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: BT E. B. MUEEA TU??H^'?OWMN, - Jv,J. <fcrCIJNrISCALES, Editob. .,- %h ? -?? -? . Messrs;'l*vyMartin and B. E. Par tec have bean appointed trustee* to fill v?canci?) in Martin Township. KProf. J. :Mi Lander is appointed to ^ethe^Iace of. his brother, Prof. W. ..^La^ej^^ Board of Trustees for 'Wiiliamston School .District.- Mr. Lan? der does 'well whatever he undertakes/ ;? anitwe con?ntly expect the good work already began by bio brother to be car? ried on to completion. ?~ I ^Miss EmmatL. Cox, of Honea Path * Township, has gone to Greenville Female s College. Miss Cox feels that she ought ,. tcrprepare herself better for the work to 3which she is devoted. Our best w&hes Raffend Miss Emma. - May she t?te a - firm stand in her elaaaes and get all that the College can give her. We now have on hand a Trustees' Becprd Book for every Board of Trustees irr?ihw*<tairity; Will some member of each Board please call at this office and get one. We do hope the trustees will take more interest in (he management of the public schools than has been their custom heretofore. It is getting things down to a fine point when, a trustee gets his own consent to sign pay certificates in the field and that,, too, with a lead pencii. Every Board ought to have at least one regular meeting every month. We fura? h them the books and desire them to do bnsiness in a business like L> waylT^^rifi^^ijWe pains, a neat bonk can fe kepWnd an intelligent report be ma3e^^tbVciose"of tichobl year. The books are so arranged that a complete record of-the transactions of the Board can be kept. Again, we insist that the Secretaries of the Boards call for books sometime daring the month of October - and g*?t ready for business. We are truly glad to hear of the suc? cessful meeting held at Bishop's Branch. Mi*? Newton, the teacher, gives us a very pleasant account of it, and cheers us particularly when she mentions . that subscription taken up for the purpose of putting a new roof on the house. That - . looks like business. - When people get * ?work in a straight-forward way like ^ it means something. And how ' ? teachers have tried a.aim' ^ ^ raising funds fir. the ^^ of their schoo^housesr have70qr patr0q8 been^^^er and shown the con? dition of tbi-^s? Do they really know what a ^ condition the school-house Let us learn a lesson from Miss Newton, and make an effort to get the patrons of each school together at least - once during the session. We congratulate Miss Newton on her efforts to organize a District Association. How easy and how well it would be for " ; the teachers and trustees of a district to meet one Saturday in every month I Nor is it a bad plan to invite the patrons to meet. -Let them attend and see what is being done for the improvement of their children. The trustees have to meet, or ought to meet, once every month to transact the business of their office, and the teachers and patrons, we are sure, would be glad to meet them. It will give, the School Commissioner great pleasure to meet _the Association organ? ized in .toy township. The township association has been tried in Hopewell and Williamston, and has worked well. We w?nld beg to suggest, however, that it might be best to meet on Saturday. The teacher with whom the meeting is held can easily arrange with one. of her classes to be present on Saturday, so that any new plans or methods of instructions may be shown/ After considering the matter well and thoroughly, we are strongly of the opinion that such an arrangement; would work well, and do most heartily recommend it to the teach? ers and trustees of the various townships. :: Beading over the above, we find we have used both the words township and ?district. In this case it matters not, however, since our school districts are conterminous with the townships. I Mr. Editoe: Bi?hop's Branch School opened Aug. 9th. The number of pupils soon became so large that it was neces? sary to put in six new benches. The - house was alive with youthful brains seeking expansion, and innocent souls reaching after the untried and the un .inown. This was a most delightful state of afiaire, but all things earthly must ?pass away, and many of these, though any pupils, were earthly enough to have rtheir nimble fingers summoned to the cotton field. However, after spending six weeks in mathematics and opening ronr next section's work, which happens ?to be geography, we have been greatly built up and encouraged by a public meeting at oar school house, the after - noon of September 23. The school made no attempt, whatever, at an entertain? ment, or exhibition, but opened the ex? ercises by singing; then a report of each pupil's chiss standing during the session was read publicly. After this, a distri ; bution was made of all the essays written and "duplicated since school opened. Trie audience, having scrutinized the essays, next gave attention to a chorus, "On Our Way to School," sung with calisthenics. This was merely an intro? duction of the feature of the meeting? an address by Prof. C. W. Moore, of Central High School. He gave us a . pithy lecture on mathematics, fraught with such valuable information that any synopsis would convey an inadequate idea of its instructive merits. Every teacher in the State would be benefited by reading it. He is willing to encour? age ail teachers and pupils who are trying to help themselves. He promises good help, in our Township Association; so does Mr. J. B. Newton, who will teach ST Liberty. Mr. J. P. Glenn added much to the pleasure of the occa? sion by his genial presence. He favors the Association, and will give valuable aid, having had considerable experience as teacher. Several female teachers in adjoining- townships have expressed a desire to join us if we organize. Now, the weicht" of responsibility resits oh Messnr. W. P. Holland and J. P. Smith, y & co. as we could not organize on account of their absence. If either of these gentle? men will call a meeting of teachers and trustees, a profitable organization can bo formed. The patrons made, good use of the occasion in getting on foot a subscrip? tion for patting a new roof on our house. Teacher. Me. Editoe : In response to your call to teachers who attended the Insti? tute, to gr . some of the benefits which they derive' therefrom, I will attempt to present to the reader? of the Teachers' Column a few of the advantages which I derived. Now, that I attempt it, I find it more easily to appreciate the benefits of the Institute than to express them. In the first place, let me say that contact with such teachers as Drs. Lander and Klemm, Miss Leonard, and Prof. Morri? son, and a knowledge of their ideas of what true teaching is, -make me love the profession more and fill me with a desire to do more faithful work. In fact, I have a more exalted opinion of my work, and feel that! have chosen a profession of which I need not be ashamed. I used to feel differently. I recognize the re? sponsibility, which rests upon me, and am better prepared to take hold of the meth-\ ods and aids which these educators have j found oat, by experience, are the best. I have learned that real teaching doea not consist in how many text books may be crammed in a child in a given time, bat that it consists in leading the child to observe and think for himself, and thus cultivate the faculties and expand his mind. Take for instance Dr. Klemm's lectures on "Concentric Studies." When he showed as so beautifully how it is possible to teach "every branch of study the first year of school," and thus train every faculty of child in unison, instead 'of teaching spelling first term of school reading second, writing third, tTjen "ciphering," and lastly a long '^j. Qf j unnecessary grammar rules, I ^ ^at if I had heard nothing more tlian the8eJ talks I would be amply p^d for tJje time devoted to the Institute. WheD>however) we start with this k;>-,^ of whafc to teach, and add ^ Lander's and Klemm s exj^j^ iUu8tratiDg ^ to teach nurr oerHj ^ Leonard's languages ^80nf,.> and Dr. Klemm's and Prof. ^Tw-rison's talk on school discipline, we ?nink that we can begin our next year's work better prepared to accomplish some good. The Institute has taught me how little I really know. Miss Leonard has shown me that I knew comparatively nothing about teaching language or grammar. Her instructions have not only directed as how to teach it, bat she has given as a practical coarse of study in language, something that we can take hold of. The same may be said of the other teachers in regard to the other branches. In fact the Institute has lifted us out of the old rut and marked oat a better road for. as to travel. Let those of us who were for tu u ate enough to have attended the Institute not allow the wheels of oar instruction to slide back into the old rats. These are some of the benefits of the Institute, but as I stated at the outset, one mast attend a session of the Institute to folly appreciate its advantages. I hope that another year it will be unnecessary for any. one to write up the Institute work, but that all the teachers of the County will go and see for themselves. ' * The House that Jack Built. Thia is the house that Jack built. This is the keg tbat lay. ia the house that Jack built. This is the beer that was pat in the keg that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the man with his pocket shorn, who drank the beer that was put in the keg that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the maiden bright and young, that married th? man with his pocket shorn, who drank the beer tbat was pat in the keg that lay ia the house tbat Jack built. This is the preacher with heart once warm, who married the maiden bright and young, unto the man with his pocket shorn, who drank the beer that was put in the keg that lay in the house tbat Jack built. This is the bottle with contents strong, that seduced the preacher with heart all warm, who married the maiden bright and young unto the man with his pocket shorn, who drank the beer that was pat in the keg tbat lay in the house tbat Jack built. This is the saloon over which we mourn, where was filled the bottle with contents strong, that seduced the preach? er with heart all warm, who married the maiden bright and young, unto the man with his pocket shorn, who drank the beer-that filled the keg that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the voter uninformed, who licensed the saloon' over which men mourn, where was filled the bottle with contents sLrong, that seduced the preach? er with heart all warm, who married tbe maiden bright and young, unto the man with pocket shorn, who drank the beer that filled the keg that lay in the house that Jack built. And this is the Anheuser long since gone, who instructed the voter unin? formed, who licensed tbe saloon, the thing of scorn, where was filled the bottle with contents strong, ? that seduced the preacher with heart all warm, who mar? ried the maiden bright and young, unto tbe man with tbe pocket shorn, who drank the beer that filled the keg tbat lay in the house that Jack built. ? The various New York Labor par? ties are calling each other all the hard names in tbe vocabulary, the bone of contention being the 700 or 800 election inspector? to whom one of tbe so called Labor parties is entitled under the law. There are three of these organizations now?the Union Labor party, the UnUed Labor or Henry George party, and the Progressive Labor party, which nominat? ed John Swinton for secretary of state on Wednesday. Friday was the Swinton party's day before Judge Patterson in Supreme Court chambers. The lawyer who represented .he Progressives said that the "George- party is a mushroom party. Its theories are Mr. George's per? sonal hallucinations." AI INTERESTING TO FARMERS. Capt. D. E. Morris on the Necessity of Diversified Crops. The following interesting and valuable paper was read at the recent Farmers' Encampment at Spartanburg: I appear here, Mr Fressident, in re? sponse to the call that has been made upon me to discuss with you the necessity of diversified agriculture. I take it to be a reasonable duty on the part of every citizen to contribute of his opportunities to the public good, and if, by my appearance here, I may say or do something that will in the least help my brother I shall feel gratified, and at the same time conscious of only doing my duty. Indeed, it affords me peculiar pleasure to affiliate with those in whose bosoms the same aspirations are felt; in whose work the same impulses ar2 quickened, and whose proclivities are^nurtured by the same desires. I take no notice of the fact that one similar occasion we were denied the pleasure of your presence among us, but shall strive in the future as in the past, without soreness or jealousy, to discharge the duties which fall to my lot according to my ability. I appreciate the difficulty of satisfacto? rily discussing this subject. There are so many factors that enter into its con? sideration, such aa exceptional marketing [ facilitities, variation^ if soil and climate, the topography of th - /arm indicated, the profitableness or unprofitableness ot cer? tain crops, w/ith the present necessities of the farm4 as well aB the inherent taste ot bias of the individual; that it is not poss*?ole to lay down any certain rules, or., procedures, or practices. They must necessarily differ in the sands of the low-country, the clays of the mid? dle country and the loams of the up country. Yet, upon the successful practice by our people of an intelligent diversification of crops hangs our individ? ual and collective prosperity. Figures never taught a greater lie than when by their uee it is made apparent that we can buy our provisions cheaper than we can raise them, and in many instances our horses, mules, and other daily necessaries. With a comprehensive diversified agri? cultural system we are in a position to successfully meet the great obstacles that lie in the way of our prosperity. It can be shown that in Egypt for ages the same crops have been annually grown on the same soil, but the revivifying inundations of the Nile are ^ere potent; in Italy and the tide-water lands of our own State a constant succession of grass and grain in the former case and of rice in-the latte^s profitably practiced, but it is owing to the fertilizing influences of irrigation, and in some of the level lands planted in cotton in this State a continu? ed succession of the same crop is not only admissible, but perhaps prudent. These and similar exceptions do not at all lessen the necessity of change of crops on our lands, generally, as a means of soil preservation. The sterility of our soil is the prime cause of our poverty, and withont question nothing in our practice so certainly and rapidly brings on this impoverishment as successive clean crops under our burning suns on undulating lands. When we grow grass and grain, as well as corn and cotton, our lands are not only made to produce renumerative returns in money, but these diversified crops will of themselves improve their fertility, and when manure is applied to each of these crops and cultivation is judicious, the ratio of improvement is suprising. Again a general practice of diversifica? tion would not result in an overwhelming crop of any one kind, glutting the mar? ket, but would tend to keep down disastrous fluctuations in prices. Consid? er also the advantage of varied culture as proven by experience?for instance, a prime hand will cultivate eight acres in cotton and four in corn more easily than he can ten in cotton, and the same labor will cultivate six acres in cotton, six in corn, and four in Bmall grain, thereby greatly economizing that expensive item, labor. We know too well, from bitter experi? ence, how unfortunate it is to placo our dependence upon any one crop; too much or too little rain, rust, worms, low prices or other unpropitious circumstance leaves us at the end of the year dissatisfi? ed, disheartened, ruined. Whilst a judi? cious diversification, which is the true basis of all healthful and permanently prosperous farming, would have likely met the seasons and resulted in compar? ative success. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we fail. Other advantages might be adduced to show the supreme importance of a di? versified agricultural practice generally, bat I hasten to consider the subject as applicable to individual farmers. The true definition of the subject here is quite different from that in the former case. No one man would undertake to grow cotton and jute, wheat and grapes oats and tobacco, barley and silk, rye and wool, rice and pork, corn and grass, sor? ghum and milk, turnips and eggs, fruit and truck a ad the thousand and one products of which our State is capable. The rehearsal dissipates his energies and he is lost in bewilderment, or if one so foolish could be found what would you say of him: 0 man so various, that he seemed to bo Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff In opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long. A diversity of crops is to be commended on every farm, not only to save us from ruin by the failure of any one single crop, but as a means of rotation, which, if rationally practiced, would result in much permanent good to both farm and farmer. Climates and soils, with the immediate necessities of the farmer, however, often modify a system otherwise good. For instance, lands in Orange burg or Barnwell that will yield "1,500 pounds of cotton will do well to give 25 bushels of oats, whilst land in Pickens or Oconee that will yield 50 bushels of oats will not exceed 1,000 pounds of cot? ton. Indeed, the impoverished condition of many of our farmers causes them to ignore a system of rotation and take I TOEKSON, S. C, TH advantage of the above facts, yet it mast be allowed that every farmer is the best judge of the variety of crops Baited to his peculiar circumstances and surroundings. Still, Worthy Master and Mr President, as eternal as any law "writ where stars are lit," let him obey the teachings of dear-bought experience and grow all of those crops which will make his farm self-BUstaining and him independent. Grain and grass, roots, hay and live stock and then all the cotton possible. This practice is altogether practicable, as is evidenced daily by numbers of our successful farmers; it gives a sensible rotation, it provides against the vicissi? tudes of the seasons, it economizes labor and largely offsets the ruinous effects of low prices for any one product. In my humble opinion we have these crops in red spring wheat, rust ? proof oats,potatoes, Indian kaffir and similiar corns, Bermu? da, crab, tall meadow, oat and orchard grass, red and white clover and peas, well bred stock, whether of horses, cattle or hogs, and last, as a strictly money crop, cotton. I take no stock, gentle? men, in the sickly sentiment that is pa? raded by certain writers in agricultural journals against this, our best money crop. In our State, favorable as it is to its production, we cannot dispense with it. It is not cotton versus live stock, grass and the cereals, but cotton, in connection with these branches of diversified agricul? ture. So far as my observation and experience go the attempts to discard its cultivation have proven unhappy failures and at last the mistaken man is forced to acknowledge his error and return to the practice of the best farmers of the State. I do not undervalue the importance of truck farming, dairying, grape and fruit? growing to those who are fortunately near non-producing centres, or have easy and quick communication with larger markets, nor do I feel that I am called upon to discuss these exceptional crops. It is with the average farmer and the standard crops of the State that we are concerned. Whilst wheat and oats, corn, grass, clover, peas, live stock and cotton, with the rotation which their cultivation develops, may not be perfect as a system, I am confident in asserting it as the best known practice of our most successful farmers. Desperate efforts have been made from time to time by individuals, by the State and by the United States, to introduce other crops into our list of profitable ones, but so far with notable failure, with some of the most promising. Tea has been abandoned after stren? uous and expensive efforts have been exhausted to acclimate and otherwise adapt it to our agriculture. Silk has even been an alluring but de? ceptive phantom leading its votaries to disappointment and loss. Tobacco seems to be less profitable than cotton, whilst sorghum, as a source for sugar, has been pronounced by com? petent experimenters so absolutely a failure that it would take a special act of creation to get sugar from it at all. What we require is a more general use of the crops now known to us rather than a multiplication of many doubtful ones. We have profitable crops, both for market and home consumption. If, however, a real want is felt in-this line, I rejoice with you that the State has opened its lethargic eyes to our necessities, and has ordered experimental stations to test for us these untried novelties. But, Mr President and Worthy Master, there is one crop wanted to perfect our agricultural system, and upon its speedy and universal introduction hangs .ery much the material prosperity of our State; that crop is a crop of educated farmers and I appeal to you gentlemen of the two societies, to aid us in our endea? vors to secure to our languishing agricul? ture and impoverished State this crop, which promises to infuse new life into our ranks.. I speak for myself, and for the people whom I have the honor to represent, that it is our highest arm, and from which we will not recede until in South Carolina it is possible for the sons of farmers to receive an agricultural education in keeping with that provided for her other sons; when it will be con? sidered no longer necessary for him to abandon his hereditary calling to pre? serve his dignity, or that of his alma mater. Chivalry of Phil. Kcarny. Our recent correction of the statement about the death of General Phil. Kcarny may create a desire among some of onr readers to know more about him. He was one of the most gallant and chival? rous soldiers ever born on American soil. After his appointment to the 1st U. S. Dragoons from the profession of law he was soon afterward sent by the govern? ment to Europe to report upon French cavalry tactics. He entered the military school at Saumer, went as a volunteer in the chasseurs to Algeria and was awarded the cross of the legion of honor for his conspicuous gallantry. On his return to America he served in the Mexican war, was breveted for gallantry and lost his left arm at the City of Mexico. He again went to Europe, was in the battles of Mageuta and Solferino and was again decorated with the cross of the legion of honor by Napoleon III. At the battle of Seven Pines the Sixth S. C. V. made aB gallant a charge as was ever known in American history. Colonel John Bratton, the commander, was wounded and captured. He gave up his sword to Phil. Kearny and was sent to Fortress Monroe. In a few days the BW,ord was returned by General Kearny who complimented Colonel Bratton upon the gallantry of the Sixth, saying he would not retain the sword of so gallant an officer who had the honor to command so gallant a regiment. He also sent his check for $250 (we believe was the amount) and requested Colonel Bratton to draw on him for such further sums as he might need during his imprisonment. Phil. Kearny did not belong to the Forakcr crowd which is still nursing sectional hate, but he was a true soldier who could and did respect a gallant adversary. We venture to say that no Conferate soldier who fought has to this day ever cherished or expressed an unkind feeling for the dead .soldier.? Abbeville Medium. TJKSDAY MORNING THE CAPTURE OF FLORIDA. Prohibitionists Surprise the Land of Flow? ers. Tallahassee, Fla., September 27.? From Columbia and Baker counties on the north, through Suwannee, Clay, Alachua, Marion, Orange and Sumter to Levy on the Gulf and to Brevard on the Atlantic, the sale of liquor is now pro? hibited, with half a dozen elections on band and more in prospect. This prac? tical sweep of the State by the Prohibi? tionists has been as unexpected as it is complete, mixing up not only the politi? cal parties, but wiping out the color line in Buch a manner as to work confusion to the Blate-makers. That prohibition would ever be reached in this State was never seriously consid? ered. The natives are so far removed from the current movements in the North that they were not supposed to take much interest in it. The negroes have not been in the habit of training with the white leaders. The great travel from the North suggested the advisability of keeping well stocked bar? rooms in order that as much money as possible might be retained here. The temperance workers were unknown and without influence, and when tbey sought such legislation as would permit elec? tions by local option for the suppression of the liquor traffic it was not only readily granted as the easiest method of getting rid of a set of cranks, but these alleged cranks were permitted to frame their own law. This, as will be seen later on, is the cause of wailing and gnashing of teeth among the liquor men today. In half a dozen counties elections were brought on under the local option law. While the political hustings were desert? ed the churches were filled. Strange to say, in this land of bitter hatred between the races, engendered during the Tilden campaign of 1876, white preachers, often accompanied by white female workers, went down into the colored churches and prayed with a vim for the abolition of the liquor traffic. The negroes were at first amazed, and then the amazement turned to pleasure when tbey found that their votes were courted by the whites. Colored men of prominence were appeal? ed to to take their stand not "by" but as "members of the better classes." In other words, the idea was carefully spread forth that "the Lord hath made His people one." The liquor men, on the other hand, relied on the want of interest among the natives, the "cupidity of the Yankee settlers," and the well known love of the negro for liquor to defeat prohibition. Tbey introduced the Texas letter of Jefferson Davis to influ? ence the Ex-Confederates, but this was offset by a letter written by Mr. Davis to a friend in Hamilton County, in which he declared that, while opposed to State prohibition, he believed in the right of every community, acting for itself, to remove nuisances and to promote local order. As the elections passed off, one by one, the liquor men were treated to a series of surprises. Alachua County, a second Congo region, where negroes are as thick as fleas, went dry by a clear negro ma? jority. Orange County, the great centre of Yankee immigration, voted to keep liquor out. The Ex-Confederates of Santa Rosa and Franklin found room under Jeff. Davis's local option letter to save their States rights scruples wbile running out what the preachers charac? terized as "the rum devil." Thus to date fifteen elections have been held, and of these twelve have voted dry, namely : Franklin, Santa Rosa, Suwannee, Baker, Polk, Columbia, Alachua, Marion, Clay, Brevard, Orange, Gadsden and Levy. Three counties failed to give a dry ma? jority, and it ,vas here that the liquor men found how badly they had been euchred by the Prohibitionists in the framing of the law. The Act provides that one-fourth of the voters of a county, by petition to the commissioners, can We an election within thirty days. Y; ion such election is held it is by dis? tricts. If the county should go "wet," but one or two districts should happen to vote dry, they are so declared, notwith? standing the general result in the county. On the other hand, if the county should go dry, but several districts should go "wet," the rule is reversed, and the wet districts are declared "dry." This makes the Prohibition cause an ev.jr-increasing factor. It can always win, but never loses. Other elections are rapidly coming on. Hillsburough County will vote on the 30th, and it is a foregone, conclusion that the Prohibitionists will win. Lee and Pasco counties will vote on the 10th of October, and Bradford will vote four days later. In these counties the anties are practically making no fight, owing to the combination of church, negro, Con? federate and Federal. Petitions for an election are being cir? culated in the county in which St. Au? gustine is situated, and the old Spanish Btronghold will surrender to the ideas of New England. In many other counties petitions are being signed up, so that before the winter is over it is confidently expected that nine-tenths of Florida will be as "dry" as a whistle. The last great fight will be in Jackson? ville, and the Prohibitionists will win. This is owing to a variety of causes. The liquor element in Jacksonville is strong and influential, but it has played a disastrous part in local politics. The boldness of the gambling hells and the houses of prostitution has called down on several occasions the iodignation of the people. They are tired of the efforts of the whiskey ring and its peculiar allies to gain and hold power, and will vote for anythiDg which will cripple the enemy. When Jacksonville shall have been reduced, Florida will still be marshy enough, but exceedingly dry to a man who wants a drink. The Orlando Record, speakiug for the effect of the new law, says: "The strictest observance of the law should now be enforced and no drug stores, barrooms or whiskey selling soda rooms should be allowed to exist. Every good citizen should consider it his bounden duty, no matter how strongly he may have been impressed with the lack of wisdom displayed in voting tbe country dry, to quietly and willingly , OCTOBEE 13, 1881 acquiesce in the decision of the majority of his fellow-citizensjin the matter, and do all in his individual capacity to uphold the officers in the enforcement of the law and the punishment of its viola? tors. Let us have a fair test of its efficacy in order that at the end of its two years' trial we may be able to judge of the effect its enforcement may have upon the moral and material progress of the county. The Record proposes to follow carefully the workings of prohibition in this county, and should its adoption prove beneficial, no more ardent advo? cate or supporter will be found than this paper, while, on the other hand, should the enforcement of these provisions of the local option law retard the progress of Orange County the Record will strenu? ously fight for its abandonment." Had Respect for his Religion. Recently a colored preacher met a deacon of his church in Hartwoll, and the following colloquy ensued: "Look heah, Deacon Jones, whut's dis be been hearin' 'bout you ?" * 'Bout who?" " Bout you." ?Who?-me?" "Yaas, you?dat's what I said." "Me ??'tain't so, I don't care w'at you heard." "I heard dat you went ober de creek to de frolic night befo' las'." "In co'se I went to de frolic?w'at's dat?" "An' I heard f um de moufs ob two or free witness dat you shook yo' boofs." "How's dat?" "I heard dat you danced, Brer Jones, actilly danced, an' you a decon in de chu'ch?how dar" you carry yo' 'ligion to sich a place as dat!" "Stop right dar, Brer Snowdown? who said I carried my 'ligion wid me ? ?dat's a lie?neber dun it. I did dance a set or two, and dat's de God's trufe, but den I neber carried my 'ligion to de frolic; lief it at home." "Neber carried yo' 'ligion wid you ?" " 'Cose not, w'atcber take me for ? I lef it home, I tell you. Don't ketch me carryin' my 'ligion to a dance?Ise got too much respec' for my 'ligion dan dat; ?heeper niggahs do, but dey ain't got no sense, an' deir 'ligion don't 'mount to much nohow, an' dey oughter to be turned out'n de chu'ch." "Dat'a all right, Brer Jones. Ise glad to heah dat you is got so much respec' for yo' 'ligion; but look yer, my good brudder, you better be careful how you leave yo' 'ligion lyin' 'roun' loose?don't mine some t'ieving niggah'll cTJme 'long an' Btek it 'fo' you gits back fum de frolic. Listen to a friendly word of cau? tion fum yo' Pasture, Brer Jones, an' put yo' 'ligion under lock an' key when you lef urn at home. But de bes' way is to stay 'way fum de frolic an' set up wid yo' 'ligion?dat's my 'sperunce, Brer Jones."?Hartwell Sun. The Trap Did the Work. An old widower in this city has a fine patch of turnips, which very few can boast of hereabout on account of the drouth, and he also has a neighbor who is, we believe, a widow. She owns a fine lot of chickens, and they fly over the fence and depredate on the widower's turnip greens. He. expostulated with the lady and begged her to chop her chickens' wings. This she positively refused to do, and the widower set a trap in his turnips, caught several chickens, clipped their wings and threw them ever the fence. The woman didn't like the operation, and she determined to break up the trap. One morning last week she got up while it was dark, scaled the fence and sought for the trap. She found it* and the neighbor soon found her. She was caught in a steel trap, and the way she sent up a most unmusical yell that would have caused a Comanche chief to hide bis head in shame. It aroused that section, and the widower ran out to see what was the matter. He quickly re? lieved her, and the steel trap is gone, but the chickens don't eat his turnip greens any more. They don't speak, either, and she won't look over that way. ?Sumtcr, Ga. Republican. ? Farther experiments in target prac? tice with the Kalinski dynamite gun on Friday were undertaken to Bettle the question whether rapidity of fire could be combined with accuracy. The result showed that ten shells, each carrying fifty-pounds of explosive gelatine, could be discharged in ten minutes and thirty seconds, and that while four of the pro? jectiles failed in the matter of range, going over or falling short, the remaining six would have struck within a space of six yards on the side of a ship. A trial shot with a heavier shell?one corres? ponding to a charge of one hundred pounds of explosive gelatine?was fired for range, and the projectile was sent to a distance of two and a half miles with an initial pressure of less than one thou? sand pounds. ? An unusual scene occurred at the Metropolitan M. E. Church at Washing? ton, Sunday night when the Rev. John P. Newman, in a sermon on "Infidelity," referred in severe terms to the Anarchists. "Could any American citizen," he said, "ten years ago have imagined the circu? lation of a petition to pardon those whose hand3 are red with the blood of the defenders of public peace and safety? What is back of this anarchy, this dare devil movement on the part of those villans who ought to have been hanged long ago.?" At this point many of the audience rose to their feet, clapped their hands and with loud demonstrations an? nounced their approval of the minister's words. ? Volney McVeigh, a tramp, was ar? rested at Indianapolis Thursday night for drunkenness, and was sentenced to the workhouse for ten day. On his way out he told the policeman in charge that he had murdered his wife at Onley, Ills., ten years ago and had fled from the place, thus avoiding arrest. He said he had been a wanderer since, and during the entire time he had been haunted night and day by the memory of his crime. He says he was on his way to Onley to surrender to the authorities when arrest? ed. He appears honest in his statement and the superintendent of police has written to Onley to verify the confession. t 9 Spartanburg Snake Story. From Spartanburg Herald. Mr. Editor : Your paper stated two weeks ago that an uncommon snake viz: a horn snake?was seen on the streets of Spartanburg on Wednesday afternoon. It is a great pity, we think, that it was not preserved and given to some museum, as we do not suppose that there is a specimen of the horn snake to be found in any museum North or South, or anywhere else. The strange stories that are told about it and the fact that Mr. McCravy's testimony in regard to its mode of locomotion when pursuing his mule corroborates what was said about this snake in the early history of our State nearly one hundred years ago, would have made its preservation a valuable contribution to herpotology. Whilst at various times in our life we have seen, and frequently seen, mention made in the papers of quite a number of other kind of snakes, this is the first time we ever remember to have seen the horn snake mentioned. It must be as you say?exceedingly rare?and as this, from its size, was probably a young one, there may possibly be one or more in the neighborhood where this was found. If any of our farmers shou'd come across another we hope for the interests of science the specimen will be preserved. The horn snake, we are informed by some early historians, did exist in Carolina, but was so rare that its existence came to be regarded as almost-a myth. Logan, from whose history of Upper Carolina we will give some facts or extracts, says: ''Around the history of the horned ser? pent there hangs an obscurity which, perhaps, no research will ever fully clear away. Some, indeed, have wholly denied that such a reptile was found on the continent. Others admit its primi? tive existence and describe it as a curious and harmless creature. There are others again who, while they regard it as having once belonged to the catalogue of our native serpents, describe it as possessed of venom whose fatal energy no antidote was ever known i.o master." Baitram, the botanist and naturalist who traversed the upper part of Carolina about the close of the revolutionary war, confounds the horn snake with the bull snake. There were, however, two distinct native serpents of Carolina, both known to the people of the upper country. While they were acquainted with the bull snake, "the old people had seen and talked much of the horn snake also, whose sting they dreaded as the visita? tion of death." Lawson, who traversed the upper part of the State about 1718, says: "Of the horn snakes I never saw but two that I remember. They are like the rattle snake in color, but rather lighter. They hiss exactly like a goose when anything approaches them. They strike at their enemy with their tail and kill whatever they wound with it, which is armed at the end with a horned substance like a cock's spur. This is their weapon. I have j heard it credibly reported by those who said they were eye witnesses that a small locust tree about the thickness of a man's arm, being struck by one of these i snakes at ten o'clock in the morning, then verdant and flourishing, at four j o'clock in the afternoon was dead and the leaves red and withered. Doubtless, be it how it will, they are very venomous. I think the Indians do not pretend to cure the wound." Logan says in refer? ence to the above: "This singular statement of the old surveyor in relation to the locust tree could scarcely have ever come to the knowledge of the good but plain people living on Coronaka and Wilson's creeks; yet there i3 still extant in that region a tradition in which it is related that many years ago a man in the lower part of the district, or in Edgefield, being closely pursued by a horn snake, took refuge behind a tree when the enraged serpent, rolling swiftly after him like a trundled hoop, plunged its horny sting deep into its trunk where it was made fast, and so diffused its venom into the circulating sap as to destroy com? pletely in a few hours the vitality of the tree!" Hewit, in his history of Carolina, written in 1790, enumerates the horn snake among the reptiles, and says it owes its name to the horn like a sting at the extremity of its tail. Mills, in his statistics, also mentions it. The fact that Lawson, in 1718, had only seen two, goes to show that it must have been quite rare i even in the first settlement of the State. If it be as fierce and as deadly a reptile as represented, it should be a matter of thankfulness that it is so rare. We think, however, that it would be very desirable that a specimen should be in j some museum, and sincerely hope that if any of our farmers should ever come across another they will take some pains to preserve it as a curiosity. "On an afternoon nearly forty years ago," says Logan, "a party of gentlemen were riding from Abbeville village toward the Calhoun settlement, and when approaching the place now known as the Cabins, they passed a dwelling near the wayside just at the moment when a little girl, whom they had seen to cross the road some distance before them, gave a piercing shriek and ran back into the house in an agony of pain and fright. Perceiving that something serious had occurred they hastily alighted to ascer? tain the matter ; and entering the room found the child stretched upon the bed and already a corpse. She had lived long enough, however, to whisper to her mother that a snake had struck her while she was in the act of gathering firewood on the roadside. The party instantly sought the spot and there discovered a large specimen of the horn snake which tbey dispatched. The skin of this ser? pent was stuffed and preserved by an intelligent gentleman (Dr. Parker) of that neighborhood; and it was long an object of great curiosity at his residence, and afterwards at Old Cambridge, whore it was last Been." I have penned the above facts down, Mr. Editor, thinking that they might prove interesting to the readers of your paper, and with the hope that they may lead eventually to some museum obtain? ing a specimen of the horned snake before it becomes extinct in South Caro? lina. With much respect, E. F?BMAN WhILUEN. A Thrilling Adventure. "What was the closest place you were ever in, in your frontier experience?" was the conundrum fired by a Chronicle reporter at Captain Jack Crawford, "The Poet Scout." The scout ran his Hogers through his long, black hair, re fleeted a few moments and replied: "Well, I'll tell you, but you musn't give it away in print. It occurred about a year ago, when Geronimo was on the war path with his murderous Apaches. I was out deer hunting near a range of mountains west of my home, and about noon unsaddled my horse on a mesa, or piece of high table land, and after pick* eting the animal out in the grass sat down to eat some cold lunch from my saddle pocket. After finishing the lunch I concluded to let the horse graze for awhile and leisurely strolled out on a long arm of the mesa, the sides of which were very precipitous?a sort of perpendicular wall extending for fully 500 feet to the plain below. "I stood there gazing from the giddy height for several minutes, and then looked up. Imagine the uneasy feeling which crept along my spine when I sew a row of at least thirty painted savages between me and my horse. There I was, utterly unable to defend myself, my rifle and pistols back with my saddle, a great precipice on three sides of me, and that band of Indians in front. To jump over the cliff would be certain death; to rush upon the Indians unarr >d and single handed as certain in result, and if I re? mained where I stood it would be only a matter of a few moments before they would advance and kill me. "I never was worse scared in my life. My blood seemed to freeze in my veins, and my long hair stood up like a ship's masts. To me it seemed there was abso lutelyno escape from sure and terrible death. I observed that the Indians were holding a discussion among themselves, and soon saw them drawing lots. I at once divined their purpose, They had discovered that I was entirely unarmed, and were drawing lots to see which one should advance and dispatch me with a knife. The lot fell to a stalwart warrior with a hideously painted face, and with a long knife in his hand he advanced toward me. "If ever a man made good time in reeling off a prayer I did it just then. I think I must have beaten the record by several points. I thought I knew that I must die, but just when I was about to give up in despair a cold calmness came over me, and I resolved that the fiend should not murder me without a struggle. When be got near me I sprang upon him with the ferocity of a tiger, and we were soon engaged in a desperate hand-to-hand struggle. The savage band stood quietly enjoying the sport, for they knew I had no weapon. During the struggle I observed to my horror that we were near ing the edge of the cliff, and almost be? fore I could realize it the savage grasped me by my long hair, bent me backward, and over we went,-down, down to certain death on the rocks below." "And you fell on top of the Indian and escaped?" "No; the Indian fell on top of me, with fingers still locked in my hair, and over and over vre rolled, clear across the room." "The room ?'' "Yes, the bedroom. You see, it was an ugly dream, and in my desperation I grabbed my wife, and she retaliated by entwining her fingers in my hair. In our desperate struggle we rolled out of bed, and after we awoke my wife held on with her deathlike grip until I had ex plained. Then we both laughed until the echoes stirred up the whole Bio Grande valley, forgave each other, and went back to bed. That was the most desperate fight in which I ever took a hand, but I have been in far more danger ous ones."?SI, Louia Clironicle. Only One Requirement Lacking. An old gentleman of wondefui vigor for one who passed four score years was stopping at Harrowgate. He was a widower and a man of large wealth. Widows as well as maidens enjoyed his society, for he was witty and wise. One day he was introduced to a young lady. After a pleasant chat about a new-comer, the lady remarked? "Are you married ?" ."Ob, no; I am susceptible though!" replied the venerable one. "By the way, my dear young lady," added he, "are you married ?" "I am not," she replied; "and I have made up my mind I never will be unless I can get a good catch?a man with brains and money." "Then," said the old gentleman, "you are after money with a husband. "Well, I've plenty of money, and brains enough to look after it. How would you like such a young man as myself?" "I like you very well. You are sensi? ble and, I believe, rich; but you lack one?just one?only one requirement, so far as I am able to judge." "Well, what is that madam ?" inquired the venerable one. "You do not seem to have a bad cough," she replied. The dazed veteran arose and beat a bastv retreat. Got Them Down Fine. Certain newspaper, doubtless, if they had known, or remembered, that Mr. Murray, the "getter up" of the Murray Bill, had been the first to advocate a State canvass preliminary to the State Nominating Convention, as several of] our State exchanges are now doing, they would most probably have opposed it as the "Murray plan," if for nothing else. Human nature is mighty queer in some people.? Clinton Enterprise, ? It has been decided by a California Court that a real estate deed from hus? band to wife where "love and affection" are named as the consideration is not valid unless there was actually such con* sideration at the time of the transfer. ? The statistics of the ascents of Monte Blanc show that 61 women in all have made the ascent: English women 82, French women 15, Bussian women 4, American women 3, Swiss women 2, and Bussian, Danish, Hungarian, Italien and Austrian, qne each. 1 XXIII.?NO. 14. A Mother's Talk to Boys. "It's well's enough for a boy to bring in wood or coal, and make the fires, bet it's girl's work to cook and wash dishes." Is it? Why? Yon think bo simply be? cause you have always seen such a division of labor, but did you ever think fhat you might be the loser by being shut out from participation in bouse- ? work ? An eminent clergyman once said . to me: "I think we men lose by not being trained in domestic duties. We need to have patience, skill, forethought, attention, ingenuity, helpfulness and forbearance developed in us, as they' would be by taking a part in household labors, and we would also cultivate a spirit of kindness, politeness and consid? eration. It is certainly not quite courte? ous in us to enjoy the dinner prepared by wife or mother, and then thoughtless? ly walk off and leave her to the unpleas? ant task of 'doing up the work.' It would be more manly to do it all, and let her rest." I read not long since, of two ladies who called on the poet Whittier, and he, being alone in the house, pre? pared supper for them with his own , hands. He could not have done that had he never helped at home. There is nothing necessarily unmanly in house? work. In our own land a male cook commands a high salary. In a big hotel his salary is about that of a member of \ Congress. Men who go to the far West and "rough it," in mine or on ranch, find it valuable to know how to [cook. Boys sometimes board themselves while going through college, and unless they understand cook? ery they will not be able to give them? selves wholesome fare. Boys like to camp out, and often they don't want girls around in the way, and to avoid it they should know how to wait on them? selves. In many emergencies, to know how to .3w becomes invaluable to men, as does knowing how to sweep, dust and make a bed. A young man, whose mother was a poor widow, helped at home during his college course. A neighbor once found him rubbing away at the wash-tub, while his mother read moral ? philosophy to him. When he went as a missionary to the Indians, he found all this domestic lore of great value; for if there were no white women to teach the squaws how to keep house, in a civilized way, he could teach them. I know too manly little boys, eleven and thirteen years old, who take care of their own room, make their beds, set table, sweep, dust, wash dishes and assist in cooking. "You are as good as girls," I said io them. "We think we are better; for we can do all that girls can, and all that boys can besides." It does not make boys "Molly Coddles" to know how to do housework. I know a boy who at fifteen can get a nice diuner all alone, make biscuits, fricassee chick- . en, make a pie or a cake; and he can harness a horse, skate, lump or wrestle equal to other boys. He can sew on his own buttons, too. He is planning to own. a ranch some day. Be helpful at home, boys. You can lift many a burden from mother or Bister, while at the same time you are gaining valuable information.? Congregaiionalisl. Bold Bad Bobbers In Texas. Two masked men, with drawn revolv? ers, mounted the cab of the Texas Pacific, of the east bound train, Tuesday .night, as it pulled out of Ben Brook, a small station ten miles west of Fort Woarth. The enginee r was ordered to run the train a few miles from Ben Brook. It stopped on a high trestle, but the engineer was made to run it back again until the ex? press car was off the trestle. Here two. other masked men boarded the train The fireman and engineer were then placed under guard. A dozen shots were fired into the expreus car and door was finally opened by Pacific express messen? ger Maloney. One robber entered and cleared out the safe and then went into the mail car. Messenger Griffith offered no resistance. Every registered letter in the car was secured by the robbers. The work was done in ten minutes and the engineer was ordered to pull out. The ? train was a through express from San Francisco. The booty thus taken is valued at $30,000. The train was robbed on the same trestle last June. Guards were in the passenger coaches, but as they were over the trestle no attempt was made to molest the passengers. There is no trace of the robbers. ? The New York Times says: "Many Southern business men are in New York at present, and they all agree that never at any time in the past has there been .such an era of widespread prosperity among their people as is exhibited now. The abundant new enterprises lately started in the South, they say, are proving remunerative from the start. The last bull market that Wall street had started . in the Southern stocks. The proceeds of this season's great cotton crop are just beginning to be felt, and the Southern "boom" of which the North has heard so much, is according to our visitors, about to take on a new and even a more sub? stantial life." ? The statement of the Paris Gaulo's to the effect that Napoleon's body was never placed in the tomb where it is supposed to lie, causes the London Stand? ard to remark: "It is even doubtful whether the tomb at Mount Vernon holds the body of Washington. At all events, it has been again and again asserted, and proof adduced, that the head was stolen from the first grave in which the founder of the great Republic was laid apd was carried to Paris by a curiosity hunter." ? Shoes among the ancient Jews were made of leather, linen, rush or wood. In England about 1462, the people wore the beaks or points of their shoes so long as to seriously interfere with walking, and they had to tie them up to their knees. Shoes as at present worn were introduced about 1633. ? "It is not the big hog that pays," remarks the Mirror and Farmer. This is very true. The big hog always makes, the other fellows bay. ? What is ancestry, after all? The ' rich man as well as the poor one begins ? life without a shirt to his back.