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J. G. CLWKSCALES, Editor. . ?_ p ? ? Holland's, March 16'. 1888. Mb. Editob: Perhaps some of yoar readers would like to hear" from our section. Our teacher, Miss Betty Earle, named our echool Autioch, for Autioch Church which Mr. S. tJ. Earle and a few others established. It first stood where Mr.ClaudeDeannow lives; but after a 'few years was-removed to Lucas Greek, near Evergreen, on the Dooley's Ferry road.; Our Bchool i8ja!.bo*on this road? hence &e name.?It was.the first Chris - tiaa Church, commonly called (Csmpbel ? -T lite) in; this State. The rfiret Sabbath ^ School ever known in this neighborhood was there about the year 1882. The. school met every-Sunday ? and read a chapter is the Bible, and the Superin? tendent, Mr. S. G. Earle, asked questions ori. it;. ihey also memorized Scripture and hymns. They did not have helps to study the lesson, as we have now, and . Sunday School hyrans. Messrs, E.*?., J; W. and Bev. J. B. Earle were all pupud in that school. After Mr. S. G. Earle died, the school and Church went down. Ola Cabdin, Minnie Bubbiss, : Lena Whitaeeb, Fannie McGukin, Essie Cabdin, Ada Fleming, - Fleda Sullivan. We are grateful to the young ladies of Miss Bettie Earle's school for the bit of v local history they send. We are glad to know that they took the pains to collect from the older persons in the neighbor? hood the facts they send us. The exer eise is verjr profitable. Will not other teachers encourage their pupils to do likewise? Mb. Editob : Though: -I'm now a Georgia teacher, I am not unknown to many of you. For several years I taught many Of the"little ones that some of you V are to-day leaching. The Teachers' Column is read and enjoyed, much by me. It is as/"a letter from home." Many, . many, of you teachers, patrons, and pupils, are near, and dear, to me. I am now. trying-to "teach the young idea how to shoot/'on the Georgia side of the Savannah. .We have 83 pupils enrolled; : * I have an assistant, Miss Y i'Darliiia Bell. We want some of your : good teachers to give us some ideas on j teaching. Some of our ^beginners ad ? vance admirably, while others are a little slow to start. We use the word and phonic method combined, and we re? quire them to write a great deal; conse? quently when they have finished First Eeader they are able to read and write correctly any thing they have gone over. I know there are many ways to interest and advance the little ones, and you South Carolina teachers are far ahead of j some of us slow, old time Georgians. So please give us the benefit of aome of your ^new ideas.' ?.Weinave.the "gem exercise" in our school. 1 give them a gem each day. The children are perfectly delight? ed, and the most of them re&ite the gems beautifully. Your friend, Mbs. Ma mtb Dead Wyler. Elberton, Ga., March 12,1888. ; [Many of our teachers have pleasant recollections of Miss Mamie Cbamblee, now Mrs; Deadwyler, and heartily wel ^come her to the Teachers' Column. We ; hope her visit will be repeated.?El) ] Why should every teacher in this country, study his profession? Why should be. progress? Why should he take a weekly educational paper? Why should he take part in educational meet? ings? In short, why should be be pro? gressive, aggressive, pushing, earnest, on the alert, not an old fogy ? Why t Be . cause he has others depending upon him. His work is to lead, 50 ahead, and call, - ''Come on I" He is to climb.the hill first, and tell those below what be eees. and ;^ oy'oht, "Come np I" It is hard work to ? push humanity up, it is easy enough to attract them?up. Leaden are always popular, drivers always unpopular. Leading is inspiring, strengthening; driving is depressing, debilitating. Lead ! Be a path-finder! Don't plod on in a dog trot after somebody. Go ahead, and you will be happy, useful and successful I Go ahead 1!? Teachers' Institute DRY TEACHERS. The superintendent, of-, has been noted for getting rid of all his female teachers over a certain sge. He gives them no reason, but, incidentally he re? marked, he wanted no "dry teachers" in his schools. One of his teachers, a widow, resigned, expecting to get a place T: in another city; failing in that, she applied to be reinstated; our superin? tendent refused ; when urged, he eaid: "Mrs. B?-? is a very good woman, but her mind is in just the same position it was when she first came here. She goes home from school, and does not read or study 00 education at all; she* comes to lectures, but considers them a bore and perfectly useless, and a waste of time. She can drill the children in the subjects that are assigned to her; but they get no inspiration. I notice the listlessness of I her pupils. Laee that the teacher above | her has a hard time to get her pupils started. All these things lead me to conclude she had better step down and out. It is not that she is old; it is that she is unfit, and won't fit herself." . I have thought this over a good deal, and wonder if there are not a good many "dry teachers" in our schools. TJp in a village in New York State, the teacher kept a small store when fchool was out. I have, seen the children stop and pur? chase some peanuts of her. There she patiently aat sewing, darning, or crochet - ing, until a customer came. I could not see how she could be a good teacher. ?., The. next year, I hare since learned, she was dropped .for the reason that "the children could not learn anything from her." Frederick, the Great used to pet his one legged soldiers into the school-room ; he was a penurious old fellow, and did not follow our plan of pensioning them. They were "dry" teachers, undoubtedly. They finally died off and the children once more had a chance. Dryness in teaching comes from a variety of causes. Laziness is one of the chief causes. There was John-?, a 3 & LANGSTON. capital man, but be loved a good cigar, not wisely but well. Returning to bis home, he would make the tobacco turn into sufoke faster than any other fellow I ever knew. Blowing the smoke in grace? ful rings to the ceiling, he would pass away hour after hour. He got stupid, sleepy, and went to bed. The next day he was late in rising, his head was not clear, until he had another cigar. That smoked, he set out for school. Thus the days and nights passed. John does not know as much now as when he graduated from college. I knew a very dry sort of a teacher, who got married to a bright sort of a girl, and he began to improve at once; she was indeed a good angel to him. I have beard him say very often, "She is a great help; if. I am lazy she takes the pen and says, dictate to me, or if I undertake the work of looking np authorities, she hands down the cyclopedias," The effect has been marvelous; still as all cannot afford to get married, and as all would not get so good a wife, I cannot recommend this plan. I have seen many who have be? come much dryer since they married, because of household cares. I urge all to remember that to teach well they must think about their business when away from it. Take the case of a clergyman; when he is walking, sitting or standing, he thinks about the truth he is to expound. The teacher's work is exactly like, the clergyman's. He too must think about the work he is to do. Nor is there any end to their thinking. The difference between the new educa? tion and the old, is that the disciples of J the former, believe there is no .limit to improving in the art of teaching. The disciples of the latter think it is a small and easy business to teach.?Teacher? Institute. The Bravest, the Tenderest. To the Editor of the Sunday News: No soldier whom I saw in the Army of j Northern Virginia impressed me more with his cbivalric bearing than Gen. Maxey Gregg, of South Carolina, and in? cidents of his heroic courage?such as the message he sent A. P. Hill at Second Manassas: "Our ammunition is entirely exhausted, but rocks are plentiful and we will hold our position with them"?were numerous. I have just found the following which j I do not remember to have seen heibrey and send it to the News and Courier in the hope that it may be of as much in? terest to the many old Confederates and other lovers of true heroism as it has been to me. > I cull the incident from Dr. Bennett's "Great Revival in the Southern Armies,"^ Alluding to Gen. Gregg and his lamented death on the field of splendid victory at Fredericks burg, Dr. Bennett Bays: "The following incident is related of: this heroic officer. During the retreat of | the Confederate army from Maryland,' after the battle of Sharpsburg* Gen. Gregg commanded the rear-guard, Gen. T. P. Munford, of Virginia, command? ing the,cavalry covering the rear-guard. "When Gen. Munford reached the ford Gen. Gregg and his men were just enter? ing the water to cross to the Virginia side of the Potomac. Nearby was an ambulance filled with gallant Confeder? ates, (many of them terribly wounded and torn in the battle of the previous day,) entreating their comrades to carry them back to old Virginia. Gen. Mun? ford, seeing that. the frightened driver had abandoned them, taking hia harness and team with him, and that they were unable to ride behind his men, called Gen. Gregg's attention to the fact, where? upon the generous old Roman, uncover? ing his head, said to bis men: "Boys, see yonder your comrades who have been abandoned by a cowardly driver! They appeal to us for help 1 You who have escaped unhurt will not leave these poor fellows to their fate in sight of old Vir? ginia.' In an instant they were trans? ferring their arms and knapsacks. One generous lad, supposed to belong to the 14th South Carolina volunteers, catching hold of the singletrees of the ambulance, exclaimed, 'We will carry them back to old Virginia.' In less time than it takes to tell it, thirty of South Carolina's bravest sons were up to their waists in water, bearing their comrades safely over the river, ambulance and all?the sad and gloomy countenances'of the unfor? tunates seeming almost to forget their wounds 83 they caught up the strain, 'Oh, carry me back to old Virginia, to old Virginia shore.' Those who were too weak to sing waived their hats and handkerchiefs, and all were safely placed out of harm's way. As soon as this i been accomplished, Gen. Gregg, repineu his hat and rode away to see that they were cared for." This is but another illustration of what Bayard Taylor wrote so sweetly iu uin "Song of the Camp:" - ? ? "The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring." I should like to see from some compe? tent hand a full biographical sketch of j South Carolina's noble son, Gen. Maxey Gregg, who was as tender as he was brave. J. Wm. Jokes. Atlanta, Ga., March 7, 18S8. ? One of the youngest grandmothers in the country is Mrs. Clarissa Jackson, of Delaware township, Ohio. She is a buxom negro woman and but twenty-five years old. When she was eleven years old she married, and a year later gave birth to a daughter. The daughter, nearly as precocious as her mother, mar? ried at twelve years of age, <tcd has re? cently, at the age of thirteen, borne a daughter. Whether Mrs. Jackson will be a great-grandmother at the age of forty remains to be seen. ? What part of the turkey might sum? mon the guests to dinner ? The drum? sticks. ? The Delightful Liquid Laxative. Syrop of Figs is a raost^(k^eable and valuable family remedy, as u . easily taken by old and yonng, and is prompt and effective in curing Habitual Consti? pation and the many ills depending on a weak or inactive condition of the Eid? neys, Liver, and Bowels. It acts gently, strengthens the organs on which it acts, and awakens them to a healthy activity.? For sale by Simpson, Beid & Co. DOW IN EJLBEBTON. Bill Arp Pays a V]g!t to a Thrifty Town. If you want to see a good old town that is renewing her youth go to Elber ton. Thirty years ago these old Georgia towns were considered finished and they made no progress in population or in business. The young men as they came to maturity emigrated and none came to take their places! No new buildings were put up and the old ones were suf? fered to go to decay. But within the last few years most of these old towns have put on a new life. Look at Wash? ington and Eaton ton and Milledge ville and Newnan and Gainesville andljlber ton and many others that used to be called finished. One can hardly solve the mystery of their late progress, but one thing is to be observed. The wealthier classes from the country are making an exodus to the towns all over the South. If this exodus continues there will soon be nobody left in the country but negroes and the' poorer class of white people. The social attractions Of towns and cities and the privileges of schools and churches are yet inviting, but we fear this exodus will have a bad effect upon intelligent farming. A town farmer soon loses bis interest, bis enthu? siasm. He goes out once in a while to see how his tenants are getting along. He gives a few directions and makes a few suggestions, but that is all. His ambition becomes centered upon the time when the rent wheat and the rent cotton will come in, and that ends it. The tenant is not going to fill up a gully or<stop a wash, nor cover the galledspotB with straw. The orchard will not be pruned, nor cow peas sowed, nor the [ gates kept in repair. This town farmer soon becomes a town trader or speculator, for he can make money at anything else than at farming. It does look like farm? ing is a poor business. Here and there you find a thrifty farmer, but their name is not legion. They are about one in a hundred, and when you investigate the successful one you will find him a shrewd trader who knows how to buy cheap and sell dear. He will, pick up a mule for seventy five dollars cash and sell him to his tenant for a hundred and ten on time. He will buy his cotton seed at ten cents a bushel and sell them for fifteen. He will make him advances of meat and meal at the same profits, and so he gets in the papers as a successful farmer, and all others are condemned for not follow? ing his example. Well, they can't do it, for they can't get a start, a fair start, and that is the whole of it. Farming lands in. Georgia are in no demand. The Owners can not get ss much for them to? day as they could ten years ago?they are returned for taxes, lower and lower every year. But everything else seems to thrive. Merchandise, manufactures and mining are all doing well. Even teaching school, or preaching, beats farming, and hence the* towns are pros? pering and the country is languishing. Blacksmiths, carpenters' and brick masons make a fair support, and the chair factories and broom makers are getting rich. A brick mason will not work for less tban two dollars a day, but a farm hand has to take seventy-five cants. One of our most intelligent farmers told me that he made more money off of his fruits than from all his corn and wheataad cotton. Well, I reckon these things will regulate themselves after while, but they look very discouraging now. A Borne merchant told me yester? day that this depression of farming was all owjng to the protection that the tariff gave to manufactures, and that the far? mer would never prosper until he had the same amount of protection, and that he ought to have a bounty of at least ten dollars a bale on his cotton. Well, that would help him of course, but to my opinion the trouble is we have too many farmers in proportion to the other occu? pations. In Pennsylvania there are twenty-five persons engaged in farm work to seventy-five engaged in other pursuts, and so every farm worker has three other mouths who are also hnngry and wailing for the products of his labor. He can sell everything he makes for a good price and there is always n good demand. In Georgia there are Eeventy-five farm workers and only twenty-five consumers outside to buy their products. The whole thing is reversed, and bo while farm lands average forty one dollarsj>er acre in Pennsylvania, they average t My five dollars and sixty cents in Georgia. Now, while we are inviting our Northern brethren to come down let us make a specialty of inviting artisans, mechani manufacturers, and let us encourage our young men to go to the technological school and learn trades instead of pro? fessions. We. have long talked and written about the pleasures and profits and independence of farming, but it is of no use. Our young men are not going to try it in the face of the bard experience of their fathers. When there are more people to feed and fewer to plow they will go at it, and not until then. At Elberton, I heard the busy hum of machinery and the sound of the hammer and the saw all about New houses ornament the suburbs and many more are going up. The people are looking for the early advent of the great railroad that is to come from Monroe, in North Carolina, to Athens and Atlanta. This has stimulated their energy and increas edjhe values of their property. It has aroused their young men and they have formed a military company, and are proud of their new uniforms and their own good looks besides, and have a right to be. Colonel Jones, the school teacher, is their file leader, and is the colonel of the. Ninth Georgia battalion. He showed me the photograph of the noble 'Leslie DeVotie, the first soldier who died in the Confederate service. He was the son of Dr. J. H. DeVotie, one of the most eminent Baptist ministers of the South, and was a member of the Gover? nor's Guards from Tuscaloosa. That company was ordered to Fort Morgan, in Alabama, and on the 12th night of Feb? ruary, 1861, he, by some sad mistake, stepped off the wharf in the darkness and was swept out to sea by the receding tide and drowned. It is said and believed that he was the first soldier who lost his life in the Confederate service, and I have no doubt of its truth. .NDEESON, S. C, T" As I was going to Elberton I had a carious experience. I was sitting quietly in the Kimball House and ruminating upon the ecoreB of men who were all the time coming and going. I thought I was alone and unknown and had retired from under the glare of the gas light, when suddenly a gentleman approached me and said in a very pleasant voice: "How do you do, major; I am glad to see you." He was a tall, black eyed gentieman .of about thirty years, and I remembered travelling with him last year, overland in a buggy out West. I said: "Well, what are you doing here," and he replied : "I am a lunatic, and I am on my way. to the asylum at Mil ledgeville. There is my guard right there ?he said I might speak to you." I never was more astonished in my lfe, for I knew him to be a man of no ordinary culture. Indeed he was a minister of the gospel, and I great'y enjoyed his company in my travels?so I said, "My friend, I can hardly notice this. Are you really crazy VI "I am," said he, "and I am entirely conscious of it. Do you know Doctor Powell ?" "I do," said I. "Will be treat me kindly?" "He certainly will," said I. His black eyes brightened as he said, "Well, I want you to write him a letter and tell him that I am a gentleman and want kind treatment. I have been handcuffed and knocked about like I was a dog, and it makes me worse." I saw some fresh scars on his forehead, and asked him how they came, and be Baid, "They fret me, and I fight, and they tight back, and I get the worst of it. When my fits come upon me*I will fif1 anybody friend or foe." "You wouldn't fight me?" said I. "No, not unless you cross me, and then I am helpless." "I will not do that," said I. "I hope not; I know you will not. I love you and respect you, but if you were to differ with me in an argument I would get mad and strike you." "I will not differ with you," said I. "I am truly eorry for you and I hope Dr. Powell can give you sach treat* ment as will restore you." He looked very sad and said: "If my malady was not inherited I should have some hope, but my wife and my children will be near me thank God." His time had come to go .and I was glad and I was grieved. What a mys? tery is the human mind. This man was crazy and he knew it. He knew the lights and the shadows. He knew when he was sane and when lunacy was com? ing. He knew that I was his friend and he loved me; but he forewarned me not to fret him. Some philosophers say that every man is crazy in some respects and that we are all cranks about something, and Shakespeare says there is but a line between reason and lunacy, but I do not believe it. Most men are well-balanced and I believe that Providence made us to understand everything that is neces? sary for our comfort and happiness. When we fail of that it is our fault or the fault of our ancestors; Bill Arp. A Bonanza in Beans. The popular idea of a beau crop is a few rows of the plants in a garden intend? ed to supply the family table for the veg? etable season, and a field of beans would only be looked for in an immense truck farm. But B. F. Ferry has been experi? menting on his Sans Souci farm near the city with a new variety of bean, which he believes is calculated to revolutionize ag? riculture in this country by furnishing a wonderfully prolific, valuable and cheap food and feed crop that can be adapted to any soil. The npw vegetable is called the "Soja Bean." It came from China, whence civilized Europe has captured so many of its most valuable discoveries, and was introduced in Europe at the Vienna Ex? position. The cultivation of the bean spread rapidly in Europe, whence it na? turally spread to this country. Mr. Per? ry saw accounts of its remarkable growth and great food value, and along with Col. Wash Shell, of Laurens, be ordered last fall a peck of the "Soja's" from T. W. Wood & Son, of Eichmond, Va., paying $1.50 a peck. He planted an acre and last fall gathered 39 bushels exclusive of eleven bushels wasted, which he sold for $1 a peck or ?4 a bushel, making $156 as a return for the acre. Mr. Perry is delighted with the new crop and has great faith in its possibili? ties. The bean will grow in any soil, he say?. It does well in low ground too wet for anything else and yet it is hard enough to stand the severest drought. It requires less cultivation than cotton, being plant? ed in rows three feet apart and two feet apart in the drill with three stalks in a hill. The beans are about the size of cow peas, yellow when dried, and with a very thin shell. They come three in a pod and the pods grow thickly on a stalk about like an ordinary cotton stalk. The plant sheds its leaves, furnishing fertiliz? ing material for the ground equal to cow pea vines, and the crop is harvested by pulling the btalks up by the roots and storing them in barn until they are cured. Then the beans easily shell out, and the stalks can be fed to cattle," making a feed which experts, Mr. Perry says, consider equal to Timothy hay. The great value ot the Soja bean, how? ever, comes in the bean itself. It pro? duces prolifically, making on rich ground with good cultivation, 100 bushels an acre. The fruit, according to analysis, contains twice as much nutritive matter as either corn or cow peas. As feed for cattle, it is far better, Mr. Perry says, than cow peas and it makes a splendid table dish. The beans are so rich that they can be cooked in water alone, not requiring any butter Mr. Perry expects to plant several acres of the beans this season. He has had demands for more than his last year's crop for seed, sending some shipments to Arkansas and to Alabama. He has fur? nished President McBryde, of the State College, with supplies of seed for the State Experimental Stations, and has shipped in the State. He believes the Soja bean sample lots to many prominent farmers, is the coming crop for this country for farmers who have stock.?Greenville News. ? The start is already made; if we have gone wrong so much has been lost and can never be recovered. The wasted hour or moment is forever beyond our recall. EUKSDAY MOENIN Don't go West?Stay at Home. From the Wallialla Courier. There is a mine of truth, applicable as well to mental, moral and financial ad? vantages in pursuits, as to pbysicial ob? jects in the lines of the poet, Campbell: "'Tis distance lends enchantment to tho view, An clothes the mountain in its azure hue." The most rugged objects lose by remot ness their deformities and take on an inviting appearance. To the eye view? ing them at a distance the enchantment is increased by the imagination. We think of the pleasure of wandering through interminable shades, with bub? bling springs of pure cold water on all sides, and a cool health giving breeze, driving away the heat of the summer sun, of the deer and quail and other wild game with* which this enchanted land abounds, and we want to be there. This is natural to those living in the region of sandlappers and alligators, where the water is green and blackish, where the atmosphere is loaded with chills and fever and all kinds of malarial diseases; but to us, who live in the pure air limpid water and shady groves of Oc?nee, who live in town and country at the same time, who enjoy the luxuries and conven? iences of cities with the retirement and peace of country life, who are in a few hours of the great commercial centers of the nation and but twelve hours more remote from all parts of the civilized world than are cities by the sea, why should we look longingly at the moun? tains as a place of health and pleasure ? Go there and you will be disappointed. You will find no home comforts. What looked enchanting at distance is ugly, broken, deformed, its very ruggedness suggesting sublimity, being its only attraction. The pleasures of walking amid shades is forgotton in the toil of crossing hills and hollows, rocks and logs, and struggling through crush and undergrowth. For coolnesB and restyou have heat and fatigue and night finds you dreaming of the home you have left. Even the wild game is not so plentiful and you doubly pay for it in the labor and fatigue of its capture. You soon long to get back home. In the moral world the Bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. In the physical world the eye, aided by the imagination, deceives and too often misleads us to our ruin. It produces a restlessness of mind, a want of content? ment with our lot or sphere in life, a longing for something better, which leads many to break np house and home and set out in search of some unknown, un? discovered place and employment, a Utopia in life. ' Let us apply this to those whose eyes are turned longingly Westward, believing there they will find ease, comfort, con? tentment. They hear of corn and bacon being in places so cheap as to, be used in emergencies for fuel; that from 25 to 40 bushels of wheat are made to the average acre; that there they will find fields of miles perfectly level with not a stump in them. Suppose all this true and in many sections' it is substantially true, what then ? You say here land must be clear? ed and grubbed and by the time the plow can run through it smoothly it is washed away and worn out. If this were true, the fault would lie with the man and not with the land, for a good farmer should and will every year increase the fertility of his land. But you say the land there does not need this. If it does not, and this is limited to a few and nnhealthy sections, the people labor under many disadvantages. In prairie life you would want to see stumps and trees, and even feel'your plow strike them. You would want a drink of water from the spring ground at home. You would want to see the faces and grasp the hands of friends in sick moments. The financial enchantment of the place would disap? pear as soon as you reached it. How many who go return ? How many fail to return from want of means rather than want of will ? How many acquain? tances there have grown rich or are in better circumstances than they could have been with like management here ? Some,' there, are doubtless prospering, perhaps have become well off. Have not an equal number here prospered? They have paupers there and so. have we here. We noticed in the Granbury Graphic, of February 25th, that support? ing the paupers of Hood County, Texas, last year cost the county $1,500. That is more, in that land of milk and honey, than the support of paupers cost our county. Besides, in the most fertile and level sections of the West water as well as wood is scarce and the water general? ly is impure and disease generating. Besides where products of the soil are larger and easier made, the price of them is proportionally low, so that a larger quantity is required to buy articles not grown on the farm. Taking all things into consideration there is no great ad? vantages in countries on the same parallel of latitude, the apparent difference res? ulting from ulterior causes. Some men who fail of success here go West and succeed. The reason generally will be found in the man and not in the country. Change of location sometimes breaks old associations and habits which have clogg? ed the success of a person. In a new country, with new surrounding, he starts anew the race of life, breaking the shackels which before crippled his pro? gress. Again, sometimes a man cutting loose from parents and friends and going to a new country shows an energy and spirit which be never did before, and this leads to success. He feel he has no one but himself to depend on, the bridges behind him are cut off and necessity rouses energies before dormant, not less to bis own than to the surprise of his old friends. Like energy here would have led to like success. The whole matter lies in a small com? pass. Life is short. To enjoy life a man must be contented. To have content? ment a man must have health and food. To have health he must br~e the natural advantages producing health, as good climate, water and air. To meet his physical wants he must have food. In Oconee we have' all the natural health producing elements and with labor an ample supply for physical wants can be made. This ought to give contentment G, MARCH 29, 1886 and make life happy*; but does it? In most cases we fear not. Why ? Because, in the first place, we are so constituted that there is in this life no such thing as actual content; and next, because from our nature, however*."situated, we are pone to look for something more and bet? ter than we have. These characteristics are not objectionable, as, properly direct? ed, they are incentives to exertion. Under them the best course - for every man starting in life is to settle clearly and irrevocably in his mind his place of location. Once settled do not trouble to look for a better or Micawber like, be ever on the lookout for Bomeihing to turn up with a view to change. In the next place, settle your vocation and think of no other. Then set to work in it with a will. Bead, think, act, put your whole energies in it and both success and such satisfaction as* is allotted to man will surely follow.^.Nine out often far? mers will say farming don't pay, that merchandizing, law, medicine, pay better. The merchants, the lawyers, etc., say the same about their vocations. In the words of Horace, they all praise those following different pursuits. This com? plaining, this dissatisfaction distracts the mind and impairs the energy of each in his calling and is the main cause of fail? ure. Select your location, then your business, then pursue it steadily and whether in South Carolina or Texas or Montana you will succeed. Don't think then of going West. The blizzards and freezes of the past winter have,.turned the thoughts of settlers Southward. Hundreds of lives and millions of pro? perty have perished in those icy regions. One year of good, healthy life here is worth five of life there, subject to death from cold, from blizzards, from cyclones and other -climatic disturbances. We have a good country and a good climate and let us enjoy it. To this we append the following re? sume as to the financial condition of far? mers in the great West, which ought to satisfy our people that all is not gold that glitters, and that on the average our section is on a sounder financial basis than the famed West: "While it has been a well known fact that Western farmers are loaded down with mortgages, the extent of their obli? gations was not understood until an in? vestigation was initiated by the depart? ment of agriculture. The mortgages resting on the farmers of ten Western States aggregate, it appears, $3,422,000, 000, Ohio leading the list with an aggregate of $701,000,000. In Michigan one-half of the farms are mortgaged, the aggregate debt secured by mortgages being $350,000,000. A striking fact of the situation is that the annual net earn? ings on the - capital invested in farms in the United States is but 4 to 5 per cent, while the mortgages in question com? mand 7 to 9 per cent. The insurance companies of Hartford, Conn., own $70, 000,000 of Western farm mortgages and the loan companies of Boston hold them to tbe amount of $76,000,000." 'Twas all Owing to the Sun Spot. The great storm which has blocked railways and caused immense damage by tbe stoppage of business over a large section of country along tbe Atlantic seaboard and in Eastern New York and New England resembles the severe visi? tations of tbe winter of 1886. During that winter two great disturbances on the sun, which were about one fifth of the snn's circumference, or five days apart, produced a pair of storms once in twenty five or twenty-six days. The storms forming the pair were just five days apart. During one of the mid? winter visitations there was a phenome? nal rainfall at Boston, completely Hood? ing a large section of that city. About nine inches of rain fell in a very short space of time. The storm, which began in the East on Snnday, was fairly well proportioned to the energy of the die-' turbances on the sun which preceded it. That distubance was first observed last Friday morning and described in the Democrat of Saturday, On Saturday in? dications of great commotion were ob? served in the spot region, spots forming rapidly and a rose colored flame being observed. The terrific storm of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday followed. Europe' appears to have suffered also, as great floods are reported from Austria-Hun? gary. The heavy snowfall in the East is likely to produce very high water as soon as warm weather sets in. ' At some places along the Hudson the snowfall was four feet. As stated on Sunday, the solar disturbance which appeared just before the destructive tornado at Mount Vernon, 111., will re appear by solar rota? tion to day if it has not disappeared. Considerable magnetic disturbance was observed Tuesday morning, and it is pos? sible the advanced portion of the group of solar spots bad appeared at that time. If this disturbance should renew the atmospheric commotion the storm period would be prolonged in a very unpleasant yraj.?Eochester Democrat. Acute Rheumatism of the Joints, For external applications in acute articular rheumatism, Journal of Health regards mustard poultices as the most efficacious. The use of these should be commenced at once, as soon as the joints become painful. If only a small number are affected, poultices can be applied to each simultaneously, or in succession until all are treated. When new joints become involved, renewed applications are demanded; in fact, the diseas should be "chased" from one affected portion to another. Tbe poultices may be ap? plied twice dailly, and after their use the inflamed joints should be wrapped in dry cotton wool, and then bandaged neatly and lightly with flannel. Some authors claim that these coverings are useless, but all who have suffered from tbe disease can testify that exposure of the joints, even to the warm air of the sick room, aggravates the pain. -m - ? Ayer's Sarsaparilla was the first successful blood medicine ever offered to the public. This preparation is still held in the highest public estimation both at home and abropd. Its miraculous cures and immense sales show this. Ask your druggist for it. Tue Tornado in Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., March 21.?A terrible electric storm enveloped the State last night, beginning about 10 o'clock and lasting until after midnight. In Fair burn both colored churches were demol? ished, the Courthouse chimney was torn off, shade trees were uprooted and other damage was done. Near Austell a house was blown on a negro blacksmith, killing him. Newton Moss's barn was blown down, and three horses and a cow killed. Beports of the storm in and around Gainesville show that while it was not so severe much damage was done. M. A. Loden had his^house lifted from its foun? dation and moved from where it stood. The colored Baptist Church was com? pletely demolished, Mr. Cyphua, living near Gainesville, bad bis house and all outbuildings blown away, and one of bis children was seriously hurt. Chattanooga, March 21.?A special to the Time* reports a terrible wind storm at Calhoun, Ga., last night. Cal houn is ninety miles from Chattanooga, on the Atlantic and Western Road. The storm demolished the Baptist and Meth? odist churches, destroyed several houses and unroofed ever" house in the town. Numbers of cat re killed. No loss of life has as yet. jeen reported, but four or five persons were wounded by falling timber. The storm was much more serious and widespread in its destruction than at first reported.' It seems to have formed in the vicinity of Calhoun and pursued a northeasterly direction through North Georgia, and into and beyond East Ten? nessee, bounding across the Ohiltower or mountains, and was next heard from near London, Tenn., on the East Tennes? see Road, eighty miles northeast of Chat? tanooga, travelling from Calhoun, Ga., to London, Tenn., a distance of one hun? dred miles in about thirty minutes. The path of the tornado from Calhoun to London was through a section remote from railroads and telegraph lines, and the damage it may have done will not be known for some days, but must have been fearful. The tornado in places cleared the ground completely of grass, and the forest of timber was mowed as with a great scythe. The cyclone had a whirling, rotary motion, leaving a scene of desolation and destruction in its path. Large trees were twisted from their trunks and others torn up by the roots. A heavy bureau was found a mile from the house that bad contained it. The list of seriously wounded men and children in London County is very large. Andy Worley, his wife and eight chil? dren were every one injured. Some of them will die. The station at Calhoun was unroofed and tbe colored porter re? ceived injuries which may prove fatal. Several houses were carried a distance of half a mile. Telegraph wires were pros? trated and a number of cars were thrown from the track. Tbe loss in Calhoun alone will reach $10,000. another account. Atlanta, March 21.?Calhoun suffer? ed the most of any place in North Geor? gia. It was visited by a terrible funnel shaped cyclone, which cut a swath seventy-five yards wide through the mid? dle of the town, taking in the courthouse and station. The cyclone bounded down on the little town suddenly, and after doing tbe work of destruction, lifted from the earth to strike again no one knowns where. Every dwelling in its path was either destroyed or damaged. The streets are full of shingles and tbe debris of roots. The storm played eccentric pranks, in one instance cutting a house. in half. Then it tore down a house around some women and children without harming a bair of their heads. The Baptist Church was demolished and the colored Metho? dist Church was razed. The railroad station was badly damaged and a farm? house near tbe station, belonging to the State, was totally destroyed. Jackson & Logan's lumber stable was badly dam? aged. C. T. Grave's business house, a frame building, was totally destroyed, and another wooden building, occupied as an express office, wa3 totally demol? ished and che goods were ruined by rain. The brick store of Harrel was badly damaged. The front end of Hughey's grocery store was pulled away from tbe building and tbe roof of J. M. Neal's grocery store is off and his goods dam? aged. Tbe roof of N. J. Boaze's business house is off. The parapet wall of Bives & Malone's brick store was torn off and the whole outside leans to the street, making the building worthless. Chimneys were blown off of Foster's brick building, and the vacant residence of A. W. Beeves was blown to pieces. Tbe wagon and buggy manufactory of M. E. Ellis is completely destroyed. Mrs. Foster's residence was destroyed but no one was hurt. Mrs. Bailey with five children occupied a residence which was destroyed and yet none of the family was injured. Savannah, Ga., March 21.?A cyclone struck Lumber City, Ga., this morning. B. V. Holland, of the firm of Holland, Strickland & Co., and W. *B. Whiddon, of tbe firm of Wbiddon & Holland, both promint m o, were killed. Wbiddon resided at East, van and Hol? land at Dublin. _mm_ ? The Philadelphia Ledger... respon? sible for the following statement: "Geor? gia negroes are flocking to the Ocala Swamp and daubing themselves with its mud, in the hope that it will turn them white. This movement had its origin in the fact that a negro who had wounded his leg and bandaged it with the mud of the swamp found, when his leg healed, that it had turned almost white." ? A citizen of Greenville, S. C, found an old edition of Shakespeare at a Charleston bookstall a few months ago. He bought it for $3, a day or two after? wards sold it to a book dealer for $280, and the dealer has just sold it in London for $000. ? Rumors are among the best things in the world to let alone. ? When by reason of a cold or from any other cause, the secretory organs become disordered, they may be stimula? ted to healthy action by the use of Ayer's Cathartic Pills. Sold by all dealers in medicine. VOLUME The End or the World. Cincinnati, Mar. 18.?There is begin? ning to be uuusual, almost unprecedented activity among the Adventists, both of the First Day and Seventh Day classes. Both believe that 1888 will wind up time, the difference being that the First Day Adventists fix the date, whereas the Sev? enth Dayers simply say the end is not far off. Among the First Day Adventists tradesmen have sent their bills out. They have as nearly as possible balanced all accounts, and among them all is ready for the f scension. Eich wood, 0., is a stronghold of Ad? ventists. They have just completed a beautiful college there. Asked why they should build a college when eternity is so near at hand, Elder Andrew replied: "It is possible they may be wrong in their conclusions. Some Adventists," said he, "are not confident that the end is upon us. I, for one, am not, though I do not think it will be long until the end, for the three great signs have come to pass. The sun shall be darkened/ says the Bible. The sun was darkened in 1780. At 10 o'clock in the morning it was as dark as midnight. No eclipse was ex? pected?none was due. Science has failed to account for the phenomenon. 'The moon shall not give Jight,' says the Bible. This occurred the day of the great darkness. That night was the blackest ever known. 'The stars, shall fall from heaven,' says another, and the third pro? phecy. November 13, 1833, the migh? tiest meteoric shower ever known occur ed. I do not know, I do not say this is the last jear of time; I simply believe the the end is near." At Nevada, 0., the biggest church in the town is the Adventist Church, of which Elder Dnnlap is the pastor. Elder Dunlap thinks much as does Elder Watson but many of bis parisnioners believe that they have but a few more months, at best to live, and many of them, notably Cap? tain Eldrige and family, are even now 'all ready." Mrs. Eldrige has disposed of her jewelry, as have many other ladies of the congregation, because they believe in simplicity of dress. Another elder living in Nevada, 0.} is Mr. Walker, a highly educated gentle? man. His wife is exceptionally accom? plished. Mr. Walker, when asked if the end is here, replied : "Truly I have not a doubt of it. 'Babylon is fallen,' says Holy Writ. Now, what is Babylon? The Church. Oh 1 how the church has fallen 1 Notice the last number of any of your church papers, and what do you find but accounts of the defiling, of the temples by auction sales, lotteries, socials called grab-bag, soap bubble, popcorn and all too many others ? Yes, Babylon is fallen. But there are others reasons < for my faith. I think the decline of the Ottoman Empire plainly foretells the end. The Sultan of Turkey is the Apollyon of Beyelotions. To those who have closely studied the Scriptures his fall is convincing. Whenever the Sultan is driven from Turkey then will the end of time hasten on." Dr. Jerome Oatly, of Bich wood, a gal? lant soldier in the civil war and for years post Commander of Livingston, Post, G. A. R., No. 425, of that place, is an Ad ventist. "Remember," says the doctor, "that all the Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled. Isaiah told of the coming I of Christ. Micah prophesied the birth? place. Jeremiah foretold Herod's mas? sacre. Isiriah anticipated the coming of. John the Baptist. The prophecies of the first Advent came true. So will those of the second Advent." Elder E. McCullough, a scholarly Bos tonian, is now preaching throughout the Narthwest Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, as is Mrs. E. G. White, widow of the real founder of the denomination. Ail over these sections the lamps of the Adven? tists have glimmered steadily all this year, and few evenings pass that are not spent in devotional service at church or at home, waiting for the second coming of Christ. The Adventists believe that the pres? ent dead only sleep and that they, with the living, will be arranging for judgment at the last day, when the wicked will be utterly consumed, the fire purifying this earth, which will then be converted into heaven, where not only the souls, but the bodies of the righteous will live immor? tal Au Incident of the War. From Spartanburg Spartan. Never be too positive of anything, unless you are wide-a wake and duly sober. Just after the fall of Savannah, Ga., in 1864, this thing occurred. I was a courier at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. C, on Sullivan's Island. There was a vessel to sail into the port of Charleston, S. C, and I had a dispatch to take to the different commanders of the different batteries on the Island and have the officer of the battery to sign not to fire on a vessel that was to run the blockade laden with 300 women and children com? ing into Charleston under a flag of truce. The vessel was expected about sunrise. At one of the batteries, Bee, I gave the order to an orderly for the officer in com? mand to sign and I waited impatiently for the return of the order, having it to carry to battery Marshall to have signed. And the officer in command at battery Bee was in bed and about half asleep, or drunk, I don't know which, and did not return the order to me. I went into his room and asked for the order. He said he had signed it and given it to me. I said to him, "you are mistaken sir." He said, "I'll swear I did." I said, "I'll swear on a stack of Bibles as high as the heavens that you did not." Seeing my positiveness he began to bunt for the order and found it between his bed and the wall of the house signed. Being half asleep, or half drunk, I don't know which, he had signed the order and thrown it back of his bed on the floor next to the wall, and if the order had not been found he would have sworn that be bad signed it and given it to me, a poor private soldier, and I would have had to bear the blame of a vessel sunk by our batteries and the lives of 300 women and children sunk in a watery ";rave. So I would say, do not be too positive of anything unless you are wide awake and duly sober. Confed. XXIII.- -NO. 38. Tlic Paralyzlnglilxperlcnco of a Gallant Tcnnesscean. The nicest little episode of the season in social life occurred at the residence of a charming family on Spruce street jost the other day. One of our best known citizens, a man . of high social standing, and who is as polite as he is ingenuous in bis social re? lations, heard that an eld friend, Mrs. Judge D, from a neighboring town in the State of Alabama, was in the city. His remembrance of the charming Mrs, D. when she was Miss-and he was tbe most gallant of all the beaux in that circle of cultivated people in the old town of H., carried him back to youth's fitful frivolitieslwhen the flash of the maiden's eye quickened tfi*e heart's throb bings, and to a friend.he said,': "Well, by george, I will go and see Msttie. I have not seen her in thirty years! Wonder if she will know me? Go with, me and see^us meet; it will be youth's pleasures brought back for ?the hour. Go and see us meet. But don't you^tell her who I am. Don't, be certain. Won? der if she will know me ?" And stepp ing into a barber's shop he said) "Do me up ; do me up nice; make me^look as young as possible; confound these gray. - whiskers. But, never mind, I'll put on the smile of youth." Beaching the residence, he was met in ? the hall by the elegant Miss-. He gave again special instructions not to be introduced, again ejaculating: "I, won? der if she will know me?" Entering the parlor where sat in lively chat a charm? ing bevy of ladies, the central.'figure of whom was [Mrs.* Judge D., and a most lovely woman she was, too, with a head-1 of hair as beautiful as hoar-frost, but a bright smiling face, which marked a charming contrast with the whitening : locks above. Approaching herewith no introduction, but extended hands and tbe smile of youth under a frosty beard, and with a keen and like remembrance of the days long gone by, he said with the heroic confidence of an Andrew!' Jackson, and the politeness of a Robert L. Chester: "Me lie, do you know me ?" ^ Mrs. Judge D., catching the spirit and not;to be beaten in the open field, polite? ly rose, all smiling. She accepted both hands which he hadjendered with the: bewitching tenderness of a rejuvenated beau,,but said, with coy forgetfulness: "You take me by surprise. Like myself, ? you can't conceal the creeping years, and_;< one whose head is silvery as mine can't. be expected to remember even old friends i of the youthful period. Please rei! me your name. You keep me in suspense." ? "But," said the Nashville friend, wi?rlhe politeness born with all the true gentle? men of this good old city of social gen? tleness : "Why, Mattie, don't you know" me? Look into my eye; think back thirty years; take a good-look. -I wciild"" know you anywhere. Your -eye is just the same. You were charmingly bauti ful when young, and time has only changed the beauty of youtfiTnirjriirer" charms of the matron. Well, well, Mat tie, I am surprised." "But," said the lovely lady, whose charms bad been so familiarly handled, "my name is not Mattie. Judge D/s^ first wife was named Mattie." It is only necessary to say that the hero of the occasion covered himself all over with glory in the retreat. Joe ' Johnson couldn't have beaten ft in his palmiest days.?Nashville American. A Voting Minister's Punishment for Flirting. Paekeesbueg, W. Va., March 18.? Among tbe recent candidates who were received into the ministry of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church was a young man named Geo. Shaw, Irving in Jackson counnty. The first charge for Bev. Shaw was at Fair field, in Kanawha county. While there-^, he wooed and won a beautiful girl named Miss Ira Little. While at Fairfield he was assiduous in his devotions to Miss Little. About three months ago he was temporarily transferred to a charge at Ceredo, in Waine county. Forgetting;' his first love, though he bad promised ' her marriage, he soon found in Miss Hattie Willis, a member of his new flock, and much more to his fancy, and in time wooed, won and wed her. It was now ^ Miss Little's turn. Instead of committing suicide or instituting a "Baby Bunting" suit, she took her parents into confidence, and the matter was brought before the Methodist church. It has just resulted in the young divine being suspended" from preaching. At the close of a dis? course preached by the young man'ejj father in Ceredo, the young minister^ stood up in his pulpit and announced therefrom that be bad been suspended be cause he had promised to marry one lady and deserted her for another. The young minister will leave for Ohio in a few-days^ to join the Ohio conference.?Baltimore [ American. r^r Education Among tbe Chinese. As a people the Chinese males are bet? ter educated than any other race of peo-. pie in the world. Educat? m to a certain extent is compulsory or all Chinese males, although the mass cannot do much more than read and write; still to that ex tent they are well educated. It has been the policy of the Chinese government for? hundred of years to select a certain num-. ber of boys from each district and educate - tbem for historians and writers. Their work is never completed, for as long as they live and are able to do anything they continue to write and study. Every five years they pass an examination, and, according to their proficiency they are promoted to office or rank. As a rule no Chinese can hope to attain prominence in any civil or military office pertaining to the Government unless he has succeeded as a scholar, for the Chinese believe no' man can succeed as a scholar unless he has ability, and if he possesses ability, why then, as a matter of course, he is a suitable person to hold office; but no matter how high the office may be, he must continue his studies, the duties of his cilice being generally performed by a " de>"aty.?Chicago Herald, ? At the close of the last fiscal year there were 406,007 pensioners on the; pehsion roll of the government.