ij* enrolled in public, and the three hundred thousand in private schools, nine-tenths will certainly turn their backs upon the school house door as early as tiie age of fourteen. The first and ever-present concern in the American system is to do the best thing possible for these millions of children, whose average school-life, to-day, in the East does not exceed six, in the West five, or in the South three full school-years. In the sec ondary, higher, industrial, and nor mal departments, which deal with the few hundred thousand youth in training for educational and social leadership, the common school has its right, wliichtlie people havtT unmis^ takably confirmed in every American State. But, in this upper region of education, the people invite the co operation of every effective school. There is ample field for the display of individual genius, or corporate enter prise, of home and neighborhood training. And here the church, of every communion, has a field of opera tion so broad and exacting that it may well limit its efforts to what it can never half include, and provoke no conflict with the people on that field where the people are bound to have their way, whoever goes to the wall; the maintenance, at public ex pense, of the free elementary school, open to every child, unsectarian in re ligion though profoundly moral and religious in the grain, unpartisan in politics, knowing no distinction of race or sex or social condition,—the people’s university of American citi zenship for every American child. More and more is it coming to be understood by all competent and fVAKENING OF THE PEOPLE, t condition of success in our i Htates is a great and general ngof all classes of the South ern people to the appalling dangers of the illiteracy revealed, though half concealed, by the startling figures of the na«»nal census of 1880. For, un til the ^Kliole people of the South hon estly fale this condition, there can be no generul or very effective develop ment of educational reform. Tiie su perior class of the Southern people, during the past fifteen years, under circumsrances that would have ap palled ^iy but an American people havepujjn operation, in every State a sufficient system of public schools and havp reconstructed and enlargec their old system of the secondary ant higher education. And I say, here, if need he, in the face of disparagement from over the line, that no body of super! <Vp people, so few in numbers, so overwhelmed in the work of rebuild ing society from the wrecks of civi war, has anywhere made an effort so heroic, with such a hopeful outlook as this people of whom I speak. This year the sixteen States once known as Southern will spend not less than flf teen millions of dollars upon the edu cation of their children, and in every State there will be a positive gain in every department of educational life But everybody knows that this is only the beginning, and is, at best, so painfully inadequate to oompass the result that it w*ere well to waste no time in congratulations, but press on ward to the more difficult work of a f great awakening of the whole people of the South. For here is the cause of the imperfect working, sometimes the discouraging failure, of the best plans of “Building for the Children.” In every community there are men of wealth and influence not yet really awakened to this mighty necessity* of the people. There are too many rea sonably prosperous and respectable parents only concerned for their own children, not even intelligently* in formed of their demands. And there is tiie mighty army of those to whom education is yet only a vague name, at best a .name to charm with,—who either care nothing for the school, or abuse it by ignorant interference wi£h everything else wisely done therein. Now, in Europe, the method of deal ing with such a situation would be for a centralized government to mature c pJ.i’t a 'ii r~| Inr n the schlpol-room and the ponceman at the fall er’a elbow, and enforce such elemen ary* instruction as it should deem e spedient for a State govern ed by it self. But I need not say this is not the Americsn, especially is not triotic thinkers, that there is no nec^ is ag^ted, upheaved, and essary conflict of interests between these different methods of achieving tiie great result; since the most ex clusive private or parochial school in our country must finally adjust itself to the conditions of our peculiar life. And it will be a national calamity if, in the face of the invading host of illiteracy* now marching in solid rank to capture the public life of every American city and State, tiie champ ions of the various departments of school-life permit themselves to be drawn into a side quarrel tiiat shall for a moment divert the attention of the people from the one American question that towers immeasurably above all present issues of church and State, What shall we do with that American barbarism which, dis guised under any deceptive title, is the same hateful thing, in New Orleans or in Boston; in the wilds of tiie moun tains, or the slums of tiie metropolis; in the blanket of the cow-boy, or un der the dress-coat of the senator! the implacable foe of everything wnich every true American holds essential to the existence of the foremost re public in the world? I propose to tell how, under the present conditions, the whole people of the South, within the present gen eration, can fairly and firmly place on the ground this American system of education. For I hold that if the people of these sixteen States, with all the help that Providence may vouchsafe, in a long generation, can establish their final system of educa tion, which shall be developed as the years go on, it will have done the greatest work for the children ever yet accomplished in Christendom. And in this “Building for the Children” I do not appear as an outside architect, flourishing an ideal plan or insisting upon any local excellence of home or foreign celebrity. Indeed, J shall speak of nothing which has not been actually tried, with complete success, ,undcr average conditions, is smme part of the Southland. So my discourse will only be an honest effect to voice the achievements of Southern school men comparing nfltes and cheering each other around tiie corner of the mighty structure now rising under their hands. I only presume to wield the baton of the •rchestra while it the Soi them American way* in •which any* go od thing can be done. No where in our country* has a group of ertiinen t people so great influence for good a^ still in the South; but, after all, its lower is only moral and its im plement is only* agitation. If any body in those States is deluding him self wfth the fancy that an effective systemjof schools for the masses can, in any way, be forced upon, smuggled into, oy insinuated among the people without their full consent and hearty co-operation, his disenchantment is only a question of time. Anybody can lead the horse to water, but all the world can’t force the horse to drink unless he is dry. Only when this great mass of ignorance and in difference at the bottom of every State moved to its deepest depths, can anything ef fective be accomplished in such a mighty work as I outline. Until this is done our Southern school-life, from the plantation primary to the Univer sity of Virginia, will be a vessel tossed on the stormy waves of a treacherous sea. As this is accomplished, all schools will improve, superior teach ers will come into demand, and, in a thousand ways now deemed impossi ble, money will flow in to help the building rise towards heaven. This great awakening cannot be aclfleved, to any large extent, by la borers from without, but is tiie proper work of the whole surperior class at home. Every State has its own favor ite way* of raising a popular breeze. Every popular device not absolutely unsuited to the case should be brought into requisition for the next ter years to arouse the people. The leading press of every Southern State is now doing splendid service, and only* needs to be told to keep on the same thing, a little harder, every week. Every county, village, secular and religious newspaper should be “roped iu” and made to blaze with tiie best columns that the ablest friend of the children can indite. The pulpit should be summoned to speak out iu unmistaka ble tones for that general enlight- ment, without which every* church becomes a dark cave of superstition where contentious Christians squabble over dry bones of non-essentials, knowing not the light of that love which is the “fulfilling of the law.” Every candidate for public office, from President down to policeman, should be compelled to face the people and tell “ what he knows about ” educa tion. It will be “mighty” convenient, twenty years hence, for the young law yers and ambitious young men of the South to be able to pull out of their pockets a “ringing speech” in behalf of the boys and girls who will then pass in tiie ballots that decide their political fate. And if great states man pose and ponder in uncertainty, and mighty doctors have no opinions, and the stars of- fashion “have no use” for themes so common place as edu cation in their drawing-rooms,then let every* earnest man and woman, every* eager school-boy and girl come to the to plead, “ iu season and out of Light will inspire even gouty*, grizzly, ragged old Uncle Remus to climb the nearest rail-fence and give his last shout, “God bress de little children in de schools. 1 ’ I know of what I speak when I say that the inward ear df the South is now awaiting this mighty call, all ready* to respond. Why, even I, a stranger from the far-oflf land of snowdrifts and east wind, a man of whom nobody had heard, with only a hundred dollars in my pocket, and nothing in my carpet-bag but the New Education, have been welcomed through the length and breadth of the great Southern Empire in a wav al most unheard of in the annals of American educational life. I have found no crowd of colored folk so humble that they did not hearken like quiet children while I have talked of the blessings of education. Tiie most frisky* colony of small boys on tiie front seat of tiie opera-house becomes my* most receptive audience as soon as tliey* find out I am talking for them. Tiie wisest of Southern men comes to find out if I have any key to unlock any* educational gate now closed The best people in a hundred viiiag tramp through winter mud and storm to encourage my familiar talk. The only drawback to my ministry* is die fact that I know so little of what speak; am a man of sixty, who lost; his constitution forty years ago, anc is now living on the few remaining by-laws; cannot be in a hundred places at once, correspond w*ith every teacher, and be the friend of every smart boy and darling little girl be tween the Potomac and the Rio Grande. I go to a town of ten thous and people, and find the largest as sembly hall thrown open, at noonday, crowded with school-children and their teachers; the gallery* a rainbow of pretty girls from the neighboring academy; the leading men of the city on the platform; all hungry and thirsty* for the gospel according to the children. I am invited to an Educa tional Barbecue, where, after the mighty roast is consumed, the people gather in solid mass around the most convenient s:ump, and close my hour of talk with a resolve to “go the whole hog” for education. I stand in a col lege chapel, twenty years ago a hospi tal and a fortress on the battle-ground in the rear of Vicksburg; the old port holes yet remaining in its dilapidated window-shutters; the house crowded with the y*oung people of two great schools, the sons and daughters of the men we were fighting then, now cheering every patriotic word as fusti- »s w imuio-hnU-UuH of BoaLau -hoy-a. girls. Now if I, a stranger and nobody in particular, can do these then filled it with water and allowed it to stand until it had soaked up ail it would. Then the oil was put in. The water kept the oil from soaking into the wood, and the paint on the out side kept the water from coming out. He got a patent on his discovery and now lie sits in his office and draws his roy’alty* of one cent on every barrel made to hold kerosene oil shipment. ALMANAC FOR TRfci WEEK. *7 and things, what cannot the foremost men of the South, in this home of elo quence,—what cannot those women sefore whose social powers we all doff' our hats,—achieve, if once moved by the spirit of the Lord as workers in this great revival for tiie awakening of the people in tiie supreme cause of ‘Building for the Children ?” Sure- y, to a people so magnetic, suscepti ble, enthusiastic, and irresistible as this, one need not argue or entreat to come forth once more in its might in behalf of those who are dearer than ife. Tiie country* wants the South not otherwise than as God made it and the providential schooling of the mst has left it, and only* demands that its people shall give themselves, just as they are, in their own best way, to this glorious crusade for light and love. Let South Carolina go on ‘eating fire;” only follow her splen did schoolmaster, Governor Thomp son, eating fire in behalf of education. Mi the whole South become “solid” for the children, and it shall become tiie corner “stone that cannot be broken,” on which shall rise the tem ple of liberty* seen in vision by the fathers, still the dearest hope of all her worthy daughters and patriotic sons. TO BE CONTINUED. The War Goes on. From The News and Courier. There will be no bait or hesitation now in carrying on tiie campaign in tiie Soudan, until El Mahdi and his barbarous followers rfdiall have been fitly punislied for their bloody work at Khartoum. Poor Gordon is pas!, helping; and it will not be pretended any longer, that tiie brutes who at Khartoum surpassed tiie outrages committeed by the Turkish troops in Bulgaria are to be looked upon ten derly as patriotic people waging a war for deliverance from misgovernment and for the right to rule themselves. When the war’ll tiie Soudan began there were 10,0(K) or 15,000 persons at Khartoum, who wished to withdraw with the troops, and in the Soudan there were altogether 15.000 Christians and an Egyptian non-Christian popu lation of 25,000. There were 3,000 Egyptian business houses in the Sou dan, employing 1,000 Europeans or persons enjoying European protec tion. It is not hnown how many of these have made their escape from the Soudan during the last year or so are within the British lines; but tiie mas sacre which took place when Gordon was betrayed betokens the fate that awaits all Christians, and all the in habitants of Lower Egy*pt, who may fall into the hands of the False Prophet and his hordes. Slave-hunt ers they were, and slave-hunters tliey are. A host of women and young girls at Khartoum were abandonded to El Mahdi’s followers, to be kept or sold as slaves. The war in the Soudan cannot be re garded hereafter as a conflict between the Soudanese and the Egyptian Gov ernment, or between El Mahdi and England. The Infidel is again at war with Christendom. El Mahdi puts <o tiie sword the Christians whom he captures, and practices, in every way, the worst methods of the most fero cious African nations. There will be no paltering with him, we imagine, and there will be no delay in mash ing him. MISCELLANEOUS. A large Buddhist temple is now in course of erection at Kioto, Japan. All its timbers and pillars are put in place by ropes made of human hair, rllli uc vocct?B~rrf" the offer their hair on its sl^HH^^^Ie hair is then cut off and is twisted by the priests into church ropes. An Illinois man is reported to have made tiie discovery that dog meat will cure -persons afflicted with Bright’s disease. He has eaten fifteen dogs during the past year, and has become very fond of the diet. The worst thing about it is that lie stole the dogs, and his neighbors are rais ing a row about it. An exchange says: When you hear a man sneering at the local papers be cause they are not as big, cheap and newsy as other papers, you can safely bet that he does not squander his wealth in assisting to make them better, and generally tiie paper has done more for him than lie has for the paper. The reduced acreage iu wheat and the indications that there will be a poor crop this year, have already had a marked effect on the market, and it is to be feared that there will be a sharp advance in flour this spring. It seems that the price of flour is nearly as much affected by a decline as an advance in the ptice of wheat. X >• < *■4 FEBRUARY. SUN RISKS SUN SKI’S MOON R & S 17 Tuesday 7:50 5:38 8:3i 18 Wednesday 6:49 5:89 9:34 19 Thursday 6:48 5:40 10:39 20 Friday 6:46 5:41 11:44 21 Saturday 6:45 5:43 morn 22 Sunday 6:43 5:47 0:49 23 Monday 6:42 5:45 1:52 Oiling Slices. Chicago News. A one-armed bootblack having taken the contract to oil the shoes of a reporter, after the preliminary brushing lie began by rubbing tiie eather with a wet cloth. When ask ed what it was for, lie explained: ‘When I began this business,” said i;ne operator, pausing a moment to cast an admiring glance at tiie high, aristocratic arch of tiie newsgatlierer’s nstep. 1 used to keep on rubbing the oil into the leather until a man told me to stop. I thought they’d know when they had enough and I wanted to give satisfaction. Some of my cus tomers complained that theoilsoaked through their boots and saturated their socks. I thought perhaps I had been putting on too much oil, but the same fault was found in several cases where I had been more careful. Fin ally an old shoes-maker, whom I inew, came along, and I asked him what I ought to do to save my trade. He told me never to oil a shoe until I hail wet it first. The reason was that the water would penetrate the leather, and, remaining there, keep the oil from soaking through. Besides the water would soften the leather and open it so that the oil would do the leather more good. My trade lias prospered ever since. “I was oiling a man up one day and he asked the same question you did. When I explained the reason he said that was on the same principle as that of painting kerosene oil-barrels. I Said Bishop Win. Taylor, recently: “The distance between entire holiness and fanaticism is not very great. The Devil is always tempting us to jump off the pinnacle of the temple. Or dinarily tiie Lord leads us through our common sense, through a combina tion of substantial facts. He will furnish as many points as are neces sary to make out a case.” Mr. Henry George, the great com munist, says that the work of the dy namiters is doing what may prove ir reparable injury to tiie cause of Ire land. While it infuriates and con solidates the enemies of that unfortu nate country, it horrifies and crushes tiie hopes of the real friends of Erin. Ireland’s only hope is a peaceable rev olution in popular seutmeut in England. Michigan journals declare that in that State no commodity is so cheap as human life, and prove it by the statement that more than one dred murders were committed during the last year. Michigan abolished capital punishment several years ago. With no hanging permitted, tepder- Stock Raising and Fanning Diver sified. John H. Dent, of Cave Spring, Ga., writes as follows to the Southern Cul tivator: There should be more diversity in all our business efiairs. Manufactu ring should be diversified; agriculture should be diversified and stock breed ing should be diversified. It is wrong that all our manufacturing South should be confined to cotton, and it is wrong that we make cotton the vastly preponderating crop with us, also making the Jerseys dur cliief cattle; diversity is more profitable and at tended with more success. Of late the craze has been for the Jersey cat tle. As we want cattle for other uses than for butter, we should diversify and raise different breeds of cattle adapted for special uses. The Short Horns ore tiie best for beef, and the Devons arc best for work animals, and it is said the Holsteits are equally as good as the Jerseys for butter, also good for beef as well as for work. So if our cattlemen would diversify, some breed Jerseys, some Durhams, some Devons and some Holsteins, and by crossing our common breeds with the different blooded varieties we would, no doubt, from such crossing raise valuable stock as yet unknown to the country. * ‘Every cross will mark an improve ment, and if all would engage in the good work and leave nb stragglers in the rear, the whole body of common stock w*ould, in a few years, be brought very close to tiie rough bred standard of merit,” and so with hogs and sheep. My favorite cattle have always been the Devons/ they are docile and gen tle, good as milkers, good for beef, and fine work cattle either for the wagon or for plowing, and they will do as much or more plowing than any horses or mules when put to heavy plowing, and they stand more fatigue than any other oxen. They are an animal whose value is not known and appreciated by Southern farmers. Next to the Devons the Holsteins are highly valued for milk and butter; ome rale them Pdljr >»iU» J^tucyn. - We make this error South—we do not keep enough stock on our farms. The Northern farmer keeps as many stock on his farm as lie can possibly main tain, while the Southern farmer keep* as few as he can possibly get along with, lienee tiie old maxim is entirely ignored, “no grass, no stock,*no stock no manure, and no manure no crops.” Stock raising and poultry raising should constitute a large portion of our farming income; this all cotton lusiness is like carrying all our eggs : n one basket. A full barn of corn and oats and hay and fodder has much to do in developing stock. I have seen our common range cows bought for $15 and $20, and when properly cared for and well fed make two and three gallon milkers, and after a year of good treatment $40 and $50 was offered for them. Stock and farming must go hand in hand together to ar rive at successful (farming. Stock must make the manure to keep up the fertility of tiie farm, and a fertile larm makes good stock ; the one must keep up tiie other. When a farmer now depends on the range for stock, his stock is merely a phantom. Stock must be tiie products of tiie farm and the renovaror of the land. I don’t believe in merchants and manufact urers running and supporting tho farmers; when done, wiiat profit there is goes to tliem—the farmer becomes only their laborer. How to Beautify Our Home. A correspondent writing from Ab beville County to the Southern Culti vator says: “Many readers of the Cultivator are aware that our siiting- rooms are too frequently mere stop ping places, oftentimes entirely de void of home-made ornaments. Every farm house sitting-room can have some natural, cheerful decoration, even if it is nothing but pine boughs, cedar or any other evergreen. Tiie woods are at times full of bright-hued leaves and berries, and very little time and patience will suffice to make the sitting-room a bower of bright ness. Gather tiie leaves and put them between the leaves of some old book, put a weight on tiie book; in two days put them in another (for if tliey re main too long in tiie same liook they will mould); after changing them Inin- ^ eave until they are thoroughly dry; then varnish with a thin coat of varnish, place them on a board and let them remain until the varnish dries. Cut out thick pasteboard in the shape of crosses, anchors or any hear'ed jurymen and a soft-hearted ... , , , . „ ... „ . * i .i , „ ! device that may be fancied, and with Governor m control of the pardon! „ i .u ^ * i mill, it would seem that murder is about the best protected infant indus try in the State. Representative “Dick” Townshend, of Illinois, who has been named as a Democratic candidate for the United States Senatorsliip, in his iwyhood was a clerk in a Washington book store, and used to discuss politics with an old clerk, Buckingham by name. One day the latter, beaten in an argu- told him I thought they were painted ment.said; “It makes no difference blue just to look nice. He said it was ; w*hat you say, Dick Townshend; you to prevent tiie barrels from leaking.! are notliing but a boy anyliow!” The During a long voyage ora long jour-' boy Townshend replied: “I know* I ney by rail, sometimes half a barrel am only a boy now, but I am going to would leak through the pores of the be a Congressman some day. Just wood and evaporate. So some sharp you wait a few years and I will iw» get- fellow began to study the same way of ting $5,000 a year in that house on the preventing such loss. He first paint- 1 hill whileyou are still clerking at a few od the barrel blue cn the outside and dollars a week.” ; a needle and thread fasten the leaves I on the pasteboard. Hoops and crosses covered with ivy leaves and hung on the wall look well. A pretty hanging basket is made of straight twigs laid up in cob house style and fastened togeth er with wire, line with moss and fill w*ith wild ferns; such a basket is in expensive and adds much to the ap pearance of a room. Make home bright and cheerful and when the father comes home at night weary and disheartened, he will forget his troubles in thinking of what a pleas ant home be has, and the world will not seem half as dreary as he felt It was before he entered his own door. Homo decorations will have a refining influence upon the children and will instill into their hearts a love of the beautiful, and make tliem feel that there is indeed no place like home.