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CLINESCALES & LANGSTON. GLASSWARE, ... ; - ? BOTH GERMAN and FRENCH IMPORTATIONS. ? ItaHaii Kartle "Vases, ^aHdng Canes, a hundred styles, "^Mar^Walntit and Enameled Clocks, 'Sterling and Silver Plated Ware, ^; ^> -Gold,_ Silver and^Ickel^?tellesiJ f^i. |g sn'ffi ^^??f^SraWyou conbe and HeaJho'Seaatiful lines of hew and useful Novelties we hAveaddeUto our already Attractive Stock. Our desire is to make our stock com ?*>lWplrithe above Hnes^mmtifflytt demand that has long existed for these goods. ifetb?tihis-end in view our'-Mr. J. M. Hubbard has spent several'weeks in New York, a^foffig-firsthfttidw, and perfecting arrangements that enable us to compete with any ; aoase in the State. New supply of N; .G. B. Kings. To W spld witliin the next^3(>^ays at the; Mowing Vv^feLow "Prices: if (5 200 barrels at $4.50^i^afanteed; 300 " 5.00 200 " 6.?5 1 200 " 6.50. Ever "brought t? this market by aoyooe; Prices ruooiDg:from 25c to 50c per pouod reU??by tb? box less. Callandaee. tv.^, ? -?:rKl,-:.v,^ ? .-i-r; . - - SPECIAL GROCERY STORE- .5 Iii .0 8 ?ado I n o a ..??v J5 ,5;**r? * 9 ? JN N? OS (H 03 P SJr> ??.?< THE O 0 STORY. Dividends to Consumers. . P. SULLIVAl & GO'S. CONSTANT AIM IS TO SELL THE They' Can ITind. And all other Choice grades. Thoy. keep a-ciose watch after, * and are prepared to give bottom prices, notwith ' standing the advance. They have a nice stock of MEN'S, YOUTH'S;1 and BOYS' GlipTfllXG cheaper than you cab imagine. They have taker time and pains to gel up tMa slock, and.are ready to offer good Bargains. M ^ KENT?CKY AND ATHENS JEANS, DRY GOODS OF ALL KINDS, ' ; From the'cheapest Prints to fine Cashmeres. "BOOTS AND SHOES) The best ntock they have ever had. EVERYTHING-rTHEIR STOCK? IS GENERAL. P. Sullivan & Co. Grrand Sunfmer Sale. v iTlA8H PRICES. Pay when Cotton Is sold. Grand offer of 1000 Pianos and Organs to be sold in Septeraberand Ootober ^afcROcfc Bottom Cash Prices, payable Pi? anos only $25 cash, Organs only $10 cash, and balauca December 1. without Interest 'or: advance on lowest ~cash price. Buy Snow and pay when cotton is sold ' GREAT BARGAINS!?Pianos $200, $225, r $250 Organs $24, ?35.$50.$G0 10 makers. 'SOftslyiea. All: freight paid 1.0 days U-st tH*?. -Reduced prices. ... ^JWittft:tor?^d:.8'?mmeRSale Circular. &&&i^MXTtriB IDAXTGHTER,: ; < ^;Westfleid St;; Oreenville, S..C. . /Sept 27, 1888 J3 TEXAS MARES. ILL sell delivered on any main line Railroad point in South Carolina? CAR LOADS 25 HEAD TEXAS MARES, $37.50 Deliver^. J. P. GUILMARTIN & CO., TEXAS RANCH AGENTS, Sarann?b, - Georgia. ? Oct25,.T8S8- 16 . 3m-:p IT WI LL PAY YOU If you propose going West or North? west, to write to me. I represent the Short Line. FRED. D. BUSH, D. P. A.; : . Atlanta, Ga. ^.Noy 15,1888 ;' 10 '?m iSKiWi* Ii-? ??; ?s3* All communications intended for thin Colamn should be addressed to D- K. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. From this time on during the wiuter ?the School Commissioner will be in the feranfty?visiting, trie schools, and will be in the office on Saturdays, Salesdays and Court week. ;' ""There is no easy way, no royal road to learning, lit is obtained by work, hard, constant, persistent work.p Genius, itself, has been said to be nothing bat a capac? ity for hard., work and plenty of it. These meteoric fellows' who grasp things intuitively-dazsle as ; for a "while with theif brilliancy; and then leave us in tftter darkness! They do not leave results behind tbem. jOur visit to the Flat Bock school was pleasant in some respects. We found in Miss; .Bells a Jive,. earnest, thoughtful teacher, anxious to learn whatever would promote the advancement of her pupils. Butfwe found her'In an uncomfortable house, and>one much >too; small for the purpose., This section contains a fine, moral, intelligent population, as is evi? denced by the comfortable bouses they live in, and the substantial churches where they worship.' Good roads, good churches and good school-buildings are indices'of ? refined and enlightened .coinniunity. .,,.Sead your children to school regularly jday^by day. . We once heard a father say a certain teacher taught his children nothing.- We took occasion to refer to the register of that teacher, and found that his four children had * attended school just thirty-six days all told, an average oif nine days each, in a school tbat^Ja?.te? [eigfijjj m?njths.., Nowonder his' children learned^notningr- It- would ^aYe'beea ^miracle if tbey^had, and yet' ,that father - placed- the blame.on the [ieachjbr^aad'? refused' to pay his subscrip &ion|f^Che ^school {-termshis^ short/ fthe school funds are meager, and it is abso? lutely necessary if anything is accom? plished, that "going- to ^school" shou Id- be the--business xn^hand- "during- the ?terato The school life itself of the boy iB short, and before you are aware of it, you will -have launched an uneducated voter upon ^hV County..;?>' . >V ~~ We want to hear from the teachers as to their methods of inspiring an interest in Composition. We know, from per* booal experience 'as a pupil and as a teacher, that it is one of the most diffi? cult things to get up an interest about, and yet i'c is one of the most important in school work. What teacher has not heard the pupil say; "I don't know what to write about ?" And just here a great deal of art can be displayed by the teacher, notvonly in suggesting subjects, but in , indicating the lice of thought to be pursued, by drawing out the pupil in conversation. Let the teacher have a little blank book lying in the room in which she is to jot down all the subjects -she can think of, and then ask your pu? pils to help you think of subjects. This Will likely get up an interest' on the part of the pupil, and he will be stimulated to work, and. thisis a great point gained, especially in Composition. Let the sub? jects be Bimple ones, such as are on a level with- the child, as: "What I like for breakfast." "What I saw on the road to school." "A cuiious dream I had.? "What lives in the woods?" and so on adjnfmitum. Avoid abstruse and abstract subjects. Contrive to throw in as much fun and amusement as you can, so that "Composition Day'* will be looked forward to with pleasure. And above all things don't let it be a funeral occasion that the pupils will breath1 a sigh of relief over when it is done. Me. Editor: . No school can rise,above the level of. its teacher. Is there a possibility of elevation, then, with some of our schools ? What are our teachers doing to elevate themselves? Are they content with the daily round of work without a sign of improvement or a moment's satisfaction of progress felt and realized ? In obedi? ence to the order of the State Board of Education, our County Board recently adopted certain books to be used in the public schools. Does that mean that no teacher is to have access to any text books other than those found on the list adopted? by no means. The books adopted are to be read by the classes; the teacher, in justice to himself, to his profession and to his pupils, is in duty bound, to have on his desk as many dif? ferent books on the same subject as his means will enable him to purchase. He who confines himself to one text b jjk, while before his classes, is not afit to do a great deal of teaching. Let us illustrate: you assign a class a lesson in San ford's Arithmetic; when you call that class to recite, do you have them to work at the black board, , or on their slates, just the problems fopnd in the lesson and uo others? Having satisfied yourself that the class is posted on the lesson, familiar with all the problems, why not give tbem kindred and similar problems taken from another book 7 , Select problems from Wentworlh, or Robinson, or Venable. We have tried that plan and find that it works well. Such exercises will relieve the recitations of monotony and stimulate independent thinking on the part of the pupils. Agaib, some of the best teaching of Arithmetic we have ever Been was done outside of the direct use of any text? book. Hundreds of practical questions are coming up every day that demand the application of the principles taught by all the text-books. Every teacher should take into his school room every day some question, or' problem, that touches the home life of the pupil and impresses upon him the necessity for a knowledge of the principles taught in the lessons,he studies. A question as to the value of so many bundles of fodder at so much per hundred, or the cost of gather? ing, ginning, and marketing cqtton will sometimes arouse.a boy to thought when he appears to be perfectly indifferent - to the problems found in his text book. What has been the experience.of onr teachers along this lino? *. IDERSON, S.O., TH An Interesting Letter From Alabama. Waeeioe,- Ala., Nov. 19,1888. Editors Intelligencer :?? ^ I take your paper and am always glad to get it. From that I find every interesting event that occurs in A?derson?my native CouDty. Perhaps it would be interesting to a few of your many readers to hear a word or, two from here. Having come to Warrior eight months ago, and securing a situation as clerk in the Btore kept for the supply; of th*) hands of the Mabel Mining Company, I have been iutimately connected with the mining iuterests of the town. Warrior is a town of about 2500 inhab? itants, situated on a high elevation, and in a healthy locality, on the S. V. N. E. E. and. Black: Warrior Eiver,; "(from which it took its.name,) twenty-three miles north of Birmingham, sixty miles south of Decatur, and right in the midst of the Warrior coal fields. ?Seven companies'are interested in the mining products of the place, and there are more than three times that number of entries from which coal is brought The mines in the Warrior coal field gives employment to six. or eight hundred inen. The capacity of these mines is about one thoutand tons of coal daily, which is got out at a cost of seventy five cents per ton. Some of these mines carry on brick works in connection with the mines, obtaining the clay from the bottom of the mines. "And just here I would like to mention that Mr. D. S. Fisher, the geutleman who made the brick from which your National Bank is built, has control of the brick works at the Coaldale Mines. The miners make from $2 00 to $5.00 per day, taking out from three to eight tons of coal per day. A number -of men are employed by each mine for the purpose of carrying the trams of coal out, Weighing it and dumping it into the It. it. cars, running machinery, laying track, etc., and these get from $1.50 to $8.00 per day. ' Men have come from' nearly'every-; wbera.to^Warriors to;,dig coal,, and far? mers Save left their fVrms to- work-in the mines,. Bnd, theycsajMit is :better,s?asier and more money in it than in farming. It gives regular employment, rain or shine; and ;is "always the same'tempera? ture winter and ? summer^WaTrior is very appropriately called a mining town, but it does a very respectable business with ''the' garment invftbe ^surrounding country. . There have been* over eleven Hunared^'ba'lei'Hnf cotton '"brought''here this seaauu, which brought a very fair price. Capitalists have been speaking of erecting a cotton factory here, and there is a splendid opening for a plaining mill. Hundreds of men find employment with us, and we can find employment for hun? dreds more. Wishing, you and.your paper along life, ...--I am, respectfully,J D. N. Smith. A Duel in a Dark Boom. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 13.?Bobert Nabors has been a prominent -physician at Montevallo, this State. W. W. Short ridge has been a successful lawyer in the same village. Both were young men. Some time ago Nabord employed Short ridge to collect a few claims against delinquent patients. The returns were not satisfactory and the men quarrelled, but parted without coming to blows. On last Saturday Nabors called at Short ridge's office, and the old trouble broke out afresh. They finally agreed to fight with bowie knives in a darkened room just off the office. 'Removing their coats and shoes the men entered the room and fought blindly, but desperately, for near? ly ten minutes. The duel was one of the most vicious ever reported in Alabama. The men plunged their knives into each other un? til both looked as though they bad been slaughtering beeves. Everything in the room was bespat tered with blood. Persons -living oil the lower story heard tha noise of the duelists as they rolled upon the floor, and ran ,?p stairs to separate the combatants. When the door was broken Nabors staggered into the office with blood streaming from a dozen gashes in his face and breast. Without saying a word, he rushed down the stairs, still clasping a gory knife in his Jiand. Lying on the floor of the room was Sbortridge. His head had been slasbedgin a most atrocious way. The arteries of his neck had been severed, one eye bad been gouged out, and bis hands were cut so terribly that the fingers bung only by the tendons. The man was dead. Nabors after leaving the office, ran out upon the street, where his bleeding face and gory garments spre-d consternation among the negroes, 'i j Doctor seemed to be crazed with pain. He staggered wildly along the street until he reached a Btore, where Albert Keenan, a negro, stood in the doorway. Without saying a word Nabors rushed at Keenan and struck at him with the knife, which he stil held in his hand. The negro started to run into the store, when the now thoroughly insane man made another desperate lunge at him. Keenan seized a gun which was lying upon the counter and then turned to face the mad man, who was in the act of making another swing with his knife. The- two men clinched, but labors, who was weak from loss of blood, was no match for his an? tagonist and was quickly thrown upon the floor. Before be could get upon his feet again 'Keenan dealt him a terrible blow on the head with the stock of the gun, and leaping over his body, ran into the street and out of town. Nabors never regained consciousness. His skull had been fractured. Drs. Sadler and Davis worked upon him till midnight, when he died. Keenan cannot be round. Both bodies were buried to-day, the funerals being largely attended. He II arten't Disobeyed. The little boy bad come in with, his clothes torn, his hair full of dust, and his face bearing unmistakable marks of a severe conflict. "Oh, Willie I Willie I" exclaimed his mother, deeply shocked and grieved, "you have disobeyed me again. How often I have told you not to. play with that wicked Stupleford boy 1" "Mamma," said Willie, washing the blood from his nose, "do I look as if I had been playing with anybody V?Chic? ago Tribune ? ?Mrs. Helen Elmer,out in Kansas, has shown what can be done in the way of in forcing prohibition. She went to a saloon, smashed things with an ax, drove the proprietor to the woods, dragged her husband home, tied him up and flogged him with a horsewhip. It will be a century before that town gets painted red. ? Do you suffer from indigestion, or loss of appetite ? Are you troubled with liver, or kidney complaint? Take Ay er's Sarsaparilla. This preparation purifies and vitalizes the blood, thus restoring health and strength to the digestive and assimilative organs. Try it, ?RSDAY MORNING IT It?LES All. How the School Regulates Everything. Atlanta Constitution. You may talk about presidents and governors and senators and tariffs and otber big things, but the school is the big? gest thing I know of. It takes families to make nations and the school is of more importance to the family than anything else, and it has been so ever since I was a boy. The school controlled things then, and it does now. It regulated the family movements. The time for getting up, the time for breakfast, and the time for dinner was fixed to suit the school. After supper the children monopolize the table and the lamps, and I can't read a newspaper but what every few minutes it is papa this and papa that, and it looks like I will die.io the harness, and I reckon that is the best way to die after all. Every decent, reputable parent lives for the children. The great busi? ness of this sublunary life is to educate them and maintain them and make them happy. We sell goods and practice law and medicine aod build houses and culti? vate farms and work at all sorts of trades, but after all the principal business is raising children and preparing them to take our places when we are dead. It is the security for all good government and obedience to law and order. Just imag? ine a community without children. No day school; no Sunday school; no May day; no Christmas; no kites nor balls, nor marbles, nor dolls. No merry laughs; no little bats and bonnets and shoes in the stores; no flowers in the front yard; no ornaments, no nothing but a solemn, prosy crowd who -moved about like there was a funeral on hand all the day long. Every morning now, we have to hurry up to suit the children. They have to be at school at half past eight or be marked for tardiness, and it hurries the cook and hurries everybody. The school teacher bas got the scholars in a close place now. He has given them forty pages in Sanford's arithmetic, and they have four days to review compound num? bers, and he is going to write twenty questions on the blackboard and they don't know what the questions are to be, and each one of the class bas to write the answers on a slate; and they are not to sit close enough to see each other's answers, and every correct answer counts five and every scholar, who . don't get seventy five is to be turned back into the next class and try it again. I tell you they are studying now. I have to help every night at my house. I am power? fully worried with this school business any bow, for I've forgotten all my Latin and can't read Ctesar and some of the sentences are as long-as the ten ?com? mandments and I can't find the verb that belongs to the noun and everything is mixed up, aod it look j like it was all done on purpose just' to worry me and the children. We boys bad a simple little book called Historioe Sacroe, and it began-with "God created the heavens and the earth in six days," and the verb followed right after the noun, just like it ought to. I don't believe any later book is worth a cent except the dictionary. I can learn from the dictionary that canine comes from can is, a dog, and feling from felis, a cat, and paternal and mater? nal from pater and mater, and so forth, arid that is all the use we have for it Nobody reads Latin?not even the pro? fessors. . I'll bet there is not one in Georgia that can read a Latin book that he never, read before. They wouldn't if they could. If a boy bas got a transla? tion be cau sorter get along. Every scholar ought to have a translation. We used to have them in college and could make pretty good sense out of the Latin. Wo cut the leaves out aod had them slipped in our Latin book and could just fudge aloug splendid. Sometimes we would pretend to get stalled and would use some other words that meant about the same thing. We got splendid marks in Latin, but we couldentread a sentence without translation. A translation is a good thing in a dead language. It gives life to it.~ I could read Xenophon in 'Greek the same way and I can now, but without the trans atioo I can't tell when the book'is upside down or downside up. J It is all Greek to me. I used to know ota from epsilon, and omicron. from amega, but I don't now, aod I don't want >to. Let it stay dead. If the inhabitants of Greece wont talk their old language why should I. I don't suffer much lur language, and there is a good deal more of English than I will ever learn or have any use for. They bad a spelling bee in Atlanta and gave out words that nobody ever uses or sees in print. I don't believe in that. Mark Blanford, one of our supreme court judges, had a case about forty years ago, defending a man who was sued by a school - for his tuition, and his plea was that the teacher wasect fit ten to teach, for he couldent spell bard words, and be proposed to put bim on the stand and spell him. The old squire thought that was fair, and so-Mark spelled him on phthisic and catalyptic and catawampus, and finally gave bim ampombynoosuck, and because he missed on a word that wasent in the book, he lost his case. Mark defended another fellow who was sued by a doctor, and be called for the doctor's diploma, and the doctor dideot have it, and had to ride seven miles to town to get it, and then Mark put him on the etand aod asked bim to read it to tbo magistrate, Well, it was all iu Latin, and because tbe doc? tor couldent translate the Latin into Eng?Bb, be lost bis case, for tbe old squire saw be dident know whether it was a diploma or a treaty With tbe In* dians. I consider it a disrepect to the English language to print a diploma in Latin. Dr. Miller says the reason they do is because a diploma is a certificate that the graduate knows all about medicines and diseases and is fitten to practice and it is such a lie that they put it in a language that folks can't understand. He says it is less barm to lie in Latin and curse in Latin than in English. Language does have a good deal to do with these things. A preacher told me that he was a Prince? ton with a young Armenian who was studying theology and expected to go back to Armenia and preach Christianity to his people. One cold morning he got put out with bis stove and told our preacher that when he. shut the door it no burn at all, but when he open the door it burn like hell. When be was rebuked for using such language he look? ed, surprised and grieved, and said, "That-is .no" bad in my language. My mother tell me to fix stove for her to cook dinner and I make one good fire and say, mother, stove all fix?fire burn like bell. What you say in you lan? guage? What doesyour fire all burn like when he burn good." So what is all right in one language is not right in an other. A Frenchman was trying to preach in English once and said the Savior was led like "one mutton" lo .the slaughter. The sailors used to steer their vessels by tbe stars and the principal one waB a star in tbe tail of tbe dog and it was called tbo cynosure, which means the dog's tail. But now it means any? thing to bo gazed at, and when we Bay of a beautiful lady iu an assembly that she was the cynosure of all eyes, it really menns that she was the dog's lail of the concern. But I cau get along pretty well in San ford's arithmetic with these children. I believe it is tbe best arithmetic that ever was made. It has no key and Professor Sanford says it dops not need aay for it is a BtemwiDder, but I do think that algebra ought to have a key or be abol? ished. I don't take much stock in alge? bra, nor conic sections, nor calculus. They worried me and distressed me in my youth and I haven't forgotton it. I K NOVEMBER 29, U suppose that such things are to train the mind hnt when'they strain the mind it is one letter too much. I don't believe in children having to cry over their lessons, I don't believe in crowding children into studies beyond their years. I don't take much stock in gymnasiums. I don't be live in girls skinning the cat. I read a piece in the Constitution the other day telling how beautifully some of the At lanta girls could skin a cat in the gymnas? ium. If Jim wants to skin a cat let him do it. but Fanny and Sarah Jane had better let the cat alone. Not long ago I read about a girl in St. Louis who went to a circus and saw a contortionist perform, and then went home and tried it, and got her feet locked back of her neck and couldent unlock them, and screamed for help; and they dislocated her thigh bone in untangling her extremities. If she had been help* ing her mother clean up the house or stitching on the s >wing machine, the like of this wouldent have happened. Dr. Talmage says the devil put that girl up to that, and it tickled him awfully. The devil ought to be ashamed of himself. Bill Abp. I WILL TRY TO FORGET YOU. The .Words of the Wife of a Drunken Husband. Atlanta ConstittUion, Nov. 18. "I'll not go with you, anywhere. You have deceived me for the last time. I shall" take the first train home and try to forget that I ever knew you." These words, spoken in a manner that showed the earnestness and excitement of the speaker, were addressed to a man whose unsteady walk gave evidence of his having taken j ust one too many. He was leaning for support against a pile of trunks that were waiting the gentle ministrations of the union depot'baggage handlers. Facing him was a woman and from her lips had fell the scornful words that told of a .loss of confidence in the mau she was addressing, and gave every evidence that she was the better half of a couple that will probably declare marriage a failure. The woman was a blonde, as pretty as she was angry and emphatic, and her blue eyes were full of the sparkle that would have been a danger signal to her husband if be bad been sober enough to see it. Dressed in-a neat traveling cos? tume and a handsome and stylish jacket that set off her trim figure to the best possible advantage, the bird plumage in the duck of a bonnet that was perched above the coils and frizzes of her hair, was nodding an accompaniment to her words and gestures as she delivered her vigorious condemnation of ihe half-drunk man she had made up her mind to try and forget. As she stamped her firmly clad foot to emphasize her last words, the man looked up with a sort of "I don't understand yon" attempt at a smile and attempted to pacify the little woman by saying s "Don't get mad, Ella. Ish all right? hie?I'm going to brace up." "Yes, you're going to brace up!" snapped Ella. "You have been talking that way ever since we married, two months ago, and I'm tired of it. AU I ask of you is to give me enough money to buy my ticket home. Are you going to doit?" The question was followed by a vigo. rious shaking of the bridegroom of two months' promise to break , to brace up. His head wabbled around, his hat fell off, but the shaking was useless. He was in a stupor that only time or the noise of a colored republican parade could affect. But Ella did not waste any time, and when her arm was tired from the shaking process, she unbuttoned her drunken husband's vest, took from au inside pock? et a book, selected two ten dollar bills, and replacing the book re-buttoned the vest, and was just about turning away, when one of the restaurant waiters hand? ed her the hat which bad fallen from ber husband's head. She snatched it from the colored boy's band and placed it on the head of the now soundly sleeping* man in a position that made him as comical looking as the clown in a ten cent circus. Turning to. one of the small crowd of travelers and depot men that had wit? nessed the unusual scene, the little wo man said: "lam going north on the first train, and If anybody sees that man wben he gets sober, I wish they would tell him that I took twenty dollars of his money, and have gone home, and that be need never expect to see me again." A faint suspicion of a tear trembled in the blue eyes, but with a quick and grateful touch of a dainty little handker? chief, they were brushed away, and Con-, doctor Ferrell, of the Western and Atlantic, was appealed to for information ns to wben the first train left for the North. With a quick glance at his watch, Cap'. Ferrell said: ' My train leaves in just five minutes for Chattanooga. Do you want to go there ?" "Ob, yes ; my home is in Tennessee, on the Cincinnati Southern. Where can I get a ticket?" There were a dozen people anxious, to show the lady to a ticket window, and as she started she. cast a look of genuine contempt on the form of the drunken husband that she was apparently anxious to leave. He was lying with bis body partly supported by a big trunk, his hat bad again fallen from bis head and the newsboys and bootblacks were beginning to make sport of him from a safe distance outside the baggage room gate. As the lady stepped to the window of the Western and Atlantic ticket office a reporter ventured to ask her name. He did not receive the information but he was told by an angry woman that she had trouble enough and didn't want her name in the newspaper on top of all she had suffered by being married to a drunken wretch. And again the gather ering tears were brushed away. No more questions were asked and in another moment the young lady was assisted on the Chattanooga train. In another mo? ment Conductor Ferrell bad called out "all aboard" and a pretty woman and injured wife was rapidly moving away. As the train passed the cotes of the carshed the tears that until then bad been bravely held back, were moistening the handkerchief that a shapely hand pressed to the blue eyes of a woman whose life has been clouded by her marriage to a drunk? ard. He was still sleeping as the train left the depot, a picture of contempt and pity. Two or three of the depot officials carried him to a hack, and he was taken to a hotel. When he Bobcrs up, if there is a particle of pride within him a reformation will be bis first and only business. And judging from the determined manner in which bis wife talked and acted, only the genuine and permanent article will ever give him a chance for forgiveness from her. ? A health journal says: "An attack of hiccough may be stopped by holding the head under water." It does not say how long the head should be held under water, but we should think about two hours would be plenty long enough to stop tbe wor3t case of hiccough ever invented. Eczema, Itchy, Sculy, Skin Tortures. The simple application of "Swayne's Ointment," without any internal medi? cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores, Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long standing. It Is potent, offbotivo, and cotta but a trifle. 15 S88. THE METHODIST NDNS. A Deaconesses' Home to be Ballt in New York for the New Methodist Order. At the recent Quadrennial Conference of the M. E. Church laws were enacted' providing for the authorization .and church government of a semi ecclesiasti? cal order never before known in this church, but similar in many essential particulars to the various benevolent and religious female orders of the Roman Catholics. It was called the Methodist Episcopal Order of Deaconesses, and, as defined in the laws of the Church, the duties of the Deaconesses are "to minis? ter to the poor, visit the sick, pray with the dying, care for the orphan, seek the wandering, comfort the sorrowing, save the sinning, and, relinquishing wholly all other pursuits, devote themselves.in a general way to such forms of Christian labor as may be suited to their abilities." Eyery annual Conference in which any home of this new Order shall be estab? lished is required by the discipline to appoint a committee of nine of its mem? bers to look after the home, and see that everything done by the sisterhood and their immediate board of direction is in accordance with the discipline. This committee is to consist of members of the annual Conference exclusively, and is renewable at every annual Conference. The more immediate government of each home is vested in a board of direction, of such numbers and constitution as may be determined upon by the founders. . The first of these new auxiliaries to the great religious organization has just been instituted by the New York City Church Extension Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At a meet? ing of this society, held at the rooms in the Book Concern on Friday, the "board of direction of the1 Deaconesses' Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of New York" was* provided for, and its members were elected by the society. The articles of association which were promulgated provide that the board of direction shall consist of three minis* ters and three layman, to be chosen from the board of managers of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society, together with three women mem? bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in New York city. The members of this parent organiza-. tion are the Rev. Bidweil Lane, the Rev. Charles R. North, the Rev. Merritt Hul burd, George McKibben, W. E. Peyton, Richard Lavery, Mrs. Bowles Colgate, Mrs. Anderson Fowler, and' Mrs. Peter A. Welch. They will be called upon to determine the membership of the home; to devise all necessary rules and regula? tions; to direct, through the superinten , dent, the work of the deaconesses ; to I supervise such property and care for all. such financial and other matters pertain? ing to the home as may bo committed to them by the Church Extension and Mis? sionary Society. The superintendent is to be a woman, and as her duties are defined they corre? spond nearly with those of the lady supe? rior of a convent. The applicants for membership in the home, besides being regular members of the Church, must n.ot be more than 35 nor less than 23 years of age, in good health, and must submit to a probationary trial of three months or more, or less, at the option of the board of direction. In exceptional cases, at the discretion of this board, applicants not more than 21 years old may be ad? mitted to the home, provided, however, that they shall not be deemed eligible to probation for. the office of deaconess. After a satisfactory trial an applicant may be elected for service on probation, and every such applicant must be duly recommended by a quarterly Conference and must be not less than 23 years old. Finally, it is provided that no one shall be qualified for the office of deaconess in the Deaconesses' Home who has not served on probation for a period of not less than two years of continuous service, who is not over 25 years of age, and who has not received a regular certificate from an annual Conference board of deaconesses. Membership in this Order shall not, however, be compulsory. Should any deaconess or probationer so decide she may relinquish her member? ship at any lime. No vows are imposed or required, only submission to the rules and regulations of the board of direction. It is contemplated by the founders to provide a uniform dress by which the ladies of the Order may be distinguished from the ordinary evangelical worker, but what design or color this uniform will take on is still to be determined. The home in its incipieucy will not be very much more than a home and head? quarters for the members of the sister? hood, but if it shall meet with public favor and prove as effective for benevo? lent and religious work as is expected and hoped by the originators, its accom? modations and scope will be extended as rapidly as possible to meet all tbe re? quirements ol'ho3pital, asylum and outside benevolent and religious work. One of the venerable clergymen who have been active in the institution of the Order said to a Times reporter yesterday that the Church bad long felt the lack of organization and authority among its female workers. As a large and popular denomination it was called upon quite properly to expend as much effort in benevolent as in distinctively religious work, and there had never been any prov? ision of any properly authenticated and organized body to look after this work. In every Methodist community there were women willing and in every way fitted to attend to this work, and the benefits of which could be made more apparent by such organization than when pursued iu the desultory manner that has always been the case. The expense of mainten? ance would be no greater than had been the cost of the benevolent work ? of the Church in years gone by. Tbe expendi? tures would be systemized and the work centralized and the workers organized, and every person of intelligence would appreciate the benefits of this." Another meet ing will be soon held, at which arrangements for the purchase of necessary property for the establishment of this first home of an order that iu the expectation of tbe Church Extension and Missionary Society is destined to become exceedingly popular.?Neio York Times. It Was a Pretty Foot. Tbe funniest incident of my trip was iu a sleeping car. It was in the morning, when most of tbe passengers bad got out of their berths, and only several*sets of curtains were drawn tightly in front of still slumberous persons. Suddenly a foot was thrust out between the two curtains. It was small, white and sym? metrical? not more than a feminine No. 3.?and the merest bit of aukle in sight looked soft and fine. The men glanced at it from the corners of the wicked eyes. Tbe women deprecated the exposure. Then a bold, brazen fellow went right straight to the pretty foot, grabbed the ankle, and Hung the whole member rude? ly into the berth. "He wouldn't treat bis bride so," said a women close by, "it must be his sis? ter." Then the bead of a ten-year old urchin emerged where tbe foot had been, and a sleepy, angry, boyish voice said : "Look here, Sam, you let me alone. Next time you ketch a hold of my foot that way I'll kick tbe gizard out of you." There was a subsidence of sentimental interest and risibility of mirth,?Cincin? nati Enquirer. ? One way in which we can make our boys and girls better men and women is by" making Sunday a day for religious training iu the home. HER FINAL TEAXCE. Mollie rancher, Brooklyn's Famous Girl, . Dying. New Yoek, Nov. 18.?Mollie Fancher, the famous trance girl of Brooklyn, is to-day believed to be dying. For twen? ty years she has lain abed, and during the first half of that time in a trance, during which period she neither ate, drank, nor evinced consciousness. Since then she has been a phenomenon in clairvoyance. Occasionally, when her doings have been partially published, they have aroused incredulity, and she has heen classed as fraudulent; but the fact that she and her family have always refused to make a cent out of her condi? tion would seem to meet the accusation of trickery. You correspondent called on Showman Barnum to day and asked him if it were true that he had offered her a highly remunerative engagement as a public exhibit. He replied : "I did so. That was several years ago. I became convinced, through the investigation of friends, that she was a genuine wonder. I conveyed to her a proposition, under which she would have made a fortune, and I would have cleared the same. I offered other than money inducements? such as all the possible luxuries of travel in a private car, the finest quarters at hotels, the best of attendance, and, in short, a very great betterness of her mode of living. She is iu moderate circum? stances, you know, although comfortably cared for, and I wonld have placed her in the most costly sort of ease besides enriching her. She would not hear of such a thing for an instant. It might have been thought, at first, that she was aiming at a better bargan, but she was not. She declared that millions would not tempt her. to exhibit herself for a. single day in public. So I had to give it up. That was evidence enough my. mind that her clairvoyance is genuine.'' The difficulties of investigating the case of Mollie Fancher have always baffled the.newspaper reporters, for she would only receive visits from friends who promised not to afford information to people generally. But now that her end IB at hand, some of the gentlemen professionally familiar with her case consent to give a few particulars. Dr. 8. Fleet-Spier, an eminent Brooklyn physi? cian, has attended Miss Fancher ever since her first illness. "I am a firm believer iu her power of clairvoyance;" he said. "I texists. That I is all I know, and is all anyone knows. For years ana years she took no solid food. During as many ensuing years her lips were merely moistened occasionally with fruit juices and other very slight nourishment. Judge William Daily said: "It is only a short time ago* that I called on her with my wife. While we were there a lady came in and presented to her a picture of a' dead friend. This photo graph was not shown to her, but was held out of her sight, and while she could not possible have seen it normally, she criti? cised its appearance, went minutely into details, and certainly her mind bad a perfect view of it. Such occurrences are every-day events and have been for years, or ever since she c .me out of ber trance." Dr. C. E. Adamson said that he had visited Miss Fancher on many occasions with Dr. Speir. He continued: "I really believe that Miss Fancber possess? es, in the highest degree, the percep? tivity those fraud clairvoyants pretend to have. She is a wonder. She has no definite methods like those swindlers. You could take a bank check and hold the reverse side towards her, or in fact, shield it entirely from the view of any? one but yourself, and Mollie would tell you the contents of the face, the name of the bank, the amount and the signature. In the same way you could read a letter and Mollie would immediately reproduce the contents. Mind the person testing her would not move the lips in reading or give any sign or indication by which she could gain the knowledge she exhibit? ed. But the most peculiar circumstance about her power was the watch test. I was present one evening when a gentle? man produced a stem-winding watch and asked Mollie if she could tell him the time indicated on its face. The case was closed and she was unable to give the required information. But the minute the gentleman opened the case she was able to tell every minute and second recorded on the face. He turned the hands around, looking at the face all the time, and holding the watch in such a position that Mollie could not see, it, and she'told him every move. That test explained one thing fully to every mind ?she does not see the object. The person testing her does, however, and when it is pictured in his mind, Mollie sees it just as plainly as be does the object. The object is negative to Mollie, but the mind on which the object is photograph? ed is visible to her." The Kev. Dr. De Witt Talmage is one of the Brooklyn clergymen who have visited Miss Fancher at various times, but always with an understanding that they were not to give an account of her to the world until after her death. Dr. Talmage felt at liberty to only say: "The case will long remain a wonder to scientific men. All the. particulars have been carefully and trustworthily obtain? ed, and they will be published at the proper time. In general, it is no viola? tion of confidence to give" a mere outline of the story. At the age of fourteen she was sent to the Broyklyn seminary for young ladies, where she was considered an apt pupil. She remained there four years, and was ready to be graduated, wben a fall from a horse laid her up for awhile. She was not over the injury, when she fell from a street car and was dragged by her dress, suffering an injury to the spine, which has seemed to be the cause of all her trouble and its attendant phenomena. That was about twenty one years ago. Her nervous system seems to be shattered. She had alternative spasms and trances for a month, and that was followed by a death like.contin? uous trance of two months. Then came nine years of a wonderful and unex? plained condition. She lay in bed in an .unaltered position, apparently blind and with her eyes tightly closed. Trances were interspersed with spells of a sort of ecstacy, during which she told of mar? velous visions and supernatural expe? riences. She seemed to have the gift of second sight, and this was tested daily. Her physical rigidity remained a singu? lar accompaniment of her mental exalta? tion. It was in 1875, or 76 that a change came to pass in ber. Her body relaxed and she professed.to have no recollection of what occurred during the nine years, But her clairvoyance developed, and the stories are innumerable of her discern? ment of visitors before they came intc her room, and of all imaginable sort oi second sight. The experiments were made so numerously and carefully, and by gentlemen of such unassailable pro bity, that there can be no doubt of theii genuiness. Within the past two or three years she has reriovered some of tho losl llesh?for she had become little more than a living skeleton?and her appear? ance was much less spectral. But bei mind reading power has been unimpair? ed." ? The five great cont'nental powers ol Europe now have 12,000,000 men undci arms, not to mention the naval am am en it almost double in size the whole sea fighting force of tho world twenty yean ago. ? Ayer's Pills ar.e always ready for use. They are sugar coated, easy to take and sure to bring relief and cure. Thej are effectual in all diseases caused by dis orders of the stqmach and digestive organs, 3 XXIV.- -NO. .21. All Sorts or Paragraphs.^' ? Tbesimplest question iaa.more sides than we can. see.;.. ... ^^tA.j^yJ.j^ ? The manufacture, of paper.bqttlegjii; to be begun on a very extensive, scale.. ? Woman?She shares bur"grief3y doubles our joys and trebles, pur .expbhrv ses. """":. 'i ? A good many of the boys of 'ffieV period are like an old roof. Tbeyne&fc shingling. -A man that cannot mind his own busi? ness is not to be trusted with anybody's business. ? However.'sbort the corn crop may;: be elsewhere, you can alwayi find ;aifewj: kernels in Kentucky.' ?A poet inquires: "What is parting ?" j He had better question the man whose back suspender button has given away. ?: ~ ? There are eight hundred and fifty j missionaries in India, an everage of one to every five hundred thousand people. ?The largest flour mill in Minneapolis ? runs on the profit-share system and has just divided $40,000 among the employ?^ es. -*?- ; ? A Chicago newspaper makes the,~ statement that at least three-fifths of thcgS people in that city are believers in SpiritaW ualisra. ' ? The average wages paid for faring labor in the united States is $18.24 j without board, and $12.24 with board per ; month. , ? Paris has a well two thousand three ? hundred and fifty feet deep. Hot water rusheBoutof this well in a streamjL14:{;$ feet high. ? Some of the colored tenants in Dar?%? lingtou county think that tbey will notbo^ required to pay rent now thatHarnsbn$|^ elected. ? A Paris firm has produced poiti glass for window panes. The pores'ar^ too fine to admit a draught but'they assis. in ventilation. ! ? The richest gold mine in the worldT is said to be the Douglas mine in Austra- ' lia, which yields about' $200,000 every month and has but three owners,-. ? In a suit for divorce, in St. LouisjS the plaintiff, Mrs. Allie Villert, testified: ;j that.her husband once pawned her wed? ding dress for a drink of liquor. ?-Dr. Henry'Miller, who made $3,-' 000,000 in the manufacture of pill8,"was?| buried at Wilmington, Mass.,.on Sunday?^; in a casket which cost $6,000. ' ? It is said that Sam Jones was' paid ii' $1,600 for bis work in the Greenville, Mississippi, revival last week.- "Sam- ;: is bringing a pile of outside capital into Georgia. ? There are 3,500 watches made;ev?7 day jn the United States, and yet the; are never a drug in the market. .Awa" * has become as necessary as a pair o suspenders. ? Gen. Harrison, President elect, : b: been overrun with letters recently fron men who want recognition. It is sai< that Harrison refuees to read bis mail on. \ Sunday and walks to church. ? "It is terrible 1" exclaimed an oldj lady, upon reading of a premature burial; "and 1 know that when I die I'll bi worrying all the time I'm in the grave fo fear I've been buried alive." ? The present Legislature of Geo is remarkable because of the youthfuln of its presiding officers. The Presiden of the Senate, Mr. Fleming du Bignon, and the speaker of the House, Mr. A. S. Clay, were born in the year.1853. " ? Potato socials are all the rage in. some parts of Kansas. The plan of conducting them is not altogether clear to . v the uninitiated, but at these gatherings many a Kansas young man donbtless'$?ir made bis first masb. ? While a wedding party was waitin for a squire to. perform the ceremony a Alpbarette, Ga., the groom excused him? self and fled. The bride proposed to the" groomsman'on tbej.'epot and .tbey wei married within an hour; ? Samuel Wood, of Cooleyville,; Indi{ has a dog that beats anything on record. A hawk caught one of his hens and flew \ away with it. It got eight feet in the^^ air, when the dog- gave a jump an id the hen got away all right, but the hawl; is Oh~5| exhibition. ? "Don't fret John," said Mrs. Wig- j gins. "You've lost nearly everything^?] you had in the world, I know, but .'???"I remember you've still got me." "Yes,", said John, with another beartful groan," "that's just what I tvas thinking." ? Practical Christianity is no sanctua? ry Bensation, no Sabbath-day service. Itr>y is the conscientious discbarge of all duty,-;,% with a desire therein to honor Jehovah. It makes the whole world a temple and . the whole life a priesthood, "eating and drinking, and doing all thing to the glory of god.". ?-Barnum's elephant Juno, got on a :_| spreo the other day and tore things to pieces. She had a bad cold ana her keeper administered two gallons of whis? ky. Mr. Barnum was very indignjnt and said he had rather lose Juno than" encourage intemperance among his ani? mals. ? The largest building in the United^, States will be the City Hall of Philade?r? phia, now in process of construction;'.; About $12,000,000- have been expended upon it since 1872. It is estimated to cover 2800 square feet more than tbe^ Capital at Washington. The tower bn^ ?the North side will be surmounted by a statue ofPenn, and its extreme height when completed will be 525 feet. ?- A New York paper has asked its?; readers to state what they would do if ' tbey were worth a million dollars each. Some of the answers are amusingy-but most of the writers jay that they would do . wonders for r'*9 poor. One man, however, writes, that the people who propose '?llvvf these charitable schemes would change their minds if they got hold of a million^ dollars. His idea is that the suddeh - ; acquistion of a large fortune changes a n man's nature for the worse. ?-r?.^iS9 ? Tobacco has its triumphs as well as^Jj i ta troubles. The Chicago Herald has the% following: "Mr. Merrill is the pastor offjaj a Congregational church, Brooklyn, near l-jii Cleveland, and his degrading devotion to the weed has been the source of deep re-Vs? gret and mortification and the subject of % many anxious prayers with a considerable^ portion of his flock. In spite of femo stances he went on puffing his pipe.-and quoting Lamb and other authorities on tne pleasure of tobacco to the great scan-?& dal of these pious people. Finally the ?-. matter became so serious that be deter? mined to accept a call to a church ia .^ Connecticut, a tobacco-growing State;-^ where opposition to the weed is restrained -V' by interest and local pride. But this did?$ not suit his friends in the church, who ? insisted on submitting the difficulty to uaW ecclesiastical council. This* body of>-~ Christians basjust met, and after a pray" fuldeliberation, has rendered a dec''"or which permits Mr. Merrill to enjoy hii; pipe, and doubtless will go forward vindicating smoking persons generally.*";/: Tbc True Method Of curing habitual- constipation, and liver and kidney ills, is to avoid the rise? of the bitter drastic liver medicines and cathartics, and to take only the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs. It cleanses as well is strengthens the sys? tem, and does hj: leave the bowels cos? tive, so that regular habits may be;3blT ed, and the invalid permanently .re to health. It acts promptlyand ? tively;. it is easily taken, and perfe harmless. For sale by Simpson, ? & Co. ? ? " :'.. s i*