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BYE. B. MURRA T^A?HE}r$'Goi,UMN, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. Vacation is Here once more, and teach? ers and pupils alke rejoice, not, we trust, that there is no more work to do, but - that it gives them a resting spell?a time . -in.which to regain the energy and force wem away by a long term of hard work, : and to equip themselves for better ser? vice the coming year. AUlis is rest. -The teacher who "shuts up ieSffiUhe last day of school, and shuts out alTThoughts of . school work until the re-opening in the fall/ is surely retrograding. Now where and how will you spend your vacation so as to rest and at the same time improve yourself? Let us offer a suggestion or two: Messrs. Clinkscales and May field, School Commissioners of Anderson and -?Greenville Counties, respectively, have Vto*7 wisely provided an inter county in stitute for their teachers, to beheld at , - Williamston for two weeks, beginning 'July 12th. They have engaged an able faculty?the best that could be found. ^ .Dr. L. R. Klemm, of whom the Green? ville correspondent of the NemtoadCou? rier speaks as being the ''chief attraction of the State Normal here last summer," and who is so well and favorably known to our readers, will be the principal, and will be assisted by Dr. S. Lander, Presi? dent of Williamston Female College, an able instructor and ? gentleman well known and loved for his many good qualities of head and heart, and Miss Leonard, principal of the Winthrop Training School, a teacher of much ex? perience and recognized ability. These, " together with one other, yet to be chosen, constitute the faculty. As stated above, we deem it wise in these Commissioners to offer their teachers such advantages; but they go farther than this, and adding generosity, to wisdom, extend a cordial j .and pressing invitation to all teachers of the State to cdme and enjoy the "feast o' reason" with them. There will be no State Normal this, year, but the Williamston meeting will be. in all respects the equal of such an institute, and while looking about for a ' place where the summer can be pleas? antly and profitably spent, you should not overlook it. Williamston is well known as a summer resort; its springs are among the finest and best in 'the State; its climate is delightful; its people courteous and hospitable, and teachers will find it all they could desire. Espe? cially low rates for board will be given?' in fact, you can live there as cheap as you can live at home. Write to Dr. S. Lander, Williamston, S. C, for full in? formation on this point. Too much cannot be said in praise of Messrs. Clinkscales and Mayfield for their.tireless zeal in this matter of afford? ing their teachers and the teachers of the State such excellent advantages "without money and without price"?except ior board and-traveling, which will be very small,?and we trust each one who can will show his appreciation of their kind? ness by accepting their invitation.. We are not informed as to railroad rates, but suppose a reduction will be made by all lines in the State. The time is fast ap? proaching when there will be no call for any but trained teachers in South Caro? lina, and all should avail themselves of such advantages as. this when they.aro offered. If you wish to go outside the ' State, the National Educational Associa? tion, which meets at Chicago, July 12th, offers the advantages of seeing some of our common country, the most phenome? nal city in the Union, or perhaps in the world, and at the same time meeting the principal educators of the land. Wher? ever you go, whatever you do, spend * your vacation well;?don't waste your time.?The Carolina Teacher. BATTLE AND BATTLJHG-STICK. To battle clothes, to beat them, in washing. I presume that it is a diminu? tive of the word bat,, (noun and verb,) to strike, which Halliwell (Archaisms) men? tions as used in the North of England, and Jamieson (Scottish dictionary) gives for Scotland. Etymologically it is the same, with bat, to wink the eyes, used still in the South and Southwest. The French cognate is batre; Goth batta(?). It is very common in the retired parts of the South. In my boyhood, in Abbeville County, South Carolina, I rarely saw washing done in any other way than as follows: The clothes were boiled, then scrubbed-with the hands in cold water, then laid on a fiat surface and battled, i. e., beaten with a heavy paddle called a battling stick, and finally rinsed. But as washboards come into use battling goes out; and so the word is becoming obsolete. The word, as well as the act, will die out last in the mountains. Two years ago myself and two others were wandering in the mountains on tho bor? der line between North and South Caro? lina, at a loss which way to go, when the sound of some one battling clothes reached our ears and guided us to the only habitation on that side of the moun? tain. Battling atick is the name of the pad? dle or mallet with which the clothes are battled. An example from Joel Chan? dler Harris's "Mingo" is in point. The haughty mother of the girl who bad married against her mother's will, the son of poor Mrs. Feratia Bivings called one day to Bee that high-tempered lady about the little orphan left from the ill assorted marriage. "Miss Fraisby," as Mingo called her, was startled to see the haughty woman. "But I tightened up my apron strings," she says, "and flung my glance aroun' till hit drapped on the battlin'-stick, bekase I flared up the min nit I seen her, an' I says to myse'f, says I, 'If hits a fracas you 'er huntin', my lady, I Uy you won't hafter put on your specs to find it'" As the battling-stick is made usually of Borne heavy wood, like oak or hickory, and is made heavier still by being continually wet, it is a more formidable weapon than a policeman's club. The thing was well known in English dialect. Wright (Provincial dictionary) gives the following terms fur it: Batler, batlet, bailingstaff^ bat staff and batleton, (Shropshire). Dr Johnson defined batlet as "a square piece of wood with a handle, used in beating linen when taken out of the buck." Y&C?. HalliweH quotes-H?llyband, Dictionarie, 1593, "a beetle which laundrers do use to wash their buck and clothes." The fact that, according to Halliwell, battler was also a term'for "a small bat to play at ball with,7* would indicate the origin of the word if it was not clear of itself. Halliwell gives also "b?ttling stone, a large, smooth-faced-stone, set in a slop? ing position by tbe side of a stream, on which washerwomen beat their linen to olean it." Nares (Glossary) quotes the following example of its use: "And I remember kissing of her bail et, and tbe cows' dogs that her pretty chopped hands had milked." . Shakespeare, "As you like It," II, 4. The s? me instrument was called a beetle, says Nares. "Have lived thus long to be knocked o' th' head with half a washing*beetle?" Beau? mont and Fletcher, "Tamer Tamed," II, 5.?C. F. S., in Southern Christian Advocate. An American Antiquity, An article in the Southern Lumberman of Nashville says: "If the concentric rings in trees are a correct index of their age, that mysterious structure near Man? chester, Coffee county, Tenn., called the Old Stone Fort, is of very ancient ori? gin. The trees growing on the rude stone walla (hat surround the old struc? ture show by their rings fully five hun? dred years' growth. These trees now be? ing cut away, are the only witnesses to she age of tbe" stone work. Will their testimony be accepted by historians? Will the antiquarians ever find out who built that Old Stone Fort, and for what purpose 1 If any investigators wish to examine these^old trees, they should do so pretty soon, as they are rapidly dis? appearing." There is nothing in Tennessee, says tbe Americant or in the South, whose an? tiquity is so mysterious and entirely be? yond the domain of decent speculation as the Old Stone Fort, which is abont one mile and a half; below the town of Manchester. Tbe two prongs of Duck River come within, say/200;yards of each other and then widen out, making a territory of perhaps 1,000 acres in the forks of the rifer, ;and below the Narrows." At the Narrows the fort commences by a stone wall, now covered with earth, running from one river to tbe other, and there the walls are built along tbe banks of | both rivers down to a point where a ca? nal had been cut from one river. On the outside of this wall is a hollow, and to the other; there a wall is made from one river to the other, perhaps a quarter of a mile. In, this hollov? is the sign of | the canal, or cut, .evidently intended to protect the'fort by both the wall and the canal. From the upper to the lower wall, at places, there are high bluffs on both rivers. Wherever this bluff?pre? cipitous?is found, there is no wall, but wherever there is no natural barrier the wall is built. The entrance to the fort was at tbe upper end, and the gateways shows that the builders were doing their work intelligently. The entrance was by a narrow pass-way, with walls on either side, and onsets so as to prevent the enemy on the outside from having a direct entrance for themselves, and so as to protect those on the inside from mis? siles from the outside. The fort contains forty seven acres, and is, or was when the writer first saw it, heavily timbered, many of tho treea of large size growing on top of the walls. Col. Sam Murray, who settled there about 1808, cut one of the trees from tbe top of the wall, and found it to be about five hundred years old. One mile up the river from the fort is an immense mound?the largest one perhaps in the country?making it probable the fort was built by the mound-builders. Be? yond this nobody knows anything about it. Col. Murray, who was a man of high intelligence, claimed to have conferred with the Indians of different tribes, but none of them could give him any ac? count of it, either by tradition or other? wise. This fort is one of tbe many evi? dences that in this country, at Borne re? mote period, there was a race of people of more stability and intelligence than the roving Indians whom the first set? tlers found. A Story of tho War. St. Louis, July 3.?A war reminis? cence has been printed to the effect that while the Confederate army was retreat* ing from Shiloh, a young soldier, evi? dently fever stricken, was ordered to work loading a train. He said he was sick. General Bragg, who was at hand, was informed that the young fellow would not work, and he in person repeated .the order. Again the soldier said he was too sick to work, whereupon General Bragg ordered a Lieutenant to take six men and carry tbe sick soldier to an adjacent grove and shoot him. Tbe squad took charge of the victim, but just as they were marching toward the grove General Bragg beckoued the Lieutenant to him and whispered something in his ear. The soldier was placed in position, but refused to be blindfolded. He hastily wrote his mother's name and address on a piece of paper and banded it, together with bis watch and a riug. to the Lieu? tenant. Then he calmly knelt down and said : "Now I am ready." The six uoldiers raised their guns and aimed them at the breast of tbe soldier. Then instead of the order, "Fire!" the command, "Recover arms!" was given. The lieutenant then stepped forward, and, restoring the young fellow's prop? erty, congratulated him on his coolness and bravery, and told him to bunt up his company and join it; he was not to be shot. Charles Garcia, whom a reporter inter? viewed here yesterday, is the hero of this story, and he said it was for tbe most part accurate. He was looking for a Burgeon, he said, in order to get trans? portation to Tupelo, Miss., as he was too sick to march. General Bragg ordered him to march, and on his refusal to work ordered bim shot. When he knelt in the grove he closed his eyes, and when he heard the ordor, "Recover arms !" he was in a dazed condition, and wondered how it was that he still lived. Tbe shock/ however, completely cured his fever, and he walked all the way to Tupelo. ARTISTIC AR1\ Busy Making His Home Beautiful. It is most astonishing bow much we live and do for other people?how much regard we have for other people's praise and opinions. We all do a Bight of work-to please those who are no kin to us and no little for those we don't know. Here I've been working hard for a month fixing up the new home, and it is all from a combined pleasure of pleasing Mrs. Arp first and the children next and then the public who pass by and will say "Isn't that a lovely place I" Well, of course, I have some taste for the beauti? ful and the aesthetic, but not enough to work so hard as I have been working. I was content and thonght we were doing pretty well, but I got a hint that the verandas were almost obliged to be painted and remodeled, and so I surren? de re J and went at it and got encourage? ment all along. "Ob, it is so nice! Isent it perfectly lovely ? What harmo? ny of colors that red and white and green ?"?and they fondled over me and rubbed my head and combed my black hair, and they make me lemonade when I come in tired, I can beat the Jews playing tired when I want sympathy and lemonade. I can look tired and walk up the steps tired. There is an art in that, and every husband and father ought to know it if he wants domestic favors. My folks have discovered now that I have a cough and I let them keep on discovering it. A cough is a good thing. It provokes sympathy and alarm mixed. I can cough just like a consumptive and have the tears running out of my eyes. After the verandas were fixed up and the floors painted a sweetgum color and the front blinds painted with a fresh, bright coat of green, it was hinted to me that our bedroom ought to be repapered, and that if I would buy the paper the girls would put it on, and the ceiling overhead ought to be painted just to cover up the fly specks, if for nothing else. So I surrendered to that, and when the ceiling was finished they told the painter to keep on with the doors and windows and mantel, so as not to waste the paint he had left, and so, of course, I admired their frugal minds, and then the papering was next in order, and they said I was not to be bothered, but I did have to fix up the scaffold and arrange the plank to paste on and move all the furniture to one side, and when they got through I had to move it all back again and keep moving it, from Dan yto Beer Bheba, and then at last move the scaf? folding and doors and clean up the room, and it is all just as nice and new, and they are all so happy, and the whole room didn't cost but a few dollars, and bo I am happy, too. And they have been talking about that old stable for two months?that great big old stable that is forty feet frost was right in a front line with the dwelling, the mansion and the neW verandas, and it was too big and too dilapidated, and so they got me .to walk around in the rear and look at a place, and I walked and I looked, not that they wanted it moved right away, but some time when I was able. That's the idea ?some, time when I was able. . That always gets me. No ambitious lord is willing for his lady to believe he is not able to do anything in season. It is his business to be able. He promised to be able when he married her. It was im? plied if not expressed that he would always be able to gratify her reasonable wishes, and it was certainly reasonable to want that old stable moved. So I have been a week at that and I believe now that I had rather build a new one than move an old one. But it is all done and the female women of my house? hold are satisfied and they take all the visitors around to see the improvements, and I listen to the compliments on the sly and enjoy them. What is the next thing on.the programme I don't know, but there is some whispering going on about the old fashioned stairs. I bavo built a dining room and a pantry and double doors to the parlor and our home is now comfortable, and if it is not hap? py it ought to be. I wish that every family in the land had as good a one. Now they say that where the stable was and the lot attached is the very place for a garden?a garden for flowers and small fruits, and so I have all that work in prospect and if there is any stopping place I don't know it. There never has been any. It took me two hours yester? day to fix the rollers on the washstand and the bureau and to plane off and sand paper the drawers so they would open and shut easily. I am a pretty good car? penter and they all know it, and when I hear them say with faith and pride that papa can fix it, I never back out, but go at it. There was a rat hole in the pan? try and as fast a3 I stopped it up with mortar he gnawed it out again, but I fixed him at last. It won't do for the paternal ancestor to admit that he can't do such things, whether he graduated at a school of technology or not. Some? times when I hint that we are getting old and it don't matter about fixing up, she says that old people are the very ones to fix up and have nice things so as to compensate for the loss of youth and hi? larity. I have been reading a pamphlet about the world coming to an end in a few years, and I have tried to distract her attention from sublunary things, but she says she remembers the Millerites very well, and how they sold out their possessions up North and bought white robes?ascension robes, and built high towers and scaffolds to fly from, and had the day and the night all fixed, but the Saviour didn't come after them and they didn't ascend at all. Well, that was a wonderful excite? ment. It was in 1843, and there were over fifty thousand converts who got ready to ascend. Miller had studied the prophecies of Daniel and St. John, until he was an enthusiast and believed all he said, but Miller was no theologian, no scholar, and sensible people paid no at? tention to him. Next came Cumming, ihe great Scotch preacher, who thought he had solved the prophecies, but he too was mistaken. And now comes Rev. Mr. Baxeter, of the Church of England, who publishes the Christian Herald in London, and has three hundred thou? sand subscribers, and has 150 orthodox ministers to indorse his solution of the prophecy. His pamphlet is the most ANDERSON, S. O, ' learned exposition of tbe prophecies I have eve ? seen, and it does look like he proves his theory. He declare3 that we are now in tbe Saturday night of the world's week, and that the year 1900 will close out our comedy of errors and a new play will begin. Tbst great wars are near at band, and England will take a back seat and will lose Ireland and the West Indies, and that what now consti? tutes 23 kingdoms will, in 1890, be merged into ten, with Prance in tbe lead and a Napoleon on the throne. He tells all about the great battle of Armogedden, and how the Christians are to suffer for three and a half years and then triumph, and how the Saviour is to come in the year 1900 and reign for 1000 years, and so forth and so on. It is certainly a remarkable book and written by one of the first scholars of the age. "In no event," says he, "can this old earth progress much longer in a peaceful status, for it has but twenty-five thou? sand million of acres of land, and count? ing one acre for seven persons, the world will be full in 3/H) years." "Full!" Just think of the world being full and no more room. I asked old father Dobbins what made him keep on buying land, and he said: "Because tbe Creator is not making any more'land, but keeps on making people. There are 2,000 million people now and if they double every thirty years there will be five hundred thousand million people within three hundred years. They will be as dense as people at a barbecue and about as hungry, Something has got to happen either this multiplying has got to stop or war and pestilence has got to wake up and go to work lively or the world will get full and run over sure enough. But still I reckon we had all better keep on working and fixing and pursue the even tenor of our way. I told Mrs. Arp that it seemed like great events were near at band and we had better put oil in our lamps and have tbem ready, and she said yes, and told me the oil was out and that I had better send for sugar too. When I mentioned the great beast with ten horns that Daniel saw in his vision she said that reminded her to tell me that the peafowl had hatched and I had better take Carl and go after her and bring her home and keep her in a coop for a few days. Verily there is no rest for the wicked. Bi ll A it p. Big Salaries. There.are a score of men in New York who are paid as much for their services each year as the President of tbe United States.- Forty thousand dollars a year is a very tidy salary. There are hundreds of men who get $25,000 a year salary, and the number who get from $10,000 to $20,000 are legion. Very ordinary men get from $5,000 to" $8,000 a year, or as much as a Cabinet officer. Dr. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, is paid $50,000. So is Cbauncey M. Depew, president of the New York Central railroad. Richard M. McCurdy, president of the Mntual Life Insurance Company, gets a like amount. John Hoey, president of Adams Express Company, fares equally as well. President Henry B. Hyde, of the Equita? ble Life Insurance Company, is also in tbe list. George G. Williams, president of the Chemical National Bank, the rich? est banking institution in America, with nearly $5,000,000 of surplus, $20,000,000 average deposits, is paid a salary of $25, 000 yearly. President Potts, of the Park Bank, and President Tappan, of the Gallatin National Bank, receive a like sum each twelve months. Tbe best paid minister in New York is Dr. John Hall, a brainy man from the north of Ireland, who preaches to $200, 000,000 everySunday. His is the small? est church in town. He owes his rise in life to Robert Bonner, of the Ledger, who found him preaching to a small congre? gation in Dublin, and induced him to come to America. He gets a salary of $20;000 a year, and makes $5,000 by his newspaper and magazine articles. He is given a luxuriously furnished bouse as well. Dr. Morgan Dix, the chief pastor of Trinity - Church corporation, the wealthiest in America, receives $15,000 yearly. Dr. William L. Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, gets tbe same amount. He does literary work and lecturing that brings his income up to $20,000. Dr. Charles Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Chucb, is paid $15,000. He is very eloquent, and his church is crowded at all services. Dr. Park-burst, of Madison Square Church, gets $20,000. He has a large and distin? guished congregation. Cyrus W. Field is one of the pillars of tbe church. Dr. Paxton, who preaches to Jay Gould and others less wealthy, is paid $15,000. The Rev. Robert Collyer, the blacksmith preacher, is paid $10,000. '?Louder, Gabriel, louder.'' One of the best replies erer made is said to be that of the brilliant but erratic Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, in answer to one who interrupted him while he was speaking to a vast audience in Buf? falo, N. Y. When Marshall was elo? quently picturing the, glorious liberty, and each sentence fell from his lips as chaste and beautiful as tbe marble block comes from the sculptor's hand, some political opponent in the audience cried out: "Louder, louder!" Marshall did not at first tumble to the trick, but on being interrupted again by the same cry, he paused in his magnificent flight of eloquence and said: "Mr. President: On tbe last and fiosl day of this our mortal eartb, when tbe angel Gabriel shall take his departure from the blue domes of -heaven, and placing one foot upon the rollicg sea and the other upon tbe land, shall lift to hh lips the golden trumpet and an? nounce in his clarion notes that time shall be no more; when, amid the gush? ing melodies of angelic choirs, he shall announce to the pale form of tbe resur? rected dead that the day of immortality is at band, and the souls of men shall rise from the tomb, I have no doubt, sir, but that some d?n fool from Buffalo will startup and cry ou I: "Louder, Gabriel, louder." ? The postage stamp h* particularly unfortunate. When a man wants to lick it he attacks it behind its back? raUKSDAY MOKNi: PBOHIBITION IN ATLANTA, Weekly Constitution. The election at which prohibition was put on trial in this city is entitled to a place among great events. No election of a.local nature was ever before held in a city of sixty thousand people in which more was involved. The changes pro? posed by it were so radical as to be almost revolutionary. Over a hundred business houses were to be closed. Nearly five hundred men were to be forced to give up a chosen employment. The city treasury was to be left with forty thousand dollars less revenue. Trade amounting annually to millions was to be turned away from the city. Many large business houses were to be left unrented. Of course, a movement proposing measures so radical met with the most spirited and determined oppo? sition. Many of our best citizens regard? ed it with outspoken disfavor. It was said that prohibition in a city so large as this was impracticable, that it would not prohibit, that the trade would be injured, that taxes would be increased, that the stores in which the liquor business was carried on would not be rented for other purposes, that the same amount of whisky would be drank with the law as without it, the city would only miss the revenue, that it would be a death-blow to Atlanta's progress. It has now been eighteen months since the election, and twelve months since the law went into effect. We are pre? pared thus from observation to uote results. Prohibition in this city does prohibit. The law is observed as well as the law against carrying concealed weapons, gambling, theft and other offenses of like character. If there had been as many people in favor of carrying concealed weapons, theft, gambling, etc., as there were in favor of the retail of ardent spirits, twelve months ago, law against these things would not have been carried out as well as it was against the liquor trade. In consideration of the small majority with which prohibition was carried, and the large number of people who were opposed to seeing it prohibit, the law haB been marvelously well ob? served. Prohibition has not injured the city financially. According to the assessors' books property in the city has increased over two millions of dollars. Taxes have not been increased. Two streets in the city, Decatur and Peters, were known as liquor streets.' It was hardly considered proper for a lady to walk these streets without an escort. Now they are just as orderly as any in the city. Prop? erty on them has advanced from 10 to 25 per cent. The loss of forty thousand dollars revenue, consequent on closing the saloons, has tended in no degree to impede the city's progress in any direc? tion. Large appropriations have been made to the waterworks, the public schools, the Piedmont fair and other im? provements. The business men have raised $400,000 to build the Atlanta and Hawkinsville railroad. The number of city banks is to be increased to five. The coming of four new railroads has been settled during the year. Fifteen new stores containing house-furnishing goods have been started since prohibition went into effect. These are doing well. More furniture has been sold to mechanics and laboring men in the last twelve months than in any twelve months during the his? tory of the city. The manufacturing establishments of the city have received new life. A glass factory has been built. A cotton seed oil mill is being built worth $125,000. All improvement companies with a basis in real estate have seen their stock doubled in value since the election on prohibition. Stores in which the liquor trade was conducted are not vacant, but are now occupied by other lines of trade. Ac? cording to the real estate men more laborers and men of limited means are buying lots than ever before. Bents are more promptly paid than formerly. More houses are rented by the same number of families than heretofore. Before prohibition, sometimes as maoy as three families would live in one house. The heada of those families now not spending their money for drink are each able to rent a house, thus using three instead of one. Working men who formerly spent a great part of their mon? ey for liquor, now spend it in food and clothes for their families. The retail grocery men sell more goods and collect their bills better than ever before. Thus they are able to Bettle more promptly with the wholesale men. A perceptible increase has been noticed in the number of people who ride on the street cars. According to the coal deal? ers, many people bought coal and stored it away last winter who had never been known to do so before. Others who had been accustomed to buying two or three tons on time, this last winter bought seven or eight and paid cash for it. A leading proprietor of a millinery store said that he had sold more bats and bon? nets to laboring men for their wives and daughters, than before in the history of his business. Contractors say their men do better work, and on Saturday even? ings, when they receive their week's wages, spend the same for flour, bams, dry goods, or other necessary things for their families. Thus they are in belter spirits, have more hope, and are inclined to strike and growl about higher wages, Attendance upon the public schools has increased. The superintendent of public instruction said in his report to the board of education, made January 1st, 1887: "During the past year it has become a subject of remark by teachers in the schools and by visitors, that the children were more tidy, were better dressed, were better shod, and presented a neater ap? pearance than ever before. Less trouble has been experienced in having parents purchase books required by the rules, fewer children have been withdrawn to aid in supporting the family, the higher classes in the grammar schools have been fuller, and more children have been pro? moted to the high schools, both male and female, than ever before in the his? tory of the schools. All these indica? tions point to the increased prosperity of the city, and to the growing interest in the cause of education on the part of the people." NG, JULY 14, 1887. There has been a marked increase in attendance upon the Sunday schools of the city. This is especially noticeable among the suburban churches. Many children have started to the Sunday schools who were not able to attend for want of proper clothing. Attendance upon the different churches is far better. From fifteen hundred to two thousand people have joined the various churches of the city during tho year. The determination on the part of the people to prohibit the liquor traffic, has stimulated a disposition to do away with other evils. The laws against gambling are rigidly enforced. A considerable stock of gamblers' tools gathered together by the police for several years past was recently used for the purpose of making, a large bonfire on one of the unoccupied squares of the city. The city council has refused longer to grant license to bucket shops, thus putting the seal of its con* damnation upon the trade in futures of all kinds. All these reforms have had a decided tendency to diminish crime. Two weeks were necessary formerly to get through with the criminal docket. During the present year it was closed out in two days. The chaingang is almost left with nothing but the chains and tbe balls, The gang part would not be large enough to work tbe public roads of the county were it not augmented by freah supplies from tbe surrounding counties. The city government is in tbe bands of our best citizens. Tbe majority in this county in favor of prohibition was only 235. Such a change has taken place in public sentiment, however, that now there is hardly a re? spectable anti-prohibitionist in the city who favors a return to barrooms. There are some who would prefer high license, or its sale by the gallon, but it is a re? markable fact that there is no disposition to have the saloon opened again. The barroom has gone from Atlanta forever, and tbe people with remarkable unan? imity say amen 1 There is very little drinking in the city. There has been forty per cent, falling off in the number of arrests, notwithstanding there has been a rigid interpretation of tbe law under which arrests are made. Form? erly, if a man was sober enough to walk home he was not molested. Now, if there is the slightest variation from that state in which the center of gravity falls in a line inside tbe base, the party is made to answer for such variation at the stationhouse. Our experience has demonstrated to us beyond a doubt that a city of sixty thousand inhabitants can get along and advance at a solid and constant rate without tbe liquor traffic. About a Mortgage. The editor of tbe Santa Anna Standard, having just succeeded in paying a mort? gage on his ranch in Orangetbrope, re? joices in the full ownership of "Gl acres of as fine land as California boasts." His experience with the "dead pledge"?now so happily past?moves him to wise re? flections, as follows : "A mortgage is a queer institution. It makes a man rustle and keeps him poor, It is a strong in? centive to action, and a wholesome reminder of the fleeing months and years. It is fully as symbolical in its meeting as the hour-glass and scythe, that represent death. A mortgage also represents in? dustry, because it is never idle and never rests. It is like a bosom friend, because the greater the adversity the closer it sticks to a fellow. It is like a brave sol? dier?it never hesitates at charges nor fears to close in on tbe enemy. It is like the sand-bag of the thug?silent in appli? cation, but deadly in effect. It is like the hank of providence?it speaks all over the creation, and its influence is every? where visible. It is like the grasp of a devil-fish?tbe longer it holds, the greater its strength. It will exercise feeble energies and lend activity to a sluggish brain, but no matter how bard the deb? tors work, the mortgage works harder still. A mortgage is a good thing to have in the family?provided always it is in somebody else's family. It is like a boil?always a good thing on some other fellow. It makes one sour, cross, unso? ciable and miserable, and rarely does him any good, only to exercise him. In tbat respect it is equal to Vigor of Life, or the latest patent medicine. We've bad our last one as far as we know ourself. We would rather have the ague than have a mortgage. Adieu, old death pall, a fond adieu." fourth of July Incidents. Fifteen deaths by accident or murder are reported for tbe fourth of July, and thejnumber of seriously hurt runs into the hundreds. A gas pipe loaded by boys with powder exploded at Columbus, 0., and killed a man who was passing in a Knights of Labor parade ; at Chicago three boys and four men were tilled by toy pistols and small cannon ; u Yv'ater town, N. Y., the supply of fireworks went off unexpectedly and hurt four men ; at Susquebana, Fa., a roof on which people were packed to see a ball game fell in, hurting many; at St. Asaph's station, Va., two men were killed in a drunken riot; near Louisville, Ky., lightning struck a tree near which pick nickers were sheltered, killing two boys; at Hazleton, Pa, a man was shot and killed by a drunken comrade; at Chicago a German who stabbed and killed his friend in sudden rage realized what he bad done and killed himself; at Wheeler, Mich., a cannon burst, killing a man, and at Ithaca fireworks fatally hurt a man. _ 1 Prohibition Lovofcast. The prohibition lovefeast at Fort Worth, Texas, one day last week, like everything iu the Lone Star State, was on an extensive scale. Tbe crowd in attendance was estimated at from 10,000 to 15,000 people. There was an impos? ing parade, followed by a free barbecue. An artesian well bad been drilled on the grounds, and furnished water for all who were present. There was a 50 gallon coffee pot filled with coffee, and a 30 gal? lon teapot, from which iced tea was dispensed. Twenty-five beeves and one hundred sheep and goats were slaught? ered for the occasion. Ex Senator Maxey was one of the speakers. ON THE BATTLEFIELD. The Blue anil the Gray Join Hands, Gettysburg, Pa., July 4?Just as the clock in the tower of the county court house last night sounded the first stroke of 12, the midnight stillness was broken by strains from the bugle of "Way Down Upon the Suwanee Blver." Scarcely bad its notes died away, when members of the Philadelphia brigade and Pickett's divi? sion began the celebration of the glorious Fourth with the booming of cannon on East Cemetery hill, and the roar of fire crackers in town. Pandemonium reign? ed supreme foi an hour and a half. No such noise has disturbed this little village since those three memorable days of '63. This morning at7 o'clock, the members of Pickett's division proceeded to the court house and were called to order by Colonel Aylett. Some one promised that every member of the division present should give 25 ceuts toward payirg tho expense which Mrs. Pickett incurred on the visit. The proposition was accepted with cheers and the way money rattled on the secretary's desk was sufficient proof of the esteem in which Mrs. Pick? ett is held by the division. Resolutions were then adopted thank ing the Philadelphia brigade for the hos? pitable manner in which they had treat? ed them; the town authorities for the way they bad received them ; their own officials for the trouble and time they had given to bringing about this reunion, and the citizens for their fraternal greeting, The meeting then adjourned, and out? side the building they joined in procession with the Philadelphia brigade. With each Pickett man linking arms with a Philadelphian, the line proceeded to the Eagle hotel, where the party took car? riages and started over the battle field. Fully one hundred carriages were iu Hue. Mrs. Pickett held a reception on the very ground over which her husband's com? mand charged, and within a few yards of | the woods under wbu^e cover he, twenty years before, had formed his division. The Pickett men were first formed in line and one by one advanced and were introduced to the wife of their old com? mander, by Colonel Clopton, of Eichmoud Virginia, by name, stating their regiment and rank. She had a word for all, and all had a word for her. The Philadel? phia brigade was next presented. Her son, George Pickett, stood al her side and when she dropped a band it was at once grasped by him. The people then moved to the highest ground, and Colonel Bachelder formed the survivors of Lemper's, Garnett's and Armistead's brigades, of Pickett's divi? sion, in the order they bad been when the charge began, and asked the com? mander of each regiment to step forward and point out the position his command occupied. Mrs. Pickett was the center of attraction on the field. She had gath? ered some daisies and clover heads. A member of the brigade asked her for a few. She gave them to him with a smile and one by one they were given away to be treasured as mementoes. Her auto praph was also eagerly sought, and she refused no one. To Bay that Pickett's men are pleased would be putting it lightly. They are delighted with everything and everybody. In the words of a confederate soldier; "We are pleased, and all to pieces; but Cowan this time has captured us body and soul." Among the incidents of the reunion, which recall the battle, is a concidence by which the Hibernia Rifles, the hand? some escort of the Philadelphia brigade, have won the title of "band box" soldiers. For the past two dayB the Hibernians have fqund the spacious steps of the Col? lege church so delightfully cool and shady that they have spent most of their time sitting there. Just beforo the battle, twenty-four years ago, a company of j young students from a Pennsylvania college had themselves mustered in as home guards and went forth voluntarily to repel the bold invader. Some of Ear ly's dusty and ragged veterans scooped in the whole command, marched the unhap? py recruits to the same steps, kept them sitting there all day, continually deriding them with remarks. "Don't they look pretty iu their nice new uniforms ?" "Guess they must have been raised in a band-box," etc. While the band was playing a medley of confederate and union war songs, as the veterans were started on their ride over the field, it struck up "Yankee Doodle." Instantly the rebel "yell" and union cheer showed that the war song of j their fathers, above all others, had touch? ed a sympathetic chord in the breasts of both. This evening religious service was held. In the absence of the chaplain, Bev. J. K. Demorest was asked to speak before a gathering of Pickett't men, mainly, in the court house. He spoke to them on the subject of the day?"How much liberty and brotherly feeling, characteristic of | our land, should endear it to all its citi? zens." This evening Mrs. Pickett held a re? ception at PickettV division headquarters and for an hour shook the band of every one presented to her. Immediately after the reception, she was serenaded by the Grand Army of the Bepublic band. The Pickett men then adjourned to the gar? den of the house where the 69th Pennsyl? vania men are holding forth. Speech making and toast offerings was then the order until late in the night. Cowan's battery and the Wheeler Rifles departed at 9 o'clock this evening, and some of] the Philadelphia brigade also left for their homes. The Pickett division will leave at 4 o'clock in the morning, and the remaining Philadelphians will leave about 9 o'clock. ? A conference was recently held iu London to consider the advisability of forming a National Prohibition party in Great Britain. The hundred or so of delegates who were present were unani? mous in believing that the time had come for organizing such a party, but its pro? ceedings were hardly noticed by the great metropolitan journals. No people of any prominence attended the conference, with the possible exception of Mr. Axel Gustafson, who is busy agitating this question in England. A religious jour? nal, the Christian Commonwealth, is vigor? ously advocating prohibition for Great Britain.\ voLtnv Jumped Out of a Balloon. Q?incy, III., July 4.?The much talked-of leap from a balloon was made by Prof. Thomas S. Baldwin at the fair grounds in this city to day. Over 30,000 people witnessed the performance, which was the most daring and thrilling ever attempted by man. His original inten? tion was to send the balloon up 2,000 feet and hold it captive by a rope and make the jump from that height, and afterward draw down the balloon and make a regular voyage. Owing to the high wind which prevailed, the rore scheme was abandoned. Baldwin ascended to the height of one mile, and then holding his parachute, launched himself into space. The para? chute is an umbrella shaped affair, with ribs of cord which are prolonged and fas? tened to a ring to which the aeronaut clings. The parachute is made of silk, and is eighteen feet in diameter. The parachute was attached to the netting of the balloon by a small cord, intended to break by the weight of the aeronaut. When the jump was made the parachute was closed and the first 200 feet the aero? naut dropped like a rock. Then, as the parachute expanded, the speed became less rapid, and the aeronaut and his strange apparatus floated steadily down like a bird. It was a grand and beauti? ful sight. The descent was accomplished in three miuutcs and twenty seconds. Mr. Baldwin struck the ground -with some force in a sliding manner, but was not even jarred by the shock. The descent varied about a quarter of a mile from the vertical, and Baldwin struck the ground a mile and a half from where the ascent was made. He tried to col? lapse the balloon before jumping from it, but the apparatus failed to work, and the balloon escaped and wan soon out of sight, going East at an altitude of a mile and a half. Baldwin, called by his friends "The Man Bird," is a native of Quiocy, 26 years old. He was for several years an attache of the Herald, but for the last few years has been studying and practic? ing athletics and ballooning. He made a similar leap in California last Winter, the distance being about a thousand feet. The people here are wild over the affair, and regard it as the most wonderful thing ever done by a human being. Sudden Whiskers. "Peculiar! Well, I should say bo; but that man going down the street is the greatest curiosity I've ever seen," said a friend to a News reporter as they stood together on Chestnut street yester? day. "How's that ?" was the quick question. "Did you notice his full brown beard ?" was the answering interrogatory. "Yes; well?" "Well, that man a week ago had no more beard than a baby, and now look at him. You mightn't believe me, but that man's face was as bare of beard as the palm of my band, up to five days ago. He was awfully anxious to grow some sort of a hirsute appendage upon his face, and some time ago be started to shave, and, though he lathered and shaved for six months, the best he could raise was a pretty set of pink pimples. He gave up in disgust a year ago, with a heart lull of despair, and his face as bare of beard as before. "His name is Frank Gilder, and be lives over in West Philadelphia, on Darby road, just below Chestnut. "On the night of June 27 Mr. Gilder went to bed in a disturbed frame of mind. He had been that evening twit? ted a great deal about bis beardlessness. Before retiring, he relates himself, he wished most earnestly that his beard might sprout, aud his accommodating fairy must have overheard the wish. "When he arose in the morning and saw bis reflection in the glass, surprise would hardly describe his feelings. He was frightened; then those feelings gave way to unmittigated delight. He danced a regular war dance in his stocking feet and wound it up with a whoop that rat? tled the glass in the windows for a square around and brought the entire family to his room. "His glass had shone him that a fine beard bad sprouted. His face was cov? ered with a quarter inch stubble of fine beard, and he could feel that it was growing still. His long delayed beard had started, and it bad all come out in the night. Such a case was never heard of before. His appearance created con? sternation at the breakfast table, the family failing to recognize him until they heard his voice. The curious part of it was that his new beard grew so fast that by noon it was more than inch long, and by sundown it was three inches long and still growing. It is about three inches long now and still growing, but he has had it trimmed every day since it first came out. His great fear now is that it will all grow at once, and that its vigor will in that way become exhausted, the hair fall out and leave him as badly off as before. "He has the additional fear, too, that it is sapping his vitality, as he feels him? self growing weaker daily, and the chances that au overgrowth of beard may cause his death. "Physicians whom he has consulted are at a loss to account for the spontane? ous growth. One whom he consulted stated that he bad never heard of a simi? lar case. He gave it as his opinion that the essential structure of the hair, which is an assemblage of epidermic cells at the bottom of a flask-shaped frollicile in the substance of the skin, were always present, but that some condition of the cells prevented them from being supplied with blood, and that they simply lay there without sprouting. Further, he said that there may have been some con? dition of the papilla, in the bottom of the follicile and upon which the hair rests, which prevented the proper enlargement of the root. "The abnorma' any sudden growth he would not attempt to account for, nor could be suggest and means of stopping the rapid growth which threatens to be more disastrous and distressing than the lack of any beard." ? Contempt of court?When the younger brother makes faces at his sis? ter's lover. [E XXIII.?NO. 1. Strategy, Nerve and Liberty, Some time later we were transferred to Point Lookout prison, Mary laud. Among our number was a young man, Hunter, of Washington, D. C. During his imprisonment he bad been furnished with a complete wardrobe, far more com? plete than any Confederate soldier dared to dream of. On the day of departure he was dressed in a "nobby" business suit, looking as unlike a soldier of any kind as could be. The prisoners were gathered together in the quadrangle of the prison,- and as each name was called the man passed through the office out to the pavement and formed in column between the lines of guards.. Each prisoner carried bis effects?if he was fortunate enough to possess any. When Hunter's name was called he came out enveloped in bis blanket, his bat knocked awry and .carrying his valise. Those who had seen how jauntily he looked in the yard scarcely recognized this figure that shuffled with its shamb? ling gait, out to the pavement, nor did they understand why he had made such a guy of himself. The prisoners talked and laughed gayly among themselves. No one noticed Hunter lay aside bis blanket and "epruee" himself up. Ask? ing a comrade to look after hin blanket and valise, and to make no remark on anything he might see, Hunter moved to the curbstone side of column. Unno? ticed by the guards he stepped beyond the curbing and faced around, looking nonchalantly at the prisoners while leis? urely lighting a cigar. One of the" guards noticed the distingue individual and brought his musket down to a "charge bayonets," remarking: "It's against orders, sir, for anyone to come on this side of the street." Hunter coolly said, while pufiling his cigar: "Ob, I'd like to get a good look at these d?d rebels." The guards repeated: ? "It's against orders, ?ir, and you will have to cross the street." "All right," says. Hunter, not wiabing to prolong the con? versation, and he sauntered across the street?turning occasionally to look at the prisoners?where, leaning agfenst a tree box, he watched the "Johaoiea" with as much curiosity as anyctoe there. When the column moved of? the cheer that went up .from the Confederates was thought by the lookers on to be the escape of pent up feeling of prisoners at * bei ig let out into the open air, when in rea'iity it was the farewell outburst of admiration for their comrade left stand? ing there, who, by his strategy and nerve, bad won for himself freer air than they breathed. Hunter spent several days in Wash? ington, then started for Dixie, but was captured at Bowling Green, Va., not as an escaped prisoner, but as one who couldn't give a clear account of himself. His captors halted for tha night on the way to Washington, taking refuge in an old abandoned house, with one of those large stone chimneys so common in Vir? ginia. The windows being all boarded up and one of the guards lying against the door, they thought that sufficient to hold a fancy little "blockade runner," therefore relaxed their vigilance ho much as to sleep. A little fire, smoke and spot were slight impediments to a man like the prisoner. He crawled up the chim? ney, dropped down on the outside, and prisons knew him no more.?Philadel? phia Times. Divorce Easy In Atlanta. The granting of twenty divorces in one day by Fulton Superior Court has attracted attention all over the country. The parties to nineteen of the twenty suits were white. For several years past the proportion of negroes in such cases has been much larger io this community.. Only three husbands were among the twenty plaintiffs. Of the seventeen? wives who sought a separation eight charge drunkenness, though only three alleged habitual drunkenness, which the law of Georgia requires to be proved to gain a divorce. The charge of cruelty is brought in almost every petition. Fail? ure to provide support is alleged in five cases. Two discontented wives use the mild form of "unkiiadness" as the reason why they should be separated from un? congenial lords. One juror voted to divorce a couple after confessing that he bad not heard a word of the evidence. Another juror seemed to forget the fact that the law clearly prescribes the causes which shall be sufficient to procure a di? vorce, and announced that be was in favor of granting one every time it was asked. Nearly all these divorces were granted on "discretionary grounds," and in most of such cases the jury was satis? fied with the unsupported testimony of ' the plaintiff.?Atlanta Constitution. ? The Hon. James S. Speed, who was Attorney General in Lincoln's Cabinet, died at his home, in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, June 28th. He was of an old Kentucky family and was a strong Unionist. It was largely through hia efforts that Kentucky was kept in the ' Union. In December, 1864, President Lincoln appointed Mr. Speed Attorney General. He held the place and dis? charged its onerous duties with signal ability and fidelity during the remainder of Mr. Lincoln's life and a portion of the term of Andrew Johnson, tiL July, 1866. On his retirement from the Cabinet he resumed his legal practice in Louisville. For several years he was one of the Pro* fessora in the Law Department of the Louisville University, and his private legal business was very large. As counsel in an important will case ho made an argument two and a half hours long, said to be the crowning effort in hia career at the Bar. In 1872 and 1876 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention, serving each time on the committee on resolutions. He was also a delegate to the State Republican Con? vention in 1884, and was a warm sup? porter of President Arthur. He refused to support Mr. Blaine when the latter Was nominated, and voted for Mr. Cleve? land, although he had always before been an uncompromising Republican. Old age and general debilty were the causes 'of his death. ? A battle half lost is a battle half won?for the other fellow.