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BY CLINKSCALE .-T$AGH?$'G0LUMN, "vE^ All commanicntions intended for this ?olumn should be addressed to P. II. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son,.^. C. Miss Johnnie Keaton haa charge of a small school in an abandoned house in No. 11, one mile below Capt. T. W. Martin's. This house is not fit to teach school in, and we will suspend judgment upon the *"H?rc%er"affcHier school until we see her under more favorable conditions, and when she will have an opportunity to Bhow what is in her, for we were favora? bly impressed with the amount of ''get up and get" she seemed to possess. A pleasant hour with Mr. Butler Cox and his family for dinner, and some delightful Music from Mis3 Emma, and we passed on to the Saluda school, taught by Mr. B. M. Cheatham, a former pupil of Honea Path High School. He is teaching his first school, we believe, and is exerting'himself to the utmost, and his patrons are generally satisfied with him barring a little too much of the rod. Better to err or. that side than the other._ A night with friend Marshall Gaines, and we journeyed on to the Honea Path High School, colored, taught by E. Mo range. This school is not what it ought to be, right under the shadow of Watkins, and as we found out by testing the teacher on the construction of a sentence and other ocular demonstrations. At -Rocky Mount colored school, ta?:gh by Ella Holliday, we examined a number of reading classes, and found ?hem much better up on reading than some other classes we had seen of the same grade in white schools. It is not pleasant to write these things, but the truth must be told. "Nothing extenuate, nor aught sat down in malice." Our young friend, C. E. Burts, over? hauled us here, and in company with him we proceeded to our old friend, Mr. Joel Kay's, and spent a pleasant'night in company with him and hia son, Mr. Vernon Kay, and their respective fami? lies. The next morning, in company with the teacher, we proceeded to the Cleveland school, of which he is the head, and remained two hours with him. This young man is just entering upon his career as a teacher, and if energy and vim, combined with a conscientious desire to do one's whole duty are essen? tial elements of success, then ho is bound to succeed. But this school needs grad? ing up in the matter of text-books, so as to secure uniformity and thorough classi? fication, and we trust ere we make another visit to see certaiu books elimi? nated._ At Barker's Creek we found Mies Al? ma Elgin with a small school in attend? ance. This is a fine community of hos? pitable people, as we know from personal experience. They have a commodious Church building, and we had expected to find a well advanced school, but the pupils all seem to be just beginners. It seems to us that somebody is at fault here. Eiii.er the people have not been interested about sending tbeir children to school, or the teachers have not been doing their duty. Somebody ought to take hold and get a teacher to take hold, and hold on and wake things up and not depend solely upon the little pittance of public money. Long Branch school is taught by Miss Lizzie Brock, of Honea Path. Miss Liz? zie is a teacher of experience, and brings it to bear upon the work of the school room. The school, though, seemed to be very small for the time of year. There surely are more children iu that neigh? borhood, and more conveniences in the way of seats and desks are needed for the comfort and advancement of the pupil?. A. I. Parker is teaching a colored school at a church near Craytonville. He wa3 through with his work for the day at the time we got there, (3 30 p. m.) ? and was ready to dismiss. He had no time piece, and no register to keep the time of his pupils. The Trustees should scrutinize hia report closely. We drove into Honea Path about 11 a. m. prepared for a feast of "good things," and were not disappointed. People who think "the good old way," and the "blue black speller" are the nine qua non of a good school and a good teacher, ought to go there and spend two or three hours, as we did, and watch Watkins "wake up things" and "keep 'em a moving." It is a most delightful spectacle to sit and watch a house full of pupils under the hand of a master, weil ordered in all things, and eager to drink in knowledge. We dined with Prof. Watkins, and spent an hour in pleasant intercourse in his home, and returned to the school and spent the greater portion of the after? noon with him and hi* classes, and came away feeling good about the educational outlook of Honea Path. Prof. Watkios is ably assisted by Miss Bessie Dargan and W. R. Earle iu the subordinate departments. They have enrolled there abjut ISO pupils. They have certainly got the right man iu the right place. We crossed over into Bro. McLces' ter? ritory at Broaduiouth, hut we felt con? strained to stop and speak a word with one of our Anderson girls, Miss K!la Kay, who is doing her utmost to "teach the young idea how to shoot." By the way, we heard a good joke on our Asso? ciate Justice McGowan. It is related that when the people of Broad mouth applied to the Legislature to incorporate this Church the Judgp, then a young member of the House, arose i:i his seat and said: "Mr. Speaker, I nave heard of Hard shell Baptists, Missionary Bap? tists and all other sorts :;f Baptists, but I never h->vd of Bioa 'nnutli Baptists. I should iike to know what th-y believe in?" Whether h* .ot the information or not, deponeth saitli r:?it., neither can we vouch for the story. ? If you require a sprinir medicine, if you are suffering with Ispguor, debility, pimples, boils, cki.-rrK, eiuouic sores, scrofula, or i<..-s rii appetite, or any dis? ease arising from !:!:|?":ro blood, take Ayer's Sarsaparillu?the safest and most economical of all blood purifiers. S & LANGSTON. First Permian Guano Brought to the Up-Country of South Carolina. BY HENRY T>. CAPERS. From the GreenviUe ?uunt?iiieer. It was in the happy, good old days of the long ago, when, as now appears to me the sun shone brighter and the birds sang sweeter, the boys were merrier and the girls about Anderson Court House, if possible, were prettier than they are to? day when the horn of the stage driver made a richer uote thau4the whistle of the locomotive will ever give; when the writer went with a light heart to the plow-handle3, or during school time trudged along with his books and his tin bucket to the old school house in the grove to meet the Whitner boys, Elijah Brown, True Benson, John Humphreys and Fitz Caldwell, and feel before the day was over the supple hickory of Mr. Leverett, or receive the rebukes of Par? son Carlisle; when steel pens were unknown, but an English goae-quill could write pretty love messages, and a hollow tree at Doctor Cater's was a post office that never reported at Washington City an uncalled for letter; when we sang Lucy Long and Nellie Bly and the Farmer's Boy, and wore nankeen in the summer and Mr. Crayton's jeanB in the winter; wheu Mr. Calhoun used to start for Congress in a C spring carriage, and our freight trains were composed of cara? vans of wagons, whose jingling bells made a music I recall with great pleas? ure; when our nearest Railroad depot was Aiken or Hamburg, and Jeffers & Cothran the agents and factors of the up country of South Carolina. My father had established his home on a small farm [ near Anderson Court House, and there enjoyed, in his leisure from the cares of ministerial duties, the sweets of rural life at Box Cottage. He was an excellent farmer, and really found a pleasure and a recreation in what some might think the drudgery of manual labor. It was there that, with my younger brother?, I learned and practiced the details of farm life, and found in this best of schools the associations of youth that yet bicds my love to to the hills and dale3 of Anderson. A vessel bad arrived at Charleston with the first consignment of Peruvian guano ever brought to the United States, and my father became the purchaser of a small quantity, which be had sent to Anderson via Hamburg, and through Jeffers & Cothran, whose name appeared as agents on almost every package that came to the up country in the goodly days. One morning, early in the Spring ot 1849, our breakfast hour was disturbed by a loud call from the public road, and a hello! that would have done credit to the lungs of the best wagoner on the road. I went out with my younger brother to answer the call, when we were met with an inquiry about in these 1 words: "Does a man named Capers live here V : "Yes, sir," was the answer. " "Well, tell him to come our here, and come quick !" said the wagoner, who had emphasized his request with more than one adjective not to be repeated here. , My father had heard all tbis, for it was delivered in not only plain snd empbutic English, but>mphasized in a way that i woke the echoes around Box Cottage. He came out at once; and walked with i us to the road, when the following col'o- < quy in substance took place: "Well," said my father, "what is the matter, my friend ?" "Matter! why stranger, it .is a good thing you is an old man, for I had about 1 made up my mind to lick somebody to get even for hauling this truck. Never mind, I'll get even with Jeffers & Coth? ran yet." With this Mr. Martin, the wagoner, proceeded to Bay that he had left bis wagon at the yard of our agents in Hamburg to be loaded while he had gone over to Augusta, and next morning hitched up, put his corn and fodder and bed clothes, on what looked like easy freight to handle, and started on his home trip up the country. Said he : "I kept a smelling of something that warn't right, and when it wa3 time to rest my team I got iu the wagon to feed my mules, aud such an all fired stink I never smelt since I was born. My mules would not eat any of the corn or fodder, and wheu night came I could not .sleep on my bed clothes. I 'lowed it was something you had bought that was spiled, and I come mighty uigh throwing it out, but 33 i had receipted for the thing I brought it along until I got to the Court House. T never knew till then what it was. B*lc Cray tun told roe what it was, and now, stranger, I have got to git even. If it ever g^ts out that I have beeu hauliug sich truck 1*11 never have any peace on the road as long as I live." It would be impossible for me to de? scribe the scene as the good wagoner was making bis statement. My father enjoyed a joke as much as anyono, but now his sympathies were really taxed for Martin. Over looking Iiis strong adjec? tives and appreciating his situation, explanations of the character of the "spiled truck" were made, and Martin asked to the house. "I can't go in no houso whar there is decent people, stranger; [smell worse than any ram goat, aud I never will sat? isfy my folks at home about the smell that is all over me, my wagon blankets, mules and all." The up shot of it war that the guano from Peru was taken some hundred yards or more from the cottage, and Mr. Mar? tin di-missed, about the most dissatisfied wagoner who ever drove a team to mar? ket from Anderson. The application of this fertilizer was made with great care to a field of corn. The land was such as generally holds a light gray soil on a strong clay founda? tion. It had been so long cultivated that its native fertility had been lost. After firs' turning it with a light old-fashioned twister, it was deeply subsoiled with a narrow plow that reached we!l into the clay but did not turn it up. Into a broad furrow loose trash fr"m the woods was placed, and upon this a small quantity ol the guano applied, about a table spoonful to the hill. A bed was then made on this furrow, and in a light, drill the corn planted. The ecasons were favorable. Such a yield of upland corn had never been made on poor land before. It formed the subject of much comment among the farmers of Anderson, and was the OrBt fruit from the first Peruvian Guano ever j used in upper South Carolina. A TALK ABOUT BRAZIL. A Methodist MlHHionary Tells 0M1I3 Work. Nash ritte A merican. Saturday an American reporter had an interesting interview about Brazil and its people with Rer. J. W. W?ll? ing, a missionary of the Methodist Epis? copal Church, South. Mr. W?lling was formerly a member of the South Carolina Conference, and ha3 spoDt two years in Brazil with head? quarters in the city of Piracicaba, which is about 500 miles southwest from Rio Janeiro, Last October he returned by leave of the Mission Board, and was married in Jar'ary to Miss Lizzie Rice, of Union, S. C. He will sail with his bride from New York on March 27. In conversation with the reporter Mr. W?lling gavo the following information about the missionary work of his church in Brazil: The church has six male and sis female missionaries and six native helpers in the country. Services are held at ten different places. The mem? bership is 340, and there are 100 or more who have applied for membership and are under instruction. Two years ago the mission was organized into the Brazil Mission Conference. Bishop Granberry has been out to Brazil twice in the laet few years, and hereafter a bishop will visit the conference every two years. The conference has two schools, taught by the ladies of the Mission Board. One of thesej which is at riracicaba, has 100 pupils and occupies a building erected for it especially. The other is at Rio and has forty pupils. It occupies a house which was originally in the hands of the Jesuits. The Jesuits sold it to the Government and the Government to some individual who sold it to the Southern Methodist Church. Mr. W?lling said: "One of our great? est hindersuces is the epidemic diseases. In the summer yellow fever, and in the winter smallpox prevails in nearly all the cities. Then for about a year new* comers do not dare to eat the fruits which the climate makes so desirable. Other difficulties are the necessity for preaching in-doors, and the fact that we cannot give the public notice of our meetings or ring a beil to proclaim our services with? out being arrested. Protestanism is barely tolerated. Our advantages are that Bomeofthe deputies in the General Assembly have not taken the oath of allegiance to the Catholic Church, which is the State churcb, and have also introduced a measure proposing to give to Frotestants absolute religious liberty. Then journalism throws its influence in favor of the freedom of religion. The journalists patronize our schools and advocate that the missionaries shall be protected, though they themselves do not, as a rule, attend the services. "The soil of Brazil is generally of ex? cellent quality, and it is very easy to make a liviug by agriculture. There are two seasons, wet and dry. From Sep? tember to April rains are very heavy, and from April to September it is dry most of the time. Just after the war a colony of 500 people from South Carolina, Goorgia and Alabama went to the Santa Barbara district. Most of them are far? mers. They have made a living, but have not succeeded as well as would be supposed, judging from the fertility of the soil. All the cotton they raise has to be packed on borac-s in bales of 160 pounds, and they have to depend on a few small factories for a market. The Brazilians are great admirers of American inventions, but because of the wan; of communication but little trade is dono with the United States, The British subsidize their steamship lines, and at least five English steamers to one American are Been in the harbor of Rio. Professional men from the United Slates, such as deutista, doctors and civil engineers, are in great demand; they get fiue salaries and make a great deal ol money. The railroads are built by English capital aud the Government of Brazil guarantees that they shall pay a certain per cent, prufit. There arc now between 3,000 and 4,000 miles of railroad in the Empire. Borne oftho roads arc beiog extended and a few new roads are pro? jected. One difficulty of railroad build? ing is the roughness of the country, which resembles the country this side of Chat? tanooga on the is'ashville Chattanooga & St. Loui? Railway. "The Aigentine Republic is the mof-t progressive country in South America. It contains more Protestants and has a larger Protestant immigration than any other. Most of the immigrants to Brazil are pndrones from Itally. They go to work on the greitt coffee plantations of Brazil, gathering the coffee crop. Bra? zil controls the coffee trade. "The slave* were liberated last April, and in ?ftober, when I left, two-fifths of the crop was thought to be rottening on the ground, because labor could not be employed to gather it. The slaves were under a most abject system of bondage. Since their freedom tiny have wandered aimlessly about, without disposition to labor more than sufficient to obtain a bare subsistence. "Diamonds aro wonderfully cheap in Brazil. I rocamined a cluster in Rio which had a brilliant of 2\ carats and seven sets, each of 1^ carats. The stones were without flaw, finely cut, and hand? somely mounted. The cluster could have been bought for Sil j. In the United : States it would Fell for $y00 at least. The great difference between the value in Brazil and here is hard to account for, hs the duty on diamond.-* is only 10 per cent, ad valorem. One is the want of enterprise i-f the ppnp'e ; the. other is that the mines nre unhealthy locilities, to which people do not like to go. The principal mines are about 400 miles in? land from Rio. ? Have you a cough ? Sleepless nights need no longer trouble you. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will Rlop the cough, allay the inllammaiioo, and induce repose. It will, moreover, heal the pul? monary organa and give you health. ANDEESON, S. C. ANDERSON'S BRAU FARSTERS. Three Mea who Imvo Proved 11 in I Intel? ligent Farming Docs P?y. Correspondence Xtm and Couiitr. Anderson, March 0.?Your corres? pondent has endeavored, at considerable effort, to secure an honest opinion from three of our most prominent and success? ful farmers as to the best way to farm, manage labor and make farming pay. The first I wish to give are the views of Col. Lewis E. Campbell, who lives about seven miles east of Anderson. The following is substantially what I got from Col. Campbell : I said: "Colonel, what is your system of farming?" His answer was: "I try to make my farm self supporting. I diversify my crops, and I purpose in the future to plant less, manure more and work better. I keep as much of what I produce on the farm as possible." HOW TO MAKE IT PAY. "How, in your opinion, can farming be made to pay ?" 1 aeked. He rpplied: "By giving your farm as close attention as a merchant or any other business man gives to his business, by diversifying your crops, raising on the farm everything you use as far aB possi? ble ; by paying cash for what you are compelled to buy, thereby avoiding time prices." I then asked why are there so many complaints that farming does not pay ? "Because, as a rule, people do not at? tend to their farms, plant too much, work too little, plant all cotton, do not try to economize, do not make their own man? ure, and do buy their supplies on a credit at time prices. They do not study farm? ing. They do not diversify their crops or try to raise what they use." COTTON THE MONEY CROP. I next asked Col. Campbell to give me his views a? to the comparative value of the different crop-;. "I think," he said, "that cotton is the most paying crop, when r^.sed purely as a surplus; but when one relies on it as a sole crop, it is, in my opinion, a suici? dal policy in ninecaseB out often. Barley, rye, grass and clover patches are proba? bly as profitable as any crops, when considered as helping to produce the sur? plus crop. I asked: "What do you think of the comparative value of home-made manure and commercial fertilizers?" Ho answered: "In order to m. ;e them both most profitable, they must be used together. Commercial fertilizers do not pay well when solely relied on, but are very valuable (paying sometimes as much as 50 per ceut) when used in connection with home, made manure. Fertilizers pay well when properly U3ed." COLORED LABORERS THE BEST. "What lab<5r*do youllike best ?" "Our native born colored people," wa3 his answer. "How, iu your opinion, can labor be made most.eflicieul?" wa3 my next ques? tion. To this he replied: "Oo with the laborer, work with him, take the fore? most row, see that he does his work well, and then pay him promptly nccording to contract." "Does farming pay ?*'I queried next. "It certainly does, as well now as it ever did. It pays as well asauy business in proportion to the capital, labor and attention given it." He answered with emphasis, I hesitated and then said: "Colonel, will you tell mc what you think about the Farmers' Alliance." He replied: "I certainly will. Far? mers' Alliances, or any other association of farmers, will redound to great good, good, both to the farmers and the country at largo, when carried on only for the elevation and improvement of the farm? ing interest of the community; but when they undertake to control railroads, mer? chandise, &c, in my opinion they are a failure, for every tub must Btand on its own bottom." COMMON SENSE MUST BE CSED. I also interviewed Mr. William G. Watson, who resides about two milea south of the city. He is now worth thousands of dollars, which he made on the farm. I read to him my interview with Col. Campbell, and he Baid: "Well, I can endorse what he has said. There is no system in farming that will make lino cropa every year. The soasons must, to a great extent, of course, control that, and the time to plant, and the amount of work requisite, aro also dependent on the weather. A man must give his farm close atteution, nnd use common souse in its management. "The way to get the best results from farming iB to plant less, work better and manure more. That farming pays there can bo no doubt, for if farming did not pay I he country at large would gel poorer and poorer. Wheu the farmer suffers every other business suffers with him, for to him all others must look for bread. Inmyopiniou the cause of the great complaint that farming does not pay is very much due to tho fact that people, as a rule, do not give their farms proper attention. They do not Btudy farming and they do not ecouoruize. The reason that farming does not pay, if it does not, is due to the farmer and not the farm. COTTON AS A SURPLUS. "Cotton should be raised solely as a surplus crop, for it can only be used as Ruch, and when raised as a surplus it pays to raise it; but if people undertake to raise cotton with which to buy corn, llour, bacon, &C, to supply the farm, one need not wouder that such a man com? plains that farming not pay. It also pays to use commercial fertilizers, and espe? cially in composting our home made manures. In this way both are very val? uable. "There is no doubt but that our colored ptop'v, who are, as it were, 'to tho manor born,' are the most desirable laborers we can got. "There seems now to bo a tendency toward planting less and making more to the acreage. The idea that to make most we must increase our acreage is fast giv? ing way, and the plan of improving the land and making it produce more with the name work is taking its place. My success as a farmer is probably due to the fact that I raised, as fur ns possible, what I used on the farm, raised cotton as a surplus, paid cash for what I had to buy THURSDAY MORNI anil gave my farm close attention. While it might not pay to raiso corn to sell, it will pay to raise it in order to keep from buying it. The same is true of wheat, oats, &c. the farmers' alliance. "Now in reference to the Farmers' Alliance, I think it will probably do one good thing at least for the country, and that is to bring about the cash sys? tem. It will do to buy by, but it will not do to sell by, for one man will not be willing for his good cotton to help sell some other man's cotton, which is not so good, and consequently he will sell his separately and to itself. But it cannot and ought not to do away with the merchant, for he is as essential as any other person. A man who can pay cash can get goods at very reasonable prices and does not need any Alliance, but if those who are able will carry those who are not able to pay cash it will be a great blessing to the latter." farms require close attention. " I also had a talk with Capt. Thomas W. Martin, a man who started with nothing, but who now baa about two thousand acres of valuable land, beside considerable other property, and haa raised a large family. He coincides with the views above given, and asserts with emphasis that farming does pay, now as well as it ever did, and that the reason so many say it does not, is because they do not give their farms proper attention. To make it pay, one should study it, attend to it, diversify the crops, raise what is used on the farm, buy as little as possible and pay cash for that. Anderson county has many farmerB in it who are making money on the farm, but you do not see these men in town every day or two without any business. The almost universal opiniou here is that where farming does not pay it is the farmer's aud not the farm's fault. Southern Iron Interests. Some time ago the Manufacturers* Re? cord of Baltimore, writing of the develop? ment of iron-making in this section, said that the south is to be the future cent.r of the iron and steel trade of the world. For several years there has been a show of competition in northern markets be? tween the output of southern furnaces, and that of northern furnaces. The" southern ore has found a market of its own and has managed to hold it in the face of such drawbacks as naturally grow out of a new situation that amounts to an experiment. The competition of south? ern iron has not as yet had any serious effect on northern furnaces, but the fact ha3 been demonstrated that iron smelted in Alabama can compete with the Penn? sylvania product in its own markets. A correspondent of the Manufacturers' Record, who is described as a gentleman who for twenty or thirty years has been closely identified with the industrial in? terests of the south, and who is intimately acquaiuted with the working of most of the leading iron companies of this sec? tion, gives some very important informa? tion. He says that a large number of new furnaces will shortly be built in Alabama and the south, no intimation of which has heretofore been given to tho public. But by far the most significant state? ment made by the correspondent is to the effect that the money which will be put in these new plauts has been made out of those that have been running, a fact that will cause the northern iron producers to open their eyeB. The correspondent says that the south? ern furnaces have made more money du? ring the past year than they are willing the outside world should kuow. He de clares that there is many a slack now running in the South that is making irou at ?S.50 a ton, and he knows of none making iron that costs over ?11. In regard to the failure of some southern furnaces, a fact that has been used to discourage the investmeut of capital in that direction, the Record writer says that every failure thus far cau be traced to two causes: One is an entire insufficiency of working capital, and the other is ruinously bad management. Either one of these causes would be sufficient to pro? duce failure, but both combined insure it. It need not be supposed that the facts which the Record's correspondent sets forth are hidden from the keen eyes of investors either at the South or at the North. There is not a day in the week that parties of capitalists from tho North j are not surveying and investigating tho situation in this section.?Atlanta Cow si Hv I ion. Twelve Pieces of llono. I bad catarrh twenty-five years. Twelve pieces of bone, two of them over an inch long, came from ray nose. My front teeth dropped out while perfectly sound, and my dreadful sufforiug need not be told. Two years ago I took four bottles oi S. S, S. and I improved from the. start. It made me well, and I have been well ever since. Mrs. J. M. Host. Statesville, N. C, Nov. 22,1SS3. Cnrert Ills Boy. My little boy waa cured of Scrofula by Swift's Specific, after he had taken a quantity of other medicines without the least improvement. W. A. Clayton. Add in, N. C, Nov. 23, 1SSS. Falul Poison. For year-. I was alllicted with Poisoned Blood, which, it Focmetl, would result fa? tally, as nothing seemed to benefit me at all. At length I found myself in bed a complete wreck. My body swollen out of proportion, covered with scales, and the pains and itching mado lifo almost un? endurable-. The physicians failed to do mo any good, and I was about to give up in despair when i began taking Swift's Specific. This medicine has cured me Bound and well and nothing else did it but S. S. S. Rev. R. U. Mitchell, Pastor Cid. M. E. Church. Macon, Ga., Sept S, 1SSS; Swiit's Specific is entirely a vegeta? ble remedy, and is the only medicine which 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't, Atlanta, Ga. ? It is said that Saxony furnishes the l.irgest percentage of suicides of any civi? lized Stale. The number last year was 1,101, or one to about every .'!,000 of tho population. In 1 S31 the total number was 1,3 IS. NG, MAECII 28, 16! HILL Altr. Arp'w Adricii to tho ISoyn and CItrN. Atlanta COTiftitiition. Not long ago I saw a nice young man who is yet in his teens going round town hunting for a place in a store. lie look? ed anxious aud timid and didn't seem to have much faith in finding a place. The boy belonged to a broken down aristo? cratic family and suddenly realized that ho had to work for a living. He had never plowed jor hoed'or dug or chopped wood, or curried, a horse, or done any? thing but go to school and visit around and have a good time, but now he had worn out his welcome and realized that the realities of life were upon him. He mu3t go to work. Hid hands were soft and fern inine.'.He.had very goodjclotliOH, was handsome and would have made an attractive clerk in a dry goods store. Cut there was no place and he had no experi? ence. A few days afterwards, as I was meaudering around, I saw him making up mortar for a brick mason. He was pulling away as bard as he could, but I noticed that he had gloves on. I didn't like that until I learned that his hands were blistered so he had to wear gloves or quit. Ho was bright and cheerful? said he was getting seventy-five cents a day and was promised a dollar as soon as he could do as much work as "a nigger." He said he enjoyed his meals and slept splendid, and had four dollars in his pocket that he earned, the first money he had ever earned, and he felt richer and more independent than he ever felt before. There is grit in that boy. He has met the enemy and the enemy is his. He lias whipped poverty and dependence at the start, and if he will keep on that line Iiis fortune is made?I mean the line of Lbe work. He has begun at the bottom find worked up. He won't spend those lollars?they cost too much to 'throw iway on foolishness. They cost f-weat md tired muscles and aching bones and blistered hands and humility, but he is jetting over that now. It nearly killed aim for the society girl3 to ride by and see lim at work. They know him, and one laid: "I thought he would have to come lown." Another said, "Poor fellow .' I im just as sorry for him a31 can be. He is so nice and dances so cbarmiogly." That is what is the matter with a good nany of the young men. They are ifraid of what the girls will say. They aad rather loaf around among their kin )r pretend to be reading law than to go ;o work?work is not exactly respectable. This false pride is a contemptible weak sees and disgusts me so I feel like taking ny coat and driving out to tote mortar or lig ditches for the gas pipe just as an ;xample. I counted twenty-six negroes ill in a row digging those ditches and not a white man among them. A work? ing boy won't have to do that kind of work long. He is watched aud talked ibout aud very soon somebody wants him md he gets a better place. He crawls up. It is an old saying that if a young man saves bis first thousand dollars he will get rich?that is so in nine cases out of :en-yes, if he will save his first hundred, tie will succeed, and any young man can wvc that much in a year if he will let whiskey and tobacco and the society jirls alone?society will keep a poor roung man poor. It keep3 married folks poor. I am thinking now of a married man who is bowed down with debt, while Iiis family ara trying to keep on the rag? ged edge of society. A milliner makes their clothes, and they are just obliged to ride in a carriage when tbey go visit? ing. Such people are the towmtalk and don't know it. There are nice young men in every town who have been clerking for year3 and haven't laid up a dollar. They must take a girl to every show that comes along, and spend five dollars ou every dance, for those who dance must pay the fiddler. Capital is very particu? lar now a days. When capital wants a young man it looks round for one who doesn't drink or smoke or gamble?one who saves his money aud doesn't run about every night. Family influence 13 not worth a cent now. A young man stands on his merits, his habits, aud bis associations. I know a young man who lost hia placo because he kept a bottle iu his room. So he quit for a year, and was just about getting a good situation, when he got ou a spree that set him back for another-year and discouraged him, and now he drinks whenever he can get it, arid docs odd jobs around, but can't get any regular employment. Nobody but sick folks can afford to drink, and it doesent do them any good. I never saw a father who was willing for his son to drink?I never saw a son who was willing fur his father to drink. The wife feels as much concern about her husband drinking as he does about her taking morphine. Young man, there is a blue book in every lown aud your name is on it. But there is no excuse for a young man failing to get employment in this blessed country. If he does notitisnot his own fault. If he can't get rich fasti he can slow. If he will begin young aud { work hard and behave himself he will | accumulate a plenty lor his old age. Old age wants some money. It wants rest and ought to have it. "Otiutn cum dignitate" is the Latin for dignified lei? sure, but I heard Judge Underwood say it meant, "rest comes by digging." Dig first and rest afterwards. Old age don't want to get up a cold winter morning and make the fire and cook the breakfast. Yesterday morning a little darkey tapped at our bedroom door and said : "Mamma Bay she sick aud her can't come des inornin'," and then I heard a female voice reply, "Oh, dear me, there it is again. I thought last night she w:i3 fix? ing to gut sick. She is such an aggrava? tion. I wish she would quit and stay quit. Here it is teven o'clock, and not oven a fire made." And so the breakfast was like tin- trains, an hour late, and tho children were late to school, and got marked, and everything was out of joint, and haven't got straightened out yet. Fight dollars a month and perquisites won't keep a cranky cook in order, fn such emergencies 1 11-ed to get up and cook the break fast myself, but I won't do it now. I've struck. I'll do without it fi.s'. I want my oliuin cum dig. Mrs. Arp shan't do it cither. She wants her uiium, aud is.entitled to it. We 39. have another darky close by, and so the case is not desperate but it is provoking. There is a good deal of provoking in this valve of tears. Last night I started to town. The silver moon was shiniug nearly vertical, and as I stepped off the piazza, to the pavement, I thought I saw our black dog lying by the step, and so I stepped high to'step over him, and Mrs. Arp says she, "what are you stepping so high for?you remind me of a blind horse with the striughalt." "I didn't want to step on the dog," taid I, indig? nantly. Sbo just laughed aud said. "children, did if y?? see'your pa trying to step over hisj.shadow?there is no dog there," and they all laughed but me. Such things always disturb my se? renity. fjGo to work young man and lay up some money for your old age?for the time when the grasshopper will .become a burden and the cook will quit before breakfast, and you will think your shadow is a dog. '?'What about the girls,"isays a friend. Let the girls quit their foolishness, as Sam Jones says. If tbey can't make money, let them quit spending it. I know young ladies in this town whose fathers are on a strain, aud yet they won't make their own dresses. They have them made by the milliner. They prance all over the towu, and gad about.reading novels, and don't do a blessed thing to help their father maintain the family. A girl whose father is on a strain ought to make her own clothes aud some more besides. If she doesn't kuow how she should learn. Every member of the family should at least earn their salt aud pepper and pickles and chewing gum. A girl of eighteen who cau't make her own clothes is not fit to be a wife, much less a mother. Rich or poor, they ought to do something useful. Get up early and fly round and sweep aud dust and look after the dining room and the lamps. After breakfast go to that sewing machine and inake it hum and june like your grand? mothers did the spinning wheel. In the afternoon put ou your nice homemade dress and go to see somebody you want to see, somebody who wants to see you, and talk sense when you get there. Oh, for more model boys and model girls to raise the next crop from. Young man, don't you marry a young girl who is too proud or too lazy to make her own clothes. Young lady, don't you marry a man who drinks or who spends all that he makes. If following this advice stop3 the breed, let it stop. Bill Ari\ Crazy tor Want of Work. Sikh Sing, March 15.?Edward Brod erick, aged 19, and James Trogan, aged 24, were taken to-day to the Auburn in? sane asylum for couvicls. About 11 o'clock last night the prison officials were startled by shrieks comiug from the 7tb gallery. Ongoing to the cell of Martin Donnelly, aged 22, who was serving a three years' sentence, the keeper fouud Donnelly crouching in a comer and call? ing to some one to save him from the devil. A light was placed in his cell and Donnelly calmed down. Principal Keeper Connaughton said that the men are going insane owing to their having no work. "I trust," he 3aid, "that the Leg? islature will do something very soon for the convicts. If they don't we will be kept busy all summer sending insane prisouers to tho asylum." Warden Brush has returned from Albany, where he ha3 been in tho.iuterest of the repeal of the Yatcs prison bill. He said to day that he now has hopes that the bill will be re? pealed and that prisoners will soon be put to work. Serious Statistics. Dr. Spencer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose Hermous were published after his death, has two on the subject of "Delay of Con? version." In the first ho urges immedi , ate repentance by the statistics of death, ? showing how probable it is that any given impeuitent person will soon be summon? ed to his eternal account. He states it j thus: Of every 2,000 persons, in one year f.y will be dead, in ten years 5SS, in ! twenty years 1,07S. In a second sermon on the same gcuer al subject, in which the danger of delay is urged from facts Dr. Spencer (vol. 1, S3) makes the following estimato with regard to the testimony of facto as to the time when conversions usually take place : Out of every 1,000 professing Chris? tians, it will be found that 094 were con? verted under 20 years of age; 337 between 30 and 40; 25 between 45 and 50; 3 between 50 and (50; 1 between 60 and 70. j He adds these impressive words: "Be? yond seventy, not one! What a le-:aon on the delay of conversion ? What an awful lesson! How rapidly it cuts off the hopes of the delaying, making darker and darker the prospect as they are near iug the tomb! How rapidly the prospect of conver? sion diminishes ; far more rapidly than tho prospect of life! Let the sinner delay till he is twenty years old, he has lost more than half the probability of salva? tion he had at twenty. Let him delay till he has reached forty years, and only twenty-nine probabilities out of a thou? sand remaiu to him. Let him delay till he reached fifty years, and beyond fifty there remains only fourteen out of a day! What an emphatic lesson." How's This. \\ e oiler One Hundred Dollars Reward for any caso of Catarrh that cannot be cured by inking 1 fall's Catarrh Cure. I-'. J. Ckney & Co., Props, Toledo, 0. Wo, the undersigned, have known V. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus? iness transactions aud financially able to carry out any obligation made by. their firm. West & Trtax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0. E. II. Van HOwkx, Cashier.Toledo Na? tional Bank, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure iH taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per boltlo. ^old by all Druggists. VOLUM] The Spanish Peanut. Last autumngl wre-tejan article c:i the Spanish peanuts or "Poor man's friend,'' as I termed them. After the publication of that article T received so many letters of inquiry in regard to seed, mode and time of planting, mode of cultivation, etc., that'it was quite a job to answer them jill.2 "Now as the planting season is soon to be here I must ask you for space to give the desired information more fully. Tho Spanish'peanut, in;my opinion, certainly deserves the title of "Poor man's friend," for there is no crop that I have'any expe ence with, (and I've bad some experience in a good many) that will give better results with less labor on our poor, guano starved lands. If you wish to raise them for"flsale they will produce two or three times as much as corn ^or'colton, with much less labor tha? cotton. Then as stock feed they surpass anything. Horses, cattle, hogs, poultry and all kinds of stock eatjthe nuts greedily. Then the vines after the nuts are removed make the very best forage. Stock eat them freely and thrive|well. Will nowj repeat |my personal experi? ence with them, as this article may reach j a great many that never ?aw the former one. In '37 planted one-fourth aero of poor, sandy land, that made that year, onlv'U bushels of corn to the acre. U Re I < suits from peauuts ten bushels and $5 worth of forage. Last year, '8S, I planted one acre. Results from the one acre of poor, sandy ridge^and, with no fertilizers fifty bushels of nuts, and $20 worth of fine forage. First year's crop, soldjfor seed, at^2 a bushel, made the one-fourth of an acre produce $2-3 with the forage. Last year's crop, one acre at ?1.50 per bushel, with forage, produced $100.00. How does that compare with other crops on poor land without manure? Now, as to quantity of seed to acre, mode of cultivation, etc. One bushel to the acre. Time of planting about same as cotton In our section, any time from teuth of April to first of June. Mode of planting, similar to that of cotton. Make your rows 21 to 3 feet apart. If you wish to use fertilizers, run off your, rows, then bed on the manuro in as flat beds as possible. Whtn ready to plant, open beds with small plow. Drop two I shelled peas in hill, eighteen inches j apart. Then cover with board or small double plow. Plow first time with small long plow to stir the ground thoroughly, then the rest of the time with flat sweeps. Hoe out the grass between the hills. I If seasons are favorable you can harvest tne last of August or first of September. The ease with which they are harvested is the chief point of superiority over tho old kinds of peanuts. Can pull up vines by hand and leave scarcely a single pea in the ground. Pull them up and throw four rows together. Lot them have one or two days' auu, theu take a fork and throw them in small piles, about fif? teen or twenty feet apart. May let them stay a day or two in piles, then haul them up early or late when damp to prevent shattering. When well cured put away under Hbolter and you can pickoffnuts at your leisure, or feed nuts and vines to? gether if you wish. In conclusion I would say, that if any people need such crops to lift them out of poverty and debt it is our own Southeru people. I hope that our farmers will give'this crop a trial and reports results. I also hope this article will give them some as? sistance in making it. I will give further information if desir? ed.?R. C. FOLG er, in Greenville Kein. Boys Must Not Smoke. Hartford, March 14.?A reminder of Connecticut's blue laws is found in a bill passed in the Legislature this after? noon to prevent the use) of tobacco by boys. It is a sharp and severe measure, striking alike at the tobacco stores and the urchins. It provides that no person shall sell, give or deliver to any minor under sixteen tobacco in the form of cigarettes or any other form underjpen alty of a fine, the maximum of which is fixed at ?00. The next section imposes a fine not exceeding $7 on any minor under sixteen who shall have, smoke or in any way use tobacco in any form whatsoever in any public street, place ?f resort. The original intent of the bill was to strike at cigarette smokiu/g by boys, but the legislative committee who considered the matter concluded to extend it to all forms of tobacco. The bill went through the Senate the other day and passed the House to-day without a division. An Irrepressible Bridegroom. "Do you take this woman to be your wedded wife?" began a youug divine who bad been called upon to unite in matrimony a couple from the rural dis? tricts. "Yaas," promptly put in the groom, not waiting for the complete question. "To love?" went ou the reverend questioner again as soon as be had re? covered from the explosive affirmative so unexpectedly given. " Fau-V' came again with uiidiminished vigor from the groom. And to houor, to?'' A third " YaasC1 camo equally forceful and prompt, to the entire defeat of Mr. Brown's scheme of gliding into the next phrase. "To cherish-" And so on through the entire para? graph. It was quite evident that the young mau was willing, The same gentleman tells a story of a groom who after the ceremony slipped a two dollar bill into his hand, murmuring, apologetically, "I'll do better next time." Kozcma, Itchy. Scnly. Skin Torture*. The simple application of "Swaynes Oiutment," without any internal modl cine, will cure any easo of Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm. Piles; Itch, Sores I Pimples. Kezcnia; all Scaly, Itchy ^kin I Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long standing, it is potent, effective, and costs ' but n trillo. 15 I XXIV.--NO. 38 ALL SORTS OF l?AK.V(JKAr!LS, i ?During ihc !:;?'. year the sum tot.il of educational^ gifts ' iu this country was nearly ?5,000,000. ? Charles Vail, an undertaker of Madison, Ind., is proud of the fact that he has buried more than 20,000 peo? ple. ? An exchange in spcaking'.oftbe bad conditionjof the wagou roads in Georgia says they are paved with single trces*and profanity. ? More 'college student.', come from Connecticut in proportion to the popula? tion than from any other State. .She sends one to every 54'.? persons. ? Michigan lumbermen are investing largely in Soutliern'pine. Itecently 00, 000 acres, situated in Southern Missis? sippi aud Louisiana, were purchased at remunerative figures; by?. Michigan men. ? A section hand carelessly laid down for a nap on the Air Linc'Railroad track near Tngalo River. Both his hands, which were lying across the rails, were cut off by a passing train, leaving only hi3 thumbs. ? The costliest book owned in Chicago is a copy of the first folio edition of Shakespeare, published in 1G32. It is regarded as the finest copy in America, and is valued at $10,000.:*; Its owner is a man who made a fortune on the Chicago board of trade. ?J. T. Fletcher, of Jenkins Bridge? Va., was in his grave and.men were bricking it up, when they heard a groan. They opened the coffin and found Fletch? er's heart beating. He was taken home, but died two days afterward without re? gaining consciousness. ? Mrs. Eaton, one of President Harri? son's sisters, wore at the inaugural ball a lace shawl, which belonged to her grandmother, the first President Harri? son's wife. She also wore a locket once the property of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison of Revolutionary fame. ? A young lady of Orlando, Fla., is the proud owner of a large Thomas cat which is an expert bird catcher. His style of hunting is peculiar and decided original. He has learned to imitate the ? notes of birds, and in that way entices them within bis reach. ? Mary Beard, an old colored woman living in Guyton, Ga., has just returned from Florida, where she was reunited with her mother, from whom she was sep? arated fifty four years ago, and had never seen since. She was taken from her mother when only o years old. ?In Philadelphia the average number of persons living on an acre of ground is only 13 ; the number of dwellings per acre is 2}, and the number of persous per dwelling 0. In New York the number of persous ou each acre of space is; 02; the number of dwellings per acre 4, and the number of persons per dwelling IS. ? Two fishermen at Pushaw lake baited a line with a shiner and put it through the.ice. Noticing a great com? motion, they took it from the water, when it was found that a white perch, weighing about half a pound, had swallowed the bait, and then an'"enormous pickerel had swallowed both the perch'and ils prize. ? A writer in an'Kngiis'j paper claims for Woodbridge the cre?lit*of" possessing the meanest man|in the person of a mis? erly yeoman who refused to allow his daughter to receive a sealskin jacket as a present because he could not afford to pay for the camphor which would be needed to keep the moths out of it during the summer. ? An^honest blacksmith was once grossly insulted and his character infa? mously defamed. Friends advised him to seek redress by means of law, but to one, and all he replied, "No; I will go to my forge and there in six months I will have worked: out such a character and earned such a name as all tbejudgee, law courts and lawyers in the world could not give me." He was right. It was by honest labor, manly courage, and a con? science void of offence that we assert our true dignity and prove our honesty and respectability. ? No member of President Harrison's Cabinet is a total abstainer, ^though Wanamaker publicly frowns upon intox? icants. Mr. Harrison like? a swallow of Irish whiskey now and then. Blaine is a connoisseur of French wines, Windoni enjoys a dinner at which each course has ite appropriate stimulant, Tracy is fond of a pint of champagne at lunch, Nobi likes malt drinks, and indulges every dS\ in a bottle of imported ale, Miller seldor takes anything but rye and seltzer, whik Rusk swallows his corn juice plain. Eli? jah Halford has neverjtasted whiskey, but has sipped champagne now aud then on convivial occasions. ? Editor Stovall, of the Augusta Chronick, writing of the Charleston i tragedy, says: "Gallant Dawson, -the-? brilliant editor, the gallant chevalier, is no more. What transpired during the tragic moments of his taking off we may not know. What plea he made for an unfortunate girl, what c? xpo<tu 1 atioqjj^flS fered to a misguided man, what Lot words passed, what blow was offered, what provocation given?these are not in our possession. We believe his interfer? ence in a matter, which in some degree concerned his house, was inspired by an intrepid, chivalrous nature., which acted up to a lofty conception of duty and which yielded its life wc must accept, in as high minded endeavor as ever glorified the cross upon a Tempi*?*'* breast. The tircatcsi Anli-Porodic k , Known to the medical profession is ? ??? Iii? base of which is the Calisaya .luiuioe. me - . . . . - j ,'Jirk 0f commerce. This bark is gather- / cd by the natives of South American .-' countries and exported to all parts of the'' world for the manufacture of quinine, "The servant is not greater than his mas? ter''and it islands to reason that the exir.ict has not the curative powers of the original. There is no more effective rome ly for malarial disorders known to the world thau Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic, which contains ai purest bark, and all disorders w35e s^ tern arising from a diseased livf r rwd?y* succumb to its influence. This; j?^ medicine is for sale in every drur*coW ?i the town.