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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1886. VOLUME XXL - NO J. G. ClilNKSCAIiES, Editob. W. A. Clark' requests ns to announce that there will be a meeting of the col? ored teachers of Anderson County at the Greeley Institute, on the 25th inat. A full attendance is desired. Teachers and. others attending the Teachers' Institute can get good board and comfortable lodgings at fifty cents a day. -Parties desiring us to make ar? rangements for. them will please write us at once. Coli Coward sends us several circulars relative to the rates of travel over the different railroads in the State for persons wishing to attend the State Normal Sch?lls to be held during the- month of July-in Greenville'and Columbia, for the white and colored teachers respectively. If any of our white teachers propose to . attend, ithe' State Normal in Greenville we have not heard of it. Our County Institute will be held between July 5 th - and 15th. They all expect to attend v that. Any colored teacher who expects to.attend the Columbia Normal will have to pay full, fare going on the Columbia and Greenvi?o Road, and. return free on presenting to conductors certificates of attendance from the office of State" Su? perintendent Education. Oar recent visit to Honea Path was a charming one. The reputation of the w-~$dace for its unbounded hospitality , was well sustained and increased, if possible. No pains were spared to make the visit "ors comfortable and the occasion enjoy : able. A grand speech from a.grand old man, the venerable Dr. Furman, was well received by an attentive audience, and, we trust, produced a lasting im? pression upon the minds and hearts of | many young men and boys who heard it. '-.yTJie .opinions of a man, whose life, though not yet ended, is acknowledged - to be an indisputable snccess,.are invalu? able, "and; his advice to young men is /worthy the closest consideration. . The school so ably managed by Prof. ; J. B, Watkins, has "closed a successful session in spite of the stubborn interfer? ence of the measles. Many of the pupils downed at their bidding, but as soon as possible fell into line again and worked op to the end of the session. The Honea PatfiSchool is a success?the town has a right to be proud of it. -' ?r - We- have from time to time, in season ? and out of season, urged upon our young men the utter foily of hurrying off to College before they are prepared for Col? lege work. Let us repeat: you had bet c tar never see 'a College than go through one maimed from the beginning, for the reason, that too little time and work are given to- the groundwork, the most im? portant of all structures. This mistake, sp;oftenmade, arises from a misconcep? tion of the whole thing. A simple diploma is worthless unless it be the ex? ponent of thorough mental and moral culture. Thore can be no thoroughly trained intellect when the elementary steps of the' drill work are left out. A thousand College diplomas can not supply the place of the missing links. That diploma which smells oi the grease ' that was used to get the bearer through .v is away below par nowadays* Armed ! with such a document as his only capital, a young man has rather a gloomy future before him, and is leaning up or. a broken staff. Many men's lives have been twisted and warped, and completely circum? scribed "by the very mistake that we are now discussing. Few men have the courage,'or determination, to supply the missing links after a few years have passed. Some have dono it, but the/ are the exceptions, by no means the rule. If young men will go ^College?and every one blessed with the mpans ought to go?let them go prepared, or end their .'' school days before they go, rather than .do shoddy work, or incomplete work, in the preparatory school. It must be very hard on a spirited young man to realize that his class is dragging him along. If he is not made out of the best kind of. stuff, he finds it .-: hard to bear and probably sinks, disgust? ed with the attempt to become an edu? cated man. Our Colleges are themselves to blame, in ? a great measure, for much of the shoddy work that ha3 heretofore been attributed to the preparatory schools. In order to increase their patronage, the temptation has. been very strong, of course, to matriculate-students who were wholly, or, in part, unprepared for the College curriculum. If the examina? tions for admission were doubly strict there would be Iess,talkabout poor work Bmo?g the schools and fewer shams thrown out upon society. So long-as onr Colleges'refuse to turn off any who come, bnt admit them to the Freshman class with the hope that they will make up deficiencies, or complacent? ly consign them to their own imperfectly arranged preparatory department, just bo long must they expert to do unsatisfac? tory work and meet competition among the schools. With classical schools scat? tered all over the land, there is no ne? cessity for any College to have a prepar? atory department of its awn. When she does she puts herself into unfair compe? tition with the very schools from which she hopes to draw her supply of material. Let the Colleges when a student applies for admission make him stand square to the rack, and, in case of failure, go back to the preparatory school from whence he came, or some other; then they may expect the schools to do better work and take pride in fitting young men for the demands the Colleges make upon them. ? Rev. Charles B. Galloway, of Missis, aippi, who was recently elected to a Bishopric in tho Southern Methodist Church, is said to be the youngest man over eleoted to such a high position in the councils of his church. His ago is thirty-five. ? R. Frank Anderson, of Abbeville County, is working a gold mine on his place that is paying very well. ? President Cleveland's present to his bride was a superb diamond necklace. A Visit to South Florida. Bbonson, Fla., June 8,1886. Editor Intelligencer: I left Live Oak on the 3rd inst., at 6.30 a. m., in fompany with B. B. Black well, Esq., State Solicit? or for the Third Circuit. We took pass? age on the south-bound passenger train of the Savannah, Florida and Western Bailroad. The coach in which we were comfortably seated contained Mexicans, Cubans, Jews, Georgians, North and South Carolinians, Floridians, &c. The greatest attractions were the country and its productions. About thirty miles travel brought us to New Braoford, a small town and steamboat lauding on the Su wan nee River. Ex-Gov. Geo. F. Drew owns and operates a large steam saw mill at New Branford. The pine trees looked rather small there. The Solicitor said the tim? bered lands here were worth $1.25 per acre. The Solicitor very soon called my at* [ tention to the Ichatucnee Biver. He ? said that it was principally made up from Limestone Springs- The water of the river looked perfectly clear. The surface under the water has a rich blue appear? ance, aud looked like it had had a great quantity of dissolved bluestone poured on it. This is its general appearance, and is caused by the effect of the- water. We now come to Fort White, a new town one year old. Fort White has about one hundred buildings, but no hotel. Mr. B. A. Bast, of Lake City, offers to give a lot of land in a suitable location to any one that will build a hotel on it at Fort White. A railroad con? nects Fort White with Lake City. The land around Fort White is heavily tim? bered, and the growing crops look well. At the Santa Fee Biver the engine stopped on the south side to take in water from a tank, The water is pumped from the river into the tank. I looked from the car window and found that I was im? mediately over the river. The long Spanish moss and % the huge live oaks towering above a dense undergrowth presented in its nature a picture to my eyes that was particularly charming. . Alachua County makes quite a change in the appearance of the country. The soil in some places is a dark red clay, with hickory and a variety of oak timber. The harvesters in the field were reaping oats. Large fields of vegetables of every name and kind that can be produced in this climate were visible. Nearly all of the tropical and semi-tropical fruits, except pineapples, are grown in Alachua County. At Hayne Station, twelve miles north of Gainesville, Mr. John B. Dell has 120 ? acres planted in vegetables. 60 acres of his crop are planted in tomatoes. A lot of his tomatoes, in crates, were delivered to the express agent at Hayne Station . this morning. This was his first ship? ment for this year. South and west of this station is noted for its natural wells, some of them from 40 to 75 feet deep. Some of them are perfectly straight, and have a limerpck walling from the bottom to the top of the well. In many of them it would be impossible to detect that the well had not been dug out and walled up. The water from them is very warm, and has a strong lime taste. The water is cooler and has a better taste after being ? exposed to the air for several hours. On the Santa Fee Biver at Leno there is a water sink. All of the water from the river sinks into the ground and rises again in about' two and one-half miles from where it sinks. There are' several public roads that cross the river where it runs under, the ground. Gainesville is the county seat of Ala? chua County. The population of the city is variously estimated at from 4,500 to 6,000. I think 5,000 is a fair estimate. Alachua County has 1,260 square miles, and the census of 1885 gives it a popula? tion of over 26,000. Gainesville has a good railroad concentration. It is the junction of the Savannah, Florida and Western Bailroad, the Florida Southern Bailroad and the Florida Bailroad and Navigation Company. 1st class freight is carried from New York to Gainesville for 97 cents per hundred; 2nd class,'85 cents; 3rd class, 75 cents; 4th class, 60 cents; 5th class, 47 cents; 6th class, 40 cents, except flour, which costs 47 cents per barrel. Corn is worth 65 cents per bushel here; bay, $1.15 per hundred; bacon, 8 cents; beef, 10 cents. Mr. J. A. Carlisle, formerly of Union County, S. C, is the Clerk of the Circuit Court. I find from the Clerk's ofBce that there are 300 crop mortgages recorded for sup? plies for this year. The new Court House here is said to be the finest in the State. A short distance north of the Court House stands the East Florida Seminary. The house is a splendid brick building, and is well furnished with ail of the improved appliances for educational facilities. Col. Carter is its Principal. He says there are from 20 to 30 young girls under the charge of a lady assistant teacher in the Seminary this year. Lieutenant Kernan has charge of . the military department. In the music department there are more boys than girls taking regular lessons on the piano. The colored public school has upwards of four hundred pupils. This school is in a prosperous condition. Professor Mad dox, the colored Principal, has a colle? giate education. Josiah T. Walls, colored, ex-member of Congress, has 300 acres planted in vegetables near Gainesville. Walls is the largest shipper of tomatoes in the County. J. A. Parker, M. D., colored of Gainesville, has a good medical practice. His practice is confined almost exclusive? ly to the colored people. The ice house has been receutly burned in Gainesville, and on this occasion there was no ice in the city except at one hotel and the soda fountaiu at the postoffice. After two days' rest and city recrea? tion I obtained a ticket at the transit depot. The train arrived one hour and a half late, with only two passenger coaches. In the coaches and on top of the cars were over 300 railroad hands, mostly negroes. Thero were ten or twelve passengers, including two ladies, in one of the coaches. I pressed my way into this co.ich, and in place of get? ting a seat, I could scarcoly find room to stand up. In the coach there was drink? ing, smoking, singing, cheering and hiss? ing, disputing and occasional pistol shots from the car windows. The railroad hands were going down the road to change the gange. Arredoudo was the first station we passed. It is the home of Mr. Zach. Taylor, formerly of Anderson. Mr. Taylor is at present engaged in the saw mill business. I met with one of his sons at Gainesville, on his way home from Charleston, S. C, where be had been going to school. He was dressed in military uniform, and had the fine ap? pearance of a cadet. Archer station is a fine shipping point for vegetables. There were 800 crates of vegetables shipped from there one day last week. Bronson is the county seat of Levy County. Stopping here at the hotel, I find that the proprietor is ex-Senator Wm. J. Jones, formerly of Marion Coun? ty, S. C. Mr. Jones has served eight years in the Florida Legislature?four years in the House and four years in the Senate. Levy County has 940 square miles, 1600 voters, 70 miles of .gulf land and a large body" of hammock land. Between the Wacasassa and the Suu an nee Rivers the pine land is generally un? dulating, and .is interspersed with live oaks, bay, magnolia and sweet gum trees. Low pine lands are intersperssd with creeks and cypress ponds. Separate the high pine land from the gnlf and ham? mock lands, the soil is underlaid with clay and soft sandstone. In Borne parts of the County can be found limerock, which, when burned, makes a good fer? tilizer. The principal crops are vegeta? bles, oranges, sea island cotton, corn, sugar cane, oats, rice, peas, pinders, Irish and sweet potatoes. Jute, c'assara and arrow root are frequently found growing here, I had seen no oranges on the trees until I came to Bronson. They are very few and scattering, not more than one tree in one hundred (except in hammock lands) having any oranges on them. This is tho effect of the severe winter. Levy County has many miles of fine grazing lands. Thousands of cattle feed upon them, but they are not yet fat enough for market. Bronson has about S00 inhabitants. I find from the Clerk's office. 115 crop mortgages recorded for supplies this year. The government fands are nearly all taken .up for homesteads in this County, Good farming lands can be. bought for from two and one-half to five dollars per acre. This latitude is about 100 miles south of that of Jacksonville, 122 miles south of Fernandina on the Atlantic, and 33 miles north of Cedar Keys on the Gulf of Mexico. I find many health seekers here. The climate here, and on the hills east and north of here, is said to be the best in the State for the miti? gation of pulmonary diseases, the atmos? phere being remarkably dry and the temperature equable. A great many people that live here now, and look healthy and strong, tell me that their physicians had given them up to die in the cold northern climates. Readet, if you will excuse me, I weighed 227 pounds when I came to Florida, and I still weigh-about the same. Woolf Springs are a veritable freak of . nature. At the top of the hill, 75 to 100 feet higher than any other hilf in the range, fine springs of clear,, cool water break out. The water is strongly im? pregnated with iron, magnesia and other minerals. These springs, if improved, would be a popular resort, and people would congregate here to spendiltheir summers instead of going to the gulf coast. The medicinal properties of the water from these springs are claimed to be an antidote for rheumatism and corn men diseases of the kidneys. These springs are only two and a half miles from Bronson. This is also a good re? sort for sportsmen. Deer, turkey, quail, &c, are here in abundance. The famous gulf hammock is only a few miles dis? tant. In this hammock is found a variety of wild animals, including the bear, while the numerous streams run? ning through it abound with the finest of fish. The disciples of Isaac Walton can find, here a veritable fish paradise. The hammock lands are heavily tim? bered with magnolia, hickory, ash, oak of various kinds, sweet gum, maple and red cedar. The soil is a dark yellow loam, underlaid with limerock and marl. Thore is land in this hammock that has produced one bale of sea island cotton per acre. The same lands have produced eighteen barrels of sugar per acre. Cedar Keys is a port of entry and the largest town in Levy County. It is located at the terminus of the F. R. & N. R. R., and has a good harbor. It is situated on Way Key, four miles from the mainland, and about equi distant from the Suwannee River on the north and the Withlacooche River on the south. It is a rapidly growing town of about 2,000 inhabitants. It is a point of com munication via the gulf steamers to New Orleans, Tampa, Manatee, Key West and Havana, Cuba. There are numerous mercantile houses here, and two of them do a wholesale jobbing bus? iness; several good hotels, schools, churches, etc. E. A. Champlain, Esq.. formerly of Charleston, S. C, and C. A. Rodgers, Esq., are the proprietors of an ice factory there. Having exhausted their fresh water supply, they are now boring an artesian well, from which they will supply their factory. The Eagle and Faber Pencil Companies each have mills here for the preparation of red oedar for pencils. Large quantities of fish, turtle, oysters and sponges are shipped from this point by the car load during the winter season. It is also a large shipping point for oranges, lemons and vegetables that are raised for many mileii along the coast. A large, lucrative const trade is centered here, while lum? ber and cross-ties are exported in large quantities. About six months ago the Morgan Steamship Company became dis? satisfied with some of their wharf privi? leges and some of their customers in Cedar Keys, and changed their ship line to Tampa, Fla. This has been a con? siderable drawback to tho town and the mercantile trade. The Sea Horse Key is the highest point of land on the gulf. This island is resorved by tho United States especial? ly for and has the light house built on it. The tower of the light house is about 80 or 100 feet high, and has a revolving light. There are a dozen or more Keys yet not mentioned, viz: North Key, Snake Key, Scale Key, Grass Key, Martin's Key, Black Horse Key, &c. Way Key, or Cedar Key proper, is about one and a half miles long and from 300 to 450 yards wide. Atseniotie Key is in a round shape and contains about forty acros. Sea Horse Key is about one mile long and from 200 to 300 yards wide. North Key- is about four miles distant from Way Key, and is noted for growing vegetables. Wm. Cottrell is the present Deputy Collector for the port, his father having died and caused a vacancy. Judge John F. McDonnell has been recently appoint? ed Collector. He has been confirmed, but has not yet received his commission. J. Matt Coolby. Wet and Dry. North Carolina has recently been stirred up on the prohibition question and in some of the towns an intense interest on both sides was manifested. Of course there are prophets of evil and evil prophets on both sides. The whiskey men claim that prohibition, in any shape, and the temperance movement, in gener? al, is a dead failure and that ten years from to-day no man, unless he is a crank or fanatic, will oppose the making and unrestrained sale of whiskey and all sorts of alcoholic drinks. They also claim that the "fool women" will soon abandon the craze and fall in with some? thing else equally absurd and unwomanly. They say that the free American citizen is bound to have his wh'skey where and when he pleases, and they intend to per? form the funeral, rites over the temper? ance corpse before 1895, so as to be ready to start in the twentieth century with this motto: "A saloon for every man and every man for a saloon." On the other hand, unwise temperance workers have denounced the men who make and sell whiskey as desperately wicked above all others and some of them believe that all of temperance work consists in carry? ing an election for prohibition. In push? ing their desired schemes they commit errors -which injure the cause and when they fail, they become disheartened and think the whole country is in a bad way and there is no hope or remedy. Such erratic, faint-hearted workers, however good their intentions, are not the best in working out a great reform which will require years to show up the result. In the lower plane of human efforts results may be summed up at the close of the week or year. The daily laborer gets his wages'at the close of the day/ He can then and there determine the result of his work. The seller of alcoholic bever? ages can balance his accounts at the end of the year and see exactly how much money he has made out of bis business. To a certain extent he can calculate, with an approximation to accuracy, how many men be has helped to make drunkards of themselves and how many homes he has helped to make miserable. His gains in money and the influence on the character of men he can estimate with some degree of accuracy. But in the moral plane of human action results may not be imme? diate and'- there is no balance sheet on this Bide of the dark valley that will show the actual results of good deeds. You cannot count such in dollars and cents. Dr. Arnold, of Kugby, schoolmaster though be was, has done more to mould and influence England's youth for good, than the millions of pounds of sone of the entitled nobility. Moody, an humble layman, has exerted a wider influence for good in the last fifteen years than all the bankers of Chicago, from which city be started out on bis evangelical work. If he had stopped to calculate the good he was doing at the end of each month he would have given up in despair long ago. The temperance workers, whether men or women, whether "fanatics" or imprac? ticable failures, must learn to labor and to wait. They must bear in mind that all great reforms are of slow growth and the final result is far different from the aims and objects of the originators. If it is a good work, each apparent failure will bring them one day's march nearer to the final triumph. Success must not be expected in a day or generation. The work must be handed dowu from gener? ation to generation with the injunction, "Occupy till I come." If the temper? ance reform is wholly wrong and contrary to the spirit of true progress and the genius of civil liberty in America as is claimed by the whiskey men, it will soon come to naught and manufacturers of whiskey will be set up as the'apostles of our civilization and keepers of saloons as the great moral reformers of the age. ?Sparianburg Spartan. ? A curious suit for breach of promise will be tried at the next term of the Bur? lington county (N. J.) superior court. Miss Ella Wilcox, a young woman well known in the society of Mount Holly, became engaged to be married to John Cook, of the same place. Mr. Cook wont through all the regular formalities, and asked Mr. Wilcox's consent to marry his daughter. The wedding was to have taken place on May 18. Three days be? fore the wedding day, for some unknown reason, Mr. Wilcox changed his mind about the desirability of Mr. Cook as a j son-in-law, and said the ceremony would not take place. When Miss Wilcox told Mr. Cook of this change in feeling on the part of her father, the prospective bridegroom got angry and left the house, saying that he was disgusted and was going away never to return. Miss Wil? cox thought the matter all over, and the more she thought, the more angry she becamo at her father. Last week she hunted up a lawyer and with his assist? ance she began a suit for $10,000 dama? ges for breach of promise against her father, alleging that he was the sole cause of her lover's estrangement, and that she needed about that amount to patch up her broken heart and hunt up another fellow. It is believed that this is the first suit ever begun for breach of promise in which the girl's own father is the defendant. ? The acreage in cotton of the cotton growing States last year was 17,322,388 acres. The erop for thn season was 5, 774,605 bales, equal to 2,742,006,011 pounds of lint or about 8,228,808,033 pounds of soed cotton, BILL ARP. He and Mrs. Arp Colebrate their Birth? days. Atlanta Constitution. Wo aro having some birthdays now, for Mrs. Arp and I are both Juno bugs. That is to say I am a bug and she is a butterfly I reckon. I won't call her a bug though she docs june around some? times when things go wrong. She had a birthday last week, and I would tell how old she is if I was sure she would never be a widow. She thinks I would marry again at the drop of a hat, but declares she wouldn't and says something about a burnt child dreading the fire. But she don't mean that I know, and the honest reason is that she is afraid she never could find another man like me. It would take her a long time to train another feller and get him up to any standard of uxorial docility. A young man will train but one over thirty won't train worth a cent, and that is the reason why it is so dangerous for a girl of ambi? tion to marry an old, young man or a widower. The training is on the other Bide then, and she had just as well sur? render to the inevitable We had the birthday and gathered all the children but one. They were nine of them here, and some grandchildren and some friends, and we had a good time. I saluted Mrs. Arp on her cheek soon in the morning. She always turns her cheek to me now, but she dident use to by no means. I made up her bed for her, and swept the room and flew around amazing. We had music and played cards and went a fishing and eat spring chickens and huckleberry pie and talked, and the boys said smart things and told of exploits and escapes, and their mother and sisters thought they were the smart? est boys in the world. If a boy sneezes his mother thinks it smart. Mrs. Arp thinks her boys are an improvement on the old man but my ambition is for the girls to be as smart as their mother. There is no room for improvement on that line. Not long ago I went off and was gone a month. When I came back I had a warm welcome and everything was calm and serene. I played king and autocrat for two or three days, and strutted around with the same consequen tail airs I had worn over in Carolina. But they don't last long at my house, and now I am in my normal state of sweet humility. A man must go away from home to put on airs. In fact it is a good idea for tho woman to go too some? times juBt for a change. Folks pet sorter common to one another from continuous presence. Absence may conquer .young love, but it refreshes the old. I know a lady whose husband is a surgeon in the navy, and he is generally gone two years and stays at home-two months when he cornea. "How do you stand it," said I. "I would just as leave have no husband at all." "Oh," said she, "I think it is just splendid. I am so glad to see him when he comes, and I look forward .to it with so much pleasure. I don't see what those wives whose husbands aro always with them have to think about and hope for. I am sure I would get awful tired of having a man hang around borne all the year round. It would be so monotonous. Two months in two years is just about right, and besides you know the doctor sends me plenty of money and that makes up for bis absence." Well, it doea help a good deal?money does?I've noticed that. When I have money to spare I feel better and more like a gentleman, and it sheds its benign influence on all around me. A close observer can tell when I'm in funds by perusing the family. I can tell by my feelings, my appetite, my hilarity. A man ought to keep a dollar or two in his pocket all the time, just like he keeps a buckeye or a rabbit foot. It is fruit time now. There are cher? ries, and dewberries, and huckleberries, and raspberries, and mulberries, and the sugar ju3t flies all the time. Every morning before breakfast, while Carl is milking and Jessie is practicing her music, I pick the raspberries and fill a tumbler for each of them to take to school, and I sprinkle them all over- with sugar. I go with them as far a3 the foot log over the creek, and in the evening I go to meet them, and we come by the. dewberry patch and have a good time. They will think about that walk to school as long as they live, and it will always be a pleasant memory. They hunt hens' nests and guinea nests when they are at home, and come to the house with their hats full of eggs. We will begin to cut oats to-morrow, and they will find some partridge eggs and be happy. School will be out next week, and then for black? berries to make jam and jelly. They can' pick all day and scratch all night, and keep fat and healthy. This country life is just splendid for children. Mix it up with Bchool and with work and it will make men and women for a State to be proud of. But you send a boy to school all his young life, and then, to college, and he won't be lit for hardly anything above an office seekei. He will be want? ing to go to the Legislature before he is twenty-five. I've known fellers to run for the Legislature who didn't know whether a cow that was lying down got up bebind or before, or bow to drive a nail into a plank to keep it from spliting, or whether it was the east wind or the west wind that brought fair weather, or whether it was this year's wood or last year's wood that produced peaches and grapes. But still they can make laws to govern the people. Old age may not bring wisdom but it brings knowledge, and so I was a little proud that three score years had passed over my head. I thought that surely I was gaining sense, but a good lawyer told me to day that I was now on the decline, for our supreme court had decided that a man over sixty waB incompetent as juror; so I am not fit to try a case, I suppese. I know that a man over sixty could not be compelled to serve on a jury, but the court says he shall not serve for ho is incompetent. Well, if that is so tho Supremo Court ought to resign for they are over ?ixty. I reckon that some of these juvenile members of the Legislature made that law. Country lifo has u charm for town folks and they look forward to the time when thoy can rctiro from work and settle down ou a farm. My friend Judge Branham came to see us yesterday s.nd took off bis coat and hung it on a nail in the piazza and stuck his feet on the rail? ing and rested?rested?that's the wcrd. We talked over the good old days and we paid tribute to the dead?the friends who had left us, and we discussed :he living and we talked a little politics and we wandered over the farm and along the creek and branches and watched the minnows dodging around and he said in a whisper : "I almost wish I was a boy again." If Judge Bleckley had been along I think we all threo would have gone in swimming. Judge Branham said he knew every hole in the baptizing branch, as it was called, down in Pntmtin. He could go right now and catch a cat in one hole and a pircb in another?the lineal descendents of the same fish he j used to catch in the long ago. He knew the very spot where he pulled outaneel? the first one he ever caught?and tie ; thought it was a snake and threw down the pole and ran for his life. "Thoiie were good times," said he, "and these are good times too; let us apologize for the bad and enjoy all the good that we ca a. Love, pity and contentment will make t anybody bappy." What a gentle genial comfort it is lo ! be visited by an old friend. Not a foir j mal call but a good, honest, loving visit I ?a visit that pays double, for it pays him that gives and bim that doth receive?:it is twice blessed and for a season renews our youth and leaves a sweet odor after it has passed. Bill Abp. A Prayer for Vengeance Answered!, A strange occurrence has lately corns to light in this County that presents some rather interesting features, writes a Car? thage, Tennessee, correspondent of the Nashville American, It has had the effect to cause many who have heard the facts to believe in special acts of Provi? dence, and is as strange as some remark? able faith cures. On Defeated Creek, near Montroso, about eight miles front this place, there lived until lately an old man named William Hewitt, who for several years had lived a wandering life from place to place, having no settled home. A few years ago the old man made a purchase of a tract of land, and together with two small boys paid a por? tion of the purchase money. From some shrewd manipulation, however, of his. eldest son, Jack Hewitt, the balance o:f the purchase money was so paid as to place him in possession of the property with the deed tu himself, whilo the old man lost his homo. The old gentleman considered himself most wofully mis? treated, and he was so disturbed over the affair that he quit the premises entirely and led the erratic life spoken of, having nothing to do with his people. This went on for several years, when recently the old man was taken sick, and after very considerable persuasion from friends he consented to go back to bis sons. For several weeks he lingered in his sickness, but saw that he must die. Even in his weakened condition there was one prayer which was always on the old man's lips day after day, and that was that as soon as ho would die every bouse on the place should be burned up. The Btrange pray? er was very little heeded by his relatives and friends, and was looked upon only as an evidence of childishness and old age. On Friday the old gentleman diecTj and was laid out in the house a corpse, wait? ing to be buried. A number of the neighbors and relatives went in to remain with the body and render any assistance necessary. It was a few hours after the old man died when some one discovered the kitchen, which sat off from the main building, to be on fire. Immediately the company ran to the scene, carrying a quantity of water. Considerable effort was made to quench the flames, but, as related to eye-witnesses, whenever the water was poured on the burning bouse the flames would flash up as though the water had been oil. Nothing could be done with the angry flames, and soon they spread to the main building. The corpse was taken out and set down in the yard and every effort made to stop the flames, but to no avail. The two houses were burned to the ground, and as these were the only houses on the place the old man's prayer had strangely been answer? ed. These facts are vouched for by eye? witnesses and responsible parties who kuow all the particulars. Quarter for a Quarter of Mutton. Extract from n letter to the Governor of Arkansaw: "I send you by John Cobbletree, one of my neighbors, ? quarter of mutton and a mess of young squirrels.- I do this jest because I like the course you have always took. I killed the squirrels yi?ti dy an' I know they air fresh. Thar ain't nothin' n;oer than young squirrels. I eat 'em sometimes till I am fit to pop Now let me say something about the mutton. It is fresh an' fat an' I hope you will enjoy it. One of my neighbors lost a sheep the other day an' be has accused me of stcalin' it. He has had me arrested an' I am now in jail. He como to my house an' grabbed holt of a sheep that I had jest killed, but I man? aged to keep enough to send to you. I am mighty fond of sheep meat an' when I am right hungry I ken eat it till I am fii, to pop. My trial will come off in a day or two and the way things are shap in' I am afeerd they will put it to me je3 fur a joke. These folks out here air the prankinist set of people 'I ever seen. They air allus happy when they kan git a joke on a prominent man like me. I wouldn't be surprised if they carry the joke so far as to want to send me to the penitentiary. This would hurt my chances for tho Legislature. I don't wan't to bo beat, but if they keep me Bhut up very long tho other feller will git ahead of me. After you eat your mutton I wish you would write a note to the sheriff an' tell him to ]et me out. Say, I forgot lo toll you that the gran' jury has been let into the joko of indictment ag'in' me. They may try me en' pass the joke of a sentence on me before your note gits here, so I wish you to write out a pardon after you cat your mutton nn? loll the judgo that lam fixe. 1 kuow the joke will tickle you and you may mako tho pardon read just as ainuBing' as you please."?Arkansaw Traveler. j FACTS ABOUT TRICHINOSIS. ; Its O'isc and Development In tho Human Body. In an article on the cause and develop? ment of trichinosis, Ball's Journal of Health says: The disease is caused by eating pork in which trichina? exist and which has not been sufficiently' cooked. The meat must be subjected to a temper* ature of at least 150 degrees all through to kill the parasite. The trachina is a little white worm or "wiggler," so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye, and is supposed to originate in the rat, though some medical authorities bold that it is also natural to the hog. How? ever that may be, bogs get the disease and their flesh becomes filled with these parasites. So tenacious of life is the trichina? that they live and flourish so long as the pork h preserved from decom? position. A ham, for instance, which has been smoked too hurriedly, and not subjected to a sufficient heat, will pre? serve them for months.' Other animals may be impregnated with the disease by taking into the stomaeb'meat in which the trichina? exLt, and it is believed that it is in this way that it is conveyed from the rat to the hog. The development of trichinosis in the human body furnishes an increasing study, owing to its rarity in this country, and the cases now in the hospital are being carefully watched by medical experts. There are several kinds of trichina? known to exist, but the partic? ular parasite in question is usunlly fonnd coiled like a snake; hence its full name of trichina? spiralis. There are male and female of these, and the young are born alive, not being batched from eggs, as is the case with most parasites. The trichina? beingTfffir^wrAj^vthe human stomach in insufficiently coo KT pork, the meat is digested, leaving the parasites at liberty. They then grew rapidly until they attain a length of from one-sixteenth to one-eighth of an inch, and within three or four days begin to reproduce, each female giving birth to thousands of young. The young 'tri? china? attain their full growth in about seven days, after which they bore through the smal1 intestines in which they are born and lodge themselves in the nearest muscles whence they spread in time to all the musclea of tho body. They find their way into the small muscles of the ear, impairing the hearing, or into the muscles of the eye, until the patient is compelled to hold that organ in one pp position to escape pain. They fill the muscles of the aims and legs until the least tension or movement causes torture, and the patient lies with legs and arms drawn up ip relax the muscles and lessen the pain. So far no case is known where they have attacked the muscles of the heart, but they are frequently found in the muscular tissues of the luoga, where they cause bronchitis. The fatal termi? nation of the disease i? usually the result of bronchitis brought about in this way, or of the high fever produced by this army of parasites boring their way through the muscles of the eutiro body. When they begin to propagate in the stomache or intestines irritation and in? flammation follow, causing the vomiting and purging, and this continues, accom? panied by intense pain in the abdomen, as long as they remain there. If taken in time they may be driven out by pow? erful emetics and purgatives, but this must be done within a day or two Glycerine, or a solution of carbolic acid in glycerine, given in capsules is consid? ered a successful remedy at this stage of the disease. The trichina? propagate only in the intestines. If not driven out or destroyed there they soon bore through into the muscles of the back, and it is here the first muscular pains are felt. Having once entered the muscles, they are beyond the reach of medical skill, and any attempt to destroy them would be more likely to kill the patient instead. All that can be done is to. relieve the patient, leaving the disease to run its course. After six or eight weeks of this bur? rowing the trichina? dies, and a little capsule forms about it, much like a co? coon about a caterpillar. This is at first a soft, membranous sack, but afterward changes to a chalky cyst. Doctors sometimes find these cysts while dissect? ing a subject, showing that tho persons had trichinosis and recovered. North Carolina's Giant. Our young friend, W. J. Andrews, of Raleigh, grandson of Mayor Wm. John iiton, had his attention attracted recently 1:0 a newspaper article on large men, andj in behalf of our State, he writes him to bring forth Miles Darden and sweep the stakes, North Carolina lays claim to the largest man in the world, and Appleton's Encyclopedia gives this description of iiim: "Miles Darden, probably the largest man on record, was born in North Carolina in 1798, and died in Henderson County, Tent)., January 23, .1857. He was 7 feet G inches high, and in 1847 weighed 871 pounds. At his death his weight was a little over 1,000 pounds. Until 1853 he was active and lively and able to labor, but from that time he was obliged to stay at home, or to be hauled about in a two horse wagon. In 1839 his coat was buttoned around three men, euch weighing more than 200 pounds, who walked together in it across the square at Lexington. His coffin was 8 feet long, 35 inches deep, 32 inches across the breast, 18 inches across the b*?ad, and 14 inches across the feet/' Dont be to Fine. Dr. Thad Davidson, in his new book for young men, "Forewarned, Forearmed," hits out at the "fine young man" in this style : "He admires a scarf or a breast? pin, and, as he must havo it, he purchas? es on credit, and, ten to one, before he has money to pay, tho one is threadbare oi the other is hut; and so he grudges payment, and is tempted to evade it. Thus the mischief grows. Don't seek to bo too line. I3e manly enough to appear just as you are. Be content to begin life at the begining, and to wait, as others hiivo dono beforo you, till your incomo warrants this or that unnecessary indul? gence. It is an awkward-looking ar? rangement when a youth begins with the large end of the horn, and comes out at ! th'j small end." No More Sea. In tho 21st chapter of Revelation we are told that John aaw a new heaven and a oew earth. And he adds immediately, as if it was the great and striking differ? ence between the new and the old, "And there was no more sea." A reader wants me to tell what this means. I wish that somebody would tell me. I have paused on that verse at least a hundred times in reading this chapter, and tried to picture to myself the earth without any ocean, lakes or rivers, for it is evident that by sea here is meant the watery portion of the world. It is the word used in Acts iv. 24, where the disciples say, "Thou art God, which bast made heaven and earth and the sea." The rivers, the clouds, the rain, are all connected with tbe ocean. If it fails,- they fail. We have, then, the idea of a globe without water, or at least without the present water supply?no springs, no wells, no fountains, no show? ers. Of all that vast system by which the land is irrigated, the thirst of plants, beasts and men allayed, tbe ocean is tbe center, the heart. Destroy it and tbe system is destroyed. Such is the result, if we take this statement literally. Some believe that tbe statement is fig? urative merely. The ocean is to us a symbol of unrest, of mystery and of peril. It is the dwelling-place of creatures that prey upon each other. It is the scene of constant rapine and war and is the birth? place of storms. It is that portion of tbe globe which man has not been able to subdue and control. In saying there shall be no more sea the inspired writer means merely that there shall be no more mystery, no more trouble, no more war, no more storms and wrecks on tho earth. It is like tbe statement in the 25th verse, "There shall be no night there." Night ITtEe symbol ofignorance, of fear, of de? bauchery and of crime. The end of night in the reconstructed universe means only the end of all the evils associated with it. This is an easy and popular way of in? terpreting Scripture. Swedenborg could explain everything in the Bible, if yon accepted bis theory of symbolism. But there is danger of carrying the theory too far. We must receive God's statements as literal wherever, the context does not require to regard them as figurative. Here he is telling us about the destiny of the material' universe. It is not tobe destroyed,, hut renewed, reconstructed, purified by fire. And the, first manifest result of the renewal, as John beheld the wonderful panorama, was the absence of that element which filled the ocean and all its tributaries?"no more sea." Regarding this as literal, let us study it. Only about a third of the earth's surface is land. Fully two-thirds is cov? ered with water. And yet in bulk or weight tbe water makes only one part in two hundred. In other words, it is only tbe half of one per cent, of tbe matter coraposing the globe. The drying up of the water then would be like wiping off a few drops of moistnre from tbe depress? ion in the rind of an orange. The aver? age depth of the ocean is only from two to five miles, while tbe diameter of the earth is adout 8,000 miles. Again, the bottom of the ocean is proved, by our deep sea soundings, to be very much like the continents. There are valleys and hills, plains and mountains. If, therefore, this ocean bed were lifted up, or the water drained off, America would be united with Europe on the one side and with Asia on the other by just such land as composes the continents now. We would be able to run railroads where steamboats run to-day. We would soon go to Liver? pool by rail in half the time that we go now by steamer, and much more comfor? tably and safely. Hence, with our pres? ent facilities for locomotion, the different parts of the globe would be nearer to each other without the ocean than with it, provided we could run cars by electric? ity, as seems probable. Then, drying up the sea would increase the habitable area of the globe 200 per cent. And would enable it to sustain an immense population in free and easy in? tercourse with each other, provided that they could live without water or some other mode of quenching thirst was pro? vided. On this point we have two facts to consider: 1. this new earth, without ocean or rivers, is to be the home of men who will dwell in spiritual bodies?bodies like those of the angels; bodies like that of Christ after he rose from the dead. These bodies may not, and probably will not need just such food and drink as our present bodies need. 2. We are told in the twenty-second chapter of Revelation about a "river of water of life" which will flow out of the throne of God and tbe Lamb, and through every street of the New Jerusalem. Is not the New Jerusalem the new earth ? And will not this wondrous river supply tbe place of the present water system? It will not only quench the thirst of the inhabitants but will irrigate tbe trees of life, on whose fruit they will feed, and whose leaves will be their only medicine. Taking all tbe statements about the future dwelling-place of the redeemed and about the resurrection body together, and I think we are taught clearly that our homes as glorified saints will be on the earth where Christ lived and died as our Saviour; that it (tbe earth) will be purified by fire from all that is gross and corruptible in its present state; that, re? taining enough identity with what is now is to meet the home instinct of our hearts and to preserve the places around which gather our holiest associations, it will be j not a globe of land and water, but a great crystal, a kind of golden planet?to the earth of to day what the diamond is to a lump of charcoal. On this glorifiied earth tbe glorified saints will dwell in a social intercourse and communion with God, pure and blesaful beyond our high? est conception1!. There will be no bar? riers between continents, no separation into races, tribes and nations; no fur clad Esquimaux; no half clad savages in the tropics: but the whole round oarth, from the equator to the poles, will be the commom home of beings who are free forever from all that wearies or saddens or separates us on the sin-blighted earth of to day. The details of this reconstruction are not revealed to us. We would not un? derstand them if they were. Bat the grand outlines are- giv? night, no curse. These assure us of all that we need When we stand on the shore and hear the thunder of its waves o the fury of its storms, we can say,<r less element, only power on earth man has not been able to tame, yoa not be permitted to dash and roar forever. Feeble as I am now compared with you," I will live when you are no more. I will; walk with these feet through your coral . caves. I will explore all tho mysteries which you now conceal. I will, per? chance, make my home where the mon? sters that you nourish hide themselves^ A time is coming when you will engulf no more ships or toss them on the rocks. You belong to the world-sphere ottbe. present. I belong to that of glory aud ^ immortality."?Herald and Presbyter. m - Old Fashioned Folks. The longer I live, and the more I see of men and women, the stronger is ta'yf' feeling to exclaim: "What shams we" both have come to be!" "I'vegrown tobe an old woman, and I don't claim that I was ever handsome ) or graceful,'or angelic, but the fact re-, mains that I've been married, and" you must take it for granted that my loved me. I look back to my days and am amazed at the change wl has come over the world. My John i me in a plain calico dress, without teeth, false hair or padding. He honest, sun-browned lad, who parte hair on the side, wore boots large enc for his feet, and had no money to s{ at dancing school. I had not leai how to lace my waist until my heels lifted off the floor, and as for paints i powders thfcy were unknown. My Jo never asked me if I could bake, iron, sew and be a helpmeat to him. knew I could.' He had eaten of my 1 and pies, and had found me at the tub. I never had a fear that he wo be out of work half the year and be i polled to live on his father-in "Playing a father-in-law" was not kne in those days. If he had no clean-st ed cuffs, neither did he smoke. If he \ no stand-up collars, neither did he 1 the interior of saloons. ' If he spc cane, neither did he know of poker, and old sledge. If he had no . diamond to act as a headlight or shirt-front, neither had he tailors' bill worry over. There was nothing said about a pc phseton, piano, hired girl, bridal I thelike when we were married. John 1 $200 saved up, and I had bedding a set of old-fashioned dishes, and we we keeping house in a log cabin with floors and had no envy of even J Jacob Astor. There was a funeral and then in those olden days, but ne a divorce. Women fell sick, but never eloped. Men were lost in tho derncss, but men never left wif children to run away wj th Ratified 1 and a treacherous heart. Neighl were not enemies?social gatherings i not slandering societies?worth was boiled down into a silk dress or a i low tailed coat. John brought up his boys to believe that no man need be ashamed of honest; toil. I brought up my girls to believe' that it was a wife's duty to know howj manage a house from cellar to garre Ala 3! They have come to be ashame it 1 Honest toil is no longer the for men, and the woman who admits she knows how to dye, quilt, patch, bafe and iron is lost to society. Their dren call me grandma when nobody i about. When they have company 1i supposed to be out of the way up *t Grandpas and grandmas are no lot, fashionable. They are too blunt' outspoken. They can't make out he wife who's husband earns $1,200 a; can put $800 of it on her back... can't see why boys and girls of 15 shot be engaged; why girls Bhould spend their time at the piano and on the stre and none in the kitchen ; why the par! carpet should be of velvet while kitchen is in debt head over heels; why receptions should be given one week and the sheriff locked out the next; why silkiT' and satins and new bonnets can be pitted against womanly sense and wifely du and win every time Aunt Sally, Two Millions of People Without wort We find in John Sunnton's Paper a vc interesting article about the first repor of the National Bureau of Labor. Tb writer finds that the bureau is greatly mistaken regarding some most important facto. For instance, Ck)mmissioner-^JSV*right^ concludes that during the year ending July 1st,. 1885, one million of people I were "possibly unemployed in the .United States," and that of these 168,750 bo longed to the group of manufacturing, and mining industries. By a careful examination of all the facts in the case Mr. Swinton's writer concludes that dur? ing the year in question 400,000 people remained without employment from previous years, and that 500,000 agricul-. tural laborers fell out of employment, as did 200,000 clevks, servants and domestic - laborers, while of manufacturing and mining laborers those who lost their occu paton were at least 900,000. This makes it a total of two millions of people capa? ble of useful industry who in 1885, by. causes beyond their own control, were kept in a state of idleness, or its equiva? lent! Whether the figures be accurate or not, there can be no question that the army of the unemployed in this country has now assumed enormous proportions, and there is no present prospect that it will be much diminished. The cause, which in every part of the world has brought about such a condition of things, still remains in operation, and we can see no reason why it should be interrupted. This cause is, in our judgment, the maintenance of the gold standard of money. There is no doubt that a new disco^ry of gold, such as that which occurred in California and Australia in 1848-9, would put an end to this suffer? ing and rcstoro prosperity, But can such, a miracle be expected ??New York Sun^ ? Always what it is cracked up to bo ?Ice.