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HY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 5, 1884. VOLUME XIX.-NO. 47 Motherhood. Some timo ngo, two mon happoned to be riding on a train together and in the same couch waB n little woman, who had a piinv, fretful child in her arniB. It was evident that she had been nuning mid dandling this child ali day, for ?he had ridden nearly three hundred miles. The poor child was not ?till five minutes nt a time. Patiently and constantly did the little woman work with it. To the honor and chivalry of more than a dozen men iu the coach, it gives us pleasure to report that not a single complaint, or frown came from one of them, even when thc little thing was screaming loudest. One of these men Baid to another ; "It is worth exactly $11,500,000 to raise a child." The other man, a large, strong, gcoJ-hearted specimen ho was, after studying a little, said ; "you are about right. Thc ftgure? are not far wrong. If I were to take that child and work with it aud dandle it on my arms for ono hour, it would brenk mo down. I could not do it." He was a father and knew what it was to paco the floor at night with a sick child and to watch over them in all their aches and pains. Did you ever notice how much sympathy is pour ed out on n mun who happen1; to be forced to take caro of nn infant for a few days? Well, a woman will do this work all day and all night, and week after week, un resting, uncomplaining, and she expects no wages except love. Some time ago Henry Ward Becche. preached a sermon on "The Spirit of tho ("radio," which was published in Plu mouth Pulpit. Some ol' tho paragraphs are so admirable tbnt we reprint them and ask every ono to give them n read ing. ;/j "No poet, no philosopher, can tell what is the richness aud fruitfulness and wonder of tho imagination that hovers over a Christian woman's cradle. To her. the star of the East comes again to stand over where the young child lies. To her, the wiso men of tho earth might well come, bearing offerings and incense. To her again aro renewed all thc scenes of the sacred stable where thc Child lay. Thc cradle is ber temple : the babe is her divinity. And whatever reason can, and whatever fancy can, when both of them are stimulated by profoundest love, what ever there is near or far, present or to come, that love- is woman's. "Mary kept these things in her heart and pondered them." The pondering of a mother I If it could be written, if there were any angelic reporter band to take the best thoughts and the sweetest fancies, and if tho life of a mother's heart could be written id those early brooding daya, it would shine fit to be read in the libraries of tho heavenly world itself. Human nature never comes BO near to tho divine B9 when a royal woman pours out the full blood of her thought and fancy and love to tho little unheeding, and to her os yet useless child. Where elso is she BO beautiful ns when abo sits in the center of tbiB mystic circle : as when she sings to her babe, or gazes silently as it feeds upon her bosom ? The stars have nothing BO bright, and tho heaven scarcely any thing more pure and more holy than thc heavenly love service of ? mother to her little helpless ami un fashioned child. Now let us not dwell simply upon this phenomenal beauty. Look, lor one sin . gie moment, upon the power of the cradle; for all thin love, this outflowing of the divinest feelings of human nature waa not meant to be expended merely as a luxury for the maternal bosom. There is meaning in it. It is one of the sources of the greatccL power that exists on earth. Tho power of the cradle is greater than the power of tho throne; greater really In its diffusion and in ita capacity of usefulness ; ten thousand times greater. Mako me the monarch of the cradles, and I will give to whosoever I will the monarchy of kingdoms and of the throne. Motherhood and fatherhood are tho foundation of the highest spiritual conceptions : of life and Bociety. There is nothing beyond and higher. If yon would realize those wonderful passages in the xiii chapter of 1st Corinthians, which, as applied to ordinary human life, seem impossibilities-Paul, I will not say had them in his mind, but certainly be might have had-"Lovo suffereth long ; love is kind ; love envieth not ; love vaunlcth not itself'-this ?9 the descrip tion of the mother overhanging her cradle. "Love is not puffed up; love seeking not ber own ; is not easily pro yoked ; tb in lie th no evil ; rejo i cc th not in iniquity, leioicetb in the truth ; bear eth all things, believelh all things, bopetb all things, endureth ali things. Love never faileth." It is never wearied, it sleeps not, nor does its power depart from it. Now, aside from this generalization, where ia t hero an esemplihcatioo .of the true Christian humility? Where can you find in all the realm of imagination or in all the cold and frigid definitions of the ology, anything that will interpret to a man the real meaning of humility? which many folks suppose to be merely feeling bad, or feeling as though they weren't worth,.anything, or* as if they were not good, all bf which things may, on occasion, be very properly mixed in ; but humility is not either of these things. For a man may feel that he is strong and wise, and stronger than other folks and wiser than other folks, upd yet ? be very humble. It 'is th? - brinfcirtg- down of Hccompliabmsot and value, and Organi zation of character to the very lowest levels of life for tbe sake of love ; that is humility. If you want a definition, re membetyoqr.oojher. "In honor preferring ono anothei." Bat it is impossible say some. You can do it. It is done every day. It was done when yon were born, and all the way through. It is being done in ten thou sand households, and tho command is to mako that common in all society which la, thank God, so almost universal in every true household where love rules. Hinco the cradle is tbe very root of human society, it is a wiso economy in every community that sees to it, that all the children are educated, and that the means of education be made BO ample and convenient that there shall be no n?ed of complaint. ? More than that, I bold that no parent bas any such right to bis child, as that he-shall withhold bim from knowledge, for/ tho sake either of Self or prejudice., or Superstition, con emning the child tc all the disabilities that ignorance brings with it. Compulsory education is taking the side of the little child as against the heartless pride of venal instincts, of a rude or vulgar father. I think .that the aystem bf law 'th?t renders education compulsory was inspired by the spirit of tbe cradle. It ig,the ever growing duty ia a lower sphere of. foliawiog that which ernanntes from the heart Of Oed in the larger sphere. No father has a right to cheat his child of that which ia worth more limn money, moro than honor, more than power-tbe unfolding of him aelf. To be born with a mind carries with it the right to unfold that mind. To have a navy ia to have a right to an ocean to sail it in, and to have the right ?f humanity ie to bave tho right to de? velop ourselves in it to tbe largest pro 8onions of knowledge for the sake of ( iimanity in ourselves and in society at Therefore?,, v?bcu I ceo prodigality of legislatures and of administrative bodies { it is prodigality for material things. 1 hey are prodigal for sewers, which are i VW?tB??/ lnd??L Tliey are prodigal for political inrtrumentation, for politicians. I om not stingy ; I am will ing that they Bhould have something. \ But their prodigality i8 for everything j that is material. Their stinginess is for that which comes right home to the very instinct andinterior heart of true wisdom and benevolence. Economical for I schools, prodigal for politicians, stingy ? fo,r. Behool*, but ablo to build great city edifices, that men may have jobs acd 1 make money. Aqueducts, street swee .. inga, new Btreetopeuings, new pavemer ts j all these material improvement? are very 1 good. I believe in them. I rejoice in 1 them ; but I tell you that the road to 1 wisdom isa moro precious road than the 1 road between here and the metropolis of 1 the earth, if there were one. Take care of the schools and have 1 moro^f them, and if you are going to 1 take care of the schools, take care of the 1 school teachers. If you arc going to 1 take care of the fchool teachers, uuder- ( stand ono thing. You never will bo ablo to have tho beat schools for tho children of the poor, until you make it the inter est of men and women to devote their ' lives to that busine?", just as professional men devote their lives to their occupa tions. Give the Mayor less. Give the ! Aldermen less, if you give anything. 1 (If they have nothing, '.bey will get it.) Reduce salaries everywhere, but increase them in schools. Now, not one in twen ty teaches a school, except as a stepping stone to Bom2thing better by and by. A ' young mau wants to raise money to go to college with. When he gets through there he wants to raise money to go 1 through his profession, and when he bas got money he abandons the school. We do not do 80 in medicine, we do uot do BO ' in law, we do uot do eo in the ministry. We do so in our common schools, and yet the teachers of our common schools ' are of moro value to tho children of the ' whole community than lawyers, doctors : and ministers rolled up in a bundle all together. We have been working at the top of society. Wc have bren forming our estimates of value by meretricious standards. The child is more to the mother than all creation. The weak aud the poor arc more to God than all crea tion beside. It ought to be so, to a Christian community, to tho church, aud to civilization which boasts so much of its Cristianity. A woman goes into the common school saying, "I dedicate myself to the chil dren of the community ?" No. no, it is a good place to wait in until God Bends some CHIC to take her out of it, and then she goes! Men are making it a thing aside, but we must make the schools so honorable that no other schools can live along Bide the public schools ; becauee they aro schools for the children of the poor, for the helpless and the lowest and the poorest, and even for the outcast, you must make them glow with beauly and honor. Do not crowd them. Do not poison tho children and suffocate them with unventilated air. Do not make the schools like barns transmogrified with f> its. Make them palaces of beauty. Build at tho bottom. Build with beauly, build with power. Let the cradle domi nate over the State House, and over the City Hall. The power of the State lies in the bottom of it. Take care of that and you take care of the whole. liaising a Jersey Calf. A common error in nt tempting to raise a fine Jersey calf, is in allowing it to have all, or ras much of it? darn'3 milk ss it will drink, and it is often tbe cass that the cow is fed very high on the richest butter producing foou r.nd two teats taken for the family and the other two given to the calf; and again the cow is milked, about half the first milk from all the teats and the balance left for the calf, I have heard owners of Jersey cowa boast of giving the calf one-half of the milk ano! making three quarters to one pound of butter ofT the other. All the above plans are against the growing of a heal thy, vigorous and large calf. The best plaoB to raise a fine, large and healthy Jersey calf, is to let it suck a cow that ?ivcs a large quantity of very poor milk, 'his gives a large size and muscular development, without much fat. If it be necessary to raise a Jersey calf on its dnm's milk, the plan should be to feed such food to the cow as will produce a !arge'-vquantity of milk of poor quality. N-3?cr attempt to force a Jersey cow for buuel , while the calf gets the milk and always give the calf tli6 first milk and use the last milk, which is much the richest lor the family. Think of the waste there, must be in feeding a calf one jKJund, or inore of purWuller, in his milk per day. This isa double waste.. You do not want fat on a Jersey ; you want growth and muscle. Besides, thin rich, buttery milk is not appropriated to fat. It ia only partially utilized wh6n fed in small quantities. When fed in large quantities,, .U damages thedigestive powere,>hitb'producesecours end other ailments, that kill or dwarf so msny Jersey calves. Feeding a Jersey cow to grow a floe calf is one thing, and feeding a Jersey cow to produce a large quantity of butter is another. While it is trn9 that; the Jersey cow isthebest butter cow, it is also true that she can bo fed so as to verrTnuch-'Tednce'-tbe bntterand keep up the milk flow. Feeding the calf from the psi' ;e perhaps the best plan, if done by an jperienced and careful hand ; other*. so, there is more loss than gain. If the calf could be fed a good gruel, composed of skimmed sweet milk, oat meal, or wheat bran, and always in the right quantity and tho right temper ature, it is perhaps as good a plan as to let the calf suck a cow. But tberfl is not one hand io fifty that will do this prop erly. If a pail full of gruel is the right temperature when the first calf is fed, it will be too cold for the last one, and if not stirred all the while, the first calf gets thin, hot gruel, and the last one gets thick cold gruel. Thus it will be seen that it is very difficult to keep the thing regular and if regularity ?B not preserved strictly, some of the calves will grow "pot bellied" and ocrawny.-r-J. O. STBIBUNO, n. Spartanburg Spartan, A tiood Plan. The children lived in a little 9*^? home, sod ell three of them-Nell, dipt and Lizzie-were taking a gar "make believe" ride on an old log. Fido jump ed and barked as if he enjoyed the fnn as much as anybody. A gentleman who was passing down the road stopped and laughed : "Good morning, little folks I That it rather slow riding. Wouldn't you lik< a horse aatfdtf rUge?" "Yes.Ulr." jMfd Robbie; "but wt haven't tSjpisnd so we are getting tbi moat fun we can oqt of what we d< have." a " Was not that a wise answer? Ho? much pleasanter tbis world would be i all the little people-and big ones too would stop fretting about the things the; cannot get, and make the beat of wha they havel , Do yon know any verse in tbe Bibi that teaches os to be satisfied with wh? we hare?-Sunbeam. :II?ISTIANI?Y>S BALANCE SHEET. ?. Sermon to limine?? Men Which Young and Old May Read With Profit. Rev. Wilton Merle Smitb, of Cazeno 'io, N. Y., preached Sunday in the "ourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, rom the text : "For what abai! it profit a man if be ;ain the whole world and lose bis own oui."-Mark viii: 3G. Below is a condensed report of the ermon : _ Men are becoming suspicious of theo? lea. Speculation is not done away with, >ut before it can bo accepted it must be >roven by facts. Facts, not theories, ire tho factors of success, The every lay thought of the business world cares ittlo for speculation or moral hypotheses, riio busy drive o? American industry eeks realities beneath the empty setn dance of things. We nre dealers in acts, not fiction, nnd the most practical act to American thought is the profit ind-loss account. The text is evidently a sermon to bus ness men. What then of religious truth rhea brought to your cuuuter nud your lay-book-when you come to count its alue and gain ? you can't yard-stick our religion uor weigh your morals io i scale, and yet thia view-point of re igious truth is not impossible. What ia the view presented by the ext? No man can gain tho whole world, t is only a very limited amount of the rorld's happiness that can fall to any me man to enjoy. But admit tho sup .oakton. Supposing he could gain the ?.orld, what is tho gain account ? Put ?own upon your gain account, ivr your ?rat item, wealth. The desire for wealth s not necessarily a wicked or unnatural lesire. Even when it becomes inordi nate, it ofteu saves men from vicea more errible. It banishes idleness, eucour gea industry, frowns on evil aud expen ive habits. Let every young man be mbitious to have wealth and influence, t is not, perhaps, tho highest purposo in ife, but nevertheless, it gives impulse to vork, energy to life, directness to effort, lut the world can give more than wealth, ubi to wealth fume and high position, imbitiun will never co?tent itself with tere wealth. It must have power, re peet, fame. Put down, then, for your econd item on the gain account of your alance-sheet, fame, honor and influence nd power. But if we cain tbe whole corio, we havo more than wealth and imo. We have culture, refinement, in? ellect. All thia is possible in the world. Vhat else can you need ? How complete tie joy und happiness of one if he Bhould ain the whole world 1 But the loss I Ve must turn to the othor page of the edger and count up. With great joy >e see the page is almost blank. There s but a single item. We have lost only ur soul. Take your pen in band and xtoud into your column tho value of the jul. How shall we rate the soul ? 'here is something within us, we know ot what, that lifts us above the brute, 'hero is reason, and something, too, that peaks of an eternal distinction between igbt and wrong. There is thc human dil free from restraint. All this, they 3ll us, is the human soul. And this sui is God Bent and God-created. God rented man in His own image, and reathed into his nostrils the breath of ife, and man became a living soul, with tod's imago and God's likeness. Then, ?o this h y os ? n soul h*s csnRbililies of om mun i on wi th God. Weean not know ow what it ia to have communion with tod, because sin so clouds our vision ; ut even now. sometimes, . we catch.? li tu pea of Geri's glory and iovingfsi'.ow hip.~ But besides the capabilities, the :>ul bas a destiny, and that destiny is inmortality. The soul shall live forever, ill the fundamental longings of the soul re eloquent of immortality. Our loss ccount grows larger because the value of he sob! ia measured by immortality, tut, better than this, the vallie of the oui is seen in the price paid for redemp ion. The soul by sin bad become unfit ed for fellowship with God. There was pened a way of escape from the dread ul consequences of ila sin through a edeemer. From His star-crowned seat f glory tbe Son of God came down to artb. Why the incarnation in human leah? Why that life of self-denial, ?in and Buffering? Why the garden sara and the bJood.-dropa ot' Gethsemane, he mock-tribunal, the crown of thorns IHI tho i OE ul to ? Why tba patient BufT iring of Him who could have called wslve 'testan* of sagsls ? Why that vc ful death on Calvary? The answer is y ritten on every page of the Bible. It rea to buy 'back the human' pod!, IstoL ty immortality only, but moat of all- the alue of the coal fs measured - by the ilood-bougbt redemption. But it is this eui that ia in your loss account. Not' co hen, first, it is lost not only to. your riends bot to God. We know not o hat he future will be. We can not tear isido the veil that ;bides:-it from-our training visions. -God has- uot;-TSetn deased to reveal what glories shall be riven to those that shall finally triumph. July a glimpse of the future is given us. VII that our better natures long for here .waite us there. But "eye hath riot 'seen mr ear beard, neither/ have entered into he heart of mah the : things which God lath prepared for them that love Him." 3ut you have no share in these things. You've lost your soul. I can not teil you vbat awaits thoso whose souls are lost ; vhethcr there shall be a burning lake of ire I dc jot know, but I do know thia : hat the anguish of such a soul is beyond luman conception. Rule out, if yon ?/ill, all ideas of fire and physical pain. Liet the soul go into the other world un -egenerated and in sin. Let every evil lassion become a thousand-fold stronger, ind the conflict in the soul be one long parring .ind struggling for eternity. fVdd to Ibis all the remorse for sin, the lorrow over lost opportunities, and the Jreud consciousness of being lost. And Jo we need the lake of fire to add to the Intensity of tbe anguish? The conflict 3f passions must last forever. This ieath-struggle in the soul shall never cease. Some object to the doctrine of eternal punishment that it is unjust to inflict infinite punishment for finite sin, But this is a misstatement of the doctrine. ''Eternal punish ment," says Joseph Cook, "is the necessary accompaniment nf eternal sin." All sin must bo eternal unle*??frtdued in Christ. Dr. Paten tp?al?ror "tho .eelfJperpetuatiDg power of-ain:u----The-BOul,my fri ende, must go into the other world under the operation of the same law. If ibero'ia now dis harmony between you and God lhere most always be that disharmony unless it is changed by a change in character. We are nowhere taught thai there ?ill be opportunity for repentance hereafter, The die ia cast, your rata is seated when your eye-lids close in death. If yon have not been reconciled to God here, there ii nb chance hereafter. ' Your soul in great torment must be rest and torn asuudei and consumed by the fire of its own pas sion and the violence of its own remorse ful anguish; and the Bible tells us thal this aoguiah is eternal. "And these shall go away," said Christ, "Into over lasting punishment." Our balance-sheet is nearly finished A single process more and it ia couple to Put your losses under your gains. Draw tito line, mako (be subtraction, and notice the profit : You've gained the world witb its wealth, and the comfort and lux ury that wealth can bring, bot over against it on your loss account is your BOUI, which is the image of God, end has capabilities of communion and fellow ship Kith Him; and il is loot not only to your friends but to God. You've gained earthly treasure, but you've lost tho Heavenly. You've gained your mess of pottage, but you've lost your birthright of immortality. You've lost ?our fellowship with saints, and you ave gained on inheritance with the damned! Where's tho profit? You've gained thc finite, but lost the infinite ; you've gained time, but lost eternity. Draw the line; strike tho balance; you are morally, spiritually, eternally bank rupt. t> Strive for riches, but Heavenly riches. Strive for a crown, but for a Heavenly crown, and then, although you may spend your life in poverty and toil here, when you cross the river your feet shall touch nt last tho golden sands, and though homeless and a wanderer upon earth you shall see near by tho golden battlements of tho Celestial City, and the wbile-robcd angels thronging near to welcome yon home nt last. Carp Culture Again. A Washington correspondent recently described an interesting sight that waa witnessed by many persons when the water was drawn from one of the carp ponds used by the fish commission for propagating purposes. Tho pond (rom which toe water was exhausted is in sight of the White-House, between that building and the Potomac Hiver. To gether with several other ponds it is in charge of Dr. Rudolph, superintendent of Government li-.li ponds. During the Bummer tomo of the ponds were tilled with rare aquatic plants, and visitors who saw none of thc fish were amply reward ed for a visit to Dr. Hasse l's ponds by tho rhov; of luxuriant plants and brilliant flowers. The pond emptied covers two or thrco acres, perhaps five. It is shal low, as the carp do not require great depth of water. When the Water was reduced to a narrow stream crossing the pond tbe fish were scooped out with nets, transferred to tubs, and, having been carefully counted, were ready for ship ment to Buch points as Prof. Spencer F. Baird, the commissioner of fish and fish eries, bad directed. In thia first pond emptied it was ascertained that, by tbe natural process of propagation, the in crease had been sixty-five thousand in one year. The fish taken are varied in eize, from:the minute specimens half an inch or le?s in length to those of two or three pounds in weight. They wero principally mirror carp, having a few scales along the back, but lhere were in their c impany not a few leatb carp and an occasional hybrid and tench. Mr. I. N. Cotton, of Trader's Point, Ind., writes as follows to the Indiana Tunta of the ease with which these fish may bo raised : Two year3 ago last No vember I received thirty-three mirror carp, about three inches long, direct from the United States fish commissioner. I placed them in my pond, and saw no more of them until the following sum mer. 1 saw no young Ssh the first sum mer, but during tho second, hundreds of young fish came to view. I took two with hook and bait in twenty-three months from the time that I put them in. One measured seventeen, the other nine teen inches in length, the larger weigh ing three pounds and ten ounces: so that tho increase and growth are ail that we could ask for. The quality I am satisfied will give better satisfaction than the great majority of fish you can buy on tho market. They have no small bonea, and are very tenacious of life after being taken from the water, and would keep longer thnn must fish without dressing, though all fish should be beheaded as soon as taken. Ponds may be made by leveeing or excavating or both. They need not be fancy, and may be irregular and in any shape that the locality will permit. It takes but a small supply of water to keep a pond of one-half an acre full. If thc water Bource is high enough or tho water will rise high enough, I should prefer leveeing to exca vating. Look out for gravel beds or Beams of gravel. There ia where you lose your waler-through the gravel. By cutting a trench through the gravel aud filling with clay you can stop leakage. You should-have fmVrC?ttr- to--six feet of water in some part of the pond, but you want more shallow water for feeding and Spa Wei ng, with plenty of aquatic plants ion the fish to feed on. Water cress is said--to be good. The black muck bottom, or even clay, is better than gravel for carp. The greatest difficulty in making pondo is to get rid of water of branches and ravines that are liable to overflow your ponda in times of heavy tains. -They should be ditched around thu pond. TbexG.Bb.ould be a place of discharge for surplus water a little lower than the top of the levee, well protected from waah by boarda or Btone. You need not be much alarmed about carp trying to get out. They are non-migratory, and in time of rain and storm or any distur bance of the water they seek tho bottom of the pond. Mtke you a carp pond, if it i? but one rod wi?e and throe or tour long, and you will be surprised at the amount of fish you can raise in it by feeding. If you have alx aheep on an acre pasture they grow well, but if you put fifty you will Eave to feed or they will atarve. A lim ited number of carp will flourish in i pond without feed, but an overstock must be fed. Throw in cabbage leaves, potato peelings, turnips, cucumbers, watermelon rinds, or anything that your pig will eat, and you will be aston ?shed at what good feeders they are and their growth. They, like wheat bread better than anything that I have fed. If you will feed at tbe same place in the pond always, your flab will soon learn to come there tor their feed. Throw in a few pellets of bread that will sink to the bot tom and then some that will float, and your fish will soon learn to come to the surface. I have been unable to keep entirely clear of excitement when a carp two feet long rises to the surface to take his food and returns lashing the water with bis tail, even tboogh I have wit nessed it hundreds of times. --Tho ~ " tincaste r Le?ger tells this lough pne :. "At Charlottes celebration DE week a South Carolinian and a tar 'heel from about tho coast met and got in a big way of bragging. Said the sand lapper, "I have a turkey at home that weighs 28 pounds, and I killed a hog last fall that weighed 800 pounda." "Why," ?aid tho tar-heel, "that's nothing. I had a turkey that strided the ocean and 'picked s tara out of tho bea vena when it was but three days old, and we never kill hogs np where I live; we just poll out a bristle and a mess of meat sticks tb the root of it. The hog never miases it." So ?hey repaired to a bar and tar heel treated. ' - The young mao who used to siug "I fear no foe" before he was married, now says, "I cannot alng the old songs." HILL Alli'. What ar? the Poor ?Irls of tho Country to do. Atlanta Constitutum. "What 6hall we do with our girls?" I have- heard a good many fathers ask that question. 1 don't mean rich fathers who have no auxiety about their daugh ters, but I allude to folks in tho middle walks of lifo whoso daughters have had an education and the father has nothing else to give them. What is a poor girl to do when she quits Behool or comes home from college. Il ia right hard for ber tu descend from the beautiful heights of astronomy and the fields of history and botany nud the chambers of music down to tho drudgery of housekeeping and sewing and darning and patching old clothes. Bui supposa she is n good dutiful girl and is willing to do that mid more, the questiou is what docs it amount to mid cau't she do better? Can't she take hold of something that will excite her ambition und interest her mid make her sonic money ? Girls nre just b'imsn and they v.ant to do something. Girls who do not marry and whoso fathers are poor will need some money after awhile wheu thc roses begiu to fade, tho roses ou their cheeks. Borne aro independent enough to go to millinery and dreasmuk iug but this giveB employment to bul a few. Some paint Howers and do fancy work and sell what they make, but not many have tho gift of genius iu that lino aud so tho questiou still comes up what can tho clover country gi ria do to make a living for themselves and feel indepen dent? Not long ago I waa over iu Eastern North Carolina and I found tho question answered in some places. I found some nice well educated girls cultivating small fruits and vegetables for market. They didn't plow the ground but they planted and hoed and weeded und gathered tho crop. I saw an acre of strawberries that two sisters bad planted and they made a frolic of it, that is, they wont at it with a will and took a lively happy iuterest in it, and they gathered 4,000 quarts and said they would get a thousand more, and they packed them in tho little baskets and the baskets into crates and sent them North and their sales bad averaged 30 cents a quart. Their total espouses for biro of liolp aud cost of baskets nod freight to market was $200 and thia lett a thousand for their work and watchiug and constant caro. Well those girls aro Eroud and independent. Their father ad ii ve acres and he was making money -a good desi of money. I never saw a nicer business nor ono so simple and sure. Tho land was poor aud sandy. Tho rows three feet apart, when tho plants get well set a plow opens a furrrow close by on each side und thia furrow is nearly filled with cotton seed und then the earth is thrown back on the cotton seed, after that the vines aro mulched with pine straw and that is all. I never saw vines as small or berries os numerous. I count ed 240 on one plant. They luid on one another. This vino had been picked three times and there were 240 left. They frequently picked a quart from 3 plants and left many not ripe. They pick till 8 o'clock in the morning and tho girls averaged 15 quarts by that time. They begin at 4 in thc afternoon and gel 16 quarts more. When they hire pickers they pay 2} cents a quart to girls and 2 cents to boys for tho girls are more care ful and do not mash tho horries nor spill them and do not cat every big nice one they come across. But this is not all. These gi ri a have got a crop of raspberries just behind and they will make two or three hundred dellars off o? them, aud they are growing cur rants and gooseberries and talk about go ing into potatoes and beans and grapes and . adi that. Well, wby not. Fruit growing is a nice business for girls and BO is raising vegetables. Those girls have the advautage of ours for tho mar ket is nearer, but I have never seen the time that uice strawberries couldn't be Bold at home for 20 cents, and that will moko lots of money. And then again the exercise is so good for their health, and the occupation is so cleanly and delicate and cuits their nimble and delicate fingers so well. Woman was tho first gardener we read about, that is to say, elie was the first to pick the fruit and 1 have always thought she ought to bavo been forgivon, for her first thought when she found the fruit good was to give her husband some. But be like an old rascal went and laid all the blame on her and tried to get out of the scrape. Now there is a chance for our girls to make some money. Let them la j a small patch, say one-fourth of an acre. Plant out in August and have a good crop of fruit next spring. It can be done. I beard a Nashville man say that two years ago there was no such busiuess around Nashville as growing berries for Northern markets but now there was 150 bushels shipped a day from one town, the town of Franklin, and they netted 20 cents a quart, or sis dollars a buehel, and the giris did moat of the work. I wish the : dear creatures were all rich enough to live without work and only had. to work when they felt like it, and I never see ladies of culture and refine ment doing drudgery but what it shocks my humanity and I want a society estab lished for tho prevention of cruelty to angels. But work is the common lot for man and for woman too, and 1 reckon they R'o happier for it. Twas ruminating over these things to day when I met Sanford Bell on the train. Sanford, the old reliable conductor whom everybody knows and everybody loves, and we got to talking about the times and the crops, and when I mentioned John H. James and his bust up, Sanford said yes, that is mighty bad on James and bad on tbe poor fellows who had their money in hiu bank. Ile had a thousand dollars there be said, a thousand dollars tbe savioga often years, sud now be had to take a new start, aud bis plans and his hopes were broken up, for he was I going to lake $200 of tbat money and send Clifford to Moore's business college and tbe $800 was for bis daughter wno bad been so good and so kind to him and ber mother and worked so willingly snd faithfully at borne, and be had picked out a nice little place to buy for ber sod let ber enjoy the rents, but the money was gone and the prospect was bad, very bad. After telling me of the dark side he brightened up and said, "Well, I won't give up too noon for Mr. James failed io 1878 and he owed me 600 dollars then and be paid it in full with interest and allowed me a premium of 12 per cent for my gold, just what it waa worth when I put my gold in there, although it was worth only 4 per cent premium when be paid it back. He is a good man, James is, and will do the best be can and be can't do any more. Some folks abuse him for speculating on our rooney but I notice they never abuse a man until he has had bad lucie and breaks. James speculated in Georgia railroad stock two years ago and made, they say, a hundred thousand . dollars and o very body smiled and said James was a long beaded man, nobody aaid a word against bim, but now they abuse him.for being a speculator." About thia lime we met the down train and the engineer, Mr. Adama, came up to Sanford and said, "what's the news, i my friend ; will wa ever get anything?" And Sanford cheered him up a little and then told me that Adams had $2,500 iu there, and it was his hard earnings in cold and heat nud winter aud Bummer aud day and night, whilo he stood at hi? post of duly, which is thc post of danger. Well, all this is bad, very bad, and lhere are many worse cates. Sanford told me about them and said ho was sor rier for some others than he was for him self. "But then," said he, "Mr. James is youug enough and smart enough to rise again and I believe ho will do it, and I'm not going to say a word to hurt his feel ings or liarass him, for be has load enough to carry now and :ny wife says I will get that money someday; ?ho has faith and sho cheers me up when I am down, and that is what a good wife al ways does. Sho believes that money earned honestly is not goiug to be lost. "What have you dono about your claim," said I. "Nothing, there is , nill ing to do that I know of. I gave the certif?cate to Mr. James and said, 'I have heard about your troubles and 1 thought I would bring you this and let you man age it for you know better how to do it than thc lawyers or anybody clso.' " Well, I wish everybody had us much faith aud charity as Sauford Bell. I reckon his boy will get to tho college some way, and if his daughter will go to raising strawberries I think BIIO will make tho 800 buck in two or threo years. I hope so. BIM, Am*. Thc Influence of Ancestry, In this country wo aro taught by tho Declaration of American Independence that ail people aro born equal*. There never was a greater misrepresentation put in one seutenco than in that sentence which implies that wo aro all born equal. , You may ns well say thal flowers aro born equal, or trees aro born equal, or an imals aro born equal. Why doc9 ono . horBO cost $100, and another horse cost , $5,000f Why does ono sheep cost $10, and another sheep cost $500? Diifcrouco in blood. Wo all aro wiso enough to rccognizo the diflerenco of blood in horses, in cattle, in sheen, but wo are not wiso cuough to make allowance for dif ference in human blood. Now, I demand, by tho law of eternal fairness, that you be more lenient in your criticism of those who were born wrong, in whose ancestral line there was a hangman's knot, or who came from a tree, the fruit of which fur centuries haa been gnarled and worm eaten. Dr. Harris, a reformer, gavo somo marvelous statistics in his story of what he called "Margaret, the Mother of Criminals." Ninety years ago she lived in a village in upper New York State. Sho was nul only poor, but Hbo was not well provided for. There wero no alms houses there. The public, however, somewhat looked after her, but chiefly scoffed at ber and derided her nud push ed her further down in her crimes. That was ninety years ago. There has been G22 persons in that nuceatrnl line, 200 of them criminals, in ono branch of that family there were twenty, nud nine of them bavo been in State prisons, and neatly all of tho others have turned out badly. It is estimated that that family cost tho county and State $100,000, to say nothing of tho property they destroy ed. Aro ' you not willing, as sensible people, to acknowledge that it is a fear ful disaster to bo born in such an ances tral lino ? Does it not mnko a great diflerenco whether one descends from Maigaret, the mother of criminals, or from some mother in Israel ? whetheryou are tho son of Ahab or tho son of Joshua? It is a very different, thing to swim with tho current from what it is to swim against the current, as some of you have, no doubt, found in your Sommer recreation. If a man finds himself in an ancestral current where there is good blood flowing smoothly from generation to generation, it is not a very great credit to him if he turn out good and honest and pure and upright and noble. He could scarcely help it. But suppose ho is born in an anccstrnl line, in a heredi tary lino, where the influences have beon bad and there havo beon a coming down over a moral declivity, if the man sur render to tho influences bo will go down under the overmastering gravitation un less some supernatural aid bo afforded bim. Now, such a person deserves not your excoriation, but your pity. Do not sit with the lip culled in scorn, and with an assumed air of angelic innocence looking upon such moral precipitation. You had better get down on your knees and first pray Almlchty. Goa for ihei? rescue, and next ci. -mk tue Lord that you have not been thrown under the wheels of that Juggernaut.-Dr. Thlmage in Frank IASIUFO Sunday Magazine for June. How to KUI a Graving for Alcohol. While it is true that many who at one time indulged in ardent Bpirits have ab stained later in life, it ia not believed that there la any real cure for the thirst created by alcoholism. But a person that claims to have cured himself gives a rem edy that there would be no barm in try ing. We reproduce it in the rescued peraou's own words : "I was one of those unfortunates given to strong drink. When I left it off I felt a horrid want of something I must have or go distracted. I could neither eat, work, or sic }, Ex-i plaining my affliction to A man of much education and experience, he advised me to take a decoction of ground quassia, a half ounce steeped in a pint of vinegar, and to put about a small teaspoonful of it in a little water, and to drink it every time the liquor thirst came on me vio lently. I found it satisfied the cravings, and it also gave a feeling of stimulus and strength. 1 continued this cure, and per severed till the thirst waa conquered. For two years I bavo not tasted liquor, and I have no desire for it. Lately, to try my strength, I have handled and smelt whisky, but I have no temptation to take it. 1 give this for the considera tion of the unfortunate, several of whom I know have recovered by means which I no longer require."-Demorat'? Monthly. Wielding tho Gavel. The Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader says : The Speaker's desk ls a sort of marble pulpit, behind which Mr. Carlisle sits in a great arm chair, and holds io bia right band the ebony handle of an ivory-headed gavel. This, in a case, of disorder, which very often occurs, be brings down with a thundering rap upon the board top of the marble pulpit. It sounds when used with vigor like the shot of a pistol, and ia tho terror of long-winded speakers. Mr. Carliste uses the gavel lightly, but little Sam Cbs. when be gets in the chair, brings it down With all his might, and once wheo he was raising it up for a mighty stroke the head came off and flew to the floor. Often the gavel breaks and then a new one ia procured. Sam Ran dall was very hard on gaveta, and broke a great many during his term as Speaker. He has the remains of these in a cabinet at home, which be shows to visitors as n sign of his former power. Ono of these is a beautiful ono which he got during bis last term as Speaker. It was made by a Georgia mechanic of 110 pieces of hickory wood. Short Tallis With tho Hoys. My son, I heard you speak of your father tho other day as "tho old mau," and ol your mother as "her highuess." What's the matter that you can't refer to them as your father end mother? Suppose your parents should speak of you as "tho kid," or "the fly." You'd soon begin to think you were born into tho wrong family. The son who is ashamed of his parents ought to be ashamed of himself. Supposo their ways arc old fashioned, aud their grammnr a little oil', and they don't feel like keeping up with thu fash ions of tho day? hot ono father or mother in ten had tho advantages you enjoy. Forty or fifty years ago they walked three or four miles lo a country school to pick up a little learning, while now you aro talking of going to college. They began poor and hnvo toiled and labored nud saved for their children. You just remember that things have greatly changed in this country. Years ago a c?lico dress was seen nt church far oftener than a silk. Men went to meet ing clad in homespun. Tho rule in moBt houses was for the children stand up to eat. The biggest pieces of pie went to father and mother, und children were not allowed to sit up until 10 o'clock at night, or to argue a question after the head of tho family had decided it. My boy, don't get any foolish notions into your hoad. If your father is old and gray and bent-if your mother is trembling and weak and baa no caro for tho frivolities ol this day, it is toil which hns brought these, days of hard work and nights lull of anxiety that their children might be spared the same slavish life, v.*here they wore , bluejeans you have broadcloth. Where they ate johnnycake you have sweet cake and pie. Where their mode of lifo and forced economy provented thom from on joying society, amusements or books, just think how you make tho shillings fly, and what is offered to interest am! amuso you I Now lot's have a word to say about economy. I've been right among you, and I know that you want this, that and tbe other, and "want it bad." Up to tho timo of the war if ono of tho boya of that day had a dimo to spend for Fourth of July, he thought himaelf well fixed. The boys want about five dollars apicco nowadays, and that's all gone beforo noon. If wo r?ot a new book it waa considored a groat picco of extravagance. Tho lad who bau cash enough to walk into a pan oramic exhibition, ony a pair of okatca, or treat himself to sweet-meats was looked upon by the rest of us a Jay Gould. I'm not saying that you shouldu't have money and uso it, but right there is a vital point. Be sure that you really need what you buy. Ask yourself if it will pay ? Money is the wheoh on which the world moves. Acquire the habit of throwing it after every novelty brought out and you'll by and by have a second* hand museum and no cash to run it. I dislike a stingy boy, but when I see a lad planking kiu nickels down nt the desk of a savings bank I know that be is ono of tho future men who is going to build our railroads and do our wholesale busiucss. There's a big difference be tween being stingy and being economical. Thc richest mon of America are liberal in giving to churches, asylums and to the uulortunate, but they uever waste. They dou;t indulge in this or thnt simply bo causo they have money enough to pay for it. Now, if you ere about 15 years old you've got a sneaking idea into your head that it's a big thing to use an oath occasionally. You never mndo a greater m:&t?ko I It is truo many men use more or less oaths, but I would like lo have iou find me one who isn't ashamed of itt t's a mean habit, for it is a habit. I know you can point to tho greatest men in tho land anu provo that they spit out oaths, but that's no reasou why you should follow suit. There isn't a swearer in this country who doesn't feel a quiet satisfac tion in Bitting down to couverse with a man whose language is clean and pure. There's nothing manly in using au oath. Swearing is about the first thing you hear from tho lips of n fool or drunkard. Even a heathen can swear. Now, don't get tho idea that I want you to be too good. The too good boy ia a nuisance. He was born to be an angel, but they forgot to spike on the wings. Goto the circus? Certainly I I know them are people ia this world who look upon a circus aa the next thing io a 'visit from old Satan himself, but they ought to have lived forty years ago. If you were my bo/ I'd walk you in, ahow you every animal and curiosity, and tuen we'd take a reserved seat and see tbe eirena. When a man has trained a horse or mule or dog to obey him with almost human intelligence he has proved to you tho practical value of patience and per s?v?rance. Every abado . of men will atop on the Btreet to see a man lift, or to watch a jumping-match. Then why de prive you of tho Bight of tho performance of an athlete, who has spent years to bring his strength and agility to perfec tion? Would I take you to tho theatre ? To a good play-yea ; to a Buffalo Bill barn* storming borrah-oo. Five plays out of seven are healthy in sentiment, and point a moral ao piaiuiy ihat even a child can catch on. I want my boy to rub against every day life a little while be is a DOV. If he bas the idea that a hunter's life ia full of juicy buffalo ateaks and victories over grizzlies I'm going to send bim into the woods for a week to live on woodchuck meat, carry a cold in bis bead and? be jumped out of hia boots the first time an owl hoots. If he asks for money I'm going to give it to bim, bot I want to oit down of a .Saturday night and see how he spent it, and ahow up some of bis foolish bargains. If he wants to sail the bounding billow I know of a lake captain who will take bim on a trip from Detroit to Saginaw, and if he can't cure him in just one voyage nobody else ?-.red try. Sit down and talk to your boys as you would to your brother. Don't bulldoze because you happen to be his father and have tho bulge on him. Argue and rea son. Don't expect to make assertions and have him swallow them ns gospel troths unless you . have backing. Teach him what to avoid and what to cultivate and turn bim loose for a. while. If he seeks the good he has the right instincts ; if. ha rona after the bad, don't walk him into, the wood shed for a pounding.' until you have asked yourself if he docan'l come natural by that failing,-At. Quad, in Detroit Pres Press. - Burning horses' hoofs, as practiced by nemo blacksmiths, should never he allowed. It not only injures . the foot al the time but affects it permanently, and the practice is only followed. by thc? who are too lazy to prepare tho foot foi the ahoe in the proper way. -; "So hot water is a great ours, is itt Well, I shan't let any of my boarder? get sick for want of that medicine. . Jual pnt another gallon, of hot water in ! thal oyster soup, Maria, and I guess yoe had better take out the oyster now : it might \ be too rich." J * HOTT to Fertilizo Fruit Tree?. Hero mid there on ail farms and in . most fruit garden*, will bo seen an cc j casiounl tree or grnpo vino which seems : to lack vigor-does not grow we!!, and ; yet stems to have no disease. The prob labilities aro that the tree is dying of : starvation and needs a liberal supply of ? food. When you give it this ration do uot pile a load of 'manure around the body of tho vino. That is just the place where it will do tho least good. Nearest the trunk of tho tree the roots are all ' argo ; tho fibrous roots-the feeders-aro fartber off, near the ends of tbe roots. These only, can tako up the nutriment. Jt is always safe to assume that the roots extend as far from the trunk in every di rection as do the' limbs of the trees, and to properly fertilise spread the manure all over that area. Tueu fork it lu and you have a good work done well. If some disease has beguu its work on the tree you will nut tho tree in a' healthy, vigorous condition, the bolter, enable it tn successfully contend against enemies. Wo have seen numerous old pear and apple trees, bearing poor and gnarled fruit, which tho owners consider of no value, which such treatment as we have outlined above would restoro to their original usefulness.-Orange County Far~ mer. A New Henson. The temperance question bas beeu so thoroughly threshed out of late that it scarcely seems possible to find a new argument on the one eide or the other. But a certain Dr. Tr--,ib, of Perch. Scot land, recently dchvered a lecture io which ho advances some exceedingly original propositions : "Tho drinking of alcoholic beverages is a necessary evil, and is not likely ever to be discontinued. It is like cholera, plague, or war-one of the wise dispen sations of Provideuce for preventing an undue increase of mankind. It prevents tho accumulation of nil the property bf tho nation ia the hands of a few. * * . * Dy its means the sou scatters the savings of his father's lifetime in a few months, enabling another man to fill his position, creates a class of drunken tradesmen to neglect their business, so -that energetic mun may succeed where thoy fail. * * * In short, it benefits, directly or indirectly, everybody but tbose who drink it, and if they are fools enough to sacrifice themsolves and their families for tho good r" tho sober and industrious, wby should se interfere with them?" There is, says tho Hour, really ?. cer tain amount of sound sense in the Mal thusian selfishness o? this ingenious doc tor. __ The Cotton Harvester. Mr. C. P. Mason, Jr., is hard at work I putting up n number of bis Cotton Har j vesters for introduction tine fall. He has enlarged his workshop, which is supplied with an engine, lathe, and other suitable machinery. He has arranged to have tho castings and tho finer portions of tho machinery made North, where the facilities for the work he nocdssre better than hero. Mr. W. C. D. Stiles, Mr. Harmon Moise, son of Mr. C. H. Molso, Mr. Mortimer, a maohinist from Florence, .Dickie Masou, who fa. a universal genius, and several "supes" are kept'busily en Mr. Mason ls constantly in receipt of solicitations from State and County fairs, desiriug the exhibition of the Harvester, and ho expects to t^Ve in Gold Medals neat tali by the peck. He is sot at ali concerned os to the opinions of others about the success of ?ho Harvester. . His company is satisfied ; be knows.the ma chine is all right and bis main concern is to get a sufficient humber of them finished by the time the present crop ia ready for gathering, so os to have a com plete and final test made.-- Watchrna? and Southron. . Tho Gosslpplng Club. Thesectetary has furnished us with ? few additional items in relation to thia flourishing membership. The following rules were unanimously adopted, ou mo tion of the executive committee, vis: "Any member of the society who shall be convicted of knowing moro of'his. own business than of another's, shall be expelled from the society without a bear ing. "No member shall zit down, his o>-?? labio, until he has ascertained to a cer tainty whs. his neighbors within three doors of each aide of tho house shall have to eat ; whether they have paidv the oatuo, if not, if they expect to. "Every member who sholl Bee twt three persona engaged in conveisatloj shall place himself netween them ont he has heard all they have to say, and report the same accordingly. "Every member who shall see a gen tleman visiting a.young .lady more tuan twice, shall circulate the nows that they are going to be married ; and said mem bers are forthwith required to report all manner of things about the gentieman to the lady, and ditto about the lady to the gentleman. This will break up matches and afford much gossip, "That it is the duty of every member on hearing a piece, of 'scandal/ lo take ii <ip at once, and in all honorable ways to give it circulation, and thus accom plish toe great and glorious purposes of the society.''_._ Priest's Question and the little Girl's Reply. The Very Rev. William Keegan ia Vicar-General of the Long Island Dio cese and pastor of the Beman Catholic Church of the Assumption in York street, Brooklyn. Ho considers it a duty to know every one in his pariah, and if ho sees a new face ho quickly learns who the owner is. He knows the ages of most of the women and the occupations of the men. One day last week he was walking in Jay street with one of the youngest girls who attends his parochial BC hool. A lady passing bo the other side bowed, and Father Keegan asked tba child who she was.-: "That ls ray mother," .responded the girl. , ., , "How old .is she K asked the Vicar General. "About 30, sir, I think." "And what was her maiden name?" .'I don't remember/' ? said Father Keegan's pupil. "I was'quite young when my motnor was married." - ^ . Father -Keegan retained a very grave face until he parted. With the Utile one, but since .then as ho leila the story to thoso ho meeta ho -laughs immoderately and laughs again. - I wish ? h%? a beck ab long as a gi raffe,," said WM, one di*, as ho passed Farmer Ploughman'a orchard : "for then I could ata?a oh the ground, to eat toe apples, peate and cherries; and they would taste good ali, the way down roy, ? three yard throat." 8hortfy after thil WHMo .. caught cold. ?! Well, :; be eatd, ?1 gow? I it's better as It is.'for if I had tho giraffe'* t peck, I ahould U;XVQ thrervyaraa of ?Ote >ihroatr