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BT CLINKSCALI Column, SB J. G. CLmESCALES, Editob. The patrons of the Eureka school show iheir .appreciation of the work of Miss Zella Campbell by continuing her school. This is a good sign. We like to see our teachers taking a strong bold on their . patrons^ S?ss Zella has labored faith . fully, a nd w ell deserves the support she receive*. The closing exercises of Miss Nettie J Miller's school at Smith's Chapel took place on tho evening of April 27. The exercises consisted of speeches and reci K tatious by the boys and girls. The children did well, and evinced careful training on the part of the faithful teacher.;; Music was furnished by the SKIler^CbuMns, and was highly enjoyed ' By tha large aod attentive audience. Miss Miller has done good work at Smith's Chapel, and we believe ft is ap? preciated by the patrons, who are anxious for her retnrn next fall. POOS B0Y3 vi. BICE. ?V Fnm (Kb, Baptist Courier, The world has performed another rev? olution, and 'the Golden Age of its his? tory has come again. The craze of our time is money making. Wealth: is the highest ambition of almost every man, how to get rich the question of supreme moment. Gold is oar dearest goal. It matters little oftentimes how we get it, so we get it. It seems to me that the world has gone clean crazy in its eager ? puiinit"after wealth. Gold, gold cries > the lawyer, the doctor, the merchant, the farmer, the teacher, alasI too often the preacher; and' here we go pell-mell, every man for himself and the Bheriff | take the hindmost, in a mad rush after : . tnoney* Wealth is an honor, poverty a disgrace. So thorongnly is this spirit ingrained into the constitution of the i American mind that the poor young man gP?often hesitates to enter the race of life, feeling handicapped from the start by the want of means. He has a natural timidity about engaging in a contest with three who have such a superior j advantage. H?i pride shrinks from accepting help; from others. And so he j bemoans his fate- with a long-sigh of j regrotthat he has not the opportunities which his more fortunate neighbor en? joys,, relinguishes the goal of honor and fame and usefulness on which he has set his eye, and enters into some occupation to bring him^moiiey.. To-all such?to the poor* young manj disposed to cora> plain of his poverty, and to despair of j accomplishing anything rbecause of it this article is, written, in the hope of | affording some encouragement and stim? ulus. '.'IC l:!?^"'-*!^1.1111 important proposition, ^which, I believe, is an acknowledged fact. lA^m: Jl is the poor boys, who, as a role, tn?le tlie great men. Yes, and I might add, the rich men. Mind you, I did not say that all great and all rich men- have been poor boys, nor that all poor boys are going to be either great or rich from the met of their being poor, but that, cu a rule?the exceptions are numerous, but the rule will still be found to hold, I think?the poor boys, sad not : the rich, are those who make the great men, and also the rich men. This is true ? lai^y^ of other countries,, but particu? larly Is it true of our own America, the ' -. land of individuality, the nursery of am? bition, the home of true manhood, where sense and worth, more than gold and blood, are-the touchstones of-character. I need not attempt to prove this prop position. To state it b to prove it. Nu? merous examples come before me; and so will they occur to everyone, I pre sume. Look over the history of America, : and you will find that the. most promi? nent men in every vocation?in law, medicine, politics, journalism, the min? istry, teaching, merchandizing?ha in tho majority of instances, started poor. If the field be too broad a one, take a section of it which you can scan. Look , aronmi you in your own community;. Is it not true there ? Did not most of the prominent men in it start out as poor boys? Perhaps every community in our country will bear witness to that fact. Does it seem a curious one ? At first it may, but I think there is an explanation for it. Nothing happens in this world* Everything is governed by law. And certainly nothing so general as the rule stated, could have come by chance. What reasons are there to be given for the phenomenon ? - Bich boys rely upon their money. They have au abundance of it, and when their supply is exhausted, they know where they can get more. Money brings comforts and luxuries, and buy pleasures. So they enjoy life?at home, at college, in society. They take things easy. What need for their working ? Others around them are struggling to obtain money. They have got it. What use of their entering the scramble with the rabble ? They feel themselves above all such. Life is all fun to them. They hardly give it a serious thought. To eat, to dress, to ride, to have pleasure in every way, that is the height of their ambition. And so their very money weakens them. It weakens them physically. They are not compelled to work. Human nature is as lazy as circumstances will permit, and so they do little to develop their muscles and strengthen their con? stitution. Indulgence, too, in vices of various kinds which wealth constantly throws in their path has the effect of undermining their physical vigor. It weakens them mentally. They do not feel the need for study, for training their minds. They have too many pleas? ures to occupy their time to be giviog it to such drudgery. In youth they think more of their pony, their gun and dog than of their books. At college they are the leaders of all sports?baseball, foot ?ball, rowing, aod everything of the kind. On the play ground they are at the head, in the class room perhaps at the foot. They lose the stimulus of a healthy ambition* They have been taught that everything, and they have pjefl^?r^te The only- thing to do is ;ta spend it in having as good a time as IS & LANGSTON. possible.jgAnd thus their mental ener? gies are sapped. It weakens them morally. Constant indulgence in pleasure whets their appe? tite for more. They throw off the yoke of restraint. Temptations crowd on every hand. Sin is gilded with a tinsel covering. Its heinousness disappears with familiarity. Opportunities stand ready saddled. Desire is eager to mount. Conscience grows weaker and less sting ing, until its warnings almost cease. The moral sense is blunted?scarred by the smooth; yet hot iron of pleasure. All this is not true, of coarse, of every rich young man.. Many appreciate the privi- j . leges conferred upon them by wealth, and make use of them to develop them? selves physically, mentally, morally. Bat still the tendency of riches apon a young man, is as I have desribed. The poor young man, on the contrary, has no money on which to rely, often no friends to help him, and so he is thrown back upon himself, and compelled to j place his reliance there. . If he ever j accomplishes anything it most be by his j own effort. If ambition seizes him, as often it does, it inspires him to raise I himself apon an equality, men tally, socially, financially, with oth? ers - around him. He is not content to remain forever down. So he straggles. He will do anything that is honest to] help himself. He is not afraid of work, nor ashamed of it. He believes in the j dignity of labor. He has a hard time at j first, perhaps. Bat the very straggle I strengthens him. It strengthens him | physically. His daily labor gives him muscle and bone, as well as meat and bread- It strengthens him mentally.} Thrown upon himself, with no artificial prop, he realizes the need of study. At school, at college, if he is so fortunate as to get there, he is apt to lead his classes. He takes every opportunity for self cultivation. He reads. He thinks. He develops an originality the rich seldom possess. His mind most be his capital I and he strives to increase his stock in trade." He has no time to fritter away in pleasures, which only, weaken the Intel-1 lect. This very straggle strengthens also his moral nature. Temptations, like the j world and sleep, their ready visits pay where fortune smiles; the poor they for? sake. Vice to him is ro1 bed of much of its attractiveness. Virtue offers herself as the only guide to fortune and success. Under her magic wand his character grows stronger and more beautiful. All this, of coarse, is not true with every poor young man, But I am speaking j specially of the ambitious one. And with him the tendency of the straggles he is compelled to undergo'is to develop his physical, mental and moral muscles, and to make a new man out of him. It is a I mistake to suppose that to have trials in youth is a misfortune. If the young man has anything in him and the trials are J withstood those very trials prove a help. He who has a hard time in youth, if he j< does not succumb ander his burdens will have an easy time in after life. But he who has an easy time at first, will be apt to have a hard time afterward. The best way to rain a boy is to give him a pony and a dog and a gun, and j 1st him anderstand that he has plenty of j money back of him. If bMfees not ride that pony down hill all the way, until he reaches the dogs at last, and then per? haps tarn the gun apon himself, it will be because he is a remarkable boy, or j because something radical has occurred to check him in nis downward course. The presumption is always against a boy on a pony, and especially if he has a gun on his shoulder, and a dog following behind. The best way, on the contrary, to make a man out of a boy?not a thing on two feet which you can hardly tell from a I peacock^E^o throw him upon his own j resources, wKh jast enough help to keep I his head above water; or at least to give him hard, earnest work to do. This, as I said, develops his "manhood." Ee becomes really superior, in body, in mind, in character, in moral worth) in every- ? thing that goes to make true manhood, , to the man who started rich and failed to develop what was in him. The world, quick to discover and every ready to admire a man, is glad to lend him a helping hand. People feel too that he is one of them, while the rich yoang man is apt to be more or less exclusive, proud, arrogant. Bat the poor one finds a tide of popular sympathy and favor to assist him in his aspirations. Positions of] honor and trust open before him. Filling these well, he receives still greater. Arfti bo he'goes up. Standing at the bottom, indeed, he has no - way to go but op, while the rich young man, starting at the top, has no way to go bat down. Balance is hard to preserve. Retrogression is easier than equilibrium. So he is apt, ?sooner or later, to go down. Even in ! his own golden circle the poor boy often I surpasses him, the poor getting rich, and the rich poor. And as the poor boy ascends from one hill to another of fame, of honor, of usefulness, or of wealth, his ambition rises and his horizon broadens. He has the foundation of health, of mind, of character, of popular favor on which to build, and so he easily occupies each height of opportunity as he reaches it, and climbs to another. Let no one suppose from all this that I am making a tirade against wealth. I am not. Such is very far from my purpose. Money is a good thing?if used aright. Gold as a servant is capable of infinite good. If we drop "I" oat of it, and make it a gods then it is turned into a devil, to torture and debase as. It is well for a yoang man to be rich, provided he makes the right use of his riches. If he spends his money for books, for the higher cultivation of his mind which money opens to him, for those things which refines and ennoble, for lifting up humanity and for spreading the cause of Christ on earth, then money is most earnestly to be desired. But if be is to spend it, as alas! too many do, and as seems to be the tendency, for horses and gans and dogs, for clothes and jewelry and luxuries, for cards and wine and women, for pleasure of every kind, to admioister simply to his selfish gratifica tion, then money becomes a terrible corse to him. You rich yoang men, yoa have splen? did opportunities before yoa, bat at the same time sore temptations press you 01 every band. Shall the temptation destroy the opportunities? Have th< manhood to resist them. Let the mone* yon possess be turned to all the immens? advantage which it gives you, and noi allowed to work out your destruction Use it for your self development physi? cally, mentally, morally, and for the good of others and the glory of God, Then you will be able to hold your own iu the struggle which shall come with your poor . neighbor. Otherwise you must go down, for in that contest it is not so much money that counts, but strength ?of body, of mind, of soul. You rich fathers, how are you using your money with respect to your boy ? Has he free access to your pile to spend it in any way that he sees fit. Then that pile will rapidly diminish, and will have nothing to show for it, but languid body, and hollow eyes, and painted nose, and weakening' mind, and diseased soul. Are you hoarding it up to leave him when you die? Then ten chances to one it will go fitster than it came, and when that is all gone, his health will be gone, his intel? lect, what little he inherited will be gone, his character will be gone, his usefulness will be gone, his friends will be gone, and he himself will be gone?to the dogs, or may be, literally to the devil. Lay it up in his head. Put it in his character. Use it for making a man out of him. Then, whether you leave him a cent or not, he will be able to make his way in the world, and perhaps win honor, fame, even wealth. The investment which will pay the biggest interest in the end is the few thousand dollars pnt in the educa? tion of your boy, if the education be the three-fold one of body and mind and soul. Try it. You poor young men, despair not in your poverty. It is not an unmixed evil. If it has the effect, by throwing you upon yourself, of developing your re? sources, it was but a blessing in disguise which God Sent to you. You are not necessarily at a disadvantage in the strug? gle of life with that rich young man. The chances are rather in your favor. But it all depends on you. Success will not come of itself by any law of fate. You have got to dig for it. But are you ready for the battle ? Are you prepar? ing yoursel f ? When the trumpet sounds, be armed. Edgab E. Folk. Albany, Qa.t April 12,1888. She was Ossified . Lockpobt, N. Y., April 27.?Mrs. Elizabeth Burride Bullock, daughter of Mr. Benjaman Bnrride of this city, who died on Tuesday and was buried to-day, was a sufferer from a strange ailment. She was, so to speak, in an almost com? plete state of ossification for the past five years, and her joints had become stiffened so that it was impossible for her to live. She was a most intense sufferer from the pain attendant upon the advances of the disease. The contracting and drawing of the bones and cords of the body was agonizing. To see the frightfully distor? ted and emaciated remains of what was once a beautiful and perfect woman would give only a partial idea of what Mrs. Bullock suffered. The lady was 26 years old at the time of her death. When 13 years of age she was a plump girl, attendant upon the Washburn street school here. One day, with other playmates, she , climbed a tree in the neighborhood of i school, and was dared to jump from one , of the branches. This she did, breaking her collar bone and injuring her right knee. A swelling appeared on the inside of the knee which troubled her more or less as the years advanced. In 1873 medical aid was first called in to treat her for her knee, the pain from which had grown to be quite severe, she having caught cold in the member while skat? ing. She married in 1874. Some years later her bones began to stiffen and trouble her some. Five years ago the joints became hardened and ossified and she was helpless. Her teeth were drawn out from the upper jaw and both jaws s^t. Physicians inserted a piece of thin wood between the lower set of teeth and the gums to keep the teeth from injuring them. It was about three months after the first appearance of the rigidity of the bones before the body was completely affected. Her health was completely undermined, and for the last five years Bhe has been failing gradually from day to day. The effect can be realized when from a strong, healthful woman weighing 108 pounds she faded away to almost a mere skeleton weighing only thirty pounds when she died. Her joints not only had hardened but the cords of the body contracted and drew them into all manner of shapes. The hip joint on the right side was complete? ly ont of the socket and protruded frightfully. The left limb was drawn all out of shape, as were the hands and head. She subsisted on food prepared for her. She fed herself, a tooth in the lower set being removed to admit the nourishment. Her right hand was motionless, but her left she was able to guide a little. She was thus enabled to write some. She read easily and talked readily to the time of her death. For the past three years Mrs. Bullock resided with her father in this city. She was patient and was never known "tc complain. The only similar case, and then it is not in such a marked degree as this, is that of Jonathan Bass, the ossifiec man of Lewiston, this county. Bas3 it perfectly rigid, but has not the contrac tion of his joints. Mr. Bullock's disease is called chalky rheumatism, and man] other names pertaining to diseases of the bone. ? An Elegant Substitute For Oils, Salts, Pills, and all kinds o bitter, nauseous Liver Medicines an< Cathartics is the very agreeable liqui< fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its advan tages are evident?it is more easily taken more acceptable to the stomach mori pleasantly effective, and more trul; beneficial to the system than any othe remedy. Recommended by leading phy sieians. For sale by Simpson, Reid i Co. . ANDEKSON, S. C, j THROUGH AEKA3SAS. 8 Bill Arp Takes a Trip Through a Rich and & Fertile Land. Atlanta Constitution, f Well, I thought I had seen rich, fertile land and big timber before, but I am . free to say I never saw anything in } Texas or elsewhere to compare with the region I have just been over. Going l from Memphis to Forrest City, a distance l of thirty miles, the traveler sighs, and , wonders if this is Arkansas?a more mis ; erable swamp cannot be found, but that is the end of it. You there reach Crow ley's ridge, which extends northward from Helena for a hundred miles, and marks the break between swamp and table land. I went from Forrest City to Helena, a distance of 45 miles, and from there, northwest to Clarendon, a distance of 50 miles, and it is all one unbroken I area of the- finest lands on the continent. It is not prairie, and never was in the memory of man. I suppose that half of it has been cleared, and the cleared land alternates with the primitive forests that stand up grand, majestic, and happily has no undergrowth. There is a dignity about these forests that I have never seen elsewhere. The big trees are not close together but at stately distances. The hunter can ride all day in the chase and the teamster who hauls logs to the saw mill or staves to the depot does not have to cut his way or take any particu? lar route. It is all a beautiful sylvan scene. These lands average a bale of cotton to the acre without fertilizers and with but little cultivation. From sixty to seventy-five bushels of corn is consid? ered a fair crop, though I heard an old Mnlhattan say that the corn stalks used to grow so big that the bears climbed them, and he had pulled many a cub out of the shack. There is a world of cotton made on these lands, and ninety per cent of it is made by negro labor. They work when they please and quit when they please. They will go to town every Saturday and glory in a rainy day so that they can go again. They, pay five dol? lars an acre for the rent of the land, and as there is nobody else to rent it and labor is not abundant, they have their own way pretty much. I am assured that they do not really work more than about four months in the year. The merchant who advances to them will sell a seventy-five dollar mule for a hundred and take a lien, and he hardly ever loses his debt. Cotton is everything here. The nice little town of Marianne, with only 1,000 inhabitants, handles about twelve thousand bales, and that is not half the product of the county. Here are nice churches, pleasant homes, good schools, and a happy prosperous people, and it all comes from cotton?nothing else but cotton. The landlords most all live in the towns or villages along the railroads. The negroes occupy the country; It is a notable fact that negro labor, uncertain and unreliable as it is, is the source of all the wealth of this beau? tiful region. Just let them have an exo? dus all of a sudden, and all business, all property would collapse like a balloon that had burst. The negro is still a great factor in Southern homes and Southern industries. He is still the servant of the white man and is happy and contented in that service. They are fat and slick and greasy, and can laugh louder and show more pearly teeth than anybody. They know no want or suffering, they ask no pity, and the commiseration of philanthropists for their condition is altogether wasted. I wish the white race had something of their contentment and cheerfulness. Now these landlords who generally live in the townB and villages along the railroads own from 160 to 2,000 acres of land and all they have to do is to watch the labor and either persuade or drive it, and then collect their rents out of the cotton. The merchant who advan? ces does the same thing, and bo the entire community thrives and prospers. Here is 'Forrest City, only seventeen years old and handles ten thousand bales, and everything is lively. Helena han? dles fifty thousand bales and has electric lights and oil mills and ice factory and a leviathan saw mill and other industries, and will soon have a street railway. This was the home of General Hindman and Pat Cleburn, and they are buried here among the Confederate dead. It is a novel sight to a Georgian to see these towns on the last day of the week. It is not the black Friday but the black Saturday. The streets and sidewalks and stores are crowded with negroes. Old negro women, who look like the fat, greasy cooks of the olden times, have their little stands at the street corners where they sell sandwiches and cakes and chicken and ham and boiled eggs all day. It reminded me of the olden time when on muster days and court week and election days, the good old women had ginger cakes and pies and simmon beer and they sat up in a little one horse cov? ered wagon with the hind gate let down for a shelf, and they wore great ruffled caps and spectacles and had their knit? ting with them and made the needles fly when they bad no customers. How sweet and lovely the ginger cakes were to us children. Dear old mother Tutton, what a good angel she was to the little folks, for if we didn't have the money she would divide a big fat ginger cake among us. I know that she is in heaven. In those days our smallest piece of money was called a thrip, and when folks spoke of anything morally certain they would say it is just as shore as a thrip is for a ginger cake. The genial Bob Martin, the first reporter of our Supreme Court, said with a sigh of regret, "Ob, why doeB old age paralyze our sweetest pleasures. I would give five hundred dollars if a ginger cake tasted as good to me now as it did when I was a boy." I met Judge Sanders at Forrest City, and took a liking to him of course, for I couldn't help it. He is a learned judge, and presides over that circuit with great dignity and ability. I thought I was using my best grammar as I discoursed with him, but when I said Arkansas instead of Arkansaw he looked surprised and alarmed. "Don't say that any more, major, if you value your life. They kill strangers out here for that. In fact, they killed so many that the Legis? lature has passed a law defining the true pronunciation, bo that everybody might THURSDAY MORN] know it and'not put themselves in peril The 'Arkansaw traveler* is part of our traditions, our 'lares and penates,' but the 'Arkansas traveler' is not tolerated. It is like saying, 'school butter' in the olden time. It provokes a difficulty. It is like saying 'ither' and 'nither.' Sol thought I would put you on your guard." Well, I expect he saved my life, and shall always feel grateful to him. The Arkansas of to day is not the same it was forty and fifty years ago. Like old North Carolina and Alabama, it is fast coming to the front. It has been cleared up and drained. The malaria has been driven away. Beautiful villages dot the railroads all along the line, and a more cheerful, healthy people I never saw. Speaking of the children, an old settler said to me; "Look at their lips look at their lips?don't you see there is blood in them-, but it didn't use to be so. You can always tell a malarious country by looking at the lips of the children." At Forrest City there was a huge black bear that had just been brought in from the up country and all the boys in town both black and white gathered around to tease and frolic with him. There is plenty of game here yet and hunting parties find good sport now and then. In coming on to the capital I stopped at another charming little town called Lonoke. It used to be called Lone Oak, because there was but one there, but the name has been abreviated. I have forgotten how much cotton they do handle there, but there is nothing else to handle, and it seems to be all that is wanted to establish a thriving commu-' nity. It is a splendid climate for fruit. Peaches and apricots and peara are crowding the trees, and just such gardens as I see all about these towns I never saw anywhere. The prairie lands of Texas are as rich, but they are waxy. The difference is very striking. These lands are loose, and dry ont quickly after a rain. The roads never get very bad; but the cleaning away of this heavy tim? ber is no small undertaking. No grub? bing has to be done, and but little of the timber is felled. It is girdled and killed, and in two or three years is easily sub? dued to the plow. After that the trouble is in rolling the logs as the big trees decay and fall. But that is winter work and does not interfere With farming operations. I speak advisedly and can tiously when I say that these immense forests are at least one-third higher than these on the best bottoms in the Eastern States. They are visibly nearer the sky. I saw huudreds of white oaks that were five to six feet in diameter at a height of six feet from the ground. When they fall them for stocks for the saw mills four good axmen attack one tree at a time, and sometimes makes a half day's work in throwing it. I measured several stocks at a saw mill that were five feet in diameter. Of course the carry logs have to be large in proportion, and are gener? ally manned with six yoke of oxen. This is a big country?this Arkansas? and I am told I have only seen the suburbs, and don't know nothing yet. But this country produces some curi? ous people ss Well as big trees. I had barely arrived in a little town and did not know a soul, but I soon discovered that many of them knew me, when a tall, raw-boned, solemn looking individual approached me, with a stick under his arm, and said in emphatic tone of voice, "I want to Bee you, come this way." 1 followed him a few steps, wondering who he was and what he wanted. He kept about two steps ahead of me, and gave an occasional glance backward to Bee if I was following him. Thinking that I had gone far enough, I stopped, and he said "come right along, I want to see you at the hotel." So I followed, and it occurred to me that he was the sheriff or the town marshal, and was after me for taxes or license or something, for they do sometimes make me pay for talking out here. Then again I thought that maybe he had heard me say Arkansas somewhere. Nevertheless, I followed along and felt as mean as a dog, for I didn't know what I had been doing. When we got to the hotel he took a chair and silently motioned me to another. For a moment he looked sol? emnly at me and said nothing. I could stand it no longer and, rising up, said: "What is it you want with me, sir ?" He chewed his tobacco fast and hard, and said: "I wanted to know if yoq could play on the pi an n er." Somebody ought to have taken my picture right then. There was indigna? tion, vexation and relief all mixed up together in my countenance. I never replied, but left him with utter disgust. Another feller heard it and it was told over town, and my new-found friends soon got familiar enough with me to Bay: "Well, major, can't you give ub a tune?" The poor fellow was mentally, but not bodily, drunk, and that was all of it. I learned that he was a moat excellent cit? izen when sober, and was rarely any other way. Bill A bp. How to Enrich Poor land Without Stable Manure. A North Carolina farmer, writing to the Progressive Farmer on the method of making poor lands rich, has this to say : Prepare any poor old land, plow well and cross-plow and sow down to rye in the month of August. Then about the last of May plow under nicely with a good two-horse plow, level it with a har? row and sow two bushels of peas to the acre and put them under well. Then about the 15th of August turn your peas nicely and level the ground with a har? row again; now sow three bushels of buckwheat to the acre and put under well. When your buckwheat is podding pretty well, turn under and harrow your ground well and cross harrow, and sow to wheat and clover, and let it rest for two years, and take through the same process agaii. Farmers, try this ; it will beat your fertilizers, and is cheaper than stable manure, and will bring your poor land up. ? In the spring, hundreds of persons suffer from boils, carbuncles, and other eruptive diseases. These are evidences that the system is trying to purge itself of impurities, and that it needs the pow? erful aid which is afforded by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. lNG, MAY 10, 1888. IS THE SUNNY SOUTH. A Northern Man's Interesting Letter About His Trip in Dixie?A Tribute to the Mule. Mobile, Ala., April 7.?The quaint melodies of the negroes, the numberless splashes of rich color that the deep pink blossoms of the wild*plum is throwing against the dark foliage of the forests of Mississippi, the slender light .green shafts of the young sugar cane which are rising from the soil, dark with exhausted fertility, the sparkling waters and soft breezes of the Gulf, the courtly, generous hospitality of the people of Mobile?all these I shall r""all regretfully when I return North, bu? more than all else I shall miss the patient, long-eared mule. I have been thrown into the society of the mule a good deal during the past week, and there is, on my part at least, a feeling of comradeship which has ripen into admiration. There are doubtless people who will say that such an affinity was to have been expected, but such remarks only be? tray their author's ignorance of the mule's traits of probity and sterling honesty of purpose. The South could worry along without its negroes, it could even do withont the tourists from the North if the crop of other green things proves fairly good, but if the mule should hand in his resignation it would mean financial ruin. You can ride for a day sometimes without seeing a horse. Everywhere it is the soil, the sun and the gentle, benign, reflective mule that do what work is done in the South, Yesterday I came up to Egypt, Missis? sippi. It lacks the mummy-scented* atmosphere mysticism possessed by Cleo? patra's original Egypt. But there are more mules and physical calm. From Okolona to West Point along the line of the Mobile & Ohio railroad is the richest stretch of prairie land in Mississippi, and the most superb section of farming conn try I have ever seen. Here myriads of ages ago the sea left a broad deposit of alluvial soil so dark and rich that its very appearance enchants the eye. A pure prairie breeze sleeps constantly over the gently rolling country, and here the face of nature is disfigured by just about the slouchiest agricultural system on earth. The sys? tem of plowing employed is unique and unostentatious. One mule and a light plow scratch out shallow rows in the soil something over a foot apart, and into these rows the seed is dumped and covered up. That is all there is to Southern plowing. One instinctly longs to damp down a hundred, sturdy, active young Michigan farmers say at Prairie? the culminating point of the district in richness and elevation?and open the Byes of those Southern agriculturists. Over the magnificent acres hangs the blight of shiftlessness, inferior labor, dis? like of innovation, a vast system of landlordism and a settled aversion to fertilizers in any form. But the day is about to come when the Infinite possibilities of this wonderful prairie stretch will be realized. A hun? dred industries might be entered into evith profit. Every variety of grass, fruit, vegetable and grain grows in unstinted profusion. The indigo plant reaches perfection there, and the wonderful growth of flowers would make their cul? ture for the distilling of perfumes highly profitable. Everywhere are great oppor? tunities for canning factories, paper and ;otton mills, and varied distilleries. The mean annual temperature is about 60 degrees, and land ranges from $2 to $20 per acre. The Mobile & Ohio carry settlers for one cent a mile, and refuse this if land is purchased. Traveling through the heart of the ex Confederacy has convinced me that Ice? berg Sherman's bloody shirt is a superfluous as well as an exceedingly frayed garment. It may be that every southern man carries a revolver. I don't knew; I haven't had occasion to borrow one yet. But certainly it is that the Southerners are the most hospitable peo? ple on earth, are amiable as well as brave, and every man of intelligence regards the issues of the war as dead issues. They honor their ex leaders, they tell you of the hardships endured during the great struggle simply as an inevitable circum stauce that has now passed by, but I have not conversed with a single man who does not tell me that he is glad the war accomplished what it did and that the new order of things will be infinitely better for the South. Then, too, the young men are reaching out for the helm, and the Southern youngster is precisely the same sort of a cherry, level headed huikler as is his running mate in the North.?3. B. S., in Lansing Michigci Journal. She Harried Him to Beform film. I knew a young lady who had every? thing which usually constitutes the hap? piness of those who have not yet climbed the golden stairs of matrimonal paradise. Her age was 20; she was a brunette, of graceful figure, with a peculiar animated expression of countenance. Her complex? ion was rich and warm, her large gray eyes wero merry, and her features would pass muster among sculptors. At recep? tions held in the armory of the Twenty third Eegiment she was always observed with admiring interest, and she had beaux by the score. Well, at length she came to a decision, and I heard of her marriage. I knew the young man whom she chose and was startled. That was five years ago. A year ago I was riding uptown on a car. The car was crowded and I stood by the front door reading. I heard my name pronounced, and looked down, but did not at first recognize the face, which was weirdly pale and wrinkled and care? worn. I looked puzzled for a moment, and then it dawned on me that this was the wreck of one of the prettiest girls in Brooklyn. I accompanied her as far as the door of her house. It was a tene? ment house. "I won't invite you in to? day," she said, "my rooms are somewhat disordered." I said nothing, but I un? derstood. It was pitiful to see her try to keep up the pretense of being light-heart? ed, happy and prosperous. A week ago I heard that her husband was in the lunatic asylum and her baby dead. Now she has gone home to begin life over again. She married a man to reform him.?-Brooklyn Eagle. ' % ) \ 'BS FOOD YS. MEDICINE. Importance of Dietetics in the Treatment of Disease. In the treatment of many diseases drags are of coarse indispensable, but, as a rule, no less important, if not more important, are the hygienic and support? ing measures. These relate to pure air, , temperature, diet, drinks, cleanliness, exercise, rest, sleep, etc. As their importance have been better understood, the dependence upon drugs has lessened, ! and to day the intelligent physician may be known by the small amount of medi [ cine he prescribes and by the large amount of instruction he gives relative to the nature of the disease and the personal conduct of the patient. The people as a whole are slow to accept this new order of things, so different from that in the times of their fathers. Physicians are obstruct ed ,* and their efforts are, too, sometimes defeated by the ignorance of those in whose behalf they labor. Only the most intelligent classes of to? day are even beginning to realize that too much faith has been pat in medicine. The other classes still feel that the para? mount duty of the physician is the selection and administration of drags. Enlightenment among them must neces? sarily be slow. They must acquire a bet? ter knowledge of disease in general, and appreciate the fact that the intrinsic tendency of many diseases is to recov-1 er/, and that dragging is not al way s neces? sary even in those which were formerly ] supposed to tend to a fatal result unless very active measures were employed. Undoubtedly honorable physicians assist all they can in the general education of people on this vital subject. Yet they are so hampered by the general confidence in effect theories and the prevalence of popular fallacies, which threaten to exist until the end of time, { they can do but little compared to what I; they might do were the conditions favorable?if the people did not resist ]1 enlightenment. Let a physician be call ed to a patient suffering from an affection 11 that is sure to end in recovery if left alone. He gives proper instructions as I' to ventilation, temperature, diet, etc., j ] and leaves the cure to nature. A very 1 few people would be content with such 1 advice ; mote would feel that the money ' paid for it had actually been thrown j away, and no inconsiderable number ' would insist upon sending for another 11 physician, believing that in all cases j of sickness medicine alone can insure recovery. J ; Such notions do people entertain, and 1 so ignorant are they generally, doctors ' really cannot afford to be perfectly can? did, for in many families honesty is at a discount, and there is a penalty fixed for 1 the same. It is true that if a physician, ( every time he made a call, were to ' remain with the patient an hour or more ' and deliver a medical lecture, occasional? ly one would be encountered who could appreciate such an effort and understand f the subject discussed. On the majority j of patients, however, it would fall flat. Again, there is the mental influence to consider. Patients who have such stead- ' fast faith in medicine, as a rule really do 1 better if some simple, although absolute- j 1 ly inert mixtures is given them. So it j will be seen that as a public instructor, the physician who ought and willingly i would do much, can do but comparative- " ly little, and his sphere is almost limited 1 to the most intelligent classes. Ab a consequenc of this condition of things, 1 he is, in certain families, obliged to give ( something in the way of medicines, even 1 if he feels that the same is not absolutely 1 needed. 1 That people are so grossly ignorant on the most vital of subjects is no fault of ! the reputable physician. It is purely J their own. They not only do not try to learn, but they actually resist enlighten? ment. But we have wandered from our subject. It was our purpose to point out ! some of the valuable remedial effects 1 which result from modification^ diet, 1 and the judicious increase or diminution in the quantity of food, In not a few affections special forms of diet are all that is required to effect a cure. Take for [ instance, a disorder of the organs of di- ' gestion, such as dyspepsia. If a person suffering from that has fortitude, and can practice self-denial, he may, in nearly all instances, cure himself if he properly selects and restricts his diet. But few care to make the effort, or at least to persist in it long enough. It is easier and far more agreeable for them to take medicine, and so they go on eating and dosing until the disease becomes chronic, for rarely can it be cured by drugs alone. Diabetes is a disease which only can be controlled by restriction to a special form of diet. A cure is even possible, but the remedy lies with the patient. No medical agent has yet been discovered which can stay the disease. There are some which assist recovery when the diet is properly restricted, but they are comparatively valueless unless that is done. While *n some diseases the treatment demands a modification in diet and a diminution in quantity, there are many in which a judicious increase is necessary. Ia inflammatory conditions of all kinds in which the starvation treatment was formerly employed, the general principle now recognized is to encourage and maintain a healthy con? dition of the body by nourishment. If insufficient food is given, the blood soon becomes unfit in its vital and physical properties for the healing process of nature. So, since all diseases tend to weaken and wear out the system, to feed the patient is one of the first importance. While they exist, what is needed is to "restore the life that is being drained, build up the tissues that are being wasted." As a sign of medical progress, physicians largely substitute food for medicine in the treatment of disease, and without doubt upon the valuable thera? peutic effects of food they will in the future more than ever depend. As has been said twenty-five years ago old fashioned drugs were counted by thous? ands, our elegant pharmaceutical products by tens, dieteic preparations by units. If the change goes on in the next two decades as rapidly as it has in the last two, the coming century practice \ajll see this order reversed. The calomel, J VOLUM the jalap, the Epsom salt, the tincture of iron?these classics and venerables, though still in use doubtless?will find very little favor. Even now their regular employment seems to be of a kind of reproach excusable only on the ground of the great age of the physician or the poverty of the patient.,?-?oafon Herald. ' ANTIDOTES FOE SNAKE BITES. Interesting Experiments at the Smithso? nian Institution, For a number of months past the sci? entists of the Smithsonian Institution have been experimenting with antidotes for poisonous snake bites. Mr. Edmund S. Eheem, who has charge of the experi? ments, believes that the mystery has at last been solved. Iaborandi is the drug which has thus far been used with great success upon animals, particularly guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens. The venom is obtained by placing a bit of cotton upon the end of a stick and irritating the make until it strikes the cotton and (eaves its venom there. The cotton is then placed in a small vessel containing gly? cerine and when thoroughly saturated the cotton is squeezed dry and the liquid retained. Fifteen drops of this liquid, which have been found to be equal to four drops of pure poison, are hypoder mically administered to the subject. In the majority of cases this is immediately followed by a similar injection of jabo randi, although the latter has been found to be equally efficacious when a lapse of Sve minutes occurs. The most poisonous reptile known to American scientists is the rattlesnake, [t is with this animal that all the recent experiments have been made. A letter ivas recently received at the institute from a New York gentleman who offers ?furnish a certain amount of venom From the cobra-de-capello. The officials iave written their acceptance of the offer ind are now awaiting its receipt. The strength of these poisons is not apparently dimished by the lapse of time. Hr. Eheem says the records of the-iosti ute show that venom which has been etained twenty years is quite as deadly n its effects when applied as if fresh Vom the snake. Mr. Eheem tells a remar? kable story about a ben at the institute vhich had been inoculated with rattle nake poison six different times. After he third inoculation it became venom >roof, and in the recent experiments it iaa not been found necessary to apply he antidote. The hen, Mr. Eheem says, s apparently as well as ever. She lays in egg each day, which the janitor of be building eats with his breakfast. The next experiments will be with pigs ind larger animals. Should these prove ucceasful the offer of an Ohio man to >resent himself as a subject will then be ionsidered. Mr. Eheem says the Smithsonian col ection of reptile numbers 42,000. It imbraces every variety of reptile except he hoopsnake. Thus far none of these iave been secured, and their existence is >elieved to be a myth. Colonel Tom )chiltree, formerly of Texas, but more ecently of New York, has a letter on file, vritten four years ago, in which that ?entleman relates that the hoopsnake tas an existence, which is proven by the ollowing incident, the correctness of vhich Col. Ochiltree affirms. The Co onel eays: "A few weeks prior to the writing of his letter a negro in Central Texas was based by a hoopsnake. The negro was nounted on a mule. He saw that he vould be overtaken, whereupon he dis nounted and sought shelter behind a arge cypress tree. The snake uncoiled md threw itself against the tree, bury ng the poisoned prong at the end of the ail so deeply into the wood that it could not extricate itself. A splinter from the ree struck the mule and killed it. Next lay the tree, which had been several feet n circumference, had shriveled to the ize of a sapling."?New York Herald. ? Mrs. Mancell Talcott, who recently lied in Chicago in her 68th year, gave iway $300,000 in charity in the last ten rears of her life. She used to pick up jhildren on the street and buy them shoes and clothea. She established two lay nurseries in Chicago and the drink ?g-fountain in Garfield park was erected ;hrough her generosity. ? Many ladies admire gray hair?on ?c-'iie other person?but lew care to'try? its effects on their own charms. They need not, ?ince Ayer's Hair Vigor restores gray hair to its original color. Sold by druggists and perfumers. ? California, if the insanity of her people- continues to increase at the ratio of the past twenty years, will have one third of her population in the asylum by the end of the century, There are now two large asylums and the State is build? ing a third. Of the incurable insane very few are women. Forty men to four women die insane. Thirty-three per cent of the California lunatics are made so by drink. ? "Hackmetack," a lasting and fra? grant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. For sale by Hill Bros. 4 ? Among the divorce cases decided in a Chicago court recently was one which originated from a novel cause. The wife had a pet dog, of which she was very fond. One day the husband entered and found her kissing the dog. On his re? proving her for such conduct she said she loved the dog better than she loved him, Then there was a row and a separation. The divorce was granted. ? Shiloh's Cure will immediately relieve Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis. For sale by Hill Bros. ? During 1887 eleven and one hali tons of postage stamps?nearly 170,000, 000 in number?were sold at the New York post office. ? A Nasal Iujector free with eacl bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy Price 50 cents. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Japan has a twelve-year-old gir whose feet measure 15 inches in length But her height is eight feet, and sb< weighs over 270 pounds. ? For Dyspepsia and Liver Com phi nl yon have a printed guarantee on ever* bottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. It neve fails to care. a \ 11 [E XXIII.- -NO. 44. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? There are one thousand sever hundred and fifty languages. ? Never worry over trouble. The trouble itself is misery enough. ? Mr. Wiggin, the prophet, has arrang ed"for a series of earthquakes during tl summer. ? Every man baa follies, and of times they are the most'interesting thing I he has got. ? Syracuse, Kansas,?la8t year had a female Council. iThis^springjlnot a woman was nominated for office in the town. ? Now that the fishiog season is upon us, it is well.to prepare yourself with i small card bearing the inscription: "I am something of a liar myself." ? Mr. Galloway, living near Lakeland Ga., has raised this ?.p'ring on one acre of land 900 quarts of strawberries, fror which he has realized about $300 profit.. ? An old lady, with several unmarrif^ daughters, feeds them on fishfdiet beerte it is rich in phosphorus, and phosprrorus is the essential thing for making match' es. ? A young lady in Ohio cowhided a young fellow because he whistled "Chip* pie, get your hair cut," whenever she passed by. This ought to be the fate of all men who persist in whistling. ? A Connecticut man ate fifty-three, raw eggs, shells and all, in one hour. He was to have eaten fifty-four for a wager, but lost most of his teeth when he tackled the lasttone. It was a stone nest egg. ? The latest "fad" of the fair sex in Nebraska is a hair album in which they place locks of hair from the heads of their friends of the other sex. They probably got this fashion from the wild Indians 1__ the West, who have always beenTStmcus"?^ for collecting scalp locks. ? Farmer's institutes have become';^^ an institution in Wisconsin. Eighty- \ two were held last year in forty-five [~%? counties, and 279 practical topics were discussed. More than 100 lecturers and ^-^i specialists imparted instruction, and the -yM State appropriated $12,000 to help the farmers' cause along. ? "Ah, dearest!" sighed a young man ^ kneeling at the feet of his ownest own, "do you know what of all things is near? est my heart ?" "Eeally I cannot say," she sweetly replied; "but in this cold. weather I should think it was a flannel vest." She was too practical, and broke the engagement. ? An immense iron pipe is being laid ? connecting the oil fields of Pennsylvania : ;3 with the city of Chicago. The pipe will be eight inches in diameter, and 210 H miles long, and will require 64,000 bar- - '1 reis of oil to fill it. The largest pump ever made has just been completed -t&^M force the oil through the pipe. ? A young man was discussing with more spirit than was comely what he was pleased to call "brain food." * He.; urged that no article of food furnish? ed more brain matter than baked beans. Just then an old man looked np and said: "Young man, eat all the baked' beans you can get." ? "I know that you love me," she said ? sentimentally, as he held her to his vest. "I know that you love me," she repeated, "because when I lay my head agairi?" your heart, your heart beats so loud I can hear it." "That," gasped the poor i fellow as the awful truth dawned uponr'j him, "that is not my heart?that's myV Waterbury watch." ? The greatest ocean depth which has been ascertained by sounding is ". five : miles and a quarter (25,720 feet, or 4,620 ? fathoms), not quite equal to the height of the highest known mountain, Mount Everest, which measures 29,002 feet, or five and a half miles high. The average:: depth between 60 degs north and 60 dega south is nearly three miles. ? There are in America over 4,000,000 farms, large and small. They c?vtng nearly 20,000,000 acres of improved land,' and their total value is something like. $10,000,000,000. These figures are not,;;-| of course, very comprehensive; They. simply convey the idea of vastnesa of area and equal vastness of importance. ? The estimated value of the yearly pro-^i ducts of these farms is between $2,000,- ? 000,000 and $3,000,000,000. ? John Half, of Westbrook, Ga., is evdently a humorist, although he hss not yet become known to the world as such. His first baby was christened First Half; the next, Second Half,* the third, ,Other Half, aiid the" fotr^^Jest Ha has a big sign over nis cabin door which reads: "The whole family of John Half lives within. A half familj is better than none; but if you want t see six halves in one hole, come it and see what is left of us.. God, 1 our home."? Washington Pott. ? A certain young lady went out" Wednesday morning to make some calfiSj On her way she met a friend, who.sjigj gested that she should go to the matinearj with him. She accepted the invitation and he bought the tickets. At 4he end - of the first act he proposed to her. refused, thinking he was only joking When the curtain went down for the^ second act he renewed the proposal, i so earnestly that she asked time to con-" aider it, which was willingly given. No sooner was the third act finished than she j softly murmured, "Yes." After matinee was over the engaged couf hailed a passing street car and to Oamden, where they were The whole affair occupied three and fifty minutes.?Philadelphia T< ? An aged hound, belonging to Mr* Charles Roby, had for several monthsj been almost totally blind. He no long heeded the huntsman's bogle,' but rc ed about the yard in a dejected mann? A few days ago some children, i playing with him, placed on his n pair of spectacles which contained; efful lenses. He at once began to root about the yard as he did in the days puppy hood. They were securely fasten! before his eyes, and on the following < when the other dogs were called fat? chase, he joined and was in the le when the glasses were pulled off by i briars, He immediately carried thenn his master and evinced clearly that $ wanted them replaced. WhenJ&eyj removed he whines and growls, butM replaced he shows joy by the^waggi his tail?Nelson (iTy.j Mecoder.. -