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J^A?H^'GoifUMN, J. G. CLLNKSCALES, Editob. SATTLE SHAKE. A young man came to as quite recently and said: "Yon came to oar school about a month ago, and pat mischief into the head of onr teacher." "Ah," said we, "how did I do that?'! "Well, you told him. something, I don't know what; any how, in a few days, he laid the law down ; to us j cat right. Before that the boys had been doing pretty mach as they pleased, bat I tell yon, after your visit he got,to meaning business. We have to walk straight now and Save no fool . ishneea about H." Sure enough, we had ^Ttolai?irtearfre^ needed a little more of the rattlesnake in his composi? tion. We saw at a glance where his weak point was and warned him against it. He was wanting in discipline. We are glad to know that things have changed somewhat .there. The pupils are beginning to learn now that the teacher is boss. A man most discipline bis school; if he can not do it without the rod, let him use that. Discipline he mast have. If the rod is necessary, bring it in and use it with discression. . ? It is gratifying to know that our teachers are^ disposed to profit by the advice .given by the School Com mis? sioner. ?* His visits would be of no benefit to the teachers or to the schools, if th ..^tfc^ln-wwe'?ispcsed to disregard nia suggestions. That teacher whose con? duct caused the young student to make aia remark to us, means to do well. By iaking on a little more of the rattlesnake he will succeed as s fcacher. trat of th . goodness of his heart he allows his pup" to impose upon him sometimes. Boys will try young teachers. Let them kno at the start that the teacher must be boss and that his commands must be respected. Some teachers wait too long before they impress this very important matter dpon their, pupils. Do it at once, but do h InHlie HgHt way. Be positive; be Sincere; be honest; be courteous; but be the teacher, be the head of the school. TBK SUGGESTIVE FACTS FOB THE GE? OGRAPHY. CLASS. I find ten most striking physical con? trasts between the Old World and the New, and all to the advantage of the productive power of the soil of America. I. I am fascinated with a rain map of the globe; for it shows that my country is on the humid, and therefore, the fer? tile side of the world. This continent is narrow ; hence the , ocean winds water it well. The Old World is wide; hence the ocean winds water it poorly. Sahara, Arabia, Persia, Central Thibet - are almost or wholly .^"ndn?; We have no Sahara, no Arabia, no Persia. SI ; IL In the New World the mountain ' chains on the east side of the continent are low. In the Old World the moun? tain chains on the east side are high. But the earth rolls east, and therefore, "... the trade winds blow west The perma . nent winds of the globe, bearing the fer? tilizing exhalations of the ocean, breathe always out of the morning. They impinge upon the breast of the conti nents on the side of the sunrise. High mountain chains on that side shutout these winds largely from the Old World; low mountain, chains on that side admit them to, the New. If the Himalayas. V add the Mountains of the Moon stood on the West side of Africa, Sahara would cease to be a desert. A branch of the trade wind breathes through the West Indies into the Golf of Mexico , and ascends the Mississippi Yalley. Guyot *'says that, if that gulf had a chain of mountains on its north side, as the Med? iterranean has, that valley would be almost rainless. :r As the more important winds blow from the east, ours is the continent of wet ocean winds; the Old World, of dry land; winds. It is a dry land wind that makes Sahara; and this land wind 1b made dry by the breadth of the Old World and - its height on the-east. Under the tropics the Old World ~- receives 77 inches of water by the year ; America, 115. The New World, therefore, as Guyot . has shown, is the humid; the Old World the arid side of the globe. III. America, therefore, has great, the ?Old World small river systems. There is no position in which the Mississippi could be placed in Europe, south of St. Petersburg, and find room. Join in one. current the Lena, the Oby, the " Amoor, the Yang-tse, the Heang-bo, the Yenisei, the Indus, and the Ganges, and these eight principal rivers of Asia do not carry to the ocean as much water as the Amazon alone. ; IV. America is the continent of fat plains; the Old World that of frozen or scorched plains. In the. New World tho Mississippi and the Am? azon traverse plains whose fertility no other part of the globe can equal ; but in the Old World the great plain extending' from Norway to - Kamtschatka is locked in perpetual frost; and that which stretches from the west ern shoulder of Africa to the heart of Asia is made barren by tropical heat. V. America is a concave, the Old World a convex, continent. Our moun? tain, chains ran North and South; those of Asia and Europe, East and West. Ours .have, therefore, the son on both sides, and culture with ns can climb the mountains; those of the Old World have the sun on the South side, sod on the North are comparatively infertile. ' VL Cooling inlets of the ocean, like the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribbean Sea, are found .in America under the equator; but the hottest regions of the 'Old World are distinguished by distance from the ocean. The Mediterranean lies too far North to be of as much service to the Old World's fertility as tbaGulf is to that of the New; and it is, besides, shut in by the Alps and Sahara. VIT*. America is high, and the Old World low, under Jhe equator. The tablelands ->f Mexico and of Brazil are comparatively cool, although in the tropics; but Sahara is so low that it might be, as it ought to be, made a Me sea, by a channel from the terranean or the ocean. S & LANGSTON. VJLU. The New World is narrow ander the equate r; the Old World is wide there. The fertility of the New, therefore, loses less than that of the Olef by tropical scorching. The equator, it is true, hangs under Orion, directly above the mouth of the Amazon. But the isotherm of greatest heat runs through the mouth of the Orinoco. It cuts only through the harrow neck of South Amer? ica, laced by oceans, and fanned by wet winds; but it blows through Africa from tawny shoulder to tawny shoulder, each unsprinkled by thfe dew of the sea.; . (tJ3.. IX. Cut but from the 31,000,000 square miles of the Old Wold, and the 15,000,000 of the New, all mountainous frozen, and arid regions. The remnant of productive soil, scholars say, is about 10,000 square miles in the old Old .World, and 11,000,000 in the New. In America, in this estimate, I reject as frozen all territory North of a line run? ning through the Straits of Bell Isle, the South end of Hudson's Bay and the North of Vancouver's Island. I exclude the ranges, of sterility in the Rocky Mo an tains and the Andes. I omit the dry regions East and West of Colorado and on the coast of Chili and Fern. I exclude the sterile portions of Patagonia. In the Old World, I shut out Sahara, great parts of Arabia, Persia, and Cen? tral Asia, and Northern Russia and Siberia. 5. Here then bursts upon us the greatly suggestive and organizing Amer? ican fact, that the New World can sus? tain a greater population than the Old. If it can, probably it ultimately will. In this majestic circumstance I hear the footfalls of Fate, with which it infinitely behooves the dim stir of present ages to keep step. America is yet in the gristle. The New World is yet new i Our Re? public is yet in the morning of its days. ?Joseph Cook, in Teachers' Institute. Extraordinary Letter From Greeley to Lincoln. The following extraordinary letter was written by Horace Greeley to President Lincoln after the battle of Bull Run, and is printed for the first time in the Lincoln Life in the June Century. It will be remembered that before the battle Mr. Greely had kept a standing headline in his paper?urging the armies "Forward to Eichmond?Forward to Richmond." "Njsw Yobk, July 19, 1861. "Midnight. "Dear &n?This is my ^seventh sleepless night?yours, too, doubtless? yet I think I shall not die because I "have no right to die. I must straggle to live, however bitterly. But to business. Yon are not considered a great man, and I am a hopelessly broken one. Yon are now undergoing a terrible ordeal, and God has thrown the gravest responsibilities upon yon. Do not fear to meet them. Can the rebels be beaten after all that has occurred, and in view of the actual state of feeling caused by our late awful disaster? If they can?and it is your business to ascertain and decide?write me that such is your judgment, so that I may know and do my duty. And if they cannot be beaten?if our recent disaster is fatal?do not fear to sacrifice yourself to your country. If the rebels are not to be beaten?if that is your judgment in view of all the light yon can get?then every drop of blood henceforth shed in this quarrel will be wontonly, wickedly shed,and the guilt will rest heavily on the soul, of every promoter of the crime. I pray you to decide quickly and let me know my duty. "If the Union is irrevocably gone, an armistice for 80,60,90, 120 days?better still for a year?ought at once to be proposed, with a view, to a peaceful adjustment. Then Congress should call a National Convention, to meet at the earliest possible day. And there should be an immediate and mutual exchange or release of prisoners and a d is ban dm en t of forces. I do not consider myself at present a judge of anything but the pub? lic sentiment. That seems to me every? where gathering and deepening against a prosecution of the war. The gloom in this city is funeral?for our dead at Bull Bun were many, and they lie uuburied yet. On every brow sits sullen, scorching black despair. It would be easy to have Mr.jJrittendeu move any proposition that ought to be adopted, or to have it come from any proper quarter. The first point is to ascertain what is best that can be done?which is the measure of our duty, and do that very thing at the ear? liest moment. "This letter is written in the strictest confidence, and is for your eye alone. But you are at liberty to aay to members of your Cabinet that you know I will second any move you may see fit to make. But do nothing timidly nor by halves. Send me word what to do. I will live till I can hear it at all e>en'H. If it i best for the country and for mankind that we make peace with the rebels at once and on their own terms, do not shrink even from that. But bear in mind the greatest truth : ? Whoso would lose his life for my sake shall Bave it.' Do the thing that is the highest right, and tell me how I am to second you. "Yours, in tho depths of bitterness, , "Horace Gbeeley." Anecdotes of Lafayette. When Lafayette was last in this coun? try, receiving ovations wherever he went, he was entertained nowhere with more ardent devotion than in New Orleans. He was formally received in the Old Spanish building situated on Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square), north of the cathedral. He was very affable, and particularly agreeable to the young men. Illustrative of his happy faculty of mak? ing himself popular by being, in a sooial way, "all things to all men," the follow? ing may be pertinent: Two young ! Creole gentlemen were sucessively intro? duced to him. "Are you married V ssked the Mar quisof the first. "I am, General," was the reply. "Happy maul happy man!" said Lafayette, warmly pressing the youthful Benedict's hand. .The second made negative answer to the same question. - "Lucky deg I lucky dog 1" said Lafay? ette, patting that bachelor on the back.? Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for June. . v GEM OF THE PIEDMONT BELT. The City of Anderson Radiant With Hope and Prosperity. Charleston News and Courier. Anderson, Jane 8.?Situated in the centre of a fertile and flourishing Coun? ty, one of the brightest gems of the beau? tiful Piedmont belt of South Carolina, is the City of Anderson. Within Bight of Blue Ridge Mountains, 800 feet above the level of the sea. Anderson is one of the healthiest places in Upper Carolina. While the city has been steadily advancing her growth; so far, has not { been remarkable, but Anderson is now on the verge of a genuine and well deserved boom. For some reason her people have been too modest to press the claims of their municipality, and have neglected to post the outside world as to the great advantages?social, indus? trial and. hygienic?which Anderson possesses, and which she offers to visitors and settlers. For years Anderson has been held down almost to stagnation od account of I her inability to communicate with the outside world, except by way of a rail? road operated by an unprogressive and unsympathetic corporation. But now all this is changed, and the millstone has been taken from her neck by the com? pletion of the Savannah Valley Railroad. He railroad facilities have been trebled, her shackels are removed, and the city and County of Anderson are infused with new life and hope, and she can now take her place among the booming towns of South Carolina. city government. The present city administration is broad and progressive. The officers are: Mayor, G. F. Tolly; aldermen, T. F. Hill, J. ti. McGee, J. G. Cunningham, Foster Fant, J. M. Payne, and C. F. Jones; clerk of council, J. D. Maxwell. Chief B. F. McKinney and three policemen keep the city in perfect order. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Anderson is justly proud of her fire department, which, under the manage? ment of Fire Chief B. F. Diwer, has attained a degree of efficiency second to no volunteer force of its size in the country. The department, organized in 1884, bought the old Pioneer steamer from Charleston, which, thoroughly over? hauled and remodelled, is now one of the best engines in the State. The hand engine company (colored) is also very efficient Another colored company will soon be organized. The hook and ladder company is a crack organization of young white men, who have been first prize winners in tournaments at Char? lotte and elsewhere. THE BOARD OP TRADE. The Anderson board of trade organ? ized fourteen years ago, was re-organized last March under new regulations by the election of the following officers: Presi? dent, J. M. Sullivan; vice-president J J. D. Maxwell; secretary and treasurer, B. S. Ligon; executive committee, S. M. Orr, J. E. Peoples, 0. F. Jones, B. S. Hill and J. J. Fretwell. There are two other standing committees, one on man? ufacture, in charge of the manufacturing interests of the city, and one on trans? portation and freight rates. Over sixty business firms are repre? sented on the board, to whose untiring efforts the completion of the Savannah Valley Railroad and the recent organi? zation of the Anderson Cotton Mill are mainly due. A delegation from the board lately attended the Immigration Convention at Hot Springs.~ A committee, with Major E. B. Murray chairman, are now engaged in the preparation of, an Anderson County exhibit for the Augusta National Exposition. The board is always at the front in any enterprise or movement for the material advancement of Andefson. The present city tax in Anderson is three mills, the city for the past two years having been cut off from the hand? some revenue previously derived from liquor licenses. The city will, however, be profitably wet after January 1,1889. THE POSTOFFICE. Postmaster C. W. Webb occupies the handsomest post office in the up-country, a new brick building ren^d by the Gov? ernment from Mr. J. H. Von Hasseln. The receipts of the office last year were $3,600, and ure increasing each month. The money-order business has grown rapidly since the completion of the Savannah Valley Railroad, and the business of the office will require addi? tional clerical force before the coming winter. Five mails ere dispatched and five received daily. There are also five Star routes supplying twenty-two offices. Postmaster Webb and his courteous assistant give the Anderson public first class service, land the office is a model orio in every respect. BUILDING ASSOCIATION. ? The Anderson Building and Loan Association was organized in June, 1883. President, P. K. McCully; secretary and treasurer, J. D. Maxwell; directors, W. H. Nardin, W. W. Humphreys, G. F. lolly, D. S. Maxwell, D. S. Taylor, M. P. Tribble, A. B. Towers and S. M. Orr. Capital stock paid in,' $61,000; assets, $100,000. This Association has done more to build up Anderson than any other agency, furnishing money to poor people who could never otherwise have raised the meanB to build. A PROSPEROUS BANK. The Anderson Bank, organized in Jan? uary, 1873, owes the handsome brick building it occupies. President, Jos. N. Brown; cashier, J. A. Brock; teller, B. Frank Maaldin. Capital, $50,000; sur? plus, $135,000; deposits, $150,000; loans, $280,000. The bank is furnished with a $7,000 fire and burglar proof vault, time locks and all modern safeguards, and pays a semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent. The last sale of stock was $300 per share. HOTELS. The hotels are the Keese House, the Waverly Houbo and Mrs. Ayer's. A new hotel company has just been organized with a capital of $40,000, Mr. F. T. Wil hite, president. Steps are being taken to start the hotel building immediately. MANUFACTORIES. The Anderson Cotton Mill Company, recently organized, has already raised i $100,000 towards the erection of a $800, ANDERSON, S. C, 1 000 factory. One-half this amount has been promised by Northern capitalists and ground will be broken in a few days, The president of the new company is Mr. J. A. Brock; secretary, J. J. Baker; directors, J. N. Brown, 8. Bleckley, Qeo. A. Wagener, A. J. Sitton, W. W. Hum? phreys, W. G. Watson, A. A. Dean and S. M. Orr. The Anderson Oil and Fertilizer Com? pany has been running for three years under the successful .management of Superintendent G. H. Townsend, Presi? dent J. A. Brock and Treasurer B. Frank Mauldin. The capacity of the mill is 50,000 bushels of cotton seed annually. Another Anderson enterprise is the new machine, shop and boiler factory of Dr. B. F. Diver, a machinist of thirty years' experience. This establishment has been provided with the newest and most approved appliances, planters, drills, forges, &c., for the manufacture and repair of boilers, engines, gins and machinery of all kinds. Dr. Divver has just signed a contract for the manufac? ture of the "Taylor gin-saw filing machine." ?The Sullivan Hardware Company have a factory for the manufacture of combination wire and picket fencing, which they ship all over the State. Messrs. Barton & Townsend run suc? cessfully a large planing and turning mill. B. A. Mayfield owns a large planing and grist mill. Mr. James Bar? ton is abodt to build an extensive Wagon factory, employing a number of bands. population and trade. The population of Anderson was 1,900 in 1880, 3,000 in 1885 and has increased steadily since. The cotton shipments; notwithstanding the thousands of bales diverted to the Pelzer and Piedmont mills on the out? skirts of the County, are 20,000 bales per annum. The merchants of the town do an annual business of one and one quarter million of dollars. Anderson claims to be the best stock market in the State above Columbia, the horse and mule sales of one firm alone amounting to $100,000 in six months. Mr. G. F. Tolly has one of the largest wholesale and retail furniture establish? ments in the State, shipping furniture to points within a few miles of Atlanta, and excelling that city in prices and enter? prise. * the business community. The merchants of Anderson are liberal and progressive. Among them are the following firms: Bleckley, Brown & Fretwell, general merchandise; McCully, Cathcart & Co., general merchandise; Crayton, Jones & Seybt, dry goods, &c.; Sullivan Hard? ware Company; J. D. Maxwell & Co., insurance and brokerage; Means & He Gee, clothing, hats and merchant tailors; Brown Bros., general merchandise; O. F. Jones, dry goods; B. S. Ligon, groceries; Brownlee & Brown, fancy groceries; J. N. Watkins, book store; A. B. Towers, gen? eral merchandise ; Wilhite & Wilhite, druggists; B. S. Hill, general merchan? dise; W. A. Chapman, dry goods; W. F. Barr, general merchandise; J. P. Sul? livan & Co., general merchandise; Den? nis O'Donnell, groceries; Moss & Brown, groceries; D. S. Taylor, general mer? chandise; Cunningham Bros., general merchandise; A. P. Hubbard, general merchandise; Louis Sharpe, confectione? ries ; J. A. Daniels, jeweller; G. M. Tolly, confectioneries; Hill BroB., drug? gists ; C. A. Reed, sewing machines and buggies, also music house; F. M. Butler, cigars; Simpson, Beid & Co., drugs; H. Webb, groceries; N. O. Farmer & Bro., general mercbandise; L. H. Seel, stoves, tin and hardware; J. M. Hubbard & Bro., jewellers and silverware; G. W. Fant & Son, books and stationery; Foster Fant, clothing; Clark & Bro., merchant tailors; J. S. Fowler, livery and sale stable) John Catlett, livery and sale stable; John ?. Peoples, livery and sale stable; ?. W. Taylor & Co., groceries; Miss Sallie Bowie, millinery and dry goods; S. T. Craig, bakery; J. D. Maxwell, photo? graph gallery ; J. ?, Peoples & Co., stoves and tinware; A. Lesser, dry goods; Watson & Son, general merchandise; Miss Lizzie Williams, millinery and dry goods; Orr & Sloan, drugs; J. J. Baker & Co., general merchandise; John O'Don? nell, groceries; F. P. Mimoaugb, dry goods, Sec.; B. F. Crayton & Sons, gro? ceries and provisions. education. The Patrick Military Institute was opened last September by Capt. J. B. Patrick, who for years conducted a mili? tary school in Greenville. One hundred and twelve boys are enrolled. The full high school course is exacted, and the boys are drilled every day. Capt. Patrick has the able assistance of Prof. W. J. Ligon and John M. Patrick. The cadets are divided into 'two companies?one commanded Jby Capt. J. H. Coker, of Darlington, and the other by Capt. J. D. Lowrance, of Columbia. There are three flourishing primary schools in Anderson, conducted respec? tively by Miss L. C. Hubbard, Miss Maggie Evans and Mrs. J. Scott Murray. churches. The Methodists have just completed a large and handsome $12,000 church, de? signed by Mr. A. W. Todd, an Anderson architect of much promise. The mem? bership is about 250, and the pastor is theEev. W. S. Wightmon. The Baptist congregation, a very large one, is in charge of the Bev. A. A. Mar? shall, recently called from Gainesville, Ga. They are about to make a $6,000 improvement to their already fine church building. The Bev. D. E. Friewon, D. D, is the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, which is a handsome building, occupied by a large congregation. The Bev. T. F. Gadsden is the rector of Grace Episcopal Church, a pretty little structure. the newspapers. Anderson is well supplied with news? papers. The Intelligencer and the Journal are botb live and progressive journals, wide-awake to the best interests of the community and Democratic to the core. They carefully reflect the best sentiment of the community on all public questions, and have a large number of readers. a .stock raising county. The foil and climate of Anderson County are singularly favorable for the THURSDAY MORNI raising of fine stock and cultivated grasses. ClovSr, Timothy and Lucerne grow to perfection. Blue grass "springs eternal" io every fence corner, and the Bermuda, the bane of so many unpro gressive farmers, is a perennial source of profit to the progressive grazier. One farmer-lawyer of Anderson made last season one hundred dollars net from an acre of Lucerne and Bermuda. Messrs. B. F. Cray ton & Sons, on their farm near the city, have a heard of fifty registered Jersey cattle and some fine Hambleton ian horses. Their farm 280 acres is devoted to grass and small grain, and their butter has such a repuation that it is sold by contract the year round at 40 cents per pound at the farm. . Taking it all in all, its soil, its climate, its health, and, above .all,, its people, there are few'.places like the charming little city of Anderson, S. G. A Branch of New Railroading. Beading, Pa., June 5.?An old rail? road man, who is well posted on North? ern railroads generally, said recently: "Nearly every leading railroad has special men employed to bu..k the news of death to the families of men who are killed in the service of the company. Whenever an employee is killed along the line the officials do not allow the family to be rudely apprised of the fact. On the contrary, they send men to the house who are well qualified to break the news as gently as possible. I do this for the reading . Company at several points. The experience of men who carry these messages is full of Sorrow. Often, when yon get to the house you see the wife busy at work in the yard, and the children playing on the poarch, little dreaming of the blow thai is abotit to fall on them; "It was only a few days ago that I went to a home and found the wife chat? ting and laughing with a neighbor's wife while she was at work among her rose bushes and flowers. She hadn't been married long. I first asked whether her husband was at home. She stared at me, became white as a piece of chalk, then shrieked and fell among the plants. I helped to carry her into the house. ? " 'He's dead: my husband is dead. I know he has been killed!' " 'Who told you?' I asked, when she revived. " 'No one. I only thought so. Is it true V "It was easy then,to finish my errand. "Some time ago I came to a house on a Saturday when the good wife was bak? ing. I went in at the side gate. 'When do you expect Jacob home ?' I asked. "The wife smiled and replied: 'To? night, the Lord willing,' and at the same time she stopped kneading the dongh and told her oldest daughter to brush the hair of her seven-year-old sister back from her forehead. " 'Why do you say the Lord willing?' I asked solemnly. " 'My God 1 You don't bring me bad news of my husband ?' she exclaimed, and sank back into a chair in a dead faint. I told two neighbor women who just then came io, and they remained with the .giref-stficken widow to help her prepare for the coming of the dead body of her husband, who bad been killed but an hour. "You see the railroad officials hear of these accidents by telegraph quicker than other people, and we, therefore, are able, nine cases out of ten, to get to the home of the unfortunate before the accident is known there. "I was once sent to tell an aged and infirm widow that her son had been cat to pieces by a train of freight cars. He was her only support and would soon have been promoted to be a conductor. I rapped at the door and the old woman responded. She was very feeble, and as innocent an old soul as I had ever seen since my own good mother died. I asked whether it was true that her house was for sale. She drew a long breath and answered: " 'I'm so glad you didn't have bad news for me,' trying to smile as she spoke. "'I have had such thoughts about my boy all morning. No, this house ain't for sale, I hope. You see we only rent it; that is, my son rents it.' "I actually turned on my heel and walked away a few steps. I couldn't go on.. I am hard-hearted by this time, but I couldn't tell that trembling old mother that her boy had been killed. Finally I went back again. " 'Yon said something about bad n jws of your son,' I said to her. 'Well, you musn't be so alarmed. The company would see that you should not want, in case anything should happen. Besides, your boy belongs to several lodges and unions.' "I kept on talking io this way for a minute or two, and finally said: 'You must always be prepared to bear the worst, for a railroader is always in great danger of losing his life. There may be bad news from your boy. I just heard something had happened.' "Just then two neighbors whom I had informed came in with blanched cheeks. They whispered into the old lady's ears, and the good old soul burst out in an agony of wailing that I will not forget of my dying day. "I once called on a woman to tell her her husband had been killed by striking against an overhead bridge. This was three years ago, near Philadelphia. The wife curled up her lip and replied: " 'If he's been killed heaven has re? venged me. He abused me long enough. He'll abuse no more women now.' "That was the easiest job in my line I ever bad. Five minutes later the woman was in hysterics and tears." ? It was fortunate in the case of trip? lets born lately in Pekin, China, that they were girls. Had they been all boys, un? der the laws of the Empire they would have been beheaded, as there is a tradition that one of three such children will invade and attempt to overthrow the Government. ? Shiloh's Yitalizer is what you need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Diz? ziness, and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. For sale by Hill Bros. ? For lame back, side or chest, use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 25 conto. For sale by Hill Broil. NG, JUNE 21, 1888. DOWN ON THUEMAN. Bill Arp Doesn't like the Tail ot the Ticket. Hurrah for Cleveland r I will say that every time. But I am like Pope Barrow about Thnrman. I don't care anything about him, and for the best reason in the world?be don't care anything about me He hu-t my feelings with malice afore? thought. He made a Hong Eong goose of himself about Henry B. Jackson's speech in Macon and our tribute to Mr. Davis, and when it was all explained, he didn't have the manliness to make a decent apology. He is a little too uppity and biggity for us common folks. He thinks he is Jupiter and we are nothing but a moon. What was said or done at Macon was none of his business. He Was hunting around and snuffing the air for treason and thought be had found it, and so be fired off an alarm gun and pa ved dirt and throwed* moo* and?and so I've lost about 90 per cent of my respect for him and the other ten for his red Lan? dana. When we elect Mr. Cleveland I want his life insured for four years for I'm afraid of Thurman. Mrs. Arp has said all the time that the northern demo* crats were no better at heart than the northern republicans and she sticks to it. It is not a man's.politics that makes him a gentleman. In fact the republicans of the north represent the wealth and re? finement of their people. They consti? tute their best society. The democratic party of the north has got 75 per cent of all the ragtag and bobtail element in it all the ectirf of immigration that lands at the battery. It is a pity that Ben Hill could not have carried out his wishes as expressed in the Crittenden letter and made rip a new party composed of the better class of northern republicans and southern democrats. Such a party would have smothered the anarchists at their birth and established o?r institutions and made our liberties more secure. I like these northern republicans who are coming down here to mingle with us. They are shrewd and practical, and they are gentlemen. I have met a dozen or so lately who are looking round for in? vestments, and I like them. I dined with a couple yesterday, and pat right between them, and got as much dinner as I wanted. Now, we all admire Mr. Cleveland, not so much for his democracy as for his pluck and fearless honesty. He is a leader, and not a follower. He runs the machine, and so far has run it pretty well. He does not try to carry water on both shoulders' and please everybody, for he knows he can't. But every card he plays is a trump. Every veto he signs is right. In fact, he is about the only watchdog the treasury has got. The members of congress are all log rolling. They are playing the game of you tickle me, and I'll tickle you; you vote for my bill and I'll vote for yours; you build me a $100,000 postoffice, and I'll build you one," when the truth is neither of them ought to be built. Now, if Caters ville was in the pot maybe I could see different, but she is not, and bo we are opposed to the big fish swallowing up the little ones and gutting the treasury just because there is a surplus there. That is the way all these fraudulent pension bills are passed. Nobody watches them but Mr. Cleveland. They are to watch, for every member has got some pet bills of his own and he wants votes. Once in a while they will rare up and cavort and abuse one another terrific, and send their big speeches to their constituents, and that night they will get together and hob nob and plot and scheme to put their bills through. They are like the lawyers in a courthouse who get awful mad and abuse each others clients ten dollars worth and then compromise and both sides take a hundred out of the pile. And so the American people are now looking to Mr. Cleveland for protection against congressional rascality. His message about that surplus and reducing the tariff is right, but be is not for free trade. Of course he is not?nobody is, but everybody is for a reduction?a re? duction on everything that he is not making himself. We are obliged to have a tariff for revenue, for we can't run the machine without it. But if the whis? ky revenue is to be collected after the old fashion we won't need much of a tariff on other things. It rolls about 150 millions into the treasury now and is rapidly increasing. France runs her gov? ernment mainly on tobacco. She buys all that is made or imported and sells it again for two or three times its cost and pours the profit into the treasury, but we run ours on whisky, and the devil says it is. a good way, but I think the money ought to be set apart to build orphan asylumB in every town or city. ThelawB of Sparta required that all the spoils taken from their enemies in battle should be appropriated to the support of the fam? ilies of those who fell in the fight, and that was right and just and encouraged patriotism. Just so, all the revenue from whisky should be set apart as a sacred fund with which to repair as far as possi? ble the ruin it does under national pro? tection. If Atlanta gets fifty thousand dollars a year from licenses, that money ought to go to buy food and clothing and fuel for the wives and children of the poor med who spent it at the barrooms. Put it right back where it came from? pour it back in the jug. What a Bet of political cowards these congressmen are. They were afraid to vote upon the Mills bill or any other tariff bill, and they are afraid now. They will fool along until after tbe election. But Mr. Cleveland was not afraid. He wanted that surplus reduced at once. He wanted the nation relieved, and no dodg? ing around. Politics is a science, the science of self-interest. When a man is in office he wants to keep in and so he never makes an appointment to office or recommends anybody, but what the first question is what can he do for me?how much influence has be got in his county ?how many votes can he control?and that is the second question and the third. When men come out for office they lay their plans and combine with those who want some other office and then they all pull together. The judge of a circuit is not elected by the people of his circuit, nor by the votes of the "members of the legislature from his circuit, but by the members from seventeen other circuits who know QOtbiog about him and so bis election depends on bis combination qualities and his combinfltfon qualities depends on his political smartness and rascality. Now and then we bave"Tra upright, honest man in congress and in the legislature, but their name is not legion. There is dot much in politics now but office and the spoils of office, I'll bet two dollars that a man can't tell the difference between the platforms of the parties. Both of them will so dodge the tariff issue that it can be construed to suit anybody. Both will deal in glittering generalities, and have a plank to catch the foreign vote, another for retrenchment and reform, and another for fostering and protecting American labor, and after the two platforms are built the great flood gates will be opened and the sluices of slander be poured out and the nation will seethe and fret, while the politicians sing: "Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble." Wh&t an awful tor moil is before us I The politicians can fall out with each other and fall in again, but the people are the monkeys who burn their paws in pulling the chestnuts out of the Are. don't care much about national politics now, but I do want the republicans to nominate a good man?Gresham for instance?so that if we should lose Cleve* land we would have a good man in his place. Blaine is out of the way, and if we can escape the venormous claws of John Sherman, we will all be happy. AH I want to know about a northern man is whether he has kindly feelings toward the south and her people. That is the talisman?the open sesame to the south* ern heart. But if he is a friend to In galls, he can't be a friend to ns. I rode out in the Country yesterday and saw a dead dog near a house and a man standing by with a gun. "Did you shoot him ?" said I, and he said yes. "Was he mad ?" said I. "Well, I can't say exact? ly," he replied. "He has been frothin' at the mouth and so we tied him to that tree, and Dr. Young come along and we asked him what he thought about it, and he said be didn't think it was a straight out case of mad dog, but he thought be had the Ingalls and we bad better kill him. "What's that?" said I. "I don't know," he replied. "The doctor said it had broke out on a dog in Washington and was a powerful bad thing;" 1 am afraid i have been too hard on the politicians and ought to apologise. On the whole they are a right clever set of fellers when they have their own way and get all they want. My folks are scouring, and washing windows, and cleaning up generally to day, and they cooked no dinner and bad & cold lunch, and I had to eat out doors on a plank, and so I am not calm and serene and had to abuse somebody. But we are all happy in Cartersville now. The schools have closed and the children are to have rest?a good long rest, and that gives the parents rest. No more school books at night. No Latin, no arithmetic?no hen and a half laying an egg and a half in a day and a half no x2 nor 2x7, no bookkeeping nor com? positions. We all had a big time at the examinations and the concerts, and every mother was there to feast her eyes and her ears upon her own dear children. Many a young heart beat a tattoo and many an old one throbbed lor-the suc? cess of her child. And there was a success all round. Never did scholars show more diligence in study or a better mark in deportment It was a success for teachers and parents and children, for it is a fact that a child can not succeed as a scholar without the parent's help and encouragement. I know a mother who is calm and serene, for her child got a prize in music and another in Latin, and now this mother moves arouud with a consequential air that seems to say, "I knew she would get it?of course I did; and she is my child, too." And "She hummeth a quiet tune, In this leafy month of June." Bill Aep. A Romance of the War? A few days ago a face which retained traces of great former beauty was pointed out upon the avenue, and the following story was told of its possessor, says the Washington Critic: During the war her betrothed lover, while serving as an office" under the banner of the confederacy, learning incidentally of her serious illness in Albany, N. Y. He obtained a leave of absence, passed through the lines, and, after almost incredible escapes and hard? ships, succeeded in reaching her side in her northern home. Upon her recovery he attempted to retrace his steps, but was seen and recognized in New York city and arrested as a spy. After due trial before a competent tribunal he was fouud guilty and condemned to be shot. The lady in question was a niece of Cardinal (then archbishop) Manning, and the whole force of the Catholic clergy was brought to bear upon Mr. Lincoln, in order to secure a commutation of the sentence. This was done in effect, for the unfortunate man was permitted to marry the woman of his choice, and then both were banished to Paris, where they lived under the surveilance of the Ameri? can minister until the close of the war. Such indeed was the condition upon whioh his life was spared by the president. The brave confederate's wife is now a widow, and her eldest son is a cadet at West Point. For chronic catarrh, induced by a scrofulous taint, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the true remedy. It stops catarrhal discharges, removes the sickening odor, and never fails to thoroughly eradicate every trace of the disease from the blood. Sold by all dealers in medicine. ? An eight-legged calf attracts atten? tion in Cadiz, 0. The curiosity is alive and able to walk. ? Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron? chitis immediately relieved by Sbiloh's Cure. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Bald-headed Indians are becoming numerous since the adoption of hats and caps by the race. ? Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure k sold by us on a guarantee. It cures Consumption. For sale by Hill Bros. 2 VOLUME V n .. i. . . " " At the Tjget'e 1 awning South. The Charlotte bound passenger train on the Air Line road, due here yesterday morning at 5 o'clock, had a narrow es? cape from total destruction at South Tyger Biver, where It ran upon a bridge, a portion of which had been bcrned away. The bridge over South Tyger is a very high structure, the track which is laid upon it being 100 feet above the ground. It is approached by e high trestle on either side; and sparks from a passing engine set fire to the northern end of the bridge sometime Monday night. The fire had been burning for perhaps a cou? ple of hours, and had destroyed thirty feet of the bridge on the Charlotte side when the morning passenger train from Atlanta came thundering up, Coming toward Charlotte the bridge is approach? ed around a sharp curve, which prevents the engineer, in his seat on the right hand side of the cab, from seeing the bridge until he is almost upon it. On this occasion Capt. Ed. Roseborough was conductor, and engineer John Pettus was. inJthe cab. The train approached the bridge at the usual speed?thirty miles an hour?and when within a few hundred yards of it engineer Pettus noticed a heavy smoke ahead, which he concluded was from a Hrning brush pile such as is seen al? most every day along the road. When his engine forged round the curve he lost sight of the smoke, but just as he emerged and the pilot threw a shadow over the timbers of the trestle he saw that what be had thought a burning brush pile was something far more seri? ous. The bridge was burning away and bis engine was upon it! There was but little time for thought. A few more strokes of the driving-rod would carry the whole train, with a mass of blazing timbers, down a sheer descend of 120 feet to the ground below. It re I quired nerve to leap from the engine, but it required greater nerve to remain on it. Pettus remained at bis post. He re? versed his engine and brought every brake to bear upon the wheels with all the force that was possible. The big drivers of the engine flew backward with light? ning-like revolution, streams of fire shot from every brake wheel under the train, there was a succession' of rough jerks that threw the passengers from their seats, and the train came to a dead halt?with the pilot of the engine within a car's length of the fiery gap. The perspira? tion stood in cold drops on the engineer's forehead as he looked from his cab down into the chasm to the brink of which his train and the people upon it had drawn so closely. The train was backed from the burn? ing structure and Capt. Boseborough and his crew organized a bucket brigade and after half-an bour's work extinguished the fire and saved the main portion of the bridge. The watchman whose duty it is to patrol the bridge was not present, it is said; but came upon the scene while the people were fighting the fire, and seeiDg the state .of affairs disappeared. The midnight train from Charlotte ap? proached the north Bide of the bridge shortly afterward, and a transfer of passengers and baggage was made, the train returning here at 11 o'clock yester? day morning. .A large force of work? men was put to work at once reconstruct? ing the trestle, and trains crossed the bridge in the afternoon. The passengers speak in the higest praise of engirneer Pettus; and so ap? preciative were they of bis nerve and bravery that one of their number, Bev. Mr. Pentecost, started a subscription and the passengers liberally responded. They made up a purse of $10, which Mr. Pen? tecost presented to engineer Pettus, assuring him that it was "but a slight token of their appreciation of his action, for they felt that he had saved them from a horrible death."? Charlotte Chronicle. - A Singular Case of Hearing. Some time ago an engineer on the Little Miami Railroad was suspended because, after having been examined by Dr. Clark he was found to be quite deaf. The engineer claimed at the time that he could hear everything while running his engine, but the doctor found that in a still room he could not hear ordinary conversation a foot away. The engineer lived at Cincinnati, and received treat? ment in that city for his disease, bat without any special benefit.' After being suspended eight months the engineer again came to Dr. Clark and insisted that he could hear perfectly while on a moving engine. The doctor thought he would test the case, and, accompanying the man to Cincinnati, made a number of experiments with him on engines. The result was that the doctor found the engineer was rfbt only telling the truth in regard to the matter, but also that the deaf man could hear low remarks and whispers on a moving engine that even Dr. Clark's keen ear failed to catch. The engineer was reinstated in bis former place. A Lesson In Etiquette. "Melissy," said a Dodge City woman to her daughter, "I been readin' that book on etiketty that your paw went an' fooled a dollar an' a half for on the train that time he went to Topeeky." "Hev?" "Yes, I hev; an' it says that when a girl's ingaged to a feller they should con? duct theirselves in public with the same 'reserve and dignity' as if they weren't ingaged." "Well ?" "Well, then, you an' Hi Dagget air makin' plumb fools o' yereelves?" "Haow ?" "Why, at the party at Bill Hobbon's las' night when Hi come in you stuck out yer foot a-purpose, an' tripped Hi up, just fer a joke, an' Hi he up an' chased you three times a round the house, an' ketched you an' kissed you three times, before everybody. Everybody'll know you're ingaged, if you carry on that-a-way; an' it aint ettiketty. The book says so."? Tit-Bits. ? The meed of merit for promoting personal cleanliness, is due to J. C. Ayer & Co., whose Hair Vigor is a universal beautifier of the bair. Harmless, effec? tive, and agreeable, it ranks among the indispensable toilet articles. 1 XXIII.- -NO. 50. Ali Sorts of Paragraphs. . y ' ? The first postoffice was established in 15X6. ? A headlong man is not a man with a long head. -? Revised Proverb?Where there's a will there's a lawsuit. ? The king of the Belgians manages t to live on $660,000 a year. ? California papers are boasting of strawberries eight and nine inches in circumference. ? Woman is the Sunday of man. Not his repose only, but his joy. She is the salt of bis life. ? Nearly twenty-three hundred miles of railway were laid in the United States during the first five months of this year. ? A woman in New York, seventy years old, died recently from the bite of a cat that attacked her while she was at prayer. ? A maid of honor in Queen Victoria's household receives a salary of $1,500 a year, and her presence is required only twelve weeks annually. ? The man who will break one of: God's commandments habitually and continually, if you will turn him loose, will break them all.?Rev. Sam Jones. ? For the past ten months the railroad accidents in this country have averaged one for every five days, and two thirds of them have been the result of careless* neas. ?The fastest run on an American rail? road was made on the Philadelphia and Reading Road, when a train ran 92 miles in 93 minutes. One mile was made in 46 seconds. ? In each minute in the United States, night and day, all the year round,, .twenty-four barrels of beer have, to go I down 12,096 throats, and 4,830 bushels grain have to come to bin. ? The latest "victim of tobacco'*; a sad case. He is seventy years old, I smoked for sixty years, and last week i married a woman forty years bis senk Tobacco Bmoking affected his brain. ? In India the finest grades of cig can be bought for half a cent apiece, anc cigars are considered a rather expensive luxury at that. In that country a ms who has ten cents in cash is looked ni as comparatively well-to do. ? A guide who has conducted mai bridal couples through the Capital Washington declares that tbey are best customers, because "if a man is eve going to throw away money on his it's when he's first married." ? One of the longest wedding journej known has extended six years. The happy couple visited Europe, Asia one Australia, Japan and other islands, anc a part of Africa. The tour cost about seventy-five thousand dollars. ? A young woman, living at the place de la Nation, Paris, has just adopted a novel mode of putting and end to her day. She filled her small bedroom with flowers, and when her mother wentr4)i|?x call her in the morning she found her dead. ? In New York 3,000 woman earn their living as typewriters. It is a busi? ness or a profession in every way suited to women, and it is to be hoped-tbat-men? will not rush in to crowd them out of-the field. Let the men do the heavier work. Give the women a chance. ? The slaughter of the birds to deck woman's headgear may be judged when one London dealer says that last year he sold two hundred thousand small birds of every possible kind and color, from the soft gray of the wood pigeon to the gemlike splendor of the tropical bird. ? Ten Presidents have been renomi nated for office, and of these only three were defeated, the unlucky ones being the two Adamses and Martin Van Buren, j$ The record nowshows that there have been eleven presidents renominated, and there wilE be no change in the number defeat? ed. ? The wonderful extent to which im? migration to this country has reached is shown in the fact that in 1820 there were but 8,000 arrivals, while this year will show nearly one million. The total im- t migration to this country since 1820 amounts to nearly 15,000,000 people, and 'A the effect of this wonderful foreign in? crease in our population has bten as great on ourselves as on them, in that many of our institutions have been made to conform largely to their ideas, and ;r others are still undergoing change in that direction. ? Mrs. Maria E. Beasley, of Philadel- s phia, has made a fortune from the most remarkable invention which the mind of . a woman ever conceived. In 1884 Mrs. Beasley took out a patent for a machine for the construction of barrels. Up to ] that time barrels had been made almost ' altogether by hand. The machine is worked by three men and turns ont more ^ than 600 completed barrels a day. Mrs. Beasley was born in North Carolina of wealthy parents. She possesses wonder? ful mechanical genius. Her first inven? tion was a machine for hooping barrels. It^ will hoop 1,700 barrels a day, and is used ;', by the Standard Oil company. ^ ? The great million-dollar fire in Buffalo on February 1, which destroyed the dry goods house of Barnes, Hengerer & Co. and seriously damaged other pro- - > perty, is explained. The firm reopened in a new locality, and among its employes is : a cash boy named Andrew Howard, aged fourteen. Howard was arrested for a petty theft, and the detective making the arrest suspected him of a knowledge of the fire. So they questioned him. How- ; ard says he set fire to some paper in the basement in a fit of anger because he was not excused from work to go to a funeral. Howard also admitted making two at? tempts to fire the present store of Barnes, . Hengerer & Co. _ m Its Delicacy of Flavor And the efficacy of its action nave . rendered the famous liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, immensely popular. 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