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BY, CIJNKSCALE i^??H^?oL?MN, j. G. CLINKSCA,LES, Editob. Hiss Nettie Miller's school at Smith's ^hapeT. Virenhes Township, will close y 5rlday27th inst. A public exhibition of the school will be given in the even? ing, beginning about 8 o'clock." The exercises will consist of speeches and recitations by the pupils. Music for the ?"/ occation will be fur Dished by the Miller Cousins. All the patrons and friends ..^"^r??'?^noolare invited to be present i The earnestness and enthusiasm of the teacher and the hearty co-operation of thej>atrons insure success. HOW TO ABOLISH- TABDIHES8. '?-^feCan -yon give me* a good method to : abolish tardiness in school ? F. J. C. Poughkcepsie, Jan. 29,1888. f\ Wirjr not try the Seneca Falls plan ?? ^itx is simple, and although sometimes misunderstood, and sometimes causing a little hardship, it works well on the whole, and, at least, accomplishes its object; for tardiness at morning or noon seldom occurs. A reward of half an hour on Friday Afternoon is given to every pupil who. has been punctual through the week. If all the pupil* in any room have been punctual the whole room is rewarded with an hour. Thus, in a room where- no scholars have been tardy, school on Friday closes at three o'clock. If there are cases of tardiness the tardy pupils stay still four, the regular hour, and all the'others nntil 3 80. The. result is a public sentiment that makes a tardy pupil decidedly uncomfortable. Tardi? ness is never excused, so the rule is as relentless as the laws of nature. The only objection to it is, that an ordinary pupil finding himself tardy will stay out for the half-day, bat these cases are not sufficiently numerous to interfere with i' '. efficiency of the school. They-are cases ;: of individual hardship for the public good.-H?. F. Courier, in the School Bulle? tin. ' :, ?? m ' ? ? " A PLAS FOB TEACHTHG HISTOBY. Have several different histories within ! reach of the pupils, and encourage them to use them for reference. Take some one good author to serve as a.guide, or leader, and then supplement this with reading from authors. At the beginning of school take one good work, on United States history, and divide the whole book into about eighty topics, each topic to have two days1 work. By this means, the whole study of United States history will be completed once in a term. For instance, John Adams' adminis? tration constitutes one topic. Consult ? - . . other Justbries, and see what pages, or paragraphs, treat of this topic, and write on the board such pages of such histories to he read by the class. Have two reci tio?s on Adams' administration. In the ^ first recitation, the class will read by paragraph from the "leader" history, the teacher to question on the reading. See that each pupil has a blank book. In the second recitation, designate notes on the topic which the pupils writes down in their blank books* Have pupils take ^ note-books home, learn the notes, and. recite them the next day. Caution?Do not give too much atten? tion to dates. But if the pupil learns why a certain thing was done at a certain time, or what the effect of a certain occur-. ' renco was, he will remember -this a great deal longer, and the recollection of this will help to keep the memory of the date by association. John 0. Myeks. HOW TO EDUCATE PABEHTS. - '. .They need educating. Of this there is . no doubt. Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood, of this city, recently said: "There is a fixed conviction that no one is so fitted to lay oat and superintend a girl's course of study as her own parents. In truth, no one is less competent. Teu j ears' experience in the class-room taught me that the person who knows least about a child's moral deficiencies and intellectual needs is its own mother." This may seem at first to be a hard saying, bat it is _Ji- not. Does the mother know more about what medicine a child needs when it is - sick than the skillful doctor she calls ? Parents do not know the progress that has been made in educational practice daring the past few years; in fact, they 1 they do not know how they wish their I . own children to be educated. A lady writing to the Christian Union on this j subject well asks: "When a daughter goes to her-studies with empty stomach because of the lateness of the family breakfast hoar; when she is kept from school a day or more on account of the ? dressmaker, or because of a shopping excursion to a neighboring city, or because an evening entertainment has upset her nerves, what is one to think of - the mother's ideas of either intellectual > or moral training ?" What can the teacher do? Talk with parents on this subject whenever oppor trinity occurs. Many excellent fathers and mothers haye never considered what education means. To them, "getting the lessons," "passing the examinations," is sli That & school is to develop the good, and repress the evil, and train for success in life, more than for the learn? ing of facts, has not dawned on the \ ' minds of thousands of parents. They have not thought that habits of punctu? ality, order, exact thinking, and stating, quiet perseverance, and helpfulness are worth far more than tons of diplomas or the knowledge of tons of thousands of U^bi.-~Pradical Teacher. WHAT PEKPABATION DOES A TESCHES SEED! Some teachers say: "Nothing but a thorough knowledge of the subjects he expects to teach, and practice." They . add that tact, is essential to success, bat . claim that tact is a native endowment and its possession cannot be obtained by bJfjdy. This furniture put into the mind v from books and observation is important, ? t L .bafc cot as important as cnltaro or train /.;.;ing,and professional information. Col 'i^^taxt, or wha t is the same thing, mental more to the teacher than information, or what is a good 'education.. A !S & LANGSTON. teacher may be able to translate Latin rapidly and correctly, and have no breadth of judgment, no quickness of personal apprehension, no ability of adapting himself to circumstances; in fact, almost no one of the many posses? sions demanded in a good teacher. There are two qualifications found in the really successful administrator more important than the possession of a'quantity of facts. The first of these is judgment, or what the people call common aente, and the second is a knowledge of the materials with which he has to deal. Common sense is generally supposed to be an inherited quality. This is a mistake. Of course the "potentiality" must be present at the start; there must be' something that can be educated before an education com? mences. This must be admitted. But after this, correct training always gives common sense. Therefore we say that the most important thing a training school for teachers should give is common sense. This acquired, school government becomes an easy matter. ? It is impossi? ble to tell any teacher how he should act under all possible circumstances. His own mind must give him that informa? tion. At present thousands of teachers have not this culture, and the result is they fail as soon as they are brought in contact with pupils and their parents. They can "teach," according to their ideal of what teaching is, but they can do litttle else. It is usually said that their failure is due to a want of govern? ing ability. They "know enough but don't know how to apply it." This is the verdict of the world. The difficulty is in a lack of judgment education. The better a teacher is educated the better he can teach: but this by no means im? plies that the more facta a teacher knows the better he can teach. He who can intuitively (as a result of culture) know his pupils' thoDghts, appreciate their difficulties, meet their wants, know their peculiarities, and adapt his thoughts to their thoughts, his words to their com? prehension, can teach: but he who can? not do this cannot teach, no matter how many books he knows. Learning and study are all important. Nothing can be placed before them, but learning and study must enlarge the conceptive pow? ers,', broaden generalization ability, quieken the observation, make vivid and correct the imagination, and create a sensitive, ethical apprehension. The special preparation for a teacher is a knowledge of child nature, and be must gain this through a study of his own .nature. The study of one or two good books on psychology will not help him in this work unless he learns to study himself, and he must do this from the love he has for the study, not "bringing himself by a strong effort of j the will to devote a whole year to this subject;" but turning bis thoughts within, in such a manner as to learn how the mind grows to maturity, and - how it acts both during its maturing and mature states.?School Journal, ? Why Girls Go Wrong. Child Culture thinks that girls like bad boys the best, and that they will forsake father and mother, disregard the advice of their truest friends, and bring desola? tion to the hearts of all rather than renounce a dissolute fellow, are facts too potent to require proof. What is the cause Of this ? In well-to-do families the girls are spared every effort and deprived of every opportunity to exercise their will power, and consequently grow up wholly unprepared to exercise judgment, decis? ion and action. The sentimental, poetic, delirious period arrives. The emotional nature, under the stimulus of awakening faculties, how become supreme, and the girl is wholly under its control. There should be no difference in a girl's and a boy's life until they are ten years of age. She ought to be equal of her brother in out-of door sports. Until they are fif? teen years of age they ought to have the same training in school. As much ought to be expected from her as from him. After that time their education should differ, according to their different spheres of action. A true affection is an anchor to character, and if a girl's life were se? curely anchored at home she would not be easily driven out to sea. The father, rather than the mother, is or can be a favorite with the daughter. If a father wishes to fortify his daughter against folly let him retain her love and confi? dence. Not Bimply respect and esteem, but love. And to do this be must feel the love of the child until that love ri? pens into the genuine affection of a woman. Many fathers deceive them? selves. They think their daughters do love them. They will think this when they cannot remember ever to have had a confindental interchange of thoughts, aspirations and secrets, puch as vc have only with those we dearly Jove and fully trust. They cannot remember when tbey had a caress or anything but a formal kiss; and yet they think their daughters love .them. Apply these tests: "We confide in those we love. Does your daughter reveal her heart to you? We like to be with those we love. Does yonr daughter long for your companionship ? Does she really enjoy being with you ? Will she forsake the society of others to be with you ? If your daughter has loved you and confided in you from infancy and found in you that true friend that she ought to find, do you think she will forget all this and go contrary to your wishes? She will not fall in love, but will enter into love deliberately, and her father who has her confidence can coun? teract the leading if he sees fit. When a young man comes to steal her heart he will find the old gentleman at home. If he wants that heart he must ask for it and satisfy all parties concerned of his ability to treasure it. If he be a sneak thief he will soon be gone. If he be a true knight he will enter upon the conquest with a manly courage and bearing that itself is evidence of bis worthiness. ? Ayer's Cathartic Pills are suited to every age. They are mild and pleasant in action, thorough and searching, in effect, and, being sugar coated, are easy to take. These pills never fail to give satisfaction. ? One of the Western ranches is owned and managed by a woman. She is probably the cow belle of the West. THE DRUMMERS, Bill Arp Falls in With a Crowd or Them. A traveling man ought to have all the comforts that are possible. I am not thinking about myself but about these drummers. I don't like to call them drummers, for it is not a very comely name and Bounds harsh and slaDgy, but it started that way and sticks, and we mean no harm by it. A regular drum? mer used to be a fellow who beat the kettle drum to call up the boys and get them into line at the old fashioned mus? ters. One played the fife and another rattled the drum, and when they began their music the captains of the militia would cry out: "Ob, yes I Oh, yes I all that belongs to Captain Jenkins's com? pany, parade here?fall in men, fall in I" Then the boys would begin to straggle into line, some with guns and some with sticks, and some with cornstalks or umbrellas, and the line was as straight as a crooked fence and never got any straighter. Some stood up straight and some half bent and some squatted down; some had coats and some had none, and all were talking or laughing, but they were drummed up nevertheless. "Do you hear the drum, boys?let's go and fall into line," they wonld say, and so a -drummer now is a man who draws the attention and makes the boys fall into line. I was talking to a merchant yes? terday in Chattanooga, and a courteous. young man came in with some cigars and took off his hat politely and introduced himself and showed his cigars and asked the privilege of placing his brand in the show case for trial. He did it so nicely and was so pleasant that the merchant could not refuse. I was in another store and a youcg man came in to show his samples of cutlery, and he, too, was so polite the merchant had to humor him, although he did not wish to buy. Civil? ity pays, politeness pays, good manners and good breeding pays. We may ad? mire a diamond in the rough, and there are people with big hearts and rough manners, but after all, pleasant and agreeable manners are the best. They are the best among the ladies. I know from experience. I was speaking of a man the other day to my wife, and Bhe said, "I like him very much, he has such nice manners, he is so attentive and kind. Why the other day when I left my para? sol in the store he brought it across the street and took off his bat as he presented it to me?' Well, the truth is I diden't like him so everlasting much, for I thought him a little too dogone obse quios and my wife oughten't to have forgot her parasol no how, but politeness pays an.l the women appreciate it more than the men. My wife says there was a time away back when, if she dropped her hankerchief I would jump ten leet to get it but now I set there like a stump and simply i ay, my dear you have dropped your hankerchief. Just, so?Anno Domini will tell?nevertheless I don't like to Bee politeness overdone. Bill Jones was mighty polite and was very fond of escorting Mrs. Goulding to din? ner or suprar at the hotel when Captain Goulding was away in his steamboat. Well she thought it was nothing but gentlemanly politeness and so accepted his invitations. The captain ca.me in unexpectedly one evening, and as Bill was prancing along with Mrs. G. to sup? per, he grabbed him by the collar and gave him a twist and a turn and kicked him about a rod, and remarked: "Now, dogoo you, go and get a wife of your own." I have known many a good, solid young man boycotted by the girls because he lacked manners. But I was ruminating about the drum? mers. One of them got off the train with me the other morning about an hour before day, and we looked all around for a light or a porter, or some place to go to, and finally settled down in a piazza of a humble hotel, where three dogs were sleeping, but they rapped the floor with their friendly tails, and so we Bat down and waited for daylight. It was a good time to talk sense, and we talked it until the roosters crowed and continued it until the sun rose, and then the family got up and, to our surprise, gave us a cordial welcome and a good, old-fashioned break? fast. A good breakfast is a splendid harmonizer. The stomach is the thing to work on, and these drummers know it. They can tell you the precise character of every hotel in their territory, and they make the hotel business a subject of prayer. I always go to the hotel that they patronize They don't care half as much about tariff reform or civil service reform as they do about hotel reform. They are a long ways from home and their loved ones. They have to take the weather as it comes and get on and off the trains at all times of night und all kinds of places and meet with disappoint? ments and vexations, and it takes good victuals and good beds to keep them calm and serene. My wife, Mrs. Arp, she knows how it is. When I get back home tired and weary with travel ehe goes to the kitchen herself and fixes me up something ever so nice, and it revives me and rejuvenates me and causes me to bask in the sunshine of domestic bliss, and so I get out my pocketbook and lay it in her lap, and then she is calm and serene and don't scold the children nor complain of the cook or the washerwomen. But by and by she slacks up a little and puts me to work and keeps me at it until I get ready to go off again. I think Bhe has an idea that I have a good time when I am gone, and am fed on taffy and turkey and all good the good things, but I shake my venerable head and sigh and look solemn and say: "There is no place like home; elsewhere all is vanity and vexation of spirit," and my affidavit face satisfies her for a while, I know. Sometimes I think the hotels ought to be regulated by law. There ought to be a traveling inspector. They all ought to be published and rated in a book just like Dun and Bradstreet rate the mer? chants. Booms, beds, Bheets, towels, soap, the table, the waiters and general com? fort all ought to be classed and numbered. If the only clean place on a towel is a hole it ought to be mentioned. The traveling public ought to be advised exactly what they may expect; whether the fare is good enough, what there is of it, or enough of it auch as it is, or whether lhe lNDEKSON, S. C, 1 coffee is coffee or slop, or whether the sheets were changed after the last man occupied the bed. Now, when a wayfar? ing man say, "You have a very pretty town, but your hotel is miserable," it is a bad slam on the town. He leaves it with a bad impression, and he don't want to go back any more. If he visits a place with a good intent to locate or buy some property, a dirty hotel makes him home? sick and in a bad humor, acd you can't get a good trade out of him. A man told me* not long ago that he would have invested in some fine mineral property in north Georgia, but he was sick at the stomach all the time he was there. The diningroom had a foul odor wben he entered it, and he didn't enjoy bis vic? tuals. He said he was afraid to eat anything but boiled eggs and baked po? tatoes. If a town wants to rise and grow it would pay the community to hire a good landlord or landlady and nm a good decent hotel. When a man who lives well at home is penned up abroad in a dirty hotel he is restless and suspic? ious, and in no humor to trade. But satisfy his appetite and stuff him with generous food, and he is all right and all ready. If you want to attack a man for charity or generosity, go for him just after he has finished a good dinner. Solomon tells about "bowels of mercies, bowels of compassion." The heart has nothing to do with a man's emotions. That is an antiquated mistake. It is lower down. The heart may be utterly diseased and the man not know it, but let the organs of the appetite get out of order and the whole man is demoralized. I wish the T. P. A's would hire me to travel and peruse the hotels, and when* ever I dident find a decent one then I was to Organize a new one, and let the drummers boycott all the others. Last fall I was down in lower -Georgia and some drummers asked me where I was going to stop and I said: "I don't know; at the hotel I reckon ;" and they said: "No, do you go with us; the hotel is a fraud, and we have set up a nice, good old widow lady, and we all go there." So I followed them, and I never found a better place outside of my home. Everything was so clean and so nice. The fare was not expensive, but it was good. She had good honest Bausage and lye hominy, and eggs fried on both Bides, and loose in the middle, and good bread and good coffee, and buttermilk, and the plates were all glossy, and the knife handles felt like they were polished, and svery thing about and about, made a man fell like a gentleman. A man can live on sloppy victuals until be loses his gen? tility, and will tell a lie, or cheat in a trade, or use cuss words, or slander his neighbor. A man will partake of his surroundings and if be lives like a hog be will grow hoggish. I knew a very nice young man whose mother was a pat? tern of neatness and propriety. Well, he married a girl who was pretty and smait md dressed very nice on Sundays and when company wsb about, but she was a slattern, nevertheless, and wore dirty stockings with holes in the toes, and iirty underclothes (they say she did) and that young man began to go down and Jown and lost his spirit and bis gentility. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, they say, and I believe it. Bill Abp. A Letter From the Pope. Cleveland, April 9.?The Catholic Universe this week will print this letter from Pope Leo XIII, acknowledging the jubilee gift of President Cleveland. The :opy was forwarded by Cardinal Gibbons to Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland r "To our Beloved Son, James Gib? bons. Cardinal, Priest of the Holy Roman Church, Archbishop of Balti? more : Well beloved son, health and benediction. Among the countless con? gratulations which we have received from all parts of the world upon the occasion Df the fiftieth anniversary of our election to the priesthood, we have, as was natur? al, set more store by the 'evidence of courtesy and regard sent by the rulers of the nations. For by these marks of their good will toward the bead of the Church they manifest, and this we ardently desire, their kindly dispositions toward their Catholic subjects. Since then, the illustrious President of the United States has, through you, our beloved son, seen fit to exhibit a like courtesy, accompany? ing the expression of the eame with a gift of a suberb copy of the Constitution of that most powerful republic, he has in so doing afforded us a peculiar pleasure and satisfaction. Moreover, as it is fit? ting that we should return to his Excel? lency the expression of our gratitude, we commit the discharge of that duty to you, both on account of you exalted rank in the hierarchy of the republic, and of the personal esteem in which his Excel? lency holds you. "In fulfilling this duty we desire that you should assure the President of our admiration for the Constitution of the United States, not only because it has enabled industrious and enterprising citizens to attain so high a degree of prosperity, but also because, under its protection, your Catholic countrymen have enjoyed a liberty which has so con? fessedly promoted the astonishing growth of their religion in the past, and will, we trust, enable it in the future to be of the highest advantage to the civil order as well. You will be pleased to add that we will pour forth fervent prayers to God for your country's constant advance in glory and prosperity, and for the health and happiness of the President and his worthy household. Finally to you, be? loved son, and to the faithful entrusted to your pastoral care, we, lovingly in the Lord, irrpartour apostolic benediction." An Elegant Substitute For Oils, Salts, Fills, and all kinds of bitter, nauseous Liver Medicines and Cathartics is the very agreeable liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its advan? tages are evident?it is more easily taken, more acceptable to the stomach, more pleasantly effective, and more truly ben? eficial to the system than any other rem? edy. Eecommended by leading physi? cians. ? Senator Eeagan of Texas, has drawn a salary from the public since 1838, when he was surveyor of lands in Texas. HUKSDAY M0RNI1 The Richest Child In America. New York, March 31.?The richest child in America has just gone to Florida with her mother for a few weeks. May Sharpless is her name, and she is nine years old. Her closest rival is Jay Kingdon Gould, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gould, and the grandson of Jay Gould. Young Jay may be rich? er than May after awhile, but just at present be is not. May Sharpless is es? timated to be worth $9,000,000 in her own name and right. Her guardian is Ex-Gov. Leon Abbett, of New Jersey. Even her guardian finds it bard work to keep track of all the wealth that flows into pretty little May's coffers. Before she is of age, if nothing happens, she will be enormously wealthy, and the man who secures her heart will become the bus band of probably the richest woman on the continent ten years hence. May Sharpless is the daughter of a late member of the famous dry goods house of Arnold, Constable & Co. Sharpless was the resident member of the firm in Paris, where he died. His daughter was born abroad. She is as bright as she is I rich. She speaks French and English fluently, and is rapidly acquiring a thorough knowledge of German'. She learns very rapidly, and is very fond of the stage, Her youthful talent has ex? hibited itself more than once in tableaux and private theatricals. Two summers ago she was at Sea Gift, a fashionable re? sort on the Jersey coast, with her mother, nurse . and governess. Some theatricals were given, and May made a big hit in several sentimental parts. Her lover on the stage was little Georgia Boldt, son of the proprietor of the hotel and proprietor of the well known Hotel Bellevue, in Philadelphia. Georgia was about May's age. During the same performance Miss Mamie Abbett, daughter of May's guar? dian, made a hit by her beauty and talent in a rendition of the "Mikado." May's histrionic talent is hard to restrain, as she wants to appear on the Btage at every op? portunity. But it is May Sharpless's dolls that are the wonder of all who know her. She has probably the finest collection of dolls in the world, and she is constantly adding to her stock. Her dolls range in size from the smallest to several that are nearly as large as their owner. Two of them cost thousands of dollars apiece. Every summer Mrs. Sharpless and her child go abroad, and the latest Parisian invention in the doll line are purchased. The dresses for the largest and most ex? pensive dolls are made in Paris by Worth. They are perfect fits and cost more than the average American girl, even in fash? ionable society, pays for her dressing. The dolls' wardrobes of Miss Sharpless are wonders. Each of the favorite dolls has half a dozen miniature trunks filled with dresses and other clothes. The underwear of the dolls is made of the best of lace and the finest of silk. They have the latest style of shoes, and wear the newest shape in hosiery. All of them have hair, not of cornsilk, but gen? uine, and the hair, is dressed according to the existing fashion. Miss May ta'ces down and puts up the hair and when i ho gives a dolls' party, as she occasionally does at her home in this city, the dollies' hair is arranged by regular hair dressers engaged for that purpose, At her home here May has dolls' houses, carriages and a regular dolls' establishment. Her dolls' parties are well worth witnessing. She invites her girl friends to bring their best dolls, and the reception is modelled ex? actly after receptions in high life. En? graved invitatations have been sent on several of these occasions, and the dolls were brought in carriages by their mis? tresses. They wore wraps, their dresses were cut low in front and V-shaped be? hind, and corsets, bustles and the usual female paraphernalia made up the cos? tumes. As most of the dolls could walk when wound up, the scene in the parlor as they moved around, using their fans and b.ottles of smelling-salts, was decid? edly realistic. It was certainly decidely novel ^-Philadelphia Times. Bapid Progress. It is not to be wondered at that in the olden times men lived slowly, though the stage coach was fast enough and that two days was quick time for a journey from New York to Philadelphia, and four days from New York to Boston, ajourney now made in little more tban four hours; that public libraries were unknown and the annual almanac took the place of the daily newspaper. We live in a different world from that of our fathers. No other race has ever known its like. It has I witnessed transformations surpassing the greatest of miracles. It has seen cities : spring up on the prairies and become ! magnificent centers of business and pop I ulation in less than a score of years. It has seen one of the greatest cities of the I world, the rival of the oldest and grandest centers of foreign wealth, rise in its might at the ocean gate-way of the empire State. What will the twentieth century Bee ? Will its restless people be satisfied with present means of communication and intercourse? Will electricity, with jts marvelous development, continue to unfold its weird resources and afford the vital energy that shall banish time and distance altogether ? Will nations learn to leave the arts of war to the past and submit to the arbitrament of peace? Will the cry of human liberty ring around the world without once reaching the ear of the slave? Will the divine dispensation be sufficient to bring unity to the Christian churches ? Will poverty be banished, ignorance and superstition give way to the march of civilization and Christianity, and will the millenium dawn? Whatever may be the future, man's posi? tion to day is truly one of unparalleled grandeur. The night that ushers in the new year of 1900 will witness the most magnificent celebration of modern times. The whole world will unite in welcoming the new year and the birth ot the twen? tieth century. May all our readers be spared to witness the scene and partici? pate in its unpictured and unwritten glo? ries.?Albany Evening Journal, ? Catarrh cured, health and sweet breath secured, by Sbiloh's Catarrh rem? edy. Price 50 cents. Nasal Injectoi free. For sale by Hill Bros. 1 *G, APKIL 19, 1888. His Own Funeral Sermon. Athens, Ga., April 8?Three thou? sand persons met at the little church twenty miles fiom this city in which the Rev. Nathaniel Pridgeon acts as pastor. Three months ago Mr. Pridgeon, who is 84 years old, announced his purpose of preaching his own funeral sermon on this day. This eccentric announcement was followed by an order for a special coffin made of Georgia pine, not painted, and made secure by chain and padlock. The coffin was taken out to the little church yesterday, followed by a curious crowd, who sat around it all night after the manner of an Irish wake. Dr. Pridgeon was up by daylight and examined the coffin critically, testing it by placing himself in it. Your reporter then took occasion to find out from him tbo reason of his strange freak. "Young man," said he, "eighty-four years have passed over my head. I have hearn sermons preached over people that were not true. I have hearn bad men praised and good men half praised. I have preached the Gospel for fifty years. I know my own faults and my own good points. I have determined not to have men talking over my dead body about things they do not kuow. I made up my mind to preach my own funeral sermon, and to day I will whip the carnal Pridgeon and I will extol the spiritual Pridgeon. When at last my eyes are closed in death I a ant my body to be put away quickly under the bless ing which I will pronounce over myself to-day," At high noon the old man ascended his pulpit. On one side were the members of his family in mourning. Just in front of him was his open coffin, and around him were the 3,000 auditors. Dr. Lowry opened the meeting with singing, and Dr. Pridgeon made a prayer, which be followed by announcing his text from Corinthians, 9th verse, 2d chapter and as a parallel text he read Ephesians, 8th and 9th verses, 2d chapter. He denounc? ed the custom of holding funeral obser? vances, but since custom had forced them he proposed to attend to bis own funeral himself. The* sermon was a curious medley of foolish saying and good sense, many ob? servations causing laughter. Hymns were sung frequently, although the affair was as ludicrous as it was novel. Before he got through with his discourse many began to leave the church, but the coun? try people around listened to the end. * Dr. Pridgeon, after the sermon was over, gave a sketch of his life. He was born in North Carolina, but has been living in Georgia seventy years, He has preach? ed in eleven States, to all of which the Lord called him, except Alabama, and he stoutly declares that only the devil could draw a man to that State. He be? longs to the Campbellite Church, has been twice married, and declares that no man ought to live single for a single mo? ment when so many good women are anxious to get husbands. Bidn t Sell Him, A gentleman, while riding through the Mississippi river bottoms, stopped at a negro cabin to get a drink of water. Noticing a very fine setter dog, the gen? tleman said v "That is a beautiful dog." "Yas, sah, 'bout ez putty er dog ez dar is in die here neighborhood." "You haven't any use for such a dog as that." "No, sah, dat's er fack." "Suppose I were to give you $5, put a rope around the dog's neck and lead him away ?" "Wouldn't hear no plaint outen me, sah.'.' The man gave the negro $5, took up a rope, secured the dog and led him off. He bad gone about two miles when he was met by a planter, who, looking at the dog, exclaimed: "Look here, what are yon doing with my dog 1" "You must be mistaken, sir. This is my dog. I gave an old negro $5 for him juBt now." "Five dollars! Why, he cost me fifty. Come on back here and Bhow me the negro." The man went back with the planter, They found the old negro Bitting in front of his cabin. "Look here, Mario," exclaimed the planter, "why did you sell my dog?" "I didn't sell yo' dog, Col'n." "You are an old liar 1" exclaimed the man. **I came along here and gave you S5 for him." "W'y man, you ain't right bright in yo' mine. You come erlaung here an' said dat de dog wuz beautiful. I didn't 'spute dtt, caze he is beautiful. Den you said oat?I?didn't hab no use fur sich er dog, an' I didn't 'spute you, caze I ain't. Den you said suthun' 'bout gibin' me fi' dollars an' leadin' de dog erway. Dat bit me, fur a man down in dis coun? try is er fool dat woan take fi' dollars w'en er pusson gibs it ter him. "Didn't ax if de dog 'longed to|me, an' didn't say nuthin' 'bout buyin' 'im. I neber tole you dat de dog wuz mine." "You old rascal, give me my money." "What, he fi'dollars?" "Yes." "Wall, sah, I would do it in er mi nit an' show joy on mer face in being able ter 'commerdate yer, but I spent dat money jes now fur some co'n ter feed mer ole nag wid. Jus skuzelme, please, for I'se got business out yere in de woods."?Arkansaw Traveler. ? "No," said the skeptic, "I don't be? lieve half of the stories in the Bible about people being struck dead for their sins, or anything of the kind." "What stories do you mean?" "Why, about Ananias being struck dead, for 'nstance. How is it that the lightning doesn't strike people dead for lying nowadays?" "Because there would have to be a continuous thunder storm to do it." ? Mr. Dawson, of Marion, Ind., began marrying in 1832, and now at the age of 75 has just married his seventh wife. None of the seven was over 31 years old when she became Mrs. Dawson. ? Will you suffer with dyspepsia and Liver Complaint ? Shiloh's Vitalizer is guaranteed to cure you. For sale by Hill Bros. A Few Reflections on Corn Raising. A. B. Coleman, of Caldwell county, Ky., says in the Rural New Yorker: The corn crop of this country can be doubled without increasing the amount of fertilizers at present used, or the acre* age. This statement will doubtless be questioned by a large number of intelli? gent farmers. There is no other crop in the United States about the cultivation of which there is such a differenc of opinion, or the best way of cultivating which is so little understood. Three fourths of the farmers who grow corn at all cultivate it too much or improperly. By cultivation I mean the work given the crop after it is up and growing, and not the preparation of the soil before plant? ing. Corn requires but comparatively little cultivation if the soil has been properly prepared before hand; and whatever work it receives should be I given when the crop is quite young. Thoroughly breaking and pulverizing the soil are the most important consider? ations. The cultivation should begin as soon as the corn is cleverly up with either a harrow or cultivator, and the work should be continued until the crop is laid by. If the corn is planted in checks, one good plowing each way will secure a good crop, other conditions being favorable. It should be laid by before it is knee high, and the last plow? ing should be very shallow. A turning plow should never go in a corn field after the crop is planted. The modern one-horse turning plow has destroyed millions of bushels of corn, and the same may be said of the long-shank double shovel. The turning-plow leaves the field in ridges, while level culture is the proper thing. The double shovel will go too deep in spite of the plowman, and mutilate the young lateral corn roots. Every time these roots are bruised or broken the corn is damaged. Boot pruning is an advantage to a barren fruit tree, but it should not be practiced in the cultivation of,a corn crop. To grow corn successfully, make the soil fertile if not already so; break deep; pulverize thoroughly; run a drag over it and let it take a rain or two. Bebreak it not quite so deep ,* harrow again; then run a drag over it to make it smooth. Lay it off 3} to 4} feet each way. Plant good, sound corn. Begin to cultivate early, and quit early. Do not be too im? patient to plant Better to wait until the ground gets warm. If you plant too early the corn will make a Blow start; the stalks will get hard and the crop will never do so well, besides, the grass or weeds may get ahead of the corn. Put the turning-plow and double shovel under the tool-shed as soon as the corn is planted, and use the cultivator and a one horse harrow with short teeth. In breaking the land, a good coat of young grass and weeds will be turned under, and millions of seed just germi? nating will be destroyed, thus making the labor of cultivation much less. It is fallacy to throw up a big ridge next to the corn to keep it from being blown down. The roots hold up the corn. Just as well pile soil around a fruit tree to keep it from being blown down. It is a fallacy to plow corn deep when it is silking, during a drought, to bring up the moisture. The plowing is a serious injury. If the soil has been properly prepared the moisture will be brought up by capillary attraction. It is fallacy to undertake, by five or six plow ings in a field of growing corn, to do the work that ought to be done before plant? ing. Wild Cattle of Oregon. A strange breed of wild cattle is found in the high hills skirting the Unaqua valley, Oregon. In the mountains near Biddies and Bosebud, they are probably the most plentiful, but they do not ven? ture down in the valley much. They stay on the hills and get water from the living springs which rise there. For the most part they are concealed in the dense growth of oak and fir in these mountains. There is heavy underbrush, too, so it is a hard matter to get them. They go in bands of six or eight, usually, -but at night a herd of forty or fifty get together and lie down in the same yard?that is, they sleep in the same spot, which^s usually a secluded spot among the fc'jjSs. A band of wild cattle have been k^JS/n to get together on a cleared place like this every night for a couple of years." ~ When feeding there are always a few bulls to act as Bentinels While the cattle graze in bands of half a dozen or so they are, nevertheless, close to other bands bo that an alarm from any one of the bulls, which leisurely feed on higher ground, they all run away together. The cattle are of all colors and wilder than deer. It is a hard matter to get a shot at them for the reason that their scent is bo keen. They can smell a man a long distance off. They got wild' in 1853, when old man Biddies and two or three others of the first settlers came to the valley. Their cows wandered off and could not be found. After two or three years all the pioneers had to do when they wanted beef was to rig out two or three pack animals and go up into the mountains. The cattle had to be killed on sight, the same as a deer or bear, for they could no more be driven down than deer could. Once killed, they were quartered, packed on horses and j carried down. They have been hunted a good deal of late years, so there are not so many as there used to be. A peculiarity about these cattle is that their eyes and horns are jet black. The retina, iris, and whole apple of the eye are one mass of solid black. You can't distinguish any differ? ence in any part of it. The horns, too, while being black as ink, are long and sharp. Brought to bay, the Oregon wild cattle are very wicked fighters.?Boston Transcript. ? That hacking cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guarantee it. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Never be discouraged by trifles. If a spider breaks his thread twenty times he will mend it as many. Perseverance and patience will accomplise wonders. ? Sleepless nights, made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the remedy for you. For sale by Hill Bros* VOLUME Consolation In Sorrow. A lady dressed in mourning and having a look of Bostonian refinement and reserve got on a Chicago train bound for j Denver one day last week. Away out in Kansas near Dogwood Creek, there board? ed the train a native of the soil in the shape of a woman in a green delaine dress, a blue and red shawl and a yellow nubia. She dropped easily and gracefully into the seat in front of the lady in black, turned around, stared hard for a moment and then said: "Widder ?" "I?1?did you speak to me ?" asked the lady in surprise. "Yes'm-widder?" "Yes." "Thought so. Quite rccont, eh ?" "Yes." "Whatailded him?" "Consumption." "Linger a good while?" "I?I?yes." "Much ag'ny?" "Yes, indeed." "Coughed a sight, hey 1" "Oh, yes: but I-" "I know what'd cured him in leas'n a month. Never knowed it to fail, an' I've seed it tried in cases where they'd been given up by five doctors. Yes'm, But it ain't no use talkin' 'bout that now. Any children ?" "Yes, three." "His folks got 'em?" "No; but really, I-" "Two boys an' a girl, or two girls an' a boy ?" "Two girls." "Oh 1 Did you git your thirds out an' out?" "Really, madame, I-" "Or did he leave a will ?" "Excuse me, but-" "The law gives a woman her thirds, 'taint often she gits 'em out'n out. I think she ort to have half, don't you ?" "I?I? really, I don't know." "Well, I do. Was you made?gardeen of your children?" "No-that is-" "Well, I bet I'd be gardeen of my own younguns if my man was to die. These gardeens git the prop'ty- half the time. Did he have money in bank ?" "I beg your pardon, but-" ''You ought to made him put it in your name. It makes it lots easier when the man dies to settle things up. His kin try to break the will ?" "Excuse me-" "A man cayn't die nowadays 'thout a pack o' his folks tryin' to break the will, no matter how many wives and children he has. You goin' to wear crape all the time or only a year?" "Pardon me, but-" "It's becomin' to you, but kinder ex? pensive for common wear. But dear me, you ain't more'n 36. or 8?', are you ?" No reply. "I don't know how you feel 'bout second marriages, but I-" "Oh, madame, please-" "You'll marry agin, now I'll bet you do. Ob, I know how you feel now. My Bister Cindy felt and talked just so, an' she married agin in six months an' done well, too. I'd wait a year if I was you. It looks better, shows respect and all that ; but if I was young as you, an' had only three children, I'd-" But the lady in black bad fled to the next car, and her consoler turned to the man on her right and said : "Talk 'bout her not marryin' agin! I've an idee she's goin' West a purpose to see if she can do well there, and I don't blamn her."?Detroit Free Frees. How to get Married, Sure; A dream of youthful femininity, which is not always confessed but which will not down before all the modesty and in? nocence of maidenhood, is marriage. During the heydey of life the hope to marry is rarely so- pronounced as is the regret for non-marriage after the matri? monial years have grown sere. It is to guard all women with life yet before them against the disadvantageous cir? cumstances of spinsterbood that we reproduce the remarkable letter which Mrs. Frank Leslie keeps lithographed wherewith to refuse the innumerable offers of marrage that fill her voluminous mail: "Sir?An offer of marriage is always a compliment. At least it is always intended as such, being the highest tri? bute of respect your sex can pay to mine. To me this compliment comes oftener than to most women, for the simple rea? son that my occupation draws me into constant contact with the men of science, literature and art, as well as society and practical men of affairs. My life, how? ever, is so full, so perfectly rounded with its days of charming art work and earn? est endeavor,"and its evenings crowded full of pleasure and amusement through the kindness of friends, that I have neither time nor thought of matrimony, and shall never marry unless a name be offered me higher niched in the temple of fame than that left me by my husband of which I am a thousand times proud. And so with many thanks for the honor you have done me, I beg to subscribe myself what I shall probably be to the end?yours very truly, "Mrs. Frank Leslie." How full of instruction is this for the young women of the day. Here is the key for future offers without number. Follow Mrs. Leslie's lead in you busi? ness career. Arouse your energy. Dis? play your talents. Cultivate your abilities. Exercise devotion to your task. Grow rich. Make a name for yourself, and then, even if your beauty be far below that of Mrs. Leslie, the masculine division of your race will be at your feet in crowds. We do not mean to say that here lies the only road to wedded bliss, but it is one road, and its roughness and difficul? ties lead to proportionately greater prizes in this the lottery of life.?New York Evening Sun. ? A perfectly sound body and a mind unimpaired are possible only with pure blood. Leading medical authorities indorse Ayer's Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifying medicine in existence. It vastly increases the working and pro? ductive powere of both hand and brain, I XXIII.?NO. 41. J All Sorts of Paragraphs. . ? A citizen of Georgia has a ken that only lays on Sunday. ?- 3,324,000 postal cards have been used in the U. S. the past fifteen years. * ? Four thousand Irish emigrants have just sailed from Queens town for America. ? In Vermont it is misdemeanor to smoke a cigar on the streets on Sunday. A man in Dubuque, Iowa, who claimed that he was the devil has been locked up as an impostor. ? The latest idea in New York butterfly show, at which 100,000 sped mens will be exhibited. ? The consumption of sugar in the United States last year was 1,392,909 tons, the largest for six'years. ? During the recent religions meet? ings in Augusta, Ga., a Chinaman was converted to the'.Christian religion. ? A speech was made a few days ago in the Canadian Parliament in .favor of annexation with the United States. ? The total production of ^coffee in the world is about 650,000 tons, of which Brazil alone produces about 380,000 tons. ? Ten cents an acre was all a farm of of 954 acres brought recently in Green county, Alabama, when sold under mort? is a I >eci-: 1 ? A Brooklyn woman has completed a crazy quilt with 24,781 pieces in it. Her husband is said to button his ens penders with a horseshoe nail. ? The London Lancet tells, "how to lie while asleep." If it will teach some people how to keep from lying when awake it will do a'public service.' ? A Richmond sister says: "I am tired of so much talk about the women question. We have hid our way in the past and intend to h? ve it in the future." ? "Do yon know the gentleman ?" asked a lady of her little girl, in refer-k ing to the minister who was making a pastoral call. "Of course I do," said the little dear. "He does the hollering at our church." ? The other day at Fresno, Cal., a ewe gave birth to three lambs, two white and one black as the ace of clubs. When the mother saw this off color offspring she stamped on and butted the poor little fellow until it was dead. ? There will be an exhibition in Paris next year intended to illustrate all the : religions of the earth, past and present. Idols, manuscripts, and all tangible sym? bols of religions will:;be shown in a mu? seum building, which it is expected will coBt $200,000. ? The Farmer's Alliance seems to be a popular organization in many States and up to this time it has not attempted to monkey with elections. They have many subordinate Alliances in North Carolina and the farmers seem well pleased with the benefits received.._^ ? A Richmond, Mich., woman lost" her watch a few days ago. She could not find it, but wherever she went she' heard that watch tick. This nerved her' on to greater t fforts, and she turned the house upside down in her search?and then found the watch in her bustle. ? A few days ago the wife of William Sparks, of York county, was bitten on^ the foot by a Bmall black spider. Very soon the .foot began to swell and there were very alarming symptoms compell? ing the lady to take .to bed and call in a physician. At last accounts hercondi-. tion was serious, but hopes are enter? tained that she* will not die. ? The two hnndred years lease of sixty acres of New York city is liable to I prove a bonanza to the heirs, and if not^j| to them it will at least prove fat picking J for the lawyers. The estate is valued at twenty million*'dollars, and any lawyer with a finger in the pie that dc rich will hardly be credited with enough to refree a dog fight. ? A Missouri farmer learned that t| grand jury was about to indict him j working on Sunday. He didn't evade the charge, but on the had his four sons summoned as witnc against him. He was fined $1 and a total of $5. But as the mileage | witness fees of. bis sons amountec $10.40, the family cleared $5.40 or transaction. ? Here is a new danger. John ton, of San Francisco, sometime commenced taking phosphorus nerve tonic. He found the drug I ?up his system at first, but a little 1st began to impair him. Last week he wal?| admitted to a hospital in a pitiable conj dition. His teeth had dropped out and his lower jaw was crumbling awaj physicians are giving him stir but he constantly begs for a few^ phosphorus. The case is a new the medical profession, and the phc rus habit will have to take its place with tf^eracine habjt., ? It is interesting Cleveland always calls her husband President'" Mr. Cleveland adc his wife as "Frank." Martha Wa ton in her younger days called he band "George," but in the last five years of her life she always add him as "General." While in the_ House Mrs. Hayes called her hi "Mr. Hayes." Mrs. Lincoln and Garfield always addressed their hi respectively as "Abram" and^ Now the question is: President's wife, according to call her husband?.- Precedent seems to give no answer. ? ? The oldest woman, fame known as Granny Rose, dieo^at^arKI? son College, N. O, on April ll, aii age of 131. She was born in 1706,^1 was owned and raised by thegranc of David A. Sloan, who is nbwi eighty-first year. Her age is well e lished. Her mind gave way years ago. She become blind; deformed, and has finally died of i old age. She did not complain of fe unwell up to within an hour of her d^ A peculiar circumstance in her that she wonld occasionally cnt of teeth, and she had jnstfini an entire new set a few days' died. People who are con^ the fact in her history"foT"thi{ I years give these facts in: