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I?V E. ?. MURRAY & CO. ?_ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST : lART & COMPANY, IlKtlMll'ABTEKS FOIt ?NIEL PRATT COTTON GINS, THE BROWN COTTON GINS, r'PDEB? > CONDKMSERS, 1 ".liollcM'? Cotton Press, U?M> v>l> (:,N ?BARINO. ' ST VT AGESTS KOR BLIP'S SPREADER, Iv ilvtrizor ami Cart combined. Distrib 1 ?,,-i Manure, Cotton teed, Mink, Marl, Ac. evenly in drills or broadcast. Machine Warranted. AGENTS FOR I GRANT'S PAT. -VAN MILLS, BURRALL CORN SHELLERS. FOR SALE is ?UilSTI.ES, BABBITT METAL. BELTING, MILL STONES, PICK'S, ifrc. AGENTS FOR Li Bradford's Corn, Wheat and Feed Mills. HAUT & CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. bimc ?. is^_?*_L>L. ISraneli of Ltidrten & Bater. hand Midsummer Sale. Preparing for Fall Trade. lUY NOW AND PAY WHEN COTTON COMES IN. JOO Pianos and 500 Organs. 1H0VSANDS of musical families are _ Intending to purchase Pianos and Or ti? in tlie Fall when Cotton conies in. 'by wait? liny at once, and enliven tho ne, hot suinmer months with music and etc the "Harvest Home1' still more joy il lidsummer Special Offer. Coder our Midsummer Sale we offer to t'.l 'luring the months of JUNE, JULY, 10UST and SEPTEMBER, 1882, PI iSOS ami ORGANS, of every make, style hi price, at our very lowest casli rates : On /Vano*, $25 Cash, balance Novcinbcr 11882. 0? Organs, $10 Cash, balance November , 1882. Without Intrreat or any advance in Price, ! If balance can't he puid in the fall, longer nie will be given, with a reasonable in roa-e of price. All instruments of every rade and price included in the sale. Tell our musical friends of it. Write us for atnlog'.ics, Price List, Circulars. This prcloses October 1st, 1882. Address L. E. NORRYCE, Or MeStnith Music House, GREENVILLE, 8. C. June 20,1SS2 50 iuist's, D. M. Ferry's, Hiram Sibley's, [oimson, Bobbins & Reid's FRESH SEEDS AT . . RE?D & co/s, CHEAP FOR CASH. I Wo will not bo undersold. Feb 16,1882 31 SAWING NOTICE. i^YERY one wanting logs sawed can J nave it done promptly at my Mill, ?nee Lumber, in any quantity, dried and , .????, in tiny ouuu ires?ctl, constantly on hand. A. H. OS1JORNE. 52 Jnly 13, IS82 THE SAVANNAH 'ALLEY RAILROAD LA8 taken a fresh start, nnd work will [turned in a few days, and thus the jwni of many 0f our citizens will proba be accomplished in timo to movo the tttcrop. in t|,c meantime our Firm IS BOUND b?.?i"A? t,,e geed work of muin'aining K^utation for ??.ow Prlce? and Voir ^* ? In its incipiency we deter TO BE dui a11 Competition, and by ? ? bor and HONEST BARGAINS we BUILT we ftre *>< ? only nrond of, ^ w which we take this opportunity to >niiniri.r n,ftny customers. During the took S . iu!",cr wo anticipate keeping in llec a i lmo,,r ?ener?l Merchisn Ir^u1"! we,advise those in need of I #ooii ? , - a Good* and "??Ttnlns to call on (BROWN BROS April?, White Supremacy ?s Inculcated by Re. publicans, The New York Tribune is not hnnnv nrt'SOrvin^ (!..,? l__t Vi ? * . sa>8 . Only withm the Democratic rule at any cost." That is interior ana a superior race come in collision the m fer.or race must go to the wall. age and our experience of the last seven teen years justify mo in making ,he prophecy that the African race will never any Sute of the South. The experiment of conferring upon the.n political power in proportion to their uutnbers lias thus far proved a dismal failure, and, in my judgment, w.ll so continue as long as hu man ?m re i8 ae 5t i?. Tb? fai|^re not been because we have not done every thing wo could to make it succeed but because laws independent of and above all human laws have irrevocably stamped upon the one race its superiority over the other. Intellect and intelligence are forces Jn this world often greater than numbers. It makes no difference what votes you put in a ballot box, how many little white pellets of paper that signify one thing and dark pellets that signify another. Those pellets of paper in that box which represent a raajoritv of r?. will in the end rule, even if th'cv be in~a T-,0-lly..?f Vumber8-" That is'the way ol it in South Carolinn. Senator Miller, of California, a staunch Republican, in his appeal to the Senate last March, said : "We ask of you to secure to us American Anglo-Saxon civ ilization without contamination or adul teration with auy other. We of this age hold this land in trust for our race and kindred." Cur fellow-countrymen would not save us from African domination, and the white people of the State have saved themselves, "because they hold this land in trust for our race and kin dred." Seuator Teller, of Colorado, a Stalwart Republican, goes quite ns far as the South Carolimi Democrats. In the de bate on the Chinese bill he said : "1 say the Caucasian race is superior in mental force, intellectual vigor and morals to any other branch of the huumn family. I have authority here that even the Sen ator from Massachusetts (Mr. Hoar) will nut flout. I have authority which I pro pose to read that I believe on a question of this kind is as good as I can rend. I believe, iu the history of this people, that no muti has ever been connected with its government who has ever had a greater love for the humau race than Abraham Lincoln. I say further that no man in this country ever discussed the question of the rights ol '.he human race with as much intelligence as Abraham Lineolu did, and yet he declared over and over again iu that memorable debate between Stephen A. Douglas aud himself in LS08, which attracted the attention of the whole world, that the negro was in infe rior race to the white man. He repeated it again and again, and notably at Co lumbus iu 1859. that the negro was and must ever remain the interior of the white race. He (Lincoln) said: I will eay then that 1 am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white race; that I am not or ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor o? quali fying them to hold office or intermarry with the white people, and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the tico races Urino together on terms of social and jiolitical equality. Aud inas much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of hai'ing the superior position assigned to the white race.', President Lincoln is surely good authority on this subject, and had he lived the plan of perpetua ting the Republican party by making Republican voting machines of the ne groes would never have been heard of. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, goes quite aa tar. in the debaie tuo Chi nese bill, he said : "If you go od" into the j broad modern civilization that free traders and free-thinkers and free-love . and free-everybodiee maintain, of cou.ee you muBt say that all mankind are of one kiu, that they are all of one nature, that they are all of one destiny, that they aro all of one sympathy, and that they can bo poured into one common recep tacle everywhere with mutual advantage to every one of the human beings who is thus brought in contact and amalgama tion with other societies and human be ings ; but the misfortune about it is that the common sense, the common informa tion and the common observation of everybody has demonstrated that that is not true. The people of Massachusetts, I do not think, would be hungry for an irruption of a million of the inhabitants of the continent of Africa to day or to morrow or next year ; not because the pcoplo of Massachusetts have any hos tility to the African, not because they do not desire his development, hie growth, his education, every amelioration that may belong to him, but because they be \\q<*q Uxt instinct or hv education that it is not good" for the'two races to be brought into that kind of contact in that place. Speaking in part for the people of Vermont, I am sure it is not so as to them. It is based upon the belief that nations and races, as they have been con stituted by the God of iNature, and by political and geographical divisions and arrangements, get on better as separato families with their separate independence and separate institutions than they Ho amalgamated togotber, unless their ori gin, their race, their tendency, their na ture is euch that, being put together, they assimilate and become one perfect, homogeneous and prosperous mass The Tribune iuelf wisely remarked the other day that "only very few dema gogues and very ignorant people assert the present fitness of all thesons of Adam for free government." It stumbled across a fundamental truth, and will not be allowed to forget it. The Tribune need not appreheud either violence or fraud at elections in South Carolina. Wo have changed all that. The Democracy are the white people, and the whito people aro the Democracy. Democratic rule is white rule, and while rule is as necessary for the wel are of the colored people as for the well-being of ? the whites. The superior race, the j whites, must prevail for tho jasons which Senators Jones, Miller, Teller and Edmunde givo in their speeches. These Senators would act as we do, if they lived in South Carolina, and they do act ns we do when an inferior race is threatened to be fastened upon them. Their dread o? Ih Heathen Chinee made them realize what was our experience with the negro. ?At tra ami ( Ourier. Address of the state D?mocratie Com nilltee to the People or the state. Rooms of tu State Democratic Executive Committee,1 Columbia, s. C, August 15, 1ss2. ; Fellow Citizens: The candidates nominated by the State Democratic Convention at Columbia are worthy of the support of the win I ? people. ' No other political body will, or can, pre -eut to you candidates for State offices wiio nave equal claims to vour confidence. : ine.Democracy of South Carolina have received the nominations with unfeigned satisfaction and tire determined to elect their candidate-. It will be an un mixed blessin- to the State, however, if there shall bea truce to political strife, and honest men. with honest purpose aud without regard to their political as sociations m the past, unite in voting for the upright, capable and faithful candi dates who are now before the people. The Democracy cannot bo expected to continue to load themselves down with taxation for the benefit of their former opponents, if these persist in preferring political tramps or imported vagabonds to Caroliniaus of proved worth and ac knowledged merit. The principles declared by the State Convention as formulating the objects and intentions of the Democratic party arc intelligible, liberal aud progressive. They look to the preservation of honest home rule as the paramount need of good citizens of every condition in life, and they pledge to all the people the just administration of equal laws nnd economy with efficiency in the conduct o? the government. In ino broader arena of national affairs the South Caro lina Democracy stand pledged to the reform of the tariff system, so as to les sen the burdens on the people, and to the reform of the civil service as a means of purifying politica. Wheu the political workers shall no longer have a hundred thousand Federal offices ns a lure and bait for their hungry depend ents, the power of combinations of un scrupulous politicians will nssuredly be broken, and for every candidate, within his party, there will be a fair field nnd no favor. The Democracy demand like wise that the Federal Government, by liberal appropriations from the treasury for educational purposes, help the South ern States to convert the present nnd rising generation of freedmen into in telligent and responsible citizens. In all thiugs the South Carolina Democracy solemnly bind themselves, before their fellow countrymen, to pursue that public policy which will make the whole peo ple content, by securing their rights, guarding their privileges and fostering their growing prosperity. The State Executive Committee re mind their Democratic fellow citizens that, while the control of South Carolina has been won by the party, and with ' at control has come the intelligent ad ministration of governmental affairs and peace in every Carolina home, the pow er of the Democracy can only be main tained and consolidated by eternal vigi lance and untiring effort. The Democ racy are not so strong that they can alfurd to disagree or divide. Disunion now would be ns perilous as in the his toric campaign six years ago, when the State was wrestled from the grasp of the ignorant and corrupt. Tolerition there should be within the party lines. There is ample scope and verge there for the assertion of individual views and opin ions. Rut those who abandon tiie party or oppose it, because the measures they prefer have not been adopted, make themselves the enemies of good govern ment, whether they choose to masque rade as Independents or boldly flaunt the black flag of the Republican party. Political solidarity is as important as ever before, and there is less excuse than in any previous canvass for discontent and desertion. Opposition to the Dem ocratic candidates and the Democratic platform in thia campaign must be taken as a proof of invincible ignorance, "or of greed nnd ambition that would sacrifice the brightest hopes of the State for the gratification of personal desires. The State Committee earnestly urge their follow Dem?crata to exert them selves to the utmost to bring out a full vote and to spare no pains to bwcII the ranks of ine colored Democracy. By well considered laws repeating and bal lot-box stuffing are alike guarded against. The Democracy, therefore, cau go into the caovws with the assurance that the strength of the opposition will not bo increased by trickery or fraud and with the satisfaction of knowing that, in South Carolina, there shall be, beyond dispute, a free and fair election. By personal exertion, in exhibiting and ex plaining to individual voters the benefits and blessings of Democratic rule, the Democrocy can command the intelligent Bupport and continuing co-operation of the colored people. To this end no la bor, no persuasion, no argument should be spared. So will the Democracy bo proud of the triumph they shall enjoy, as the lawful and legitimate result of just administration, wise nominations, liberal principles and systematic and unflagging work. This we owe to the State aud we owe it to the traditions of the master-race to which we belong. Victory we must have ; and houor with victory. Jamfh F. I/.lak, Chairman. G. ?. Bryan, Wm. Mcxbo, J. Otey Ri:ki>, R. P. Tono, G. W. Croft, WilieJoneh, Jno. B. Erwin, Giles J. Patter-son D. P. Sojourner, T. STono Farrow, 0. J. C. H??tbOK, Jno. W. Williams, E. B. Gary, J. F. Kimme, Geo. Johnstone, J. D. Mcllcas, E. B. Murray, Wm. Elliott, Chas. S. Sinkleh. Jos. II. EAni.e, F. W. Dawson. An Experimental Drunk.?A St. Louis preacher, never having tasted whisky, bought half a gallon of it to study its effects, in order the better to describe them in the temperance sermon he was preparine. To avoid publicity and accidents ho locked himself in his study and threw the key out of the win dow. In less than an hour he was sing ing and dancing instead of writing; about 4 o'clock in tho afternoon he climbed out of his window and slid down the lightning rod, fell into swill barrel, kissed a woman in the street, got licked by two men at different times, broke a window, stole a dog, saesed a policeman, and got run in. The judge socked il to him mast awfully?thirty days?but his church forgave him, and took bim back on his solemnly promising that he would hereafter discuss '.he temperance question from a purely theorolical standpoint.? Haickcyc. _ Mr. W. A. Forbes, Greenfield, Mass., was cured by St. Jacobs Oil of rheuma tism.? Cincinnati Christian Standard. THE WALTZ. Ite Immorality Denouuct'fl by Od* Who Kanin lilt Living hy Teaching It?III* Iteti sou* for I! In Clinnge of F tilth. Professor James . Welch, who keeps ; h dancing school at Tenth and Chestnut streets, is about to begin a crusade against the waltz as at present danced, which he pronounces to bo immodest, vulgar and geuerally demoralizing. He said yesterday: "1 have been a dancing master for the past ten years, and havo made it a practico throughout that period ? to observe carefully all the changes in the public taste, and to note the changes for better or worso in my profession. I j have watched closely and thought deeply on the subject, and now I have no hesi- | tation in saying tho wa'.tz, under whatso- ? ever name it may go for the lime being, i is immoral. It is the only dance that decent people protest against, ami I am happy to say there are numbers of care ful fathers who will not allow their daughters to dance it, although a vast proportion of tho fashionableand a ma jority of the middle and lower classes do not seem as yet awakened to its iniquity, have recently been in consultation with the Hev. Mr. Waylaud of the Hab tist Church at Broad and Arch streets, and with others of the clergy, and they agree with me that the dancing of the waltz baa fully as demoralizing au cfTect in its way as have alcohol and tobacco iu theirs." "Do you hear many objections to waltzing nowadays ?" "Ob, yes,any quantity of them?and I think the lime is right to begin a crusade. I don't think my eU'orts or those of tho clergymen who will take part in the good wort will have any immediate effect, but when the people begin to Ibink, which they will uo when the subject boa had a little agitation, they will soon aci, and tho voluptuous waltz will gradually dis appear. Ten or fifteen years ago the waltz was not bo objectionable as at pres ent. Dancers of to day ccmc into alto gether too close contact. In the old time a gentleman merely touched a lady's waist, at the same time holding her right hand iu his left. Now he throws his arm clear around her form, pulls her closely to him, as though fearful of losing her, brings his face in actual contact with her soft cheek, and in a word, hugs her. Such action is altogether too familiar, but still custom and society sanction it, and instead of improvement for the better we see year after year a marked advance in the improprieties of the dance. In the old days the waltz was comparatively modest ; now it is just the reverse, and the waltz is calculated to do more injury to the young than many of the vices that arc preached against from the pulpit and deeply deplored in privato life." "But suppose you eucceed in abolish ing the waltz, Professor, where will you find any dance to take its place?" "Well, when the neccessity arises a new dance will be invented that will bave all the gliding graco and the glorious ex hilaration of the waltz without its deli rious voluptuousness. My own iuten tion is to substitute the 'Minuet de la Cour,' a dance introduced by Louis XIV of France, which kept its place in public esteem for centuries, but has of late years gone completely out of use. It was par tially revived in this city in 1S7G, but was allowed to drop out of fashion again, principally for the reason that the ladies and gentlemen who danced it were corn polled by the dictates of fashion to dress in court costume, which is very expen sive, and is at the same time repugnant to the republicanism ot" Americans. The dance consists of marching, bowing and turning, and develops all the grace that the dancers possess. Its great recommen dation is that it is perfectly modest and admits of no hugging, such as we see nightly in the waltz." "You speak with much force, Professor, with regard to the morality of tho waltz. Do you speak from perennal observation or from hearsay ?" "From personal observation. I have mnde it my practice for years to attend balls and parties in order to keep pace in my teaching with the popular demand. I have no hesitation in saying that I at tribute much of the vico and immorality now prevailing to the insidious influence of the waltz. This may seem an over straining of the point, butit is my honest conviction. I tell you that in the higher circles young ladies at parties and balla are absolutely hugged?embraced would be too weak to express my meaning?by men who" were altogether unknown to them before the music for the waltz be gan to inspire tho toes of the dancers. Is this a pleasant Bight to contemplate ? "Then in the lower class?e tho license of the dance is much more shocking. I have seen couples so closely interlocked that the face of the man was actually in coniaci with that of the palpitating giri in his arms. I have seen kisses inter changed amid the whirl of the maddening waltz. "The persons interested in this crusade intend to send circulars to the leading clergymen and heads of the great ecclesi astical organs and institutions of the United States and ask them to aid in the great work. Dr. Wayland said he would help us in any way he could, and promised to write to Mrs. General Sherman, tho authoress of a book in opposition to waltzing, asking her assistance. I also wrote to that lady requesting her advice as to the conduct of the crusade. Mrs. Sherman's book takes the ground that the waltz is immodest; that it detracta from tho purity of young ladies who in dulge iu it; that it gives to the young men opportunities for familiarities that should never be allowed, and that it is, in fact, demoralizing in the extreme. She holds that no youug lady should be em braced save by the man she proposes to marry, and that the close contact of tho waltz is dangerous and injutious to the modesty and purity of womankind. "There are six dances now in vogue that involve the hugging principle of the waltz. Tbey are the plain waltz, which was introduced by the Germans (who sel dom, by the way, take part in square dances); the glide, a very fashionable and pretty dance ; the redowa, which has held ita own for many generations of dancers; the Danish (half march and half waltz) and three step galop. I en tered upon this crusade, first, because I thought the waltz an immoral dance, and, second, because the clergymen whom I consulted thought the initiatory steps in the matter should be taken by a mem ber of the profession most deeply interes ted." Professor Welch, iu conclusion, said that the waltz step is in itself unobjec tionable, but that the closeness of the partners, as the dance is now practiced, is worthy of strong condemnation. He suggests that the waltz, step be retained, but that the partners be widely separated by a verv simple expedient. This is, to cross and join the hands. A possible ob jection to this is that it will not afford to the lady that sense of support and pro tection that is derived from the pressure of her partner's arm about her waist. The professor said that he introduced this style of waltzing to some of bis higher classes lost Winter, and it was well and favorably received.?Philadelphia Pr?ts. A FOU THE SOUTH. MIMI?!!* of M oilry tu be Minio front Cotton Serti. Speaking of ilio new era of prosperity for tho South, Commissioner Kenner, of Louisiana, said to day : "1 made the pro diction rive years ago, and the protont state of tho business justifies tho predic tion, that tho manufacturo of oil and other producta from cotton seed would within twenty-live years bring from one fourth to one-third to the South of what our section then got from the staple it self." "And that means how much increase in your revenues ?" 1 Trobably not less than 9100,0000,000. The business has entirely grown up since the war, aud it is only within the past ten yean that it lisa nttaiDed any impor tance. There are now sixty-five or sev enty mills in operation or being erected, and the progresa and profits of the man ufacture aro already astonishing. When the chief mill in New Orleans was estab lished some ten years ago we paid but from $7 to $10 a ton for the seed. Last year we were ohliged to pay from $10 to $19 a ton. At first we could get such supply as we wanted along tbo water courses, and tho transportation cost hut little. The demaud has grown to such proportions that we must uow go into the interior, aud tho difference in the cost of getting tho seed to market makes tho difference in the price to us." "Why do you think tho product will ever equal in valuo one-third of tho cot ton crop itself?" "For every halo of cotton--400 pounds ?there are 1,200 pounds of seed. The annual cotton crop amounts to about six million bales, which would yield, after reserving tho necessary sreti for planting next year, about two and a half million tons of cotton seed. This teed, if manu factured into oil, oilcake aud oilier pro duco, would yield iu value not less than $75,000,000, and probably 1100,000,000." "What are tbc-so producle?" "All of this need ocforc tho war, with tho exception of that used for planting, was thrown away. Wo now buy all that wo can get. With increased facilities of transportation, permitting tho planters to ehip their seed to tho mills, the entire crop will be utilized, becauso tho profita of the manufacture, with the price at not more than ?20 a ton delivered at the mill, will iuduce the expansiou of the busi ness until tho whole crop will be used. There will bo always a ready market. All that is now made is readily Hold. There are four products of the seed?the oil itself, lint necessary left on the seed in the process of ginning, the cake und the residuum left after clarifying tho oil. The oil is used for table purposes and for cooking ; the oil cake for feeding animale and for fertilizers ; tho residuum for soap stock. Out of one ton of seed we get thirty-six gallons of oil and about seven hundred pounds ol cake, bosides tbo lint and residuum. Tho total value of the manufactured product yields a very handsomo profit. "Where is your market ?" "For the oil, Italy and tho Mediterra nean ports ; for the cake, England aud Uermany. Of course, large quantities of both uro also consumed iu the United States. Good judges declare that where cotton eeed oil ?b weil made and clarified it is hard to tell the difference between it and the best olive oil. Both arc vegeta ble products, and there can be nothing purer or more free from injurious effects upon the stomach than is cotton seed oil. I have no doubt that the lime will como when it will be usod with fully as much favor as tbo salad oil from Europe. It is now used by thousands who cannot de tect tho dinerence between it aud olive oil. I look to its manufacture as one of the great factors of tho future prosperity of ihe South."?New York Herald, The Tallest of Monuments. The white, tall, plain shaft cf tho Washington monument is foot by foot daily rising skyward, and its completion, in due course of time, is now assured. It is already a landmark visible from any part of Washington, and the inhabitants, after a generation of ridicule, are begin ning to be proud of it. Apart from its unique character as an architectural wonder, modern science proposes to utilize it for the public benefit. The signal otfice expects lo have a permanent station at ils summit, aud its officers say that observations of tbo air and atmos pheric movements taken at an altitude of 050 feet will be of great value. Ob servations are taken, of course, at far greater altitudes than this, but the grad ual slope of even the moat precipitous mountain:; and the presence oi large masses of rock near the observatory create surface currents, even on moun tain heights, and interfere with tbo study of the phenomena of the higher levels of tho atmosphere. It has often been proposed to institute a scries of experi ments by means of captive balloons, but the expense of such work prevented the plant being carried out. At the time of the Centennial it was proirosed to erect a skeleton tower to tho height of 1,000 feet in Fairmouut Park. Had this been done the signal oflicers would have utilized the obeervatory for the benefit of meteor ological science, but the tower mopped at three hundred feet. The signal oflicers say it would not be impracticable to build a tower 1,000 feet high, or even higher, and th.it tho erection of such a tower would bo of great service. The monument is now 290 feet high. The original design contemplated a height ot 600 feet, but at a meeting of the commissioners, two years ago, when it was decided to resume work, it was voted to make the monument the loftiest artificial structure in the world. 1 ho commissioners examined the heights of all the noted monuments, towers, spires, pagodas, buildings and flag poles, aud found that to safely distance all rivalry a height of G?0 feet would be necessary. It was therefore determined to complete the shaft on this plan, and the drawings were modified to that end. What was the surprise and gratification of the com ? missione to fina subsequently that tho ; new proportions of the shaft as uow adopted were exactly those of an Egyp tian obelisk.? Wathington Post. Why He Quit Preaching.?"I un derstand, Uncle Amos, that you have quit preaching," said the Secretary of State to an old colored man who for years has had charge of a church in Little Hock. "Yes, boss, Use stepped aside." "Why did you quit?" "Wall, dar wrs numerous pressures brought to bar agio de old man. Da charged me wid utealin' a ham for one thing and 'vised me ter quit." "Why, they couldn't prove that you stole the ham, could they ?" "No, sah, da couldn't, an' ?f I hadn't 'knowledges it da neuer would bab prubed it." "Why did you acknowledge it?" "Case da found de ham under my bed, sab."?Arkansas Traveler. ? Marshall County, Tennessee, has a hen twenty-one years old that keeps on laying. Heaven. Dr, Tucker in Christian Index, The biifTt'titigs of this sorrow smitten ami sin-beset world are liard to boar. Oftentimes we feel as if wo should sink in a sea of troubles? yea, sometimes we feel that we have sunk, and that wo can say with the l'salmist : "All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me." But it is delightful to think that "out of the depths" we can cry unto the Lord, ami that he will hear our prayer. It is delightful, too, to be assured that though He may afflict us, Ho will never forsake us, and that there is a good time coming, when we shall rest from our labors, when all tears shall be wiped from our eyes, and when, having experience'-! our hist pang, and bid adieu to sorrow, we shall sit down in the paradise of (.ioti. The Impc of heaven is our stay. What more do we need? What more is possible? Life is short. It will soou bo over?all over. The moment it ceases we are ushered into tin realms of inconceivable and never-ending joy. Wo scarcely know whether our tears are tears of joy or sorrow?perhaps they uro both? when wo sing, Jerusalem, my glorious home, Name ever dear to me, When shall my labors have an end, In joy and peace anil thee? There is a rapture even in the antici pation. Tho very hope of it strengthens us :"or our burden here, aud fortifies us against temptation. Who cm sin when he realizes that sin blocks his way to the pearly gates? The very conception of tho holy placo is elevating and purifying. To meditato upon ?t prepares us to enter it. We often oittorly learn in this life that the anticipation of pleasure exceeds tho reality. Hut wo are happy to know that our most glorimi?, anticipations of heaven are meagre and vapid, compared with heaven itself. The home of the angelH ! Tho dwelling place of Clod ! A world of rest and peace, and joy and love! world where all is pure, and where all is holy. worid where we shall have free and eternal access to all that (?od has laid up for them, for whom the blood of the everlasting covenant was shed ! A world where infinite goodness has poured out all its treasures! Hut we can neither express nor conceive what lies beyond the river. The reality overspreads all human capacity. Wo arc so overwhelmed with the glory that we see none of it. We uso tho worlds which represent though they do not exprese the blessed ness of the eternal world, and we some times imagino that tho glorious ideals have been actually present to our minds. Hut these things have never entered the heart of man. Wo are like one born aud reared in a dungeon, where in dim twi light, he never saw earth, nor sky, nor tree, nor leaf, nor human face, and who, on seeing a picture of the sun, imagines that he has seen the sun itself. Hut his notions of the splendor of that glorious orb would lie correct and vivid, and abundnntly up to the original, compared to tho vnguc and wretched conceptions that we have of tho glories of heaven. a ruder picture than Egyptian hieroglyph. The joys of the spirit world are all un translatable into the dialect of mortals. Hut oven the vague symbols used by the spirit of God to rcprescot these upper glories, used because they aro adapted to our capacities, failing as they do to con vey to our minds that which they are incapable of containing, arc awe in spiring and sublime. The Seer on l'atmos beheld the city of God, and he testifies that each massive gate was one resplendeul pearl ; that tho very street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass. And, says he, "I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lumb are the temine of it. And the city had no need of tuo sun, neither of the moon, loshino in it, and tho Lamb is the light thereof." ?Rev. xxi, 22 2' . It is as if he had said, "As sparks from the flint cannot bo seen in sunlight, so tho sun itself, if blazing in heaven, would fade aud cease to be visible amid tbo superior glories of God's own abode." The rapt seer awak ens wonder, if he does not convey a conception, when he teils us that the most splendid object our eyee ever be held pales and dwindles to nothing in the light of that upper world. Thus, too, he impresses us with an awful sense of its holiness. "I saw no temple there." The templo?the most sacred and holy thing known to men?finds no place in heaven. There is no room there and no need then for what we call sacred and holy. All our conceptions are superco ded by this, that "the Lord God Almigh ty and the Lamb are the temple of it." Aud is it possible that this is in re serve for us? How patiently should we wait for it. How short the time that in tervenes : the brief span of human life, nothing more. How lightour afflictions, if they work for us this far more exceed ing and eternal weight of glory. Let us endure to the end. Let us serve faith fully him who bus purchased this inheri tance for us with the price of his blood. Let us never forget that we are indebted for these happy and glorious hopes to the life ami suffering und death of Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us obey his pre cepts, imitate his example, and if it be that we sutler with him, thank God we shall also bo glorified together. How it I'ayh to Take a Pa pur.?? Tho testimony of Hill Arp is: Some papers arc not much account as to ap pearances; but I never took one that didn't pay me, in some way, more than 1 paid for it. One time an old friend started a little paper away down in Southwestern Georgia, and sent it to me, and I subscribed just to encourage him; and so after a while it published a notice that an administrator had an order to sell several lota of land at public outcry, and one of the lots was in my County. So I inquired about the iot, and wrote my friend to attend the sale, aud run it to fifty dollars. He did so, and bid ofT the lot for me at thirty dollars, and I sold it in a month to the man it joined for one hundred, and so I made sixty eight dollars clear by taking that paper. Why, father told mo that when he was a young man he saw a notice in a paper that a school teacher was wanted away oil' in a distant County, and he went there and got the situation, and a little girl was sent to him, and after a while she grew up mighty sweet and pretty, and he fell in love with her and married her. Now, if he hadn't taken that paper, what do you reckon would have become of me? Wouldn't I be somo other fel low, or may bo not at all ? ? Why does a cat on her hind legs re mind one of Niagara? Because it isa cat-erect. ? James Gordon Bennett is the rich est bachelor in America, but that isn't what interesta the young men of the Sand. They are looking for the richest old maid. ? A celebrated wit was asked why he did not marry a young lady to whom he was much attached. "I know not," be replied, "except the great regard we have for each other." LllU; V WJjUU THE FOM.OWKKS OF TIIK TARIFF. How Ilio t'ont t.f Fertilizer* Is Swollen. t'i-om liti- ? York Times. A still inoro important and striking caso was brought forward by Mr. Jantes Cam .?hell, of this city, in his argument in favor of admitting free sulphur ore for ilio manufacturo of sulphuric acid for fertilizers. Mr. Campbell pointed out that in the 700,000 tons of fertilizers made iu this country there was used 300,000 tons of sulphuric acid. This was made from Sicilian brimstone, at an average cost of $10 a ton, while the English manufacturers get their acid from the sulphur ore of Spain at an average cost of $0 per ton, and were already beginning to ship their goods in considerable quantities to this country, tie estimated the reduction in the price id" fertilizers from the measure proposed by him at troni 10 per cent, to 20 per cent. This would be a saving to the agriculturists of tho country of from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year, and might readily turn the scale in favor of American food products in foreign mark ets. Nor this alone. As Mr. Camp bell explained, ilio Uniteti States, with its exclusive possession of the mineral phosphate deposits of the world, should be able to share very largely in tho world's trade, ami instead of importing 80,000 tons a year should export a much greater amount. These are scattered imi highly signifi cant examples of the testimony in favor of free raw materials produced before the commission. They are the moro in teresting because they show the etl'cct of the taritfoti trades not generally familiar. The manufacturera of paints, of bicye'es, of silk hats, of various chemicals, of various kindH of machinery, have made, similar statements. They but confirm what the advocates of tarili' reform have been urging for a long lime, that there is more need of emancipation for our manufacturers than of "protection." While seeking, honestly enough in most cases, to build tin special manufactures by giving them the control of tho homo matket, our legislators have trammelled tho general manufacturing and industrial interests of the country. Wo long since reached a point where tho homo market is not big enough, and the greatest boon to manufactures now would be to take down the barriers and let them enter with a fair field and no favor on the competition which the world's trade in viten and will richly repay. The custom of outward mourning? means intended to express the feelings of sorrowing friends for their lost roalalivca ?extends, wo believe, almost as far back us history reaches. Tho custom of the Jews in ancient times, was to adorn themselves in sackcloth ami ashes, ami , during the period of mourning, which was generally seven, but sometimes pro tracted to thirty days, they would tear their clothes, lie on the ground or walk , barefoot, cut oil'the hair and beard, mid abstain from washing and anointing , themselves, weeping all the while. , Ilinek is the color used for mourning ! in Europe ami Home, and was also used , in ancient (?reece. It is expressive of , the deepest, incousolabie grief, and pin ing for the lost friend. Illach and white striped is expressive ( of sorrow and hope combined, ami is worn for mourning by the South sea | Islanders. (trayiHli brown is the color of the earth, am1 is used by Ethiopians, l'ale brown, the color of withered leaves, is worn in Tersili. Sky-blue is expr?s- ( sivo of hope for tho deceased, and is worn in Syria, Cnppadocitl and Armenia, liceo blue is the mourning of link bara, in Central Asia, and is used also by the Kornaus under tho republic. Fur pie ami violet, denotes royalty, ami is worn for cardinals, and the kings of Franco. Violet is the mourning of Turkey, ami white of China, and until 1408, the lat ter was also worn iu Spain. Hcory the VIII wore white for Anne Holeyu, who once wore yellow for Catherine of Arra gon. Yellow may be regarded as a token of exaltation, and is worn as mourning in F.gypt and Hurmah. Tho usages regarding mourning have varied much at different limes and in different countries ; but in America, the custom of wearing black for the dead, is now becoming moie extensively practiced by a general class of people than ever before; and at t'le samo time, the ladies of our country, aro becoming feebler and more unhealthy every year. If they could be mado to feel and bolievc the vanity and foolishness of hucIi customs, the country?yea, world, would be large ly benefited by it. Why drape yourself for so long a time in such gloomy attire ? Do you not feel enough of sorrow, and experience suffi cient suffering because of your loss, without a constant reminder always he fore you? Why not weep quietly when you so desire, and laugh when you feel disposed? It appears like mockery to see a lady heavily draped in mourning, laughing gaily, or taking part in any lively afluir, and especially dancing; but still it is not well to assume a gravo aud sanctified expression, as is frequently dono by persons in crape, for months after the Ions of friend ; and as noth ing else ib becoming to sucli grave cos tumes, it is far the wisest plan to put aside tho vain custom altogether, aud conduct yourself at all times according to your feelings. Of course you feel sail and melancholy more frequently than otherwise, but if some kind friend should cheer you, giving you consolation for the time being, or causing you to forget your sorrow, do not attempt to drive iiway the gay feelings "for tho Hako of the dead, and assume a grave air, but forget your sorrow as much as possible, for the sake of the living ones around you, as well as for your own good, it is strange indeed, that so many will per sist in continuing such injurious habita, in spile of the repeated entreaties in their behalf. The custom of gentlemen to wear only a small baud of crape around tho hat, is, of course, no harm to health, but it is quite as foolish and vain, as that of the, ladies. May the day yet come when the people will abandon all such idle practices.?.Southern World. ? "Take care of the paint," as the city gals say ven a feller goes to kiss 'em. ? New wheat is being shipped from Tesai directly to Italy and Liverpool. ? "Who was the mcakest man?" asked a Suuday School teacher. "Mo ses." "Very well ; who was the meekest woman ?" "Never was auy." ? A Fennsylvanip convictsays be was sent to prison for buing dishonest, aud yet ho is compelled every day to cut out pieces of pasteboard, which are put be tween the solea of tho cheap shoes made there, and palmed off on tho innocent public for leather. ? A negro woman was relating her experience to a gaping congregation of color; among other things she said ehe had been in heaven. Ono of tho servants asked her, "Sister, you see any black folks in heaven ?" "Oh ! get oui?'spose I go in de kitchen when Ijwas dar?" Mourning. ?rj 111.- ?INU. /. Old Maids nnd Trizo Fighter*. "What is the cause of so many old maids?'' According to Dr. S, M. dan dis, who discusses the question, at his scientific church, tho trouble is not with the heart, but with the stomach. "Half the race dies in infancy,"' said Dr. Lan dis, "and the ?ither halt grows up licen tious, avaricious, unhealthy. Beasts observo the laws td their being and grow up to perfect beasthood. -Man neglects the laws of his being, even when he knows them. Kvcry woman should have a Rood husband ami overy man should have a good wife ; but men and women will never be properly mated until a dif ferent system of educating children pre vails. You teach your chi Id ron from hooks. You cram learning and religion into ?lioir heads, but they learn nothing about themselves, their origin and devel opment. This is a mechanical age. Wo have any amount of contrivances for saving labor and annihilating time. Hut we do not teach ourselves self control. We are governed by our pas>ions and appetites. That's the reason there are so many old maids. They don't look after their physical health. They are puny, scrawny, sickly and ill developed, yet they wonder why men don't marry them ! They wear diamonds in their ears, they kalsomiue their faces, aud they remedy their defects of figure with horse hair, ami then they try to get husbands ! ? tell you until woman learns to regard the laws of bodily health, which are tho laws of (tod, they can never hope to wield that talismanic influence over the Opposite box, which is more gigantic than the power of diamonds and rogue. "Another reason for the number of old maids is the prevalent notion that every girl should marry rich instead of choos ing a man who is hca?thy i:? body and mind, whose wants aro simple and easy provided lor. Ministers teach us what we should believe only. They don't say anything about physiological laws, and I hold them responsible for all the crimes committed. Marrying for money ! My good friends, I can supply a table for $l.l!o per week, and not givo you a fanner fast either. I can dress you for a third of what you spend now for clothes, ami dress you better and cleaner. Look at the prize fighter. At first his stomach is deranged and his muscles weak. Then his trainer takes him up and disciplines him until ho can knock a man into the middle of next week. Prize fighters do more good than preachers. I can give an old maid of forty such advice that, by following it she can lie young again, nnd m handsome ns to be a dangerous rival to the young maids." ? .Wie YorJ. Star. Five Obedient Husbands. There were live of them together, nnd il was late. They had been drinking. Finally one of them looked at the clock und said; "What will our wives say when we get home?" "Let tliein say what they want to. Mine will tell me to t" go to the mis chief," responded No. 2. "I'll tell you what we will ilo. Let us meet here again in the morning and tell nur experiences. Let the one that has refused to do what his wife told him to Jo when he got hot home pay for the night's entertainment." "That's a good idea. Wo a't agree to that." So the party broke up and went to their respective homes. Next morn ing they met at the appointed place and hegan to tell their experience*. Said No. 1 : "When I opened the door my wife was awake. She said, pretty time of night for you to come home. You had belter go out and sleep in the pig pen, for that's what \ a will como to sooner or latri".' Itati, r than nay for what you drank last night ? did what she told me to do. That lets me out." "Next!" No. 2 cleared his throat and said: "When I got home I stumbled over a chair, and my wife called out : 'There you are again, you drunken brute ! You had better wake up the children and stagger about for awhile, so they can see what a drunken brute of a father they are nlHictcd with.' So I woke up the children and staggered around until my wife hinted to me to stop. She used chair in conveying tho hint. That lets mo out." "Next."' No. 3 stood up aud said : "I happened to stumble in a pan of dough ami my wife said : 'Drunk again ! Hadn't, you better sit down in that dough ?" So I sat down in it, ami that lets mo out." "Next!" No. 4 said : "I was humming a tune and my wife called out: 'There you aro again! Hadn't you better give us a concert? I said. 'Certainly,' and began to sing as loud ? I coui<l. hut she told me to stop orbhc would throw something at me, so I stopped. That lets mo out." No. looked very disconsolate. He said : "I reckon I'll have to pay. My wife told me to do something none of you would have done if you had been in my place." "What was it?" "She said : 'So you thought you would come home at last? Now hadn't you better go to the well and drink a couple buckets of water just to astonish your stomach ?' That was more than I bar gained for, so its my funeral."?C/ticn?/u Tribune. OllSP.?tVATIONH IN Titti Sot; I'll.?lien. Dabney II. Maury ha? written an inter esting letter to the Industrial South, Richmond. Va., in which ho details his operations during a recent extended tour through the Southern States. He states that everywhere in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina he heard of the glad surpriso of ilio people at finding that the;, can raise grass as a paying crop, thus meeting a want long felt. Tho raising of improved stock is also being extensively engaged in, whilattbeironand coal development in the northern coun ties of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi is simply mnrvelous. Gen. Maury says that everywhere throughout the South ho found evidences of great energy and prosperity?that "tho vast railroad de velopments are carrying activity into every department of industry ; regions are penetrated and developed hitherto unknown with all their treasures," nnd that it "is always a recurring surprise to see how progress in all commercial suc cess keeps along these new arteries of commerce." Gen. Maury adds that there is not a town of 10,000 population in tho cotton States without an ico machino ad equate to its cheap and abundant supply of this necessity of comfort an (1 of health ; bo that they no longer depend ou Now England for ice. ? The Chicago Tribune is of tho opin ion that tho grain crop of tho country this year will exceed by 80,000,000 bush els that of any previous year. ? "How old aro you ?" said an ancient damo to a grinning little darkey. "Woll, if I goes oy what muddor says, Fee most ten, but if I goes by the fun Fee had, IVe ' most a hundred.''