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BY CUNKSCALEi ???h^?oi.umn, ' -Q3$t All commaaications intended for ? this Solnmn should be addressed to D. H. '~BrUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. 0. - ^^James M. Sims' colored school in j>- Brushy Greek is considerably above the v, average colored school, and the neigh bora speak well of him and his influence ?-?for; good open his race. Such teachers ': are tC;,be encouraged and commended. We call attention to the fact that the nest meeting of the Teachers' Associa? tion of the County will be held at An deraon. These meeting are very impor? tant, aod we hope to see every teacher v there who is in reach of Anderson. Let l... us do all wo can to dignify and elevate ? the profession, and thus raise the schools to a higher standard. '-?~~ At Saluda school we found a com forta ? ble house, "lotB" of children and a live, earnest teacher in Miss Nellie Stenhouse. .: -We Bpent two hours here eojoyably with ; her classes, and came away feeling good ^about that school. There is an air of gen '?eness and refinement about the teacher Mithat is exercising a moulding influence upon the children that will tell in the 7 future. The Shiloh school is in charge of Miss Carrie Brown. The .teacher, impressed U3-as being in .earnest about her work. Her classes made a creditable showing in their studies, and the teacher though engaged in her first effort, has, we think, a future before her, and deserves the encouragement and support of her ? ^patrons. A stove would add greatly to the comfort of the pupils. . Recently a teacher sent an order to the ?book store here for "Murray's" Geogra? phy, and we have noticed that nearly all the colored teacher3 pronounce it so. Another teacher sent an order' for ^"Bond's" History, and wrote it with a little "b." And still another sent an : b order for "Sanford's 2d Step Common ' School Arithmetic." It is inexcusable that a teacher should not know the dif? ference unless arithmetics have been a scarce article in their schools. The colored school at St. Peters is taught by Henry Hurd. Some com? plaint was lodged against this teacher, but not by whites. It is the plain duty ' of the School Commissioner to visit these schools and see that they give value received for the public- money. The - great complaint is failure to make time, ? and we hereby forewarn this teacher that upon formal complaint lodged at this office his head will come off. We. also . ? -.serve notice upon his patrons that they must fix the house before they can have another school in it. Having spent a, pleasant night with : friend Richardson, we wended our way early the next morning in the teeth of a biting wind to the Central school; in . charge of P. J. Vermillion, assisted by Miss Mettie Hammond, a former pupil of ours; We found here some seventy pupils in a comfortable building, heated by a stove and a chimney. This teacher j-is doing thorough, conscientious work, and we wish to say that we examined here the best history class yet seen so far in the County, and we desire thus pub? licly to compliment the young ladies of j this class. They stood an examination of over a half hour that was very credi? table indeed, and showed a ready knowl? edge of the history of our country from its discovery down to the settlement of j the colonies. May great success crown the efforts of the teacher. The school at Friendship is in good haods. Misa Mattie Brown, though a stranger to us, soon made us feel at ease, and also showed ns that she felt at home in the school room. She has the Bchool -well in hand, and makes constant use of ] the blackboard and chart, and it was a positive pleasure to look into the eager little faces as they went through the chart drill. But it was impossible for the teacher to maintain the order that she would like to have, and ought to have, owing to the. broken panes of glass. The day we were there the icy wind whistled through them at a terrible rate, and we could but pity the children as they sat shivering in the cold. Not a single one of the fathers of these chil? dren would' endure such discomfort in his home for an honr, and yet they will (Send their children day after day to endure it,-when a trifling expense wonld cure it. A DIALOGUE. Young Trustee?"Good morning Mr. 0. T. I have called, Sir, to get some information as to bow onr Board of School Trustees shall conduct the Free Public Schools of our District." Old Trastee.?"Well, what do you want to know. Haven't you the School Laws of South Carolina ?" ? Y.T.?"Yes, sir, for 1884. Are they the latest?" . 0. T.?"Yes. They are the laws our old board acted by." ? "Y.T.-"Ii that so? Please be kind enough then to tell me how you divided out the funds pbced in your hands for the Free Public Schools?" 0. T.?"Well, we pay to all 1st Grade Teachers $25 per month for an average of twenty five pupils up to forty. After that we allow the teacher an assistant if the attendance gets above forty." Y. T.?"Where do you get that way of distribution ?" O. T.?"Oh, well, all of the Trustees do it that way, and I suppose custom makes it law." Y. T.?"But, my dear sir, ought not = we Trustees be governed by the same law as the School Commissioner, where it Bays that 'He shall apportion to each District the funds for the Free Public Schoo's according to the average attend )/ ance the past school term ?"' . ?;.. 0. T.~"No, because that would give to the colored Fcbools more than they ought I* to have," : . Y. T.?"Why sboukl it do that? Are there not as many white children attend? ing theses Public Schools as there are ?.-wforoii'* S & LANGSTON. O. T.?"Oh, no, not more than one half the number of white children on the School Registers as there are colored." ? Y. T.?"Well, air, is there such a great ! difference in the number, of white and colored children in our District?" O. T.-^'Oh, no." Y. T.?"Then why. do not the white children turn out aud get the benefit of the Free Public School Fund?" 0. T.?"Oh, well, there are many reasons. One is that it is a mixed school ?that is, both sexes under the same roof." Y. T.?"The law does not require a mixed school, does it?" 0. T?"No." Y. T.?"Then why do you have them ?" 0. T.?"Well, because they all do it that way."*" Y. T.?"Do give me another reason for the white children's non-attendance on the Free Public Schools." 0. T.?"Well, the teachers charge an additional fee." Y. T.?"Then that changes the Free Public School into a pay school, and I now understand why my school bills look so queer at the end Of the quarter. Look at it: T. 21, t* acconnt taUh-, Teacher of Free Public School. To tuition of bod 172 days at Sc.-...-......813 76 To tuition of son 172 daya at 7}?c.12 90 To tuition of son 150 days at 6c. 9 00 Total....-._..........835 66 Credit by School Fund-.812 35 Balanco duo........?.$28 85 Please remit, Respectfully, Teaches. Now, air, would you call Mr. ? school a Free Public School, and how do you acconnt for this credit be has given me?" 0. T.~"Well, they all do it that way." . Y T.?"But, 8ir, I insist on your an? swering my first question. Is that a Free Public School according to the School Laws?" 0. T.?"Well, they all do it that way." . Y. T.?"Were you not required to take an oath for the faithful discharge of your duties according to law, when you accepted your Trusteeship ?" 0. T.?"Don't know, never took any oath that I remember of. Didn't think it worth while to bother with it." Y. T.?"Well, air, we young Trustees have each one of us taken such an oath, to carry out the laws, and that is why I am so anxiods to know all about the business. Now, sir, while we are togeth? er will you kindly go over some parts of your record, and explain some of its items to me. First, I see here you have given a summary of a whole year's work, and as an example of them all I will take these two items, viz: Paid to-.$150 00-W. Paid to-.$112 50-O. Now, sir, I find on referring to the records farther back that both teachers have the same grade certificate from the County Board of Examiners, and that the one getting the least pay taught almost double the number of pupils as the one receiving the larger amount." O. T.?" Well, we made a contract with him to teach for that sum." Y. T.?"Did you allow him to demand and collect off of his patrons an additional salary ?" O. T.?"I don't know if he did or not, for it was a colored school, and I don't suppose they would pay him if he did charge." ? * Y. T.?''Now, sir, you have given me the best clue to the real cause of our white schools being so small. A colored man does not care a Bnap for dues and accounts, but does care for his children being educated. A poor white man because of these bills prefers his children to grow up in ignorance rather than have it said by his neighbors that he is not good for his debts." 0 T.?"I8upp03e then that that you think the school teachers have no right to send in these bills you speak of. On what ground?" Y. T.?"On the ground that if the teacher accepts any part of the Free Public School Fund be has no right to charge anybody a dime while doing so, and be cannot, nnder the law, collect a dime of tuition from a patron while he does, for was not that fund especially appropriated for a Free Public School?" 0. T.?"Well, why don't you require the school teachers to teach for that fund, and not charge anybody ?" Y.T.?"Wedid try that game: The teacher refused and appealed to the County Board of Examiners." 0. T.?"Well, what did they say about it?" i . Y. T.?"They sat down on us most emphatically. Two of them are teachers and they said we all do it that way." Now, brother Trustees of Anderson County, look into the from, purr i f vinr record book and seethe o*iii yuuuave' sworn; then take your copy of the School Laws and study it carefully and answer rap, one at a time; Can you, according to the law, do it that way ? Respectfully, Young Trustee. The Republican Majority Down to Three. Washington, March 2.?Gen. Clark, clerk of the House of Representatives to? day received from the Governor of West Virginia the certificates of election of Congressmen for the Third and Fourth Districts of that State. These are issued in the names of the Democratic candi? dates. This makes a Republican majori? ty of three in the next House of Repre? sentatives. - mm How's This. We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Ceney & Co., Props, Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the laBt 15 years, and be Heve him perfectly honorable in all bus? iness transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0. E. H. Van Hcesen, Cashier,Toledo Na itonal Bank, Toledo, 0. ' Hall's Catarrh Cure is token internally, actiogdirectly upon the blood and mucus surfaces uf the system. Price 75o. per i bottle. Sold by all Druggists. THE USE OF THE BOD. Some Mothers whip their Children, others do Mot. Atlanta Constitution. To spank or not to spank? That is a question that would be an? swered in the negative by two-thirds of the mothers in America. Our grand brass eagle spreads her protecting wiogs over women and chil? dren in this country bo that the former can wear trousers and swallow-tail coats unarrested, and the latter can make game of bald-headed gentlemen of mature age without being eaten up by bears or chastised by the afore mentioned gentle? men. If wild beasts were let loose in America for the purpose of swallowing irreverant small boys, the country would be depopulated of future presidents and millionaires. Children are no longer seen and not heard, but are heard incessantly when visible or invisible. They call their grandmothers slang names and pull their grandfathers' noes without being got by the "gobble uns." They bite their gentle preceptors and run away from tbeir mothers without fear of pun? ishment. Happy, Iearnless, little to-day Ameri? can children, who csn go in swimming without having to lie about it afterwards and can romp at parties in tbeir best gowns without being spanked for spoiling them! They can eat as much as they want too, without being accused of greediness and stuffing, and when they ask for more will not receive the sarcastic expressions of astonishment which came from Mrs. Corney and Mr. Bumble in regard to Oliver Twist's appetite. The schools where brimstone and trea? cle formed the chief articles of diet have died out since Dickens wrote against them. Flogging has died out, too, and persuasion is substituted. If the princes in the tower had been American boys they would have beaten their Uncle Bichard black and blue, carried him before the court and bad him sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Yes, the day of sitting down on chil? dren is over, and though the bump of reverence on the craniums of American children might improve them slightly by a greater development, still the present day is a bright and better one for the little folks than the days of old. . THE STORY OF TWO TEACHERS. A gentleman whose childhood was twenty-five years before the war, tells of two school teachers, and his stories are fine arguments against physical punish? ment. He says: "When I was about nine or ten years old I was a poor, sickly little freckled face boy, stubborn, sensitive and curious to a Bad degree. My mother used to whip me frequently to no purpose, so she concluded to send me to a very severe school- teacher that my spirit might be conquered. I W83 sent away from home to board in the house with and go to school to as hard and terrible a master as Dickens ever depicted. Well, I was conquered in a way?at least I was cowed and terrified so that I wondered my very heart's blood didn't turn white and freeze. The man never struck me a lick, but I hated him with all my soul. My life was one of abject terror, and the good that was in me was as silent as a tomb. I seemed to have no emotions, to be a mere machine working through the fear of the terrible beatings I bad Been administered to other boys. Seeing was nothing to me. We all lied. If we talked and accused of it we lied, if we disobeyed we'd swear ourselves black be? fore we'd own it. I was taken home from this horrible school after many months of what I now know was a hell on earth. A new teacher from the north had come to our town. I was sent to him. The first day, I was whispering and he looked at me and said, "John are you talking ?" "No sir," I pertly re? plied, lying as was my wont. He smiled pleasantly. " 'That's all right,' he said, 'I hope you'll excuse me. I thought you were talking and am sorry to find I suspected you unjustly.' "Mean, why, I felt as mean as any poor, guilty wretch could feel. I said to myself: 'This is the first and it shall be the last lie you ever tell that man.' And it was. He never touched _e and I studied well, and grew to love my teach? er, a thing I had hitherto thought im? possible. He never used a whip. He treated his scholars like gentlemen, and they were proud of it, and proved they deserved his regard. There's nothing like treating boys and girls like gentle? men and ladies from the time they are born." SHE DOESN'T USE THE ROD. "Do I whip my child ? Of course I don't," said a beautiful young mother. "I think it's brutal to the child and brutalizing to one's own nature. I make bim obey without touching him. I've never given him a whipping." "Then what do you do when he is ob? streperous ?" "I just scare him to death. He thinks I'm going to whip him, and I tell you what he minds. I tell the nurse to bring me my big whip. I show it to him, and he's ready to do as I please and give up any of his plays I don't approve of. I r ver intend to whip him. He doesn't need it. I don't think any child does, if one only understands his disposition." ANOTHER MOTOR'S VIEWS. A lovely mother, who has five of the sweetest and best behaved little children in the world, gives this view of children and their training: "I hav /' she says, "tried to avoid in rearing my own all the faults I found in my own bringing up. My mother was called, and very justly, a fine disciplin? arian. She reared me beautifully in many respectB, but in those days chil? dren were kept too subservtent to their elders. They were taught that they must not reply to a grown person, no matter what unkind or unjust remark was made to them by said individual. Now, I tench my children, first to .me, unques? tioning obedience, and then moral cour? age. I want them to speak out and express their opiuion whenever they know them? selves in the right. I want them td stand up for themselves and not j ANDEKSON, S. C, r be cowed by older people, when those people are harsh and unjust to them; neither must they allow their own little playmates to make rude speeches to them without a retort. Instill this sort of courage and independence into children and you give them good weapons for battling with the world all their lives. My children, you know, are not pert, and, if they show the least ag* I gressiveness, I correct it and teach them the difference between self-assertion and rudeness. "I make my children my companions in my home. They are always around me, and sometimes when I feel badly I want them away, but I will not allow myself to express the wish, because their place, and the best place for them, is right about my knees. I believe in whip? ping children very little. My oldest child I whipped more than any, and now I think it was because I was so young and inexperienced, and really knew so little about children. As each baby came I found there were easier and more effec? tual wayB of conquering them than by the rod. \ think it's horrid to whip a child after they become old enough to understand reasoning, and if they are too bad naturally to be ruled by other punishment or sensible talk, whipping will do them no good. It is like giving morphine, the medicine may do tempora? ry good but it does not eradicate the disease. A good mother investigates the cause of her child's abort comings then proceeds to study the best methods of eradicating them. "Then there is or"" '? . h my children that may seem odd in these days. I always serve them first. Don't I remember the pangs that used to grasp my poor little empty stomach when I was made to wait hours for my dinner till the grown folks were through ! Children are eo hungry and so impatient. It's merely a physical question as who can wait most comfortably, they or the grown folks, and as I've been a child I know. There? fore I help them before myself. I believe that the only thing that would make me whip one of them now would be if be (old me a story, but none of them will do that. Children are not apt to tell you' stories if you trust them and treat them as your equals." a grandmother's view of it. "I don't believe in whipping children at all," eaid a lady who reared an only child in a most beautiful way, and who is now a grandmother. "I never whip? ped my child," she continued. It may have been that she never needed such severe punishment. It does'nt seem to me that little girls ought ever to be whipped. I used to punish my daugh? ter, if Bhe disobeyed me. I would keep her at home for a week, to deprive her of some pleasure I knew she loved. When you punish a child this way, it gives her time to think over the wrong she has done and regret it. Whip a child and she suffers one moment and forgets her pain the next, but deprive her of her playthings or her little playmates for several days, and it makes an impression that will last. it acts with different effect, Another lady doesn't think it anything to whip little girls if they deserve it, and that punishment in this way must be decided by a child's disposition. She says: "Some children can never be conquered. I used to whip my boy, but it did him no good. He was always more stubborn and rebellious afterward. He never grew repentant or improved under such punishment jut I found I could do anything with him by kindness and affection. My girl, though she had a lovely disposition, often needed a whip? ping, and such treatment agreed with her. Two minutes afterward her arms were around my neck and she waa beg? ging my pardon. I only had to whip her when she was very small. I don't believe in whipping children after they grow to understand. A mother haB to be governed by the disposition of her children, more than by her own theo? ries." This is true and there are children who need an occasional switching, but it is also true that civilization has happily done away with the old time mauling of tender young bodies. To be allowed to "jus grow" like Topsy is far better for the majority of new born humanity than to have that growth stunted or ruined by the rod as it was in olden times. God made all things to grow upward and reach to the light of the sun, and to those unto whom is intrusted the care of these small human plants, He says, I "unfold the leaves of their natures with gentle hands, and open their hearts to the light of love and truth with a kiss." Maude Andrews. Cancer. I am satisfied that Cancer is hereditiary in my family. My father died of it, a sisicr of my mother died of it, and my own Bister died of it. My feeling may be imagined, then, when the horrible disease made its appearance on my side. It was a malignant Cancer, eating inwardly in such a way that it could not be cut off. Numerous remedies were used for it, but the cancer grew steadily worse, until it seemed that I was doomed to follow the others of the family. I took Swift's spe? cific, which,' from the first day, forced out \ the poison, and continued its use until I had taken several bottles, when I found myself well. I know that S. S. S. cured me. Mrs. S. M. Idol. Winston, N. 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Swift's Specific is entirely a vegeta? ble remedy, and is the only medicine wbicb permanently cures Scrofula, Blood Humors, Cancer and contagious Blood Poison. Send for books on Blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. rHUKSDAY MOKNI "I Die Poor." Bishop McTyefie's last will and testa? ment, which we publish in this issue, is a notable paper. It will provoke thought, and be a means of grace to many. The most insignificant sentence in it is this: "I die poor." It is an uncon? scious but conclusive vindication of the motives that governed his life as a minis? ter of the Lord Jesus Ohrist, and places him in the true apostolical succession in his relation to secular matters. It was not from lack of ability for business that the bishop died poor. His sagacity, en? ergy, and induitry would have command? ed the largest measure of success in com? mercial life. In the management of the temporal interests of the Church he displayed much aptitude and wisdom. As an advisor, he was much consulted, as an administrator he was very efficient. No man among us was more frequently con? sulted concerning these matters, and none did better service to"the Church in superintending its temporal interests in the broad field of his service during the longhand busy years of his ministry. Nor was it from lack of opportunity to make money that the Bishop.died poor. He handled immense sums of money un? der conditions that would have tempted many men to turn the trnst to personal profits without violation of the ethics that are now;tolerated in business circles. Never, directly or indirectly, did he think of so doing. His pense of honor was faultlessly acute, and the ruling motives of his life lifted him above the possibility and even the thought of incidental pecu? niary profit to himself in the handling of sacred trust fund committeed to his hands. His annual income was large enough to justify the expectation that ho made moderate accumulations; but those of us who knew the extent of his benefactions and his abundant hospitality could not be surprised when we read in his last will and testament the words: "I diepooi." He was a cheerful and a libe? ral giver according to his ability. He preached ; he held himself to be a Stew? ard, and wished to be found faithful in the day reckoning. His teaching on this subject was stroDg and pointed; his ex? ample is wholesome. The great body of the Bishop's co-workers can use his dying words. The rule ia that they die poor. Qod wants an unsecular ministry, and the rule is that not many rich are called to it. He knows what human nature is, and guards it on its weak Bide. He knows the heart of the toiling millions, and sends them Pastors who can understand their needs and sympathize with them. No sane man could be tempted to enter the ministry of the Methodist Church from mercenary motives. May it always be so 1 "I die poor," said the great lead? er in our Is real. His hands were clean if they were empty. But how rich his life in the fruits of untiring toil and the abiding influence of his example.?Nash? ville Advocate. Bev. Sam Jones. Trinity church was packed yesterday morning, chairs having to be placed in the aisles, with people who were anxious to hear Rev. Sam Jones preach. The text was, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life." Mr. Jones preached one hour and announced in the beginning that he would talk about an hour and a half, and if anybody got enough before the time had expired they could go home. He didn't believe in stuffing a man with preaching when he had had enough. The preacher took the position that God loved the meanest sinner as much as he did the best Christian?"for Qod so loved the world." "When Christ was on earth he never lost an opportunity to scorch the amen corner fellows, but he took the gentlest care of the poor sinner. How far will God's love go? Nay, ask how far will a mother's love go. He is God our Father, God our Mother. A mother's love?what will it not do for the children she loves? Does a mother love her good children and hate the bad ones ? Why, I think the worse a boy is tho more' his mother loves him. Let! there be four boys in a family who are preachers, and one who is a drunken out-! cast, The mother will seem to care but little for the preachers while she follows and watches over the erring one. "God loved the world and manifested his love by giving his only begotten Son ?ao we ought to love God. My dog loves me because I am kind to him, and if you don't love God after all he has done for you, you aiu't as good as my dog." ?'Now, to love God you must love your Jfellowman. People like to hear preachers talk about God, the Father, out don't like sermons on man, my brother. Denying yourself for your fel lowmen doesn't mean giving a way old clothes you don't want. Once a poor tramp went up to the house of a great Christian and found him eating dinner. 'Give me something to eat,' said the tramp, 'for I am hungry and have no money.' The great Christian cut off a slice of bread and gave it to the tramp. 'Now, we will ask a blessing before we eat,' said the Christian, and he proceded with 'Our Father,' etc. 'Did you say 'Our Father'?' asked the tramp. 'Yes,' was the reply. 'Then we are brothers V 'Yes, we are brothers." 'Then give me a bigger piece of that bread.' "?Atlanta Evening Journal. ? It is now generally believed that Blaioe could have been elected as easily as Harrison was. The Democratic differ? ences in New York would not have dis? appeared on the nomination of Blairie, and it would have taken no more boodle to carry Indiana for Blaine, than was used to carry it for Harrison. If there arc any of Mr. Blaine's friends who do not feel like going out and kicking them? selves, they are complete masters of their tempers. Eczema, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures. The simple application of "Swayne's Ointment," withont any internal medi? cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Salt Rheurn, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores Pimples, Eczurna, all Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruption; no matter how obstinate or loDg standing. It Is potent, effective, and costs but a trifle. 15 NG, MAECH 14, 18? Thoughts Tor Husbands. There are many husbands who have a very blame-worthy indifference to the cares and labors of their wives. By men, perhaps generally, a woman's work is thought to be of but small consequence, because it requires less muscular strength, and subjects them to less exposure than their own. They do not consider that they have less physical strength, with which to perform it, or that worriment to the mind is more exhausting than bard work to the body. Indeed, the severity of house duties is not the worst part of her service, thought not unfrequently the husband would find that the day's work which his wife performs would tax his own energies, and be quite as exhausting, even to him, as bis own. How many a wife drags through the weary days, doing all her work herself, besides taking care of several children, cooking, mending, nursing?all the mul? tiplied and ever worrying duties of the family upon her hands, until she can hardly stand or move from one room to another I Herself, perhaps, half sick, her children fretful and ill, or her work ever accumulating and "never done." Should she not have both sympathy and help from her husband ? When his day's work is over he desires to enjoy a quiet home, a warm supper, and?a pleasant wife. That Bupper she prepares with little strength, with an in? fant in her arms, and a wearied, fretful child clinging to her dress, because she has no time to rock them to sleep, and there is no one to care for them in her place. Perhaps she is blamed, rather than helped, because the supper is tardy or defective and the children are ecolded for crying, when they are more tired than himself. When the supper is over, he sits down to rest, or goes out for recrea? tion, leaving his wife to continue her weary ."and unending task, though she has already done a ' harder day's work than be. How grateful would it be to her worn spirits, and how just for him to assist in the care of the children, or other? wise for an hour; let the weary wife go out, attend the evening meeting, if there be one, or call on a neighbor, or simply take a walk, change the sceue, and breathe the fresh air for a few minutes. Even if she went nowhere, how much lighter would her duties seem should he cheerfully offer her assistance in them. If he has worked bard all day, so she has. If he needs rest and relaxation, she needs it still more. If he cannot bear the noise of the childreu and the confine? ment of the house a little while, how can she bear it all the time ? And then it is his own family, these are his own children, and all these cares are for his sake quite as much as much a3 for her's. Should he not care for his own ? Perhaps bis means will not allow him to have help in his family, to relieve the overtaxed energies of his wife; perhaps she does not wish it. And yet there are husbands who have means, and yet are too penurious and too ungenerous to fur? nish the help needed, and prefer to work their wives to death rather than pay for other service. Many such men expend more on useless or hurtful indulgences than the wages of a girl would amount to but "can not afford" to have hired help in the family. How unwise as well as un? just I There are men, of course, on whom it would be vain to urge such considerations. They are strangers to generous sentiment and consider their wives but drudges for their comfort, or to satisfy their merce? nary greed for saving expenses. But they command the thoughtful consideration of such husbands as have a manly and gen? erous care for their families, and especial? ly an affectionate sense of responsibility in the discbarge of those sacred pledges uttered at the marriage service. Let them help their wives and they will help them? selves. How long We Are to Live. It is not every one who asks himself this question, because strangely enough, it is the belief of many persons that their lives will be exceptionally lengbty. However, life insurance companies are aware of the credulous weakness of those whose lives they assure, and have there? fore compiled numerous tables of expec? tancy of life for their own guidance which are carefully referred to before a policy is granted. The following is one of these well-authenticated tables in use among assurance companies,showing the expec? tancy of life at various ages. In the first eoluran we have the present a^n of per? sons of average health; and in the second column we are enablv- to peep, as it were, bebind the scenes of an assurance office, and gather from its table the number of years it will give us to live. This table has been the result of careful calculation and seldom proves misleading. Of course, sudden and premature deaths, as well as lives unusually extended, occa? sionally occur; but this is a table of av? erage expectancy of life of an ordinary man or woman. Age. More years to live. 1.3 ? 10.51 20.41 30.34 40.40 50.21 60.14. 70. 9 80. 4 Our readers will easily gather from the tabulated statement the number of years to which their lives, ?ccording to the law of averages, may reasonably be expected to reach. ? Take Aver'8?-Sarsaparilla, in the spring of the year, to purify the blood, invigorate the system, excite the liver to action, and restore beulthy tone and vigor to the whole physical mechanism, lie member that quality, not quantity, con? stitutes the value of medicine. ? From the Sbeuandoah Valley comes a remarkably story of a man-woman who grew up to maturity without his real sex beiDg discovered or even suspected. lie is now married to one of the fair sex, and was at the lime the startling discove? ry was made "postmistre?!i"of Rest post olBce, Frederick County, Va. A sister of this man U also proved to bavechong ed her sex. 39. Spanish Peannts^Pigs and SlocI^Gnw Ing. The introducllon of the Spanish peanut into the South is providing a very bless? ing. It is very early, prolific, easy of | cultivation, easy to harvest, and exceed? ingly fattening. Bacon ought not to cost the Southern farmer more than three or four cents per pound, raised at home, if j he will avail himself of natural advanta? ges, and escape the cholera. We advise every farmer to get seed of this new variety in time to plant in April and May, and again in June and July. February and March pigs make the cheapest pork?if pressed from the start, and butchered in December. They may be made to weigh easily from 150 to 200 pounds. The sows should be liberally fed so as to induce a bountiful supply of milk and as soon as the pigs will eat they should have plenty of corn meal musb, butter milk, col lards or other greens, slops lrom the kitchen. They should grow from the very beginning, and never per? mitted to'squeal for food. We have often insisted upon more at? tention to Btock-growing as a source of direct revenue and profit, as well as a means of restoring and keeping up the fertility of our soils. The objections sometimes urged that beef cattle, mutton and butter, the most convenient forms in which the results will reach the market, are not sufficiently in demand, or the prices offered by dealers in cities and towns are two low. To this may be urged in reply that farmers ought to demand, and they will as certainly obtain, the same prices that are paid for the same articles brought from the West?provided the quality be the same. Now, how does the beef, mutton, butter, etc., offered by the average farmer in our home markets, compare with same articles brought from Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis ? Is there any reason why a Georgia or Ala? bama farmer may not make as good beef or butter as the!Illinois or Iowa farmer ? We know that he does not, but why not? Moreover, if Armour & Co., of Chicago can buy beeves, butcher them, ship them to Atlanta and Montgomery and New Orleans in refrigerator cars, and sell the dressed quarters for less than six cents per pound laid down in the retail butch? er's stall, how can the Iowa farmers who produced the beeves make money?which they certainly do ? And if the Iowa or Illinois farmer can produce beef at such prices, on land worth fifty dollars an acre, may not the Georgia farmer do the same on lands that are worth no more than a fifth as much ? The same questions apply with even more force to butter and other products of the dairy. These are pertinent questions and are entitled to consideration. Our farmers ought to supply our city, and town popu? lation with beef, bacon, and lard, mutton and milk and butter, and at a less cost than the same can be brought from abroad or can be produced by the consum? ers themselves. More than the/, u? ought to compete with the western men in the large markets of Hie East, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.?Southern Cultivatorfor Feb? ruary. Common Errors. The man who limits himself to two meals a day, or only a "bite" at noon, soon becomes dyspeptic, says a writer in the Boston Journal of Health. Every twenty-four hours ho needs just so much food to supply the wants of his system. If he practices long abstinence, then, when he next eat3, to supply the requi? site material, he craves and takes more into his stomach than he can properly digest. Again, vigor is required for digestion, and if he is jaded and worn out by work and long fasting, his digestive power is not equal to the duty imposed upon it. As all know, derange the stomach and the heart and brain share in the disorder. The victim becomes nervous and irritable, work which was formerly easy to, and a pleasure for him, has now become a task. It is at this point that many men begin the use of stimulants. Prejudices against them are easily satisfied if one feels that he needs them. For a time alcohol or malt liquors seemingly act well. They "pull him together;" he is more cheerful, and he doubtless feels certain that he has found his much needed remedy. He is simply "poking the fire from the top," and soon it burns lower, finally threatens to go out, and our man is broken down with nervous prostration, caused by overwork, as he and hi? friends think; but, in reality, by his own stupid, sinful and ruinous man? ner of living. Every Man a Brick. Very few of the thousands who use the above slang term know its origin or its primitive significance, according to which it is a grand thing to say of a man "He's a brick," The word, used in its original intent, implies all that is brave, patriotic and loyal. Plutarch, in his lifo of Agesilaus, King of Sparta, gives us the meaning of the quaint and famil? iar expression. On a certain occasion an ambassador from Epirus, on a diplo? matic mission, was shown by the King over his capital. The ambassador knew of the monarch's fame?know that, though nominally only King of Sparta, he was ruler of Greece?and ho had look? ed to see massive walls rearing aloft their embattled towers for the defense of the city, but found nothing of the kind. He marveled much at this, and spoke of it to the King. "Sire," said he, "I have visited most of the principal towns, and I find no wall reared for defense. Why is this?" "Indeed, sir ambassador," replied Agesilaus, "thou canst not have looked carefully. Come with me to? morrow morning and I will show you the walls of Sparta." Accordingly on the following morning the King led his guests out upon the plain where his army was drawn up In full array, and, pointing proudly to the patriot host, he said: "There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta?ten thousand men, and every man a brick."?Northwestern Advocate. ? A promise should be given with caution, and kept with cure. It should be made with the heart, and remembered by the head. VOLUMI Bothersome Mormon Women, Salt Lake, March 1.?Many of the older and more conservative Mormons are disposed to grnmble because the whole? sale proselyting now in progress is bring? ing into Zion hundreds of men and wo? men who are thought to be too wordly for association with the saints. The old timers hold that in the case of womeu, in particular, great circumspection is needed and that it would be better to have fewer converts than to be annoyed by the scan? dalous performance and the stiff necked ness of so many who, clearly enough, do not have the good of Mormondon at heart. One or two of the elders have ventured to hint as much as this is in their sermons, but it is in private conver? sation that most of the complainings are heard. A few days ago a great scandal was created by the elopement of three of the wives of a prominent Mormon with one man, a reckless fellow, who had been a brakeman on the railroad. All of these women were new comers, and had been sealed to the elder only recently. The brakeman had been noticed nbout the premises occupied by one of the wives, but be was supposed to be a relative, who thought well of Mormonism, his move? ments caused no suspicion. When it was discovered that the three new wives bad taken their departure there was doleful wailing and gnashing of teeth, particu? larly on the part of the elder wives, for the escapade proved the assertion, which many of them had been making, that the eagerness of proselytes to secure recruits was bringing into the fold a very-uadesi rable class of women. To make the matter more offensive, two of the women left letters to their lord reviling him, and one of them said in her note that she never intended to stay more than a few months, anyway. When last heard of the brakeman and his three companions were en route to Tacoma, where it was announced that be intended to make one of the women his wife. Besides several other cases of elopement the peace of Zion has been broken of late by numerous exhibitions of temper on the part of newly received wives. Obe? dience by women is a fundamental pre? cept in Mormondon, and no truly reli? gious woman, whether the first or twen tie tb wife, ever thinks of questioning the will of her master. It may be imagined then with what awe the performances of | some of the younger women are v>*wed, more particularly when it is understood that in some cases the newcomers have locked their houses against their hus? bands, have smashed washboads on their heads, and have set other wives by the ears over trifling matters. Fen of these scandals have reached the newspapers, but that they exist and are increasing in number is evident to the most casual ob? server. More than one-half the recruits now coming into Mormondon are from various American States, and it is against this policy of enlistments that the more con* servative of the saints are now protesting. The average American bred woman comes, it has been found, without a suffi? cient religous bia3. She is prepared to believe as much as she is compelled to, provided she likes her situation. Failing to find things to her satisfaction, the ter? rors of the bishops, the avenging angels and the judgment are nothing to her. While the church is increasing its num? bers in this manner, it is believed by many that it is introducing an intracta? ble element which may weaken the organ? ization more than any other cause that has yet manifested itself. She Risked Her Life. MrjNFORDVlLLE, Ky., March 2?John Ohristy, a wealthy farmer residing a mile north of here, near the banks of [ Green Eiver, has a pretty eighteen-year old daughter, Luella. Sanford Geer, a young tiller of the soil dwelling near by,* but on the other side of the stream, loved Luella, and she loved him. Old man Christy was opposed to the match. He said that Greer was not able to take care of a wife, and so bis negative was emphatic. Sanford and Luella arranged to elope, and yesterday was set as the day for making the venture. Luella is a strong armed Kentucky girl, and she can row a boat as well as a man can. Sanford did not dare venture on" Mr. Christy's aide of I the river and it was arranged tha*-1*1* a should pull across in her fat*1- B^** *? S the opposite bank, where^?^wouJd $ meet her with a pair of hdifes, anenff 0 would come to this place and be mar^ ried. Night before last, owing to the heavy rains, the river rose rapidly, and became such torrent that it was dangerous for a boat pulled by a single person. Young Greer was unable to get word across for his sweetheart not to venture, and the girl, not daunted by the danger, started out to keep the appointment. Before her boat was one-third the way across her lover appeared on the opposite bank with two horses, while her father, with a pistol, reached the one she had just left. He had missed his daughter, and suspecting that she intended to elope, followed her, swearing that he would kill young Greer. When he saw the girl on tho water he shouted for her to come back or she would be drowned, but she paddled boldly on for the opposite shore, the force of the current sending her in a diagonal direc? tion. The angry father was powerless. He had no other boat, and he could do noth? ing but watch his daughter either lose her life or reach the man she loved. But the girl pulled a strong and firm hand, and, although her boat several times came near being overturned by the rushing current, she reached the bank where her lover was waiting. Then they mounted the horses, came to this town, on Greer'B side of the river, and were mar? ried. ? Five young ladies recently connect? ed themselves with the Alliance at Liberty, in Oconee County, Ga. ? The extraordinary popularity vi Ayer's Cherry Fectoral is the natural result of its use by all classes of people for over forty year*. It has proven itself the very best specific for colds, coughs, ; and pulmonary complaint". i 5 XXIV.?NO. 36. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Mrs. Clevelaud wears a No. 5 shoe) one size smaller than Queen Victoria. ? Oil has been struck in Scott County, Ark. The supply is thought to be inex? haustible. ? Self-preservation i3 the firet law of nature, but loo many act as if it were the only one. ? "Who wa6 the first man, Tommie ?" asked the Sunday school teacher, after explaining that our first parents were made from the.dusfofthe earth. "Hen? ry Clay, ma'am." ? An Ohio farmer mortgaged his farm to get his wife some diamond earrings, and she lost one of them in the suds the very first wash day and attempted to haug herself in the barn. ? Bijhop McTyeire, although he re $3,000 as president of the board of trustees of Vanderbilt University, did not leave much property. His estate, including his South Carolina plantation, is valued at ?15,000. ? Mr. Ben. Baker, who lives in War? ren County, Ga., never feeds corn until it is a year old. He begins the first of the year on the corn that is just a year old and keeps his new corn for the coming year. ? A farmer in York county, Maine, recently shipped twenty barrels of ap? ples to Liverpool. After freight charges and other expenses were deducted he found his fruithad netted him eight cents a bushel. ? Ben Butler is the charapionTmascot of the nineteenth century. By the ad? mission of the new States the government will be obliged to purchase 8,000 nation? al flags with forty stars apiece, and Ben will be ?200,000 richer by the transac tion. Happy Ben Butler. ? Fifteen daring young woman of Philadelphia have.^formed a club of which the sole condition of membership is that the applicant forswear corsets. Each one of the ladies comprising the club has consigned hrr whalebone curiass to the flames, and now taxes her ingenui? ty to provide a Substitute. _ ? A piano tuner says that pianos fre- ^ qucntly deteriorate because they are allowed to become too dry. To counter? act this he advises keeping a growing plant in the room. Another way is to keep a large va3e or urn with a sopping wet sponge in it under or near the piano. -- The Maryland court of appeals has decided that a wife's will is supreme in one emergency. A woman with a tumor gave her consent to the surgeon to re? move it and she died. The husband, who forbade the operation, sued the surgeon, but the court decided that the wife's consent was sufficient. ? North Carolina has got the prize Munchausen in the author of a story which comes from Clyde Station in that State, to the effect that a popular tree was cut there so large that it made plank enough to furnish (weather board? ing, celling and flooring for a church 50 feet long, 38 feet wide and 12 feet high. From the same tree a fence was built three-quarters of an acre around the church. There were three logi left over, and "the remaining three lop contained lumber enough to build another church ai large as the first." ? J. R. Wbitesides, son of County Commissioner R. W. Wbitesides, in company with several friends, went out squirrel hunting on Friday. Coming to a hollow tree, they decided to cut it down. In falling the tree strack a limb of another tree near by. Just as it fell Mr. Whitesides sawla equirrel run out and he immediately started up ~to get a shot. When almost at the top some one told him to "look out," and as he looked up the broken limb fell, {striking him in the forehead and mashing in'the skull.? York Enterprise. ? The value of good country roads' is strikingly illustrated in the case of Madison County, Alabama, of which Hunts vi lie is the county seat. That county has in its limits several macada amized roads, so its people have felt both the heed and thelblessings of such roads. The Huntsville Mercury says the result is that the land which has the hep the turnpike sells readibvf~ ** . u u-i .I . .on has no such an acre, while that. ei_ . cqn d anta e Bell" * from ?15 to $20 c-well convinced are the . Aadison of the value of good .^.,knat the county has obtained per lission from the Legislature of that t?te to issue its bonds to the extent of 150,000, for the purpose of building one undred and thirty miles of well graded nd macadamized roads in its midst, so feted as to give the greatest good to the >?t number in the matter of reaching S Ioa^!e v'^aSe some fcwe^ve m^es distanUro>veland' ? ' *ere f^' some thirty yel8?0' tw? ?% a*?"?- 7 ? I m \ of these President tivegirls. To ohwj^ tn atenta Hayes became a suitor^* . ^ , of the young lady vigow^ ;.. ? ._ the courtship on the grounrT Hayes was poor, and gave hardly sufficient ability to warrant risk? ing their daughter's future. The match was broken off, and the lady is to-day ? married and well known in Cleveland. society, The other young lady had re-/; ceived many attentions from young Gar- - field, and was quite disposed to recipro-> cate them. Her parente, however, ob? jected to their intimacy, gw'1D5 *> reason for their opposition the poverty of Garfield, and the anything but bright prospectsof his future. The chief com cidence of these courtships consists in the fact that Bedford, where both these young ladies lived, contained at the time le89 than five hundred inhabitants, anj both refused two future Presidents of United States because of their porer*-1 The Popular Approval Of the efforts of the Call Syrup Company to present t*j an agreeable and effective wj the bitter, nauseous liveraMldfifcj cathartics formerly used is as gratify to the Company as it is creditable to Efih good taste of the public. The large and rapidly increasing sale of Syrup of Figs and the promptly beneficial efforts of a single dose are convincing proofs that it is the most easily taken and the most pleas antly-effective remedv known t?a. i - by Simp.on.lReidI % n' F?r