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BY CLINKSCALE Tfl??HEftS'GoLUMN, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor Don't forget that the Teachers' Insti? tute will be held this year at Greenville City, beginning June 25, aud running till July 6th. Make your arrangements now to attend. Our teachers will get married occa? sionally. On the Ctb inst. Miss Mollie Moorehead was married to Mr. Samuel McConnel. Mr. and Mrs. McCunnell have our heartiest congratulations. Mrs. McConnel is still teaching at Ivy Hol? low, where she has given entire satisfac? tion to officers and patrons. V Many of our schools are now prepar? ing for the closing exercises. Pieces are being selected for boys and girls to recite. Some of the young men and young Jadies are required to write and read e.^ssys. We have seen mistakes made many times along this line and would warn our teachers against them. The exhibitions are good things, they are a necessity; they have an elevating, educating influ? ence. By all means have an oxhibiu'on, but don't kill it by having the recitations too long and the essays to cover ten pages of letter or legal cap paper. That is unnecessary. Try to select abort pieces for recitation, and impress upon the minds of tho?o appointed to write compositions the importance of con? densing, the beauty of writing, to the point. Teach them to express their thoughts clearly and disliuc'lv, but con? cisely. "The schools of Virginia have now closed. What are the teachers doing?! A part of the summer, at lea?t, ought to be spent in study and reading. Unless teachers, they should not expect their pupils to be interested in their work."? Normal Index. What is true of the teachers of Vir? ginia, as to how they should spend the summer, is true of ours in South Caro? lina. We have frequently urged upon our teachers the absolute necessity fur patient, systematic work duriug the summer months. No teacher can .itl'ord to be idle all summer. If not engaged in teaching, he should, in justice to his profession, at least, spend tho time in getting ready for the winter's work. The land is full of good books and papers. What excuse has any teacher for drying ou the stalk? None in the world. It is with the greatest pleasure that we copy the following from the Colum? bia Register: "Greenville and Anderson Counties have arranged for a joint County Teachers' Institute, to be held at Greenville during the latter part of June. This is an admirable step. The institute held last year was a decided success. We hope that other Counties will follow suit. Among all the improving influen? ces that have been brought to bear upon the teachers of the State since 1S76, none have been more marked in their results than these institutes. State Instantes give a great impotn? to school work, >;nd the light shed there is irradiating the Counties and smaller localities. Any two- or three Counties can get logt-;.her, and, by uniting funds, secure the be3t teaching material. What say the other County Commissioners ?" The above was written by Prof. R. Means Davis, of the South Carolina College, a gentleman in every way qualified to express an intelligent opinion of such matters. That the County Institutes have doue good, and great good, no thoughtful observer will for a moment deny. It is gratifying to know that one's course has the approval of any one ; it is double gratifying to know that his course has the unqualified indorsement of such a man as R. Means Davis. Some of our readers and many others who have given the matter little or no consideration, con? demn all Institutes, aud us iu particular, and this, too, in spite of the fact that the best educators of the land consider insti? tutes tbe very best possible means for developing tbe educational interests of the masses. What we need most and what we have contended for is trained teachers. We can get them by holding to the Teachers' Institutes. Who opposes Institutes is bliud to tb? best interests of the children of the land and dead to the welfare of our common country. _ PROOF-READING. Proof-reading requires a quick eye and a ready mind. It is an excellent training for any one. One of the most practical ways of teaching spelling, puucLua'iou, and the use of capitals, is to place in the bands of the pupils of the school a num? ber of "proofs" from some newspaper office, just as they appear before correc? tions are made. Almost any printing office will williugly furnish "proofs" free. Let the teacher secure a number of "proofs" of the same "galley," or subject, and distribute them to the whole school for some Friday aftcruoon exercise in proof-reading. It will pr^vo an exciting and profitable diversion. It will be a practical lesson. Let the examination of the proof be for typo? graphical errors; this will lead to close observation. Read also for mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, aud capitalization. The teacher cau bring no exercise iu the school room better adapted to cultivate clo-;j attention aud observation, quick perception, aud habits of scrutiny. Besides, in one good oxer eise of this kind under tho judicious j guidance of the teacher, pupils will learn i more prac:ical orthography than iu a week spenc in the old method of routino i spelling. We hope the teachers will try ' the exercise of proof-reading.?Iowa ' Normal Monthly, PROOF OF THE EARTH'S .MOTION. Br-'er Jasper to the contrary, uotwith i standing, any can prove tho rotary motion of the earth on its axis by a situ- j pie experiment. Take a good sized bowl, fill it nearly i full of water and place it upon the floor i of a room which is not exposed to j shaking or jarring from the street. | :S & LANGSTON. Sprinkle over (he surface of the water a coating of lycopokium powder, a white sub3tancf, which is sometimes used for the purpose of the toilet, and which can be obtained at almost any apothecary's. Then upon the surface of this coating of powder, mako, with powdered charcoal, a straight, black line, say an inch or two inches in length, llaving made this little black mark with charcoal upon the surface of the contents of the bowl, lay down upon the floor, close to the bowl, a stick or some other straight object, so that it will be exactly parallel with the mark. If the line happens to the paral? lel with a crack in the floor, or with any stationary object in the room, this will serve as well. Lsace the bowl undis? turbed for a few hours, and then observo the position of the black mark with ref? erence to the object it was parallel with. It will be found to have moved about and to have moved from east to west, that is to say, in the opposite direction to the movement of the earth on its axis. The earth, in simply revolving, has car? ried the water and everything else in the bowl around with it, but the powder on the surface has been left behind a little. The line will always be found to have moved from east to west, which is perfectly good proof that everything else has moved the other way.?Selected. MANUAL TRAINING. Manual training is receiving much attention in many of the leading cities. The culture of the head, heart and hand is the true idea of education, but the time has not yet come to annex a work? shop to every school house. Idleness is a curse. Many persons each year join the great army of idlers and vagabonds, simply because they have not been trained to use their hands. Ifaboyis to become a useful citizen, he must be made a self reliant and self-supporting. To what ex'.cnt manual training removes idleness and the attendaut evils, statis I tics do not show, but it doubtless adds many bright boys, who otherwise would only be a burden to society. Whatever the good effects of the .system may be it is a panacea for all exiitiug evils. There will always be the discontented and im? moral classes crowding our cities and towns. Labor must be dignified and made honorable. To do this it must be intellectual as well as physical. The better educated a man is the better laborer he will make. Drains diguifles any work. Our country schools do not need man? ual training. If boys are taught that labor is ennobling they will secure suffi? cient manual training at home. Our schools educate too many rtatesrnen and not enough honest hard working men. Teach a boy that all honest work is ennobling, and he will make his way in the world. The menial occupations of life can be elevated arid mad-.} respecta? ble. Intelligence can direct any work to advantage. The world is not governed by main force but by skill. To labor with the hands is no more dishonorable than to labor with the mind. To win fame and fortune by the pen requires as much labor as to earn a liviug with the spade. The men who work move the world, not the ones who spend their tiui? in idleness. Lvery recitr.tion ought to make the boy more manly and more self reliant. If he receives the right kiud of instruction, when he leaves school, he will not become a burden to society and a dis? grace to his -family. The value of an education depends entirely upon its character. The Mormons. The Mormon elders or Latter Day Saints are carrying on their work of pro?elyting boldly. They seem to prefer the neighborhood around the ftictories. Cannot the ministers of the Gospel do something in the way of controverting their rapidly expanding influences. The out going trains on the Georgia railroad Sunday morning are generally crowded with believers of the new faith, who go up to Grovetown and then off into the country in a short direction, to where the elders preach and baptize. They have, it is reported, made great headway in spreading their doctrines, and in many cases entire families have embraced their teaching. Two of the saints ;<rcwcm'.n. ?Augusta Chronicle, 10//i. It is a little too late to cry out for the ministers of the Gospel to help after the Devil has grabbed you. Though a min? ister of the gospel should rise from the dead r.ud exhort the wayward and impenitent to repent, they would not hear him Richmond county and Augusta are not unlike other place?. They have fine churches iu the cities a;-d rich neighbor-' hoods. Preachers in tine raimr?!, loving their easc>, preach to r?*a!?'.i.-.hr?] ro ?>{*:?? gations. Business uu ??, who belong to the church, think they do their full duty when they attend church once a Sunday and pay their share of the church expen? ses. The business men who care little for churches lounge around hotels, bar rooms and private poker rooms on Sunday, rather than go to church. They make light of all religious worship. There is ; it tie effort made to carry the go-pel to the dark corners of the country. If it is douc at all, it is in such a bungling aud perfunctory way thai tin; '?uleas's of society become disgusted. Your kid gloved preachers, with stylish wardrobe canuot reach the back wood.. Conse? quently the backw >uus, whether in city suburbs or in the dark corners of the country, will gladly receive the Mormon elders when they come along. These elders are plain people and generally pretty well informed. They put them? selves on an equality with the people, and they get an influence over them. The Chi-oni '?? ij about thirty year.s too late in crying out for help from the pulpit. The j work should have begun when the present ! convert- were children. If our peojle j are to be s ved from ??Iormoni.sm and all j Borts of hin?, the church must get down; <dr of itj -lilts, lay aside it- enimcnt respectability and go to work to save the poor, ignorant, the depraved of ?neiety. - SpartanOury Sjiarlaii. ? Siiiloh's Cough a'id Consumption '.'urc is sold by us on a guarantee, it cures Consumption. Kur <alo by Mill j Bros. 2 I KILL AUF. The- Oeorpria Philosopher In Arkansas. Politics are just about the same in Arkansas that they are in Georgia, ex? cept that they are a little behind. They haven't got quite as much scandal as we had in our hist governor's election, but they have plenty, aud some to spare. There are five candidates for governor, and they are taking the grand rounds together in canvassing the State. They go from town to town, and all speak to the same crowd from the same platform. An intelligent, conservative gentleman told me they were all good men and the State was in no peril, but I found many of the people excited over the convict business. A convict was found dead and covered up in a pile of rubbish in the coal hill mines, aud the horror of it has spread ail over the State. Some hold Governor Hughes responsible, and de? nounce him as unfit for his ofiice. With others this abuse has created a reaction in his favor, and even his lukewarm friends say he ha3 been so unjustly slan? dered they inteud to support hira. Then, again they have found out that he travels on a fr?. pas3 from a railroad monopoly that is unpopular, and his enemies are seeking to make capital of that. One of the candidates preaches the pass and the convict, wherever he goes. Never? theless I believe that Governor Hughes will be renomiuatcd. Then there is the Wheel element that has to be conciliated. The Wheel is a right big thing just now in Arkansas, and has its organization and its organ in every county. It is some? thing like the old Georgia Grange or may be like the Farmer's Alliance and of course is running into politics. There never was an association of farmers that was not broken up by political aspirants. The average fanner is easily fooled aud is so unsuspecting be is drawn into tho political net before he knows it. An old solid Wheeler, who thought he saw de? liverance near at hand, asked me how the 'Wheel' was doing in Georgia. "Ah, my friend," said I, "we have had that disease and got well ot it. We did not i call it the Wheel, but it was the same thiDg under another name. The farmers have to have there epidemics just like childreu have to have the measles or the whooping cough, but they soon will get well of it. It never kills anybody. Your people here in Arkansas uro a little behind, but the Wheel wiil soon roll away and leave you about as well ofi' : as it found you. In some portions of your State I notice that the Wheelers arc already convalescing. The skin is peeling off and the scales falling from their eye*. There is the Grange and the Alliance and the Wheel that, like the old know nothing party, all die of the same thing. This reminds me of the inscription on a tombstone at Helena. The doctors would not admit that the yellow fever was there in 78, but said that it was pretty much "the same thing," aud so when an old eccentric mau was taken dowu, and knew his time had come, he told the doctor to see him decently buried and to havo inscribed upon his tombstone "died : of the same thing," and it is there Strawberries! strawberries! was the cry all along the platform at Beebe. The boys held up their baskets of tho 1 beautiful fruit to the car windows and wanted fifteen cents a quart. I stopped at Beebe aud madu a recognizance of the strawberry business. There are only ?UQ acres of berries in the vicinity of that pleasant village. They were shipping about 500 crates a day to St. Louis and Kansas City. A ernte contains 24 quarts, and.up to that date the net returns from sales had averaged three dollars a craie. Just think of il children ! Just imagine ?100 bushels of beautiful strawberries in one pile and another pile just as large to go to morrow. They never were a* line as they are this year, aud there seems to be something in the climate or the soil of Beebe that grows them better than elsewhere. When 1 left there a friend placed ou the seat beside me a double basket of the finest lever saw. At the next station an humble woman with a tired face and two little children came aboard, and so the berries were very hatuly Lo keep the mother cheerful and the kids in good humor )' r a lime. We passed a station called Haiti Knob, and a northern lady looked out and saw the awful name, ?.ad gave a startled look as she shrank up to her hu-bnnd and said, "Here is where the robbers live." But she wa-- mistake'), for the real bald kuob bei'B h-iuutt-d another State. Batesville is a splendid old town of abcut 3,000 people, and is thirty miles away from the main trunk railroad line. It has a little railroad of ihi own, and her people don't care a coot if it does take tkr.-e hours to make the trip. The;; say that time is not ho "scarce" lhv.r. as it is in other places?that the days are longer aud more of them, and the birds sing sweeter, and the girls are lovelier and everybody happier than anywhere else in the wide world. As wo journeyed to the town, a galant and sus? ceptible drummer kissed his hand to a pretty girl who was standing in a cottage door, and said, "Good morning, honey darling, you look mighty sweet with your Mother Hubbard tie.." Somebody will get that ardent youth with a shotgun if lie don't mind, but im sajs he always salutes them when they have on a Moth? er Hubbard and the cars arc moving up lively. Butesvilio is a rock-built town. There is a salmond colored stone near by that quarries as smooth and as rectangular as brick. They split it into blocks about six inches thick and that occupy the space of about twelve brick, and t! c masons build tho stone houses quicker and cheaper than Ihoy can build a brick one. These rock built walls give the; town a straw-color-, d shade that can bo found nowhere else. The town is situated on White river, that is navigable, and I saw two respectable steamboats at the wharf. The surrounding ridges are crowned with cedar and whole train loads and boat loads are moving every day. Iron and manganese abound and the railroad has been extended to the mines. The f.irms on the river and in the val'oyM toem with rich products of grain sind col ton, and the whole country reminds mc ol our own beautiful north Georgia. | ANDERSON, S. C, Searcy is another town that is olT the main lino of the Iron .Mountain Railroad. A four mile ride on a street car brings you there. There is no river near at hand, no cedar forests, no .stone quarries, no .strawberry fields; but there is a beautiful inland town of 2,-000 people, a few rich and more poor, and a surround? ing country that is gently rolling and very fertile. There .ire lovely .suburban homes, 12,000 bales of cotton to handle, and the farmers raise their own com and meat and hay. The Arkansas Methodist College has recently been located there? another school for girls. Bishop Gallo? way closed the contract a few days ago and the buildings will be erected without delay. There were many competing points, but Searcy was chosen for nub stanlial reasons. Well, the girls are coming to tho front all over the south. Almost every court hou?e town has a college for them. In our own Str.tc there are two at Rome, two at LaGrange, two at Athens, and one at Macon and At? lanta and Augusta and Gainesville and D.tllun anil Marietta and Covington and Madison and Eaton ton, and 1 don't know how many more. There are over 1,000 girls at college in three Georgia towns that have no col? leges for boys. What splendid pickings for the young men of these towns. They can just strut around and take their choice. A family man who has a crop of boys maturing ought to move to one of these towns, but it i? hard on the girls to be so limited in their choice. The fact i =, every town ought to have- a college for each sex, so as to give both a fair chare -. When I was at college there were about 200 of us and only a dozen pretty gir's in the town, and so they had the pickings, and they never picked me nary time. One of them said she-could always love me like a sister, but I had sisters enough already. She was a little older than I wa?, and so when I got well of my fall I asked her if she couldn't bo my aunt or my grand? mother just as well. In due time I went home and got me a wife where lovers were scarcer and the pickings not so good /or the girls. When I get back to Searcy again I expect to find two or three hundred pret? ty giri? prancing around in those beauti? ful college grounds. Ne;tr by is the cel? ebrated Sulphur Spring that is set liko a gem in the park and surrounded with shade and flowers and evergreens. Searcy is a lovely town, and the drum? mers love to spend their Sundays there, for the peoplo are social and kind, and the hotels just as nice as they can be. But of all tho coming cities of this region, Little Rock takes the highest rank. Of course, it ought to, for it is the capital and h.\s the inside track. The Stale government and the United States expends lots of money there. With a fine river location?a delightful climate and a rich surrounding country, there is nothing to prevent it becoming a very large inland city. It has nu boom after the fashion of Birmingham, but is moro likr Atlanta in its sure, and steady growl!;. Thirteen years ago I was there, and of course could sre the changes and the progress much better than those who come and go, more frequently. It is still tho city of the rosea and tho climb? ers reach to the hieb lops -f the chim? neys and fall over in piuk and crimson and green, and seem to lament that there is nothing higher, for them to climb. The good morals of the city are the pride of her people. You can't buy a cigar on Sunday at the finest hotel in the town. In a'.i my travels I have never found this restriction except at one other place, >>nd that was at Tyler, in Texas. There is no city ordinance to this effect. It is due to the high reverential "spect that ihe proprietors have for tho S:ib bntii. Wherever the Sabbath is respect? ed, there you will find a happy and a prosperous people. Bn.i, Abi*. Bemember the Sabbath Day. '?'How on earth do you manage to stand up under the tremendous physical as well a-- menl.il strain which you contin? ually endure?" a gentleman in our presence asked young Joo Brown, the General Freight and Passenger Agent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. "You seem to be close at your business all day, and I am told you scarcely ever quit before midnight. You look slender, and like one of feeble constitution, yet you do more work than any man in your position or any other that I know of. How do you stand it ?" "By never doing any work on Sunday," was the reply. "When twelve o'clock, Saturday night comes, I drop any busi? ness that I may have in hand, ami I don't touch i'. sigain before Monday I morning. I never open a letter on Sun- j day, unices' ihe handwriting on the ' envelope shows that it is from Home rela? tive or frieiul whom I know to have written only on social topics. 1 never open telegrams on Sunday; so if any one wires mo a message which he knows will reach me on Sunday he may just as well wait till .Monday. "I think every business man ought to scrupulously abstain from all business matters on Sunday; first, because it is required by the Bible, and, secondly, le eause if he does I.:-, duty on week days he needs the rest on Sunday. Tho lirst is ray principal reason ; but the other is a very important one; <;nd 1 always lind that although I may close the wetk very tired, yet J begin it as fresh as a rose." "You don't attend to any ruilroad bus ir.c-s on Sunday, then ?'' ''No, sir, and whenever 1 have to do so I shall quit the road. But as Mr. B. A. Ander.-:.)!), our Superintendent, is about as strong in his belief on the si'.rc tity of the Siblmth us I am, I don't think there is any likelihood of my quilting the road especially for ibis cause, until the lease is out. 1 attribute very much of my husineas success to the fact that I do not violate the Sabbath by working." The above answer is one which may be especially commended to all business men, and they would find it well to "do likewise."? Railroad AW*/. ? Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron? chitis immediately relieved by Shiloh's t'ure. For sale by Hill I'.ros. ? For lame hack, side or chest, use Shiloh's Borons Blaster. Bricc il? cents. For sale by 11 ill Uros. THUr>SI)AY MOUNT ROSEBUDS OF MARRIAGE, Harriet gpofTortl tolls When Cilrli Should Marry. From the Xnu York World. It must bo generally conceded that the married state is that in which the great? est happiness is possible; and it might bo inferred, then, that one cannot enter it loo early. But those who may recall thr? son Matthew in "Pilgrim's Progress,*'' who made himself ill by eating green apples?green apples which might have been wholesome and delicious had he waited until they were ripe?can recall an illustration, quite contradictory of such inference. Fortunate for him, as it may seem to the mother of a son, if her;boy shall marry early, yet his instances is a singu? lar one if, on reaching something less than middle age, he has not dropped his wife so far unmarried, having a nurse, a housekeeper, a humble friend, possibly a slave, but certainly no companion, nc wife, in the wide sense of the word. His early marriage may have been superfi cially considered, an advantage to his morality, and so to his health; but when the mother has brought up her boy, as it is her duly to do, to under? stand that the same personal purity is required of bim that is required of her girl, and that his passions are so to be under the same control that his sister's are, at whatever age, then the question of that morality will not enter into the j affair at all. liut however the mother of a son may look at the subject of early marriages, the mother of a daughter is justified, it seems to me, in a rather decided opposition to them. If, iustead of being a great and happy portion of the sthool of life, mar? riage constituted the whole of it, or life existed only for the sake of marriage, still those entering its portals must be the better for suitable preparation. I am unable to suppose that at the age oMS or 20 any preparation has been sufficient. The age is lovely in its tenderness and enchsuting with its illusions; but wis? dom wears a severer face and marriage deals with atom facts. Some girls there may be, of rare ability, who are compe? tent to take upon their young shoulders the responsibility of a house, its work or the direction of those who do its work, the overisght of a husband's wardrobe, the bearing and nursing of children, the physical attention to them in health and in sickness, and the daily direction of their moral aud mental education togeth? er with ail the other imlour and outdoor cares incidental to the position of one who is the head of a family, aud who has the happiness of a home ami a husbaud on her heart and conscience. Hut ibeso coac-s are few and exceptional, ar.d great multitudes of girls undergo are not equal to to such a strain upon nerve and mu-cle without an arrest of develop? ment. A few years later they may remember themselves at that age as still children ; they may feel some reproach towards those who laid upon them then a burden greater than f hildron should bear. Even were skill, experience, discretion weli established, industrious habits form ed, a universal belonging of the maiden of IS or 20 years, I think it would be as much a cruelty to demand all this exer? tion of hor as it would be if she wero six or eight years younger. Before 20 a girl has hardly had the chance to receive the complete instruc? tion from text books to which she has a right, to say nothing of the domestic education of the kitchen, the needle, the I sick room ; she has had little cbanco to learn anything of the world of human nature; she has intuitions, not experi? ences ; she has lived more with dreams aud ideals than with realities. She may make a charming wife at first and a tender mother always, maternal instinct aud solicitude taking the place of all the superiority that added years might have given. Hut she must stop there, taxed to the utmost; she has no time for strength aud perhaps?as incli? nation grows by use?uo inclination to read, to study, tj keep pace with a) husband's advance or even to appreciate it. I will not say ika1 when, in a few years, she has no more a fresh color and a smooth face, when a pretty toilet no longer becomes her, thr.t the husband who continues to cherish her will take credit to himself for doing so; but it is evident that she encounters the danger of this feeling ou his part. Nor do I think it an argument worth mentioning that the woman early married, is so moulded and bent to her husband's will that clashing and incompatibility become impossible; because in marriage the rights and sacrifices should bo mutual, and I will not so in?ult the husband f a to suppose him unreasonable enough for this moulding to be necessary, or selfish enough to wish thus to suppress individ? uality, unable to find pleasure himself in renunciation or negligence of civilized, j not to say Christian duty. Charming wife and tender mother as Hhe may be, however, it is not to be doubted that when hor education is more thorough and her experience more extended, she will bo a nobler wife and a far better mother. She will have lost some softening trifle of the arrogance of youth; vanity, levity, love of admii&titn, will have been so chastened as not to play the part of death's bands at the feast; shy will have learned self sacrifice and forbearance ; she will have acquired tact ami discretion ami the sacred art of silence ; she will have become harmoni? ous, and r.hc will know how to order homo as she did not know how bo fore. Her knowledge will have opened ave? nues and outlooks of which her family will have the advantage; ler judg? ment will have ripened, her whole natura deepened; she will lake life at a higher plane, anil her husband and her children, her w hole world and the gen? erations to come will have gained by the delay. If it were but for the sake of lljoso generations to come, horn of mothers full grown in mind as well as in body, the delay would be worth while. A young mother, with her children about her, is often a lovely sight ; but as lovely a sight in a different way, if not so touching and appealing, is the mother to whom a few added years have given an immense added leverage in the las!; of bringing her children up and lifting than to n higher level even than her own. NG, MAY 24, 1888. But meanwhile the generation that i3 here has its own claim on the young girl; the father anil mother should have respect paid to their personal preference in the matter. To exert every c.^.rc and effort for a daughter, to practice self denial r.iid to spend half his income on her education and accomplishments, and then, uncertain of results, to surrender her to another, usually a stranger, with? out any interval of enjoyment of her sweet malurer society, must be a peculiar trial to a father. Most fathers are unselfish enough to disregard themselves, but their equities remain the same ; arid it would seem that, if they wish, they should be able to retain their daughters for a period, as the country can demand, for a limited time, the services of the warrior it educates. Moreover, the girl herself claims con? federation. Give her a few years of ab? solute frecdoom from deep emotions, a little period to flutter before she settles on her nose, time for her music, her art, her books, her charities her Hocial pleas? ures, before she takes life in its serious? ness. Anything else cramps her, dwarfs her, hinders her from her right to the full stature of a wife, is a relic of the Zenana and of the complete subjection of woman. She ha* a right, loo, to tho happiness carried to its highest power? happiness which cannot be given to her at 17 or 20 because she is incapable of receiving it. She may be happy then, iudeed, as the bud may feel the warm morning airs blotving gratefully about it, but ouly the bosom of the wide-blown flower can receive the sunshine of full heaven. A woman wastes her opportuni? ty of happiness in not waiting for those ripening years. The nature that is thoroughly developed is capable, of feel? ing far more than that which in still uu its way to development, and it is to be doubted if a woman undor2-5 can receive to its utmost the deep joy, the bound? less content that surround true marriago as sunshine and blue sky surround the earth. Harriet Pkescott Stofford. Sons and Sot hers. A writer in one of our recent maga? zines brings some very heavy charges against ate sex of inappreciation and irreverence for women, tho reason of which one need uot go very far to find. The first woman a boy knows much about is his own mother. If she is un? trained, ignorant, incapable, uuable to control aud instruct him in elemeutary matters, bow is it possible that he should feel toward her geuuiue respect and reverence? How it is possible that he should not fake her as a fair sample of all her sex, and thus regarding her, his remarks to other br.y.s concerning girls and womeu will reflect his views on the subject with tolerable accuracy. But suppose a lad makes bis first ac? quaintance with his letters, with science, mathematics, pbylosophy, through his mother; suppose hers is the hand that leads him into fields of research, of appli? cation, of industry; suppose that in all his studies at school and at college, ho can come to her with his problems and difficult questions, and find in her a guide, companion, and friend, how j'j he ever to speak of woman with irreverence aud disrespect, even though lie finds the majority of women far inferior to his mother ? Only as the mother becomes the former of her son's mind and character, of his immortal powers, no less than of bis physical powers, can she acquire a permanent and controlling influence over him. It is not enough to feed him properly, to clothe him suitably, to pro? vide necessaries for his body; she must oecome his Intellectual aud spiritual guide and companion, or her influence over him will be comparatively slight. Whether meu and boys shall respect and rcvereuco women or uot. depend very much on women. Mrs. Somerville found no lack o( respect iu tho highest circles of scientists in Europe. Miss Maria Mitchell is spoken slightingly of in no astronomical or other high circle. Gar field honored his mother because ho couldn't help it; so did Horace Grceley ; -=o did George Washington. The list of r.oble and learned men who have found i'.ble and delightful companionship with their wives and daughters is a long one. Cicero and Tuliia, Sir Thomas Moore and Margaret?all the world have heard of the friend-hip between the.-o fathers and daughters. What Napoleon said of the French people is true of every nation?a nation to be great must have great mothers. It is not an unworthy motive in our young women at sehool that they should study with the direct purpose of training them selves to be intelligent and able mothers, qualified to take charge of the education, intellectual no less than moral aud phys? ical, of the childrcu it may please God by and by to give to them. Best Food for Babies. CixmxxAxr, May 9.?At the session of the American Medical Association yester? day papers were read by Drs. Eurle, of Chicago,and Atkinson of Philadelphia, on diseases of children, and President Wax ham discussed the subject. The conclusions were as follows: 1. There is no good Substitute for tho mother's milk, and there is great danger from early weaning. 2. In case of absolute inability of the mother a wet nurse be procured. ;i. A mixed is preferable to an artificial diet. -J. For vry young infants in lieu of mother's or nurse's milk, cream with barley, rice or oatmeal water to which milk, sugar, common salt, phosphate of lime or soda, or line water it: small quantities is added, seems to agree best. 5. For older children cow's milk may be used, provided the milk is good and free from bacteria. It should be boiled a long time, and, if diluted only pure wafer should be used. If :-u;r:ir is added, it should bn pure milk sugar, and if wheat Hour is used, it should !><? well cooked. ? Shi! ih's Vitali/.er i- what you need for Constipation, l/.?ss of Appetite. Diz? ziness, ami all syinptbms i?i r)v?pf>;>stn, i'rice I" anil 7'' cents p r bottle. For sale by Hill Bros. FASniOX'S CLEARING HOUSE. How Prominent Society Lntllefl Dispose ol Elegant l)rc*scH. Wttthinrjton $>?/.: "What becomes of thorn ?" "W-.il, this is :i confidential business, Monsieur !" and she shrugged her fhoul ders high and looked with her head on one side. "Confidential, Monsieur, very confidential," she repeated. She was a dealer doing a private business just around the corner, you might say, from a very fashionable neighborhood. I ler place of business in her private house, a modest little dwelling, with no sign or Indication that business of any sort is done there. "I am a sort of clearing house of fash? ion," she said, after a pause. "It is an exchange business. I never buy any? thing; I act merely as agent, some of the most fashionable ladies in the city do busiuess through me. A great deal of business is douo? all in a strictly private way. There in considerable money of the transactions?that is considerable considering! Now, there is that handsome drcM of Mrs.-. Oh, no, I shan't tell her name. Th&t would be a breach ! But it was a maguificeut dress and sold well. A great many magnificent drones come to mo." "No, I am not a dealer in second hand clothes. Not in the ordinary sense. One lady can'fget all the wear of an ox pensive dress. Not a fashionable lady. Tbo moro expensive, the more striking and bc-autiful, the sooner it becomes com? mon. A lady in fashionable life can't afford to wear a dross until it becomes common. Some dres^ea that attract much attention cannot be woru more than three or four limes. Then the question is, what shall become of them '.' They must cither be laid aside until everybody has forgotten them, and the material mixed with eoms other, aud remade in a new style, or else they must be sold. All the good is not got out of a ?100, ?200 or $500 dress in two or three wearings. It is a valuable piece of property after that. The same lady cannot continue wearing such a dress until it no 'oncer fit for service, but another lady, not her person? al friend, and not vuiticg in hor circle of friends, may v.ear?a dress just like it! Ladies often say they won't wear a dress again after they see one just like it !" The dealer shrugged her shoulders and looked as if she might explaiu this "whim" if she did not consider it more prudent to keep still. "It wou't do for a fashionable lady to Tppenrin a ball or recoption dres3 too often, but the same dress may do good service by exchange. It may appear many times in public without exciting remark, if it is not always worn by the same person aud in tiie same company.'' "The way the thing is done is this: L idies who spend thouaands of dollars in clothes, going cotisiautly in society and always appearing iu new gowns, don't generally feel that they can afford to lore the cost of a gown after wearing it a few times. Yet they could not be induced to j continue wearing it. They sell off the old droases, and the money goes toward getting the new ones. They are sold for very much less than they are worth, but the lady gets some 'rebate' on them, and the purchasers get gor-d dresses for very much less than they are worth. They get dresses that are just as good as new, and can wear them without any danger ofjappenring to wear second baud clothes. Then they, in turn, soli them to some one else. These sales could never be made directly between the principals to the transaction. They must be made through an agent, and both the purchas? er aud the seiler remain unkuown. They aro very particular about this. No one knows who buys or sells. They must have confidence in tbo discretion of the agent before they will deal in any way with her. They have their coufitlants in these matters. There are a number of agents in the city. Some are the dressmakers who go in the house to sew. Others, like myself, do just the exchange busincs--. Some of my patrons both buy and si 11 i':irough me. Some sell oniy. I must be very discreet. It would not do for me to exhibit a drc.-s for sale to the ftiend of the lady who lost wore it. "I must be well acquainted with all my patrons, aud know all their society a-.sociaiions. See? I do not buy dresses. They arc left with me to sell. If I sell them, I get paid for it. If I fail to find a purchaser, I return the garments. It is generally easy to sell a good dre.-s, but, of course, one must have a w ide cir? cle of acquantauces to the business. "It is an extensive business here in Washington, and quite a number, mostly c ilorcd women, are engaged in ii. Some very fine dresses are bought and sold, the prices falling rapidly at each transfer. A dre^s does full service in this way and wears out its value. Many of the dresses seen in fashionable assemblages have been worn by some one else than their then wearer. Rich people even do not buy clothes to throw away before thpy have shown a fold from wear! and the fact that a dress has been worn by another at some time does not j condemn it to retirement, if it does not show the wear. As soon as a dress be? gins to show its service in the least its sale iu the upper circles is lost. It goes rapidly down and is soon worn by some j well-to-do colored person. Second-hand clothes ultimately find their way ou to the backs of colored people, but they are not the only ones who wear clothes not new." ? Iu chronic diseases, medicines should be restoring, and. not debilitating, in their action. The wonderful strength t cuing and curative effects, realized from I the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilia, sustain the reputation of this remedy as the most popular blood purifier. ? The slaughter of the birds to deck woman's headgear may be judged whi n one London dealer says that la^t year he sold 2,000,000 small birds of every possi? ble kind and color, from the port gray of j the wood pigeon to the gem like splendor j ot the tropi. al bird. ? Malarial poisons contain the germs j of dangerous diseases. I;' these poisons I accumulate in t!.o system, Typhoid. Mill? ions, Intermit tent <w Chill I'ever is -ore to fo?ow. Ayer's Ague Cure is a war? ranted specific for malaria. VOL UM* 'Mio Phonograph a Success. New Yonk, May IS.?Edison's speak? ing phonograph is at last pcrfecled and ready for public Use. The Wizard of Llewellyn Park said to a Herald reporter yesterday that the phonograph had given him more trouble than any other of his numerous inven? tions. Since it was first exhibited in this country and in London, eleven years ago, it has beer, revolutionized, and the ma? chine of to-day is entirely unlike the tin foil recording phonograph of lS37,exe< ;>t so far as the principal on which records sounds is concerned. A Herald reporter made a special visit to Mr. Edison's laboratory at Llewellyn IYrk yesterday afternoon. On entering the experimental room he heard a cornet playing, without horns of musicians in sight. It was Edison's wonderful phono? graph throwing out fmusic like a brass band. Half an hour previously horns had been played near the instrument. Not a note was lost. "The music would come out j;K i:s good fifty years hence as now,"' said the Wizard to the astonished visitors who were gathered around the strange ma? chine. The same musicians were called in, and they pluyed waltzes, sonatas and military marches. A big funnel, six feet long, coaxed in the music and focussed it against the tiny drum of the phono? graph, which in turn, vibrated uuder each sound wave and punched a little needle against a wax cylinder revolving by electric battery power 3t the rate of 100 revolutions a minute. All the music was faithfully recorded, and iu a few minutes the phonograph was repeating those wild ami stormy notes as well as the softer cooing passages to delighted human cars. In the centre of the room stood a concert grand piano. "It was made by tho manufacturers for little Jo^ef Hofmann," said Mr. Edison. By request this instrument w;<8 also played and its music reproduced again and again nearly as it came from the fingers of the man on the piano stool. Mr. Edison said that having perfected the phonograph for the human voice he was now trying to make it capable o; re producing music exactly a* it is* writti :> and played. He hail found great diffi? culty in determining the proper speed for the machine, and the proper length and focus of the receiving cone which, like an ear trumpet, conducts sound to its little end attached to bo phonographs' drum. Experiments showed that music played in a low octave was transformed into piccolo by the phonograph when run : \ a high speed, while the high notes be come rich bass with lower speed of the phonograph roller. If the speed of the roller and pilch of the receiving cone be just right the music will be transmitted and reproduced exactly us played. A good illustration was given when one of the experts said that a man's image was exactly reproduced without distortion in Lwo mirrors if they were placed at im? proper angles. The slightest deviation from correct position would make a man's reflection appear too tall, too short or cut of proportion, as in concave or convex mirrors. The laws governing sound, waves and light arc somewhat similar. The Wizard said he expected to have his musical phonographs ready for use in a few weeks. The speaking phonograph whs tested in various ways. It was a success. The wax cylinders, on which the sound im? pressions are registered, are hollow, four inches long and about two inches in di? ameter?the shell being from a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch thick. They closely resemble four inches of a large church wax candle, bored out and turned smooth. The phonograph, with it-1 was cylinder revolving, looks like a boy's turning lathe, the cutting chisel being the pin fastened to the little drum of the receiving tube and which records on the wax roller the sound. They are mere dots, so fine that one can scarcely distin? guish them without a glass. One thousand words are taken on one of these cylinders and no eye can dis? tinguish them. The screw that propels it has luO threads to the square iuch, and the ordinary speed is seventy revolutions a minute. A ten minute.-' talk of dicta? tion fills the roll. A type writer man can copy it a thousand times ?nd then put it away in a box to repeat in the tones of the original human voice that first utter? ed the sentences. Mr. Edison said he would soou be turning out the talking ma? chine at the rate of 200 a day. To test the practicability of tho ma? chine, extracts were read to it by the reporter and a dictation given it. Every ' word was taken and then copied off on a i type wri'.er by Mr. Edison's secretary, i lie said that their correspondence was dictated to the wax rolls and copied and preserved. They were cheap. Each [ would contain 20,000 words before worn out. A little knife pares off tho surface of the roll when filled if the last dicta? tion i* not to be preserved, otherwise a new roll must be used. Mr. Edison said the machine would do away with much of the labor of steno- j gr.aphy fir dictation and private corres? pondence. For taking public speeches the big music funnel must be used as J when recording from orchestra. A Little Too Smart. I heard the other day of a clerk in a ; dry goods store who was smart and quick, a splendid manager and all that, lie had an exalted opinion of himself, and [ frequently made himself disagreeable by remarking to his associates that the con? cern could not possibly get along without him. This came to the ears of the senior partner, and the old gentleman called I the clerk into the private office and said : "Mr. Jenkins, you have been vr-ry elli el.mi!, and we appreciate your services; but I hear that you have repeatedly as? serted that i! you were to die the concern i couldn't pos.-ibiy survive it. and this 1 as worried both myself ami my partner very much, for you, like ail me?,:iro linb'e to die very unexpectedly. Wc have there-j fore concluded to experiment while we are in health, ami see if i!:e cono r:> will survive your absence. V. u will therofoic consider yourself dead for one year, ami we will make an < li'ori to so >? insider y< u for that length of time.'" -Hlobc Demo? crat. I 5 XXIII.- -NO. 46. All Sorl.s'of Paragraphs. ? lTostetcr,"ths"n.i(i at medicine man, carries $750,000 life insurance. ? It is exactly 107 years since the f:rst Sunday newspaper was published. A conventi m of persons who wear glass rye- is to be called to meet in Mil? waukee. --- The average rat^ of baptisms in the Protestant churches of Japan is about ?100 a month. ? The Congressional library building at Washington will cover 11,000 square feet, [.'.ore than two and :?. half acres. ? A lot in Denver, Col., that was pur? chased by an early settler for $5 and a revolver sold the other day for ?10, 000. ? It speaks well for the colored people of Georgia when it is stated that they pay taxes on about $0,000,000 worth of prop? erty. ? The King of Spain is IS months old, and has a salary of $1,000,000, with pros? pect of a raise as soon as the business will warrant it. ? The Bank of England is the most extensive banking institution in the world. It employs over 1,000 clerks, and its buildings cover eight acres. ? At present there are over 2,000,000 people out of employment in the United States. In New York alone there are 17,000 men and 50,000 women who are idle. ? The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that no State has the right to tax railroads, express and tele* graph companies that do business in more than one State. ? One rich man v. cars poor clothes because ho is rich and can do anything, while a poor man wears fine clothes be? cause lie is poor, and wants to create the impression that he is not. ? The statement i; made that no less than six species of North American birds have become extinct during the last ten years, and it i- c'aimed that English sparrows were the main cause. ? On the back of a five dollar bill re? ceived by a Greensboro, N. ft, merchant the other day the following was written : "This is the last of forty thousand dollars. Beware of women, wine and fast horses." ? Nearly ail of the United States Senators are large men, their average weight ruuuing cIofc to ISO pounds. Their entire weight, according to a sta? tistical correspondent, is nearly 14,000 pounds. ? An exchange tells of an apple tree in Yr.dkin County X. C , which l^ars fruit regularly every year and has never been known to bloom. The apple grows oh" from a soft shoot or -prig which springs from the large branches. ? A whitty writer has observed, with much truth, thai ev: ry man i<, in ;t sense, three different men. In the first place, he is the man lie thinks himself to be ; in the second place, he is the man other persons think him to be; and, fioaliy he i- the man that he realty is. ? The Prosperity fopmo- -ays, "We know a family in EdgeGeld which can boast of representing in name, an insect, a bird and a quadruped. The man's name iJ Jay, his tnoth-in law's name is Roach, and his grandmother's name is Leopard?all living in the s:-.me house." ? A New York business man has a novel method of refreshing his memory. When he has something important to attend to the next day, he writes himself a postal card, reminding him of the mat? ter, and, finding the card among the mail the next morning, attends to it the first thing. ? It is stated by the Director of the Mint that whenever $1,000,000 in go'd coins are handled at leas'.t $5 is lost by abrasion, even when the greatest care is exercised. At the annual settlement and other counts the weighing of the bul? lion and coin requires no less, than eight handlings. Of course this loss is irrepa? rable. ? The Georgia State Temperance Convention, before adjourning, passed resolutions to make a general prohibition contest in ti e elections for the Legisla? ture this fall. Prohibition candidates will be nominated in every county pledg? ed to vote for a statutory prohibitory law instead of leaving the question to the vote of the people. ? In Wayne county, Gr.. PostofBce >n the Big Sandy river, lives Joseph Davis, who has a daughter aged six years who weighs 230 pound. This is the larg? est child for its age known in the world, is perfectly healthy aud as intelligent as the average child. The parents are of average weight, the mother weighing but 120 and the father 130 pounds. ? A boy about ten years of age, living at Martin's Mill, Tenn., has acquired a mania for eating tlics. and will turn away from the daintiest dishes for this, his favorite diet. 1 le eats them, he says, be? cause he loves them, and resorts to all kinds of schemes to catcli them. He says his little braiuer likes them osSkII as he does, but is too lazy to catch them. ? "I could gaze at the moon for hours, Mr. Sampson," she said, in a voice full of sweetness and pneumonia. "I never tire of it.*' "Ah V he responded, "would that 1 were the man in it'." "Yes," she assented softly. "And why, Miss Clara '.'!: he asked, getting ready to take her hand. "Because, Mr. Sampson,''ehe said, shyly veiling her eyes with their long lashes, i "you would be -i 1.,0 I > miles away." ? A woman who cannot ccok a dinner as well as eat it, make a dress as well as wear it; a woman who cannot turn her hand to anything when occasion requires, 1 who is not able to train her servants practically and teach them the value of ' economy oi time :.- well as money is not I in otii opinion, educated at all, though ; she may be very much cultivated, and even have been to college and taken a degree. An Elegant Substitute For < His, Salts, Pills, and all kinds of bitter, nauseous Liver Medicines and Cathartics is the very "agreeable liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its advan i tages are evident it i- more ea-i!y taken, more acceptable to the stomach more pleasantly effective, and more truly beneficial to t'ne system than any other remedy. Ke< inn ended by lending phy? sicians For sale by Simpson. Leid & ! Co.