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BT E. B. MUKKA TEf??H^'?oi/UMN. J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editos. The School Commissioner and Board of Examiners of Pickens have accepted the proposition to unite with Anderson and Greenville in a joint institute at Williamston. Lanrons is yet to be heard from. The Commissioners have secured the services of three able and experienced instructors and are corresponding with the fourth. Every possible effort will be made to make the occasion profitable and pleasant. Every teacher in the county is expected to attend. He owes it to himself, to his pupils, to his profes? sion and to the great canse of education. Dr. Lander informs me that several teachers have already notified him of j their purpose to attend and engaged board. It wonld be well for all to en? gage board as soon as practicable, that there may be as little friction as possible at the. beginning of the session. The citizens of Williamston are preparing to make it pleasant for ns all. Col. Bice ? will favor, .the Institute with his presence, and will, no doubt, contribute not a little to its success. Col. Bice was once a teacher himself, and is familiar with the trials and difficulties of a teacher's life. Don't miss the Institute 1 Miss Olivia Newton Bends us specimens of the compositions written by the pupils in her school. One of the compositions before us was written by a young lady, and the other by a boy of thirteen sum? mers. Both show great care and consid? erable thought on the part of the pupils, and patient, thorough training .on the rt of -the teacher: Such exercises are valuable; indeed we cannot estimate to be derived from it. More ?ce in the Teachers' Column and lool-rooms we have insisted practice in this exercise. Lin school ought to be ro? se some sentences every be no better, or safer tabling one to assimilate each day. There are lods of conducting this ex teachers require their ?rite compositions at home them up for criticism. Others i children to write short com uring, school hours and in the ''thej teacher. We must con? ference for the latter plan. To low a child to prepare his composition Fat home is to tempt him to the dangerous ' and evil practice of plagiarism. Little children are uo .more free from ambition than grown -peopl e, -and should not he led into the temptation to claim the authorship of sentiments be can not comprehend. We are glad to know that Miss Newton requires her pupils to write in her presence invariably. . i ? -,, .,_ During the past few years the methods of Geographical Teaching have been more thoronghly studied than ever be? fore. Certain fundamental principles ar now universally accepted, amoog which is?firetj ^h^mind of the learner must go from:the known to.'the unknown, from.what cab be seen with eyes to what can only be seen by the mind, by suc? cessive steps. These steps are arranged in the order of dependence. For exam? ple, the child can see" the school-room. objects in it, tbeir direction from each other, and their distances apart. He learns to draw a diagram of the room, accurately representing the places the different objects occupy. His measuring line becomes a scale, and thus the first important.step in.geographical study is taken. For, without an accurate con? ception of what a scale means, it is not possible to know what a map represents. Next he goes outside the school room and learns east, west, north, and south. Then he draws a map of the school-yard, and learns to "bound it by the familiar objects to which it is joined. Then his scale is enlarged; he measures a yard, a rod, and learns what the distance of a . mile means.'\ ? ]' ~"T^~fjeeotr&~fundamental principle is tfirfryffifofcfl of the learner must be so trained that it can conceive accurately, from maps and pictures, how a part of j the.w^rMjtooka that it has never seen. This secono^ep requires the cultivation of the imagination. Without soch dis? cipline a map is'an unsuggestive surface of black lines and combinations of colors. To a pupil who has not taken this second step, a map suggests no more of how the surface of the earth looks than a chess? board. But, to one who has this geograph? ical idea, a map is filled with most in? tense interest. These principles must of necessity un? derlie the system upon which any good elementary geography is based.?When the pupil is old enough to study the higher book, he should be expected, to have thoronghly mastered these funda? mental ideas. The reason why Appletons' "Elemen? tary Geography" is so highly valued is because it.is based upon these.sound and acknowle'd'principles. If treats the sub ' Ject ctfftitivety,-makes knowledge precede definition, and presents facts in their -logical connections, taking gradual steps from 7 the known to the unknown. At the very commencement we find a lesson on Direction, then Distance and Meas orement, a map of the school-room, the use of the scale, and a map of the school grounds. Next the child follows the streets and the.roads in the vicinity, and .learns.to know by observation wbat a hill is, a plain, a valley, a stream, an island, etc. Next he studies a larger section of country?as a portion of the "town fn which ng lives, or the country immediately surrounding him. The various features of this district he lays down on a map, locating acciirately^its different roads, houses, hills, Stregdas, and bridges. Then he is taoghrjithe elementary facts concerning cliffate, vegetatiori, animal life, minerals, occupa? tions of men, government, religion, and tho conditions of society. In studying these be goes from - wbat he can see to ? what he can conceive of, and is able soon to gain a clear conception of the earth as a whole. - He is much aided by the. dis tmet'maps, made accurate and unencum? bered with many names, also by the in Y & CO. teresting system of reviews, and the written exercises interspersed.?Educa? tional Notes. Example of Children to Parents. Some parents are stern disciplinarians and believe too freely in the maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Their children are like so many culprits who are punished so many times a day or week to keep them in order. Many a man who denounces the tyranny of kings at the street corners is, himself, the prince of tyrants at home, and wherever he has authority. His children hate him and are only happy when he is out of the house. His conduct towards them is, of course, the cause of their hatred. A child is by nature affectionate and will hang around his father's neck and caress him as he returns home, if he will encourage it. But when a father only meets his children with an angry face, finds fanlt with something they have done, and sends them off with a box behind the ear and a kick, they soon learn to fear and hate him. Before en? gaging in their little pastimes one will say, "Let's wait till pa goes out." When it is about time for him to return the children usually go out and his appear? ance in the vicinity is sure to end their fun. Now, what have the children been doing? They have seen their papa in regimentals, perhaps, parading along the streets, and the little things have been playing "sogers;" or they may have been squirting water out of a tub to ? put out an imaginary fire, and for the time being are firemen* on a small scale. One little urchin takes the house broom to play "boss" with, another gets his pa's old hat and becomes grandpa for the occasion, and so do. When father is at leisure he says some? thing like this: "What have you little rascals been doing to-day ?" The chil? dren, perhaps, know if they tell the truth, that a scolding or slap will follow, and a lie is the only weapon a trembling child has against an angry father. A fright? ened child will tell a lie to save itself from violence, and a frightened parent will sometimes do the same thing. Many fathers punish their children for cursing and using profane language. Thins right enough when the father doet) not set the example, but he has no just right to curse his boy for a half hour after breakfast and flog him at night be? cause some one says he curseB. Of the two, the father should be doubly flogged first, for cursing, and second for setting a bad example. Some mothers have also much to answer for in this particular. They teach their children to have a disregard for truth by sending them to neighbors with false excuses, and if a mother does not wish to make her appearance to .vis? itors the children, with the servants, are instructed to inform all callers .that "mother is not at home." Should the visitor happen to be inquisitive and asks where mother has gone to, the child, must fabricate one or more lies to cover up the first. Should that child, on an? other occasion, teil a lie to its mother, it will be chastised or rebuked with iodig nation. A child at "Sunday'SchooHsr taught to honor its father and mother, but how can a pious child honor a father who insults the God it loves, or a mother who breaks the sacred laws it has been taught to obey? Either the child must become like the "parents or nity themv and we cannot honor those we pity. Parents are responsible for bringing their children into the world, and upon their shoulders rest the great responsi? bility of teaching them by precept and example to love truth, follow virtue and hate vice. Parents should, at least, oc? casionally join with their children in prayers, snd wb,e_n gather d around the table sec that they invoke a blessing before reaching for the nearest dish. The swine never look up to see who throws down the acorns, but rational beings should not follow the example of these animals. A father should not feel himself too big a man to associate with his children and make companions of them. He should remember that tbey belong to just as good a family as he does and can boast of quite as proud an ancestry. This kind of association also looks more civilized than to have the children run? ning from him, or slinking in a corner whenever he comes in the house. Little children are like those who in? habit the Kingdom of Heaven, and woe be unto the parents who, by precept cr example, rob them of that childhood in? nocence which obtained for tbem the caresses of the God-Man of Calvary du? ring his sorrowful mission upon earth. Wind As a Seed Carrier. At the recent meeting of the scientists at Cambridge, Alfred Bussell Wallace, the English naturalist, read a paper on "The Winds as a Seed Carrier in Eola? tion to the Difficult Problems in Geo? graphical Distribution/' Some species of' plants common in northern climates, many of them in the Arctic flora, have a wide distribution in the southern hemis? phere. There are five prominent causes of seed distribution. First, sea currents; second, birds; third, seeds of marsh plants adhering to the feet of birds; fourth, sticky seeds which attach themselves to the feathers of birds; fifth, wind. The power of the wind in transporting seeds is not yet determined, but there is evi? dence that it can transport light seeds to a great distance. Dust from the Java eruption, a few years ago, was found on the decks of vessels at 1,000 miles distant. Most of the r .-them plants introduced into the south die very light seeded ones lighter than the duat. Whether or not wind is the agency for transporting these seeds, these evidences go to show that it at least has the power. ? Eliza and Jane were two old maid friends, and Jane broke the bond by marrying. Her husband was conspicu? ously homely, and the first time Eliza met Jane she said, scornfully: "Good gracious, Jane, why didn't you marry a monkey and be done with it?" "0," smiled Jane, sweetly, "I thought you might like to marry some time, and I didn't want to take your last chance." ? Sam Jones is supporting four young men at college in Georgia. BILL ARP. A Letter In the Philosopher's Best Vein. I want some chickens that won't scratch up the flower seed in the front yard, nor wallow in the fresh made beds, nor fly over in the garden nor take the cholera, nor let the hawks catch their young, nor Bet two in a nest. I want a dog that won't bark half the night, and will stay at home and know an honest man from a thief, aud won't track mud through the hall nor shake his fleas around. I want a cow that can be turned on the grass and will have sense enough to let the deuterougmus alone, as Cobe calls it. I want some beds that don't havejto be made up, some dishes that don't have to be washed, some lamps that don't have to be filled, and a bookcase that the children can't get out of order. I want hats and bonnets that will hang themselves up and stay there until they are needed, and some school books and slates and pencils that won't hide and scatter around. I wan't a piano that won't have to be tuned every time Mr. Freyer comes around?one that practice makes perfect and neither moths nor rust doth corrupt. I want a knife and a pencil that the little chaps will give back to me when they borrow, and some ink that will stay on the table, and Borne pins that will stay in the cushion, and a towel that won't show the marks of half-washed hands. I want a cooking stove that draws well and hakes well all the time and a cook that don't quit when she gets ready and never gets sick or has a mjsery somewhere, nor takes the pouts, and will scour the kitchen floor without being told, and will give the dog some of the scraps from the table. I want chil? dren and grandchildren around me who don't know how to cry and hardly ever get mad, and don't tell tales, and are as smart as the books they have to study? or if they are not that smart, then I want books made easy. Professor San ford says his arithmetic haa no key, but is a stem-winder. Well, if it has no key it ougbten to have any lock. I have to work till ten o'clock every night helping my chaps to prize it open, but we gener? ally succeed and I reckon it is all the better that way. I do hate to have lo surrender to these children. It is a con fession of judgment when I can't do a sum or parse a sentence or translate the:r Latin. When I get all tangled up in figures or in algebra aud can't untangle and say, "well, children, these modern books are all new to me. We don't figure now just exactly like we used to. I studied Smiley's arithmetic, which had the single rule of three and the double rule of three that did most every sum in the world. And I studied Murray's Grammar and Day's Algebra, but nowa? days they have got new books and short cuts and stem winders and all sorts of readers and eclectics and dialectics and other complicated machines that I don't exactly understand." And so I get out of it without losing very much parental prestige. But the fact is, I have forgotten about as much as I know ?perhaps more and still have to keep "pegging away. About all the Latin I care to remember now is, "otium cum dignitate," and I want plenty of that. I am going fishing to-morrow and stay all day. I will rig up a big wagon and take the children along and a basket of lunch and we will fish and frolic and gather flowers and eat and talk and laugh and get dirty all day long. The signs are all right, for the dogwood is in bloom and the wind is in the South, and it is the dark of the moon, and I think I see myself jerking the big bream frcm under the log. Carl knows every b?te in the creek and he can catch more fish than I can and don't try half as hard. Jessie wants to pick flowers, and I've promised her she may wade in the branch, but her mother don't know it. \ Jessie comes to me and Carl goes to his mother for favors. What a pity it is that grown folks can't be children once of twice in awhile and wade in the branch too. The next time Judge r^BlecWey goes to Screamer Mountain to be a boy again and go barefooted and make hickory whistles and chestnut fifes and catch spring lizzaids and crawfish and climb trees for birds' eggs, and make black ants fight, and run ground squirrels to their holes and dig angelica and kill snakes and rock hornets' nests and fight yaller jackets, I'm going with him. I'm tired of playing man all the year long without a recess. It is a sort of hypocritical life. I envy the children. The Scriptures say "unless ye be as one pf these little ones, ye shh'1 not get to heaven/' So it's time to begiD, and therefore I'm going:a fish* ing. That's a good Scriptural' occupa? tio n anyhow, for one of the disciples said, "I go a fishing," and the .< ther replied, "I go with thee also." They were juBt human like the rest of us. I wonder if they had any hooks and poles like we have. Going a fishing and coming from fishing are two things, very different things. They are no kin. We fix np our hooks and lines and split bullets and rob every empty bottle and jug of its cork, and dig the back yard all to pieces for bait, and make great preparations, and imagine the fish are just waiting for us, and we can see the pole bending with a big one darting around, and that's pretty much all there is of it?imagina? tion. But it is the most hopeful thing in the world. We swear off and swear off, but in a week or so we want to try it again. - We most always hang one or two, and sometimes get a big one on the edge of the bank and he gets away. Right there the dictionary is at fault, for there is no word in it that fits the case that expresses the inexpressible goneness of the occasion. It makes a feller Bick at the stomach. But I have gotten to be reconciled to most anything now and don't take on like 1 used to. My* business now is to comfort others and help them to be hap? py?and I believe that pays the best after all. Blessed is he who expects little, for he shall not be disappointed. "Man wants but little hero below, Nor waats that little long.11 I don't say that, but Poet Young said it in his solemn night-thoughts. And then Goldsmith copied and used it in his ballad of the Hermit. But Sidney Smith was of a lively turn of mind, and said: ANDERSON, S. C, T "Man wants but little here below, As beef, veal, mutton, pork and venison show." And next came John Quincy Adams, who set down on it and wrote: "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. 'Tis not with me exactly so, Tho' 'tis so in the song." I want a good deal. I want more than I get, but; I don't want it bad enough to make a hog of myself nor break the tenth commandment. I always admired the happy way in which Daniel Webster used some lines from Dryden when he said be was thankful, that "if be could not raise a mortal to the skies" he had no desire "to bring an angel down." But still I love to go a fishing, whether I catch them or not. It is good time to ruminate. The business is bo typical of life. Its hopes and disappointments. Happiness is 'just ahead of us all we think, and we lay our plans and fix our hooks and dig our bait and drop our lines in some inviting hole and by and by the hook gets hung under a root and we worry over it awhile and pull and the line breaks. Or perhaps we hang some* thing that bites slow and cautious and we haul up a little dirty old terrapin. Or again we hang a lively fellow and he runs round and round and we brace our* self for a trout and haul up a slickery squirming old eel. But nevertheless, I am going a fishing. , Bill Arf. Reform Needed in the Kitchen. At this season of the year people will begin to have all sorts of ailments. One will feel "out of sorts" when be gets up in the morning, and another will feel a "little fainty".about ten or eleven o'clock, while a third one will have "a no count sort of feeling" for several weeks. These are not fancied diseases but are real weaknesses. Where there are no heredi? tary diseases, the most of the sickness in this climate is caused by improper eating and sleeping. When the warm days begin to come, one is apt to keep up his winter habits of eating. Strong, rich food or fried meats are used in considera? ble quantity aud washed down with quarts of strong coffee. Perhaps the easiest and cheapest meal to prepare is "a fried dinner' with a steaming pot of coffee, and it is just such diet, three times a day, that causes all these spring* com? plaints. The human stomach needs fill? ing with something so that digestion may go on well and the person feel com? fortable at the same time. When the hands come in from the field at noon, tired and hungry, they make a rush for the table. If they have to "fill up" on fried, greasy messes, even the active life and out door exercise will not long with? stand such living. The children are exactly right at this season of the year when they refuse table food and almost break their necks for the first fruits that come. Tbey do not stop to /eason, but act from instinct, which never errs. During the last three years of the war the soldiera were remarkably healthy, and they got only half enough to eat; that is about half the amount tbey could have consumed. The lesson for house? keepers is that there is no danger of starving the family, however hard they may have to work, provided tbey can serve one good square meal a day. At this season of the year good vegetable soups and brotbs should be prepared. Of course there is no market in reach of country homes where fresh soup bones may be obtained, but the ingenious cook can mate gooa soup bom a piece oT bacon or the remnants of ham or shoul? der. With the addition of a little rice, beans or peas, or all mixed, a very pala? table soup can be made. Good bread with plenty of milk and butter, and less meat and rich foods, will keep the ordi? nary spring and summer complaints out of the family. Another great mistake some people make when they find they are getting in a weak condition. They think they do not eat enough, and they go to work and take some tonic, or alco? holic stimulant, to get up an appetite. This is worse than fried bacon and hot coffee. What one-half of the ailing men and women need at this season of the year is a two week's fast. The appetite will then return all right and the health will be improved. In all of our homes in the country there is room for improve? ment in the kitchen. The men will not inaugurate this reform. The women will have it to do. What is needed now is brains in the kitchen as well as in the field.? Spartanburg Spartan. Conference of Latter Day Saints. Cleveland, April 17.?There was a large attendance of outsiders at the Con? ference of Latter Day Saints in Kirkland to-day, the attraction being the sermon by President Joseph SmiLh against the Mormon doctrine of polygamy. Mr. Smith began his sermon by the emphatic declaration : I have no belief in this philosophy of polygamy. We ought to take it for granted that God knew what he was about when he created the world. When the earth was ready for man God placed Adam and Eye in the Garden of Eden. If he had intended two wives for Adam be would have given them to him. Now there came a time when it was necessary to begin populating the earth over again. Men and women had sinned, and God wished to crush wickedness out of the world. If he had made a mistake at the creation in giving Adam but one wife, here was a grand opportunity to reverse the order of things and give Noah two wives. Did God do so ? No. He com? manded Noah to take one wife and his servants one wife. But God had another opportunity to correct the mistake if one had been made. When he led Levi and his wife out of the land of Juidea. If God bad desired to reverse his judgment in giving Noah but a single wife he could have put himself right. But he did not do it. I take these three great events as proof positive, unanswerable, and over? whelming that God intended man to have but one wife. The speaker went on to say that tho Latter Day Saints stood committed to the doctrine of Bingle marriages. Further proof of the orror of polygamy, he said, was found in the twenty third and twen? ty-fourth verses of the second chapter of Genesis. ? With the generality of men policy is much more powerful than principal, HTJKSDAY MORND BIRMINGHAM'S BOOM Proves a lloomerang and the People* feel Sick. Athens (Get.) Banner-Watchman. The Banner-Watchman months ago advised the people to fight shy of Bir? mingham and its so called boom. We admit we were not alone in giving this advice. The safe and prudent editor everywhere "cautioned his readers that the inflated values that ruled in Ala? bama's magic city could not last; that the crash was as certain to come as the night comes after the day. The history of such booms has invariably been the same. Enormous prices, unusual activi? ty^ inflation everywhere, is generally fol? lowed by a rapid and startling decline in values, business stagnation, and commer? cial ruin. This has been so often the story in Wall street and in other great trade centers that it would seem that prudent and thinking men would know that such ventures were not in keeping with business sagacity. That Birming? ham was the place for speculators to go has been proved by the enormous for? tunes that have been made in real estate transactions there. That it was not the sceue for the operations of the moneyed man who sought permanent investments is shown by the rapid decline in all values, and the great difficulty now being experienced in getting a living return from investments, and the almost impos? sibility of obtaining value received, for the lots a few weeks ago could have been sold ten times during the day. The Banner-Watchman waa talking a few days ago with a gentleman who has made a large fortune in Birmingham speculations, and who was wise in his day and generation by getting out before the crash came. He was a speculator by profession, and when interviewed by a representative of this journal as on his way to New York to double or lose all in Wall street operations. This gentleman told our reporter "that property in Bir? mingham had declined within the past two months at least twenty-five per cent. The people there realize that the boom has collapsed; and they try to keep up appearances and prevent the truth from being known by refusing to offer their holdings for sale. This is, however, cheating nobody but themselves. This almost pitiable effort to bolster up their own courage and inspire confidence is easily seen through, and were they to-day to offer property that a few weeks ago was bringiog enormous prices, I doubt very much if they could realize half what it cost them. But they will not lose much," the gentleman went on to say, "for property in Birmingham has nearly all been sold on the option plan. When the crash comes, as it must before long, the result will he that the original owner will resume the proprietorship and the other fellows will have lost their margins in the capacious pockets of the specula? tors and real estate agents. "There has not been within the past eighteen mouths anything like a fair sale of property in Birmingham. When I say a fair sale, I mean a sale where the price and the value were equal. Every? thing has.been forced?speculation has been rife, and the'better judgment of men has been lost in the mad race after gain. I do not suppose that hardly any one bought property in Birmingham as an investment. No one really believed that lots were worth the enormous price ?iJstaAB?fi; Hfc* viffH SJmA VJ2?> could buy and sell again- at a big profit. No one ever thought for a moment that he would be the last holder. But some? body had to be, and perhaps those who had the least idea of becoming so got caught at last." When asked about the future of Bir? mingham, the gentleman replied as fol? lows : "It will never be as large as At? lanta now is, and never can attain to the size that city will eventually become. Birmingham will always be a manufac? turing center. So has Pittsburg been, but it has never caught up with Phila? delphia. Birmingham and Atlanta will act the same old play over again. No matter how fast Birmingham will grow, Atlanta will increase a great deal faster. I regard and have always regarded At? lanta as the coming Southern city. It will rival in ten years New Orleans, and will eventually be the largest Southern city. The only possible rival with At? lanta will be Chattanooga, and notwith? standing the superior advantages of that mountain city in very many respects, I am confident that Atlanta will ever continue to lead. Atlanta is attracting to it men who, when they drive down their stakes there, plant them to stay. Permanent citizens are better than float? ing speculators, and of such cosmopoli? tan material is the population of Bir? mingham almost entirely made up. If a Birmingham man within the next ten years gets big rich, ten to one he goes to Atlanta to spend his money and enjoy the luxuries his wealth can obtain." Such was the latest news from Bir? mingham, and it must be noticed that in tone and tenor it differs greatly from the rosy and golden accounts that came from that city not long ago. Puzzle it Out, If Yon Can. "I have been very much bothered late? ly," said a horse dealer to a reporter, "with a question arising out of a deal which has been to me a source of greater annoyance than the sixteen puzzle. I Bold a horse to B. for $80. In a few days he came back with the horse, and I re? purchased the animal for ?70. I then immediately reBold him for $65. The question is: How much did I gain or lose on the transaction ? When I bought the horse back for $70 I certainly made $10, and when I sold again for $651 assuredly lost $5. Now, if I gain $10 and lose $5 my net gain is, it seems to me, $5. But, on the other hand, after my first sale I had no horse and $80, while after my second sale I had no horse and only $75, consequently I must have lo3t $5. At one time, when I think over the matter, I congratulate myself on hav? ing pocketed a "V" through sharp deal? ing, while at another like going around behind the barn and kicking myself for having been a fool. ? It is a Georgia man who in living happy with wife No, 8. fG, APEIL 28, 1887. Wanted?A Sky Line. Editorial, in the Independent. Tbe most pressing need in the Church just nTJw is a distinct line of deinarkation between the children of God and the children of this world. We remember once to bave heard old Dr. Colver say, with a great sigh of relief, after return? ing from a three months' visit to Eng? land, during a particular foggy season ? "Thank God for an atmosphere where one can tell which is cloud and which is sky. For three months I bave been in England, and in all that time I could not be sure in a single instance where the clouds left off and the sky began." That is too much tbe case with the Church and the world, as at present seen. The Church, as a spiritual body of men and women, is not clearly marked off from the world. The lines of each interpen tr?te far into the region of the other. The world is in the church, and the church is in the world. There are, of course, maoy individual Christians whose lives and characters are so distinctly Christiana that no one questions on which side of tbe moral conflict now go? ing on among men they are; but this is not true of the church as a whole. Yet this is just what is most needed, and what our Lord expected the church to show forth. We need as distinct a sky line around the spiritual organization as there is about the building in which the church worships. Passing through any city or village- the traveler has no difficulty in picking out tbe churches .from other buildings. Church architecture has a distinct character. Of old it was in? tended to symbolize the fai ;h, thoughts and aspirations of the worshipers. Its cruciform plan told of the cross as the foundation of the Christian hope, and every stone was built upon that cross, until tbe whole building was one grand expression of it. Its spire told of the heavenly aspiration of the church wor? shiping within. Strength and beauty, purity and hope, were wrought into its columns, buttresses, tracery, and orna mentation. Is not this what is expected of Chris? tians 1 Are not they a peculiar people; a spiritual temple built up unto the Lord ? Is it not said of them that though they are in the world and yet not of it ? are they not designated by the Master him? self "the light of tbe world,'' and bidden to "shine" in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, "holding forth tbe word of life?" Can this be done unless there is a clear and marked difference between the church and the world, not in any mere way of creed assent or formal chnrch organization, but in tbe sharp and distinct lines of life. Every Chris? tian life ought to be an illustrated ser? mon ; every Christian man and woman ought to be "a city set on a bill," and bo shining that all men may see, not them, but their good works, and so be compell? ed to glorify God. If we go back to the time when our Lord came into the world, we must see how sharply he stood out against the murky world-life, and not loss so against the formal religious life of tbe Jews. A cleant-cut line divided bim and his disciples from tbe rest of the world. He was a light so intense that worldliness and wickedness could not come near him without being exposed. His disciples were "ordained" to the Bame^misBion in the world. WS**a?A*?,S>tm. f*b1?Yi>Vt.,;AY!> cult fo distinguish between tbe respecta? ble unbelievers who "patronize" the church with their presence, and the church itself. And, again, it is difficult to discriminate between the church going unbeliever and tbe upright men of the world, who are content that their wives and children should be Christians, while they themselves- bold aloof; and this more positive form of unbelief is shaded off into pronounced infidelity, and that again into ribald opposition to all that is good and seemly. Once tbe church and the world walked far apart ; but now, as a rule, they are hand and glove in social and business life, and mixed up in all the ordinary amusements which are so essential to the world that knows not God. Christian men are as eager and greedy iu getting tbe goods of this world, are as busy in laying up treasure on the earth, and as ambitious and determined to be "rich," as their unbelieving neigh? bors. The prodigal expenditures of the "rich -men" of the church on things which make for the pride of this life are not more than matched by the same kind of expenditures by worldly men. Thou? sands are squandered on the "lusts of the flesh and the lusts of tbe eye" by Chris? tian men and women, while hundreds at best are given with grudging hand to the cause of the Lord. All these things are observed by the unbelieving world, and when the pastor or some evangelist urges Christ; upon the unsaved men and women when tbey meet, either iu or out of tbe church, they are thrown back in their teeth. "There is no difference," said a worldly man to us not long since, "between us and church members, save that they profeBS to believe something and we do not," We are afraid tbis is too nearly the case in many instances. What is needed is such a difference in tbe temper, bearing, conduct, and aim of life, and in the work and walk of the Church that all men may know that tbe "Lord doth put a difference between tbe Egyptians and Israel." The Christian speech ought always to "betray" him, and his life demonstrate that h 3 has been with "Jesus and learned of him." The preached Gospel is shorn of half its power for the lack of a testified gospel. This does not mean pharisaical separa? tion, but Christian separation. Christ was more separate from sinners than the Pharisees were, and yet he did hot hesi? tate to touch them, and eat with them, and be their friend. So ought Christians to be separate from the world, while we are in constant touch with it. Let us have the sky line. ?Hannah Battersby, the fattest wo? man before the public, weighs 728 pounds. She eats half a pound of candy daily. ?? Before the wedding day she was dear and. he was her treasure, but after? ward she became dearer and he treasurer. THE EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS, j Meeting of the Board of Agriculture Last Week. The Board of Agriculture met at 8 o'clock hst night at the Agricultural building, all the members being present except Mr. Perry, who was kept away by sickness. The object df the meetiog was the consideration of proposals for the loca? tion of the agricultural experimental stations provided for at the last session of the General Assembly. The act was passed to establish two experimental farms in the low country and one in the Piedmont section of the State for testing the manures and fertil? izers for different kinds of land, studying ( the result3 of the planting various crops, testing the different varieties of seed, etc., all for the instruction of the farmers in the practical work of their business. Under this act $10,000 is appropriated to establish the station and all the fertil? izer privilege tax beyond what is required for the expenses of the Board of Agri? culture is appropriated each year for the farms. This will give about $10,000 a year for each farm. The $7,000 a year interest on the laud Bcrip bonds given by the Federal govern? ment, will also be divided between the stations, giving each $3,500 a year. At the last session of Congress an act was passed giving $10,000 a year to these experimental stations when they are established in any State. Under the terms of the act the board advertised for bids for the location of the farms, the time for receiving the same expiring April 11th. The counties in the two sections of the State making the best bids will get them. Bids have been received by Commis? sioner Butler from the following- persons: General C. StG. Sinkler, Eutawville, Berkeley County; Colonel L. P. Miller, Georgetown; Major W. H. Evans and Colonel E. R. Mclver, for citizens of Darlington; Colonel H. P. Hammett, for citizens of Greenville; Prof. N. F. Walker, for citizens of Spartanburg; William Mayfield, Greenville County; Dr. E. B. Smith, Marion; S. S. Savis, Williamsburg County; Charles W. F?rs? ter, Georgetown. A bid was also received, April 15tb, from Anderson, Bickens' and Oconee Counties, it being stated that the bid was mailed the 8th instant, so that it should reach the board on the 11th, the last day of receiving bids, hut, as it bad appa? rently miscarried in the mails, a dupli? cate was sent. The following committee, representing Greenville County, presented that Coun? ty's proposal and advocated the advan? tages thereof; John Ferguson, Capt. O. P. Mills and R. Mayo Cleveland. In connection with this proposition, the fol? lowing papers were presented: I enclose herewith three resolutions adopted by the citizeni of Greenville County at a mass meeting held in the court house on the 4th and 8th day of April, 1887, which they submit as their bid or proposition under the advertise? ment of the Board of Agriculture for the location of one of the experimental stations in Greenville County. The committee appointed to canvass the County for a guarantee for the sum of $15,000 had but three days in which to make the canvass, which, of necessity was imperfectly done, not one:fourth of . the. County, hein% vialted. at all can? vassers, and yet the sum of $5,000 of the sum was guaranteed by perfectly respon? sible persons. The committee is con? tinued and is instructed to continue the canvass until the sum of $15,000 is guar? anteed. No doubt is expressed that the County will vote the subscription when it is authorized to do so. The meeting also appointed the com? mittee of five representative citizens to appear before the board and present the claims of Greenville County for the loca? tion of one of the stations. H. P. Ham? mett, chairman. Below are given the resolutions unan? imously adopted at the first mass meeting above referred to: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that the sum of $15,000, and as much more as can be guaranteed, shall be appropriated by this county for the purpose of securing the location of the agricultural station in this county, as provided for by the act of the Legisla? ture establishing said stations, and that said appropriation be submitted to the voters of the county, and if the voters approve the appropriation, then the amount offered is to be raised by the issue and sale of the bonds of the county. "Resolved, That for the purpose *of guaranteeing the subscription, we the undersigned, agree to guarantee the sum set opposite our names respectively. If the voters of the county shall vote to make said appropriation, then the guar? antee is to be cancelled." At the second mass meeting mentioned the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting be authorized and instructed to forward to the Board of Agriculture the resolution .adopted on Monday last ten? dering a subscription of $15,000 from the County of Greenville in bonds to be voted hereafter for the establishment of the experimental station in this county, and the board be informed that within the few days allowed to procure the guarantee specified in the resolutions, the sum of $5,000 has been guaranteed and is hereby offered. The committee is to be continued to raise the guarantee as originally proposed." ' The committee from Spartanburg County consisted of the following gentle? men : Professor N. F. Walker, J. N. Wofford, D. R. Duncan, John B. Cleve? land and Colonel Joseph Walker. They presented'the proposition given below and supported it in an earnest manner. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the Green? ville Board of Trade, April 15, 1887: "Whereas an effort has been made by the citizens of Greenville County to secure the location of the experimental station authorized by law to be estab? lished in the Piedmont section of the State; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Board of Trade of the City of Greenville heartily second the effort to induce the Board of Ag? riculture to locate the said experimental volum: station in this county, and hereby pledges itself to work earnestly for the adoption of the proposed appropriation of $15,000 by the people of Greenville County in case the location is made according to that proposition. Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and resolution be furnished to the com? mittee appointed by the citizens' meeting, with ibe request to lay the same before the Board of Agriculture if they deem proper to do so. W. Lee, Secretary, The proposition from Sparenburg County is as follows: The citizens of Spar tan burg County being desirous of having the experimental station for the upper part of the State located near the city of Spartanburg, just outside the corporate limits of the city, beg leave to sumit the following bid in pursuance of notice advertising for same, to wit: They offer 200 acres of land, if so much be necessary, to be used exclusively for the purpose indicated, and $2,000 in money. This land is immediately con? tiguous to the grounds of the Interstate Encampment, upon which there will be a depot erected by the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, which runs through the grounds, and this depot is within a quarter of a mile of the lands offered. The land lies on the Atlanta and Char? lotte Air Line Railroad, and the Ashe ville and Spartanburg Railroad, and is well watered. The Encampment Association of Spar? tanburg also offers to the experimental station, if so located, the free use of their tabernacle buildings and grounds, con? sisting of thirty acres, and in which the Stats building for State exhibits is now being erected, for any or all meetings and exhibitions desired in the interest of the station. If thevocation should be made as above desired, the citizens would respectfully call the attention of the board to the fact that four large and commodious build? ings with some twenty acres of land, formerly tbe property of the Spartan? burg Female College, the cost of which was originally $35,000, now owned by a gentleman of large means, and who will, in the agricultnral interest, sell the same for $9,000. The buildings mentioned are all in first-class order. The site is on a fine ridge with oak grove, and natural drainage excellent. N. F. Walker, Chairman. Chas. H. Carlisle, Secretary. This is accompanied by a petition tbat the experimental station be located at or near the city of Spartanburg, signed by twenty-nine of the prominent citizens of Union County. For the location of the experiment farm to be placed in the lower tiers of Counties tbe following gentlemen pre sented and set forth the advantages of Darlington : S. A. Gregg, E. B. Mclver, E. W. Cannon and C. S. McCullough. Darlington's proposition is to appro ! priate $5,000 if the statiou be located there. The Board after thinking and figuring, came to the conservative conclusion to visit in person at an early day the several sites offered, and afterwards to make their decision. Tbe excurson will be a pleas? ant one. It has not been decided wheth? er it will be taksn before or after the annual phosphate excursion. Positively no other information than this could be obtained from tbe members of the board, which adjourned subject to the call of Looking for His Lily. Not so very many days ago a couple newly married?stopped at the Byan for the night. They hailed from somewhere in the valley of the Bed river diiitrict, and bad money enough to make a small ripple in tbe city. Tbe bride retired early, but the groom, still feeling his oats, went out to see the town. He visited a number of tbe prominent resorts, and about midnight found himself in the hotel elevator. Calmly transfixing the boistboy with his eye, be addressed him : "My boy-ieh, swhere's my bridesh? Swhere's my turtle dove ?" The boy, of course, could not answer him. But finding the number of his room be attempted to take him there. "Noshir!" said the inebriate. "Ish? hie?wansh shmy cooing dove. She's the rosesh of the the valley, she is." Everybody in the rooms along tbe halls was awake by this time, and several heads peeped over the tramsoms. "She's?a?a?a ?hie? lambsh," be continued, "a swan of the shea. Where'sh she? Thatsh what I want?hie?to know. Whosh stole cuckoo from mesh ?" By this time they were at the door of his room. It suddenly opened, a band and arm clothed in white was thrust out and the unfortunate yanked in with a terrific jerk and this remark: "Here's your rose of Sharon and lily of the valley, you blamed old fool. Go to bed.]]_ How a Woman Keeps a Secret. - It is an old quip upon women that they cannot keep a Beeret; but tbe fact is they are the only part of humanity that can. A wife keeps a husband's secret incomparably safer than he does hers. We calculate that there is one drunken wife to about four hundred and ninety-nine drunken husbands. In. gambling, licentiousness, lying, cheating, hypocrisy, covetousness, there is pretty much the same proportion. Yet of the four hundred and ninety-nine wives, four hundred conceal, cover up, silently en? dure tbe terrible secret, while one hus? band mourns over bis wife's frailty in the study of his pastor, and to the ear of his friend, and probably complains of it to a court of law. It is the same between brother and sister. The secrets a woman talks about are of the kind tbat are un? important and mostly agreeable to hear. But of serious secrets she is as reticent as the grave. That is our observation, and in our various relations of physician, minister and unordained lawyer, we have had room for a great deal of observation. ? Governor Hill, of New York, has vetoed the bill recently passed by the legislature prohibiting the saleof liquor at the capital. , ? Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, has not once during a half-century of prac? tice prescribed alcoholic liquor. y E XXII.- -NO. 42. The Corn wns Bleeding Yerj Bndly. A good anecdote is told of one of the present United States Senators, who was in the Confederate army during the war. Being attached to an artillery company he was one day detailed to go to & farm house, some two or three miles away, to buy some corn for the artillery hones, He took a couple of sacks, went down and secured the corn, paying for it the requisite Confederate legal tender. As he was riding back with the two sacks of corn on his horse he noticed a sow and pigs, nearly half grown, near the roadside. The sight was a tempting one, and he thrust his fingers into a small hole which was in one of the sacks and got out some grains of corn which be threw toward them. They came running at once into the middle of the road and began eating the corn. The temptation was now too great for him, and pulling out his pistol he shot the largest and finest looking pig and killed it. He then dismounted from his horse and took up the pig; but being afraid to ride into camp with it, he stop* ped to consider what was the best method of procedure. Arriving at a conclusion, he took some of the corn as well as he could from one of the sacks and put it into the other, both sacks beiog not vory fall, und in the empty space in the other sack hid then crammed the pig, and tied the sack up again. Riding down the road, when near the camp, he met the commanding officer, who looked rather suspiciously at the corn sacks, and then asked ? him where be bad been. . : He stated that he had been to a farm* house, according to orders, and had bought some corn for the artillery horses. The officer then said : "Have you nothing else in the sack ex? cept corn ?" ; The artilleryman gave i an evasive an? swer and said that he bad no other grain except corn in the sacks. The officer then remarked to him: "Well, your corn is bleeding badly," and then without waiting for answer from the embarrassed subaltern rode rapidly off. The latter proceeded to camp, took out his pig, and then turned the corn over to the proper authorities. He reported to the boys how he had been caught np with, and they held a council and deter? mined that the best thing to do was to send the officer a portion of the meat. They accordingly cut off'one of the ' hind-quarters of the pig and sent it np to their commander, "with the compli? ments of the lady," who had generously sent it to the soldiers. - The officer accepted the gift; but told the messenger to say to the party who had brought it into camp, that he did not want the 'lady' to send him any more presents after just that same manner. The Deacon's Liver. In a rural town not fifty miles from the State house . lived Deacon Slocum,>a ? plodding farmer of old fashioned ways, and a near neighbor of Maj. Armstrong, who farmed it on a large scale. As "pig killing time" approached Deacon Slocum bargained with the major for the liver of one pig, which he was to send over after the killing, a transaction which the dea? con forgot to mention to his wife, says the Boston Budget. The next day, hav? ing some business to transact in the city, "ne sXartecs away, YotonQYog \x> ietora afc night, but on arriving there be ascertain? ed that the party he was to see waa away and would not return until the next day, so he concluded to wait rather than make a second journey. On the very day that he left for the city an accident occurred on the railroad, and several persons were reported as hor? ribly mangled and killed. Among the missing was Deacon Slocum. The fami? ly waa dreadfully alarmed, and passed the night in a fearful state of anxiety. Just after daylight a team drove ap and a se? rious looking man, bearing a tin pail in his hand, came to the door, which, on being opened, he deposits on the entry floor, exclaiming: "I've brought you the deacon's liver I" The good woman of the house fainted, the children screamed, and for a few moments that house was in a commotion which wasonly quieted by the appearance of the deacon himself, who, on hearing of the accident, had taken an early train for home. It was also pleasing to. learn that the accounts of the catastrophe had been greatly exaggerated and that nobody was killed and but two to three slightly injured.?Savannah Newt. A Remarkable Woman. Mrs. Shackleford, of Pleasant Hill, Alabama, is a very remarkable woman in many respects. When she graduated at Vassar college and returned to her home she bad an income of $50,000. She mar? ried soon after and went to California with her husband where her fortune was swept away from her. She accumulated enough money by writing for papers to return home. Soon after her father died and then her husband, leaving a bright little boy. She then took charge of the estate, containing 3,800 acres, and had to be on the go from four o'clock in the morning until night. She makes 190 bales of cotton and has to contend with 186 tenants who cause her a great deal of trouble, but she has alwaya been equal to every emergency. On the 25th of last January when she returned home she found a large burly negro :.n her house searching for valuables. Pulling a pistol she ordered him to leave and on his re? fusing she snapped the pistol which UL.prtunately was not loaded. He then grasped her and cnt her. with a razor in twenty-seven different places. She sank to the floor exhausted and he left the house. Recovering shortly afterwards, she seized another pistol and mounted a horse, overtook him and shot him down. The trial of. this man for cutting her is now in progress, and she has left for New Orleans under the advice of her friends, as the negro has threatened that if she did not withdarw the charges he would have her murdered. ? "Can February March?" asked the punster, whith a sickly smile. "Perhaps not," replied the quiet man, "bat Aprty May."