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RV E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1886. TflA?HEf?g'Column, j. G. CUNKSCALES, Editor. The school at Williford's under the management of Mr. W. L. Grice is flourishing. Mr. Grice is an earnest y?ttng mat) and promises much in his chosen profession1. Mr. 0. H. Ga33aw?y's school at "Lick Skillet" continues with increasing num? bers and growing interest. That school deserves a better name. "Lick Skillet" is suggestive, but not euphonious. We learn that Mr. W. C. Latimer, the populor principal of the Bellon school, has resigned his position to take charge of the school at Darlington. Mr. Lati? mer Is a faithful teacher and will do good work in bis new field of labor. Our best wishes attend him. The people of Anderson County are determined to educate their children. Mr. M. S. Stribling's school in Hopewell Township, we understand, is flourishing. Mr. Belcher has a subscription school at Asbury; and Mr. R. A. Bagwell, for the past four months a student in the Anderson Military School, took charge l?st Monday of a school near Belhesda Church in Brushy Creek Township. A3 a student of unflinching devotion to duty, Mr. Bagwell has no ? superior and few equals. We commend him to the kindly, treatment of the good people of Brushy Creek, and bespeak for pupils and teacher a prosperous and pleasant ;;year. The school at Belton and the Male school at Williamston are without teach? ers. We would not dictate to the citi? zens of those towns, bnt it does seem to as that it would pay either place to get a good teacher, pay him a living salary, and keep him. This frequent change of teachers is not good policy. That boy who, on the first day he attended school, saved himself a flogging by saying, "wait teacher, till I get the hang of the house," expressed the condition of both pupils and teachers in very many instan? ces. It is important that a teacher re* main at a place long enough, not only to get the hang of the honse, but to get the hang of the community. An untimely change of teachers has been known to demoralize and spoil the efforts of pro? gressive young men. Be sure you have the right man and hold to him. From the advertisement that appeared iu the two. County papers last week, our readers will see that the public schools will open again on Monday, Feb. 1st. It turns out that the very thing we were censuring the Legislature for not doing' it had already done. If the Act passed by that body relieving the School Com? missioners of their difficult; was ever published, we failed to see it. We find consolation, however, in the fact that the editors of our papers knew nothing of it. and. some of our Representatives knew nothing of it themselves. A cir cular letter from Col. Coward containing a* copy of the Act referred to was the first intimation we had of the existence of such an Act. If that letter had come sooner there bad been no necessity for closing the schools at all, though, con? sidering the fearfully bad weather we have had-in this month, perhaps nothing is lost. A list of Trustees will be found in this issue of the Intelligencer and in the Journal. Next week, we will publish the result of the apportionmeut of the school fund as provided for in the Act referred to above. We find ourself under obligations to Mr. G. C. Hodge3, School Commissioner of Abbeville County, for a copy of his Book of Short Quotations. The little volumn is full of the choicest selections from the best poets and authors, aud will, as Mr. Hodges says, "furnish to the public, at small cost, memory gems of purest thought and sentiment." Friend Hodges has displayed singularly good caste in making these selections, mani? festing an extensive acquaintance with the liest poets and speakers and a famil- 1 iarity with their purest thoughts. We would be glad to know that there was a copy of this valuable little book in every school in the County If the teacher do not use the quotations in the daily exer? cises in the school room, let him get them and familiarize himself with them. They will do him good and prepare him to benefit bis pupils. In many of the best schools in tho land, the "gem exer? cise" plays a prominent part in the daily work, and those of our teachers who wish to introduce the exercise into their schools can not get a book, or a collec? tion of books, that will g ve greater facil? ity or enjoyment to the exercise. It is well for every student to have in his possession a stimulant, so that, when? ever he becomes tired of books, or wearied from laborious study, he may take an ounce or two, and thereby gain new energy. There is no stimulant more healthful to a boy than a desire to be? come a good citizen. If a student has a thirst for knowledge, a thirst so great that nothing but the acquirement of it will satisfy, then one of the very best Btimulants is operating upon him. A desire to elevate by his life and character the tone of society is, also, a very good stimulant to students. But best of all stimulants is the thought that if he studies diligently, studies nature as well as books, bis mind will be developed, enabling him to enjoy the beauties of nature as well as the pleasures of life; and if he studies to know the will of God, the Holy Spirit will reveal unto him that which is necessary to his hap? piness. A Student. english at vanderbilt univer? sity. One of the most characteristic signs of the new order of things in education is the time and attention now given to the study of English. In this matler the Southern Universities are comparatively ahead of the New England schools. Yale is at least twenty years behind the times. Harvard, according to its own President, offers not half so much in Edglish as in Greek or Latin. It is, theD, a just cause of pride that our chief Southern University is making such strenuous efforts to develop a thorough study of the mother-tongue. Four years ago one professor and two assistants were doing all the work in French, Germau, and English. Now that number of teachers is required for English alone. Four years ago there were about 100 students in the school of English. Now there are about 160, besides 20 to 25 bright, clever girls?pupils of the Nash? ville College for Young Ladies or resi? dents of Nashville?who are faithfully doing all the work required of the young men. The course of study in the school embraces four years. The first two are devoted to thorough drill in higher grammar, rhetoric, composition, the his? tory of the language and the literature, and especially to reading and studying the best English writers. On this is based University work proper, and the last two years are given up to English philology, Anglo Saxon, Chaucer, and the intermediate writers, the origin and history of the English language, to special epochs and to individual writers. At present the University class?com? posed of ten young men, seven of whom have each a degree, and two young ladies?are reading au Anglo Saxotf*i poem, and at the same time making a study of Carlyle?his life and his writ? ings. For this study three months are given, and then the result is handed to the head of the school in a carefully prepared "Essay." The subjects assigned will give some idea of the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of such a study : "Life of Carlyle" (First Forty Years), C. C. Ferrell; "Life of Carlyle" (Life in London), Miss F. C. Herrick; Mar? ried Life" W. A. Pusey (Carlyle); Miss Mary Conwell (Mrs. Carlyle); "Influence upon his Contemporaries," J. B. Ellis; "Influence at Present," H. N. Snyder; "Study of Cromwell's Life and Letters," W. H. 'on; "Critique of Sartor Eesartus," ? P. Smith; "Hero and Hero Worship," J. H. Moore; "Carlyle's Philosophy," J. E. Stovall ; "Political Opinions," C. T. Cole; "Em? erson" (with reference to Carlyle), Wm. Kinney.?Nashville Advocate. "I CAN PLOD." The Rev. Dr. William Carey, who way the originator of the Baptist Mis? sionary Society of England, and the great pioneer of mission work in India, was born in obscurity. His father was a poor man, and could afford him but little assistance. At an early age he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and even after he was licensed to preach, in consequeuce of his poverty, he contin? ued to work at bis trade. Notwithstand? ing the difficulties which surrounded him, he was diligent iu the improvement of his mind, and embraced every oppor? tunity which presented itself for the acquirement of useful knowledge. When he first proposed his plans to his father in reference to his great mis? sionary work, he replied : "William, are you mad?" And min? isters and Christian people replied to his proposition, "If the Lord should make windows in heaveu, then might this be." His discouragements in first entering upon his work in India were appalling. When he found himself without a roof to cover his head, without bread for his Bickly wife and four children, he made up his mind to build a hut in the wilder? ness, and live as the natives did around him. "There are many serpents and tigers, bul Christ has said that his fol? lowers shall take up serpents," said the undaunted man. God did not call him to this sacrifice, but to others, which required wouderful courage and persistence, before he achieved his final success, which has made him famous tho world over. What was the secret that enabled the shoemaker's apprentice to become one of the most distinguished men of the age? What brilliant gift raised him from an obscure position to one of honor and fame, as the author of grammars and dictionaries, translations of the Bible and other books? He either translated or assisted in the completion of twenty seven versions of the Scriptures, requir? ing a knowledge of as many languages or dialects. He betrays tho secret. In giving an estimate of his own character, he speaks of himself with Christian humility, but with full consciousness of the honor put upon him in the wonderful results he has been permitted to achieve. While not layiug claims to brilliant gifts or genius, he says: "I can plod?I can persevere." _ He does not say, as we see too often now-a days, "I could always manage to get aloug, and keep up with my class in some way, without much study. I could jump at the meaning of my lesson; or, I can catch up a trade without years o*f hard labor," but, "I can persevere." Ploodding boys, hold up your heads ! You may seem to be left behind in the race by your so called "smart" compan? ions. Plod on. "Your progress may be slow, but do not be discouraged. Re? member, "the race is not always to the swift."? Christian Advocate. A Candid Liar, Howland Baldwin has just returned to San Antonio from a hunting and fishiug trip to Devil's River. He was telling his experiences, somo of which were very exciting. He told about rattlesnakes twelve feet long, and how he was dragged through the water for a distatice of three miles by an enormous cat fish he had hooked, he having tied his line to bis wrist. Noticing an incredulous expression on tho face of John Randolph, the fisher? man said:? "I suppose you think that I'm a liar?" "No, indeed, I don't; I know it, posi? tively." "So do I, for that matter, so you needn't think that you are smarter than everybody else. I knew it was a lie before you did," responded Baldwin, who never allows anybody to get ahead of him. ? Paper rails are made in Russia. They are longer than ordinary rails, and said to have a greater adhesiveness in contact with locomotive wheels. TALKS TALKS ABOUT MEN. How to Choose a Husband. Dr. Talmage, of New York, is preach a aeries of sermons to young people, and on last Sunday his subject was "How to Choose a Husband." The following is an extract: The text selected was Ruth, I., 9.? "The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you, in the house of her husband." "This," said the Doctor, "is the prayer of pious Naomi. She was a good old soul and knew that the devil would take their cause in band if the Lord did not. She, therefore, prayed that the Lord might grant unto each of her daughters-in-law rest in the house of the man that they might" ultimately marry. I congratulate the felicity of those women who rather than marry and have an unhappy maritai alliance have had none at all. There has been no lack of opportunity, but they have preferred to live without a husband rather than marry on? of the many imbeciles that abound so plentifully in our cities. Men who are incapables, nonentities, they have seen, and they have determined that they will not ally themselves to one of them. They have eeen men also who during their courtship were angelic and after their marriage were dinbolic.il, and therefore they kept back from marriage. A woman had better live a lonely life a thousand years than be annexed to one of the many vultures with which our modern society is infested. These women in their single blessedness are angels, and their coming to our households is of the raoruing and their going away is like the coming of night." Dr. Talmage here described his "Aunt Phoebe" as one of these angelic women, and related a number of incidents from the recollections of his own youth in which "Aunt PL ^be" played a promiuent and affectionate part. "She had bad," said the Doctor, "so many sicknesses, and bad had thereby such a view of the next world that she was heavenly minded. She said to me one day, "De Witt, twice in my life I have had such illuminating views of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ that I have fainted away, and it was with difficulty that I recovered. People need not tell me that there is no heaven ; I have seen it twice." If, continued the Doctor, "you want to kuow what Aunt Pbccbe was in a sick room and in a home ask any of the Talmages. Instead of being the queen of one household she whs a benediction to many. When she went out of life what a shout, what a benediction there must have been in heaven, from the lower floor to the lop step ! There will always be a large number of womeu who will never be married, .arithmetic and mathematics show that that must be so. [f you ask me why God has given us more women than men I don't know that [ have any answer, except that the wo men 3eem to be the favored of the Lord, and then, if you think of it, it is proba? bly an arrangement of infinite wisdom, for you may call to mind that when wo? man was created it was as an? improved edition of man. "There is only one thing that can correct the disaster of an alliance with a bad husband, and that is a funeral. (Slight laughter.) The police courts of the world' cannot correct the evil. A mistake once made about marriage is made forever. Avoid a time alliance with a man who despises the Christian religion. Beware of such a man, for you surely will have a life of wretchedness. Such a man will put your hcme Under the anathema of the Lord God Almighty. It may possibly not be necessary that he should be a child of God, but it is nec? essary that he should not be a despiserof the Christian religion. If you are engaged to such a one your first duty :is to break the engagement. My wonls may come to you just in time to save your sonl. Marry him and you will probably both go to hell together. "Next, I charge you not to marry a man of evil habits with the idea that you can reform him. If you don't reform him before he gets the prize you will not do it afterward. You might as well plant a violet in the face of the Northeast wind. "I also charge you to avoid a lifelong alliance with a man who is so much occupied in business that he has no room in his life for anything else. Sometimes you will find a man who so spreads him? self over the sidewalk of life that there is no room foi any one else. He is of that class of men who have a disposition and a nature that is a protest against marriage. Marry such a man and it would be a case of bigamy. There are thousands of women at this moment on the way to such slaughter. "Avoid alliance with any one who proposes marriage through newspaper advertisements. (An audible titter.) Some women answer such advertisements for fun. Put arsenic into a cup and swallow it first before you do that, for you would do yourself less harm. Most of the men who insert such advertise? ments are moral lepers. If a man has wealth of soul he is better for yon than if he had a fortune of thousands. "If you find a man who has never made any mistakes, who is perfect, who is immaculate, don't marry him. It would be a swindle for you lo do it. \Vhy you would unite yourself to perfec? tion, and you are not fit to be married to an angel. (Laughter.) There arc no perfect men. I had two financial trans? action with two perfect men and they wofully cheated me." Dr. Talmage concluded by extolling the men with nobility of character and by earnest advice to young women to select one of these. ? The biggest issue in Maryland just at preseut is the fight over the price of marriage licenses. At the last tession of the Legislature a bill reducing the price to cine dollar was lost by Democratic votes. The Comptroller favors tho one dollar figure, and a new hill has been introduced, making the fee fifty cents. The licenses at prese-it cost S4.?0. The Baltimore American thinks this altogeth? er too high, as it is the policy of the State to encourage marriages, ft is wrong to tax poor people too heavily for a step which tends to the building up of homes and the encouragement of morality. Tho Logic of Prohibition. The object of prohibition is a point where much fog has been mode to gather. One misconception is that prohibition aims to "make people good by law." The changes have been rung upon this charge uutil many actually beiieve that prohibition's object is "to coerce men to virtue," "to reform men from without," "to purify the stream at the neglect of the fountain," and, thinking the method false, they shout, "Away with it!" On the contrary, there is not a man amongst Prohibitionists, cherishing this delusion ?uot one I The object is neither ex? pressed nor implied in action or platform. It is not in fact nor in effect, either in the principle or policy of prohibition. Law is protective and restrictive, not reformatory. Its aim is to guard rights, not to produce righteousness. No ad? vocate of prohibition supposed that is going to make a man virtuous by taking the liquor saloon out of his path. It is not framed to reform the man, hut to protect society. Reformation will come through other processes and agencies, but the law will give reformation a better chance. Are we to be told, because we advocate a law prohibiting gambling houses, that we are seeking "to coerce men to virtue," aud "reform men from without and not from within?" Does my advocacy of civil enactment concerning the Sabbath expose me to the charge of seeking "to make people good by law," "to purify the stream to the neglect of the foun? tain?" Who expects to take the love of money out of meu's heart by shutting up the gambling saloons? Who expects to make men holily observe God's day by a Sabbath law? That is not the object in either case; nor is the making men "good" the object of the prohibition of the liquor traffic. A second misconception of the object of prohibition is, that it seeks to strike the individual, to invade his rights, to enter his home, aud to compel him to stop drinking. But this is not its object. Surely we may say, with every powerful emphasis, this is not its object prohibition aims at a thing, not a man. It means the drink shop, first aud last and all the time. It would smite a traffic, and not a personal indulgence, annihilate grog ?hops, not invade homes. If, in abolish ing the saloon, prohibition does some? times touch a personal right, the saloon is nevertheless the thing aimed at, and not the personal right. See how this works in other matters. A mob is a bad thing. Prohibition says, "Repress it." But to repress it, it may be necessary to seize private properly aod destroy life, nevertheless, the mob is what prohibition is after not the life and the property. A conflagration is a bad thing. Prohibition says, "Stop it." But to "stop it" may require seizure and destruction of property in the path of the fire, nevertheless, the fire is what prohibition is after, ?ot the property. A contagious disease is a bad thing. Pro? hibition says, "Fence it in, the house must be quarantined." But that's an interference with personal liberty, never? theless, the contagion is what prohibition is after, not personal liberty. So the saloon is a bad thing. Prohibition says, "Abolish it." But to abolish it, it may be necessary to interfere with some private drinking usage, nevertheless, the saloon is what prohibition is after, not the private usage. Can inteiference with personal liberty be pleaded as against the repression of the mob? No. Can the plea of individ? ual right of property bar the effort to stamp out a conflagration ? No. Can the right to go in aud out of our houses at pleasure be urged as against the re? straints of quaranliue? No. Neither can a private drinking usage constitute a good reason for opposing a prohibitory liquor law. If the law smites the usage in smiting the saloon, it does so only in? cidentally. Good citizenship will will? ingly bear an incidental evil for the sake of an essential and universal good. Life, in the end, will be more sacred if we repress the mob. Property, in the end, will have better securities if we put out the fire. Personal liberty in the end, will have completer safeguards if we stamp out the contagion. So, every interest of society and of the individual, in the end will be better shielded if once we say, determinedly and effectually, "The saloou must go!"?Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D. Winter Gare of Bees, Before the hard cold weather the apiarisis at tho North have duly put their bees in Winter quarters to escape the rigors of their climate. Various plans are adopted for their protection. Some hives are removed to a warm cellar, kept at a certain temperature by artificial heat. Some have excavations on the sunny side of a hill in which to put them. Sometimes they are snowed in for the Winter and are kept warm by this protection. Yet, with all this care, many apiarists lose a great part of their bees. In our sunny clime, we have no such trouble, and I fear it is true, that the more nature does for us, the less we are iuclined to help ourselves. Southern people love larger industries aud that which comes with less care. With bees some care in our favored climate is nec? essary. Although we may leave our colonies just where they arc for Winter, they should be examined before cold weather. No leaky crevices should he allowed, or places where the wind may whistle through, although they need some ventilation. Bees do not, like toads or reptiles, assume a dormant state through Winter. A bee once chilled is chilled forever. They cluster together on a few combs in the centre of the hive and thus keep up their heat. Hence the necessity of having a large colony. They fly out occasionally in warm sunny weather during Winter. No hive should begin Wiuter with less than twenty-five pounds of honey ; and these stores should be near the brcod chamber, so as to give them as little travel as possible. A thick coarse cloth should be placed over the frames in the top story. This they glue down closely, and it saves them from much cold. They should not he inter? rupted through Winter, as they have closed up every crevice possible against the cold. Thus equipped, wc consign them to their long rest, Busy little bee, do you, too, do the Master's will?teaching man by divine instinct the lesson of God, there is a time to work and a time to rest, from which chill sleep no floral dream can disperse the frost, waiting, like earth's way worn travelers, not dead, but sleeping, in the chill-bound state, yet in hope of tho vernal and wooing influences of the eternal Spring. ?Southern Cultivator, Where Wrcat Men Conic From, It is curious that the great majority of our more prominent public men como from the smaller cities and towns, while, on the other hand, the number of those born in the larger cities of the North? west who have written their names high on the roll of political and military fame will scarcely reach a round dozen. Charles Summer was a resident of Boston, but his great colleague in the Senate, Henry Wilson, came from the insignifi? cant village of Natick, while Ben Butler, Gen. Banks, and Senators Dawes and Hoar are natives of places but little more important in point of population. Tilden and Arthur are New York city men, but nearly every other New Yorker of promiuence?like President Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Horatio Seymour, Conkling, Sew.ird, Greeley, and Karnan ?had their birth and training in the interior cities. "Sunset" Cox claims New York city as his home, but he made his reputation in Congress as a raconteur and wit before he removed to the metrop? olis, and while a resident of the sleepy old town of Zanesville, Ohio. Sam Randall is the only congressman from the city of Philadelphia in twenty years who is kuown outside of his State. The other famous Penusylvanians, Cameron, Curtin, Thad'.Stephens, Buchanan, Mead, and Hancock, for example, all hailed from the provinces. In Ohio the contrast is still more sharply defined. Ben Wade, Chase, Stauton, Garfield , Hayes, Gen. and Sen? ator Sherman, Giddings, Thurman, Sher? idan, and William Allen were, in every instance, citizens of obscure little towns that are known on'y to the world as the homes of these great men. Cincinnati, as an offset to this, has furnished to the country but two meu of national promi? nence since the war, ex-Attorney Gener? al Taft and Senator George H. Pendleton. Chicago has done but little better. Since Douglass' time she has sent but one man, Lyman Trumbull, of first-rate ability to either branch of Congress. Grant, Lin? coln, Logan, Cullom, Yates, Morrison, and Springer, the best known names in Illinois politics, laid the foundation of their greatness in the smaller cities and towns of the State. The list might he extended indefinitely, but enough is here given to establish the truth of the proposition that the great men of the nation are of country birth and breeding.? Washington Correspondent Chicago News. She Was Engaged. The scarcity of young women in "Vakima County, W. T., has not only caused considerable ill-feeling among the marriageable young men, but is certainly proving an obstacle to education. Just as soon as a young lady is installed as teacher of a school, scores of young fellows, upon matrimony intent, vie with each other to act as her escort to her boarding house; ?\nd it occasionally happens that one of them will demon? strate his right to act as her gay cavalier by "knocking out" the others, should they persist in their attentions to the new teacher. Two or three weeks' courtship, under such circumstances, is usually enough to convince a young lady that "a school teacher's life is not a happy one," and that of a wife is far preferable. Then the primitive university is shut up until a new teacher is fouud, and the young? sters, having no lessons to learn, devote their entire time to pleasure, and are as happy as the young husband who stole away their teacher. A member of the school committee, who bad been empowered to secure a teacher for a school temporarily closed because the former incumbent had been persuaded to desert her pupils in the manner described above, had introduced a decidedly original resolution in the School Board. It was to the effect that no "lady shall hereafter be engaged un? less she sigus a paper declaring that she will not get married until a year has ex? pired after the time of her installation as teacher." This, it was thought, would prove a settler to the young men who were ever on the alert to cause the deser? tion of the teachers from their posts of duty. Mr. Beebe, the author of the resolu? tion, after much correspondence, engaged a lady to olficiatc as teacher. She came from a distance, and he went to the rail? road station to meet her. There for the first time, he delicately sounded her re? garding her willingness to sign a docu? ment promisiug to continue single for a year. She emphatically refused, and declared that rather than agree to such ultimatum she would return. Mr. Beebe saw that she was in earnest. She was not only intelligent, but pretty and amiable, therefore he did not want to lose her ; and on the spot^ notwithstanding the resolution, he engaged her?to marry him I?Chicago Ledger. ? A recent writer states that within the Metropolitan Police District of the city of London, there are (!S7 square miles; within these limits there are said to be about 4,000,000 inhabitants. It contains more Roman Catholics than there are in the city of Rome, more Jews than there are in Palestine, more Irish tl.t!j Dublin, more Scotchmen than are in Edinburg and more Welshmen than in Cardiff. ? At one of the schools in this city yesterday the master, in a general exercise, wrote the word "dozen" on the blackboard, and asked the pupils to each write a sentence containing the word. He was somewhat taken aback to find ou one of the papers the following unique sentence: "I dozen know my lesson." Will it Tay. For the past year there has been a kind of craze over tobacco culture and the profit* likely to flow from its growth in South Carolina. Any kind of farming j can be made to appear profitable on paper. A grain of wheat on good land will stool and send up five to ten stalks with good heads, each containing 20 to 30 grains. On paper cadi grain by .his test should give from 100 to 150 grains, or each bushel showed should yield 100 to 150 bushels. Cut, thresh and put the measure to it and the yield falls to 10 or 15 bushels. An acre of corn, run off three by four feet at one hundred cam to the buthel, should yield about thirty seven bushels, with one ear to the stj.lk, but when shucked and measured, the bushels are. not there, uuless the land be extraordinarily good, and tho distance lessened. It is said figures won't lie, hut in farming they can out lie the prince of liars. Admitting this, still we are satis? fied tobacco can be grown profitably in this Stale, certainly in the upper counties, if its culture and euring were properly understood. To prove this needs no experiment, as our farmers, who use it, geuerally plant small patches and realize from lliem at the rate of one to two thousand pounds per acre. This is what is known as common tobacco, grown on highly manured spots, where the stalks average teu to twelve leaves over two feet long and eighteen inches wide. The fine, light tobacco is grown ou thin, grs-.y land, fertilized, and the yield in quantity is much less, but the price more than makes up the loss in pounds. For the purpose of testing the prufi s of tobacco growing and the adaptation of our soil aud climate to its culture, the Agricultural Board of t^e State has set apart S1.S00 to bo appropriated as fol? lows: Fifty dollars to be given to one man selected in each County of lh>j State to make the experiment, and a prize of $100 to be given to ths man who attains the most satisfactory results. In our opinion this is wastin.; money on what the Board calls an exper? iment where no experiment is needed, and limiting tha competition to 34 men, when it should embrace all who desire to compete. If the Board had offered a. premium in each County of the State to the man who raised the largest number of pounds of tobacco on one acre, not le3j than -pounds; another pre? mium to the fanner who raised the finest grade of toba.co in his County ou one acre, the yield to he not less than - pounds; and another premium to the farmer who planted the largest number of acres in tobacco in each Couuty, the average* per acre to be not less than - pounds, the competition would have been general and the experiment, if such be needed, would have shown the probable yield per acre, the grade of tobacco and the result of a general crop of several acres. Better eveu than this would have been the buying and distrib? uting among our people of pamphlet*, written aud published by successful growers of the weed in Virginia and North Carolina, giving full instructions as to plant beds, the preparation of the soil tor tho crop, and the cultivation, . cutting and curing tobacco in quantities. | Our people need no experiments to prove tobacco will grow here profitably, but they need information as to many things connected with its growth and curing. There are several reasons why tobacco has not been grown as a crop in this County since the war, most of which have ceased to exist: 1st. The high price of cotton after the war diverted our labor into the channel of cotton growing and there it has re? mained, though the price of cotton now hardly pays for its cost of production. 2d. After tSe war our people did not have sufficient capital to build such houses as are required for the curing of tobacco as a crop, uordid they kuow how to cure properly and pack down large quantities. 3d. There was no home market for the sale of leave tobacco; in fact no market in the State, and our people were not sufficiently informed as to the prices and shipment of leaf tobacco. There was so little confidence in the couutry that far? mers marketing their produce did so on the plan here is the article, baud me the money for it. 4th. The revenue laws were such, and were enforced by such irresponsible, overbearing officials (?) so called., that people were afraid to grow or handle leaf tobacco, inasmuch that but few grew tobacco for Lome use. This is all changed and what we now waut is to encourage the growth of to? bacco as a crop and not to experiment over its growth. In the early settlement of the up-country tobacco was an article of commerce. It was grown largely and rolled in hogshead to Hamburg aud ?Charleston by attaching shafts to pins drove in each end of the hogshead, The price wiis then lower than now. With the present improved information and cheapuess of shipment its growth must prove profitable, and when once introduc? ed and cultivated as a crop, the volume of our broken lauds about Walhalla will be enhauced from five to ten fold. Again, when our people once begin to grow it fur market, a market will up:-n in the Couuty, for when the crop for sale is sufficiently large to justify a licensed dealer, such a house would soon open in one of several towns in the County.? I Walhalla Courier. ? A peddler in Derby., Conn, fell into the water the other day and would have drowned but for the timely assistance of two young men. Glowing with gratitude, the peddler opened his pack and ijive to each a lead pacil. That was his modest self valuation. ? "How do you do, Mary '! I've been trying to catch up with you for half an hour. I knew you just as soon as I set eyes on that bonnet. I've known it as long as I can remember." It is such re? marks as this that fill tho female heart with bitterness. ? A novel case, showing some of the peculiarities of rural life in Ohio, came to light at Akron on Saturday, A bill of sale was shown where a man had sold his wife to a neighbor for live cents. The wife was a willing party to .the sale. The World's Largest Planter. Col. Edmund Richardson, a leading cotton merchant in New Orleans, was stricken with apoplexy at his home in Jackson, Miss., on the night of the 12th instant, and died before assistance could reach him. By the death of Col. Richardson fell the largest cotton planter in the world, the richest man in the whole South, and one who stood among his people con? spicuous for masterful achievements, his splendid success in life, and the glory of his record. He was as bold a figure in the history of Southern finance as William H. Vanderbilt was in New York. His cotton crops were a wonder to the world. He was the owner of nineteen plantations in Louisiana, Ar? kansas and Mississippi, covering over fifty thousand acres, and his annual crop was never less than nineteen thousand bales. He was a mau of rare public spirit, foremost in every enterprise for the weal of his native land, and large hearted and generous in every impulse, he made his princely fortune a great power for good. To his efforts was the New Orleans ex? position of last year greatly due for its success. As President of the Associa? tion he lent his energy to the enterprise, and it was doubtless a matter of rare pride to this great Southern fanner that he had lived to assist in such an exhibi? tion of the South's products. Only a few days before his death he had sub? mitted to President Cleveland in his own capacity as President of the World's In? dustrial and Cotton Centennial, a full report of the New Orleans Exposition, concluding his report with the*e words: "In closing this report I desire to ex? press the grateful thanks of the Southern people to the President and the Congress of the United Stales for the opportunity so happily afforded, under the auspices of the Goverment of the Ui.ited States, of demonstrating to the world their re? markable progress, while at the same time the Slates and Territories of the North west were enabled to make for the first time in their history, a complete dis? play of their marvellous natural resour? ces in friendly and harmonious competi? tion with their predecessors in the Fed? eral compact. The lesson thus taught will not go unheeded, and its results is already manifested in the quickening pace of industry and the renewed im? petus imparted to the development of the uewer States and Territories while, at the same time, new fields of commercial enterprise have been opened to the nation in the neighboring countries of Mexico and Central America, with promise of abundant results, and the North and East have been presented with new out? lets for their enormously increased man? ufactured productions. The cause of public education, which is now so ap? propriately receiving the attention of the CoDgress of the United States, a cause in which the Southern States are peculiarly interested, and which em? braces a problem upon the solution of which almost the entire fabric of the future of this section depends, was great1 ly assisted and stimulated by the displays presented at the Exposition from every country in the wo.id, and the opportuni? ty thus afforded for comparison and im? provement. In this respect alone the Exposition is worthy of record ns the most conspicuous event of the century in the cause of civilization and-progress, and its lesson should not be disregarded in the consideration of the question of national aid to public education." Col. Richardson was a native of Rock ingham County, N. O, and moved to Mississippi to engage iu planting when a young man. May Children go Barefoot Without Injury. This question is every now and again proposed for discussion, and when it is so, we are compelled to give the same .inswer. On physiological grounds it is manifestly a sound practice to accustom children to develop the circulatory and muscular systems of the lower extremi? ties, precisely as those of the hand are developed, by free ese and exposures, .ft is not supposed to be either necessary or desirable that children should wear gloves for hvgienic purposes. When the hands of little folks are thus decorated, the parental idea is confessedly to give them what is conventionally regarded as a genteel appearauce. No one thinks a child ought to be protected from the weather so far as its hands are concerned. On the contrary, it is recognized that the upper extremities should be kept warm by exercise and habitual exposure. Pre? cisely the same view holds good with re? gard to the lower extremities. Contact with bodies that abstract heat even more than the earth abstracts it, is an almost constant condition of child-life. In short, it is entirely in deference to fash? ion to wear foot coverings. There is much to he said iu favor of a more natural practice. The foot is an organ of wondrous complexity, regarded as a bony and muscular apparatus. It is, moreover, provided with nerves and blood vessels of especial intricacy. The softest and most flexible shoe to a very great extent, and a hoot almost entirely, reduces this organ to the character of a jointed block with little self movement. Obviously this reduction must detract, not only from the efficiency of the foot, but of the organism as a whole. If the blcod vessels of the foot and leg are fully developed, as they only can be when the foot is habitually exposed, the quantity of blood which the lower extremities can be made to receive, and, if need be, attract for a lime, is very considerable. We can only say thai children who are allowed to go barefooted enjoy almost perfect immunity from the danger of "cold" by accidental chilling of the feet, and they are altogether healthier and happier than Ihose who, in obedience to the usages of social life, have their lower extremities permanently invalided, and, ?o to say, carefully swathed and put away in rigid cases. ? When a menagerie was wrecked at Monroe. Ga., f e other day, a $5,000 elephant was sold for ?300, the lions brought ?200 each, and two camels were knocked down for the trifle of ?325. Ex-Govcrnor II. F, Perry, In a recent review of "Reminiscences of Public Men," by Ex-Governor B. F. Perry, the Baltimore American says : Governor Perry is of the same lineage with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, and was born in Pendleton County . O, in 1S?5. He is still a very eminent member of the South Carolina Bar, but has been still more eminent and distin? guished for the ability, firmness and gal? lantry with which be resisted the disunion movement iu this State from,the begin? ning to the disastrous eud. In a minor sectional issue, when he was State Sena? tor, he was iu the minority of one, and toid the Seuate that this fact carried no terrors to his mind while in the consci? entious discharge of his duty. South Caroliua had been for many years a disunion State, and in 1850 the secession and disunion feeling rose so high that it was said the State was a unit for breaking up the Government and forming a new confederacy. Mr. Perry, however, re? mained "faithful among the faithless," a;:d boldly proclaimed his opposition to sece?sion and disuniou as destructive of liberty and the very institutions of the South, for the preservation of which it was s' ught to dissolve the Union. Like Lord Mansfield, he never "mistook the shouts of a mob for the trumpet of lame." When, in 18G0, an election was ordered for members of the State Convention to dissolve the Union, because Abraham Lincoln bad been elected President, Governor Perry, almost alone in the State, publicly contended that this was no rea? son for breaking up the Government, and that the Southern people still had a majority in both Houses of Congress and in the Supreme Court. He warned the people, too, that they were about to plunge the country into a bloody civil war, which would result in the defeat of the South and the loss of their slave property. But such was the temper of the times that he was nowhere heeded. After the States had seceded, he was asked what his course would be. He replied : "I have been trying to prevent this sad issue for thirty years. You are all going to the devil, and I will go with you." He consequently urged bis Union friends to stand by the State:and volun? teer iu her defence, and his son and all young friends did so, serving faithfully to the end. After the close of the war, he was appointed Provisional Governor by President Johnson, without any solic? itation or knowledge on his part or on Lhe part of his friends. His administra? tion of the office is spoken of as a mon? ument of the magnanimity of his nature and unselfish patriotism. There was not a semblance of mere personal ends, his only object being the restoration to a ruined commonwealth of order, prosper? ity and coateutment. A Remarkable Character. New Orleans, January 18.?In Mansfield yesterday was held the funeral of a well-known and remarkable charac? ter. Levy Carnine, seventy-six years old, died after a long illness, and his funeral svas conducted by veteran soldiers of the Confederate army. Old Levy Carnine ivas a negro, and his life had been an eventful one. Ho belonged to the Hogan family iu Alabama, and when the Flori? da Indian war broke out in 1S37, al though a mere boy, ho followed his young master to the field of action in Lhe capacity of a cook and general wait? ing boy. During one of the battles he saw his master killed by an Indian bullet, 1 and laid him away in a soldier's grave amid the everglades of Florida. He ' remained with a cousin of his deceased master until the close of the war. He was present at General Jessup's camp cvheu Osceola, the famous Indian chief, was, as Levy always claimed, treach? erously captured by that officer. He relumed to his home aud was a faithful house servant until the breaking out of the late war, when he again weut to the army as the servant of young Dr. Hogau of Mausfield Place, ivho was a member of the De Soto Peli? can Rifles, Second Louisiana Infantry. This fatuous company, from first to last, contained 151 men, and old Levy helped to bury about 100 of them. Dr. Hogan was killed at the Wilderness, but old Levy remained with tho company and cooked for the well and nursed the sick until the last year of the war, when he returned home to join another young master, who had become old enough to enter the army. Of the Pelican Rifles only thirty returned home, including old Levy, and all of them but one were wounded. After the war this black Confederate became a Democrat and labored earnestly for the overthrow of Republican government in Louisiana. Nothing except his birth and color pre? vented him from being a master among men. The surviving members of the Pelican Rifles, only five or six in num? ber, arranged for the funeral of their old friend. Miss Bayard's Death. Washington, Jauuary IS.?Dr. Gard? ner, the family physician of Secretary Bayard, was asked as to the condition of the family. He said to a correspondent: "They are bearing up under their ter? rible affliction with unexpected fortitude. Mrs. Bayard is doing much better than I could have hoped." The doctor said there was no truth in the statement that an electric battery had been used in an effort to resuscitate Miss Bayard. "When I arrived," he said, "there were evidences that if Miss Bayard was dead she had been dead only a short time. Of course the members of the family were very anxious that everything should be doue as long as there was a possibility that she was still alive. Accordingly, I returned to my house for a battery. By the time I arrived at tLe Bayard mansion again there was no longer any doubt that the young lady was dead and no efforts at resuscitation were made." The doctor also denied the possibility that Miss Bayard's death was the result of an overdose of chloral or morphine. "If such had been the case," said he, "there would have been evidences of it. If Miss Bayard had died of an overdose of morphine the remains would have shown traces of opium poisoning. Miss Bayard has never used chloral to ray knowledge, and I am very positive that I would have known if she had. There is no doubt whatever that her death was the result of heart di.-er.se. When I was called to see her about a week ago, I had no idea that she would be able lr leave her bed for several days, but she was downstairs the next day receiving visitors. It was her indomitable n ill." The Carolina and Cumberland Gap. The meeting of the stockholders of tire' Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad was held at Aiken on Wednes? day of last week, the meeting of the directors having been held at the same place on the previous day. Gen. John? son Hagood resigned the office of presi? dent and Col. R. E. Boweu, of Bickens, was made president pro tern. Col. Al drich, of Aiken, acted as secretary. Mr. Schofield, the financial agent, being present, made a report of his oper? ations in trying to place the bonds of tho road with the capitalists of Europe? He read n cablegram, just received, from a number of English bankers, stating tba' they were prepared to take ?7,500, 000 of the bonds of the road if the sum of ?2,500,000 could be placed in this country, and Mr. Schofield expressed himself as being confident that he could raise the required .-2,500,000. Iu regard to the contract with Childs & Oliver, an effort was made to cancel this contract, but as it was impracticable to do so a proposition from them was accepted which released the stockholders of (he Carolina division from the first mortgage held by them <o the extent of ?16,000 a mile. It will be remembered that the mortgage on the road bed in favor of Childs & Oliver is ?22,000 of first mortgage bonds and ?15,000 of in? come bonds per mile, and it is this mort? gage, as we understand it, that has been released to the extent of ?16,000 a mile in favor of the Carolina directors. The proceedings of the meeting were not of a very interesting character, and we regret to say that we see nothing in what was done to justify a more hopeful view of this great enterprise. Every? thing still depends on what Mr. Scho? field may do in placing the bonds of the road, and whilst we believe that Mr. Schofield is and has been doing all that he can, the fact remains that as yet he has done nothing.?Edgeficld Chronicle, Tobacco Culture. The Board of Agriculture has appro? priated ?1,800 for the purpose of en? couraging practical experiment in the culture of tobacco in this State ; ?50 to be given to one farmer in each county, selected by a committee of three practical farmers, and a premium of?l00tothe farmer reporting the best results. The Board has issued a circular con? taining the following conditions, which must be complied with : "One acre of laud must be cultivated in tobacco. A correct record must be kept, showing the date of seeding and setting plants, the variety of seed used, the character of the soil, the quantity and kind of fertilizer applied, the daily condition of the weather during the sea? son (temperature and rainfall), the cost of producing the crop, including every item of expense connected therewith, the number of days' work given I' the crop, kind and cost of labor, dato of cutting and curing the same, and total yield in pounds of marketable tobacco. A statement of area and yield must be certified to in a manner to be prescribed hereafter. "You will be required to send a state? ment of the average temperature and rainfall (compiled from yourdaily record) and the condition of the crop, to tho Commissioner of Agriculture, on tho first day of each month, and to send a sample of the tobacco when cured to tho Department of Agriculture, weighing not less than ten pounds. "Seed for planting, blanks for reports and thermometers and rain gauges will be furnished free by the Department of Agriculture, the thermometers and gauges to be returned if called for. The fifty dollars given will be paid after the crop has been cured and ready" for market, and samples, with reports prescribed, have been sent to the Com? missioner of Agriculture, provided all the requirements made by the depart? ment have been complied with. The one hundread dollar premium will be awarded by the Board of Agriculture after all of the reports of results and the samples have been received. "You will be allowed to retain all the proceeds derived from the sales of the crop, exclusive of the samples sent to the department." No coramttees have yet been appoint? ed for the counties of Anderson and Edgefield.?Columbia Register. Book-Buyers iu the National Capita!. An old Washington book-seller says : "Gen. Lewis Cass was a famous book byer. I used to have his standing order for every work that was published on political economy. Mr. Seward also bought a great many books. His puichases were mostly of the higher order of literature. Chief Justice Chase was very fond of the Latin poets. His family were great book-buyers. "Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague was a great reader of the highest class of French literature. She also read a geat many works women don't usually care for. But her sister, who is now Mrs. Hoyt, was the reader of the Chase family. Being rather nearsighted, she lacked acute powers of observation and seemed to live only with good books. All of the Chase family loved reading and were very intelligent. You would hardly think it, but Edwin M. Stanton was a great reader; even during war times, when he. was overburdened with the cares of his office, he would read all the better class of novels that were published. Judge Jerry Black, although he never had much money to buy books, read a great deal. As a rule, most of the country did not purchase much for their library, and the everagc member of the national legislature has no taste for study or the better class of publications." ? Washington Letter. ? They were engaged to be married and called each ctber by their first names, Tom and Fanny, and he was telling her how he bad always liked the 9 name of Fanny, and how* it sounded ? like music in his car. '"I like the nainew. so well," he added, as a sort of clinch,?;-: er to the argument, "that when sister - Clara asked me to name her pet terrier, ~ I at once called it Fanny, after yon, dearest." "I don't thiuk that was very nice," said the fair girl edgiug away from him ; how would you like to have a dog name after you?" "Why, that's nothing 1" said Tom, airily; half the cats iu the country are named after me." They don't speak "now. ? "Why does mairiage make men thoughtful?" asked a young lady of an old bachelor. "Well, I suppoi-o it is because they arc continually wondering what's going to happen next."