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BT CLINKSCALE TEjA?HEjR^'CoiiUMN, G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. There is-more truth than poetry in the maxim, "As is the teacher, so is the school." He who takes to a new tbiog simply because of the novelty of. it is* about as foolish ? as" is he who holds to old ideas and customs for no other reason than that they are old. Hiss Nettie Miller reports that she now has a first rate blackboard, all doe to the unremitting efforts of Mr. John AsWeyyone other moat deeply interest? ed patrons. We congratulate Miss Miller and her pupils, and thank Mr. Ashley. X; Miss Miller can now do better work by more than.one hundred per cent. Why V'j can not other schools be supplied in the same way ? 0, for a live, spirited, ener? getic, determined patron in reach of J every school in the county I Miss J essie Smith is doing the best she can at Long Branch. The house is not aa comfortable aa it might and ought to be. These cold windy days are bard on ? the children. Ventillation is necessary, _ ; but it is not necessary to have the cracks and holes about the fire-place too large or too numerous. ?.Miss Smith fights bravely, but must necessarily win her victories against long odds. How easy; would be for the patrons to fix that house some Saturday ? And who would miss the time? It is seldom our lot to visit, a school that gives such evidence of the high . pressure schedule as that furnished by the school at Denver. Every spoke, '* -every bar, every screw, every bolt*is fit to its place, and the machinery moves gracefully. Miss Carrie Watkins knows her....school, and.. they know and lovVher.1 -We would not be extravagant in our remarks or give undue praise, but must be pardoned for the assertion that the Bcbool is second to none in the coun? ty in point of excellence. - At Barker's Creek we fouud no black? board. The house is above the average. Miss Lena Campbell was moving along quietly with her pupils. We were forced to draw our own blackboard from under the seat of our buggy. .The chil - dreu took to it at once. They like it. Ifs a new thing to them. It gives them new light, new life. How eager they seemed to catch every word of instruc? tion, and; how promptly they respond when spoken to! We are glad to learn - that Miss Campbell, has siuce procured a blackboard. Now let the people con tinue to help her by - teaching their children at home?not by teaching them necessarily the lessons assigned them, but by teaching them the great lesson of | obedience. Mr. 0. 0. Burriss was very thoughtful of the interests of hu natrons when he weut out and got their children another accomplished teacher. . That was. very kind indeed! He has Valuable assistance and the pupils dnd patrons -are happy. Cant other teachers do likewise. We were glad to find things .moving so smoothly at Hunter's Spring. Every thing bears an air of neatness and bus? iness. The pupils were prompt, polite, and attentive; the teachers, welded to ? the&wprK^f V . Mr, Burriss tried to add to bis number of blackboards'by painting the wall of his .school-roDtn. He says it looked very pretty, but he soon found out that "things are not what they seem;" for when he attempted to put on a second coat of paint he found to his. surprise and disgUBt that the first was ready to peel off in largo.'flakes. The surface to which the paint 'was -applied "was. too hard and sleek. Mr. Burriss, undaunted by tbe first failure, proposes to change bis tactics and blacken things up, or know tbe reason why. He proposes to have plenty blackboard surface for the Association. Let the teachers go there prepared to spread themselves. ?As we neared Eovefield we heard.the noise of an engine and the unmistakable buzz of a saw-mill. We knew we were near Dovefield and at once concluded that the unsightly old school-house within gun shot almost of the mill had been replaced by a new building such as would reflect credit upon that communi? ty. Not so; the old house holds her own, let come rain, sleet, or sunshine. What a pity that those bright, dovelike children are compelled to stay in such a house! How we do sympathize with them and feel for them I As we write (January 23) the rain, now slowly fall? ing, is freezing as it falls. How are those children Btanding it to day ? Surely the physicians in that country get plenty of work, or the little ones are unusually tough. The house is a disgrace to the settlement, to say the least of it. It al? most makes us shiver now to think of it. We did shiver when there, and it was not rainiug either. MissNorris is-doing the very besf she can under the circum? stances. Our advice to her was to let the children get as close to the fire as possible and let them stay there if she did not teach them one single .thing. Better teach them nothing than to ruin their health and risk their lives. What few facilities Miss Dora has she uses Well; -How long will she be compelled to continue the fight before she can in? duce the people to build her a decent house? We shall advise the trustees to take the matter in band and build a good house there, if the people will not build it. ^ Miss Nettie Hall had- not long been in session wrieh.we called.' She was getting the school machinery fairly under con? trol, however, and was expecting the children.to do good.work. Sh? has tbe good fortune to.occupy a very good bouse at Eo"bw, aud bas.-a first-class black boar&^J^itI -was, a cruel wretch who stole|;|j|fc pictures away during the Chr^^as^oiidays. vSimple pictures of j various.'kinds make a school room more hom&IjklS- -.id -appearance. Miss Hall appreciates'that, fact and had provided herschool-room with a number of neat, pretty pictures, such as cost no body a S & LANGSTON. great deal. The teacher liked them because they seemed to make the chil? dren happier; but unfortunately some? body else liked them, too, for thoy were lifted without much ceremony, and now perhaps hang upon another wall. But the house is a good one, how did the thief get in ? The lock on one of the doors is broken. Did the thief break it? No, no, it was broken a year ago last Christ? mas. The yong people of that commu? nity, we understand, had a dance there then, and at that dance it was broken. Nobody knows who did it, but it was broken. New, I have nothing to say about the propriety of the trustees allow* ing a dance in the school-room, but I do say this : if I were one of the young men who participated in that dance, whether I had any thing to do with the breaking of the lock or not, I would have a new lock put on that door. Every young man who was there, however, in? nocent he may be individually, is parti ceps criminis,. and should feel honor bound to replace the lock. Let the manhood that is in the young men assert itself by forcing them to go at once and replace the lock, though the door has been without one for more than twelve months. If the young men will not replace 'he lock, let the trustees do it, and look v. ell to the school house dances in the future.. TEACHERS' LIBRARY. We give below a list of those teachers who have responded to the call for con? tributions to the Teachers'Library Fund. S. Lander, Williamston Female College ; A. J. Watt, New Prospect; Miss Lela Brown, Ridge way; '7'. G. Sterling, Mid? way ; J. P. Smith' iSquality; Miss Net-; tie Hall,. En voice.; W. E. Earle, Moun? tain Creek; Miss Lizzie Anderson, High Shoals; Miss A. K. Major, Broadway; Miss Olivia Newton, Bishop's Branch; S. H. Johnson, Cleveland; Miss F. E. McClain, Tucker's Croasj/Roads; W. J. Compton, Double Sprinl?; Miss L. J. Drake, Ebeneza; E. J. Brown, White field ; W. P. Holland, Lebanon; Mrs. G. E. ? Spearman, Corner. Mr. W. E. Brazeale, once a teacher in this county and a very active member of the Associ? ation, the day before he left to take charge of the High School at Trenton came in and handed us a dollar, saying be approved of the plan, and, though he could not avail himself of the advantages it offers to the teachers of Anderson Coun? ty, he desired to contribute his quota for the interest be felt in the Buccess of the enterprise. We take the liberty of ex? tending to Mr. Brazeale the thanks of the entire Association for this act of thoughtfulness and for his good will of which the contribution will be a constant reminder. He will take with him to his new field of labor our best wishes. One of our teachers in a note Bays, "I am highly pleased, indeed delighted, with the book; I have read some parts of it two or three times and must read them again. Surely there can not be another book in the Library that will give me* so much help and so much food for thought." ' Remember, our books are still open for subscriptions. This Library is for the benefit of those who help pay for it. Going Courting. One of the chief compensations of a woman's life is found in the fact that she doesn't have to "go a courting." It must be confessed-that in these days the modern belle does her share of the. wooing:; but she does not have to dress up in a stiff collar and a pair of boots a size too small for her, and walk up to the cannon's mouth of her inamorata's-family, con? sisting of father, mother, grandmother, a maiden aunt, aud perhaps a dozen brothers and sisters, and inquire, in a trembling voice: "Is Miss Arabella at home?" Whenever a man goes-a courting everybody seems to-know all about it. His demeanor tells the observant specta? tor the business he is intent upon. He might as ..well placard himself. "I'm going courting." Everybody is cogniz? ant of it, and looks knowingly, and asks him if the "Northern lights were bright last night about one o'clock, and how the market is for kerosene at Daddy Brown's.!" and a score of other questions' out ot place. We know a man who is deeply and we trust successfully engaged in going court? ing, and our warmest sympathies have been extended towards him. When Sun? day afternoon arrives, it is plain that something is about to happen. He is fidgety and non-communicative and can? not sit in one. place half a minute at a time, he is continually interviewing his watch and comparing it with the old eight day, coffin-shaped chick in the corner. He looks in theglass frequently, and draws his forward locks back and then forward, and combs them up and pats them down, and is unsatisfied with the effect throughout. The smell of bay rum and bergamot is painfully apparent. When he shakes bis handkerchief, musk is perceptible. His boots shine like mirrors, and there is a faint smell of cardamon seed in bis breath when be yawns. He smooths his budding mustache with affectionate pats, and bis invisible side whiskers continu? ally to make sure they are there, a fact which is not established to outside observer* by sense of Bight. He tries on all his neck-ties without finding-just the thing be wants. Then he has spasms of brushing his coat, that commence with ! violence and last until one grows nervous for fear the broadcloth will not be able to stand the friction. He declines soup that day for dinner. He says it is because he is not hungry, but we know it is because there are onions in it, and onions, as every one knows, do not sweeten one's breath to any great extent. If spoken to suddenly be starts, and blushes, and looks as if he was stealing something, and directly if one does not speak to him he goes back to the delight? ful occupation of staring at nothing and waiting for the hour- to sweep around to seven.?Ex. ? "Don't trouble yourself to stretch your mouth any wider," said a dentist to his patient: "I intend'to stand outside to draw your tooth." EDEN'S FINAL DRAMA. BY BISHOP J. C. KEENER, D. D. I see that you keep yourself in proper equipoise, Mr. Editor, despite the advice pressed upon you from several quarters that you should carefully "read between the lines" of what has been suggested in respect to the site of Eden. But when critics encourage and protect each other, is it not plain that the atmosphere of this fascinating theme has imparted to them somewhat of "the time of man's inno cency"? But wo can patiently afford to be advised, for we have at last secured a firm footing on the banks of tbe Ashley ?the first that has been found for cen? turies? upon the fossilized relics of the Original Home of Man. Here we can make a stand for tbe Mosaic record against the speculations of those Cos mogonists who toss tbe history of crea? tion about as kitten plays with a ball. These relics tell a wonderful, story. As far back as 1850 Professor Agassiz pro? nounced the remains of marine vertebrata in the Charleston basin to be "the greatest cemetery he ever saw." And Prof. Tuomey's Report said: "the most remarkable feature of the fauna of the period of the deposition of these beds was the vast number of cartilagenous fishes. It would seem as if about the close of tbe Eocine period these voracious monaters, conscious of their approaching end, had congregated here to die." At that time but few specimens of the remains of quadrupeds had been found upon the Ashley. Collectors had been searching in tbe marl beds, not iu the overlying beds. Since then a vast deposit has been uncovered of fossilized bones and teeth of mastodon, megatheri? um, dinotherium, elephant, deer, horse, cow, hog, muskrat, intermingled with the remains of marine animals and phos? phate nodules. These phosphate rocks and fossils lie intermingled but two or three feet below the surface and nearly parallel with it, extending over many miles, yielding an average of over six hundred tons to the acre. They contain sixty per cent, of "bone phosphate." The working of these beds has come to be an industry of amazing proportions. As much as 432, 757 tons have been taken out and ship? ped this present year, and during the past eight years the enormous sum of two million three hundred and forty-six thousand one hundred forty three tons. The whole tonage of lake, river and ocean steamers in the United States is 1,221,206 tons. So that the product of these Carolina beds would have loaded them twice over with full freights. Large ships and steamers and fleets of dredges and fiats are employed in the working and exportation of this fossil and phosphate wealth. Millions of dol? lars have aheady been realized from this burial place of tbe antediluvian world. The beds are exhaustless; far more so than the Siberian deposits of gigantic elephants, great as they have proved to be. We naturally inquire, Where did this mass of bones come from ? They once lived. How did these herbivorous and carnivorous herds meet together; these marine and land creatures ? What sound called them? They must have lived together, to have been buried together. How is it that the more domestic animals, which are always found on the outskirts of men, if not with them, are also mixed with these saurians as well as with the huge mam? malia? How came it that they all sleep high and dry, near tbe very latest forma? tion and within three feet of tbe earth's surface? Nor could they possibly have been floated here. They are in situ "in place;" where they fell, there they lie. Had such a float started from the shores of Europe, it must have speedily been strewn over tbe waves and found its rest in ten thousand distinct' burial places at the bottom of the ocean. On the other band, how could the huge, 8wollen car? casses of quadrupeds have been detained in one spot until their remains could form an evenly disposed stratum and be covered over by red and yellow soil ? The Noachian flood doubtless did its share of the work, and that quickly, with these and all air-breathing creatures that inhabit the land. Yet in these mighty records, which no mind, however specu? lative, can afford to pass by, there is dis? closed a history which must have pre? ceded that universal disaster. As these creatures of field and flood were widely scattered over the waters and the estuariea of tbe continent, not only for substinence, but by the laws of their distinct natures, the imagination of man cannot supply a satisfactory theory for their simultaneous herding just before the instant of their destruction. Within a limited area, who heard the first mut terings of the universal storm and were near by on the hills would eeek shelter in grots and caverns, in company with man himself. But the action was too rapid, too wide, and, in the nature of such overflow and such pluvial torrents, after the first half hour there was no opportunity afforded man or beast for flight. So, whatever means was employ? ed for massing these herds, it must have preceded the flood by many weeks or months. The buffalo slowly started its long lines of movement and came in thou? sands to the appointed place of rendez? vous. The huge bulls and cows of the mastodon and tbe elephant took up their stately march as to a funeral; the elk of vast strength and width of antler; the light-footed deer; the lion, with lordly gait erect, one of God's police; the cau? tious, soft stepping tiger, his rage for blood hidden behind the beauty of his skin; and all the lesser tribes of crea? tures?the boar with foam upon his tusk; the furtive wolf, now walking meekly in line with flocks of fleecy sheep; the bearded goat, with port of dynasties unborn; last of all, the horse, with quivering life restrained?all these and many more, aa if by precon? certed signal, conveyed to tbe one cen? tre. Why not? They were about to leave their bones, at the bidding of their Maker, upon the plains of earth, or else to contribute the noblest of their kind to a world that should come after. Doubtless instinct had brought the FDERSON, S. C, TH older individuals of them more than once back to the first centre of animal life to enjoy its salt licks and its luxuri? ant herbage, well charged with grateful phosphates, until the motion of herds had marked traces and lines of travel reaching far away from the precincts of Eden to distant pasture grounds. Along with these there could have been seen flocks of birds stretching their flight from every quarter of the heavens. The wavy columns of the snow-white swan, crimson-plumed flamingoes, screaming eagles with light devouring eye; the strong-winged goose, filling the Bky in his flight with claricn call; the brilliant, noisy parrot; the richly colored bird of Paradise; the tiny hum? ming bird, as flecks of sunshine waltzing with the flowers; the peacock, trailing bis gorgeous wealth, and pigeons swift of I wing, ever at the service of man, and among them the very one that by and by brought out of the ocean's waste an olive leaf! These lighted, or rose or circled over these beautiful plains of tropical verdure, doited with islands of richly laden fruit trees and forest growth that still remained to man. We can scarcely surpass the truth in trying to paint the life and color of this part of the home of the race, originally planted by God with every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as it gleamed under the golden haze of its setting glory. Nor of the event about to transpire would it be possible to sur? pass the reality in attempting to realize the minute ordering and preparation which the Divine presence outlined in His direction to Noab. And when the final hour came everything was ready and went forward as if by the exact weight and measure of a creative pur? pose. The extended plain and surrounding hills of Western Eden formed a shallow basin, destined presently to become the scene of the great catastrophe and the recorded evidence of the truth of sacred history. Through the centre of this fer? tile plain there ran Eastward a clear, wide stream. The Eastern entrance to it was bounded by a cliff, whose walls rose sheer like those of Yosemite, and whose heights were crowned with beetling crags of opal, amethyst, emerald, sapphire and chrysoprasus?the angel-guarded romparts of Paradise, where, it was thought, might be seen at sunrise and at sunset the sword of the cherubim shoot? ing its lineB of fire far out on every side. And when the night set in, the fire of God,.in jagged maze, flashed continuous behind the clouds that circled its top. And at the deep hour of midnight some heard the wheels of a thousand chariots, spirit driven, raging round its heights; but others heard a thousand golden lutes with pipe organ pipes, and, at intervals, voices crying, "Holy ! Holy 1 Holy 1" On the opposite side of this entrance was the crystal rapids of the "arrow swift" Hiddekel, making its way East? ward to the sea, presently to be parted into "four heads." Between the river and the cliff lay the route of the vast panorama that presently started for the ark. Doubtless numerous parties of armed herdsmen, mechanics and thousands of others came from the neighboring port to see this marvelous gathering of beasts and birds, who presently saw the inspired procession of life?wild and tame?a9 it moved Eastward in majestic tread and order, self-segregated and self divided into bands of sixteeus and fours; the great males in front and the females fol? lowing and lowing for their young now left behind forever. The primeval year commenced about the nearest uew moon to the Autumnal equinox. The raios began the 17th of the second month, say about the 8th of November. On the 1st day of November, by the command of God, Noah began to take in the live part of his cargo. The stream of moving beasts and flocks continued for one week. The birds circled in from above, all excepting the firm stepping ostrich, who went in by the gangway, until the three decks of the mighty craft were securely stowed and the hatches fastened down. It was on Friday that the labor of the week ended, yes, of a hundred years. Noah had placed his wife and sons and sons' wives on board. As a preacher of righteous? ness, he bad warned the vast crowds that from time to time gathered to see the world-famed structure, and, as they thought, the immeasurable folly of an old man's life. The Spirit of Christ was with him, until one window after another of the proffered mercy closed upon them and judgment alone remained. Meanwhile, though stunned by the silent column of creatures which myste? riously confirmed the warning, yet, as the sun never shone fairer nor was the earth ever more solid under the tread of daily life, they rallied each other with timbrel and dance near the ark until the very day that Noah entered it, and up to the very hour when its door was secured by the Divine hand. Then in a few momenta after, the wind moaned, the sky darkened and nature gave signs pf universal distress. The tornado was already on the wing; all around its dark nipples lowered. The crash came; floods fell in huge water? spouts ; the sea came in ; the waters rose thirty feet in an hour, and so continued every hour for forty days and forty nights. The work of death was swift. All that breathed the air only died, old and young, man and beast from the mas? todon to the mole. For the most part they were choked where they etood, not knowing whither to escape from the all surrounding waveB. Presently marine monsters, the huge carnivorous saurian and the yet more terrific shark, were borne in. The color and scent of blood brought them in shoals. They found the feast prepared for them, upon which they gorged and fattened month by month. In two hours the plains of Eden became a lake cover? ed with the bodies of quadrupeds, birds and men. The cutting dorsal fin of gigantic sharks flashed everywhere, leaving behind them a crimson wake. Huge land Carnivora and sea monsters closed in the unequal death grapple. Every hour brought in fresh schools of saurian squadrons, sea lions and huge i crocodiles. Here they stayed and fat ?RSDAY MORNINC tened upon flesh, and the Eden of man became tbe habitat of gigantic creatures of the sea. When by and by the ark grounded upon the Ararat, then the waters of the flood retired more swiftly than they rose. The vast congregation of sea monsters, detained too long upon the feeding grounds, were at the last stranded by the rapid exit of the water. They, too, must needs encounter the death struggle at the end of the catastrophe, as the creatures of the land bad at its beginning. All their bones were mingled together and formed the greatest of cemeteries on tbe banks of the Ashley. It was probably at this period of recon? struction and subsidence that the high plateau itself of Eastern Eden, the parterre of heaven, with its groves of glory, where Adam and Eve ate and drank before God, now disappeared, with the other features of that part of Eden, Havilah, Ethiopia, the "Cedam" Assyria, circled and watered with rivers; those streams whose sands were gold and pearls and gems, all, all disappeared, leaving us only their memories and their names. It could no longer now be said ''the nearer the ark tbe nearer to Paradise," for the ark rested on a far distant shore where, in the Orient, the world began anew; with new divisions of the human race and of human language, and new centres of animal life. To us only Wes? tern Eden remained. Suicide With Explosives. The suicide of the Anarchist Lingg by means of a detonator exploded in his mouth is not the first self-murder of its kind. Tbe annual reports of Col Majen die and his colleagues contain several instances of suicide by a similar use of explosives. Thus, in 1876, a native of Alsace put a dynamite cartridge in his mouth and fired it, with tbe result of blowing bis head and the upper part of his body to pieces. In June the same year, at Wickham Market in Suffolk, a woman named Solo? mon, the wife of an oil merchant, pur? chased a quantity of gunpowder, and, having made a circle of it and placed herself in the midst she fired tbe powder. The experiment was unsuccessful; only slight injuries were inflicted upon the woman. Thereupon she went to an out? house, and, putting a quantity of gun? powder into a pail, placed herself over the bucket and applied a match. On this occasion her injuries were more severe, but her purpose was again a failure, and she hacked at her throat with a knife. She was found in a most lam? entable condition, and died next day. . At Nittsbill in Scotland, In October of the same year, a miner named Duncan obtained some dynamite and blasting fuse and went into tbe street, where he placed tbe dynamite on tbe ground, leaned over it and lighted the fuse. At this moment some boys, attracted by his unusual atti? tude, came toward him. "Keep back," shouted Duncan, "for the love of God, or you will be blown into eternity I" The boys stood aloof; in a few moments there was a loud oxplosion, and Duncan was blown to atoms. In September, 1881, a miner at Buncorn, filled his mouth with gunpowder, ignited it with a match, and succeeded in blowing the top of his head off. An almost identical instance occur ed in 1883 at Canterbury, when a waiter named Simmons de3troyed himself by exploding gunpowder in his mouth. A more elaborate application of ex? plosives to the purposes of suicide and murder combined was recorded the same year. At Dunedin, New Zealand, a clerk named Stephenson, who had been separ? ated from his wife ior some time on account of drunkennees, met her in the street and exploded a dynamite cartridge closed to her head, his own head being placed at the same moment very near to hers. Both were almost completely blown off. In the year 1884 three suteides of this sort were recorded. One was committed in June at Munich by a soldier of the Bavarian field artillery, who had miscon? ducted himself and- wished to avoid pun? ishment. He loaded a cannon with some guopowder and pieces of iron,.and, plac? ing himself in front of it, fired it. Another case occurred in the Buis di Boulogne the same month, when a man blew himself to pieces by exploding an iron box capable of containing about ten pounds of gunpowder. But the most remarkable case occurred on the west coast of Africa. The King of Falaha being attacked by a Mohammedan force, and finding resistenco impossible, he assembled bis family and principal offi? cers, and after addressing them and intimating his determination never to accept Mohammedanism, and inviting those who did not agree with him to go away, he applied a light to a large quan? tity of gunpowder collected for the pur? pose, and blew the palace and all v. ho were in it to pieces.?Si. James Gatetle. Married to his Aunt. Washington, Ga., Jan. 24.?Quite a sensational marriage took place here last Saturday, about 12 o'clock, in the Court House. Mr. E. B. Jones, a young man about twenty one years old, was married to his aunt, Miss Lula Jonee, who looks to be about thirty-five years of age. They ran away from home in this county and came to this place, where they procured license, and were married by Judge Sea, as above stated. Mr. Curran Jones, a respectable fanner of this county, and father of the groom, also brother of the bride, was in Wash? ington yesterday in pursuit of the runa? way couple. They left immediately after the marriage, and nothing has been heard from them since their departure. Mr. Jones, the father, deeply deplores the occurrence. He says he was surprised beyood measure, having never once thought of such a thing happening. ? Three million women in the United States are working for wages. The man who ca'hnot marry rich may at leastaecure a wife whoso wages will make his home happy. ? The pleasure of the world are very deceitful. They promise more than they give; they trouble us in seeking them; they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair when I losing them. }, 'FEBRUARY 2, 186 BILL ARP. Ho Comes Homo Unexpectedly at Mid? night. From the Atlanta Constitution. I got home away in the night, when deep sleep falleth upon a man, and especially a woman. The doors are never locked when I am at home, for Mrs. Arp has confidence in me. She calls me her bulwark?her tower of strength. But when I am gone she locks and bars the docs and fastens the windows, and dreams of Charley Ross and Tom Wool folk. She knows my footfall upon the piazza, but I tiptoed this time and tapped geutly at the door. "Who is that?" said she. "It's me," said I; "your bul? wark?your tower." "I don't believe it," said she; "it's some tramp?you said you were not coming till to morrow night." "I couldn't stay away from you that long," said I. She lighted a candle ?she always keeps one at the head of her bed?and before she opened the door said, "Now, William, are you sure it's you? I was in hopes it was Ralph. He hasen't been home for two months nor written a line for three weeks, and I'm afraid the poor boy is sick." (You see I'm no kin to her, but Ralph is.) "Open the door, if you please," said I; "it is cold out here." She stirred around awhile, and waked up Carl and Jessie, and they all came running to the door together, and we embraced and kissed and were happy again. When I am away, Mrs. Arp says it nearly kills her to gel up out of a warm bed at daybreak and unlock the door for Ned to come in and make a fire; and so I have had an iron latch made and fastened a cord to one end, and the cord goes through a pulley in the ceiling over the door, and another pulley right over the head of her bed, and comes down to tbe pillow where the angel is sleeping, and now, when Ned knoeks at tbe door, she don't have to get up at all. Well, we talked and exchanged nil the news, and I learned that the wood was getting low and the cow wasn't doing well, and the milk wouldn't turn in the churn, and some? body had broken tbe peafowl's leg. "What about the school?" said I to tbe children. "How do you like the new teacher?" "Oh, we like him," said Jessie. "He is just as nice as he can be. I believe he is as good as Mr. Mobley was," "How do you like him, Carl?" said I. "Papa, he has given me two marks already," said Carl, "and it was just for talking a little, and he says when a boy gets ten marks he whips him and then rubs out tbe slate and begins again. Papa, do you reckon he means it?" "Why, of course," said I. "You know th6 rules and you must not break them." "But Mr. Mobley let us talk a little," said he. "Well, my boy, if I was a teacher the boys would have to conform to my rules or quit the school. The teacher's rules are all for your good. Yon don't think he just naturally wants to whip you, do you ?" "No, sir," said he. "I like him. He is a good teacher and treats us all alike, but I thought be might let us whisper a little sometimes? it just looks like I can't help it." And the boy snuggled up to me in the bed and put his arm around me like he didu't have another friend in the wide world. What a world o'f memories it awakened. I used to get whippings at school and they hurt?hurt awful bad?for whip? pings in those days were in earnest. They meant business and reform. My mother could tell when I had been pun? ished? tell by my subdued look, and one time when she thought I was asleep she uncovered me and looked at the red marks on my legs and she leaned over and kissed me and I felt a tear drop upon my cheek. But my father had been a school teacher and he said it was right. One lime I had a big boil somewhere on the suburbs and I begged the teacher not to whip me on my "bile," but I reckon he didn't believe I had one for he bursted it with a center shot and liked to have killed me. He was sorry for me and honeyed me up, hut I went homo and my mother cried and father looked sad and solemn and asked what he whipped ine for. I told him that I rung the bell j before the teacher got there, and another boy told on me. Long afterwards, I learned that my father was mad, and talked to the teacher, but he never let me know it, nor stopped me from school. ! When there is no meanness in a boy's mischief, I think the whipping should be light. Come down heavy like you was killing him, but slack up just before you get there. One morning early, Jim Wilson and I got on a table and broke off the nail whereon Mr. Norton always hung his hat. He was a tall man, and the nail was as high as he could roach. When he came we were all in our places, and as he looked round and said, "order," we bent to our books with tbe usual alacrity. Then he approached the wall, and with great dignity hung his hat upon the accustomed nail. He thought he did, but it fell to the floor, and I said "te-he," and the other boys snickered a little. He picked up the beaver and brushed it with his red bandana and once more hung it upon the nail and down it came again. He never wore spectacles except to mend the pens or set a copy, and without them it loo' \ lik'e the nail was there. As the hat struck the floor and rolled around, Jim Wilson said, "te he, to he," and I was holding my mouth, but it exploded like a squirt gun. The teacher took out his spectacle case and put on his specks, and as he tip toed and gazed at the broken nail Jim and I were choking back the cachination with a strain. Seizing his hickory he came towering over us as he exclaimed: "You are the very rascals that broke that nail." I thought he was going to c.ut us in two and shrank up small, but he come down just as light and gentle as a sucking dove. I saw a merry twinkle in his eye as he said, "now I reckon you will let my hat nail alone after this." And we did, and loved him all the better for his tenderness. But the teachers must be sustained, and nine times out of ten they are right. I knew a case whero a bad boy fought a teacher, and in the fight the boy got bruised up and went home aud went to bed and a doctor was sent for and a big fuss raised. Court was in session, and the father went to the grand jury and got a true bill, and the teacher was 58. arrested and tried right on the excite? ment, and was convicted and fined. He was one of the beat teachers the town ever had, and it mortified him so he moved away. I learned afterward that the boy was in a nabor's orchard stealing peaches the next day after he got the whipping. There is a power of original ,sin and acquired cussedness in some boys and nothing but corporal punishment will bring it out. It is like measles; if it strikes in and stays there the boy is ruined. Better bring it to the surface by a little gentle irritation of the cuticle, and thereby save the boy's life. As a general rule, parents are perfectly willing for other people's children to be whipped. You never hear a schoolboy say that the teacher did wrong in whipping some other boy. Teachers and preachers are the preservers of the public morale. It takes both to keep the world out of jail, and I am on their side always and every? where.* Take the teachers and preachers out of Carteraville and I would move away quick. I feel their good influence over my children. But a teacher should teach something more than books. He ahould teach morality, obedience to pa? rents, honesty, truth and kindness. He can inculcate these virtues every day without losing any time, and the children will never forget .it. My objection to public free schools is their frigidity? their lack of heart. They teach nothing but books, and hence it is that crime in? creases at the north in proportion to education. . Ten bad boys in a public school will contaminate a hundred, un? less the teacher stops it by constant pre cept. About half the children in the public schools have but little moral training at home. They just grow up and take their chances, and by and by they bring the grief that has no remedy ?grief that cannot be seen, or weighed, or measured-grief that is a cloud by day and hovers around in the daik watches of the night?grief that is a fountain of hot tears, and if they were expanded;into steam the scalding vapor would fill the world. Oh, the grief?the silent, pitiless grief?that comes from wayward, disobedience, ungrateful cbil dren. How few of the households that have it not. It began with Adam and Eve and is here yet. Bill Akp. A Doable Death. St. Augustine, Fla., Jan, 20?There is considerable excitement in a suburb, some five miles out, over the death of A. D. Smith. Last Monday he died to all appearances, after calmly bidding adieu to his heart-broken wife. He was then pre? pared for the grave and Tuesday prepara? tions were made for the burial. In the midst of the services a thumping in the coffin was heard. Its cover was burst off and Mr. Smith sat up, causing great consternation and dismay. He waa at once removed to his bed at home, and in a few hours he seemed none the worse for-hia strange experience. He sayB he went to heaven and saw many white spirits, some of them friends whom he had known on earth. They shook their heads in answer to bia queations and pointed to a big book lying open. He looked at it, and saw written there the names of his wife, him? self and his children who were alive. Hia name, he said, seemed partially erased. He told a wondroua story of his other experience in that strange world, and its recital drew acore8 of curiosity aeekers to his home. Wednesday night he suddenly called out, "I see them," and fell back dead. His wife was completely prostrated at this -terrible ending to her hope?. Medical aid was summoned, and an electric bat? tery applied, but the doctors finally de? cided that the man was indeed dead this time. Last night the grief stricken wife left for her old Georgia home near Atlanta with the body. Farming in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., Jan, 18.?The report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia for 1887 shows a decrease from 18SG in the amount of farm supplies pur? chased by the farmers, as well as in the indebtedness of the farming classes, owing to the damaging floods last July. There is no improvement in the general condi? tion of Middle Georgia, but North and East Georgia have improved somewhat, while Southwest Georgia remains at a standstill, and the southeastern counties have retrograded to some extent. "It ia a remarkable fact, however," aaya Com? missioner Henderson, "that the farmers in Southeast Georgia and throughout the wire grass portion of the State gener? ally for years past have been in better condition than those of the remainder of the State." The report also shows that farmers who have bought bacon and corn on time have paid 30 per cent, advance on cost prices for bacon for four months, equivalent to 00 per cent, per annum, or 7$ per cent, per month, and 36 per cent, for corn, equal to 108 per cent, per an? num or 9 per cent, per month. The Commissioner says these figures have been published for ten yeara past and yet thousands of farmers continue to pay the excessive prices. The falling off in the purchase of sup? plies indicates that the farmers are giv? ing more attention to diversified crops. The improvement in this respect though small ia gratifying and justifies the hope that it will be much more marked in the near future. The farmers will get further and further away from the credit system by giving more attention to the produc? tion of such supplies as they can produce at home. The credit system keeps them poor. ? A lady teacher of music out west inserted her professional card in one of the county newspapers. It was seen by an old lover in Chicago, who at once hunted her up, explained his absence of a quarter of a century and married her. It pays to advertise. ? A physician, a few weeks since, giving us an account of the decline of a church in his town, said it had died of the "foot and mouth disease." Being asked what he meant, said that the peo? ple spent their time "running around talking about each other." VOLUMI "THE CODE OF HONOR." Dr. Jus. IT. Charlhle in St. I/>uis Christian Advocate. About fifty years ago, two South Caro? linians faced each other on the duelling ground. Col. John L. Wilson c*me from the field unhurt, while his antagonist re? ceived a flesh wound. Wilson was en? gaged at different times in three duels, in each of which he wounded his opponent, in no case fatally. He was never wound? ed. On the occasion referred to above, soon after firing, he saw a bloody spot on the white vest of his adversary. This thought at once rushed into his mind vividly, "I have killed him ! Was this a real necessity? If my seconds had done their whole duty, perhaps this might have been avoided." Before leaving the ground he resolved to draw up rules for the management of "affairs of honor," which might prevent inexperienced seconds from precipitating dueis. This purpose was at once carried out, and " Wilson's American Cede of Honor" was the result. This code for maoy years was recognized as the leading authority among duellists in the South. Now it has only an historic interest. We may hope that it will never again be consulted on the ground by two men seeking each other's lives. Our readers may take for granted that we have no tears to shed over the custom which has now passed away. Nor do we mean to engage in the easy task of "thrice slaying the slain." We wish to see if the Duellist's Code of Honer may not have a lesson for us still. Governor Wilson (the author of the code was Governor of our Slate, 1822-24), says in the preface: "To publish a Code of Honor to govern in cases of individual combat might seem to imply that the publisher was an advocate of duelling, and wishes to introduce it as the proper mode of deciding all personal difficulties and misunderstandings. Such implica? tion would do me great injustice." He also says: "I would inculcate in the ris? ing generation a spirit of lofty independ? ence. I would have them taught chat nothing was more derogatory to the honor of a gentleman than to wound the feelings of any one, however humble. That, if wrong be done to another, it was more an'act of heroism and bravery to repair the injury than to persist in error and enter into mortal combat with the injured party. That this would be an aggravation of that which was already odious, and would put him without the pale of all decent society and honorable men. I would strongly inculcate the propriety of being tender of the feelibgs of those around bim. I would teach immutable.integrity and uniform urbani? ty of manners. Scrupulously to guard individual honor by a high personal self respect and the practice of every com? mendable virtue. Once let such a system of education be universal and we should seldom hear,' if ever, of any more duel? ing." "I believe that nine duels out of ten, if not ninetyrnioe out of a hundred, originate in the want of experience in the seconds." It is but fair to credit the authors with an honest desire to lessen the number of duels. He used to claim that he had prevented more duels than any man of his day in the State. We quote a few passages which arc certainly good as far as they go: "Whenever you believe you are insult? ed, if the insult be in public and by words or behavior, never resent it there, if you have selfcommand enough to avoid notic? ing it. * * * * When you believe yourself aggrieved, be silent on the sub? ject, speak to no one about the matter, . and see your friend who is to act for you as soon as possible. * * * * Never send a challenge in the first instance, for that precludes all negotiation. Let your note be in the language of a gentleman, and let the subject-matter of complaint be truly and fairly set forth, cautiously, avoiding attributing to the adverse party any improper motive. * * * * Use every effort to soothe and tranquilizeyour principal. Do not see things in the same aggravated light in which be views them ; extenuate the conduct of his adversary whenever you see clearly an opportunity to do so without doing violence to your friend's irritated mind. Endeavor to persuade him that there must have been some misunderstanding in the matter. Check him if he uses opprobious epithets towards his adversary, and never permit improper or insulting words in the note you carry. * * * * When an ac? commodation is tendered, never require too much, and if the party offering the amende honorable wishes to give a reason for his conduct in the matter, do not, un? less offensive to your friend, refuse to receive it; by so doing you heal the breach the more effectually. * * * * Use your utmost efforts to allay all ex? citement which your principal may labor under; search diligently into the origin of the misunderstanding, for gentlemen seldom iusult'each other unless they labor under some misapprehension or mistake, and when you have discovered the origi? nal ground of error follow each move? ment to the time cf sending the note, and harmony will be restored." Are these passages from the famous Code of Honor unworthy of being quoted in the columns of a religious newspaper? May not the children of this generation still be wiser in some things than the children of light? Alienations have taken place between Christian men, and have even become chronic, stereotyped, incurable because the parties or their friends would not use the precautions which are here prescribed for avowed men of the world. Christian men, Christian ministers even may meet, at the commun? ion table, those to whom they can not speak kindly?perhaps to whom they cannot speak at all. The code takes for granted that "gentlemen seldom insult each other unless they labor under some misappre? hension." Surely we ought to take for granted that Christians never insult each other without some misapprehension. "I am slow to believe," said the venerable Bishop Andrew, "that any brother wishes to hurt my feelings, and if he does I will not take it that way, so that he throws a*vay his ammunition." That character? istic sentence is a very good little code in itself. There is grc:it danger that wc fill into an unmaguanimous, unforgiving mood, 3 XXIIL- -NO. 30. and the mood may become our habitual temper. Even in "the churches' holiest aisle," there are collisions and competi? tions, wh ich may kindle unrighteous wrath, within us. There is a righteous wrath. It is a delicate, holy deposit, which may, in our bosoms, easily partake of the na? ture of the vessel containing it. Person? al grudges, social prejudice, denomina? tional jealousy, sentional antipathy, na? tional hatred?can a man or woman carry one or all of these hot coals in the bosom without being burned ? Tho American Code of Hondor does not measure up to the New Testament_ Code. Do not many professing Chris? tians fall below that human code, which falls distinctly below the divine? Wofford College S. C. ANOTHER JfEGBO EXODUS. A Propoflltion'.to Colonize the Negroes of the South In Central and South America . ?A Vision of Promised Lands. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 19.?A movement affecting many States and hundreds of thousands of people has been inaugurated in this city and now assumes definite shape. What the polit-. ical consequences will be no one can tell.' Tbe headquarters of the new movement are in Topeka, Kan. The] work to be done will be in the Southern States. Several well known colored men of means met three years ago to consult as to the best method of relieving their, people from the conditions that prevail in tbe extreme southenijStates, especially in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. After carefully studying the plan of government of the various coun? tries open to them they arrived at the conclusion that South America wrs the land that would give them shelter and a home, while a few of the investigators were inclined to look with favor upon, 1 the Central American States. These men, all with some wealth and some of 'them counting with six figures, . sent out educated agents, whose reports arc now coming in. The Guianas, Brazil and the Argentine Confederation were examined as to climate, lands, laws and ~ privileges. The same work was done in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and"^ Costa Rica. While the agents were out -. their principals quietly effected a secret; :" organization, whose head is in Topeka, for the purpose of agitating the matter by means of trustworthy agents through; - j o at the Southern States. The men thus organizing represent nearly $2,000,000, . their own money and property, a large v portion of which they will devote to this, -j work. This new move began to assume. ' definite shape, and before the end of 1888 is reached an exodus from the Southern States will have commenced that will carry off more than a million of | laborers from tbe cotton, sugar and rice r fields, where they are now at work, while % the tobacco, fields will yield their full ,f quota. There will be two colonies or outfitting points established in Honduras and Costa Rica, but the main efforts of this new organization will be directed to ;,j moving the colored people to South America. There will be settlements established in the Guiana highlands directly north of the equator'and in the' Brazilian- highlands, on the southern 'S tributaries of the Amazon, to which will 3 be* directed those people coming from ; Florida and Southern:-Alabama, Missis? sippi and Louisiana. Further south .im-_^ migration depots will be established in the Argentine^Confederation for people /? from Kentucky, Tennessee, South Caro? lina and Northern Alabama, Mississippi - and Texas. At a meeting held last night reports were given by the agent who visited . thest) countries. It was learned that im? portant concessions would be made by the Brazilian and Argentine governments . in the way of land and immunity from ; taxation. Aid in.' ^transportation is promised which will place this new^T haven within the reach of all who can 4 secure money enough to carry thenr^ thrcugh the first season. Their rights & and privileges as citizens are guaranteed, -V and owing to the mixed blood already existing in some of those countries color will not debar them from political and - social preferment. It was determined last night to continue the work of organization. Trusty agents are to be sent into all the sections where negro labor is so necessary.** It is be* ^ lieved that by next fall all will be ready to set the stream in motion,''and the.' attempt will be made to secure all the re? liable and trustworthy negroes in the south, leaving only the worthless, lazy -' class, which is not wanted and which.:, will be carefully weeded out. S Early in the summer a committee of* < twenty men will go to South America to : complete the arrangements, secure the** lands and concessions and prepare for - the work that follows. They are paying their own expenses, asking no favors of^ any one, and will aid the others to follow. , From the reports now received they he-' I lieve they will be granted free transpor- :> tation from the United States for all worthy colored people who desire.to go. It is the design of this committee to settle climatically all who go to their new homes. Those accustomed to the sugar i and cotton fields will be distributed ^ throughout the Guianas and Brazjir*"" Those accustomed to mixed farming and ^ cattle will be provided for further south, ~J on the highlands and pampas, where they will be distributed so as to ciuster>j around a common home station or colony1*! ?New York Herald, - ? "So you have got a wife ?" said : Jones to a newly married man. "Don't ^ know, don't know," replied the man, ^ with evident hesitation; "sometimes Tc"<* think I've got her, and sometimes I thinfc^ she got me. You see, I've only been':* married a few months, and I can't tell just yet how the blamed combination is going to turn out." ? An Illinois woman committed sui? cide by banging herself to an apple tree, f} At the funeral a neighbor consoled the'vf husband by saying that he had met with a terrible loss. "Yes," said the husband/1 heaving a sigh, "she must have kickr J like thunder to shake off six bushels\,M green apples, tbat would have been;''| worth a dollar a bushel when theygot^ ripe I"