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BY E. B. MUEEA T^A?HI^'GoLJJMN, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editoe. AVOID SUSPICION. A lady teaching in New York said that suspicion on the part of a teacher was a common cause of badness in the pupiir "I remember," she said, "when I went to .-street school that I was a good girl in every way. I found on my arrival, a Sunday school friend, and naturally 'took' to her among a crowd of strangers. When we were called to the class-room I straggled to sit beside my friend and saw I had made a bad impression on the teacher. She set me down in her mind as a girl that needed watching.- I was rather amused at first, but supposed that she would see the motives that actuated me, and trust me as implicitly as I was trusted at home. But she suspected > me all the time. She was obliged to be ab? sent for a few weeks', and when her sue* cessor came in a confab was held, and I know I was pointed out as one that need? ed watching. I felt indignant and treat? ed the new comer with . coldness. She was a person of discernment, however, and often asked me to assist her. After a week she called me to her and said: 'X don't think you have been understood, I know of no one who tries harder to do right' I burst into tears and told her of , jmy treatment." -;; The teacher jaust disarm himself of suspicion at the outset and all the way ?long. He has no right to think and bght not to think the pupil comes there from any lower motives than he does himself. (And oftentimes the motives of the pupil are the uoblor.) He should tell the papils in a candid manner that he hak to ovefqee them and watch them because it is bis duty and not because he suspectsiihem. The pupil will read the teacher; he cannot .eecape. It is far better for him to treat his pupil in a cordial manner. Supple lie says Jn effect: "Scholars, I have"no doubt but that you are in earn? est in your efforts to do well here. I sm going to try my best and I want you to try your best. You kaow how things should be done as well as I do, I have no doubt; my business will be to keep you on the track. You have visitors at home and know how to treat people politely; you must act as if you were 'in company' while here. "I shall have to look around the room to see how things are going on, for that is my duty; bat do Dot feel that I am trying to spy upon you, or that I am sus- 1 picious of you. I am not. If I think any one is wrpng, I shall tell that person bo and listen to his explanation. We are to live together here for several hours a day, and I want the time to pass pleas? antly. 'We may;just as well be happy' while-studying,'aa unhappy. Let every one alrpio 'make" these the happiest hours of our lives. "And, again, if in oar intercourse any one thinks he is. not dealt fairly with by me, I want him to come here and say so; I intend to deal justly with every one." * A talk like this should be given often enough to let the pupils know that the teacher means to be "fair,"?and this in the pupils mind means a great deal. Sometimes one point can be expanded and sometimes another. There are pupils in a school that are not "understood" by their teachers; they do things that are "odd," to say the least; they gradually arouse prejudice in the minds of a-'teacher. The teacher not point. out any particular thing, at he feols repelled and rebuffed. Un? less he is a wise man he will attempt a warfare on this pupil and the pupil'will j leave the school; if he stays in by the pressure of his family he will learn little. A teacher in one of the city schools j ' said: "I can get rid of a pupil without j suspending him." "How?"iwas the inquiry. a "I freeze him out." * "How is that?" "Oh, I let him know from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon that I do not want him, that I hate him, and he stays away." This is human nature,, of course ,* we love those who love us. Tlj^^eacher must, however, have a higher spirit. A gentleman who held very important positions and is highly esteemed in Cali? fornia, said: "I went to California be.*, cause I was meanly treated by my teach? er in ?- -school. I He wanted to get rid of me. He hated me; he accused me of ? lying; he "beat me. My father began to lose confidence in me. And I took my: self off to California. After thirty years of absence I returned. I still felt the in? justice that-had been heaped on me. I heard-- the teacher j was alive?an old man.- T sought him out, and as soon as* I spoke to him he said: 'I treated you badly, I have been sorry for it and hope you will forgj&e me.' That was worth coming to New York for." Let the teacher look into himself care? fully when he begins to watch a pupil. Let him call up that pupil and say to Jiim; UI find I am watching you; is it 'jecessary? Are you trying to play tricks?. Play tricks if you must, but don't let me feel that I moat watch you. It will make my life unpleasant." Io other words, let the teacher keep himself, on the high place the teacher should occupy; if ha becomes a police officer he will do little character form ing.?-Hachen* Institute. SXEBCISB 70S LITTLE C HILDE EN. Object .:?To cultivate the picture power, and encourage observation and fix a few facts regarding vehicles. ^ Shut your eyes, children, and 'see a m street car.; Look hard. ' Can yon see its *? curving rooT t" ^^wX^r-^what is that round, black pipO that^omes up.through the roof? Do yo?aee-'tbe windows ? and the backs .of the people's heads?" Do you seethe 'coridtictor? What is bV doing ? Who is that man - on the front platform? -? What' has he in his hands? what else ? What are the reins made of? How many horses has the car ? I see a car without a conductor?bow many horses do you suppose it has? Look under the car?what do you see ? How many wheels? Open eyes. All repeat Jf^r-A ear has four tohxh. Y & CO. Shut your eyes again and see a milk wagon. What makes such a noise as it rattles along ? What is inside the cans ? What is the wagon stopping for ? How much milk do you suppose the man is measuring out for the lady? See how quickly he jumps up to his seat again. How many horses has he ? What do you see turning around so fast under the wagon ? How many wheels ? Open eyes. All repeat?A wagon has four wheels. Closi3 you eyes. Look at that ash cart. What is the man dumping into it? Why are there two men with the cart ? Do they look neat and clean? How many horses have they? How many wheels has the cart? Open eyes. Re? peat : A cart lias two wheels. Close eyes. Do you see that man with the wheelbarrow? How many horses has he? What is he putting into the wheelbarrow? Now it is nearly full. How will he make it go? How many wheels has the wheelbarrow, and what else to sit and on ? Open eyes. Repeat: A wheelbarrow has one wheel.?Teachers1 Institute. TO THE BRAVE OF BOTH SIDES. One ot Pickett's Heroes Suggests a Union Monument at Gettysburg. Richmond, Va, March 24.?The re? cent special despatches in the New York Herald in reference'to the proposed visit of the survivors of Pickett's division to Gettysburg, on the 3d of July next, have created the greatest enthusiasm among the iveterans of both armies North and South. The old time foes of July, 1863, will meet again on the same ground in 1887, as friends and citizens of a reunited country. Patriotic communications are constant? ly passing between the old soldiers of Pickett's division and those of Hancock's corps, who opposed them on Cemetery Ridge, with a view to the grand reunion in July next. This has resulted in a novel and striking proposition made by Captain E. P. Reeve, of Company D? First Eegiment of Virginia Infantry, which meets with general approbation here. Captain Beeve enjoys the honorable distinction of having been shot at Gettys? burg and wounded in nineteen battles. He was once left for dead on the field, but he wears his scars nobly and is to day in excellent health. Captain Beeve, in a communication to the Executive Committee of Pickett's division, proposes a joint memoral monu? ment on the field of Gettysburg to the dead of both armies. He says: "The portion of the Northern army which opposed Pickett's division at Get? tysburg and the survivors of Pickett's division have, unknown to each other, selected the same spot for the site of a memorial monument. j "Why not, on the spot thus selected, erect a joint monument? A memorial of the gallant men on both sides who gave * their lives for a cause they both believed just; A monument grand enough in pro? portions to commemorate this, which will live, in history as perhaps the grandest struggle of the war; a monument which will perpetute the heroic deeds of their forefathers to millions yet unborn?grand enough to memorialize the supreme mo? ment in the history of the great nation; the Northern side devoted to suitable inscriptions to the Northern dead; the Southern to those who fell on our side, and the East and West sides to such patriotic sentiments as may be deemed suitable,* the whole tomemoralize a true and lasting reconciliation, which we trust outlast time itself, and the pledge of a union, not only of States, but of hearts and hands, sincere and honorable to both parties, and therefore, called 'Hizpah.' For would not this Union in honoring our heroic: dead bear in itself a pledge of future amity ? And could we not point to this monument for all time to come as a sacred covenant that neither of us would pas* it to harm the other, and in the beautiful language of Scripture say, 'The Lord watch between thee and me ?' "Methink, in the distant future, when sectionalism may be so completely oblit? erated that Mason and Dixon's line may be only remembered traditionally, that the pilgrim from any part of this glorious country, with its teeming millions, may draw inspiration from this monument, commemorating, as it does, the fact that so many thousands of his forefathers were willing to sacrifice life in defense of principle, and also to demonstrate to fu? ture generations that brave men, engaged in a caune dearer than life, when the smoke of the combat bad passed and the conflict ended in failure, could accept the decree of Providence, surrender a cause which they cauld not maintain, and join? ing hands in a true and lasting friendship stand in the ranks, touching elbows with all whose aim it is to perpetuate the free institutions and develop the vast resour? ces of our glorious country." Captain Beeve continues: "Far be it from the writer to wish for an undue share of the glory of Gettysburg or the war, for his own or the opposing division in that battle. The idea was certainly suggested by the action taken by these two divisions in selecting the same spot for a memorial monument, but the mon? ument I suggest should be a national memorial to all the gallant dead of both sides and a monument of a real reconcil? iation which shall make us again a united and happy nation." The Executive Committee of Pickett's division will at its next meeting take action on this proposal of Captain Beeve and there is no doubt it will be submit? ted to Hancock's men for their favorable consideration.?New York Herald. Raonl Gets a Good Job. Savannah, March 29.?Ex-President W. G. Baoul, of the Central Bail road, has been appointed President of the Mexican National Bail way, from Corpus Christi to the City of Mexico, eight hun? dred miles of which are in operation, and five hundred miles of which are to be built. The company has a capital of seventy millions, and is owned by English capitalists. Captain Baoul will have his headquarters in New York. He will go to New York next week, and from there will leave for Mexico to inspect the road. . The Source of Danger. Editor Intelligencer: I enclose you an article published in 1860 com? menting on a letter written by Chief Justice O'Neall on "The Source of Dan? ger" to our country. As the same source of danger exist to-day in regard to the ! government of our country, I trust it may not be amiss to republish in your valua? ble paper the article in full. D. South Carolina has one man at least who is not only an honor to the State and the South, but to the whole country. That man is Chief Justice John Belton O'Neall. He is unique. For many years we have frequently observed bis name in the journals of South Carolina and other States, but never in connection with party politics as such. Though possessing abilities of the first order, be makes no pretensions and deems nothing beneath him by which he can elevate the character of his fellow-citizens and promote public and private virtue, honesty, peace and good order. He is never idle. He keeps his tongue and bis pen perpetually employed, and their object is to make men better, purer, more united and more prosperous and happy. Whenever he goes into a little country village, he calls the villagers around him and addresses them in favor of public and private morals, industry and temper* ance; and if there is a village paper, forthwith he sits down and pens a com? munication to it in advocacy of the same noble and glorious and really useful objects. He doeB not consider it beneath his dignity as Chief Justice of the State to do so. Nor does he affect modesty and use anonyms. He invariably signs his name in full to every letter he writes. He pleads for the cultivation of all those great qualities of the heart that distin? guish man from the brute, and elevate him in the scale of intelligence. He considers these as absolutely essential to the maintaiuance of our free institutions, to our prosperity, strength, unity, and happiness. He does not content himself with merely giving this as his opinion. He loses no opportunity to give these ideas vital force, to make them living and active entities, to spread them abroad through every portion of the country. They are the burden of his thoughts, the objects of his ceaseless efforts. He inculcates them upon the high and low, upon the ignorant, and the learned alike, upon all occasions and under all proper circumstances?from the bench, by his own example, by oral addresses to his fellow-citizens, and by his pen through the village and city press. He is a sort of modern Washing? ton, and has, we think, made that great character bis model. We know of no man in this country who appears to be more thoroughly unselfish, who appears more anxious to advance the real inter? ests of his fellow-citizens of the whole country, or who labors harder to doit. His style is simple and uc pretending, but he has the courage of a Spartan, and utters calmly and firmly sentiments that cut to the quick the drunken, gambling, thieving politicians that seem to have almost taken possession of the govern? ment of this country. We have read and re-read with increasing admiration the following words, mild, but blunt and outspoken, and which strike at the very core of the evils that are upon us, which we copy from the Mobile Advertiser: but which appeared originally in the New berry (S. C ,) Rising Sun, under date of April 18th. Referring to the break-up of the Charleston Convention, and the condition of the country, he proceeds thus: "My confidence and hope is in the merciful overruling of Divine Providence. God has hitherto helped us, and I still believe that he will overrule.Me madness of men, and bring to us good, greater good tban we deserve 1 "How religious men can counsel vio? lence and goad the people on to results which may bring abonta servile war, or array section against section, is, to me strange?passing strange. "I pretend to be no politician; I belong to the country. I have grown up under its mild and fostering rule. I have, been blessed; and I trust I have not been ungrateful. The 'star spangled banner' has floated in glory and triumph over my head from infancy. I "I have looked to it as the protector of my rights, everywhere, and in the East, South, West and North, and in the provinces of Her Majesty, the Queen, Is] have looked proudly to the stars and stripes, and said: "These are the emblems of my free and happy home!" Are these to be pulled down and tram? pled in the dust by mad and corrupt politicians ? God forbid 1 Freemen? descendants of the Patriots of 76?it is your duty to prevent such a disastrous result I "Calmly and firmly you must deter? mine that your country shall live. Place the best and purest man within your reach at the head of your government. Purge your Congres. Every corrupt, licentious, rowdy, gambling, drinking man should be sent home. Then you ? may look for a reign of honesty and virtue. Until that be done, how can you expect the blessing of God? Are drunken, corrupt legislators to minister ; for you at the altars of your country? If so, what results are you to expect? "Scenes," such as you have witnessed in the past year. I have shuddered at reading the ribaldry and abuse in tha House of Eepresentatives. It would disgrace a Southern grog shop. And yet, Representatives of the Free People of' the United States have unblushingly mingled in it 1 "0, my country, fearful must be thy fate if these things are to continue 1 "But, as these lowering clouds, after blessing the earth with the rain, which it bo much needs, will dissolve, and the sun will arise to give heat and strength to the vegetable and animal kingdom, so let us hope will vanish all our political clouds, and that the sun of righteousness, peace and safety will arise upon our dis? tracted country.. Your friend, John Belton O'Neal." Said we not truly that he is unique ? He docs not waste his strength in beat? ing the hush afar off. He strikes home, and he tells unpalatable and most needed trathp. He does not think the salvation A.NDEKSON, S. C, T of the country depends upon an abstrac? tion. He deals in more tangible, more real and practical matters of fact and every day life and experience. All honor to the man honest and courageous enough thus to speak to the point, with? out dodging, or smothering up what he means in a cloud of word-dust. It is just such men as Judge O'Neall that the people ought to put into office. They are diamonds found among rottenness; they tell the people the truth, whether the latter wish to hear it or not, and are therefore their best, their real, their only friends. They are the antipodes of dem? agogues. "Place the best and purest men within your reach at the head of | your government," says Judge O'Neall. "Purge your Congress." Not a word about patent rights of any kind. No hair splitiDg about infinitesimal distinc? tions, one thing to-day and another to? morrow, and always utterly worthless, utterly impotent either for good or evil, except to promote lawlessness and crime, and to elect demagogues to office, But, "purge your Congress," "place the best and purest men within your reach at the head of your government." Is the country too far sunk in corrup? tion, too drunken and besotted to take this advice of the Chief Justice of South Carolina ? One of two things is as cer? tain as the revolution of the seasons. Either it is not too far gone tp put forth healthy efforts and recover, or if it is, its destruction 1b inevitable, fixed as fate. No man believes for an instant that our institutions can long survive the preva? lence of universal moral debauchery and dishonesty. Public corruption, or cor? ruption in public places, if tolerated will indicate an indifference on the part of the masses which wili prove themselves to have become vitiated, and no longer sensible to the enormities and efforts of | crime. It will prove they are incapable of comprehending and withstanding the appeals and articles of corrupt dema? gogues, whose sole object is place and plunder, obtained by any means, how? ever disgraceful and infamous. We believe Judge O'NealPs theory of | the source of our danger to be correct and the only theory worthy of any respectable man's attention. He hat?[ struck the core of the politicaFand moral cancer thai; is eating out the vitals of the Bepublic. It is the duty of the people, if they have not themselves become insensible to the danger, to remove this sore from the body politic, by putting the "best and purest men within" their "reach a( the head of" every department of their "government, National, State and Municipal. Can that portion of the public press of all parties not engaged in advocating pugilism and sneering at honesty and public and private morals, and toadying to the snobocracy Of Great Britain, render a better service to the public than by aiding in bringing about this result? Perhaps some of our readers may inquire how it is that such a man as Judge John Belton O'Neall comes to be at the head of the Judiciary of South Carolina ? At first blush it does seem to be a perfect enigma. But the whole subject becomes intelligible, when we recollect that among the ancient institu? tions of South Carolina which have held out againsUhe assaults of a democracy run mad, is its Judiciary. It is not elec? tive. That tells the whole story, and a most impressive and eloquent story it is; one worthy of being listened to by every State in the Union. All honor to South Carolina for this her chief jewel. O'Neall is her most precious diamond, her Kohi noor.?New Orleans Commercial Bulletin. Sad Story of a Young White Man. At the March term of the Court for Marion County, in 1886, Pinckney Bry? ant, a young white man, was convicted in two cases of malicious mischief, and sentenced to three yean' imprisonment ? in the Penitentiary. On the 7th of July following Governor Thompson, for good and sufficient reasons, commuted the sen? tence of the Court to one year's impris? onment. On the 12th'of August, 1886, while at work at the Guignard brickyard in Lexington County, near Columbia, Bryant ran away from the guard, and succeeded in making his escape. Short? ly after his escape Col. Lipscomb, the superintendent of the Penitentiary, re? ceived a letter for Bryant from his moth? er, wherenpon he immediately wrote her, advising her to induce the son to return to the prison and serve out his sentence, particularly as his time was so short, and thus avoid the odium of being always a fugitive from justice and in danger of j being killed at any time in case he resis? ted arrest as an escaped convict. Noth? ing further was heard from them until the early part of the present month, when a gentleman of the neighborhood in which Bryant lived in Marion County wrote to the superintendent on behalf of the family to make arrangements for hin return. He was informed by return mail that if Bryant would return and give himself up, without putting the State to any expense or trouble, he would not be punished for running away. Strangely enough, the very night that the letter was received by the gentleman in question, and before he could commu? nicate with the family a posse attempted to capture Bryant, and as he endeavored to escape from them, riddled him with buckshot. An inquest was held by Trial Justice H. McRae, acting coroner, and the finding of the jury was, that Bryant came to his death at the hands of parties unknown to the jury. An official report of the findings of the jury has been fur? nished to the superintendent by Trial Justice McEae.?Columbia Correspon? dence News and Courier, March 28. ? A girl who m arried an old miser for his wealth, but pretended'that she married him only for love, was surprised when she asked him for some money for the first time, at his replying, "True love, darling, seeks no change." ? The Persian proverb, "Woe unto that nation where the young have alrepdy tho vices of age, and the aged retain the folies of youth," might be remembered profitably by this particular nation. ? A good two foot rule is never to wear tight boots. HUESDAY MOENB A Mother's Love. (From the Abbeville Press and Banner.) What is purer, nobler and more worthy to be remembered than a mother's gentle training and hind and loving admonitions during youth 1 When we were young and unable to help our? selves our mothers did not hesitate to sacrifice their own happiness to soothe our childish wants and sorrows. When sickness and sorrow laid us low our mothers would place the balm of healing on our cheek and fill our heart with cheerful glee. There is no sorrow so heavy, no sickness so painful that a kind mother cannot alleviate. Her very presence at a sick and dying bed can give more relief and comfort than the sympathy of all mankind combined. Her affections are not satisfied, her con? solation is not normal, her sympathy not false, but all pure and without blemish. Our friends may sympathize with us but they cannot have that true feeling like a mother's. Her child's pain is her pain, bis joy her comfort. A good, tender, loving mother is the greatest blessing a man can have on earth. My mother is dead; Yes, she sleeps the uleep that knows no waking. How cold does the world seem to me in the absence of my loving mother! How pure, how gentle were her loving coun? sels when living! but when death lays its icy hands on a mother's heart her admonitions are made doubly sacred. Yes, her body now lies beneath the sod but whose soul lives in heaven. "She, storm-tossed once, is safe with Him, Healed, comforted, content, forgiven; And while wo count these heavy hours Has beon a year, a year in heaven." A mother's devotion to her child is uubounded. If you go to the cell, even these will that "queen amongst women," a mother, follow you and will surrender her own happiness to comfort you. She would willing part with the last penny to make you happy. She would plead before the judge for your life. She would walk miles to see yon. She would never tire of praying for you. Wicked as you may be she would never give you up. Mean sa you treat her there is always forgiveness, and if you were upon a bed of sickness that mother would never tire of watching you. Day by day would she watch at your bed-side, and night by night that same loving mother would be near. Dr. Talmage in a recent sermon uses the following to show the trueness of a mother's love: "Oh woman, in your hour of anguish whom do you want with you? Mother. Young man, in your hour of '-trouble, who do you want to console you ? Mother. If the mother of Jesus could only have taken those bleed? ing feet in her Sap ! If she might have taken the dying head on ber bosom! If she might have said to Him, "It will soon be over, Jesus; it will soon be over, and we will meet again, and it will be all well." But no, she dared not come up so close. They would have struck her back with their hammers. They would have kicked her down the hill. There can be no alleviation at all. Jesus must suffer and Mary must look. I suppose she thought of the time when with her boy in her bosom she hastened on in the darkness in the flight towards Egypt. I euppose she thought of his boyhood when he was the joy of ber heart. I suppose she thought of the thousand kindnesses he had done her, not forsaking ber or forgetting her, even in his la?t moment, but turning to John and saying, "There is mother, take her with you. She is old now. She cannot help herself. Do for her just as I would have done for her if I had lived. Be very tender and gentle with her. Behold thy mother! She thought it all over, and there is no mem? ory like a mother's memory, and there is no woe like a mother's woe." Don't be ashamed of your mother, though her face may be wrinkled, her dress shabby, her figure bent, her eyes dim, she is the best friend you have, or can ever have, on this earth. Do all you can to comfort her. Other boy's mothers may dress finer, may be more popular, but their mother cannot love any harder than yours. If you mistreat your mother when she is living you will regret it when she is dead, and it will nearly break your heart. But if you are kind to her and lose no opportunity of comforting her it will be pleasant to remember after she is dead; you will look back to that time, you will rejoice and tears of joy will fill your eyes, and you will be glad when the angel of death shall bear your soul away to that blissful abode, and the first to meet you at the gate of heaven will be your dear mother. Fathers have been known to turn their backs on children, brothers and sisters have become inveterate enemies, hus? bands have deserted their wives, and wives their husbands, but show if you can a case where a mother has ceased to love her child. Alas ! how little do we appreciate a mother's tenderness while living! How heedless are we in youth of all her anxious tenderness! But when she is dead and gone, when the cares and coldness of the world come withering to our hearts, when we experience how hard it is to find true sympathy, how few love us for ourselves, how few will befriend us in misfortune, then it is that we think of the mother that we have lost. The loss of a mother is always felt. If there is a time when one feels like losing the shoes from his feet,uncovering his. head, and dropping on his knees, and asking God's mercy and pardon, it is when he approaches a- mother's grave. How the days of youth come floating through the mind, and how vivid is the remembrance of a mother's kindness! Oh! a mother's grave! It may be unnoticed by strangers, but to our heart how sacred I "The words of sweetest meaning To erring mortals is given? Of purest deepest feeling Are mother, homo and heaven! The magic namo of mother Kcvivcs in every heart The feelings first awakened On that dear parent's part; And cold must be the bosom, Devoid of lovo and soul* That is not moved to goodness By a mother's mild control. Of those three words of beauty I know not which is best Two speaks of lovo and happiness: And onfl of endless rest, I feel that Hooves is dearest, fG, APKIL 7, 1887. And yet I caDnot tell, For Mother fills the heart with love, And Home has charms as well; Then let these three united bo, Nor shall the tic be riven, For words of thrilling melody Are Mother, Home and Heaven." ORPHAN." THE SOLID SOUTH. Politicians Talking About a Fossible Break-up. Special Correspondence of the Register. 2 Washington, March 27.?There is a good deal of talk among the politicians just now about the possibility of a break up of the solid South and a correspond? ing change in the Republican States at the North. This has, of course, been awakened in a large degree by the visit of Senator Sherman to the South, and his appeal to the people of that section on the tariff and educational questions. Mr. Patterson's frank expression on this subject has surprised a good many peo? ple, not because they did not already be? lieve the facts to exist, but because tbey did not expect him to admit their exist? ence. An especially striking feature of this talk about the Republican prospects in the South is the fact that it comes in a large degree from Democrats. I was talking yesterday with a newspaper man here, who represents a prominent Demo? crat paper in Virginia, and is also well acquainted in Tennesse and North Caro? lina. Said he, "I should not be at all surprised to see tbe Republicans carry Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee in the next election for the Presidency." "On what issue?" I asked. "On the tariff and the educational question and tbe repeal of tbe most oppressive features of the internal reve? nue tax." "How about the colored vote going over to the Democrats ?" "That will not affect the general result. If there is enough of this change to even be perceptible it will be more than an offset by the Democratic changes on ac? count of the matters I have mentioned." Only a little while before that I had a talk with a prominent Tennessee editor, a Democrat, who called my attention to the fact that a very large share of the newspapers of tbe South were now for a protective tariff, and that tbe sentiment of that entire section was drifting in that direction. He did not hesitate to say that if the Carlisle-Morrison idea dominates in the Democratic platform next time, it will fail to carry several of the Southern States. About the same time I met a bright North Carolina journalist, a Democrat, and asking about political matters in that State, had got a very blue response. It was, in substance, that a statement that tbe prospect of the party in North Carolina were not at all hopeful, especi? ally in view of the failure of tbe educa? tional bill and tbe refusal to repeal the tobacco tax. Turning from these inter? views, I take up a New York paper and find in it a brief statement from Col. Colyar, the editor of the Nashville Union, in which be showed tbe wonderful growth of protection sentiment in tbe three States named, and just beside it a long interview with the prince of free trade editors, H. Watterson, in which he pre? dicts a general break up of the South and a loss of several States to the De? mocracy, mostly on the- tariff question. Perhaps there's nothing in it, but your average newspaper man is pretty cold? blooded, and his opinion is not likely to be warped by his personal wishes, as your average politician or citizen of most any sort. It does not follow because the Repub? licans have a prospect of gaining two or three Southern States, however, that they are sure of winning the fight. They are' apparently in just as much danger of ?losing two or three Northern States on the same tariff question, for it looks as if the free trade sentiment was gaining ground in protection New England about as fast as tbe protection sentiment was growing in the free trade South. It is well understood that the develop? ments during tbe visit of-Mr. Carlisle to New England were such that he and his friends came back very much encouraged about the prospects of capturing a part of that section next election. Connecticut they consider a very hope? ful State for the party, while from the Northwest they receive very hopeful re? ports regarding the growth of the free trade sentiment, especially in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. They are quite confident that they will gain in the Northwest all the votes they lose in the South, perhaps more, "TOO HIGH A STANDARD FOR OiFICE." They are telling a rather amusing story about one of tbe many conferences held over the Inter-State Commerce Commis? sioners before they were selected, and the slender encouragement that Mr. Cleveland got in his efforts to find some men of especially high standing for the positions. There were a number of gen? tlemen of prominence at the White House, so the story goes, and the Presi? dent was consulting . them about the commission. "One thing is certain," he said, "there must be at least one man on the commis? sion who will be above reproach, with? out the slightest taint or doubtful reputa? tion, on whom the entire country will look with tbe utmost confidence, no mat? ter what may come along." This propo? sition waB concurred in by everybody present except a rather eccentric, but very Bagacious politician present, who seemed not inclined to Ispeak his mind on the subject. So, after all tbe other statesmen had freely expressed their views as in accord with those of the President, that officer called upon the silent statesman for his opinion on the subject. "It is a good scheme," he said, "but you will not make it work. That man is dead." "Dead 1" repeated the President, in astonishment. "What do you mean?" "I mean just what I Baid, Mr. Presi? dent," he replied. "The man you are looking for in this place is dead. He died about 1800 years ago on the cross." There was a subdued laugh, as much as was possible under the circumstances, and the President taking the hint turned to his desk and dropping his high ideality in the choice of men, soon had the com? mission made up, and, as it now seems, with very good, practical men. A:i Agricultural Experiment Station. {From the Ncio York Weekly Sun.) "A shingle stuck in the ground as a shelter will often prove of great advan? tage." This is the culmination of the wisdom of the officers of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Ge? neva, in Ontario county, concentrated on the difficulty experienced by trans? planted young plants in re-establishing themselves. There is gracious descent to the level of the intelligence of our far? mers, as well as fine remedial Eci<?nce, in President Swan's preceding statement of the touching case of these young plantP, "especially if set in loose soil, as the wind moving the stems to and fro presses the earth from contact, and produces a movement in the roots which prevents their establishment. Under these cir enmstances, compression of the ground about the newly transplanted plant, by I trampling, has been found beneficial; and many times this process will offset the injurious action of the wind." In I the next sentence of the station's report, I Swan advises the use of the shingle, i There is evidence that the majority of I the agricultural Sanhedrim which draws big salaries at Geneva incline, as to the more scientific treatment, to trampling the soil around the newly set plant with the human foot encased in a boot. Swan, their reporting mouthpiece, dismissing the subject, deplores that "the partial remedy of firming the ground seems known to and practized by but few." Do the unquestionably intelligent farmers of the State of New York know what the institution at Geneva, founded in their interest, and out of which iesues such puerile nonsense, costs ? It cost $22,000 last, year, and this year the amazing humbugs who are in possession of it are begging the Legislature for $200,000! Think of these ridiculous experiment? ers actually keeping a record of the sun? shine for the last two years on four observations a day?to prove what? That "there is some relation between sunshine and plant development," and that "temperat ?.e is nearly proportional to sunshine." Put into the English that farmers talk, this means that when the sun shines it is warm. It means nothing more. Just think of the absurd creatures sticking thermometers into the ground all over their farm and keeping a bulky record of the temperature of the soil. The knowledge is as worthless as would be that of the loss of force sustained by a rooster in the effort of crowing. The farmers of New York do not seek to escape the laws of their State's climate and geology. They don't ask for change, and they don't care the snap of a finger what the temperature of their fields is. They go and work them. It is almost incredible that this intelli? gent State yearly pays $22,000 for exper? iments as trivial as those made at Geneva, first on four cows fed one way, and afterward on two fed another way, to determine if the weight of a cow's excrement was not exactly two and seven-tenths times the weight of her focd 1 A Bachelor of Science scooped up, and a Master of Arts weighed and recorded in this search after the tremen? dous truth. In like manner these humbugs addressed themselves to the mighty problem, "How much water does a cow drink ?" An Ulster county farmer i would answer, "All she wants." But these charlatans weighed the rations of the four cows, Gem, Meg, Ann, and Emm, consisting of bay, ensilage, meal, shorts, and water, and they carefully kept tables?absolutely kept tbem through portions of three years?and announced to the waiting world that a cow needs eight quarts of water a day! They measured, weighed, scooped, re? corded, tabulated, and used mathematics to determine the weight of the excrement daily passed by a cow, and published a costly volume to show that it is forty eight pounds. They actually printed columns of figures about this, and they are proud of the forty-eight pounds I They think it is science. Just think of these costly humbugs ($22,000 a year) weighing, day after day for nine months, a herd of cows in calf, half under uniform feed, half under changed feed, and keeping elaborate tables to show the cows' gain in live weight at equal periods before calving, and the weights of their calves at birtb, all to reach the grand scientific conclu? sion that "the growth of the foetus must be satisfied before the increase of live weight can be interpreted as gain in the cowl" In the last annual report of these experimental professors of agriculture it is regretfully published as an original discovery that there is no relation between the amount of water drank by a cow and her yield of milk. Every dairy? maid in the State knew this. But under the pretentious beading, "Influence of Distance from Calving on Milk Yield," the funny fellows girt themselves with science and smite unbelief down with records and columns of figures to prove that the natural falling off in a cow's milk each month after she calves is "about nine per cent, of her previous month's yield." Barring the childish Bcience of the "nine per cent," is not this falling off a familiar fact all over the world where cows are milked? It is enough to make an earnest Amer? ican despair of the future of democracy in America to see the ease with which a few men, hating to work for their own living and determined to live on the Government, succeeded in putting a law through our Legislature to set them up, with $22,000 a year income, in the fraud? ulent business of conducting agricultural experiments to improve New York farm? ing. From top to bottom, the bill, Ihe station, and its operations have been a fraud on our farmers and taxpayers. The work of the station, aside of its labora? tory and away from its ink bottles, is nothing but ordinary gardening and farming. In every county in the State there is better horticulture and better agriculture. Tho contrivers of the sta? tion had no more care for our farmers than the Washington claim agents had for the heroes who dies in battle to save the Union when they put through Con? gress their pauper pension bill for the benefit of themselves and the relatives of VOLUMI deserters arid non combatants. If it were true that tbe managers of the Ge? neva experimental concern can teacb tbe farmers of this State better how to farm than they now know to do it, tbe station should be blown up with dynamite, as a mischievous contrivance to make the State do for some of its citizens what they should do for themselves; a nox? ious contrivance to make people look to a Government for tbe good they desire, and not wholly to themselves; a contri? vance to stop the development of the American citizen into independence and full manhood, and turn him into a loafer and beggar. But the experimental sta? tion cannot teach the farmers of New York their business. Everybody understands that while these ridiculous experiments were making in Geneva, there was practical, possibly gainful, business done in a channel which always connects these public semi-chari? ties with private commerce. The man? agers' last report contains evidence that the station is an adjunct to the business of forty one different firms of seedsmen, nurserymen, agricultural tool manufac? turers, and fabricators of artifician ma? nures, in various parts of the United States. The wares of all these traffickers are thoroughly advertised in tbe body of the report by judicious and ekilfully frequent reference. To resume the backing out of chunks of agricultural wisdom, as salaried at Geneva with $22,000 a year, the experi? menters actually print in an expensive book that corn requires hot weather, and "yields best under high maximum tem? peratures," that "a cool temperature of the soil is advantageous to potatoes;" that farmers ought to select their seed corn from the best ears; that .in putting this seed away for spring use they should put it where it will keep dry and not get wet; that "after potato tops com? mence to die there is no appreciable growth in tbe tubers that are of mer? chantable size ?" that "there is no rela? tion between the crop and the amount of fertilizer used"?which, if true, would be mighty bad for the fertilizer business; that cultivation of corn is not beneficial except so far as it removes weeds ; that if potatoes are too closely planted, it will be advantageous to pull up some of the stalks; that it hurts a potato crop con? siderably to roll down the tops on the 19th of July, and hurts it more to mow them off with a scythe on that day ; that experiments running through successive years to determinecomparativeprolificacy and relative order of maturity, are of no sort of value; that it is unprofitable to produce crops of ox eye daisies; that "if the variation in the coefficient of viscosity of tbe fat is due to difference in the size of tbe milk globules, the relation between this coefficient and the efficiency of tbe churn is easily explained." That- will do! In the name of New York's insulted farmers and in the name of good government, we demand of tbe Legislature to abolish the Geneva Agri? cultural Experiment Station. It is a humbug. The White Man of the New South. Indeed, it is tbe white man of the South more than the black tbat has been freed by tbe civil war; and tbe greatest blessing which has thus far resulted to the South from tbe emancipation of the Southern slaves is its effect upon the white man of that region in transform? ing him from a dependent idler, or "gen? tleman of leisure," supported by his slaves, into an independent, self-reliant worker. We speak of tbe typical, rep? resentative Southern white man, not of all classes, for there were working white men in the Old South and there are idle white men in the New. But the white roan of tbe New South is pre eminently a worker as compared with the white j man of the Old South, who, if not an idler, was at least a man of multitudi? nous leisure. But having now been set free from tbat bondage to leisure and tbat contempt of labor which is insepa? rable from slave-holding, the representa? tive of tbat region has become a new man, and has entered upon a new proba? tion among tbe industrious races of tbe earth. If the Old South had a contempt for the worker, the New South has a greater contempt for the do-nothing and the idler?for tbe man who does no hon? est work, it matters not how white his exchequer. Tbe "gentleman idler" has lost caste in the South; he is an institu? tion of the past. ' A Political Millennium. Tor-eka, Kan., March 27.?Stockton, tbe county seat of Books, -a thrifty, wide awake city of the second class, is carving its way to the national fame by the novel manner in which it is treating the new municipal suffrage law. Tbe men have agreed to give the women a chance to make a supreme test of their ability to deal with public affairs; and in order to do this have stepped aside and will sim-* ply watch the result of the trial. The entire city ticket?Mayor, Councilmen, etc.?is composed of ladies, who were unanimously nominated to the position* Stockton is on the south fork of Solomon Eiver, and has lately voted to build waterworks. The handling of this im- j portant matter will be left to tbe women,! who will have to let all contracts, see j tbat contractors perform their work properly, pay off the men and supervise things generally. The city is on the central branch of a Missouri Pacific line tbat is likely to be extended this year, and they will have an opportunity to grapple with tbe railroad question among other things. In short the mu nicipal government is to be banded entirely over to ladies, and the whole nation will watch with eager interest the I result of an experiment tbat is without parallel in tbe history of modern time?.? I New York Herald. ? Neighbors are very considerate in Norway. When a baby is born a placard is nailed up on the door informing the community of the fact. Those who wish to move out of the vicinity are thus en? abled to do so in good season. ? Public office is public trust," and that is just the reason that some men with poor credit cannot get it. ? Tho raisin in a boarding house pud-1 diog is an oasis in the dessert. 5 XXII.- -NO. 39 Apes as Workers. It was reported by telegraph the other day that Mr. Parkes, a farmer at Kings? ton, in Kentucky, had succeeded in training seven large monkeys or apes to work in his hemp fields, and to break and prepare the hemp for market. Mr. Parkes, according to the dispatch, has found that they do the work more rap? idly and better than tbe negroes, and at one quarter the cost. Tbe apes, it is said, were sent to him by a brother in Africa, who had seen.them put to similar uses there, and Mr. Parkes is so well satisfied with the results of his experi? ments that be has ordered ten more of the animals. Whether this particular story be true or false, there is no doubt that more docile and intelligent of apes have been instructed to perform work very like that to which Mr.'Parkes is saidjto have trained his seven monkeys after four months of patient tuition. Mme. Cle meoce Royer, in a recent article in the Revue Scicntifique on the mental faculties of monkeys, shows that they are well adapted for some kinds of domestic offi? ces and acquit themselves gracefully in them. Sbecites cases where they have been made exceeding useful in field and other work. Pyrard, the French traveler of two centuries ago, ei.ys that in his time colonists of Serra Leone employed chimpanzees in carrying water and beat? ing of mortars, and Breton has in his Chinese pictures a representation -of monkeys gathering tea leaves on the tops of one of the steep ridges of Cbansung. The ancient Egyptians, too, obtained considerrble services from the cynoceph alus, or variety of baboon, an animal so remarkable for its intelligence that it was selected by them as tbe symbol of intellect. Buffon describes a female chimpanzee at Loango which could make the beds, sweep the house, and help turn the spit. Houzeau expresses the opinion that these female monkeys would make excellent nurses for children, their milk being exceedingly rich in butter. Mme. Royer, therefore, comes to .the conclusion that a time is coming "when these races, bred by man, will render great services in daily life and industry, and will contribute to the general pro? gress." There is nothing in such a pre? diction, she continues, which does not rest on scientific premises, and nothing in it to laugh at, after the manner of the smart young men who are now getting up funny articles on Mr. Parkes' experiment. The ape is unquestionably tbe most intelligent and the most manlike of tbe lower animals, both physically and men? tally and morally. He may be far away from tbe superior races of men in intel? lect, but tbe difference between him and the lower races is much less marked. The black chimpanzee of Africa have feasts like those of the negroes. Tbey live in communities, fight in concert, and care for their wounded. Tbey are very clever in the use of their hands and arms, throwing stones better than street boys. Buffoa's black cbimpazee knew how to unlock a door, and if he did not find the key in tho lock, would hunt for it. The Monkey took its meals like a well-bred person, ate with a spoon and fork, used a plate, and served itself with wine. In one of her letters from the Malay Penin? sula, Miss Bird describes a dinner to which she was invited, and at which her companions were two apes. "The apes had their curry, chutney, pine apple, eggs, and bananas on porcelain, and so bad I," writes the enterprising lady, who speaks of another ape, which was an important member of the family of the British resident a Klang, as walking on its hind legs, and going along quietly by her side like a "luman escort. It had not even a rudimei tary tail, and when it sat with its arms folded it looked like ''a gentlemanly person in a close fitting suit." The worst defect of monkeys is that they are inveterate thieves. They look upon stealing as fun, and therefore will pilfer even when they have no desire for what they take. Mme. Boyer tells us that "tbey are capable of sacking a house and carrying off every? thing movable in it with the system and concert of a band of robbers. They ob? serve a kind of discipline in their opera? tions, and post their scouts to inform them in season when it is time to run away." The mokeys in Sumatra, accord to Cesare Moreno, steal fruits and vegeta? bles from gardens, and will plunder houses. "Forming a line, in order to pass their spoils from hand to hand, they scale the walls, enter at the doon or windows, and leisurely pillage all they can find." They are also very greedy, and will get tipsy when they have tbe chance, and a drunken ape seems more like a man than ever. If therefore, Mme. Hover's prediction is verified that the time is coming when apes will be added to the industrial force, it will probably become necessary to increase our police protection, unless pious educatiou shall succeed in conquer? ing the natural depravity of the monkeys. ?N. Y. Sun. Restlessness That Rains Homes. Thousands of farmers every year leave pleasant homes in the older settled States ! and make long and tedious pilgrimages to newer States and Territories, not driven to it by necessity, but by a chronic restlessness?an idea that it is possible somewhere else to get on a lit i faster ia tbe world. In nine cases out of ten the man would be better off where he is, bot he is never satisfied until he has made at least one or two changes. Homes are destroyed in tbe most ruthless manner in pursuit of this phantom of bettering one's self?homes which can never be really restored to the family, for home is some* I thing more than the roof Which shelters I us. The associations of childhood, the friends of early days, the memories of the past, the ancestral graves upon tho ! hillside?are these nothing? It will take more years than the most of us can afford to build up a new home and get into the feeling with which we regard our present one, be it over so humble. ? The world may owe us a living, but the most of us have to scratch around pretty lively to get it, ? Try to see yourself through the eye? of those around you. ?