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BYCLTNKSCALE .: T^??H^'GO^?MN, ;AU communications intended for >'r#;ithisr Oolurnn ahonld be addressed to D. H. BTJSSELL, 8chool Commissioner, Ander ' - ?? ' All honor to the brave, noble, patient 1-; *women teachers o?onr land who plod on ^ v^rbm day today with difficulties to the right, left and in front of them?who are drying in the face of difficulties to dis ; , ^charge their whole duty, who go home at ill^rfgjrt^^^ and weary;-and ^?-who ri3e -up>in the-, morning "faint-yet ?cv still pursuing." When we meet them we feel like standing in their presence - uncovered and doing them honor. We say this .in no invidious spirit, but because about three-fourths of the teach? ers of the County are women. We have some male:teachers who are doing noble service, ba tike pay hapgrtsoBmall that they.have been forced to seek:more lucra? tive employment. Leithe !?ys and girls of the land be ^ ?anade'to&el that the future has scme% fining ia store for them if they will put ; iforth effort; to securo it. Let them" be itas^ht to have an aim, an object, a pur j^rase in view. Let their mental activities lie stirred up and stimulated and directed g?: into- proper channels. Let them be: ||?v taught that "effort is tbe price Of suc :.':^';:-^^'|\ia\'alllin'e8,-and that it moat be"; individual effort, that they must rely; upon.^ that they must j V ?. g^ very giv-j Ing of the knocks hardens and strength- ] . ens for further effort. Let them be taught that they are not mere ciphers, but ? that ihey are integral parts of a vast, busy/moving, progressive world. ':? > and in during the session of tbe school ?1 All teachers have a morning and after? noon recess, and is not th is sufficient for all ordinary, purposes^. * Tl^Schooi Com mission er h as been somewhat annoyed .' in some, of his visits by pVjpils passing over the floor to the. water bucket In one;. instance he noticed the ?' pupils ? ' crowdteg around ihe water hucket when .the/teUrapgnt the close of the morning tiecBss* This should not be. Have it . /understood that the few minutes given iara for the purpose of gotting water, &c, ;: ? rand that: when; the bell rings each one xmust go in.an orderly manner to his seat ""Order 'is 'Heaven's first' law;" and it'is ? also 'one of the first laws of the school v room. ? . *" :.i;//-^:;Teachera should have ad .end in view and aim-at it, and constant, intelligent / effort should be directed to attain that end.' Do not teach in an aimless, indif? ferent way as though the important thing were to get through the day and diiimise "and go home.'- Study yourself / ?^ and^study your pupil,- and make them feel that you have, an interest in them . higher than the mere money considera %.&tion ihat pays . for yonr. time and labor. - Do not let your pupils and patrons get /. the idea that you are working simply for thVnioney there is in it. Of course the "bread and batter" question enters into all the business of life, but it should not be. the end and aim solely. There is . . something higher and nobler and better jryf?wfatit?w of teaching/ and it is the taker's highest duty to reach out "Have any of the teachers been into the -neighborhood where they are wanting a man to teach for just what public money he can get?* If you'Have not, we would' advise you to avoid it. ? If you go.there your school will be a failure, for it costs - the people nothing and they will break y our school down by irregular attend ahceN Not having to pay for it out of their own pockets, they do not realize 5; ? th'o importance of regular attendance, and they will keep the children at home ^ . tpr keep house while they go on a visit,; or for any other frivolous reason. No school should be taught for just the pub? lic money there is in it, until euch time ;! / as ? the. public fund becomes ample enough to run tbe schools tbe whole time. The teacher who does it "will make a failure, likely, and the blame ? - will be laid at his door. Is it a fact that the colored people are showing more interest in educating their children than the whites? We have c}''heard it asserted frequently, and there ^ are some facts that have come under our ''% own personal observation that look that S||kway. ;It is a fact that it is scarcely any ^/trbubla to get a negro, to buy books for > his children. It is fact that many of /?/ them will put themselves to more incon? venience, will send their children farther ? / to school, and will be more regular in attendance than many of the whites. These things ought not to be so, and why are they so? It will be a sad day for ' the poor white people of the County when tbe children of their colored neigh U bora are better posted upon ' tbe History and Geography of the country than their own. These things are not pleasant to think about, but tbe negro is here, and he is here to stay, and more than that, : he is going to get an education, too, and education will tell in the race of life. So then, let us be up and doing, let us be in earnest in this matter, let ua see to it that our children acquire, at least, a common school education. Let not every trivial matter of business or pleas? ure keep the children from school a day or so in every week. We know this is going to involve some sacrifice, but nothing good or valuable in this world is obtained without some sacrifice. We may accumulate property for our chil? dren, and this is all well enough in its place, but a single turn of the wheel may sweep it all away, bat an education stays Id all . kinds of fortune, sweetens prosperity and blunts tbe edge of adver? sity, and passes with tbe cbild beyond tbe confines of time. A failure to give the child an education is a moral crime. v/Me. Editob: I would like to reply to - Hiss Olivia Newton's question relative . to alternate recitations in certain-st udies. -I would insist upon daily recitations in hith Mathematics and Language Les? ions. I frequently alternate in Geogra? phy, History and other branches,' but /never on these two, as I consider them the foundation of a child's education. S & LANGSTON. I All are willing to concede the value of Mathematics, patrons as well as teachers. But aide by side- .with Mathematics, of equal value, I place Langnage Lessons. The great'cry at present Is for practical studies, and these two are intensely prac? tical. To young persons preparing for active business life, a knowledge of Mathematics la a necessity; but not. the - only one.- Equally important is it that they be able to express ideas in correctly worded sentence^' and write a neat 'busi? ness letter, properly punctuated, with all. words spelled correctly. Almost, daily we see such 'advertisements as this: "Wanted?A lad-to assist in store. Must be good at figures."- Now if, in answer to such, the-merchant receives; a letter badly ^?ttenV" ^sentence^ ^Wfcardljr arranged, devoid of capitals and pu actua? tion, will he not at once reject such an applicant," be he ever so "good at fig? ures Lenoka 0. Hubbaed. Borne School, Jan. 1889. -'TACfs-FOR'TflE FARMERS, J Capt. Peterkfn'a Solution of the Ooxomer clal Fertflleer Question. ibrifa -JMilor of Ife News arid Courier: One of the chief causes of the impover? ished condition of the'farmers is the use of too much commercial fertilisers and the injudicious application of the same. For twenty years we have bought any and every thing that has been offered for sale;' All that has been necessary was to put something in -a sack or barrel and1 brand some.unusual or peculiar name on it. I do not accuse the manufacturers of fraud, bnt do accuse my brother farmers of being the biggest set" of foofs t! "'is in all the land, and the writer the ig of fools, or the biggest of all. For several years I bought ammonia ted fertilizers at high ? prices, and applied in connection with cotton seed meal or cot? ton seed in the natural state.. After spending thousands of ,dollars in.this foolish way, I dropped the ammoniated goods to a great degree, and bought acid phosphate and acidulated rock, and mixed it half acid or acidulated rock and half cotton seed meal. Three or four years ago I concluded I had enough siit phuric acid and phosphate in my land, and began to put.in less phosphate and commercial fertilizers, and brought it down to one hundred poonds with what? ever amount of meal I used per acre. I am now satisfied that where* lands have been continuously planted in cotton, that it is unnecessary to apply commercial fertilizers of any kind; the lands need rest from them for at least one year. If yon buy at all, only buy to mix with meal, where you plant on lands that were grown in something ^besides cotton, and. put not over one hundred pounds to the acre. There are various reasons for this. By using little or no commercial fertili? zer the plant will start off in the spring a little slow, will have less fruit in July and stand the July and August drought Take the lower and middle cotton belts of the cotton States and we want to make a late or August crop. We need but lit? tle if any. commercial fertilizer. I The upper or clay belts need a little to get a July and August crop, will say one pound of commercial to three of meal or its equivalent of seed. The clay lands do not require any kainit or potash. This is not all theory. I know what I am talking about I know it from actual practice. If the farmers .of the cotton country who boy commercial fer? tilizers will adopt this, plan, say use at least one-third of the amount they have been in the habit of using, it will add many millions to their purses, and enable them to pay for fertilizers they have foolishly thrown away. Don't blame the men who manufacture or sell the fertili? zers. We have encouraged them; and the demand is now so great that we can't be supplied, except at a price beyond onr reach. The high price will continue. It is impossible to check it in any way, except by giving, the land rest for say one year. If yon make the experiment one year you wiil continue it, aud prices will for many years be in due bounds. Our manufacturers do not claim that the home demand has-increased so much, but foreign demand.. Just let. the for? eigners have it all this year, we will save many millions. We will have as much or more cotton, aud pay up back indebt? edness. Let the agricultural clubs, the Alli? ances, and Granges consider this matter. If there are no societies in your neigh? borhood, call the neighbors together and calmly consider the matter. If yon can? not do this let every farmer decide for himself, and say I will for one year let my land rest from fertilizers. It will not look bo bright for us in May and June, but October and November will show you where the millions have be.u fool? ishly spent for the last twenty years. I have been told of late that farmers could not bny it; that his only chance was to get it though his or some one else's merchant. This may be true to some extent. Of course money enough will bny it, bnt we don't need it. That ia the subject for us to consider, and let them that have it keep it. Spin out your cotton sued from fifteen to twenty buBhels to the acre. Mix the stable manure fine and spread it with the hand. Make it go over a large area instead of carelessly throwing it down in piles from a pitchfork. Too many fertilizers are dangerous. They have never done the great amount of good we have imagined. Good and proper cultivation pays better than large quantities of fertilizers. There is stich a thing as too much am? monia, and we often put too much than not enough. The phosphate and kainit, or potash salt, are there to stay. Onr land needs rest from commercial fertil? izers as much as they do rotation. I am almost tempted to Bay if you take my advice in this matter and it proves wrong, appoint a day next fall and bang me. James A. Peterkin. Fort Motte, January 10. Eozema, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures. The simple application of "Swayne's Ointment," without any Internal medi? cine, will oure any case of Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores, Pimples, Eczema, alt Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long standing. It is potent, effective, and costs but a trifle. 15 THE LAWS OF THE STATE. Becent Work of the South Carolina Legis? lature. The following Act was gassed at the recent session of the General Assembly and will be found of general interest throughout the State: An act to provide a more efficient system of working the Public Beads in Lau rens, Anderson, Edgefield, Lexington, ? Marlboro, Bichland, Abbeville and -Newberry Counties. ' ?T Section 1. That the County Commis? sioners of Lanrens, Anderson, Edgefield, Lexington,- Marlboro, Eichland,.Abbe? ville and Newberry Counties be, and they .are hereby, authorized and required to divide the public roads of said Coun? ties.into highway districts, of such size as they may. deem advantageous, and appoint an overseer for each district, and assign such hands to each district a* they may see proper, having regard to the importance of the road and the residence of the bands so 'assigned. "sec. 2. Every person bo appointed overseer, unless exempt from road duty, shall be required to serve as hereinafter provided, and any person refusing or neglecting to serve when appointed shall forfeit to the County the sum of twenty five dollars. The term of such overseer shall be two years from the date of appointment, but no overseer shall be required to serve two terms in succession, and shall be exempt from road duty for two years" immediately succeeding such I term. Sec. S. The County Commissioners of said County shall furnish each overseer with a'list of all persons liable to road duty who are assigned to work upon the highway district over which such over? seer is appointed, and it shall be his duty to warn out such hands as. the times and places designated by: the County Com? missioners, and. at .such times as the exigencies of the weather, may necessi? tate. \: ? ! Sec. 4; The County Commissioners shall require all persons liable to road duty in said County to work upon the public roads not less than six, nor more ] than twelve days in each' year, and it shall require eight hours of actual work to constitute a day's work under this sec lion, except in the County of Marlboro, where the minimum time shall be four days and the maximum'timo twelve days. Sec. 5. It shall be the .duty of each overseer to keep a list of the hands under his control, and note the hours of actual work which each hand does, and to return to the County Commissioners after each working ordered by them a list of each hand under his control who works, and the number of hands he has actually worked. He shall also keep a j list of such hands as refuse or fail, to work, and make his return to the County Commissioners with his certificate attached thereto as to the correctness of such return. Sec. 6. The County Commissioners shall direct the times of Working said roads, and the place in each district at which the. work shall begin, and the overseer in each district shall proceed to ! work 'the roads under his charge thor? oughly as he goes, arching the same to the centre, with drains on each side to convey the water, taking care to protect such drains from washing. He may make the rpads twenty feet wide, and shall protect them by suitable drains or posts from interference by cultivation. Sec. 7.' The County Commissioners shall provide such overseers with such number of picks and scrapers as they may see proper, and such overseer shall be responsible for the custody of the same. All hands warned to work the road shall bring such working tools as the overseer may direct. Sec. 8. Any hand in said County may compound for his work by paying to the overseer, and taking a receipt in writing therefor, the sum of $6 per annum, except in Edgefield, Bichland and Abbe? ville Counties, where it shall be $5 per annum, and all sums received shall he returned by such overseer to the County Commissioners,, at their next meeting thereafter with a list of the persons pay? ing the same. Sec. 9. All moneys received as afore? said by the County Commissioners shall be expended by them for the improve? ment of the roads in the districts whence the moneys were received. Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to enforce the provisions ot this Act, and for any neg? lect or refusal tbey shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall each be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50 for each offence by way of refusal or neglect. Sec. 11. The provisions of existing laws relating to working of highways aball remain of force in said Counties, except so far as they aro modified by the provisions of this Act. Make Your will. We have heard a good deal of grum? bling of late about lawyers and public officers getting all of an estate for winding it up. We asked an official in position to know how this could be remedied. He said by every sane man and woman in the land, having any property at all, making a will, and to know what tbey were doing when making Hand getting a lawyer to draw it. He said two-thirds or more of the costs could be obviated by a properly written will. But the aforesaid official added that most people have to die before tbey can realize the importance of making a will. Let every one who reads this and owning property, make a will at once, and at least save some lawyer- the trouble of winding up his or her estate. The mere makiog of a - will does not bring death. What is the use of wait? ing for the Legislative or other power remedying an evil yon can remedy your? self? - _ ? A bottle of the, late Sam. Tilden's whisky sold in New York the other day for $11.25. ? Ayer'a Pills cure constipation, im? prove the appetite, promote digeston, res? tore healthy action, and regulate every function. This medicine is pleasant to take and gentle in its operation. See article in Ayer's Almanac. I ANDERSON, S. C, From the Green\ PIEDMONT, THE E The Story of a Town Which Sprang Up derful Growth From Small Beginning tlon on the Anderson County Side* Fifteen years ago, the work of build? ing a factory on the shoals of the Salnda river, twelve miles from Greenville where the towns of Piedmont now stands, was began. Since then a mighty story of industrial enterprise and progress has been sculptured on the red, rngged and rock-ribbed hills of the place. First a big cotton mill, then the largest in the up-county, was built, then another was joined to it, doubling the original mill, and to-day a third mill eqnal in sizo and capacity to the two old mills combined, is going op. The .Piedmont Manufacturing Compa? ny, of which Colonel H, P. Hammett has been the president and moving spirit since its organization, began the build? ing of its mill in 1873. The work was temporarily suspended by the panic that came on in September of that year, practically paralyzing the commercial and industrial world. The work was taken up again the nest year and was finished in 1875. In March, 1876, the machinery was started and the first cloth was made. The mill was then not fully outfitted, but in 1878 the machinery was all put in. At that time, 11,000 spindles and 240 looms were in use. The compa? ny's capital was $384,000. The wisdom of the investment showed itself from the first, and it was decided to double the capacity of the original mill. Mill "No. 2" was begun in 1881, being an extension of the first building and considerably larger. It was com? pleted in 1882. The two mills then had 24,020 spindles and 568 looms. Of the spindles, 6,000 were operated on yarn which was not woven but doubled and twisted and sold in.that. form. For the building of the new factory, the capital had been increased from $334,000 to $500,000, at which it now stands. The business prospered so rapidly and uniformly.<that.-the company^in January, 1888, resolved on still another extension. This time it was,determined to double the then capacity of the mill, making it fonr times the size of the original factory. The contract for Mill J'No. 3" was let out and work begun in the early spring. It has been pushed rapidly and the new building is now completed to the third floor and will be ready for the roof in the space of a few weeks. The new mill have 21,504 spindles - and 744 looms. When it is completed and equipped the Piedmont Mills will operate 45,524 spin? dles and 1,312 looms, making it one of the very largest cotton mills in the.Sontb, if not the largest. The history of the beginnings of the en? terprise is full of interest. The-first mill was built through the panic which/ beginning in 1873, did not loose its effect till '79..-. Everything was depressed, and it was with the. greatest difficulty that sufficient capital was raised to complete the mill. It was before the close of the reconstruction period in the State when there was a great demoralization and want of confidence by everybody in everything. The enterprise being the | pioneer large mill in the tipper part j of the State, its success was looked upon by its friends as a matter ot the gravest 1 doubt. Very few had confidence in its ultimate completion and success. These facts made the enterprise of great moment to the manufacturing industry in this section. Had it failed it was believed not at all likely that another effort to build a large cotton mill in upper South Carolina would have been made in the next quarter of a century. But the enterprise was not destined to fail. Its president and his backers were not the stamp of men to allow it to go under and its success seemed to be assured from the start. The mill has never run a month without a net profit and an annual dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared regularly since 1878. Moreover, the mill built in 1881 and the great new mill now constructing will have been practically built out of the accumu? lated profits of the mill in addition to the yearly dividends. The present capi? tal of $500,000 will probably be increas? ed, twenty or perhaps forty per cent., but the increase is intended principally for use as commercial capital. Although the stockholders have actually paid in but $500,000, the property of the company when the new mill is completed will be worth, according to the estimate of a distinguished mill constructor, $1,200,000, and could not be replaced for less than that sum. The population of Piedmont in 1876 was 250. To day there are in the village 1,500 people connected with the mill, and when the new mill is in operation that will be doubled and the population will reach the neighborhood of 8,000 people. Of these 1,200 will be directly employed in and about the factories. The present annual pay roll of the Piedmont Com? pany is $120,000, which will be swelled to $220,000 by the starting of the new mill. To minister to the wants of this large population, material, mental and spiritual, there are three general mer? chandise stores, large and well stocked, kept by Nesbit & Trowbridge, Perry Brothere and F. E. McKenzie, Son & Co., and a drug store by Dr. J, H. Donnald ; a public school run eleven months in the year at the expense of the company, Mrs. A. S. Bowell with two assistants being in charge; a commodious church building for the use of the various denominations who are severally financially assisted by the company, and a free circulating library furnished by the company. A THURSDAY MOENI mile Daily Newa. [(MEEK FACTORY. ? on the Bed Hills of Saluda?A Won* ;s?The New Mill Now Nearlog Comple large hotel built on the highest hill in the town and commanding magnificent views is kept by N. H. Deal. With the completion of Mill No. 3, it is expected that three new stores will be built, but the church and school house will contin? ue to give ample facilities for the in? creased population. The new mill site is on the Anderson County side of the river at a point direct? ly opposite the old mill and about 400 feet from it. The structure stands almost at right angles to the old mill and to the river. It is a magnificent piece of mill construction, and will be when completed, according to the verdict of its construc? tors, one of the best factory buildingsjin the country. "I am building," said President Hammett, "the beat mill I ever saw, and I qualify that by saying that I have not seen tbem all." The building was designed by. 0. B. Make? peace & Co., architects and mill engi? neers of Providence, B. I., and ? being built by the firm of Cagle & Davis, com? posed of Capt. 'J. W. Cagle'and W. T. Davis. The mill is accurately represen? ted in the accompanying cut, as it will be when complete. The main building is 252 feet long by 100 feet wide and four stories bigb. The picker room, extending at right angles from the southern end of the main build? ing, is 107 feet long by 76 feet wide and four stories high, and the connection be* tween the two is 24 feet by 27, the place of the lower floor therein being taken by a spacious arch and driveway. From the middle front is a tower twenty-four by twenty-five feet and rising to the height of ninety-four feet, and a rear tower is to contain the sanitary furnishings for the building, being twelve by eighteen feet and fifty feet high. The foundations all around are of native granite quarried from the hills near by, and are eight feet broad and laid in cement. On them rise the walls of brick, thirty-two inches ' thick on the first floor and narrowing four inches with each succeeding story. The double thicknesB floors, four and a quarter inches through, are supported by three rows of columns on each ? floor, or 104 in all, the columns joined so as to form continuous supports from the gran? ite foundation, on which they separately rest to the trusses of the roof. The struct? ure has 150,000 square feet of floor space. It is fitted with 496 large windows and 27 doors. The million and a half of brick and 2,000,000 feet of lumber will be used in its construction. The mill will be finished plainly but in good taste and without any "gingerbread!' architec? ture. The power for the new factory will be furnished by three large turbine wheels aggregating 800 horse power. A broad canal of seventy-five or eighty feet wide and enclosed by massive stone walls will convey the water from'the dam to the wheel pit at the northern end of the big building, the foundation wall of which forms a section of the canal bank. The new mill will depend altogether on water power, and will have the entire available supply at its disposal, the intention being to supplement with steam power for Mills Numbers 1 and :l when the water is too high or too low to run all three. For this purpose, a new 800 horse power engine has been ordered to take the place of the 250 horse power now in use with the old mill. The combined and com-1 pleted mills will require 1,300 horse I power and will be actually supplied with j 1,600. It is also in contemplation to build a new stone dam across the river when the present timber dam shall show need of repairs, and when that ib done a neat iron bridge will be thrown across the stream between tbe two factories, sur? mounting the stone dam. The distance is about 400 feet and the bridge would offer the easy and convenient -communi? cation desirable between the two mills. The planting of this immense new mill on the Anderson County Bide of the river has caused the springing up of a hundred new operative's houses there, spreading the village of Piedmont across the stream and all over the rolling height on that side. One hundred and fifty houses will be built in all, being of uniform size and design, one story high and four rooms. With its streets regularly laid off and its neat tenement houses ranged in unifor? mity along the climbing Blopes above tbe mill, tbe new village presents a pictur? esque view. Almost every one of the houses now completed has already been occupied by families who are waiting for work in the new mill. The fifty other houses will be built rapidly and tbe vil? lage will stretched out along the level platue reached by the new street, ascend? ing from the river bank at tbe new mill. This height is already crowned by a handsome two-story house being built for Assistant Superintendent MoKinney. The house will be large, containing seven rooms and conveniently arranged. Broad piazzas surround two Bides of it from which a pleasing bird's-eye view of the busy village is to be had. At one's feet at the foot of the slope is tbe new mill building, thronged with busy workmen bustling with bee hive activity. Then the river pouring over the dam and beyond it the long four story mill building, with its countless windows and the subdued roar of num? berless swift moving machines. Above that is the cosy office of the company, and tbe stores and the huge warehouses where 10,000 bales of cotton are frequent? ly stored. On the opposite height is the hotel and on the many sloping hillsides NG, JANUARY 24, ! all around are the long rows of operatives' houses neatly whitewashed, rising one above another. The church spire and the top of the school house building are in j the distance. All the work of building the new vil? lage has been done by hands employed by the company and under the direction of J. 0. Haynes, of this city^bo is boss carpenter. By having the work done themselves instead of letting it to out? side contractors the company were able to give paying employment to a large number of their village people who would otherwise have been without it. One vast new convenience will soon be in operation for the Piedmont company, in the shape of a branch railroad from the depot on the Columbia & Greenville main line to the mills, a distance of three quarters of a mile. By taking a sweeping circuit around the hills, a com? paratively easy grade has been obtained leading the track down to the doors of the mill and of the cotton storehouses. The grading is all completed and the track laid for about half the distance. It will be completed and ready to haul the machinery for the new mill which has already been bought. The branch road will be a great saving in time and labor and expenses, and is only another example of the frequent and far reaching steps in progress being made in a quiet way at Piedmont under Colonel Ham mett's administration. Piedmont has been called a model fac? tory town. More than that hardly need be said and it deserves that title. Presi? dent Hammett, who founded the place and baa been instrumental in all its growth, who has had every bouse built and every street graded, who has nurtured every step in its progress and has seen it develop from an insignificant village to a busy, thriving and prosperous town, has Btriven always to preserve a high moral tone in the community under his charge. Those who know the people and the place most intimately say that he has succeeded nobly in that good work. The moral status is high, the churches are prosperons, the circulating library is patronized and the school well attended. The people, too, areacontented communi? ty, orderly and well behaved. This con? dition of affairs has been the result of wholesome rules applied with firmness and strictness but with kindness and consid? eration witbal. To recall the vast influence of mills like those at Piedmont on the country about them it is only necessary to note that the completed Piedmont mills will consume 34,000 bales of cotton a year; that 10,500 bales have been bought the present season at the mills, and that the remainder of the needed supply was bought in this city and at a few other places in this immediate section at better prices than at other points: that the building of the mills has added more than half a million dollars to the taxable values of the county, and that when all the mills are running $220,000 will be paid out annually for labor and' services. The personnel of the administration is as follows: Col. H. P. Hammett, presi? dent; J. F. Her, superintendent; Z. T. McKinney, assistant superintendent; B. D. Sloan, paymaster and assistant book? keeper ; E. P. Hammett, shipping clerk; W. H. Hammett, cotton buyer; W. P. Thomason, outside manager. A magnificent work has been done at Piedmont. That work is largely a mon? ument to the energy and ability of one man, and that man is Col. H. P. Ham? mett. Another Trust the Result. Finlay, Ohio, Jan. 13.?The window glass men of this city, who start for Washington to-night to attend the Na? tional Convention of the Window Glass Manufacturers' Association, which meets on Tuesday in that city, have received a communication from a Pittsburg manu? facturer, whose name they will not dis? close, asking them to vote for a resolution he intends submitting to the convention, ordering the shut down of a number of factories in order to relieve the glntted condition of the market and force prices up a little. In bis letter the Pittsburg manufacturer insists that prices are lower now than ever before, and that this state of affairs is all due to the large number of factories started in the West during the past two years. He therefore proposes that new factories, all but two of which are now in the Association, not having any fuel to pay, on account of getting natural gas free, shall shut down, thus relieving the market of this output, and that the run? ning factories shall give those closing an equal share in the profits which will accrue from the advance in prices which this step will bring about. Interviews with the glass men here who will attend the Washington convention reveal the fact that with one exception they are favorable to the proposition, and will so vote when the matter comes before the meeting, thus assisting in the formation of nothing more nor less than a Window Glass Trust, with all that the name im? plies. ? "What becomes of men who deceive their fellow men ?" asked a Sunday-school teacber of her class. "They lose the confidence of good people," was the prompt ' answer. "Very well, indeed. Now what becomes of women who do the same th ing ?" The question stumped the class for a moment, and then a little girl piped out, "They usually catches the man for a husband." State of 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 busincs in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FBANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to me before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of Decem? ber, A. D. '86. . A. W. GLEASON, j seal j 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, 0. &aT Sold by Druggists, 75 cents, 18.89. SCHOOL TIME, The Children ^Eotnrn to their TStudles Again. Atlanta Constitution. School has begun again, and my time has come to worry with the children and help tbem with their lessons. Tbey have a hard time, tbey think, bnt there is right smart hilarity mixed up with it, and so we get along. It is splendid fun to watch the youthful mind develop and expand, and suddenly awake to things that are so easy and simple to us. I was hearing them spell and define last night, and had to hand the book back twice before they had their lesson perfect and understood the definitions, for some of the definitions need as much denning as the words. "Jessie, spell eclipse and define it." She spelled it right, and said it was "an oval figure." "What is that?" said I. "I don't believe I know," said she-and so I told her it was a figure shaped like an egg, but was just alike at both ends, and an egg was larger at one end than the other. "Oh, I know," said Bhe?"an eclipse i'b a rooster egg; that is a long egg and shaped alike at both ends. Old Aunt Susan told me they were rooster eggs, and al? ways hatched ont roosters?an eclipse is a rooster egg." Carl gallops along and gets things awfully mixed. I asked him to spell jaundiee?"johndice?a yellow Bkin?a mulatto." "Caricature, Jessie." She spelled it right, and said it was a funny picture of a cat. "Carl, spell croup." "Croup?a disease of the throat or the rump." I tried him on demagogue, and he said it was a ringmaster in a circus. "A ringleader of the rabble," said I. " Well, I thought that a rabble was a circus, said be. Troche is a medicated lozenge, and they thought it was some curious animal, like a balloon or a.lizaid. We all remember how the bard words staggered us, and how consequential we felt when we mastered them. Big boys are too fond of making fun of the little boys. Sophomores make sport of the freshmen at college, and juniors make sport of the sophomores. The seniora are not bo bad about that, for they are just beginning to find out that tbey don't know much themselves, but as a general thing Bophomores and juniors are the most stuck up fools on earth. The more knowledge a man acquires the more bumble he is. The other day I overheard some little chaps giving to each other the very same riddles that charmed me when I was a boy?"House full and yard full bnt can't catch a bowl full." "Bound as a riddle and deep as a cup and all King George's horses can't pull it up." "Big at the bottom and little at the top, the thing in the middle goes flipity flop." I believe that people never get so old as to have a contempt for riddles. A riddle is a challenge to the mind?a dare?and no one likes to give it up without an effort to solve it. There is but one riddle in the Bible that I remember, and that was Sampson's, though, Josephus says that the queen of Sheba and Hiram, king of Tyre, plied him with many riddles and he solved them all. Not long ago we bad a pleasant gather ing of children and friends at our house, and the sumptuous repast seemed to brighten up the wits of the older ones, and we soon found that two of the preachers were the ringleaders of the party. For a time they were pitted agaicsl each other in throwing corrusca tions, and tbey made the fire fly to our edification and amusement. I recall some of their riddles and will pen them for the young folks to ponder: The Scriptures tell us of one who never spoke but once'snd then had only one to hear him. Who was he? What has the Creator never seen and can't see, but man Bees everyday ? Who died before he was born ? Who became a wife before she was ten years old ? Who was the first boy and the first girl named in the Bible ? Who is the first king named in that book? Where is money first mentioned ? Then they branched off on all sorts of perplexities. One said: A man started to town with twenty-six sheep?one died on the way?how many got there ? The other said: Two men made a wa? ger as to which could kill the most birds. One killed ninety-nine the other killed an hundred and one. How many did they both kill? Why is a rat like a bale of hay ? One said : I knew a woman who had a very extraordinary cow. Her milk got richer and richer, as she grew older, and at last the whole cow turned to but? ter. That reminds roe, said the other, of my grandmother's cow. She never bad a calf and was milked right straight along for seventeen years. But she came from that same kind of stock?her mother never had a calf. What makes the engineers on the East and West road wear red suspen? ders. Tben I thought I would put in my mouth, and I asked the preacher how did a ground squirrel dig his hole in the ground without leaving any dirt around the top. They gave it up and said "he begins at the bottom." "But how does he get there," said both of them at once. "Oh, that's your riddle," Baid I, "and I give it up, for I don't know," and that got the laugh on them. Now I will give the answers in their order, but the children must not look at them until they guess a while: Balam's ass. His equal. Adam. Eve. Chapter 1 and Genesis. King James on the dedication. When the dove brought the 'green back' to Noah. The man started with twenty 'sick' sheep?of course only nineteen got there. The man who won the wager killed one hundred and'won'?making one hundred and ninety nine, all told. Because the cattle eat it. The cow turned to but ber. To keep up their pants. One asked who was the shortest man named in the Scriptures and the other answered Miah?he was only knee high ?Nehimiah?but the other said yo . are mistaken. It was Bildad?he was only shoe height. YOLUM] Then the children called on me for a story and promised to be right still nntil I got through. So I began: One time there was a man who was condemned to death by the king, and his head was to be cut off next day. He asked the king to let bim tell a story before he died and the king Baid *'yes." So he began his story and said: Once upon a time there was a great cloud of grasshoppers that no man could number, and they darkened the air so that the sun could not shine and they eat up every green thing in all the land, and finally came to a great barn that bad a million bushels of corn in it, and the barn had no doors nor windows, but there was one little, small hole in a plank that was jast large enough for a single grasshopper to get in, and so one grasshopper went in and brought out one grain of corn, and then another grasshopper went'in"and!,'got anotber grain of corn, and another grasshopper went in and got "another'grain of corn, and anotber grasshopper went in and got another grain of corn, and anotber grass? hopper went in and got anotber grain of corn, and-" "Oh, please stop it," said the children. "Can't you skip some ?" Ob, no, Baid I, I must get all that corn out of there ; and anotber grasshopper went in and got anotber grain of corn, and another grasshopper went in and got another grain of corn, and? "Stop it; stop it; stop it; you are through; that will do; we don't want.to hear.any more of that," said the children. "That is just what the king said to the man, but he held the king to his promise, and the Icing had to pardon him to get rid of the grasshoppers, for it would have taken a hundred years to have emptied the barn." And that is the way the Arabian Nights came to)be written. The king was in love with a beautiful princess, and wanted to marry ber, but she loved another young man and refused to marry the king's son. This made the king very angry, and he ordered her to be put to death. She was a very smart woman, and the best story teller in all the king? dom of Persia, and so she asked the king to let her tell bim one story before she died, and the king said yes?she might tell him one that night, and she must die the next day. So she dressed herself in her most beautiful apparel and went into the king's parlor and reclined upon a sofa, and began the story of Alladin and his wonderful lamp. She told about half of it, and stopped at a very interest? ing part, and said she was sick and could tell no more. So tho king gave her another night to finish it. He became more interested in her charming manners and beautiful language, and after she bad finished Alladin, be asked her to come again the next night, and tell anotber. And so Bhe continued night after night and made up new stories everyday and told-abouf Ali baba and the Forty Thieves and Sinbad, the sailor, and the hunchback and ever so many more. Now there was a law in Persia that said if any one was condemned to death and[was not executed for a thousand days, he or she should have a pardon and go free. But the king bad been so inter* eeted be did not keep count and bo when he sent for 'he princess again she refused to go and Bent him word the time was out?the thousand days had passed. The king was very angry at first, but the laws of the Medes and Persians never change and so the princess went free and married the" man she loved. There are two kinds of stories for children. The improbable or supernatu? ral are one kind?such as tho Arabian Knights and Old Dec can Days and Hans Anderson and Baran Muncbaurm and Jules Verne. The other kind are stories that are probable or possible and are rather true or might be true?they are generally founded on fact, there is no barm in either kind if there is a good moral behind the story?if virtue is re? warded and vice is punished. I have been reading the Young Marooners to again to the children and I enjoyed it myself more than I did years ago when it was first published. It has recently come ont in a' new dress, and is beauti? fully illustrated, and I think it is the best Btory book that has been written since Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe. I am proud of it as a southern book. I knew Frank Goulding, the author, and loved him for be was a lovable man, and I went to Bchool with bis brother. The south has not much literature, but what she has is'first class and founded on a pure morality. Bill Abp. She Is a Holy Terror 1 New Haven, Conn., January 5.?? Mrs. James Moohan, of Mamden, is an Amazon who to day threshed a deputy sheriff and two assistants in fine style. The deputy bad a writ of attachment to take a wagon which Mrs. Moohan's hus? band owed $30 on. The woman, who weighs upward of two hundred pounds, in the absence of ber husband told them to go to sheol with their writ. Then with a heavy club she struck the officer over the head, laying him low. His assistant, Catlin, also caught it badly. Then a farmer came along with a load of hay. He was commanded by the deputy to assist, and be reluctantly went in and was badly hurt. Then the dis? comfited three went in together and Mrs. Moohau dropped the club and used her fists and teeth. The three finally got the wagon out of the yard, but the writ was spattered with blood. A strong body of police is'being organ? ized to arrest Mrs. Moohan.?New. York Herald. ? The yellow fever plague has been completely wiped outin Florida. Travel has been resumed all over the State, and the land of flowers is securing her usual quota of Northern tourists in search of a better climate. The fever has been a severe blow to the State, but with energy and enterprise she will soon be her usual self, ready and willing to welcome all within her borders. ? Ayer's Sarsaprilla is prescribed and recommended by eminent physician, and is taken with perfect safety by old and young. Its cleansing and vitalizing effect are sure and speedy, and it ii uni? versally conceded to be tb? most effective of all blood purifiers, E XXIV.?NO. 29. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ?Soutbbridge has the largest spectacle factory in the world. ? The man who admires women pays a compliment to his mother. ? The amount of strength^exercised:? in an ordinary hand shake is eleven , pounds. ? Bustles are going out. Five hun? dred dozen went . 1 from a Bingle factory in Bridgeport the e ther day. ? All dies used for coining money jn-J' the Philadelphia mint during the year 1888 were destroyed Wednesday. ? Gov. Hill is the coming man for 1892. He can carry New York as the candidate of the party for President. ? Kentuckians raised enough eon- . flower seeds this summer to supply the wants of the whole United States. ? A hen which is said to have hatched and raised Bixteen'chickens from fifteen eggs is one of the curiosities of Withla crooebe, Fla. ? The number of streets in London Is now upward of twenty eight thousand, and ;a new ones are added at the rate of three m ?hundred a year. ? Up in Finland they have a tele? phone line connecting four towns, of which the outside ones are one hundred ? and thirteen miles apart. ? Old boots and shoes, steamed to a ;' pulp, are now converted into the soft," . stamped, ornamental leather so popular for artistic book binding. ? The life insurance companies ?f thur^ country charge negroes one-tbird higher^ premiums than they dp to other people) according to a New York paper. ? A woman may not possess a man's nerve, but she can look unconscious un? der circumstances that would make a man blush to the roots of his corns. ? Two Ocala, Fla., ladies are.the hap? py possessers of pieces of one of the court ? . ; dresses wem by Queen Isabella, wife dMB Edward II. who reigned over England imflj the Thirteenth century. ? A New York physician recommends the Jewish custom of washing bands be fore meals as a preventive againit-ty? pboid fever. He poys the contagion'1% can be conveyed into the system by the hands. ? A grizzly bear tbat weighed seven? teen hundred pounds was killed at Big :p% Horn Basin, Wyoming Territory, a abort' ^ time ago. One hundred and nine shots ' vi were fired from nine rifles before the brnte^ v ? was killed. ,-./ ?"Of course, no young lady should go^ out at night without a chaperone," eard-^ a Harlem belle to her Chicago visitor. "That's bo," replied the' Wabash avenue damsel, "but every girl hasn't got a chap of her own, you know." ? The hind buttons used.on the c??ta:|?5 worn in America coBt $2,320,000 a year,;;.:: and are of no earthly account. Think of - how many bars of soap that money ' would buy. And soap is something that ? ,; you feel the direct benefit of. - ? Mules, meat and bog meat are pour? ing into Georgia by the train load, all to-., ;;: be paid out of cotton next fall. Talk' ; about prosperity in the South as long as ^ this sort .of thing continues. It is the^i merest bosh.?Alliance Advocate. ? - ? James Bailey, of Iowa,, married his second wife two .days after the death; 6tM the first Mrs. Bailey, was the recipient of a coat of tar and feathers, and succeeded in rubbing off the last of the tar just fifty - three days after the close of the second""^ honeymoon. f ? A young man near St. Augustine,^ though having sound teeth, had tHeTJr^ too near for beauty, so he had bis eye teeth extracted,, took tbem to a jeweler, $ whey they were polished, dyed and mounted in gold as a pair of earrings for his best girl.?Savannah News, ^ti ? The mikado of Japan has almost^ finished nis new palace, wnich has taken M Bix years for its construction: There are 1 400 rooms in the building, and the din-j?| ing hall will seat 127 guests. Thefur-__ niture of the State department eame from Germany. Not the leeat interest ing object in the palace is an American piano. ? The daughter of?fhe King ofShov ; has recently married the eldest son ol/( King John of Abyssinia with a splendor unparallelled in modern ceremonies.'-'' The caown worn by the bride is regarded as the one which decked the head of the Queen of Sbeba. According to the na? tive records it has been in the possession' ?-/ of the Ethiopianlkings for twenty-five .;; centuries. ~^7~z ? "Marriage a failure I I should say ., not 1" remarked an Oregon farmer, whose opinion, was desired on one of the great questions of the day. "Why, there's Lu- ;: cicdy gits up in the morn in', milks six cows, gits breakfas', starts four children to skewl, looks arter the other three, feeds the hens, likewise the hogs, like- r wise some motherless sheep, skims twenty pans o' milk, washes the clothes, gits ? dinner, et cetery, et cetery. Think I could get anybody to do it for what she;. - b ? Not much! Marriage, sir, is a success, Bir; a great success I" ? The number of legal executions during the year has increased over last, i year, when it was much smaller than for - several years previous. The total number, was 87, as compared with 79 in 1887,-36.^; in 1886, and 108 in 1885. The executions in the several States were as follows:'. ; Alabama, 5 ; Arkansas 5; California, fi'j$| Connecticut, 1; Delaware, 1; Georgia, Sjw Illinois, 2 ; Indiana, 1; Iowa, 1; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 3; Maryland^ 1; Massachusetts, 1; Minnesota, 1; Mia- :? sissippi, 4; Missouri, 4; New York, 9;,: New Jersey, 4; North Carolina, 2; Ohio, 3; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 5; South Carolina, 5; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 9; Ari? zona, 1; Idaho, 2; Montana, 2; Washing.. ? ton, ;i; Wyoming, 1; Indian Territory, 2. Of this number all were males, but ? one, 57 were whites, 29 negroes, and l yv; Chinaman.?ClUcago Tribune, Nature's Own True Laxative. 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