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BY CLINKSCALI ^??H^'?OI^UMN, ? t J. k. CLINKSCALES, Editoe. Miss Mamie Black, of Greenville, i? ; now teaching the Centennial school, ?f taught by her sister, Miss Ella, last win ^ ter. We are glad to know, that Miss ;.' Mamie is giving entire satisfaction and that her patrons are holding up her hands handsomely in the noble work *he is doing. 1 Miss Nora Hubbard, one of Anderson's most progressive teachers, speaks of going to Monteagla this summer and taking a coarse of instruction in some special branch. Will not some of the J othei young ladies join Miss Nora ? You can not make a better investment. None of us know too much. It would be well for , every teacher, if he can afford it, to take a course, of lessons every summer at some schools Mr. W. E. Breazeale, formerly of this County, now of Trenton, ""Edge ?eld County, speaks of going to Mon teagle to take lessons in French As rapidly as possible we are pushing ' the arrangements for our Teachers' Institute to completion. Several mem here of" the faculty have been engaged, and we are negotiating with other dis? tinguished instructors. We do hope that Anderson will be as well represented at Greenville this year, a3 she was at Wiiiiamstos last year. It would be nice to beat friend Mayfield on his own ground. And if our teachers will turn oat as they should, we can doit. Green? ville is not much further than William? ston, and the city itself offers some attrac? tions, which can not be found at Wil liamston. Teachers'Institutes have come, and they are here to stay, despite all opposi? tion. Col. J. H. Bice, State Superinten ? dent of Education, in bis last annual report, speaking of the Institute held at Williamston last year and of others in the State, said: "These Institutes should be attended by every teacher, for they are of inestimable benefit. Association with inquiring and suggestive minds, gathering workers on the same field, and the development of progressive plan3 by able leaders, give impetus to every department of the public schools." We. take Col. Bice as high authority. . He .is an able superintendent and has had "association with inquiring and sug? gestive minds"; he knows whereof he affirms. Let our teachers, with as few excep? tions as possible, make np their minds to be at roll-call on the morning of June 25th. Let them not forget that board will cost them' no more in Greenville than it did at WilHamston. The Green? ville people have determined to do every thing in their power to. make theluati tute, a success. The exercises will be largely attended. If we succeed, as we hope to be able to do, to get Laurees, Spartanborg, Pickens and Oconee to ?? unite with us, there will be at least three hundred teachers, besides visitors snd spectators. Anderson County has her reputation at stake. She can not afford to have her teachers missing. We will assist any one to get a boarding place. Send us your name and we will forward to Mr. Mayfield, who will have acorn mittoe to look afjgr such matters. Don't forget tho Institute, and don't fail to go. PTTLLXC SCHOOLS. There are three noble purposes for which man lives, and toward which the whole tenor of his life should point. These are not antagonistic the one to the Mother. First. To support and render com? fortable himself and family. Second. Do all he can for his children, whom he ?hatl leave behind him. Third. To so live that he may not be -afraid to die. To the second we would direct the attention of our readers. All persons know how interested a father is in the welfare of his children, and his constant 'enquiry is, what can I do that will redound most to the benefit of my chil? dren? In their accumulation of prop? erty and investment of funds, the best interest. of the children is usually con? sulted. . .. Now, if this be true, what a concenter? ing of interest and concern should every parent feelin the schools of oar country. How carefully they shoald watch the development of the child's mind, and what an intense interest they should feel in the selection of good teachers; and vre ose the word good advisedly, we mean good in its widest and most comprehen? sive sense. The moral part of the child's training and development shoald always be kept up with, if not ahead of its liter? ary training. The parents can better afford to let any other interest lag, than to see the common school system destroyed, it is upon the common schools, to a very great extent, we are dependent for the future greatness of our children. If the parents wonld lay up . lasting, treasures for their posterity, let them improve, elevate and develop the common schools. Let them select the best teachers, the best men for trustees, and the best officers to control them. > Nothing should control in such matters, except to select the best men for the places. 0 ' The common school system has made great progress in the South during the last few years. Improved methods of teaching are being used. Normal schools are kept up, and almost through? out the whole South Teachers' Conven? tions and Teachers' Institutes are being held. All this speaks well for our New South. It shows that pur people are waking up to the best interests of their children, which interests are in the com? mon schools of the country ; and it also shows that while everything else is being improved, the people are determined to improve the common schools. ? A sound body and a contented mind are necessary to perfect happiness. If y u wish to possess these, cleanse yuor blood with Ayer's Sarsaparilia. It is perfectly safe to'take, and is a thorough? ly reliable, highly concentrated, and powerful blood purifier. IS & LANGSTON. Ibr the Anderton Mettigencer. USES SUGGESTED BY OUR BECENT ERES. BT AN ANDERSON YOUNG LADY. Wildly the night winds are sighing, Where our city silent sleeps; Wierdly waking a symphony While o'er us Heaven weeps. The mantle of darkest blackness Is close around us drawn; 0 for a ray of light above! O for the morning dawn! Clear and distinct from the tower, Drop the tones of the bell; Loud above the storm it peals forth, As if danger to foretell. Bat the city, nothing fearing, Lolled by the wind's sad moan, Still sleeps, and never heeds for once The voice or warning tone. Now the storm is raging higher, \ The fiends are oat to-night Playing at war with the elements While they have lost the light. Say, would any Creatore venture Into a night like this ? Why the very stars have trembled And refused theeky to kiss List ! Did you not hear a footstep, Stealthy and sore, but light ? See, that glimmer yonder! What can it mean to-night ? . Fire I The torch has been lighted! The fiend, crouched in his lair, . Watches with murderous gloating, The heightniug lurid glare. Fire! The city has wakened, All peace and quiet hu gone. Confusion and wild disorder Into the whole is thrown. Higher the flames stretch, and higher Reaching np to. the sky. ?"Who did it" ? The people whisper With angry-flashing eye. Up and away, let os find him, He who has done the deed! Justice, weigh out the penalty According to thy creed. Haste! Lest the innocent suffer Oft, as they have to-night. Away with all wrong, all evil! Let us have only right 1 Search out the criminal victim, Search the land far and wide; On bended knees let him pray os, Some shelter where to hide. Oh, friends, why is it you falter? "Tis only just and right; Heaven will send as her blessing Her power and her might Progress in the Piedmont* Greenville, May 80.?There is noth ing artificial about the remarkable development of the cotton manufactures of this section. It is a healthy growth, and a growth from the inside. The fac? tories, which to a greater or less extent were started by foreign capital, are im? proving and enlarging their own plants, and attracting, home capital and home enterprise into those channels which have been shown to be so richly produc? tive. This is evidence by the simultan? eous enlargment of the capitol and plants of a number of the larger mills in the Piedmont section, and starting of popular movements for building new factories where none have been before. Some of these popular schemes look to receiving aid from outside sources; others' are independent ofthat, bnt they are chiefly noticeable from the fact that they indi? cate a widespread awakening of the peo? ple to the wisdom and profit of "bringing the mills to the cotton." There are no less than six new mills now in progress of building in the half dozen counties whose centre Greenville is, and as many more are distinctly pro? jected. The Pelzer Manufacturing Com? pany, in Anderson County, are doubling their capacity by the building of another immense four-story mill adjoining their present large plant, and they are putting in at the same time a small yarn mill. The Piedmont Company, Greenville County, is putting up another large mill just across the river, on the Anderson side, at Piedmont, having once before doubled the original mill. At Enoree, Laurens County, a large mill is going up for a company composed ? mostly of Charleston men, and at Clifton, Spartan burg County, "Clifton No. 2" is now building, and will double the already heavy capacity of the Clifton plant The Trough Shoals Factory is making ad? ditions, and the Cherokee Falls Company have added $125,000 to their capital and will put in 2,000 more spindles. Last, the "Lanneau Manufacturing Company" have just finished right here in Greenville one of the neatest and most compact yarn mills in the South. It will manufacture high grade y?rna only. So much for what is actually being done. The proposed factories are as abundant. Anderson has just started, by meauB of a big mass meeting, a public movement for a cotton mill, and has a good sub? scription under way. Spartan bu rg began a short while 8go a novpl r.n? determin? d movement for building a factory on the co operative plan, and a good start has been made. Laurens is working energet? ically for a factory, and Seneca City is engf^eering a similar movement. The people" of Seneca propose a $200,000 brain power mill, and they have nearly $50,000 in hand and are pushing. Easley is starting a move for a small mill, with a capital of $50,000 or $75,000. They have strong grounds to hope for success in securing the first factory ever built in Pickeos, and which it is fondly hoped will be the beginning of a shaking up gr'^erally in the county. This is but a summary of the state of affairs in what may now be considered the manufacturing centre of the State. It points out an immense revival in cot? ton manufacturing and is perchance but a faint indication of what may be in the future. There is one fact that may be sig? nificant ; without a single exception the new mills projected by popular enterprise look to using steam power.?Correspon? dence Greenville Newa*\ ? Shiloh's Cure will \ immediately relieve Croup, Wbooping\ Cough and Bronchitis. For sale by Hill Bros. ? William Spencer entered jnto his fourth matrimonial venture recently at the age of 78, while his bride, nged 74, is indulging in her sixth. Both are in robust health. They live at 8helbyville, Indiana. ^ ? "Hackmetack," a lasting and fra? grant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents'. For sale by Hill BroB. 4 STOLEN FRUIT I Always Taates the Sweetest to a Boy. Atlanta Constitution. I visited a lady in my travels who was not calm and serene, for some boys had slipped np and stolen the young mock? ing birds from the nest she had been watching so long. "And only to think/' she said, "two of the boys were preachers' sons, and I told them one day not to take the birds, and the next day' they came while I was gone and took them." Well, a bird's nest is a very trying thing to a boy, whether he is a preacher's son or not. It strains him. He is almost, obliged to have it. It is as bad as a watermelon to a darky. There has been many a chapter written about the sin of robbing bird nests, but the robbing goes on about the same. The nest is bo cun? ningly made and the eggs are so pretty. It is a prize for a boy, and then there is a feeling of triumph in having found what was hidden. The same feeling inclines a man to go fishing?not for the love of the fish, but the love of the sport, He loves to beat the fish at their own game. He loves to catch them because they don't want to be caught. Some? body sent Mr. Cleveland a fine salmon the other day, and he said he envied the man who caught it. It looks like a very small business for a large man to take pleasure in, but it is nature, and we can't help it. Daniel Webster said that nobody liked to fish except gentlemen and vagabonds. He was mistaken. All classes like to fish, but nobody but gen? tlemen and vagabonds have time. The good book Rays: "I will give thee dominion over the beasts of the field and the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air." And so we want it, and the more they resist us the more we want it. No? body wants to shoot a chicken or to catch one in a trap, but we will hunt all day for qual or squirrels or hawks, just because they are wild and won't submit to us. I saw hundreds of squirrels in a park at Memphis, but nobody wanted them, for they were tame, and would eat nuts from your hand. We prefer a wild rat to a tame squirrel. ' Now, I am not excusing a boy for rob? bing a bird's nest, for it is cruel?more cruel than to catch a fish, for a fish is a lower order of living creatures, and does not enjoy life like a bird. A fish has. not got much more sense nor feeling than a monkey wrench, but it does distress the old birds very much to take their young away or to break op their nests. Then, again, the boys don't understand the nice distinctions between "meum and tuum," mine and thine. They don't know where the line is between wild things that belong to everybody and those that are near the house and belong to somebody. Why, one day the impu? dent, ill mannered rascals came in my meadow and killed the squirrels we had been raising for years. I complained to some boys once because they robbed my mocking bird's rr t, and they said, why, that nest was on the other side of the road. Some folks have to post their lands to keep intruders off, but that don't keep them off very much, and the hunters set him down as a stingy, selfish old cuss. They tramp down my corn every year to catch a few fish in the creek, and as for watermelons, we have quit planting them far away from the house. A white boy about sixteen years old will steal a melon as quick as a negro, and he will be meaner about it, for be will plug a dozen to find a ripe one one. A white man who will steal at all will steal anything, and he always carries some envy or malice along with him, but a negro just takes little things that he thinks you don't need and won't miss, and he is really much obliged to you for having a surplus. He has no malice and no envy.. He is glad you are rich. I had an old ax, aod one day when I wanted it I couldn't find it. I made such a fuss about it that one of the darkies brought it home and said he was jes keep in' it for me till I wanted it. Bat a white man came along one day and stole the new one, and when my nabor who made the handle saw it at his woodpile and asked him where he got it, he said he found it in the big road. He has got it yet, I reckon, for I never troubled him about it. I had ratber a negro would steal from me than a white man?he does it so tenderly and so innocently. "Uncle Jack, they say that you darkies are stealing coal from the cars every Saturday night when they stop over for Sunday?" "Now, boss, you know dat ain't no such a thing. I neber has tech a bit of dat coal. Maybe de chillun take a little now and den, but de railroad neber miss what dey take. Dem big long kyars jes so full dey runned over," and he laughed a right honest good-natured laugh. Ralph lost his knife and Ned found it and swapped it off quick, and when it was found out he took high ground and said he "foun dat knife away down yon. der by de big gate." There are lots of folks who think that finding a thing gives them a right to it. Some boys find marbles and balls and pencils, and keep them?moat all boys do some little mean things on the sly, things they are ashamed of afterwards. I helped some boys steal watermelons once and was caught at it, and felt mean a long time. I am glad I was caught, for it cured me early. The owner came right upon ua in the corner of the fence and said: "Why, boys, you don't know how to tell a ripe melon from a green one. Let me get you Borne ripe ones." And he thumped around and found some and sat down with us and helped us eat them, but every mouthful choked me and stuck in my throat. He was a good man and never told on us. The good boys we read about in the Sunday-school books are very scarce?the boys who never told a story, or took a cake or a lump of sugar on the sly?who never copied a sum from another boy's slate?who never went in a washing, or kept a secret from their mother?who never bad a fight and didn't tell it?or never said devil and durn and dog on it away from home. When I was about thirteen I was the mill boy, and I had to go two miles to mill, and I always^njanaged to go with some other boys, so asur^^fl/se races coming back. Some timea * ; aid have got the meal by^wjjting a little while, ANDEKSON, S. C. bat the temptation was too great, and bo t bad to tell a little Btory so as to get to race coming home and then race again going after the grist. Boys have their temptations just like men, and the men fall about as often as the boys. The dif? ference is the men cover up ther tracks better than the boys. The men don't steal nor tell lies, but they cheat and trick and plot and scheme and conceal the truth. Some of them do. Some very respectable gentlemen. A trading man can hardly be a candid man. Solomon said: "A lie sticketh in the joints between the buyer and the seller," and, he said, "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but after he buyeth he goeth his way and rejoiceth." And so, after all, I believe I had rather risk the boys, even though they rob the birds' nests. If a boy will just feel mean after he does a mean thing I have hopes of him. Some? times boys will do bad things just for the peril of it?the risk?the hazzard of being caught. There is an adventure about it that they like, just like there is about smuggling or making moonshine whisky. Tbe more boys, the more they plot mischief. One dog won't go off by himself and kill sheep, and so one boy won't rob an apple orchard. He must have company. I have known school boys to walk two miles to steal apples when they had apples at home. One dark night sone of the boys wentto Dr. Alexander's, a mile away, and stole a bee gum and carried it to the institute wrapped up in a quilt and robbed it and got stung, all over, though tbey had honey every day at the boarding house. You see, the old devil tells ihem there is fun in it, but there is not. He is an old liar. Jim Lioton and Ned Goulding and Thad Holt went out on a lark one night and the three geese stole a sander from old Isam Williams and they carried him home and Bbut him up in tbe closet. They had no use for him in the world, and just stole him because there was nothing else handy. "Old Pat," the teacher, came round tbe next night as usual to see if the boys were in% -their rooms, and sure enough, the old gander squalled while he was talking to them, and that let the cat out of the bag and the gander out of the closet. The boys bad to carry him back to Uncle Isam's and liked to have been expelled besides. Ned Goulding was the best bad boy I ever saw. He was lovable and kind and we small boys looked upon him as a friend, for he never would let a big boy impose on us. He was a brave colonel in the war and his soldier boys loved him. He was a brother to Frank, who wrote the Young Marooners, a book that every boy and girl in the land ought to have. Tbe last edition is just splendid. Well, it does look like there is no sure way-to raise the boys. Boys will be boys. There is no patent on the business. The preachers' sons are no better than other people's and the other people are pretty generally glad of it, for it helps to keep down the equilibrium. Our preacher is the son of a preacher and the grandson of a preacher, and not long ago he preached about turning the left cheek if. a man smote you on the right, but at tbe same time he said he didn't know whether he could do it or not if it came all of a sudden. My opinion is that he is a good deal like Sam Jones about that, and Sam would pop a feller bo quick it would make his head swim. Human nature is the same the world over and most of us have got our share. Some of the women may Le sanctified, but the men are not. I know some who claim to be but they are not giving away their cloaks to them fellers who want their' coats. Women have a fair chance to be sanctified for they never evolutise. She wasen't made out of dirt. She never was a frog, nor a monkey. Whether man was or not, I doo't know; but, I suppose it will be settled soon at Baltimore, in Dr. Woodrow's case. One thing is cer? tain. Some of those preachers didn't evolute from the angels, or tbey would show more charity. I hear1 a preacher say in Arkansas, that they had got Dr. Woodrow out of the seminary, and if be didn't mind, they would get him out of the church. Well, T hope they won't try to keep him out of heaven. Bill Abp. A Giant Hand in the Sky. Findlay, Ohio, May 22.?A strange spectacle was visible in the Northern sky here lost night shortly before 11 dock, which has caused tbe greatest consterna? tion among the people. It was the representattion of a human hand of im? mense proportions, awe inspiring in its realistic vividness. Early in the evening the sky in the North had a peculiar appearance, which, as the night wore on, took the form of flashes of light constant? ly changing in color, pulsing up from the horizon and again subsiding, but with each appearance becoming more brilliant and unnatural. This continued until abont 11 o'clock, when those watching the phenomena were terrified to see these plumes of light consecrate into a distinct object, which soon assumed the propor? tions of a giant hand, well formed and as distinct as if painted upon tbe black background of tbe sky. The band appeared to be a shadowy substance, through which waves of light of a blood red color surged as regularly as heart beats in a human breast and then fell off at the ends of the fingers in drops of the same color, almost as large as hot-air balloons. The first finger of the hand pointed down toward the sleeping city as if warning the people of some woe about to fall upon them. Tbe spectacle lasted for about an hour, and was witnessed by hundreds who were breathless with suppressed excitement, until slowly it began to fade away and finally disappeared altogether. It was one of the strangest and yet most impress ive exhibitions of nature ever witnessed, and speculation regarding its cause and significance will not abate for many a day. ? The republicans have strong hopes of carrying North Carolina this year. A hope is a different thing from a certainty, however, and the certainty appeara to be on tbe democratic side. ? For Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint you havo a printed guarantee on every bottle of Sbiloh's Vitalixer. ft never fails to cure. THURSDAY MOKN] T. 6. CLEMSON. His Life and Religious Serrlce?? An Inter? esting and Inspiring Narrative. To the Editor of the News and Courier : I saw in your paper of the 16th, a com? munication from Mississippi, dated May 3, and signed L. S. Foster, referring to the life and religious views of the late Hon. T. G. Clemson, which prompts me to make the following statement which may prove of interest to some ^of your many readers: Since December last I have been the pastor of the Method ist Episcopal Church South at Pendleton. Some time about' the latter part of January Col. E. W. Simpson told me that Mr. Clemson had frequently expressed a desire to see and talk with a minister of the gospel, and invited me to ride out to Fort Hill with him. On our way the colonel informed me that Mr. Clemson had entertained peculiar views on religious subjects but, for some time past, he appeared to be much concerned about his soul's salva? tion, and if an opportunity presented itself he wished me to talk with him on that subject. On entering the sitting room we found Mr. Clemson reading, but he arose and received us very cordi? ally. While Col. Simpson and Mr. Clemson were engaged in business transactions, and it being my first visit to this historic place I soon found myself absorbed in the inspection of the many paintings and other articles of interest with which the various apartments of the old Calhoun mansion were adorned, and which had been kindly thrown open to me. On my return to the Bitting room we all entered into a general conversa? tion, which was to me very pleasant. When we rose to leave, Mr. Clemson kindly invited me to return and see him again. Several days after our return to Pendleton I received a note from Col. Simpson informing me that Mr. Clemson desired very much to. see me as early as I could go, and that he wanted light on spiritual matters. The note also inform? ed me that the writer could not accom? pany me, but that Mr. J. D. Smith, a merchant of this place and a friend of Mr. Clemson's, would go with me. In this interview, which lasted three or four hours, Mr. Olemion seemed deeply interested, and expressed great anxiety to learn, if it were possible for him, at that late day, to secnre the salvation of his bouI?his eyqs at times moistening with tears. At the close of my talk I asked if he would have me to pray with him. H 9 replied he would be glad if I would. After reading portions of Scrip? ture, and while kneeling to pray, I found that be bad gotten up from his lounge and was also kneeling, although Mr. Smith suggested to him that it would be as well to remain upon the lounge, to which he replied: "No, I want to get upon my knees." On leaving, Mr. Clemson again pressed me to return soon and see him, and said that he had both bed and plate for me ct any time and kindly invited me to come and spend some time with him. Sick? ness prevented me for a while, but I did visit him two or three times more during his last illness, but each time, except the last, he was suffering with a great diffi? culty of breathing, and although he may have desired to talk with me he evidently could not do so. The last time I visited him I hesitated about going into his room after learning of his low condition, but he heard my voice in the next room and was informed that he desired to see me. I found him then in a dying condition, but his mind seemed quite clear, though his powers of articulatiou were very feeble. 1 asked him how he felt spiritu? ally and what were his future prospects. He replied. "That is all right." I did not feel satisfied that I understood him clearly, so I asked him if that was his re? ply, to which he gave unmistakable as sent. I understood from his housekeeper and constant attendant that be had been reading his Bible and praying himself. Which I have been since informed has been his custom for a year or more. His conversation with Dr. Pickens, his atten? ding physician and with Col. Simpson and Mr. Smith, corroborate his statement to me, and gives me hope that he died in peace, trusting in the all saving grace of God in Christ Jesus. I have written these facts to show that, while Mr. Clemson may have entertained skeptical views of a Divine Saviour, he had discovered, some time bufoie his ill? ness, his mistake and had become more and more convinced of the fallacy of such a position, and finally found (as all must find) there was no other refuge. Men may in building their future hopes, "set at naught." this Christ the Son of God, but must sooner or later learn that this "Stone" "is become head of the corner. Neither is there sal? vation in any other, for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Very respectfully, N. L. Clabkson. Pendleton, S. C, May 21, 1838. An Unparalleled Migration. English sparrows were first imported iato this country at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1850. They did not thrive, and two years later another colony was imported. They multiplied and spread, until, in 1870, the sparrow was diffused pretty generally through the Eastern States, the race being increased by importations at several sea-ports in 1858 and following years. Since then these birds have extended widely, until they are the pest of all country east of the Mississippi and of a wide area beyond that river. It "goes West" steadily, and leaping over inter? vening regions beyond the ninety-eeventh degree of longitude, finds first a habita? tion in Utah, and then passing to the Pacific, is met with in and aronnd San Francisco. Everywhere it is prolific, and rears its five or six broods a year with the most reckless disregard of consequen? ces. The sparrow reached New Bruns? wick and Montreal by a tramp ride in box cars, and bad no sooner arrived than he set up his household goodB and began bie fearful mission of propagation and diffu? sion. In 1850 the English sparrow in America occupied the area of a single tree or tree box. Now he disports him? self over an area of 885,000 square mild in the United States, and of 150,000 ir Canada. [NG, JUNE 7, 1888. THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS. An Impressive Sermon at tho Citadel Square Baptist Church. There was, as asaal, a large and inter? ested congregation at the Citadel Sqnare Baptist church yesterday morning, and Dr. Ford, who has just returned from the Southern and Northern Baptist Conven? tion, preached one of his eloquent sermons. While absent from home Dr. Ford was invited to preach at one of the largest Baptist churches in Brooklyn, N. Y., yesterday, but he thought it his duty to be in his own pulpitjand he consequently declined the invitation. Dr. Ford preached yesterday a most eloquent and;; profound sermon. He spoke on ''Christ's law of forgiveness," j as taught in Matthew iv, 14:15. He said the text was Christ's explana? tion of the prayer for forgiveness. In the prayer Christ put a sign of equality between the forgiveness we accord others and the mercy we receive from our Heavenly Father. Then at the close of tbe prayer he returned to the truth and again enforces it. Then in the parable of the unmerciful servant Christ says: "So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your heart for? give not every one his brother his tres? passes." Thus Christ's law is, except we from our heart forgive men their sins against us, God will not forgive our sins against Him. On the authority of Christ we accept this law. By it we shall stand or fall in that day*. Yet the law is not arbitrary. Christ refuses to forgive the unforgiving, because such a heart can neither receive nor understand forgiveness. The law of forgiveness is stated like the law of mag? netism. Power to attract iron reveals a certain character in the substance that attracts. So power to be unforgiving reveals a certain character in tbe one who is unforgiving. In view of this character Christ uttered His law of par? don. To this character we direct attention. We ask: What does an unforgiving spirit indicate ? first, in reference to the character of him who possesses it, and, second, in reference to his present, past and future relations to God ? An unforgiving spirit indicates a bard, grasping, exacting nature. For the things that give offence are for the most part trivial, things in which the wrong is mutual, in many cases imaginary. To be vengeful because of such things shows a nature cruel, hard, unchristlike. Two pictures drawn by master artists place Buch people in their true light. Shakes? peare's Jew, Shylock, with his cry,. "Fl* have my bond," angry, not because of wrong done bim, but because his ingfor his debtor's blood because auch pure life and unselfish character were perpetual reproach to his own hard nature; answering all appeals for mercy with fiendish "I'll have my bond, I'll bave my pound of flesh," is one picture drawn in its bare ugliness, without refer? ence to his relation to God. The other picture is that of the unmer? ciful servant, drawn by Christ himself. In it the moral depravity of the unforgiv? ing heart and God's dealing with it are clearly indicated. The servant, just forgiven an immense debt, goes forth to find a fellow-servant who owed him a 1 paltry sum, and taking him by the I throat fiercely demands pay and thrusts him in prison for fault. Was it strange that his fellow-servants were grieved ? Is it strange when the Lord knew he took back the pardon already extended ? Who questions tbe relations of character here made ? But so and more do we disclose inward unloveliness who, receiving pardon from Christ, are yet unforgiving toward our brethren. Under the second head Dr. Ford showed that an unforgiving spirit indica? ted a heart yet untouceed by saving grace. For forgiveness involved a new heart, which is Christ in us. He said the Christ-life in us will do what it did in him. Thus we have a constant test of our hope. In conclusion he asked if professed Christians conld afford to cher? ish unforgiving feelings for such paltry offences, where by so doing they only closed heaven and opened hell before them. Tho old Fasbioned way of Impressing Moral Lessons. A generation or two ago plain Ameri? can fathers and mothers did not entertain the fanciful idea the State should take charge of every body's education, morals and habits. They believed that it was their duty to keep an eye on their boys, and in cases of misbehavior they resorted without compunction to a tough hickory or a barrel stave. Thirty or forty years ago, if a Georgia father had been told that his sixteen year old boy was in dan? ger of having a conjested brain from the smoking of cigarettes, be would have rushed the youngster out into the back yard and sailed into him with a stick. In those days people didn't appeal to societies or a Woman's Christian Tem? perance Union or the legislature when their boys went wrong. They simply made a family affair of it and straight? ened it out satisfactorily. Tbe other day we said that there could be no great improvemen in morals until we were stored tbe thorough and efficient sys? tem of family education and government which formerly prevailed. What we said applies directly to this cigarette evil. If boyc are to be allowed to be their own masters, choose their compan? ions and dispose of their time, we may rest assured that the maj^ty will pick up many vices that $ them in th<e future. Do yo^: your boy to groVT^^ne, honest, .jber and indus? trious? Begin your work on him at home, and keep at it. Good laws and good schools can never take the place of the old fashioned family training, We cannot afford to have a lot of to? bacco hearts and congested brains pushed, into society and business circles. The great problems and gigantic concerns of this age demand men who eojoy the largest measure of physical and mental health. We must have them at any cost. If they caunot be produced under our present Bystem, let us go back in some degree to the common eense simplicity of our fathers. It will not hurt the youngsters, it will be their Balvation in more ways than one. The Nineteenth Century, Eulogies of the present age and its achievements are by no means infrequent, but the following summary from the Albany Evening Journal is so tersely put that we quote it: Happy indeed has been the lot of man who has livedjin the closing years of the nineteenth century. He has witnessed the grandest achievements in science, if not in art and literature, that the world has ever known. He has Been a| nation of free people celebrate the first centen? nial of a great republic. He has seen the development and application of elec? tricity almost to magical uses. He has seen an uplifting of mankind in every sphere of life. Superstition has faded away as science has advanced. Religion has spread its white wings over the earth and sea, and the spirit of militancy has given away everywhere before the pacific tendencies of modern society. What would have been deemed impossible fifty years ago is to day commonplace and almost a necessity. The telegraph and telephone, the electric light, the various applications of light and heat, are speci? mens of the development of science to the utilitarian and useful. It has been well said that "our era marks one of the great epochs of humanity. It has been a fateful fifty years. If not pre eminent in art, it has been in science; if not in song, in philanthropy; if not in philoso? phy, in physics^ If it has produced no Phidias, no Virgil,' no Raphael, no Shakspeare, it has produced a Stephen son, a Daguerre, a Morse, an Ericsson, an Edison, in science; a Cavour, a Bismarck, in practical politics a Lincoln, a Gladstone and a Victor Hugo, among political seers; a Florence Nightingale, a Dorothy Dix, a Clara Barton and a Lucretia Mott. All these have been repreantatives men and women, not separated from their fellows like mountain peaks from plain and valley, but rather raised on grateful shoulders because they have been the servants of all." Men of science who live to-day have almost created a new world. To go back fifty years is to go back to the slow processes of thought and labor, that, in this rushing time, seem incomparably tedious and slow. The last half century has witnessed the greatest of American inventions?the mower and reaper, the rotary printing press, the sewing machine, the India rubber industry, the horse shoe machine, the sand blast for carving, the grain ele? vator, the gauge lathe, the telephone, the electric magnet. Strip the world of these to day, and how greatly progress would be retarded 1 No nation that ever lived has been so conservative of physi cal forces, or done so much for mankind, as the people of the United States during the brief existence of the new republic. Nothing illustrates more forcibly the benevolent spirit of the era than the difference in the scale of wages paid to? day and a century ago. In 1800, common laborers living in the rudest sheds, as MacMaster, the historain, tells us, were paid from $5 to $6 a mouth, working from sunrise to sunset. In the city of Albany wages were forty cents a day, and men were glad to find employment. Yet in those times clothing was much higher than it is to-day, and a day's wages bought only two yards of calico. One hundred years ago a good farm hand brought $3 a month and a strong boy was glad to get $1 a month to work at the hardest manual employment on the farm or in the shop. Butter was from eight to ten cents a pound, potatoes and turnips sold for a shilling a bushel. Women went out to work for twenty-five cents a month and their board. A girl who could earn twelve cents at the spin? ning wheel by a day's hard work thought she was doing well. The poor suffered, and there was more want and wretched? ness proportionate to the population than there is in the United States to day. To? day the commonest laborer has his day shortened to from eight to ten hours, with his regular half holiday, and is not satisfied with anything less than ten or twelve shillings for his work. "Doing" a Hanging. Opie Beed?he of the Arkansaw Travel? er, says that once when he was a reporter he was unable to attend a hanging which had been "assigned" him, so he printed the following story by a colored man whom he sent to get the facts: "Neber seed de lik o' folks. Da 'peered to come from ever' whar. Arter while de sheriff and some udder genermen tuk dat nigger outen jail, da did, put him in er spring wagin an' hauled him out in er ole fiel' whar da had put up er sort of er platform. De nigger he didnt 'peer to be skeered er bit, an' he walked up dem steps an' looked down like er preacher in pulpit. I tell you he wan't skeered, no he wan't: but I didn't feel jea' right and, w'n de folks gunter sing my knees hit iergedder. (Dis wouldn't do me,' thinks I. Couldn't stan' no .sich progickin ez dat. Doan' wan't no man ter com6 puttin' er rope roun' my naik like I wuz er ca'f. But dat nigger looked at dat rope an' sorter smiled, he did. 'Uh, huh 1' thinks I, you ain't got ez much senses ez I is, ter stan' dar smilin' at er rope dat gwine choke de life outen you.' Den de nigger gunter talk; 'knowledged daf; he killed de man, an' 'lowed dat he wanter meet us all. Den er ole black oman says, 'Oh Lord,' an' one ter lef she lows,1 Ah, Lawd, w'en dis yer cup gwiue ter pass ?' "Den da put er black thing ober de man's head an' fixed the rope roun' his neck. Didn't say er word, but I lowed ter myse'f, ole feller, you ain't got ez much 'uman natur in you ez I is, fur Pde be beggin' dem men montrous, I tell you. Den de right ban' 'oman snuffle like she get or bad col' and de lef han' 'oman sorter whine, an' jest ez I wuz wonderin' wa't da gwine to do nex,' ker flip I^down came de nigger an' de fuz stood out on de rope. Dar he was bangin' dar, wid his head sorter on one side like er black? bird's. Deti de wiramen gunter holler, an' I looked roun' an' says, I did, 'La? dies, dar ain't no use hollerin' now, fui de man's dead I Dat wus all dar wuz o de 'formance, an I says: 'Hump, I doan want no sich pro^idkin, 'bout me,' an' ] doan' nuther. Come er snatchin' er max roun' dat way. Act lik er man ain' hu man, da do." VOLUM] Carolina Clay Eaters. A short time ago Dr. Frank Getcbell, of 1432 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, went on a gunning expedition to North Caro? lina. His queer fot game led him into the wild country back of Salisbury, which is inhabited, for the most part, by a mis? erable race of beings, with only just enough energy to eke out a wretched existence. These creatures are nearly all veritable living skeletons, and with few exceptions are addicted'(to the habit of clay eating. While shooting wild turkeys and other game in this wild region, Dr. Get chell made an incidental study of this peculiar habit or vice among the inhabi? tants. It is a mountainous country, and in the spring little rivulets start out from the caps of snow on the mountain, and as the days grow warmer the little rivo ulets become torrents, and great wash? outs are made along the mountain side. The soil is of a heavy, clayey nature, but there are strata of clay that is heavier than the rest, and is formed into little pellets and rolls and accumulates in heaps in the valley. These little pellets and rolls are what the clay eaters devour with as much avidity as a toper swallows a glass of whisky. "Among the poor people of this sec? tion," said Dr. Getcbell, "the habit of ] eating clay is almost universal. Even little toddlers are confirmed in the habit, and the appetite seems to increase with time. While investigating the matter, I entered a cabin occupied by one of | these poor families and saw a little chap tied by the ankles to the leg of a table on which was placed a big dish of bread and meat and potatoes within easy reach. The child was kicking and crying, and I asked his mother why she bad tied him np. She replied that she wanted him to eat some food before he went to the clay, and be refused to do so. The woman confessed that she ate the clay herself, but explained that the child's health de? manded that it eat some substantial food before eating any earth. Almost every one I met in this section was addicted to this habit. Tbey were all very thin, but their flesh seemed to be puffed out. Th': was particularly noticeable about the eyes, which had a sort of reddish hue. "All of the clay eaters were excessively lazy and indolent, and all of these condi? tions combined led me to the conclusion that there must be some sedative or stim? ulating qualities, or both, in the clay, and I determined to find out whether there was or no. I consequently brought a lot of clay home with me, and Profes? sor Tiernan and myself made an analysis of the stuff, and discovered that instead of clay eaters the inhabitants of central North Carolina should more properly be called arsenic eaters. All of this clay contains arsenic, but exactly in what pro? portion we have not yet discovered. Arsenic eating is common in many parts of the world, and is practiced to a greater or less extent throughout the world. It acts as a sedative, and also as a stimulant. The mountaineers of Styria, Austri,a are habitual arsenic eaters. They give as their reason for eating it that they are better able to climb the mountains after eating the poison, and their explanation is a perfectly reasonable one, as arsenic acts as a sedative to the heart's action. The habit is also prevalent in the Tyrol and in the Alps. "It is also said that the peasant girls of Switzerland and parts of Germany and in Scandinavia eat arsenic to give luster to their eyes and color to there cheeks: but this is a matter I have not in? vestigated. It has been shown that arsenic or arsenical fumes are a sure cure for in? termittent fever. The inhabitants of a section of Cornwall, England, at one time suffered with this type of fever, but when the copper works were established there the fever disappeared. This was accounted for by the arsenical fumes created in the treatment of copper. As to whether arsenical eating shortens life I am not yet prepared to say, bnt I intend investigating the matter thor? oughly." A Watermelon Seed in his Throat Six? teen Years. Lancaster, Fa., May 28.?For more than sixteen years Abram B. Shiffer of j New Holland, this county, has not par? taken of solid food. He has lived on milk and other liquid substances. But nevertheless, he is an active and seem? ingly healthy man. Besides taking the toll on the New Holland pike, he deals in horses. He has a wife and two pretty daughters to care for, and he does it in good style, too. In 1872 Mr. Shiffer was eating a watermelon, a seed of which stuck in his throat, and it has remained there ever since, although many efforts have been made to remove it. The first treatment was mustard internally, but it stuck in the throat, and, producing imflammation, a stricture of the oesoph? agus was the result. Four years later the stricture was reduced, but Mr. Staf? fer's ambition to do farm work caused a reaction, and the stricture became worse than ever. For ten years the man has had an instrument inserted in his throat to enlarge the opening, otherwise he would be unable to take liquid nourish? ment. The man is generally in a bappy frame of mind, and be hardly ever troubles himself about his unfortunate condition. He takes the toll just the same. ? A young woman rushed in upon a wedding party in Paris before the mar? riage and presented the'bridegroom with a baby, Bcreaming: "Coward, take charge of your offspring." The groom's protests were coldly received, and the bride fainted. But a moment later the intruder said: "I really beg pardon; I made a mistake. This is not the father c f my child." ? A Nasal Injector free with each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Kemedy. Price 50 cents. For sale by Hill Bros. ? If you want to be well informed take a paper. Even a paper of pins will give you some good points. ? Backache, stiehes in the side, infla? tion and soreness of the bowels, are symptoms of a disordered state of the digestive and assimulative organs, which can be corrected by the use of Ayer's Cathartic Pills. 3 XXin.- -NO. 48. All Sorts of Paragrpks. ? Never worry over trouble. ? The trouble itself is misery enough. ? Gentleness makes children endura ble, women lovable, and, men admira? ble. ? Statistics show that 292,160 persons ia New JYorkXfity cannot speak Eng? lish. ? What is that which we wish for,, and when obtained we never know we have it ? Sleep. ? The House Congressional appropri? ation bill on military affairs amounts to the sum of $54,280,799. ? There are two hundred starch fac? tories in this country, and they manufac? ture about twelve thousand tons of starch yearly. ? A lady who died at Marseilles re? quested that her heart might be placed in the tomb of her second husband, but her body in her first husband's tomb in America. ? Pretty girls, it is said, have no trouble in getting married. The trouble usually comes later, when the too fond husband discovers that beauty won't keep the pot a-boiling or the grocer's bill from increasing in length with every passing hour. ? The three Willard brothers, proprie? tors of the well known Willard hotel in Washington, are among the wealthiest men in the capital. Joseph is said to be worth $18,000,000 alone, and Caleb and Henry are not far bebind him in wealth. They were once porters together in a hotel that stood on the site of their pres? ent hostelry. ? Soldiers in the Russian army are said tobe cured of intemperance by a , curious and heroic method. The ine? briate is locked up and given only food boiled in his favorite spirit and water. He soon becomes horribly sick, but ia kept on this diet until the very sight or scent of spirit creates in him an inextin? guishable loathing for it. ? California, if the insanity of her people continues to increase at the ratio of the past tweuty years, will have one third of her population in the asylum 1 the end of the century. There are two large asylums and the state is build? ing a third. Of the. incurable insa very few are women. Forty men to for, women die insane. Thirty-three per cent of the California lunatics are-made so I drink. ? In addition to the various ot manufactures from paper, varying car wheels, flour barrels, and cui utensils, it is proposed to make bottles, which it is said can be made lighter and cheaper than from glass. In view of the recent rise in glassware, the cheapening will be very acceptable to purchasers, and peculiarly so if the material can be made applicable to lamp chimneys, in which the rise has been fifty per cent., while the flimsiness* of the glass is almost worthless. ? Mr. Wiley McGill, of Wet county, owns a mule which evidences big appetite for spring chicken by devouring all that come within his reach. He has ' eaten so many that for two or three years past it has been necessary to keep strict watch on him whenever he is in tue lot, and especially at feeding time. When the chickens gather around the stable trough, as is usual with them, the mule will drop his corn and fodder any time to catch a nice tender chicken, and it ' . has become an invariable rule of all around Mr. McGill's premises to first see that no chickens are about the stable before he is fed, for it is certain death, for them to go about the trough. This unnatural freak is not only vouched fat by Mr. McGill himself, but is substantia- V'? ted by his neighbors.?Dawatu. 6a.r Journal. ? Of all the incidents connected with the recent floods out West perhaps none was more thrilling than that related of the father who "was on the levee working: with other farmers when the embank? ment gave way. Mounting hia hoi had a mad race with the advancing wa-1 ters for his home, where his ihres littlej children were Bleeping. Beaching the just as the water struck the house, placed the children in a wagon, anc started for the blufiX The rapidly adJ ! vancing flood floated the wagon from the wheels anAtwo of the childreri were drowned, JolL-T^ saving himself and his little daughter. The child is at he has left of a happy home and a farm o ' 200 acres." This pathetic story from real ' life might furnish the theme for a com* ,> panion poem to Miss iDgelow's well ' known " High-tide on the coast of Lin? colnshire. ? At Helena, Ark., there is a wonder? ful colored man named Mack Hamilton, who has been making a show of himself ..on the streets of that town. Some of his 1*| feats consist of eating large quantities of : 4 porcelain and glass-without any delete- ? riouB effects. His appetite is always in 'M good order, aid for a dime he will sat enough to convince the most BkepticalaH that there is no trick about it. He also??: drinks.as much as a gallon of water at a time, and then with a motion of his right- * arm?such a motion as is given to the 'M handle of a pump when pumping?the water comes out of his mouth in a stream as clear as when first swallowed. He also is able to drink boiling water and. eject it by means-of this pump-like pro- yt esss, and when it is emitted it is hot C enough to scald. He swallows' Uv6j|i frogs and small snakes, and by a simple ^ motion of his arm they are forced oat o?$f his mouth. He has drank a half gallon of whisky without feeling the slightest inconvenience. He has had some splen? did offers from different people to go into a show, but he prefers tobe his own master. He has a dread that some doctor \ will kill him for the purpose of making an examination of him. ' Its Delicacy of Flavor And the efficacy of its action have rendered the famous liquid fruit remedy^ Syrup of Figs, immensely popular, cleanses and tones up the clogged i feverish system, dispels headaches, < and fevers, cures Habitual CJonstinu Dyspepsia, and the many ills depone on a weak or inactive condition of Kidneys, Liver, and Bowels. Mam turedonly by the California Fig-S; Company, San Francisco, Cal. Fori by Simpson, Beid & Co.