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BT CUNKSCALE T^??H^'?OI^UMN, : r r J. G. CLDJKSCALES, Editob. ggg:; Sickness in onr family prevented our attending: the examination of the Honea Path High School last Thursday. Fri? day we went down to Honea Path, and though somewhat "under the weather,"* had a most delightful day. It is interesting to attend the closing exercises of- a school like that. The school itself is suggestive. What are 'the possibilities of a school composed of | young men and young ladies, boys and girls and conducted by teachers of] unquestioned ability? What are the possibilities of the school ? What the possibilities of the pupils ? Mr. Watkins is doing a monumental work there. He is grounding himself in ; the minds and hearts of pupils and patrons. He grows steadily but surely, and the people of that community have the good sen bo to appreciate him and .'"?? support him. It is not often that a little village oftbat size is blessed by such a ;"school as that..found at Honea Path. Usually the smallest towns have the most schools, make the biggest fuss and accomplish the least good in the way of J education. Not so at Honea Path. Ap? preciating the old maxim, "In -union there is strength," they pull together as one man, they hold up their teacher's hands, and settle his bills promptly and | without grumbling; they cheer nimby giving him kind words and looks of j approval; all these things have run that school up to 175 pupils. What little town of that size anywhere can beat it? j Wo say, "Hurrah for Honea Path !" and "Hurrah for the surrounding communi tyl" ' Once a people can be\united, great results may be expected to follow. Divide them, separate their forces, encourage bickering and tattling, and death stares any enterprise in the face at Ha very inception. A large and representative audience attended the closing exercises of Mr. Watkins'8 school Friday. To us the occasion was an enjoyable one. The hearts and homes of those people are always open to any one interested in the cause of education. Every family came Friday, with well-filled baskets, and no ono was allowed to go away hungry. Before dinner, Dr. Charles Manly, Presi? dent of Furman University, delivered a . very forceful and appropriate address to the school on, "What to do with vaca? tion," The Doctor made his points clear and distinct, and held the attention of his youthful auditors from beginning to eud. Those boys, we guarantee,. "will ride the elephant" or "make him go slow/' After Dr. Manly's address, this writer - talked to the patrons of the school, and urged; upon them the importance of a still greater appreciation of the school and the great work it is doing. The Honea Path school has closed a most prosperous year. The radius of the circle of its influence is increasing with every succeeding session. And why : should it not? Mr. Watkins does not content himself with what he has accom? plished and throw himself back on his oars to rest; no, no?he's an Institute man: that is, he is a teacher that can learn something and is anxious to learn. He is an Institute man, an Association man, a progressive man, and the conse? quence is inevitable?a first class, high grade school, the pride of the community . in which it is located j and one of which - ibe whole County may justly be proud. Does the;teacher sufficiently value his calling ?. la there any that is more noble than his? The great spirits that have lived on this earth, have they not been teacher* t Make a list of- the moving forces of the world, and it will be found that they have been teachers. True, they have not always been over a school, not always heard, recitations. They have, however, attempted to turn people to correct thinking; to develop their powers, and make them more capable of understanding the world and its Maker. The teacher is a man who is interested in the welfare of mankind, but who limits hie efforts to a certain number of young people; one of this sort was walk? ing through a shop, and- saw a young man who was very pale. He stopped and spoke to the stranger, and made some valuable hygienic suggestions. Years aftor he was met by a tall, well developed man, who took him by the hand and said, "You Saved my life." But we hav6 many teachers who do not seem to lea* e the least impression on their, community. This should not be so. Teacher, bestir yourself. If you are of little account, it is your own fault. Determine to be .of mutffi account. One day the writer was in a railroad car, and coming to a station was surprised to see many people gathered, evidently to see a young woman safely on board. Deep feeling was evident in the crowd. "What is the cause of this gathering?" was t asked. "The teacher of our school is leaving us," was the answer. She came into the car; she was a plain, but bright looking young lady, and it was soon evident there was a reason for the love that had been exhibited on the platform. "I have tried to do them all the good I could, the parents as well as the children," she said. It was an. interesting history that was detailed on that ride, and stands clear in memory to day? The impression that was left there, was that she possessed ability; it was not simply sympathy. Teachers do you possess ability? If so^cur work will live after you. If so, your calling will be honored in that community. It is not the calling then, but the men of ability who are turned to that calling, that has made the roll of teachers such an hon? ored one. So impressed have we been that the teacher must develop his powers, aod grow in skill, that we made that the key? note of this paper at its founding. See what has come from preaching this truth. In a letter just read, the writer says: "We are to have a summer school of over 500 members." Ten years, ago that ould have been impossible. It is a S & LANGSTON. school not a short institute; they meet for work. The doctrine we set out with ten years ago, we parade to-day, only saying, "It requires more to be a teacher to day, than it did then." Let the teacher look at the matter vary seriously indeed.' If he is tempted to say, "I cannot spend my time in further preparation," let him pause. Consider the children; think how much enjoy ment there is in being taught by a really able , man or woman. And remember that the able teacher gets a hundred fold more pleasure from teaching, than the poorly equipped teacher gets. The latter complains of the "thick-headed" boys and girls; but the former does not. The able men and women remain in the school-room, the poorly equipped leave it.?Teachers' Institute. Banning Into Debt " So common is the habit of borrowing or- getting things on credit that the average young man thinks no more con? cernedly of doing it than if it was a recognized and honorable business privi? lege. Rev. Robt. Oollyer, D. D., in his admirable "Talks to young Men," makes the following wholesome remarks on this subject. "I know of few things in our life so full of peril to a young man aa running into debt. It has done more damage to our finest manhood than any other thing I can think of, except drinking whisky; and to a good many men there is no danger from that, even so long as they stand free from the curse of debt. But a man is driven into the second evil often by trying to forget the first, or to abate its burden. * * * * It is not true, as we might imagine, that only those of a poor and shiftless sort drift into debt. * * * The worst of the course is that it so often takes our choicest young men captive, and drags them down to this shame?younglnen of a genuine honesty, so far as good intentions go, when they set out in life. * * * It is like a thread of golden wire so fine they do not see it at first or feel it; bat day. by day other threads are bound about them, and these twist themselves at last into a cable from which they find it very hard and bitter work to get free. * * * Do not spend money you cannot well spare. If you buy a Bible, even, you cannot afford to buy just then, you wander to where the wires are set, and may do more harm to yourself than the Bible will ever do yon good.. Nay, I will aay more than this. If you so misread your Bible as to trust God will take care of you when yon ought to take care of yourself in this most sacred business of paying as you go, you had better sell your Bible at the first old bookstore, and buy 'Poor Richard's Almanac,' or 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.' I like that word of a sound divine who says that next to the grace of God, paying our debts right along is the means of grace in the world to deliver us from a thousand snares. * * * Do not ran into debt, then. Save, that you may spend. Do what a true man may do to provide things honest in the sight of all men. Owe no man any? thing, in this noble way, and then yon will make all men your debtors for the sterling and noble example you set to the world about you." Saving Small drain Seed. The wheat and oats harvest is at hand; and the saving of seed for fall sowing is a matter that deserves -careful attention. One of the principal drawbacks to the production of good crops is the ose' of seed of poor quality. It is a bad habit with some farmers to lay aside seed indis crimiaately from the threshings of the general crop, acting upon the assumption that all that is necessary in seed is mere? ly its power to sprout and grow. Such is not the case, however. Reason, observa? tion and the experience of the best far* mere, the country over, prove that grain intended for seed should be fully devel? oped and well ripened, and that after it is gathered it should be carefully handled. Accordingly, it should not be cut until the grains are good ripe. Ac? cordingly, it should not be stacked with the common mass intended for feeding, and allowed to heat. The heating and sweating through which a stack or barnful of nnthreshed grain will pass is injurious to the germinating power and vigor of the grains. It is often the cause of unac? countable b?d stands, and of feeble growth. Even where the germ has sufficient strength left to make a start, it has that of a stunted pig, and never acquires the vigor that it should have, and which no amount of manure and good culture can supply. Tbe proper things to do in the matter are, first, to select seed from tbe best portions of-the crop ; second, to see that it is fell ripen? ed before it is harvested; th'mi, to ere fully air and sun it rather than s'ack it; fourth, to thresh a ad winnow it as soon as possible after it is cut; fifth, to sun it well immediately after it is threshed, and lastly, to put it'away from moisture and rats by storing in boxes, barrels or bags, giving it occasional attention until time to sow it in fall. If properly cared for, weavils are not apt to attack it between harvest and seeding time. If they do, which is possible in some climates, a good sunning is the best remedy. Good seed is the best beginning in good farming, and the most perfect de? velopment and good care are the impor? tant considerations. Many farmers.cut their wheat and oats before they are good ripe, the object being to prevent loss by shattering out in the field and in hand? ling, and to avoid storm and rain which may come in a few days. This is right enough so far as it concerns the bread for the table and the feed for the horse; but when it comes to seed for sowing the too early harvesting will not do so well. Tbe grains will be shriveled, and of course the germ is not perfectly develo? ped ; neither is tbe nutriment of the surrounding parts of the grain which constitute its support in the beginning of growth.?The Cotton Plant. Do not take quinine for malarial dis? orders. Ayer's Ague Care contains none, nor any other injurious ingredient. This preparation, if taken strictly in accord? ance with directions, is warranted to care all malarial diseases. MBS, ART'S SOAP Used to Wash the Faces ot federal Sol? dlers? The Rev. Mr. Brad well is a good man, a good citizen and a good preacher. He is a colored man with a form and face that attracts attention. He is the pre* siding elder, and was well-raised -by a Savannah gentleman and has the man? ners of a gentleman. He is my neighbor, and we like him, for he Bets a good example to his race. Congress has just passed a bill to pay him nearly four thousand dollars for four bales of cotton that Sherman's bummers picked up and carried away to keep for him and forgot to return. The bill was passed unani? mously, and we are glad of it. A thou? sand dollars a bale is a right fair price I for cotton. That claim was allowed because Mr. Brad well is a colored man, and it shows the kindly feelings of the people both North and South to the colored race. Maybe this is the begin ing of the great restoration. Maybe our white folks will come next and get some I of the BurpluB that is in the treasury. If they will pay us what they owe us I and took from us with malice afore? thought we won't say a word more about the tariff nor internal revenue. I see there are a lot of claims being filed from the South, and I wonder if the claimants I were Union men so-called, or our mem? bers of Congress just taking them up promiscuous. If they are all Union men they are getting pretty numerous of late, and, I reckon will get I more thicker, more denser, as Cobe says, if Congress is going to pay them. Most all of the original secessionists are dead, but the Union men are lively?quite lively. Well, the fact is, we were all for union on fair principles. A few wanted to fight just for the fun of the thing, but not many. Most of us just wanted to secede?to dissolve the partnership? that's all. We never proposed to invade their territory nor interfere with the I government at Washington. We never hankered after a fight, and we never believed there would be any. I hollered and shouted with the boys for secession, but when the fighting come on I quit hollering and became as gentle as a suck? ing dove. Most everybody would have I compromised but the women and the preachers, but we were in for it and had ?to fight or back down. We never invad? ed their territory and' if they had let us alone we would have let them alone, and so I don't consider myself responsible I and therefore they ought to tote fair and settle up. My wife lost a barrel of soap I that we left in the smokehouse and Bhe wants pay for it. It was good, old fashioned lye soap, made in the dark of the moon. General Vandiver occupied our house and used up all that soap in six weeks. He must have been an awful I dirty man. I wasen't doing very much fighting then?I was running?and that was our principle business for several months, just dodging around with no rest for the BoleB of our feet. The foul invader kept us a trotting. I met a friendly yank the other day who was with Sherman perusing this beautiful country. A mutual friend introduced us, and asked him if he didn't know Bill Arp. "Bill Arp," said he. "'Bill Arp, the Roman runagee. Why, yes, of course. I never saw his face before, bnt his back is quite familiar." I met another one, the next day, who said he was up in the valley with General Banks, and monkeyed around Stonewall Jack? son, until he could run like a deer. He said that Banks was Jackson's commis? sary, and the boys thought it was cheaper to feed old Stonewall than to fight him, and so they always fonght a runnin'; I and when their wounded men got to the hospital, the surgeons always turned them over face downwards, to see where? abouts in the back they were shot. "We were the backbone of the army," said he, "and always fell fighting with cur feet to the foe and our face to the ground. Stonewall Jackson was a spirit?a Joan of Arc?and we never knew where he was, or when he was coming." j I have been mixing up with a good many of our Northern brethren of late, and like them. If they are fair samples, we will take a carload and make a con I tract for more. I believe they will pay I Mrs. Arp for that barrel of soap, with I compound interest. The fact is that I nobody but liberal-minded, conservative I people will come down here from the North. The mean, bigoted, fanatical I class, who were born hating us, don't want to come, and they are not coming, blizzard or no blizzard. That's all right. I We will have a select population after I while, and get up a cross that will har? monize the sections. One of these friendly yanks stopped here last Tuesday and looked at our pile of iron ore that is in the front yard near .iie depot, and asked where it came from. We pointed to the hills and mountains all around us?"Why, don't you do some? thing with it," he said in surprise. We told him we hadn't been in a hurry about it; that a man by the name ot Sherman came along through this country and burned . down all our furnaces, and it made us so mad it took us twenty-five years to get over it, but we have swaged down right smartly now, and are going to do something. He came round to a town meeting that night and took twenty shares of stock in our new furnace and paid the first installment and went away, and said we would hear from him later. His name is Quincy, and he lives in Chicago. So it seems that the first cash money for our furnace came from Chi? cago, and Mr. Quincy said that Sam Jones could go there and get a hundred thousand dollars of stock taken in two days, for he is very popular in Chicago, and all that was necessary was for him to say that he lived here and knew the quality and quantity of these ores. But our furnace is now assured and will be built right away. We will let some outsiders build furnace number 2, and then comes the rolling mill, and stove factory, and the railroad to Gainesville, and the waterworks, and electric lights and a brass band to toot our horn. Aleck Wil lingham says his next ambition is an iron tower on Pine mountain high enough for us to look around at all our suburbs, such as Atlanta and Rome and Chattanooga. Since Cartersville has got on a little boom, Aleck steps as high as a ANDEKSON, S. C, r. blind horse, and is pricing himself by the front foot, which is a number twelve. Sam .Tones is a boomer, too. He made a rollicking talk the other night and drew six thousand dollars of stock out of j the boys in a few minutes. One fellow got behind a post and hid, but Sam got him and nailed him for five hundred. He got two men to quarreling as to which had taken the most stock accord? ing to means, and he sicked 'em at one another until he made them both double. I never saw such a man to locsen up the people and open their pocketbooks. He ran over here from Borne that evening and ran back next morning to work on the Bomans. Tom Miller made a talk. He began soft and sweet and low, like the gentle rumbling of far distant thunder. Nearer and nearer the storm came and finally was precipitated upon us with a terrific outburst of "Give me liberty or give me death," and then the furnace was con? sidered built It was a good, old-fash? ioned town meeting, and Mr. Quincy made the best speech of anybody, for he had the money in his hand instead of his pocket. Hurrah for Chicago. When a yank is clever he is the cleverest man in the world, bat when he is mean be is the meanest; I was powerful mad the other day when I learned that contemptible cuss Higgins or Wiggins or Piggins or whatever his name js, had written and published a history of the war in which he had Jefferson Davis caught in woman's clothes, and that the book was actually used in the Ward seminary at Nashville. I was mad enough to fight and let them whip us again. The same old lie that has been nailed to the wall a hundred times and now reissued and -being crammed down the throats of our Children-. Hurrah for those girls who refused to recite it. Higgins or Wiggins or Piggins is a knave or a fool, and I don't care which. That is one ihing our Northern brethren had just as well to know and never forget?that the South is just as jealous of the honor and good name of Jefferson Davis as the North is of Abraham Lincoln. We reverence Mr. Lincoln, and never fail to do honor to his memory, and if ho disguised him? self in a Scotch cap and cloak on his way to Washington, it makes no difference with us. I never believed that story and am glad that our folks didn't start it. I ] reckon that all these lies and slanders will wear out after while and the next generation will get pt the bottom offsets about all this business and pay Mrs. Arp or her heirs for that barrel of soap. I fcbpe so. Yesterday was the maternal birthday. I won't say how old she is, but I know she was trotting around when the stars fell. I gave her five dollars to buy a summer coat for me, and another five to buy a parasol. I stuck a hollyhock in her raven hair and kissed her on her alabas? ter forehead. She wiped the kiss off but let the flowers stay. Bill Arp. Big Business In Bees. Ellison the Bee Man from Stateberg was in town yesterday with a load "of honey. He says that he has been quite busy lately in filling orders for bees and queens. He had an order a short time ago from a man in Pennsylvania for 400 pounds of working bees and 400 queen bees. He could only undertake to fill one-fourth the order in the time speci? fied, and he just finished that a few days ago. The same party has indicated that he may want 1,000 pounds of bees next season, and a proportionate number of ] queens. Many of our readers may be curious to know what a man would do with so many bees, and will state for their information, that bee keeping is a big business in the North, and that many apiaries have as many as 1,000 hives. Owing to the extreme cold weather, however, the bees are housed in cellars during the winter, and they do not commence raising brood as early as in our climate. It is impor? tant when spring begins to have a stock of old workers ready to take in the har? vest money, and it has been found that it pays to ship them from the South, hud thereby save several weeks time. The bees are put up in wire cloth crates, holding several pounds each, and with sticks across for the bees to support themselves upon, and are shipped by express. The queens are shipped by mail in small cages made of a piece of | board about two inches square with a hole bored into it and covered with wire cloth, and they seldom fail to reach their destination all right after several days confinement. On account of the timidity of expressmen, and careless handling, Mr. Ellison suffered more loss than he expected in the transportation of the 100 pounds of worker bees; but he thinks he can remedy that hereafter by making the packages smaller, which will obviate the danger of suffocation, when the bees are thrown from their support into a pile by careless handling. He says that our section is well suited for bee keeping, and is much encouraged by his success.? Watchman and South Greek Met Greek. It is not safe in an intelligent gathering to make remarks under cover of a foreign language, which we do not wish to have understood by persons present. Especial? ly they had better be left unsaid. A Russian lady had bean invited to dine with M. de Talleyrand at the time when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, but was unfortunately detained an hour beyond her time. The famished guests were in the sulks, and kept looking at their watches. When she arrived at last one of the company said in Greek to his neighbor, 'When a woman is neither young nor beautiful she ought to be punctual." Whereupon the lady turned Bharp round and replied in the same language, 'When a womau has the misfortune to dine with barbarians she always comes noon enough." The life-giving properties of Ayer's Sarsaparilla have established its well earned reputation, and made it the most effectual and popular blood purifier of the day. For all diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys, this remedy has no equal. Price $1. CHUKSDAY MOKNI SOME UGLY HABITS. Freaky and Idiosyncratic Ways of Men and Women. CJiicago News. "Just look at that girl I" "Yes; it is Miss Blank. -What about her?" "Don't you Bee her tongue ?" "Ob, yes. Isn't it perfectly dreadful? They Bay she always sticks it out like that when she'B thinking about any? thing." The young woman in question was promenading the east side of State street early one morning, attired in a bewitch? ing costume and a pensive expression, while the tip of her little tongue protru? ded between two lips of the description known to novelists as coral. "Yes," said one of her feminine acquaintances, "she always does that when thoughtful or worried. It's one of those terrible habits which, when once contracted, etick closer than a million brothers. Miss Blank began it when a child, and no one ever took the trouble to break her of it. Now, poor girl, it mortifies her terribly to be told about it, though of course she is anxious to cure herself But then nearly every one has some curious little habit which he would be very glad to break if he could,* some trick more or less un? pleasant, caused in the first place proba? bly by nervousness, We all know the man who tugs at his mustache and the one who is perpetually palling up his collar. Then there is the girl who is always rubbing one eye as if in search of a stray eyelash, and the man who can't be quite happy without some more or less fragile article to twist and bend and tarn about in his fingers. Anything and everything from your finest lace hankercbief to your new and extremely delicate paper cutter is sacrificed to the demon of nervous ness which possesses him> and yet you can't find in your heart to rob him of his plaything. He is quite happy and at his ease so long as he is allowed to twirl and twist as much as he wants to, but bereft of the temporary object of his affection he would be abject? ly miserable, and you know it. Many a man can talk fluently and well while winding something?anything?about bis fingers, who, without it, would be con? strained, awkward, silent. "One of the most annoying forms of this disease is the incessant tattoo which some people keep up on their knees or the table or whatever happens to be most convenient as a key board. I have noticed that musicians usually indulge this habit, and it is a very trying one( thongh I don't know that it is worse than 'twiddling your thumb.' You dont know what that is ? Why, clasping your hands with the fingers interlaced and then mov? ing the thumbs slowly, very slowly round each other. Nearly all old English peo? ple are addicted to this habit, and look upon it as a refuge from ennui daring times of enforced idleness, such as that 'blind man's holiday,' when it is too dark to work or read, and yet not dark enough, according to English notions, to light the gas. At this time of day an old English woman will sit and 'twiddle her thumbs' so many times from right to left, and then so many times from left to right, until one begins to think she has discov? ered the secret of perpetual motion. The habit gains such a hold upon men that* they are unable to sit unoccupied for a moment without immediately beginning to 'twiddle.' "Of course, every one know? people who bite their nails, and nearly all of us can remember some girl who has destroy? ed what was intended for a pretty mouth by a senseless fashion of biting, or rather gnawing at her lip. This is one of the most difficult habits to break, and at the same time one o f the commonest. If you want to see how widespread it is, just go over to one of the State street dry goods establishments about 11 o'clock any fine morning. Monday morning is best, be? cause Monday is the favorite shopping day. Didn't you know that? Oh, yes, it's a fact. Any floor walker will tell you that more business is done on Monday morning than any other time during the week?that is, in the big shops. Of course, in the cheap ones Saturday is the great day. Why should Monday be popular ? Oh, I suppose it is the reaction after Sunday's enforced idleness. On Sunday one can't shop, and when one wakes on Monday morning it is so delightful to feel that all restrictions are removed, and that there is nothing to prevent one from shopping all day if inclined to. THE UGLY RESULTS. "I always go myself on Monday, and as a rule, meet nearly all my friends, and half of them, I notice, invariably bite their lips when considering anything seriously. When a woman asks: 'Do you think this will wash ?' or 'Do you really believe this silk will not cut ?' or confidentially informs the counter that she is afraid sixteen yards won't be enough,' she nearly always bites her lip, and a very ugly and injurious fashion it is. If the lower lip is the one attacked, the pretty curve is in time destroyed and the fullness flattened out, while if the upper lip is ill treated the results are almost worse, for it becomes lengthened in a very unbecoming manner. Then Borne women bite the inside of their lips, at the side, just at the 'gusset' of theii mouth, and this ends in a chronic pout, I am convinced that if the girls whe indulge in this trick realized fully its ill effects they would make more serioue efforts to overcome it. It is comparative? ly easy to do this when one is young, and it is quite possible to break children ol such habits. "There are lots of other curious little ways peculiar to individuals. 1 know s man who, when embarrassed, always tap? the side of his nose with his little finger, and a girl who is so given to pushing back her hair behind her left ear thai she has worn a bald spot there." ? Will you suffer with dyspepsia and Liver Complaint ? Shiloh'a Vitalizer h guaranteed to cure you. For sale by Hill Bros. ? A debt of gratitude is too often com? promised at about ten cents on a dollar ? Catarrh cured, health and sweel breath secured, by Shiloh's Catarrh rem edy. Price 50 cents. Nasal Injectoi free. For sale by Hill Bros, 1 :N?, JUNE 14, 1888. A Chapter on Blackberries. Blackbeby Shortcake.?Prepare a dough as for? soda buiscuit, only putting in double the quantity of shortening. Boll an inch and a half thick, and after baking split, butter on both sides, and having mashed the berries raw with sugar, in all that can be laid on. If raised crust is preferred, knead enough butter or lard into common bread dough to make it very short, divide into two parts, and roll each one less than an inch thick; butter the top of one piece, lay the other on it, and set in favorable place to rise. When very light, bake. The two crusts will easily separate from each other, and if the under one is lightly picked up with a fork it will better ab sorb the juice. Pile between the black? berries crushed white sugar, and eat with sweetened cream. Blackberry Fritters.?Make a bat? ter of sour milt" or cream as for pancakes, only quite stiff. If cream is used allow one more egg than for sour milk, then stir thick with blackberries. Have ready a kettle of hot lard; dip a tablespoon into the lard, then drop a spoonful of hatter into the lard; the grease will pre? vent the batter from sticking to the spoon and will let it drop off in nice oval shapes. Fat with syrup. Blackberry Cake?One teacupful of rich sour milk or thin sour cream; one teaspoonful of soda, one or two cupfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt, and floor to make a thick batter; stir in one, two or three cupfuls of blackberries. The quan? tity of sugar and soda depends on the quality and quantity of the fruit. Old-Fashioned Blackbeby Pud? ding.?One quart of blackberries, one cupful of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda, a little salt, and flour enongh to make a thick batter. Boil in bag from one and a half to two hour?, or steam in a mold. Another Pudding.?One pint of milk, two eggs, a pinch of salt, one tea? spoonful of cream of tartar, one half the quantity of soda (or two teaspoonful of baking powder), sifted with enough flour to make a thick batter. Stir in one pint of berries. Steam one hour in a buttered dish or mold. Blackbebry Flummeby.?Stew three pints of berries with one of sugar. To a teacupful of ground rice, arrowroot or corn starch, add enough water to soften it (or good flour will do). When the berries have stewed about fifteen minutes, stir in the rice, and continue stirring till thick., Eat cold with sweetened cream. Blackberby Jelly.?Bruise the fruit, put in a thin cloth, and allow to strain over night. Next morning add half a pound of sogar to each pint of juice; boil twenty minutes. Anotheb Way.?Gather the fruit when perfectly ripe and in very dry weather. Put the berries in ajar and set the jar in hot water, keeping it boiling until the juice is extracted from the fruit. Pass it through a fine sieve or jelly bag without much pressure. For every pint of joice add fourteen ounces of sogar, and boil in a clean preserving pan five and twenty minutes, carefully taking off the scum as it rises to the surface. Place it hot in small jars and cover it down with thin tissue paper, dipped in brandy, and brown paper over it. Keep it in a cool place. Blackbebby Jam ?To each pound of ripe fruit (very ripe), stewed in a porcelain kettle, add one pound of best loaf sugar, and mash the contents fine with a strong iron or wooden spoon, while still upon the fire. When well mixed and boiled fifteen minutes longer, stirring well the meanwhile, fill small j ars or glasses, and set away. In any of the proceeding recipes rasp? berries may be substituted for blackber? ries, as may also strawberry. The jelly made of blackberries is, however, particu? larly useful in dysentery and other similar complaints, and the following recipes are also useful in the same com? plaints : Blackbebby Syrup.?Make a simple syrup of a pound of sugar to each piht of water; boil until it is rich and thick, then add to it as many pints of the ex? pressed juice of the blackberries as there are pounds of sogar; pot half a nutmeg grated to each quart of the syrup; set aside until cold, then bottle for use. A tablespoonful for a child, or a wineglass ful for an adult is the dose. Blackberry Drink.?To twelve quarts of the berries put two quarts of clear water, with five ounces of tartaric acid dissolved in it. Let this stand forty-eight hours; then let the juice drip through a flannel cloth or sieve without pressure. To a pint of this juice put a pound of sugar and bottle forthwith. Tie over the mouth of each bottle a piece of cloth, and let stand about ten days. Then cork the bottles and use when desired, remembering the acid is never used alone, but always diluted with two-thirds its quantity of ice water. The juice of straw? berries, raspberries, currents or Morilla cherries may be prepared in the same way. Blackbebby Vinegar.?One quart of blackberries to one of sharp vinegar. Let them stand a day; squeeze out the juice; add to this, two days in succes? sion, as much fruit as the vinegar will hold. To each quart of the vinegar thus prepared put two pounds of sugar, and boil from five to ten minutes. When cool, bottle and seal. This will he found a pleasant and cooling beverage in hot weather, when mixed in the proportions of two-thirds water to one of the vine? gar. ? According to a law recently passed by the Legislature of Ohio, the infliction of the death sentence has been transferr? ed from the county, where the deed is committed or trial conducted, to the penitentiary of the State. In the State penitentiary all tbe hangings in the State are to be made hereafter. The hangings in the penitentiary are to be private and the time usually unpublish? ed. The hour generally fixed upon is to be in the night. ? Sleepless nights, made miserable by that terrible cough, Shiloh's Cure is the remedy for you. For sale by Hill BroB. ? That hacking cough can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's Core. We guarantee it. For sale by Hill Bros. ? . iirnrmcj>jri?ui?'mi???? Georgia's Wild Hermit. Atlanta, Ga., June 2.?Harris Coun? ty is absorbed in a sensational mystery which was unearthed near there yester? day.^ A mile West of Hamilton, on a high and rugged peak of Pine Mountain, is an old Indian fort, built of stone, and, owing to the ruggedness^of the mountain, approachable on only one side. Its high, thick stone wall and its peculiar situation made it qr*:*e a stronghold for the Indians in time of war. For many years it has been remembered by only a few hunters and old settlers, so deeply was it buried ia the mountains. Recently, however, the neighbors, who had been attributing the loss of live ~tock to the sheep dog and the deft dar?y, have had cause to suppose the old fort to be inhabited by theives. Tuesday night B. C. Wl.iiten passed near the mountain on his return from a neighbor's house and heard the piteous cries of one of his goats as it seemed to be carried up the mountain side to the old fort on the summit. Investigation disclosed signs of habitation, and resulted in a band of half a dozen neighbors yesterday forcing an entrance and cap? turing a man in the most abject state of barbarism. He showed fight, and was felled to the ground twice with the butt of a gun. . With great difficulty his bands and feet were secured and tied. He had no weapons, and was dressed in nature's garments. A thick, stubby hair had grown all over his body; his full, black beard reached to his waist, and his long, unkempt hair hung down bis back and about his shoulders. He had keen, black eyes that seemed unaccustomed to the light of day, and since his capture he has not uttered a sound. He seems a man of forty years old, six feet two or three inches in height, and weighs about 200 pounds. There is not a pound of aurplus flesh about him?all is bone and muscles?and his strength is marvelons. His hands are talons and his india-rubber feet scare resemble the feet of a human being. He was carried to the Sheiff this morning to Hamilton, where it is thought an ordinary jury < ill adjudge him insane and have him sent to the Asylum. Who this mysterious person is or how long he has been cut loose from civiliza? tion no one knows. Some of the older settlers tell of a young man, Bichmond Sykes, who dazzled this part of the country away back in the sixties. He ia described as tall, slender and straight) with intensely black hair and eyes, silken black mustache and soft white skin. His dress was scrupuously neat, and he was the picture of a handsome man. He was a man of leisure, had no visible means of support, but was never without money. He claimed to have a plantation and slaves in Virginia and one in Mississippi. For two years he was the star of the aristocratic society that adorned this section, and most fathers looked on his attention to their daughters with favor. One afternoon he called to see a lady for whom he had many times shown a pref? erence. For two hours the interview lasted, tbeu he left, wearing a strong look of despair. His landlady noticed that he refused to attend supper as usual, and that night he disappeared and was never seen by the people of this place any more. Those who remember the young man are inclined to think that they have found in him the person of the prisoner captured yesterday at the old fort. However, this is mere conjecture, andjt is doubtful whether or not the real truth will ever be known and the mystery cleared up. The Centre of Population, - For one hundred years the point which represents the centre of the republic has been steadily moving due Westward along the thirty-ninth parallel of North lati? tude. Its average rate of progress has been about five miles per year. In 1800 its location was eighteen miles West of Baltimore; in 1820 it was well on the Western side of the Shenandoah Valley; in 1830 it had reached the highest ridge of the Appalachians; in 1850 it had passed the mountain barriers and was following the course of the Little Kana wha through West Virginia; within the next ten years it had, by a rapid march of more than eighty miles, reached a point over half way across the State of Ohio; in 1870 it was within fifty miles of Cincinnati; in 1880 it had entered the valley of the Miami; in 1890 it will probably be found well within the boun-* daries of Indiana. That sooner or later this central point which represents the Westward "course of empire" in the United States will cease to advance, or i otherwise will reach a turning place, is absolutely certain. Should its progress continue for another century as daring the past hundred years, it would at the end of that time be more than half way across the State of Missouri. But this is not likely to be the case. Each succeed? ing census for several coming decades will doubtless show a slacking up in the rate of advancement Westward, and finally the direct forward movement must cease. Bearing in mind the narrow vision and the mistaken forecasts of our early legislators, it seems hazardous to conjecture with regard to future proba? bilities. Yet there is good reason to believe that not for many years will the nucleus of the country's population pass beyond or even reach the Mississip? pi River Money Value or a Wife. Let a man become a widower and he soon learns what the financial worth of a wife was to him. When he is compelled to hire the food cooked, the garments made or mended, the washing and iron? ing done, be finds that about one-half of his income is required to meet these outgoes. Who saved this expense before ? Let the cold fingers and. the silent lips in the graveyard bear testimony. The family purse should be as accessible to a faithful wife as to the husband. What man would consent to become a partner in acompany in which his brother partner should alone have control of the compa? ny's funds? There is no one thing more degrading and depressing to a hard work? ing wife, than to feel that she must beg like a tramp for every cent she spends beyond her food, which as truly belongs to her as though she earned it as a domestic or shop girl. VOLUME Underground Distillery. Atlanta, ?a., May 28.?Last Friday, in tbe lower part of Dawsoo County, one of the most unique distilleries ever ran was captured, and with it an aged colored man named Abe Strickland. Deputy Marshal Buice had wind of tbe fact that an illicit distillery was in operation in that county, and on Friday set out to locate it. But so ingeniously was it conducted that it was with the greatest difficulty the establishment was found. About dark be came across an open field in cultivation, and to his suprise a small stream of smoke was issuing from the ground. Approaching the place where the Bmoke was belching up be found a small stovepipe protruding about two feet from the surface, and near by a small hole in the earth from which a well constructed pair of steps conducted below. The deputy marshal on reaching the bottom discovered that he was in a pit about twelve feet in depth and about thirty feet square. The bottom was' neatly floored, while the top was covered with fence rails and red clay. In one corner was a pipe which caught the water oozing out of the earth. In the rear of tbe pit was a tunnel which extended twenty feet into the earth, and the pipe fan Into this. Tbe deputy marshal went into the tunnel and a distillery was fonnd in full operation, but no one was to be found on the inside. On leaving tbe pit the deputy marshal, satisfied that some one must be in the vicinity who was running the corn-juice manufactory, began to look aronnd for tbe person. Near by was a small hickory tree in which, a peculiarjobject was spied, which resembled a buzzard. Approaching the tree and striking a match he discovered a negro sitting on one of the limbs. He was taken in charge and brought to Atlanta, where he gave bond for appearance. Crazy About Witchcraft. . Atlanta, June 3.?William Esmond, one of the wealthiest farmers of Murray County, Ga., and a man of considerable intelligence, has gone perfectly crazy over witchcraft. He employs a Dumber of hands, and has never shown a weakness except on this one subject. He came home a few evenings ago and discovered a green stick standing against his door, which some one had left there on purpose, and before it could be moved he went into convulsions. It is said that a few marks made on the ground in front of his door, if given a peculiar turn, are sufficient to keep him from entering by the front door for two weeks. His family are intelligent, well educated people, and it is a continual scource of mortification to them to see the bead of the house acting in such a manner. It is said that when he was a child, being an orphan, he was cared for by an old Degress who for a long time had lived on his father's plantation and who imbu? ed his mind so thoroughly with the superstitions of her race that he has nev? er been able to overcome her early teachings. He is a good conversationalist, presents a splendid appearance when discharging tbe duties of a host unless the conversation happens to tnrn on sign's and omens, when he immediately evinces such an interest, becomes so nervous and talks so fast and incoherent? ly that it is painful to witness him. Hot Water for Plants and Trees. It is a fortunate circumstance that a plant will endure a scalding heat that is fatal to most of its minute enemies. Water heated to the boiling point, poured copiously over the stem of an enfeebled peacb tree, and allowed to stand about its collar, will often have tbe happiest restorative effects. Trees showing every symptom of tbe yellows have often been rendered luxuriantly green and thrifty again by this simple means. The heat is presumably too much for the fungus which had infested the vital layers of the tree, immediately under the outer bark. The London florists recommend hot water, up to 135 Fahrenheit, as a reme? dy when plants are sickly owing to the soil souring*?tbe acid absorbed by the roots acting as a poison. The usual resort is to the troublesome job of repott? ing. When this is not necessary for any other reason, it is much simpler to pour hot water freely through the stirred soil; it will presently come through tinged with brown. After this thorough wash? ing, if the plants are kept warm, new root points and new growth will soon follow. A lady friend had a fine Calla in a three gallon pot, which Bhowed signs of ill health. On examination tbe outer portion of the filling was found moldy, it being in large part fresh horse manure. As repotting was inconvenient, the plant being in flower, hot water was freely used. It killed the mold, and the plant began to revive and was soon all right. Caught Them Fool. Some years ago the pastor of a church in a rural district of Missouri shepherded a flock, some members of which were in the habit of leaving the house while he was yet in tbe middle of a discourse. This was an eyesore to the reverend incumbent, and when, one day, a visiting brother volunteered to preach for him, he felt called upon to speak of tbe annoyance. "Oh, I'll stop that!" was the reply. "I'll warrant you that no one leaves until I'm done. Accordingly, when he arose to speak he introduced his sermon with the following: "My friends, before I begin my sermon I wish to make a few not irrelevant; remarks. You all know that a vessel when full is full, and to continue to pour into it is folly. Some vessels are capable of holding a great deal while others, again are easily filled. So it is with men's heads, and it is possible that some of yours may become full before Pm through. If so, I want you to feel at perfect liberty to leave." The sermon lasted an hour and a quarter, but not a mortal stirred! "Do you know," said a young man afterwards, "I had a team of restless young horses outside, but I wouldn't have gone out to look after them for $1001"?Detroit Iree Press. 1 XXIIL- -NO. 49 AH Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The 1,600 convicts in Sing Sing, prison eat twenty one barrels of-Jour' daily. ? Men often preach from* the house? tops while the devil is crawling into the:; basement window. ? To tell a falsehood is like tbe cut < a sabre, for though the wound may h the scar will remain. ? The first temperence society in 1 country was organized in Saratogacouinfy - N. Y., in March, 1808. ? It is estimated that there are 325,? 570 telephones in use in this count. Nine years ago there were only 870. ? Good temper, like a sunny sheds a brightness over everything. ,; is the sweetened of toil and tbe soother \ of disquietude. ? At Augusta, Ga., a tramp in the] police station astonished the officers repeating from memory several cbapte from the Bible. ? In New Brunswick, N. J., there; a prevalence of diphtheria that almost become an epidemic. There hav been many deaths. ? It is estimated that the reduction' the public debt during the month of ] amounts to $4,000,000, $12,000,000 hav been paid for pensions. ? More tban two hundred hous were destroyed by a conflagration on thec 8th of May at Tourangeka, Japan, and at Kameka tbe next day seven hundred,, and ten houses, one temple and a number ] of huts were burned. ? If your have such a thing as a roll a lemon until soft, cut off a slice, bind on at night. It may sof one application. If not, "try, try again;* and it will surely cure. ? The wart on tbe face of Gent Grant, which is faithfully reproducedji his portraits on the genuine $5 silver i tincates is lacking in the counterfeit, its omission furnishes a ready means detection. ? Five per cent, per annum is ti legal rate of interest in England, bat tb law formerly in force against' usuryr4ias7 been repealed and any rate of interest stipulated in a contract will be enforo by the courts. ? California has about doubled population in the ten years since the last-^j census. The enormous sums of money spent by the different counties and cities J in advertising abroad has been the cause > of the vast increase in population. ? The following curious sentence con- ,j tains all the letters of tbe alphabet: "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," ^ It is a good line for use in the copy-book, . because the writer is thus able to practice - . on all the characters from "a" to z" ? In 1887 London had a population of 4,215,192, Paris 2,260,945, Berlin 1,385, 991, New York 1,429,697, Pekin, 1,650, 000, and Canton 1,600,000. The figures for Pekin and Canton are not exaclfDuT^j are tbe estimates most widely accepted. ? "Did your son take the valedictory; in college ?" said a gentleman to a lady; ^ who was enthusiastically praising the: ability of her offspring. "No, indeed, he didn't," she replied, with pride ; "he didn't take anything. He is the health^3 iest boy you ever saw." ? "Mamma," said the sweet, small; boy, before admiring friends, "I knew>f^jL, soon as I came in, there was folks visitinT^ here." "Did you, darling?" said the fond mother, trying to wilt him with her eye; "how did you know?" "Oh, yon had your company voice on." ? At Wallesley college eighty young: women have expressed a desire to work as foreign missionaries; at Oberlinpss about 100 signified the same purpose, and | including all these and other colleges^ there are abont 400 young women willing/ to work in the foreign field. ? John H. Craig, whose home is in c Indiana, near Indianapolis, is six feet four and one-half inches in height and weighs 836 pounds. He measures eight feet two inches around the hips and eighteen inches around (he ankle.' H& was born thirty years ago, and theo; weighed but eleven pounds. Two yeaife later he took a prize at one of BarnjmVj baby shows in New York city because ht weighed 206 pounds. ? Mrs, J. B. Brad dock, who left Nei York for Liverpool the other day, had a sad story to tell. Some years ago she came from England to this country with her husband, who took her to Salt Lake City. In his new home Mr.. Craddock [ joined the Mormons and married several wives. He held his first wife in < ty, and it was years before she had an1 opportunity to escape. At last she made her way oat of bondage, and left for hot a sadder and wiser woman. ? Havana must be a pleasant place for pretty women to live in. It is no uncommon thing in that city for a st ger to pause on the street before a beau? tiful girl and request her mother io keep her for him. The young lady v?lUfnile^ and her mother will reply con ly that she will guard her daught faithfully until the stranger is ready claim her. Among these passionate people it seems to be no crime for a to express his admiration of wherever he sees it. ? A prominent resident of Naeces ] County, Texas by the name of N. Blunzer, owns in the shape of a cow the greatest^ curiosity of the nineteenth centuary. Tbe cow is five years old and has horns on each foot and two on the he All the horns are fully developed andf measure fourteen inches long. The cot in order to eat grass has to get down < her knees and push herself along on I breast. This cow has a 1-year old: that has the same number of horns, horns are not yet fully developed, there is every reason to believe they grow as large as the mother's. Its Delicacy of Flavor And the efficacy of its action hi rendered the famous liquid fruit reme Syrup of Figs, immensely popular, cleanses and tones up the clogged j feverish system, dispels headaches, ) and fevers, cures Habitual Constif Dyspepsia, and the many ills depenc on a weak or inactive condition of Kidneys, Liver, and Bowels. Mant tared only by the California Fig , Company, San Francisco, Oal. For j 1 byiSimpson, Reid & Co.