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/ / THE AIKEN! RECORDERS BY DRAYTON & McCRACKEN. AIKEN, S. C., TUBS] MARCH 3, 1885. VOLUME 4.—NUMBER 19. Miscellaneous Advertisements. Professional Advertisements. Buiidinfj forth© children in the build you as good a house as they are stonewall jackson's hokak. - ' r ~ - - ■ --- { 1 ' — ^ Rlilr* ft 11 < 1 tliaf. hnntltl/A tonrirvl' -OF- PURa^BKUKByOLl WITH IRISH MOSS AND Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda. The Mont Effc icioux Ttcmrd;/ for COUOHS, Couns, COXSUMFTIOK and General Debili.y. This preparation is retained by the most delicate stomach, the taste oftheCod Liver Oil being so tlior- ougiy disguised as to render it pleasant and palatable. Eacli fluid ounce contains fifty percent, of pure Cod Liver Oil. with eight grains of Hypophosphite ot Lime and four grains of Hy|K»phos- phite of Soda. J'rice, ; Small Size, 1*0 Clu. Prepared by— ANDREW A. KROEG, Pharmacist^ Charleston, S. C. raTFor sale oy all Druggists. P. P. IlKNDEnsox. K. I’. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. South. Bv A. P. Mayo. THE TEACHER. LINCOLN'S YOUTH. able, and that humble temple of sou ence may be so adorned by the genius j and grace that you can coax but of ^ ■ ... i thirty children and youth, that it will! ->u am o t >at, with the u tt<?r- become an invitation to better things, i ItUiJlen Through Thirteen Hatties, and Now on Exhibition at New Or- | NEW ORLEANS’ QUEER POLICE. •• | His Pew Facilities for Reading and They Carry Umbrellas When it leans. ie war horse of Stonewall Jack- Will practice in the St United States Courts for South lina. Prompt attention given to col lections. _ Tilt , ate and most t,uit can he exacted even under One book is enough in a school, if the son] which has just reached the New h Caro-! favorable circumstances, the amount j teacher knows what to do with a Orleans Exhibition, and is attracting Geo. W. Croft. J. Zed Dunlap. Croft & Dunlap, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C James Aldrich. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Asliley, Attorneys at Law, Ai ken, S. C. Practice m the State and United* States Courts for South Carolina. IV. (juitman Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. -PRIVATE- Boarding-Mouse! -BY- H. A. SMYSEK, rx COR. JOHN & WALKER STS.. SUMMERVILLE, NEAR AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. THE Al’IiLST.l IIOTSI! Augusta, ■ - Georgia. L. E. DOOLITTLF, Proprietor. L ARGE and well ventillatcd rooms, centrally located near railroad crossing; headquarters for commer cial men; best house in the South; telegraph oflice in building; electric lights. Special rates by the week or month. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston, H. C PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND • ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. South. 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. DeVorc & Woodward, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of tills State. CLAUDE E. SAWYER, Aiken, S. C. James E. Davis,I Barnwell, S. C. »’ j.\ bthur B. Sawyer (Columbia, S. C. Sawyer, Davis & Sawyer, Attorn eys-at-L aav. AVill practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention will he given to bu siness entrusted to our hands. Special attention give n to collections. Edwin R. Cunningham, 541 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 8]:»ecialty.” givli 'Wagons at all trains i reduced. Beware of giving your Cheek to any one on Train. Rates $2 00 @ $2 50. Wright’s Hotel! S. L. WEIGHT & SON, Prop’rs., COLUMBIA, rjiA BLE supplied with the BEST. Rooms large and well furnished. f~Jiatc» reasonable. of money that can be set apart f *r ed ucation In theaverage Southern com munity must lie small, and the people may well-nigh he discouraged when they have done their best. All this I have seen, and am not discouraged myself. Frr the upshot of all I know about education is, that but one thing is absolutely necessary to a good school among a people alive for the children. That one absolute essential is a good teacher; and a good teacher every school may have if the people will begin to spend at the soul-end, and develop the material accessories therefrom. I am not indifferent to the great assistance that may he de rived from a model school-room, im proved school-hooks, and the various illustrative apparatus which adorns, sometimes even encumbers, the teach er's desk. But all this is a “body of death” till breathed upon by the spir it of the true instructor, and a real teacher can bring himself, at least, a temporary body, until the people are able to give the fit clothing to his work. General Garfield, returning to hi alma mofc/*, William’s College, Massa chusetts, which for many years was known chiefly by the great teaching of Prtsident Hopkins,said,at the com mencement dinner, “I rejoice with you over the new surroundings of our old college; these beautiful buildings, large collections, ample endowments, and the improvements of this beauti ful town. But permit me to say that, if I were forced elect between all this without Dr. Hopkins, and Dr. Hopkins with only a shingle and a piece of chalk, under an apple-tree,— he on one end of an oak log and I on t lie t her,—I wouId say, My tmiversify shall be Dr. Hopkins, president and college in one." ' May the South, in its new “Building for the Children,” learn from the dis mal American experience of the past, to put its first money into the teacher, and keep putting it in, until teachers and children persuade the people to give an outward temple fit for the dwelling-place of the new spirit of life that lias been horn in their midst. I have in mind a picture of a noble scho d-house, in a prosperous North ern to'vn, going to wreck, with broken windows, battered doors, the walls hook, while the Congressional Library is not enough for a pedant a “profes sor.” who only turns the crank of a memory machine. In such a school may be laid the granite foundations of a solid character; and thereon may he raised the strong timbers of athought.- ful and truthful mind, eager for knowledge, never getting enough ; and overall may tower the roof of manly and womanly refinement, and with so little money! For the soul of a true teacher, enriched by the loving confi dence of a crowd of devoted children, is a mine of gold and silver and prec ious stones, out of which may be drawn riches for all the generations of men. The central point in the new public school-life of the South is the training oli teachers into ample knowledge am professional skill in handling the best methods of instruction, organization, and discipline. What we call the “New Education,” as you can see it in more than one of your own school rooms, and find it (not over-much of it, I confess) all over the country, bears the same relation totheold mus cular discipline, helter-skelter organ ization, and mechanical memoriz ing of books, that the “Limited the Use He Made of Them. From Arnold’s Life of Lincoln. There were no libraries, and hut few hooks, in the “back settlements” in which Lincoln lived. Among the , , , , , I few volumes which he found in the so much attention, has had an event-j cabjn9 of the initerate faniilioa bv full history. Since the war the am- , ie wa9 8urrounded were the mat has, as until recently, been in the | car^ of Mrs. Jackson’s brother, in North Carolina. Sue gave the ani mal to the Virginia Military Institute, where he was cared for and allowed tc wasder over the grounds, the pet of every one. He has not worn a saddle .xpres train that took me in at New York, at 9 a. m., on a Friday, carried me, like a prince of the blood, a thousand miles, and delivered me in Louisville, Ky., “on the second,” at 12.30, Saturday, p. m., bears to the stage-coach that trundled from Nash ville and Lexington, in my boyhood, with Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay for pasdlhigers,—miring at every mile, losing wheels, breaking the har ness, killing the loader,” perhaps in dulging in a general overturn, till its way-worn crowd was dropped into the muddy streets of the Washington before the flood. A great teacher finds out such metiiods by experience; hut a good training-school gathers up the methods of all good poachers, and strives to awaken the spirit that alone can walk in the better way. Every large graded public school should have a master or mistress (it to train a teacher’s class in the upper grade. Every academy or college, without a chair of pedagogy and a live expert in that chair, is like a dish vvitbouLft handle, or a slnoe the war. The horse was known i . ^ as puttie Shrrel, and his history is novel and interesting. A membe/ of Jackson’s stall, now in this city, re- nnuRted to-day that Little Sorrel was ma«fe a Confederate against his will. Iii. the spring of 18#1, when Major Jackson had taken command at Hafper’s Ferry, a number of horses were captured on a train from the Xo«th, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Jackson requested his quar termaster to select a horse for him from the lot, and Little Sorrel was picked out. Jackson ordered that the trader who had the horses should be paid for the horse in United States money. The horse was of medium size, easily kept, and hftd long, lub berly pace. He soon evinced great power of endurance, and was used by Jackson in ail active service. He rode Little Sorrel at the battles of Ma nassas, Kernstown, McDowell, Win chester, Port Republic, Cross Keys, Chickah juiitiy, Cedar Mountains, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Har per’s Ferry, Frederickburg, and at Chancellorsville, where Jackson fell, mdrtally wounded, from his hack. The old steer is now 30 years of age. WR>n Jackson was wounded he es caped into the Federal lines, and in a subsequent charge was captured by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. When Little Sorrel passed through Knoxville the other day old men who iad seen the animal in battle fell upon ts neck and wept. 1 Bible, Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” Weems’ “Life of Washington,” and the poems of Robert Burns. These he read over and over again, until they became as familiar as the alphabet. There is hardly a speech or state pa per of his in which allusions and il lustrations taken from the Bible do not appear. Burns he could quote from end to end.. Hong afterwards he wrote a most able lecture upon tins, perhaps next to Shakespeare, his fa vorite poet. Young Abraham borrowed of the neighbors and read every* book he could hear of in the circuit. If by chance lie heard of a book tlmt he had not read, he would walk many* miles to borrow it. Among other volumes, he borrowed of Crawford one of Weems’ “Lifeof Washington.” Read ing it wilii the eagorncss, betook it to bed with him in the loft of the cabin and read on until his nubbin of tallow caudle had burned out. Then lie placed the book between the logs of the cabin, that it might he at hand as soon as there was light enough in the morning to enable him to read. But during the night a violent rain Looks liike Rain—Outdone by Pri vate Enterprise. The policemen here are the ny>st tranquil,diffident and unemotional po licemen on the face of the earth. They are as listless as dudes, as tired as office boys, and coninually troubled with chills, cramps and unhappiness The force here—if so active a word can be applied to eo parsive an in stitution—moves on its solemn way undisturbed by anything that may occur. “The fact is,” said an old citizen to day, “our police is a sort of an heir loom. It’s handed down from one CTH ALMANAC FOR THE WEEK. MARCH. came on, and-he awoke to find his generation to another, and has been tor years. Young men, when they* are appointed—as they are every few years—settle back comfortably in their places for life. The force became so thoroughly inefficient that a man named Farrell organized a sort of op position to thecity police, and grad ually extended his work till now the Farrell police are in the city, both day and night. Farrell himself was poisoned by a druggist here a few weeks ago. Do you remember it? The local police would he envious of the Farrell men, hut for the fact that they ain’t strong enough to feel envy.” They ars sad-looking lot of men. They all CiVrry umbrellas when it TOoks like rain, and those who do not smoke cheap brown-paper cigarettes puff’twisted cigars as they sit on fire plugs and stare at their feet. -OFFICE ON- Kichland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Dr. J. II. Burnett, Dentist. -OFFICE AT- GraniteviUe, Aiken County, S. 0. Dr. J. E. Smith, Dentist. y OFFICE AT Williston, Barnwell County, S. C. PST Will attend calls to the country. Granitcvillc Hotel. MBS. N. E. SENN, Proprietress. Table furnished with the best, and driving j^rties from Aiken furnished with lunch at short notice. Private Boarding. Most comfortable accommodations •can bo had in the healthiest section of Aiken, at $8 and $10 per week. In quire at this oflice. Private Board!! COLMBIA, S. f. -AT THE “FAIR BUILDING,” No. 10 Plain Street, just east of the Central National Bank. Permanent and Transient Boarder- accommodated. Terms given by the week, month or day Good rooms, good table and prompt attention. Mrs. WIXTHROP WII LIAMS, P. O. Box ;37. if 4 ^V .>*3 ' Mi 1 *v * • '->■ v 'A * •». i • •, f.i •S '-* •i'r./.Vj;..! 1 • r- •, F" 1 THE Georgia Chemical. Works. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fertili zers. M. C. STOVALL, Secretary and Treasurer, Augusta, Ga. Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged, Vi ’df ■ .V V ■ D 'A om L* vl. iu3 * £ \*i VJv’ COLUMBIA, S. C. P ICTUItBS sent can be enlarged to any size, and will be returned for inspection. If unsatisfactojy no charge. Correspondence solicited. r A , wright. -Bv AND SHOE MAKE It, on Richland At the Old Post Office • Avenue. The best of material used, and any tvle of boot or slice made to order. fool itseit a nuisery of had man- rs and clownish behavior. The fuble is, a knot of “eminent” citi- hs, who insist on keeping in the een- tr .fl room a quarrelsome women, goH ‘of -GO TO- CORM ANT’S Art Gallery! 712 Broad St. - - Augusta, Ga For the finest work in all branches of portraiture, copying and enlargimr in Crayon, Pastel, Ooil or Photograph. Frames in great variety. Each pic ture a work of art. “Entrance to Gallery near Con- ’ i Monument. An Old Soldier’s EXPERIENCE. “ Calvert, Texas, May 3,1S82. “ I wish to express my appreciation ot the valuable qualities of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral as a cough remedy. •• While with Churchill's army, just before the battle of Vicksburg, I contracted a se vere cold, which termiuated in a dangerous cough. 1 found no relief till on our inarch we came to a country store, where, on asking for some remedy, 1 was urged to try AVER’S Cucrkv Pectoral*. ‘•I did so, and was rapidly cured. Since then I have kept the Pectoral constantly by me, for family use, and I have found it to be an invaluable remedy for throat and lung diseases. % J. W. \\ mxlev.” Thousands of testimonials certify to the prompt cure of all bronchial and lung affections, by the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Being very palatable, the youeg- est children take it readily. PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. family” (its goodness largely "n'dergroiind,) whose obstinate c-on- and selfishness .makq / -tflfvo<r‘kf everyS^WIfuiimuence therein; defying tiie master above-stairs and snubbing the poor gflrl-teaeher below, till life is hardly worth living within range of her discordant rule. I remember an other school, in the Southland, where one of the gentlest of gentlemen and bravest of captains, at the close ot the war, gathered about him a crowd of wild little colored children in a de serted house and “kept school” so beautifully that, outof their own pov erty, tiie colored people '’“'’ doped his dilapidated shanty into a neat and commodious school-house, where, with the older children, lie was giv ing instruction, in his faded oid sol dier-clothes, such as I never knew until my School days had gone by. A good teacher carries his school in himself. His own life and daily “ walk and conversation ” are an hourly “object-lesson” in morals and manners; his fullness of knowledge supplies the lack of text-hook; ids fertile brain and child-like spirit blos som anew every day into some wise method of imparting truth or awak ening faculty; and his cunning ha ul brings for devices for illustration more effective thaiweabinets of costly ap paratus. The best teachers tell us they can manufacture all the illustra tive machinery needed in a first-class high school out of the debris that lit ters an ordinary attic, at a cost not e.\- ceeding two dollars and fifty cents. The librarian of the Department of .Stale, at Washington, will show a set of manuscript school books, made by George Washington when he gradu ated, at thirteen, from his three years old-time Virginia school-life,—on the h de, superior to any in use in the -tat'- of Virginia to-dav. Nothing io establish one ge school for each race, where tljeTiest methods can be illustrated, aud grad uates sent forth to imju,riant points. The modern institut^iu the hands of skilled teacher^'is'a normal school on tXblfcjJrtfat may he drawn all over a Ftate, and wake up the new life in its drowsiest corner. And, for a generation yet, our Southern States will have the finest possible material for the teachers of its elementary schools in the multitudes of young white women of its better families, with those who are coming up from its poorest classes of whites; while the flower of the young colored peo ple, an army fifteen thousand strong, is now being trained in a score of ad mirable schools for the good work. Too few, by far, of the foremost young men of the South will be persuaded to. serve for the scanty pay of the schoolmaster, while the opening life of industrial enterprise combines with professional and public employ ment to lure them away. But since 18G5 a whole generation of us bright and line-spirited young women as are found in any land have grown up, thousands of whom are earnestly looking for some honorable means of livelihood, and other thousands are asking how they can do their part in the mighty upbuilding of the new South. There are your teachers,—the best for the children.—fit for any post of authority or administration, if you will only give them a fair chance at the table of knowledge, and aid them to prepare themselves to teach. Here in is an arena more splendid that the old-time “field of the cloth of gold,” where a nobler than old-time chivalry may step foith, in the rivalship of good offices, to crown these earnest, devoted maidens and matrons with a liner wreath than adorned the “queen of love and beauty,” even the garland that encircles the brow of the gracious mistress whom the little children adore as beauty, love, and light incar nate in one bewitching form. I do The Conditions of Progress. Boston Herald. Enough has been made known of Mr. Cleveland’s purposes and plans with respect to the conduct of his ad ministration to leave no doubt of his intention to adopt a policy of progress and reform. All that he has written and said since the election indicates a clear and determined purpose to ac- and permanent the ne\y nominating him for the presi dency, and to meet in good faith, soltfir as in him lies, the just expeeta- tiolis of the public sentiment that sc^ cuiLd his election. No encourage ment has been given by the President elect to the perfidious suggestions tha.\ the victory was secured by a and that, the control of the gov- ?nt being secured, the Demoera- 1 show itself to be an unteaeha- d unforgetting organization, I to old abuses and intent only i enjoyment of the offices. Mr. book wet through and through. Dry ing it as well as he could, he went to Crawford and told him of the mishap and, as he hud no money to pay for it, offered to work out the value of the injured volume. Crawford fixed the price at three days’ work, and the fu ture president pulled corn three days, and thus became the owner of the fascinating book. He thought the labor well invested. [lid’s letter to Mr. Curtis, ded, hut unmistakable, utter- tho.-e who have conversed , and the character of those goes well with ever lie m iv vlieli the true s nils swings a poor be; and all in;.-ter or i one n tiie teacher, Who se, es well •stress oi hum! ilest -ehool-l'ou-c door. One of the most valuahh suj-ere >r leacm r, iineuiti voted ai ! not eg how any rich man i i the South ! can sleep o’ nights until he has given to a group of the e good girls tiie j means of thus serving t he .State. The j vountf man of culture an»i position ; who does not “go in” to help the gil ls ' in this, their time of need, has denied rus era cy hie wee upo Cle his a tic will froiiH^ffiong who it is believed hi.- eabi^KhV lectio ns will be made, ail tem^BilSow in him the purpose which we iWaslteadily commended, to look f r.iMipjjmd not back, to utilize to the if"^ ’tt the grand opportunity now pres<*ii*«l to him, and to serve his par ty b\| leading that party to serve the eoun ry. Bu i as the time for inaugurating this j»olicy of progress draws near, it beeoi nes more and more apparent that the n 2\v President will need not only unusual strength of character and force of will, hut the ablest and most adequate assistance at his command, | to gi ve effect to ids purposes. Al ready there are heard mutterings that the pi rty has “drawn an elephant,” or “caugVit a Tartar.” It is talked above a .whimper, h> the “active” Democratic circled in this city, in New York, and in Wajshington, that, if the new Pres ident shall undertake to follow, with any riffi Iness, the policy indicated by his words and acts, he will “break up the pa^-ty.” The evident expectation is, ai.ioiig the self-styled “practical politicians,” that Mr. Cleveland will, after a jshow of respect to the reform sentimpiit of the country, enter upon, oral lelist permit, that grand inquisi tion fo^z tiie spoils which has been all that success in the election has meant to tbesje men for the la-t score of The Hiti'iiiiig of Riclimoml. Mr. James It. Randall, the Wash ing correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist, took a run down to Richmond to attend a grand wedding, and he improved the trip by making a pen and ink sketch of Richmond, its surroundings, its business, its public men, and its past compared with its present. From Mr. Randall’s letters the following ex tract is taken: • “The noble James River at Rich mond was not ice-bound, hut pursued .it© *» ijyiii—tfc The Tobacco-Plant ing’Mania. It is very certain that we are to have a new industry in South Carolina. The Department of Agriculture has for three weeks past been receiving many letters—never less than eight or ten each day—asking for tobacco seed, with which to begin the planting of the staple of the future. An official remarks that the people seem to have gone crazy on the subject of planting Tobacco, and the future is not confined to any one section, hut extends throughout the State. The supply of seed in the possession of the Depart ment--some eight varieties—will soon be exha usted if the rush continues, hut tiioso desiring it wfill he put in communication with a responsible Virginia raiser of seed. A Virginia pamphlet on the cultivation and cu ring of tobaco>o is sent to each appli cant. There k* no reason why the SUN RISES SUN SETS MOON H & 8 Tuesdaj* Wednesday.. Thursday Friday. ». Saturday ... Sunday...... Monday . • <5:30 6:20 8:27 6:25 6:24 6:22 6:21 5:54 5:56 5:57 5:58 6:50 6: 0| 5: 1 8:51 •:54 10:53 11:49 morn 0:43 1:33 sea. The wcaflicr nfeie was niucli milder than two degrees further North. Old and new fashions and old and new buildings are quaintly min gled there. Richmond is a busy, thriv- irg city, a magnificent manufactur ing and distributing centre. I t is sure to be one of the richest and most pop ulous of Southern municipalities. .Sonic folks there say Ju;lge S^m Mel ton is slightly responsible for the con flagration that made the place a smoking ruin in 1855. I suppose the Judge hud been reudingabout Moscow and felt a ‘burning desire’ to emulate a famous Russian, whose patriotic act bore better fruit. No doubt, too, the Judge was only doing what he pre sumed to he liis duty. A host of men, during and since tiie war, have allow ed their zeal to get the better of their discretion. Be tills as it may. a grand Richmond has risen from the ashes of the Confederate holocaust.” tobacco experim^y^^iby^^ UmaeeohaHHBfcai sed in lower Col leton, andlinHbbt that a variety ap proaching in exjpeilemve to the Louisi ana perique tobacco could he devel oped along the seaboard. I’he w’hole State needs another staple crop, and their is no doubt that tobacco can fur- nisii it. The Rurtal of David Dickrtfon From The Atlanta Constitution. The funeral of Mr. David Dickson Home and Farm Notes. During the severe cold weather the hog is more susceptible*to cold than any other animal on the farm. In many sections of New EnglaVitf Western corn is being bought in large* quantities and fed to sheep. It is estimated that the average con sumption of wheat by each inhabi tant of the tJnited States is nearly six bushels. It is estimated that more than one- half of the food consumed by farm animals in our winter months is re quired to keep up the natural heat. One vgg in winter is often worth three or four in summer, and the poul terer who keeps his hens in condition forw’inter laying will not be disap pointed in the profits. A Kansas farmer who has nine head of sheep put the money that came to him from the safe of mutton and wool Into more sheep. lu nine yea.rs Jho had 1,700 sheep, worth $5,0QG. Cocoanut growing will be given an experiment in Florida. Over 100,000 plants have been set out on one plan tation. It requires six years for the trees to begin to yield returns. A full- grown tree will produce sixty nuts. One of the best places in the world— if one cannot liftve a green-house—in> which to keep roses is the kitchen^ There is always more or less moi stum in the air from cooking, andsolomK’aa the air is moist the better the gn of your roses. An Indiana strawberry grower i that one night when frost threate mad his crop, Just then in bloom, his and hiimielf remained in the str *w- herry field till 4 a. m., firing wood t wd then covering it with sods and ea rtih to produce a smoke and keep ofT t be* frost, with entire success. The problem of sending queen-hgedf by mail across the Atlantic has been successfully solved. Frank Benton, of Munich, Germany, reports in Gleanings in Bee-Cultura that he has Ttmt mat; ’Mi N *^tll i ■Ha’S: three losses. Liberal estimates place the coat of keeping sheep at $2 per head per year. At current rates fair fleeces will aver age $2 each, and iambs may he esti mated at $2 each when weaned. If 50 per cent, of the lamb* he carried through, the income will he $3 fee- each sheep, or $1 clear profit. A* th® •j sheep consumes much refuse, however, t he profit is still larger. Peanut flour may yet become an 'MS years. If Mr. Cleveland f to aeeejae to their wisiie morallvt certain to do, hall u<e« of a k eialiy among an poverty-stricken | the g<anl old Southern faith in wo- he impetus given to even lupils, and the among t he en- huniati faculty in the j waking-un tiiat comes tire population. I know a hundred man, and is “woive than an infidel.” The poorest mountain hamlet in Ken-j tucky can raise the money, by some device, to send the best young woman neighborhoods where a good, woman- of their region to Berea, that she may ! Iv, Christian colored girl has gone j come back and teach the children how from her academical course at Fisk or j to excel tiirinselves. So wonderfully Hampton, and so toiled with the.ehil- has God provided the way f >r the np- dren and prevailed with their parents j lifting of the lowliest through tlie.-e entire t from a! ter, thef among politici: ever im i will ma uhlic servant, and of c; ili> DO YOU KftQW THAT LORILLAKD’S GLIM PLUG TOBACCO that she has not only gotten over her (head a good school-house, hut built up around her a “new departure” in a Christian civilization. If you have only money enough to procure the best teacher that can L-e had, take the teacher, gather the children, and be- foyce’s Barber Shop. t be hitppy to receive my old >mers at my new stand, on iue, next door to Warneke’s ring. Hair Cutting and executed m first-class )HN R BOYCE, with Red Tin Tag: Rose iK-al' Fine Cut f?"* top ish for the milieniai. If there Chewing; Navy Clippings, and Black. ! is no fit interior, begin in God’s ^ ^ : school-house of all-out-door*. Some- ‘ body will give your new school elbow- room under a tree, and the wondrous library of nature will spread its open leaves before you. Let the teacher in struct the boys to fence a campus, and Cormick’s Barber Shop. I HAVE opened my shop on south j side of Curve Street, first door from the corner of Main and Curve i the girls to plant flowers therein, and 1 ?. ,8k , e rw ?y ,h,! P' 88 ?, for b “ lld ‘ ng ; men ; Ere long the most godless or stupid of W. F. CORMICK. parents will take a big holiday to -M, vast areas, by bringing up the finest class in the State, its promising young men, the necessity for exertion, and showing them the open door of the school-house where woman in the coming generation can do more for 18,000,000 of people than any body of women or men was ever given the op portunity to do before. TO BE CONTINUED. Some idea of the inteusity of the cold weather in the West may oe formed from the statement that Lake Michigan is frozen from shore to shore, the ice ranging from nine inches to three feet in thickness. Several vessels are reported to he fro zen in somewhere on the lake. ictus,’ he is judging by his roer as a i that is known : will undoubtt the spoilsman ns of his party, which, how- ootent in effecting its obji et, ie it necessary for the admin- istrutioif to look in other directions for support.! cliarac- ily be a revoit and mai'Iiine Five Truisms. By J. F. BiiBt, of Bamberg, S. C. Truism No. 1.—Our people will nev er become informed or interested in the great issues of the day unless they take a paper; nor can a man feel an interest in anything of which he knows nothing, and how can a man expect to keep himself informed un less he puts himself in the way of such information? Truism No. 2.—Papers are designed for tiie very purpose of extending in formation on all subjects, education al, religious, social and personal.. In deed, papers are the channels through which everybody can secure the nec- essary information. Truism No. 3.—How shall the people know unless they read; hut how shall they read without a paper? Igno- ranee is a curse, and nothing will so speedily remove this curse as knowl edge, and tiie paper, in my judgment, is tiie most effective agent for remo ving the curse and bestowii g the remedy. Truism No. 4.—A paper cannot be sustained without subscribers. .It 'takes money as well us brains to run a paper. If an editor don’t publish a paper only for money, one tiling is sure, ho cannot d > it without money. Truism No. 5.—No honorable man wants to read for. took-place Friday afternoon at 2 j important product in the Southern States. It is reported that Virginia farmers raised 2,100,000 bushels of these nuts-the past year. Tennessee is dow,l for 250',000 bushels, and North Carolina for 135,000 bushels. The Sa vannah (Ga.) Telegramjsays the Vir ginians ai’e beginning to manufacture the peanut into flour for pastry and biscuits. The same authority says that if Africa sent a curse to America in slavery, she certainly conferred a blessing in the universally popular peanut. o’clock. He was buried in the garden of his own home. The coffin was of unpainted pine, made at one of the shops in Sparta, and was covered with common white alpaca. The corpse was dressed in an elegant suit of black broadcloth and black silk velvet, hut wore no shoes. The feet of- the de ceased wers crossed, his right arm lay at his side, his hand clenched with the exception of tiie index finger, which pointed towards his feet. The left hand lay on his breast and held a beautiful pocket handkerchief, and in the right pocket of his pants was a pocket-knife, a pocket-comb and a tooth-pick. These details about his burial were arranged by Mr. Dickson years ago, and were communicated to his nephew, Mr. Jeff Worthen, that they might he observed. The funeral was largely attended. paper he has not paid Johnnie and the Egyptian Ques tion. From the Chicago Herald. “Pa, what is England sending more troops to Egypt for?” “To rescue Wolseley, my eon.” “What is Wolseley therefor?” “To rescue Gordon.” “What for was Gordon sent tnere?” “To restore peace.” “Who was lighting?” “Well, nobody was. The Mahdi had an army raised, though.” “Pa, do the British own that coun try?” “No, my son.” “Then they are campaigning in the wrong ward, ain’t they?” “It looks that way, Johnnie. Now run along and carry in that coal for your mother. You’re too Inquisitive.” One of the most startling projects of the times is to illumine the Atlan tic Ocean by means of electric lights —actually to make a “path of silvery light” across the water from the hanks of Newfoundland to the shores of Ten vessels are to he an- The servant girl problem F about to he solved in Chicago. It is stated that gre:>t numbers of young women in that city have abandoned the slim salaries land exacting duties of the shops ansi betaken themselves to the easier petitions of household work in In 18‘J3 the Washington National Monument Association, a voluntary organization, was formed by some leading citizens of Washington, and i Ireland collections went on through the eoun- ; cliored at a distance of two hundred try until after 1857. On July 4,1848,the miles from each other in a straight corner stone was laid. The monument line, each riding a “mushroom an- s oc a’ion continued the work until ; chor,” which permits the vessel’s Do , expending>;2-”l.(K», and carry the j swinging around with the tide with- sliatt to th£ height of 156 feet. At i out fouling her anchor. These light- this point the Know-nothings made | ships are also to he connected togeth- a sudden raid on the annual meeting jer and to the shore by an electric private ifeiuilies, where they ate more of the society and turned out the old | cable, and be able to send messages comfortable, better protected’ and' quite as much respected as when they were behind the counters. The I lions t< candid: pears t| about 1] has th< not alwaj the best a of holding primary elec- decide between contesting for Post masterships ap- have struck several places same time. The man who Ost talent forgetting votes Is the man who would make 'ostmaster, and it is not like- ipm- ly that (Sleveland will pay much at tention to the results of^ primary elections. disectors. No work was done on the 1 to any part of the world, monument until congress Jiavin r i pJSi made an appropriation to continue the work, and the foundation having been strengthened, at a cost of about $100,OX), on April, 1881, the work of laying qtone on the Washington monument was resumed. On Decem ber 6, 1384, the capstone of the monu ment, with its aluminum apex, was put in place. Since then work has been in progress in the interior of the monument, electric lights have been put up, and the marble shutters of the windows have been hung. Wt-iz Is u goose a “domestic animal?” At Due West, Abbeville County, re cently, a case was tried before a Trial Justice of “tresspass by stock.” Du ring the. progress of the trial quite a heated and learned discussion arose as to whether a goose or a turkey can be included in the term “domestic animals.” The case consumed six hours. The jury disagreed and the case will he tried again. The case has been tried before and has been heard by two juries. Docs Farming Fay?’ Frmn the Carolina Spartan'. This question is often foolishly asked and more foolishly discussed by men who make nothing pay. The man who has never farmed successfully and who lives from hand to mouth is fully prepared to show that farming does not pay. Such discussions, by such men, tend to dissatisfy young farmers and to make them believe that the world has work and large re turns in monc3’in other callings. If this question is discussed so as to dig nify the work of the farm and make men and women better contented with their occupation, and cause them to improve their methods of work and beautify their homes, then it is well to talk about it. In our county there are more than 30,<XK) people depending directly on the farms for a support. They are generally not in a condition to meditate a change. They are like the hoy watching the gopher hole. With him it was not a question of pay, or whether some other occupa tion would not be better, hut meat he was obliged to have, and he had to get it out that very hole he was watch ing. You might as well ask if mer chandising pays and answer by giving a long list of men who have failed in the last fifteen years In our county. Ho with the learned professions and all occupations. When you consider the failure of men who go into any business, it is easy to prove that it does not pay. We believe the out look for the farmer in Spartanburg County is just as good as It is for any other profession. Farming does pay even here on the old red hills of Spar tanburg. It keeps alive more than forty thousand people, and builds fine houses and pays interest on railroad debts and keeps up the State Govern ment, and is the grand, motive power which keeps all-'the other wheelsin motion. Of course farming pays. If farm operations should stop for one year, banks, factories, stores and pro fessions would all go under. The question is not whether It pays or not, but how to get larger returns for labor and improve the form and eoun try ✓ V l 4 ,i -.»varaa ; homes so much that clerks fessional. men will be farm life, and will all for the time to come wj pro- dent H > ii V. -r . £ ■;