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m CLINKSCALE ll^??H^'?ob?MN, < _..? ' ?-18Bi^AU communications intended, for ^cms^olumirBhould be addressed to D. H. ?<?BT7SSEEjL, School Commissioner, Ander l^toti, 8. c. : ?-?? ___ An education is one of the most price? less jewels on earth, and jewels are costly and precious. These cannot be obtained only at a sacrifice, and an edu? cation can no more be obtained without .coat than jewels can. That which costs ; ujs^^Bacrlfice is- worth nothing much, p:im^?9-appreckted at a' low-value. Shame ^on" the man' who, through his unwilling . nesa, claims to be unable to pay for the " education of his children. We call attention to two timely and ?^thoughtful articles this week?one from P'the^pen-ofjqur former Commissioner, Col. ^CfHokscales, which we have no doubt . . wHIbe read'by every teacher with pleas'-, ^ure,/aa tidingSifrom ran old -friend, and the pother from the k pen of one of our Youngest teachers, Miss Laura" 'Nance. Thta should be read carefully, and pon? dered over by. the patrons of the schools, for it is straight to the point. T Tha School Commissioner regrets ex .^ceedingly that he has not been able to j 'v-jobk in on any of the schools since the New Year began. The reason is that he has been kept here as a witness on a ref? erence case before the Master. We . would much rather be around among the /"school-marms" than dancing attendance bn> Court, but don't any of you tell the "good wife" about that "school-marm" ^business, ; We hope to be out again soon. | Ip^Don't fossilize. The. teacher who "gr^aated or "quitaated" thirty or forty '?'???^g^j^ga and hs^ never learned, any? thing since,is a fossil" He belongs'to a previous .age, and has no place in this live^ practical, progressive age, except to be labeled and laid away on a shelf in ^^me*museumJoij^ilqintiei as^.a curi ^ij-, tnt Jv^TnrTiPrl He'who feels and acfa as though all progress ended' with ?. his leap into"the arena, is certainly in the .- first stage of ; fossilization. Don't ever conclude that you have reached the ultima thule of all progress. Don't for a moment imagine that there are no loftier j heights ffor you to climb. The teacher, himself, must be a constant learner? must be a close student of methods. He % must ;.- be " a close: observer of jaen and things. ,;;He must note carefully' all im? provements in the profession,'and he must have a nice discrimination to decide between that which is simply novel and . that which contains the elements of real progress. A'thing is not necessarily good because it is new, nor is the old ||way\ the best simply because it is tho "tt>adyt did it." Don't become-a 0?fy&Q?i* fathers [travelled, inlstage , coaches, yet who would think of exchang? ing the palace car for the bombing coach? Don't imitate. Blaze out a .vpath:,"for yourself, and walk boldly therein. ' - ? .- ? ^-Dbab -Teachers: Having just re? turned from ray day's work in the school room, I feel that it is with pleasure I avail myself of the opportunity of com? muning with my VfeUow-teachers. Although my experience.in teachi n gds ; verylimited,"I have fully made up/iny/J mind that the teacher's lot is one of the r^teasantest, and at the same time one of | the most laborious. I had always imagin? ed that to the pupil belonged all the work, ^and' that the teacher .got along . pretty well, only listening to what he or she had .^been. over and over again ; hut f find ^myself misteken.1 ,^; v't If merely "hearing , lessons" were the teacher'j whole duty, it would_indeed be Slightjley?h if the "teacher's duty lay ^with.:the;pupi{a alone, there would be no ohpleasantn6i58^connected with the posi? tion ; but neglected as are our school ' houses, ' and' indifferent as our people f^Bwmito^every thing pertaining to educa? tion, sometimes I feel that if we were working only for pecuniary benefit, there! would be no teachers. It' is shocking to ride over our County and see the Bchool >: houses; compare them, with the stately ?dwellings ,bf the patrons, an.d .they sink ^ihib;htterinsignificance. I do not won-. ^;(?er that"ihey feel ho'pity*for the teachers, j but "It does seem , that they, would be unwirling^ ?) a.llow their r children to shiver in those open houses. ^^^-TTO/^Bjiippo8i??'n7:' would5 nathrally be that they' are sent- there to- learn t but even ^?hen/they have a teacher to instruct! ifp&em,l it is withf difficulty that they put % the mind' -to ^rk.- . Evary^ one - knows i ??^that-/when the^Sgly is suffering^ in any! ? Ray, the mind is sure to sympathize, and [ ^ifcia/almbst au impossibility to gain the ^?attention. ? . ... vWhy is it our people send their chil-; dren to school in a house in which they: |2%?uld be unwilling to remain any length I /of time? There are thousands of men '.and women suffering daily, even hourly:: how do we know but that it was caused* % DJ sitting in open school houses with / cold hands and feet ? fv\ But thousands, more, perhaps, have lost mariy valuable opportunities, because "the mind was occupied with 'thoughts of their physical condition.* I trust the.day '? : is. hastening when the people, alive to . the welfare of the rising generation, will ; see to it that the children have every 'opportunity that they can afford them. ? Laura' H Nance. ?~ Ruhamoh Se&fot, Jan. 6,"1889. 4--;/;''.'>ME. -:iEDiToa; Do our teachers take Pjaod.read,educational journals? Ifthjey ^^o^ilanx-sure, from my own/experi . ence, that they are missing much. 73 have just laid aside a copy of the r;/jf?tftwt?ern Journal of Education, which is- suggestive, and instructive.. .The one i^bprt article from the pen of Miss Clarke, f;?ofcfieOTgia, on the use of "feeling bad" W&t feeling badly, is well worth the coat of i^the paper. A prpfeasorokEngliah liter Taroreini Welle^Jey Cqjlegey like William o Bryant who, while editor of the g Post!,-gave to bis subordinates a list of foreign words and^mericaniams ^SEwere not *o appear in the columns ia paper, recently made for hh pupils collection of words and expressions to, be^ayoided. In the use of some of the S & LANGSTON. who take that paper readmit closely. There is good authority for both express? ions. The editor of that same journal givoa some good; points on; the use of the hyphen. After objecting to the ground held by some that common sense should take the place of punctuation, he pro? ceeds to show wherein the hyphen is almost absolutely necessary. The mean? ing of words is often made plain by the use of the hyphen. Says the editor: "When two names come in contact, and the second one implies the act of con? taining the 'first, a hyphen should be med to connect them, thus: coffee-pot, a pot holding; coffee; cider-mill, a mill j holding cider; sugar-bouse, a house con? taining sugar." I "When, however, the first name indicates the material of which the sec? ond is' made, no hyphen should be used thus: gold pen, silver- dollar, glass pitcher. Evidently the use of the hyphen- would be - ridiculous here,and | also in such- expressions as com mon sense, good nature, when used simply as norm and adjective." "When two adjectives stand before;a noun, one of them used as a noun and the other-qualifying it, they should be joined by a hyphen; an, ten-cent novel; a rosy-cheeked girl;" While some of us may not agree fully with the writer in all that he says touch* ing the use of the hyphen, yet we must admit that there is force in what be says. The above examples might be very profit? ably quoted occasionally in the presence of a class in "Composition. The best of educators differ in their opinions as to the propriety or advisa? bility of bringing to the attention of the child at any time any incorrect forms of ] expression. In the paper before me I notice that Mr. F. M. Malone, of Sauls bury, Tenn., gives a number of incorrect j expressions which, he says, may be cor? rected by children that are too young to learn technical grammar. I am free to confess that I could never work myself up to the belief that any great damage would result to the child from bringing to his attention incorrect expressions, and agree with Mr. Malone that exercises of this kind can be made very profitable.. For the benefit of those. interested I give a few of the expressions given by Mr. Malone: I seen it on the table yesterday. I have seen that before. ..... M? and.John will go. I don't want no more of that. I taken father's horse to water. Them peaches are ripe. Bo with many -other similar express? ions^ of-daily occnrrence.-^ With very little , pains on the part of the teacher, the child may bo taught to avoid them, and ose in their stead correct expressions, though he may not be able to tell the relation of the different words in the sen* tences. * To Execute With Electricity. At midnight Monday the new State, law adopting electricity as the means of j executing murderers went into effect, and fifteen minutes later a candidate for electrical death stabbed a man to the heart in front of an East side saloon, Perha'ps the murderer in this case, if convicted, will be the first to suffer death v.- * under the operations of the new law. The trial will be watched with no usual interest.'. Tnhe~man' fa found ghjl ty, and. sentenced tb death, we will see how the ne^l?r^isjgoing to work, andl-how: the newspapers'will try to buck - against' the statutes prohibiting the publication of J the report of the execution. I The condemned man will be taken to a prison, and there the experiment of | killing him with electricity will be made. His body will be destroyed -without cere? mony, and . the religious rites of the church to which he belongs will not be administered. The condemned man will part with his friends.rhen the sentence is pronounced, and al ' that will be after? wards heard of his execution will be a line in the papers some morning announc? ing:', that, the law has been carried out in tho case of. the murderer of -Michael. Crowe.-and the detering effect* of the mysterious and veiled execution will be cloiely watched, and the new murders ^compared wkh the list of murders in the "past year.^New_York has put to death more men in the past year than any other Statein the Union, but' the executions appear to have no effect in lessening the ^number of^murders committed^'The time for some change that will deter men from doiDg murder is ripe, but whether the private, nhreported mysterious style of execution now in vogue in this State will improve the condition of things im| an unsettled question. One thing is cer? tain, and that is the law will be violated openly. The newspapers will publish full accounts of the execution of the man who stabbed Michael Crowe to death the first hour of the new year. They will get the newaand publish it and no law that it con? stitutional can prevent them. Perhaps this will ultimately lead to a repeal of cer? tain provisions or amendments sooner or later. It has even been suggested that the curiosity as to the success of the new modo of execution will serve to give the first man who is tried for murder a quick transit to the electrical experimentora. It is hinted that the jurors and the judge and the public will want to hurry some man off to be experimented on right away and that the lawyers are already considering th is phase of the case as con? stituting an argument for the defense. There is certainly general curiosity as to how the thing is going to work,although, perhaps, it would be saying too much to assert that this curiosity may be a bad thing for tL a man who opened the new year by taking the life of bis fellow-man in a drunken brawl.?AT?-' York special to Baltimore American. ? It IB reported that one hundred o the leading bnsiness men of Denver will attend the inauguration at Washington dressed as cowboys. Eczema, Itchy \Scaly, 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, effective, and costs bata trifle. 15 A DEATH-DEALING STORM Sweeps Through PItUburg and Reading, Pa. PrrrsBUsa, Pa., Jan. 9.?At 12:30 p. m. to day, during a heavy storm of wind and rain, the new ;s(our story building on Diamond street near Wood, and in the rear of Reed Brothers' and J. R. Weldin & Oo.'s, on Wood street, fell with a crash that was heard for. many squares. The force of . the falling building was so great that the rear walls of the two other buildings mentioned were crushed as if they had been made of paper, and their front walls fell upon the pavement on Wood street, burying several people in the debris, and mangling some horribly. Of these, two were a girl and a . boy, one a man, unknown, all of whom were taken in tbe patrol wagon to the Home Hospital. r The falling walls crushed in tho build? ings on Diamond street occupied by George Trexler, barber; W. C. Thomas, dealer in shoe findings, and badly dam? aged portions of the buildings occupied by Joseph Eychbaum, printer, on Fifth avenne, and J. R. Watson & Co./book? sellers, and Rea Brothers, stock brokers, on Wood street. The catastrophe created intense ex? citement, and in a few minutes the streets surroundiog the fallen building were black with people. Hundreds of willing hands, heedless of danger to themselves, went to work to extricate the victims of I the terrible accident. Up to 4 p. m., twenty-nine persons had been taken from the ruins of the Diamond street building. Of these four were dead and several so badly injured that recovery is almost im? possible. A large number are till bnried nnder the debris. Martin Hiller, who has just been taken out of the barbershop, said there are four more in there, and then he became unconscious. The storm lasted about thirty minutes and was the heaviest- known in this sec? tion for years. The wind blew a huri cane, while rain and hailfell in torrents. A number of other buildings were dam? aged by the high wind. - Portions of the foundry of Mclntosb, HemphiU & Co,, on Thirteenth street, was blown down., bnt as far as known no one was killed or injured. Up to ten o'clock to-night forty-three persons had been taken from the rains, and there is no donbt that others are still buried. All were promptly carried home or to hospitals, so the exact state? ment cannot now be made, but the' facts seem to be that eight were killed out-, right or died shortly after removal and thirty five others are injured, a number of them fatally without doubt. Reading, Pa., January 9.?-A cyclone passed over this city.this evening, doing considerable damage and causing heavy loss of life. A silk mill in which 250 girls were employed blew down just be fore the hour for quitting work. Every? thing is confusion; About the Bame time there was an explosion and fire in the same neighborhood, by which eight men were burned-to death. 'The storm was a cyclone, and its track was only about 200 feet wide. The explo? sion referred to in the above dispatch oc? cur red in the car shops of the Reading Railroad Company. In the paint shop_| were nine passenger cars ready to go out, their gas tanks being all charged.. The building, of brick, was demolished, the cars overturned and some of the gas chambers exploded, and the gas took fire. Other gas chambers also exploded as tho cars burned, and all that-the storm left was burned. Thirty men were caught in the rains. Four of these were burned to death. The, remainder crawled out, some of them badly hurt. The silk mill when struck by the storm cloud crumbled as though- built of a child's toy building block. Up to the,| present writing the extent of human in injury there is not known, but is appall? ing to contemplate. A great many other building were demolished in whole or in part,. and other casualities are reported to human life, but the disaster at the silk mill dwarfs everything else at present. I Sunbuby^Pa;, Jam 9.?At 6:30 -this evening a rain and wind storm came up suddenly and blew over two of the stacks | of the sunbury nail mill. The mill is. situated between the Reading, and Penn? sylvania Railroads, on the outskirts of the city. The first is a puddling mill; having six furnaces. Stack No. 2 was: thrown over on the roof, dropping with it stack" No; 8? Tbey^-crashed-throogh the slate roof, completely demolishing;| the puddling department of - the mill. Thirty-five men were employed in this department, and half of them were buried in the debris. A fire alarm was sounded,; and soon hundreds surrounded the mill. Men were carried out half naked, and men are at work yet, as it is supposed several others are in tbe rains. Two men were taken out dead. Nine are seriously. injured and four are missing, supposed to be dead in the rains of the mill. Reading, Pa., Jan. 10.?There is mourning and sorrow in many house? holds in Reading to-day. The pall of I death bangs over the city. Fathers and mothers, brothers and Bisters, relatives and friends are grief stricken over the work of last night. Over one hundred voices are hushed forever in death as the result of the wreck and ruin wrought in this city by the storm. The cyclone left the entire city in darkness which was only relieved by the electric lights and huge bonfires which shed their lurid glare on the scene of. death. All night long brave and veiling hands assisted in the work of re; -,ae of the need. The disaster is fully as bad as reported in these dispatches last night. The list of fatal cases will reach one hundred and may be more. The-hospitals and under? takers' establishments are filled with victims. The physicians are all buay and many private bouses have been opened for the accommodation of the in? jured. When the first gray streaks of early morning appeared it promised a beauti? ful and happy day for all but the grief stricken residents of Reading. The smiling sun appeared and everything was directly in contrast with tbe fury of last night. Then everything was dark,. dis? mal, and foreboding, and the day ended in the sacrifice of one hundred lives. ANDERSON, S. C? r To day the heavens are as though mocking the work of last night. The ruined silk mill presents a scene of desolation. The Polish Church disaster several months ago was one of the most horrible accidents that bad startled the community but the loss of life by that fatal cave-in of the floor when the dedication ceremonies were being con? ducted on the quiet Sunday evening sinks into comparative insignificance when placed on a parallel with the awful visitation of last evening. The work of rescue was greatly retarded from the singular manner in which the silk mill collapsed. It did not blow over, as might have been expected from the terrible force of tbe wind, but was bodily crushed down, falling in upon itself in I one mass, not a vestige of the walls re? maining standing above the stone "foundations, The rafters and timbers of | the flooring projected in all directions. As the building was steam heated the ruins did not take. Otherwise not one of the unfortunates could possibly have escaped death in its most appalling form. The only eye witness to the disaster so far as is known was Mrs. Gemmil, resid? ing at 1150 Mulberry Street. ."At about twenty minutes of six o'clock," said she to a reporter, "I beard an awful crash and, thinking it was a new house which is being put up along? side of us, I ran to the front door. A great cloud of dust hung over the silk mill and I could hear the crashing tim? bers and roar of falling walls. The next moment* I saw tbe whole mill a great heap of ruins, from tbe midst of which came such awful moaning and groaning and terrible cries as I never want to hear again, Not a soul did I see come out of j the mill and it seemed many minutes to me before anybody came to the spot. I stood there in the door like one ?truck dumb until my husband came running from his work." The big tower and smoke stack at the silk mill and ten feet of the western wall remain standing, all that is left of the huge structure. Charles Schwank, aged eighteen, was in the high tower when the accident occurred. He said to a repor? ter: "I had gone np for pulleys and was looking out of the window when all of a sadden I heard a loud noise and was almost paralyzed to Bee the building fall in. I don't know how I got down from the tower." ? Five men were killed and two injured at the Philadelphia & Beading paint shop, which was struck by the cyclone, and the men enveloped in flames by the explosion of the gas chambers in nine passenger cars. .The loss to the Phila? delphia & Beading Bailroad by the burning of its paint shop and passenger cars is probable $65,000, and to the silk mill and its machinery about $110,000. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan., 10?Up to 1 o'clock this evening the list of deaths by yesterday's accident reached 14. Two more bodies were found and four deaths occurred among tbe injured. Five per? sons are missing who are almost certainly in the ruins. .Beading, Pa., Evening.?The list of | casualties by last evening's cyclone foots up so far as determined: At the rail? road paint shop, five men killed and three badly injured; at the silk mill, twenty-eight dead bodies taken from the wreck and 112 people injured, a consid? erable number of them very seriously and several fatally. The work of exam? ining the wreck is still going, on. A number of operatives are believed tobe in the debris and it is not thongt possi? ble that any can be there alive. Some New Automatic Toys. Tbe latest arrival is an Egyptian Harp iste, or a Moorish queen, according to taste. She is a little body, only two feet tall and automatic, but she knows more than some people twice her height and alive. She is elegantly dressed in Ori? ental finery. When she is wonnd up she plays a harp with great skill and accom? panies the exercises with appropriate expression and gesture. A handsome, dark-skinned troubadour came over with the harpiste. He is just as accomplished as his companion. When he is started and begins to strum his guitar bis eyes roll is ecstacy. Just before he runs down, he is overcome with emotion. His band goes up to his eyes and his tongue rolls out of his quivering mouth. A figure no less noteworthy and . no less talented is a little blonde Parisian lady, dressed with all the latest art. She is wound np by turning a key in her bustle. Then she turns her head grace? fully, rolls her eyes coquettishly, puts up her eyeglasses, fans herself with the air of a belle and flirtB with everybody about her. A little French waitress with a magic teapot completes these wonders. When inspired by e few turns of a brass key ehe pours tea into the enchanted pot. Then the lid of the pot raises and birds, frogs, mice and other charming creatures jump out. A blue doll, as big as a real girl, is another of the new contributions of the French toy ? makers. She throws kisses and dances before aiooking glass for half | an hour at a time.?Philadelphia Times. ? Some Wilkesbarre. Pa., young men who have been dubbed "The Pious Ten" have organized an Anti Profanity club. As $1.50 in fines were collected within ten minutes after the adoption of the by? laws, it is expected the club will live high for a time at least, , ? Ayer's Hair Vigor improves the beauty of the hair and promotes its growth. It prevents the acclamation of dandruff, cleanies the scalp, and restores a natural color to gray hair. Have you received Ayer's Almanac for the new year ? - - ? They have a church for deaf mutes in Philadelphia. The people who occupy the back pews are never heard complaining that they can't hear what the minister says. However, front Beats are desired, as all want to see the Bermon. ? When the eyej become weak or the lids. inflamed and sore, a disordered sys. tern or a scrofulous condition of the blood is indicated, for which Ayer's Sar saparilla is the best remedy. It invigor? ates and vitalizes the blood and expels all humors, rHUKSDAT MOKNI :CHBISTMAS TIMES, Bill.Arp Making Fan for the Children. Atlanta Constitution. I never got a thing?not a thing. Old Santa pranced all . around my household and left me out at last. But I did receive my share of fun and happiness. They let me look at and handle all their pres? ents and kissed my face until it was right clean. A whole barrel of apples came from Borne, and I don't know who sent them, but they let me eat some because I paid the freight. These children and grand children have got an idea that I am Santa Claus and don't want anything. I Bent -some pocket-knives to the little boys at Borne, and one little chap, who can -hardly walk, is mad because he didn't get a knife, and says be will never speak to grandpa again. His grandma sent him a beautiful picture book, but the little rascal has got away ahead of j pictures and wants a gun and a bowie knife, I reckon. When I was ten years old I got a barlow for a Christmast gift and I was proud and happy, but a three year-old is too much of a man for a bar? low now. I don't know what to do with the generation. One of our grand daugh? ters told me she didn't have but seven dollars. She wants ten, I reckon, and will soon be putting out their washing by the week. We bad a Sunday school Christmas tree last Friday night, and it was a pret? ty sight. The children were all dressed in their best apparel, and were seated in rows according to age. The beeutiful tree reached nearly to the ceiling, and was illuminated and loaded down with story books and dolls, and toys and oranges, and pretty things and the little chaps behaved beautifully. As the gifts were taken from the tree, it was splendid fun to watch the eager expectant faces as they waited for the name to be read out. There was a lovely doll on the top of the tree, a doll* with angel wings, and almost as large as a sure, enough baby. Every little girl wondered who it was for, and every one had hope until the good preacher said: "Children you may look at that doll, but you must not wish for it. That doll is for that sweet little girl who has been Bick so long, and is still siok. Yon know that her good father died the other day, and she is an orphan now, and I am sure that you will all be glad for her to have that doll." And they were glad. I could tell it by their faces, for they all loved ber and pitied her. After awhile there was a little wooly sheep cut from the tree. It was mounted on a stick and would bleat, when it was shaken. When the name was called I had to advance for ward and take it, and the children laughed and cheered so I felt right sheepish and want? ed to bleat too. I offered it to a little girl but she said she didn't need it. Just then I saw a preacher coming in, and so I had his name put on the card and called out again, and so the sheep kept traveling and bleating, and made lota of ] fun. A red jumping-jack was given to the leader of our choir. He is a tall, 3 t&tely gentleman, with red hair and long red whiskers, and is everybody's friend, and when he was called up his genial face turned as red as his beard, and the whole concern liked to have took fire as the children laughed and clapped their bands. I like red h.iir and red haired people. I think the rich auburn hair of the Scotch is the prettiest hair in the world. ?' I wish I had some on the top of | my head, but I would be willing to com? promise on gray or green, or any .other color. Well, we hfd lots of fun, and it was all innocent. If anybody had their tender feelings lacerated we don't know it?though there are some feelings that stick out on purpose to be lacerated. It was the largest Sunday School we ever had, but I'm afraid it will not last. Now the next thing we want for our little church is an organ. We want a hundred dollar organ for half the money, and some organ man had better embrace the oppor? tunity to lay up some treasures in heaven and get in the papers on earth. We could get one from Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Harrison, for they are both good Presby? terians, but we don't want to bother them about a little thing like that. The Meth? odists and Baptists can run a State Gov? ernment right well, but when it comes to running a big thing like the nation, we are just obliged to have a Presbyterian. I see by the papers that Mr. Cleveland is going to prance around with Mrs. Harri? son and General Harrison is going to dance with Mrs. Cleveland at the inaugu? ral ball, but that is just a little Presby? terian dance that our folks call twistifica tion. . It is considered orthodox even by Sam Jones, and does not imply falling from grace. In fact, it is the only dance that Grover can perform with alaccricity and it suits the occasion, as he is going to twist out and Benjamin is going to twist in about that time. I am awfully sorry for General Harrison. If the hungry Re? publicans from all the other States are besieging him like ours from Georgia, I don't blame him for having his life insur? ed. His good old grandfather was tor? mented in his days and actually died from the augers and gimlets that office seekers bored into him, and I'm afraid the grandson will surrender and his last Bigh be, "Oh, where shall rest be found; "Rest for the weary soul." Why don't he take the advice that Je thro gave to Moses and shove off all.this little buaineas upon his secretary or some other man. But the new year brought us a box from the boys who are far away, and I got a lovely blanket for my couch, some? thing to cover me in my evening naps. I can now wrap the drapery of my couch about me and lie down to pleasant dreams. They Bent their mother a beautiful shawl and she can wrap its drapery around her alabaster shoulders. They sent the boys some lovely cravats and they can wrap their B?ken drapery around their necks and strut around like young peacocks among the girls. And they sent their Bisters a lot of beautiful handkerchiefs and they,.too,; can wrap their drapery around their noses and inhale the sweet odors that came with them. So wo were surprised with unexpected happiness and in return have sent the boys our photo? graphs, which they have long wanted. But it was awful hard work to get Mre Arp to set in that large camera. We NG, JANUARY 17, have been trying for years but she wouldn't go. We bave some pictures that were taken when she was young and rivaled Pocahontas in her beauty and balanced the scales at a hundred pounds, and!we bave her portrait that was painted over thirty years ago?and so she didn't want bor matrimony face and form to go down to posterity in pic* tures. She is not satielled now and de? clares the artist is no acconnt, but we all tell her the photos, are splendid. You see there is no trouble about photographs, especially cabinet size. If tbe nose is quite prominent and slightly elevated, it appears more so in the picture, for it strikes out a little nearer to the comera than the rest of the face, and is a trifle magnified. A small nose takes well in a picture, for it becomes enlarged and drawn out, but a large one becomes larger, I am not alluding to any nose, in particu? lar, but just mention this as a scientific fact, that I have diagnosed. Large noses are a good thing to have, for tbey indicate force of character and will-power, but a man had better be cautious about mating with a woman whose nose is lar? ger than his own. Sometimes I wish that my nose was a trifle larger, just a trifle. This is the centennial year of the re? public. It is the one that ought to be celebrated. One hnndred years ago on the first day of this month George Wash? ington was elected president and John Adams the vice-president. On the first Wednesday in February the votes of the States were opened and counted in New York city. Then it took a messenger three weeks to ride on horseback to Mt Vernon to tell thergenerali,tbat*he was elected, and it took another I mess enger two weeks to ride to;Boston and tell Mr. Adams of hiB election. Then it took Washington several days to have a tailor make him some clothes that would suit the great occasion, and so he never reach? ed New York until the 20th of April, and was inaugurated on the 30th. So it is a hietorial fact that these United States never had a president until April 30,1789 and the government is not yet a hundred years old. I thought of all this last Tuesday night, the centennial of Wash? ington's election, and I got inspired and went down town to get some of the pa? triots to help me to do something and shoot some guns and fire off some rockets, bnt nobody seemed enthused but the patriot Willingham, and he said he couldn't holler any to hurt, and so I came back home and got on the piazza and threw np my hat and gave a wild Indian whoop all alone?"Hurrah for Washing? ton! hurrah for Adams 1" I exclaimed' ?and about that time Mrs. Arp came meandering to the front and said, "Wash who? Adam who?" and, "What have they been doing?"and when I explained) Bhe asked me if I was crazy, and she looked at me with alarm. I saw that patriotism and sentiment were not appre? ciated, and so I subsided to my normal meekness. I'm afraid that I am the only patriot in all this nation that celebrated the centennial election day, and this proves that republics are ungrateful. Not long ago I heard a man speak disre? spectfully of Washington's little hatchet. He said it was a myth. But even the sun paid homage and respect to the nota? ble day and held his face behind the moon ; though I heard an Atlanta man Bay that Atlanta got up that eclipse just to show the world what Atlanta could do. I wish that our people would pay more respect to the memories of the past and less to the sensations of the present. A friend asked me yesterday if Mr. Hayes was living or dead. I told him that, he was not dead, but was "sick transit," Bill Aep. A Live Van in a Trunk* Thomas W. Vines for several years was employed as time-keeper for the Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Com? pany of Chicago. Once every week be distributed among the other employees the weekly stipend to which they were entitled.. Last week he pocketed tbe money in the envelopes, amounting to $4,500. The embezzlement was soon dis? covered, and the police were given a good description of Thomas. The fugitive discovered that the exits of the city were so well watched that any attempt to escape would be fraught with considerable danger. He called to bis assistance a confederate. A big Saratoga trunk was purchased by the confederate and Thomas and most of his boodle were deposited in the trunk; | Thomas is six feet high, weighs one hundred and eighty pounds, and the trunk was pretty full when Thomas wss packed in. Holes had been bored under the handles, and through these Thomas inhaled air. The trunk was carried to the depot and checked to this city J.ast night. The confederate took the check and was to have claimed the Saratoga as soon as it arrived. The first baggage-smasher that seized it stood Thomas on his head, and then, with the assistance of another smasher, pitched him twenty feet into a car. His head swam and swelled, but he was game. Arriving in the car and bringing up with a violent concussion, another pair of trunk thumpers picked him up and tossed him 'half way across the car. In a minute a big sample trunk came thundering down on him and shook all the pluck out of him. Then he was stood on his head and bombarded with trunks and other pieces of baggage until he was threatened with appoploxy and suffocation. He says: "They banged and slammed around in a frightfnl manner, and made existence miserable forme. I was tossed about in all manner of ways. Sometimes I was standing on my head aud sometimes on my feet, While tbe trunk was stand? ing still I was all right. My hands were scratched. My head was bumped and badly bruised. I bad taken a bottle of | water with me, and had it in the back pocket of my trousers. A toss of the trunk broke the bottle and the water poured down my neck. The first hun? dred miles or so in the car I got along nicely, and the air was all right. Then it became thick, and after going another fifty or seventy-five miles I began to kick and yell. I could stand it no longer and determined to get out of the trunk at all hazards. The noise attracted the L889. attention of the men in thejcar, and they polled out the trunk, which had another trunk onjtop of it, and broke it open.",ffi "When discovered, Vines told the aston jshed baggage manipulators that his name was Burke, and that be took the trunk in order to beat his way. He won the men over, and when the train reach? ed the depot so much sympathy was developed for the poor. young man that a subscription was taken up, and he was presented with five dollars and told to get something to eat. At a restaurant he told the waiter, he was Tascott, the murderer of Snell, whereupon he was promptly arrested. Vines and the trunk were taken to police headquarters, where a search of both;brought to light $3,800? He was identified as Vines by one of the detectives and then he confessed?St. Louis special io Philadelphia Press. Where Divorce Is Unknown. The Charleston correspondent of the New York Herald recently sent to that paper a review of the position of South Carolina upon tbe divorce question. He gave the views of several eminent men as follows: Judge Wallace, of the Circuit bench, who is now holding Court in Charleston, said to me: "South Carolina has no divorce law, because the belief is general in this State that the indissolubility of the marriage bonds promotes public and private mo? rality. Our laws allow separation, either by agreement of the parties or by the judgment of Court, upon a proper show? ing made, but neither party can marry while the other survives. It has been so always, except during the existence of the Government of reconstruction in this State. The belief is general in South Carolina that tbe lasting nature of the. marriage relation promotes domestic j happiness, because the tendency .is to produce the habit of content in marriage on account of its indissolubility. I think that the position of South Carolina on the subject of divorce is a wise one." state and church *n habmony. In compliance with my request in behalf of the Hera Id for his views as to "the effect of tbe indissolubility of the marriage bond in this State upon the marital relation and on domestic happi? ness," the Rt Rev. Henry P. Northrop, Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston, writes as follows: "I have, of course, but to say, in union with all tbe Bishops and priests of the Catholic Church, and in accordance with her teaching, that tbe law of our State being in conformity with tbe law of God on this matter, the effect is necessarily beneficent?sanctifying and strengthen? ing the marital relation and tending to secure domestic happiness. This is an a priori conclusion, and I think there are few men in South Carolina who would not acknowledge that it is a conclusion justified by the facts of the last thirty years. I am sure it was not in a spirit of mere willfulness or unreasonable love for 'the old ways' that induced our legisla? tors in 1878, while accepting I may say all the rest of the legislation of the years since the war ended, to make a striking exception io every matter that you are interested in. They re-established the old laws with regard to matrimony and forbade divorce absolutely a vinculo in spite of determined efforts made to admit at least one exception. "I believe the intelligent citizens of tbe State, who, like myself, are proud of the peculiar position we hold in this matter, will admit that the experience of tbe past decade will justify the wisdom of our Legislature. I do jot think that the effect of the contrary legislation in our sister States upon the 'marital, rela? tion and domestic happiness' will ever induce us to change our law in this matter, especially when we consider the blessings that have followed its exercise. Individuals mast sometimes suffer for tbe public good, and cases of apparent hard? ship may occur in the State, but in the one as in the other I believe that the general good is subserved, the proper relation between husband- and wife is defined and protected, and that domestic happiness is increased and secured by the law foibidding divorce." popular sentiment extolled. TheRev. C.S. Vedder, D. D., pastor of the Huguenot Church in this city, says in regard to the position of South Caroli? na on the divorce question: "Regard for the external sanctity of the marriage relation is undoubtedly promoted in South Carolina by tbe unal? terable character of that relation. Iam quite sure, however, that the exceptional happiness of the conjugal relation in our State, while, perhaps indirectly affected by is not appreciably due to tbe absence of divorce laws. It finds its Beat and strength in chivalrirc espect and reverence for wo? men which Carolinians have never lost in the lossof much else. I believe that this would continue to secure happiness in the domesiic relation, irrespective of divorce laws; and by divorce laws I mean, of course, only those laws which sever mari? tal ties upon tbe one Scripture ground." The viewB of these three eminent men are expressive of the sentiment of nearly all classes of the people. If the question of divorce were left to a popular vote the' decision would be overwhelmingly in the negative. ? The. yearly income of the great Kimbcrly diamond mines in South Africa is $20,000,000, and besides this it is estimated that fully $10,000,000 worth of diamonds are Btolen every year by the natives who work in the mines. State oe Ohio, City of Toledo, 1 Lucas County, S. S. j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing busines in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the aum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to me before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of Decem? ber, A. D. '86. f~*?- A. W. GLEASON, i seal [ Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. SttT Sold by Druggists, 75 cents. VOLUM] The Boy WhoJWould Not bo Whipped. IJmayJas well tell the boys now~tbat my mother was a widow, and a woman of great firmness and decision of character and of deep piety. When she said any? thing she meant it, and yet she was just as gentle and tender as a lamb. One time in the fo}^?T the year, when I was about fifteen yetri old, I was in the yard trying to move a heavy stick of timber. I asked my brother, then twelve years of age, to assist, but he stood stock still and laughed at me, while I almost strained my eye-balls out of my head. At last I lost my temper, grew hot, got mad, and picked up a switch and gave my brother a whipping. That was one thing my mother did not allow?she did not allow one child to whip another on her place. When sh 3 heard the row, she came out of the house and gave my brother a good thrashing, and made him help me put the timber in place, and then said to me i. "Now, my son, I am going to whip you for whipping your brother." I had not had a whipping for a long time, and had begun to feel like a man. In fact, I waited on the girls now and then, and some white, downy looking stuff bad begun to grow on my chin, and I felt large over the prospect of beard at no distant day. The fact is, I had gotten "too big for my breeches, and needed to be taken down a buttonhole or two." I had no idea of taking a whipping?none in the world. I bad violated one of my mother's rules, but the provocation had been a great one to a boy. True, if I had gone five steps to the door, and told mother she would have adjusted matters and made brother do what I wanted him to do. Instead of this I had assumed authority, had taken the law into my own bands, and had done what I knew my mother did not allow. I said, "Mother you shall not whip me." "But I will do it, my son," she replied, and started toward me with a purpose in her eye. I got out of her way, and bad boy that I was, I turned my back upon home and mother, and went about four miles and hired myself to a clever, thrifty, well-to-doTarmer for five dollars a month. I told him what bad occurred, and how I had been outraged at borne, and that too, by my mother. He told me that I had done wrong and that I ought to go back home, and he proposed to go with me, and intercede for me. I had too much of my mother in me to yield just then. I went to work but was not happy. I lost my appetite and conld not sleep. I grew worse and worse, but hoped all along that my mother would send for me, and apologize and take me back "scot free," but 1 heard nothing from her. I began to feel that I needed mother and home more than mother and home needed me?a lesson most boys do not learn until it is too late. At the end of the week, on Saturday morning, I told my employer I wanted to go home. He approved my purpose, and kindly offered to go with me, but I preferred to go alone. He paid me for my week's work, but I bated the money, iffelt like lead in my pocket, and grew heavier as I got nearer home, till finally I pulled it out and threw it as far as I could send it into the woods. I did not go home in a hur? ry. It was four miles and I was four hours on the way?and mortal hours they were. I hesitated, and turned back and resolved and re-solved. The better thing in me said, "Go home, and yield to your mother, and obey her," but some other thing said, "I would die first." Those who have never been in the shoes of the "Prodigal Son" do not know what an effort that trip home cost the poor boy, nor how long he was making it. When I felt that I could go no further, I would kneel down and pray. . That always helped me. I felt firmer afterwards. The last hundred yards before I got home seemed to be a mile long. If it had been night and no lights burning, so mother could not see me, how glad I would have been; but there it was.a beautiful sun-bright day in the calm, cool November. Ob, how black the bright light makes a guilty heart look! The last hour before day is said to be the darkest hour. When I got near enough to hear, mother was singing, "Jesus lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly." Ab, that song! What mingled feel? ings it stirred in my heart, and how appropriate it was. Hope and shame had a struggle, but, thank God, hope prevailed just as I reached the kitchen door where mother was setting the table for dinner. "Good morning, my son," she said, just as pleasantly as I bad ever heard her speak in all my life. "Come in," she ?ontinued, "have a seat," setting a chair for me. "I hope you are well, my son ?" That word "son," how it hurt me. I was not worthy of it. "Very well, I thank you"?I did not venture to say "mother." "Are you all well?" I asked. ? "Well, thank you, my son," and she went on chatting away just as pleasantly as if I had been a neighbor called in. I wanted to tell her my sin and shame, but did not know where or how to commence. Dinner was soon ready, and mother asked me to dine with her, with all the politeness and deference due a visitor. When seated at the table, mother said, "Will you please say grace for us ?" That waa awful. The words choked me, though I had been accustomed to asking a blessing for a year or two. I could not eat; I was too full already. Mother hoped I was well. I told her I was. When dinner was over, I said, "Mother, what work do you want me to do?" "None at all, my son; I do not expect viftitorc to work for me," she answered. "But, mother, I have come home, and I want to go to work and quit this fool? ishness," I said. She replied firmly, "Well, my son, to be candid with you, if you will now take a whipping, you can stay; but if not, you can have your clothes and leave." I jumped up and pulled off my coat and vest, and sat down with my face toward the back of the chair, and my back toward mother, and said: "Well, mother, I will take the whip? ping and stay at home with you. So get ' your switch and give it to me." * E XXIV.?NO. 2&\f Just then mother burst into,.tears; caught me in her arms, and said: ?;. "That will do, my son. Let us prayi# She led. 0, that prayer,ttbat prayer l^Ifr lingers yet like the refrain of some old; song, grand with the melody of heaven^ I then had a hrme and a mother, and; was just about as happy as boys ever get; to be in this life. Now, boy's,'.I'm. ashamed of my sin till this day; but lam bo proud of my mother I thought I would; tell you this Btory.?Exchange: AH Sorts of Paragraphs. ? You can never judge amanrs sor~ rows by the size of his hat band. /. ? A man cannot do good or.'evil others without doing good or evil to hlni?i self. ? Bombay has the grandest railway station in the world. It cost nearly $20;-/ 000,000. ?.The grand total of the expenses of New York city for 1889 will amount to $33,034,306.. ? He who reigns within himself and/ rules his passions, desires and fears- is; more than a king. ^ ?Many of the fruit growers of Fresno^ Cal., are obliged to put in rabbit* proof fences to protect their crop. ? The Buxton, Me., horse which trampled its owner to?deathClaUly has since refused all kinds of food, ? '??i^ff?i ? The richesFuniversity in the world is said to. be that of Leyden, Holland. It has real;estate to the value of $6,000y 000. - -f-\ ? The North Carolina Presbyterians, are going to establish an orphan' home and Charlotte is putting in a .strong^fdj for it. ? The cheapest Christmas present sold by one jeweler in New York; cost eight cents; the most expensive cost; $00,000. ? A temperance society -fc^ea?ojswajd organized in the old Mariner's Chuxchjj Charleston, in 1842. Since that time aw?? 10,000 have signed the total abstinence* pledge.' ?One of tbe promised sensations Of thel Paris Exhibition will be given by a* man}? who will make daily balloon ascensions' mounted on a horse. ? The ratio of saloons to population^ in New York is about one to 214. It-ia; proposed to reduce the number to one for five hundred people. ? Tbe millers of St. Louis have shut'' down their mills, or running on shortf time. They desire to keep up tbe prico: of flour by this plan. ? The famous little Pittsbnrg m\n% near Leadville, Col., which once paif dividend on a capital of $20,000,000, has: recently been sold for $20,000. -iaH ? A device has been invented by which an^engineer, while in his cab; .can? turn bis switch, which can be closed;' again from the rear of the train. ? A citizen of New Ulm, Mian., owns? a horse whose eyes, he claims, change: from a very light color to 'dark-'blne; twenty four hours before a chang'e in.tbel weather. ? The United States has commenced suit against the Northern Pacific Road. which involves millions of dollars. "This/ is one of thefruits of a Democratic admin-/ is trat ion. ? The church in Shaker Village/CanV.. terbury, N. H., althongh built in 1792, hasj never been reshingled. The shingles are/j of heart pine, and were fastened on with | wooden pegs. ? Mrs. O. C. Converse, 78. years old,'! now living in Waterbury, taught Benja^ min Harrison his letters and also had. James A. Garfield for a pupil when 'he; wsb 14'years old. ? Mrs. Lucinda Buggies, died ati Dolgeville, Wis., a few days ago, and she ] was buried in a coffin made from* ai walnut tree which her husband "had| felled forty years ago and stored awayi to make lumber for his own and his wife's / coffins. ? A woman of Georgia who wai/j in earnest-on the. marriage question pro-j posed to a young farmer whom she knew well to bet on election. She wanted to/ bet herself against himself that Harrison would be elected. The farmer said'he didn't want a wife, but, as she impor? tuned him, he finally said"Well, PIT take tbe bet, because Cleveland is sure to be elected, and I won't take you tfll*f got ready."- "All right," said she, Vandi if Harrison is elected, you've got tomarry^! me on inauguration day or give me your/ farm." The young fellow agreed to this3 but since the election of Harrison has; shown a decided inclination not to live; up to the agreement. He has turned hisl farm over to a creditor and gone toi Texas. The woman says that she will follow him and make him pay the bet.. -:-?-?' 1'he Exposition Pays Its Banning Ex? penses. """"' i Augusta, January 4.?The^annual meeting of tbe Augusta National Exposi? tion Company was called to night, but there was no quorum present. The sec? retary was called upoh to make a.report to tbe minority as information.. The, report showed tbe total expenditure to have been $184,56.937. The excess o? the expenditure over receipts was $5,?5?^ 92, which indebtedness can be met by the chattels of the company. Bills payable $51,584,10. of which $10,000 was borrowed from the directors to complete the work of the Exposition. The gate xecei^fe amounted to $46,211.60. President Tobin read hia report, fori formation and recommended that $6,000 bonds be issued to meet the outstanding debt, and that the company retain t!io ground and buildings for the purpose for which it was erected. From the report it will seem that the exposition was?grand success, and its outstanding debt was pro? duced by money borrowed to complete the buildings and fix up the grounds, The president and the old board of directors will hold their office over. -_ Nature's Own True Laxative? The delicious flavor and healthy prop? erties of sound ripe fruit are well-known and seeing the need of an agreeable imc effective laxative, the California-.33$ Syrup Company commenced a few year: ago to manufacture a concentrated Syroj of Figs, which has given such genera satisfaction that it is rapidly supercedihj the bitjer, drastic liver medicines ah< cathartics hitherto in use. If costive/^ bilious, try it. For sale by Simpson Eeid & Cp>- ?t?