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BY CLINKSCALE iXji OT THE ? ft. S. HILL, ACCOMPANIED BY MBS. SLOAN, A VING just returned from the East era Markets, where they spent a long ; ^hile in search of? RARE BARGAINS, i I 1 m Now take pleasure in stating that we {never bought a Stock of Goods more to * our . own aatisfactioa than we did this time. In our opinion, we can show not ^bnly? .. The Largest, - Handsomest, And most Varied SPEING STOCK Ever offered on this market, but taking QUALITY of material into considera? tion? HH By Far He Ctaiest! DEESS GOODS, Of every Style. '.._>? Coloip and Texture, ? .Including Challiew, Henriettas, Brillian-' tines, Mohairs, Silks, Satins, Velvets, Ssiteens and White Goods, world without end. In fact, all the NEW GOODS, in every imaginable shade that the markets afford. Onr Stock of? TEIMMINGS Is replete with all this season's Novel? ties, including Persian Band Embroide? ries, Braids of all kinds?Silver, Gold and Hercules, in different shades. Also, those new and beautiful Felt and Braid Trimmings combined, as well as Gnimps 2 / ;.ancL-Garnitures of every description, bt7tt03sts! Never before has it been our good fortune to run upon such a handsome, ^llitasty and elegant lot of Buttons as we hjive now waiting your inspection. Don't forget that as we were the first % -to introduce those soft-finish, elegant DEE3S LININGS, we stfll give this -line oar personal attention, MISS MALLALIEU ^ ; ' Continues her DRESS MAKING !;: In our Establishment, and is better pre pared than ever before to fill, in a thor : ough and stylish manner, all orders ? f - entrusted to her. A full and carefully selected m m STOGK OF HOSIERY, Hankerchiefs, Gloves and Parasols. In Laces and Mull Embroideries we defy competition. As usual we take the? LEAD IN MILLINERY Of every description. We have had exceptional advantages in buying this year. We begin with our leader?a nice shade Hat, in black and white, at 20c. Staying late enough to attend all the retail openings, we are not only laden with the moBt beautiful and stylish Goods ever ahown here, but have a thor oagh knowledge of how to manipulate them. So ? that with stylish Shapes, beautiful Flowers, airy Laces and en? trancing Ribboiift, the latest French and New York fashions, and above all THE LOWEST PRICES ever offered, we are bound to bring joy to the hearts of our many customers, old and new. Very respectfully, Re S. HILL. S & LANGSTON. T^AfJH^'?'OL?MN. "Ss All communications intended for this wumn should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, 8. C. We paid a visit last week to Miss Lncy Gambrell, who has recently taken charge of a subscribed school in the neighborhood of Mr. Peter Acker's. Miss Lucy is young in years and in expe? rience, but Father Time is doing his best to overcome the former, and she is doing her beet to acquire the latter, and we think she is in a fair way to succeed. It is creditable to that community that they are willing to go down into their pockets to secure a school when the public schools have stopped. We took occasion recently to make a second call on Miss Carrie Watkins at the Denver school. We fonnd her in a much more comfortable honse, and more pleasantly situated every way than at the time of our former visit. And she wasbosy, too, with about thirty pupils around, her, all of whom showed signs of progress in the. three months that had elapsed since we saw them. The Denver people show their appreciation of a good school and a good, teacher by supple? menting the public fand and running right on for an eight month's term. We made a second visit to the Bleak Hill school, ander Miss Nannie Calla ham, and to the Shady Grove school, ander Miss May Russell. We found each of them in good working order, with thirty or forty pupils present in each, and a prospect of continuing for some time. These schools are located in fine comrjrmitieT; and the people of both seem to be waking up on the subject of schools, and propose to keep the ball in motion. This is a move in the light direction, and until it is imitated by other communities they cannot hope for as good results from the public funds. In conversation recently with a father, he said that he did not like the method of teaching in vogue nowadays?that the pupil- were taught things they did not underatand?that his boy worried him at night for assistance?that he paid the teacher to do the work, and he did not propose to help her. The plain English of which is, that he has tnrned over the mental, moral and physical training of his boy to the teacher, and does not pro? pose ti) give himself any farther concern about it. Whaf; a monstrous idea I If his child's bodily health needed the attention of a physician, how quickly he. would summon one and lend him all the assistance in his power by constant nurs? ing, and yet when these other and greater interests .of his child need the servic3s of'a professional teacher, he thinks he has done his whole duty when he bau hired her and paid for it. Is this any tiling else than supreme indifference? Or lather does it amount to culpable neglect? Can a father stand acquitted at the bar of his own conscience who pursues this coarse? We think not. We think he has not done his whole duty when he sends his boy to school and supplier him with text-books, but that his responsibility to his God, his boy and his country reaches far beyond this./ The question of establishing a system of City Graded Schools is one that ought to be considered by the people of this city. There is a movement all along the line in this direction by many of the leading towns of the State, and Anderson should keep abreast of the times in this respect. Yorkyille has recently voted to levy a special tax for this purpose. Spartanburg has had it for some years? Winnsboro and Rock Hill have each spent $12,000' on the Graded School buildings?Greenville has spent $18,000, and onr neighboring town of Seneca has had it in operation for two years, and why should not Anderson wake up and bestir herself in this matter? Wherever tried it has given satisfaction, on account of its cheapness and efficiency. There are two essjntial requisites, and when combined, will be the means of drawing in a very desirable class of population. We now have one of the finest institu? tions in the State in the Patrick Military Institute, and are soon to have the Bap? tist Female College, and if we had the Graded School system it would soon be a feeder for both of them,.for pupils could pass directly from the one to the other, and receive all the benefits of a Collegiate training at home, which many now can? not receive, because their parents cannot incur the heavy outlay involved in eend ing their sons and daughters away from home. And then the very important consideration should no. bv ovcilu.-iS.ed that parents can have their children directly under the parental eye, and sub? ject to parental control and influences from the very inception of the course of training in the Graded School to its final culmination in the higher institutions in onr midst. The question then is, shall we have it, and if so, how are we to get it ? The recent action of the Legislature upon the subject makes the way easy and plain. Section 2, of the Act, pro? vides that upon the written request of a majority of the resident freeholders of twenty-one years and over, the Trustees shall call a public meeting of the tax? payers who return one hundred dollars worth of realty or personalty for taxa? tion. Said meeting to be called at any time before the- 1st day of June, and when aesembled shall have power to levy a special tax not to exceed two mills, and shall, within ten days thereafter, be certified by the Chairman of the meeting to the Chairman of the Board of Trus? tees, and to the County Auditor, who shall enter it upon the tax duplicate, and the same shall be collected and paid out as other school funds now are. An? derson now pays into the School Fund $1,538?2 mill tax. Of this amount Bhe get3 bock only $664, thus leaving $374 that goes to help schools outside of her corporate limits. Thi3 stp.te of things ought to be remedied, andrere is the opportunity. Think of it, and let us act at once. ?It i3 said that diphtheria is the dead? liest enemy of the human race. BILL ABF. Arp Speaks of the Time When he Attended School. Atlanta Constitution, When a lively, restless boy comes home from school about four o'clock in the afternoon, the first thing is. to go to the pantry and eat up something. The chil? dren don't come home to dinner, and their cold lunch is not very inviting, and so they fill up as soon as they get homei for their mother never forgets them. What delicious memories cluster around the dinner basket of fifty years ago?the time when it was no hardship to walk two miles to school and stay all day, and get back about sundown! That basket was a treasure then, with its fried chicken and hard boiled eggs and home made sausage and turnover peach pies and beat biscuit and a little bottle of molasses to wind up on. Wouldn't it be splendid to go back and live that life over again for awhile, and play town ball at recess, and run foot races, and play tag and mad dog on the way home, and about this time of the year, when the sap is rising in the chesuut and hickory bushes, to make whistles and plait whips, and gather honeysuckles and Bweetshrnbs, and watch out for birds' nests, and run the lizzards and ground squirrels along the .old rail fences, and I dam up the branch, and give some school boy sass to most everybody we met on the road. I haven't seen a striped back ground squirrel in forty years?the squirrel that will skin along the bottom rails of a fence for a hundred yards and i disappear in a hole with no dirt around j the top. The old darkies used to tell us I they dug their holes by beginning at the j bottom and carrying the dirt the otherj way, but it was a great mystery to me. I believe it is a good.thing for children to have a good long walk to school. I know those two miles by heart. Every hill and branch and chesnut tree and 'simmon tree. Every sand bed and ditch and every half hidden stone and root against which I stumped my big toe that was already sore from having been stumped before. What hurts a boy worse than to stump a sore toe and see the black blood ooze from under the nail ? How comforting is a mother s sympathy as she tenderly ties it up with some sugar and turpentine in the rag. . Those two miles are sweetly linked with ny school days and I'm sorry for the boys and girls who have only a square or two to walk in a town or city, and have to eat dinner at home every day. They are not having their share of fun in' this world. I am sorry for a town boy when he comes home from school and don't know what to do with himself the rest of the day?no fields or woods or branches; no colt to ride or bull calf to break ; no snakes to shoot at as they hang on the bushes on the bank of the creek; It is right sad to bear the boy nay, "Papa, what can I do this evening." I take pity on mine and some times let them help me dig in the garden by way of variety and some times I play marbles with them, for I have not forgot* ten the old fashioned rule of roundance and kicks and fat up.d go last and vence your back villance, but [ can't plump the middle roan out from taw like I used to. It is a good idea to let a town boy have a few fine chickens to pet and raise from, and make his own coops and nest and do his own feeding and fuss at everybody who interferes with them while he is at school. Or he might have a square or two in the garden for melons and straw? berries, and he ought to have some good, honest story books to read, and bo acquire a love for reading, for there is no pleasure so cheap or so lasting. Parents should find time to read to the children at night ?read something that will interest and instruct them-something from Goldsmith or Hood or Washington Irving or Oliver Holmes, or BOme other bright and cheer? ful author. I wish that I had done more of it in my family. Last night I read to them the original story of Kip Van Win? kle by Washington Irving, and they were delighted, and when they hear and see Joe Jefferson act it they will enjoy it all the more. It is much harder to entertain boys than girls. Boys will get tired of] sling-shots and marbles and tops and balls, but girls never get tired of dolls. Their love of these little imiw?ona is instinctive, and according to nr. in re and necessity. It is a training scl.ool from the cotton and sawdust filling to those of | flesh and blood. But the girls should have some variety, too, for their spare time from the household duties. Some flowers and vines to grow and to watch as they bud and bloom into beauty?some? thing that will be btfto than reclining half bent over a sentimental, love-sick romance that pictures an unreal life that never happened and never will. It is a perplexing care to raise up these children and keep them happy and satisfied with home. Some will go astray and grieve us in spite of all that we can do, and some will comfort us in our old age. There 13 no patent on this business, neither for saint or sinner, but we must all do the very best we can, and trust the rest to Providence. The blessings of life are pretty equally divided, anyhow. The poor man in this country does not have as much anxiety about his children as the rich man in town. The working country boys do not get much education, nor much polish, but they grow up with hab? its of industry which are the best habits in the world. We are trying to establish a new sys? tem of schools in Cartersville, and our people are wide awake and taking a lively interest. We advertised for a superinten? dent, at a Balary of twelve hundred dol? lars, and in less than a month we bad forty-seven applications. They came from Canada to Texas. Fourteen States were represented, and all of them had first-class credentials. Verily, the school? master is abroad in the land, and as Lord Brougham says: "I will trust him, armed with hin primer, against the soldiers in full military array." I was told the other day that the normal college, at Nashville, turned out about four hundred teachers every year. Our own State colleges are giving us an annual crop of about one hundred and they are good men and good citizens and have chosen a noble calling. Of couirse some of them have made a mis? take, for the best scholars are sometimes the poorest teachers. Cue of the best lawyera I ever knew was the poorest practitioner and had to abandon the pro ANDERSON, B.C., fession, and just bo it is with many teachers and preachers. The faculty of imparting knowledge to the young is a gift, just like music and painting and oratory. A fair scholar with a good fac? ulty of teaching is far better than the most profound one who has it not. I know a lady who can gather a flock of children around her like a hen brooding her chickens and teach them more in an hour than some other teachers would in a week. If a teacher does not love his calling he will never succeed in it. If a doctor does not love bis profession he will never attain to fame. All the great surgeons are enthusiastic?such as Agnew and Mott and Battey and Calhoun And so it is with teachers. We don't want a machine. We don't want a man who seeks the place solely for the money that is in it. Teachers and preachers should have a higher ambition than the average bread winner. I went to school to a Mr. Gray who afterwards studied for the ministry and stood a splendid examination and was just about to be voted a license when old Dr. Goulding, the moderator, leaned forward, and said iu solemn voice, "Brother Gray, do you feel that the Lord has called you to preach the gospel to the people ?" "Yes, I do," said Gray, "if they will pay me for it." That reply ruined his prospects, for he stuck to it and was rejected. But, of course, neither the preachers nor the, teachers can work without pay. We hope to make no mistake in select? ing a superintendant from this large number of competent gentlemen, but if we do, there is still privilege left us?the privilege of paying taxes to a public school and paying tuition to a private one. Bill Arp. The Propensity to Kill. Dr. Hammond contends that murder is natural instinct. "The propensity to kill exists to a greater or less extent iu the mind of every human being without exception. In some it consists iu the desire to take the liferof fish ; in others of birds; in others of deer and buffalo ; and in still others of larger and more dangerous animals, such as tigers, elephants and lions. In some, but few as compared with the number of those who delight in taking the lives of the lower animals, the impulse is shown toward other men or women. It is, however, very much a matter of educa? tion, the condition of life, or the attend? ant circumstances, The Prince of Wales kills a hundred pheasants before lunch? eon ; the King of Dahomey kills a half dozen of his wives before breakfast. It is to be supposed that each is actuated by the love of pleasure. If the acts in question of either of these potentates caused him pain, it is quite certain that neither the pheasants nor the wives would be immolated. This desire to destroy life is often exhibited during the very earliest stages of infancy. In fact it is inborn, instinctive, and no amount of civilization or refinement is sufficient to abolish it altogether. Some individ? uals may succeed in keeping it down, but even the mildest-natuied man that ever lived posses it ready to domidate him when a sufficiently exciting cause arises." Dr. Hammond pictures a state of society in which human beings are in a depraved and degenerated state. This killing propensity is certainly not a nor? mal trait in human character. It is the outgrowth of generations of education of depravity by the slaughtering of animals, the execution of criminals, and the wholesale butchery of human beings in warfare. The disposition to kill, if so universally present as Dr. Hammond thinks, must be the result of heredity, and is as much a species of mental deformity and disease as is insanity, or any other mental defect. Moral agen? cies alone will fail to eradicate this homicidal taint. Here is a work for san? itary reform. Remarkable Exploit or Female Sur? geons. "I see by yesterday's papers," remark? ed a young man about town, "that a Chi? cago women's medical college has weaned a couple of dozen young ladies M. D'b. I wouldn't allow one of those lance-jugglers to carve any part of my anatomy," he continued with a shudder. "Not that they are unskilled in the profession, but they are apt to overlook small bits, as it were. The worst blunder in this line that ever came under my notice occurred during an operation performed in a Chicago hospi? tal by a woman, and which to my knowl? edge never has been equaled in the history of surgery. The patient was a girl under treatment for a tumor in the stomach. After aeveral months of fruitless medical treatment, the female physicians in charge decided to resort to the knife. Accordingly, the victim was" placed under the influence of nme3thetics? laid out on a slab in the presence of nu? merous doctors and nurses of the female persuasion, and the carving began. The maiden was opened in scientific style and the tumor successfully removed, as were also several large antispetic sponges which bad been placed in the abdominal cavity to absorb tho blood during the operation. Then the incision was neatly sticbed with silver wire, the boss surgeon had rolled down her sleeves and was re? ceiving congratulations, when a young doctress, who had taken the precaution to count the sponges before and after using, suddenly exclaimed: 'Oh, Doctor, you have left a sponge inside cf the patient!' At first tho doctor scouted the idea that she could possibly make such a blunder, but as one of the Bponges was missing, and which a careful search of the room failed to discover, she thought perhaps it might have got lost in the shuffle. The stitches were removed, and sure enough there lay a sponge as big as a half-grown mud turtle snugly reposing among the Eatin arrangements of the young woman. The sponge was rescued, and as the sur? geon was sowing tho girl together again, she calmly remarked: "I'm glad my at? tention was called to tho matter, as that sponge is worth sixty-five cents."? Chica? go Times. ? No wonder we can find water when we dig for it. A Scotch geologist says that the earth was in a liquid state for 150,000 yoars. THURSDAY MORN WASHINGTON'S DEATH. Timely Reading for these Centennial Days. The following circumstantial account of the last illness and death of Gen. George Washington was noted by Tobias Lear on the Sunday following his death, which happened on Saturday evening, Dec. 14,1798, between the hours of 10 and 11: On Thursday, Dec. 12, the General rode out to his farms at about 10 o'clock and did not return home till past 3. Soon after he went out the weather became very bad, rain, hail and snow falling alternately, with a cold wind, When he came in I carried some letters to him to frank, intending to send them to the postoffice. He franked the letters, but : said the weather was too bad to Bend a [ servant to the office that evening. I observed to him that I was afraid he had got wet; he said no, his great coat had kept him dry. But his neck appear? ed to be wet, the enow was hanging on his hair. He came to dinner without changing his dress. In the evening he appeared as well as usual. A heavy fall of snow took place on Friday, which prevented the General from riding out. as usual. He had taken cold, undoubt? edly from being bo much exposed the day before, and complained of having a sore throat; he had a hoarseness, which increased in the evening, but he made light of it, as he would never take any? thing to carry off a cold, always observ? ing, "Let it go as it came." In the evening, the papers having come from the post office, he sat in the room with Mrs. Washington,* and myself, reading them till about nine o'clock, and when he met with anything w"Eich he thought diverting or interesting he would read it aloud. He desired me to read to him the debates of the Virginia Assembly on the election of a Senator and Governor, which I did. On his retiring to bed he appeared to be in perfect health, except the cold, which he considered as trifling; he had been remarkably cheerful all the evening. About 2 or 3 o'clock on Saturday morning he awoke Mrs. Washington and informed her he was very unwell and had an ague. She observed that he could scarcely speak and breathed with diffi? culty, and she wished to get up and call a servant, but the General, would not permit her lest she should take cold. As soon as the day appeared the woman, Caroline, went into the room to make a fire, and the girl desired that Mr. Raw I ins, one of the overseers, who was used to bleeding the people, might be aent for to bleed him before the doctor could ar? rive. I was sent for, and went to the General's chamber, where Mrs. Washing? ton was up and related to me his being taken ill between 2 and 3 o'clock, as before stated. I found him breathing with difficulty and hardly able to utter a word intelli? gibly. I went out instantly and wrote a line to Dr. Flask and sent it with all speeed. Immediately I returned to the General's chamber, where I found him in the same situation I had left him.' A mixture of molasses, vinegar and butter was prepared, but he could not swallow a drop. Whenever he attempted it he was distressed, convulsed and almost suffocated. Mr. Rawlins came in soon after sunrise and prepared to bleed bim. When the arm was ready, the General, observing Rawlins appeared agitated, Baid with difficulty, "Don't be afraid," and after the incision was made he observed the orifice was not large enough, How? ever, the blood ran pretty freely. Mrs. Washington, not knowing whether bleed? ing was proper in the Generali condition, begged that much might not be taken from him, and desired me to stop it. When I was about to prevent it, he, so soon as he could speak, said, "More." Mrs. Washington, still uneasy leat too much blood should be taken, it was stopped after about half a pint had been taken. Finding that no relief was obtained from bleeding and nothing could be swallowed, I proposed bathing the throat externally with sal volatile, wh:oh was done. A piece of flannel was tljn put round his neck. His feet were also soaked in warm water, but it gave no re? lief. By Mrs. Washington's request I despatched a messenger for Doctor Brown, at Port Tobacco. About 9 o'clock Doc? tor Craik arrived and put a blister of cantharides on the throat of the General, and took more blood, and had some vine? gar and hot water set in a teapot for him to draw in the fumes from the nozzle. He also had tea and vinegar mixed and used as a gargle, but when he held back his head to let it run down, it almost produced sufioca tio a. When the mixture came out of his mouth some phlegm fol? lowed it, and he would attempt to cough, which the doctor encouraged, but with? out effect. About 11 o'clock Dr. Dick was sent for. Dr. Craik bled the General again ; no effect was produced, and he continued in the same state, unable to swallow anything. Dr. Dick came in about 3 o'clock and Dr. Brown arrived soon after, when, after consultation, the General was bled again; the blood ran slowly, appeared very thick, and did not produce any symptoms of fainting. At 4 o'clock the General could swallow a little. Calomel and tartar emetic were administered without effect, About 4.30 o'clock he desired me to aak Mrs. Washington to come to his bedside, when he desired her to go down to his room ?-.nd take from his desk two wills which she would find there and bring them to him, which she did. Upon look? ing at one, which he observed w/ib useless, he desired her to burn it, which she did, and then took the other and put it away. After this was done I re? turned again to his bedside and took his hand. He said to me: "I find I am going?my breath can not continue long. I believed from the first attack it would be fatal. Do you arrange and record all my military letters and papers; arrange my accounts and settle my books, aa you know more about them than any one else, and let Mr. RawlinB finish iecording my other letters, which he has begun." He asked when Mr. Lewis would re? turn. I told him I believed about the 20th of tho month. He made no reply to it. The physicians again came in (be? tween 5 and 6 o'clock), and when they came to his bedside Dr, Crajk asked him if he would ait up in the bed. He held out his hand to me and was raised up, when he said to the physicians: "I feel myself going?you had better not take any more, trouble about me, but let me go off quietly; I can not last long." They found what had been done was without effect; he lay down again and they retired, excepting Dr. Craik. He then said to him : "Doctor, I die hard, bat I am not afraid to go; I believed from ray first attack I should not survive it; my breath can not last long." The doctor pressed his hand, but could not utter a word; he retired from the bedside and sat by the fire, absorbed in grief. About 8 o'clock the physician again came into the room and applied blisters to his legs, but went out without a ray of hope. From this time he appeared to breathe with less difficulty than he had done, but was very restless, continually changing his position to endeavor to get ease. I aided him all in my ' power, and was gratified in believing he ielt it, for he would look upon me with eyes speaking gratitude, but wa3 unable to utter a word without great distress. About 10 o'clock he made several at? tempts to speak to me before he could effect it. At length he said: "I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." I bowed assent. He looked at me again and said : "Do you understand me ?" I replied, "Yes, sir." " 'Tis well," said he. About ten minutes before he expired his breathing became much easier ; he lay quietly; he withdrew his hand .from mine and felt his own pulse. I spoke to Dr. Craik, who sat by the fire; he came to the bedside. The General's hand fell from his wrist. I took it in mine and placed it on his breast, Dr. Craik placed his hands over his eyes, and be expired without a struggle or a sigh, While we were fixed in silent grief Mrs, Washington asked in a firm and collected voice, "Is he gone ?" The Diet of Different People. The vagaries of the appetite are far beyond the explanatory science of physi? ology. What we call tolerance in medi? cine is in itsel f a mystery. We cannot tell why this thing agrees with this in? dividual, and at the same time utterly destroys his brother. The trite old say? ing that "one man's meat is another man's poison" must be accepted empiri? cally. Still less can we account for the variations of taste. Why one man's gustatory nerves should respond agreea? bly to salt, while another's repel it with violence, we cannot understand. Doubt? less education has most to do with it, and yet the manner in which education oper? ates continues a mystery. The preference of the Chinese for food that seem to our appetites absolutely disgusting is well known. In Canton rats sell for fifty cents a dozen, and dogs' hind quarters command a higher price than lamb or mutton. Fancy eating birds' nests worth thirty dollars a pound! That is what a mandarin revels in., The French beguil? ed us into eating frogs' legs, which were once tabooed in this country, and we have even come to esteem diseased goose 1 liver in the form of pate defoie gras. The writer has met Brazilians who rave over boa constrictor Bteaka and count monkeys and parrots a very good meal, In the West Indies baked snake is a common dish, as the reptiles abound, and it is a good way of getting rid of them. But when it comes to frying palm worms in fat, one would think the stomach would rebel. It is not so, however, though, by a strange inconsistency, stewed rabbit is looked upon with disgust. On the Pacif? ic coast the Digger Indians eat dried locusts, and in the Argentine Bepublic skunk flesh is a dainty. Our own favor? ite bivalve, the oyBter, ia very disgusting to a Turk, while the devil-fish, eaten in Corsica, is equally so to us. We cannot understand, either, how the inhabitants of the West Indies and the Pacific coast can eat lizards' eggs with a relish; still less how the egg 3 of the turtle and alliga? tor can become a favorite article of diet. The Brazilians eat ants, probably to get rid of them, for they literally infeBt the country and are of an enormous size. It is easy to pick up a handful of ants almost anywhere, though the weary do not go about it in this way, as the pestiferous insect bites in a most vicious manner. A curry of ants' eggs is a great delicacy in Siam, and the Cingalese eat the bees whose honey they have stolen. The Chi? nese, who seem to have stomachs'like the ostrich, eat the chrysalis of the silkworm, after unwinding the cocoon. Spiders are used in New Caledonia as a kind of dessert, while caterpillars are also relish? ed by the African Bushman. New Kind of Detectives. We have nil watched monkeys with more or less delight. If we have thought of them at all, it has been as creatureB created to amuse us. We have never dreamed of them as being of use in the administration of public affairs. It took a clever officer iu London to accomplish this. The truant officew went into one of the poorer districts of London to hunt up the children who did not attend school. They knew there must be more children in that district than appeared on the lists at school, but an they visited from house to house the parents denied that they had children to send to school. After the entire district was canvassed and the officers were discouraged, one of them announced that he would fine the children. The next day thei officers went back to the district, and with them an organ-grinder with a very intelligent monkey. The children came pouring out of the doorways. The truant officers went among them, soon learned their names and addresses, aud when the organ and monkey had canvassed the district two hundred children had been found who did not attend school. The parents and guardians of these children were visited, and, knowing that a heavy fine was imposed for keeping children at home, sent the children to school. There, each day, arc the little ones found by the monkey. A Word of Encouragement for Bad Boys and Wayward Girls. One can never tell where a mountain rill is going from the way it starts. Sometime it runs in one direction and then in another. It tumbles over a ledge of rocks here and winds round a preci? pice there. Now and then moves slowly and again it rushes over shoals, bending this way and that, and it looks to all the world like it was never going to amount to anything but a noisy, crooked, useless mountain stream. Follow its course till you strike the plain below and there you will find the steady flowing river, irri? gating lands on both sides, turning mills here and moving factories there. Its course also becomes Bettled and you can tell that it is going to take up in the great ocean below, after it has made the earth rejoice on account of its presence. The man would be very foolish to expect the babbling brook of the mountains to turn great wheels and to bear heavy boats, but without these noisy, crooked rills there would be no rivers in the plains and no gra33 covered meadows. As these little streams are, so are our young men and women. They do a thousand things that they will not do in later life. They must gamble and frolic like lambs and kittens, and rush head? long at their plays and sports and amuse? ments as though they never thought or cared for anything. The fact is a young person with old ways is not a lovely sight. There is a want of harmony about it. Do not despair of boys and girls because they are wayward and frolic? some. You know it is the boast of some preachers that in their youth they have been drunkards, outcasts from society, the most wickc-d wretcheB that ever lived. They show very bad taste iu makiDg these boasts, and their statement, how? ever damaging to themselve, warns no one else, but it still shows that very base men may occupy very exalted positions. Then do not despair of your girl, if she does not take to steady regular work. Do not scold her because she builds air castles now and then, instead of darning her stockings. She may be a little for? ward in company, or what some of the i very discreet saints of the earth call "light-headed," but be assured when she settles down she will be as nearly right as most folks. The fact Is these irre- ; pressible girls, that s.re always planning i and scheming for fun and frolic, and ready for a picnic to day, an excursion i to morrow and a round of entertainments night after night, are the very ones that make our most active and beautiful women. Their elasticity ? and vivacity carry them through the serious work of life when it comes. They are fouod in i the front ranks where woman's work is to be done. There are also many boys that seem to be "no account." They fool around the streets, or saunter around country stores, and it looks as if they would never 'amount to anything. Pro? vided they never form any vicious habits and do not seltle down into dishonest practices, there is hope for them. One of these days you will see these boys that some older people look upon as abso? lutely worthless, at the head of the farms, stores, railroads and other great enter? prises. Lend the worst boy in your neighborhood a helping hand. Encour? age him by kind words and good wishes. Do not strive, after the manner of some very good people, to make these boys social outcasts. Help them, trust them, drop a word of encouragement now and then. It will do them good. Get iu Bympathy with them. Show them that you are not austere, unrelenting, war-to the-knife enemy of all boys. It comes just as natural for a boy to have his fun, and play prauks and cut up all sorts of "didos," as it does for him to stand on his head, play in gullies and have the measles. If all boys and girls were demure, discreet, quiet, old fashioned in their ways, Bober, not given to merriment, caring nothing for May parties, picnics, entertainments, sports and the comic side 'of life, the race would soon play out. There is hope for boys and girls, how? ever careless and light-headed they may seem. Help them, sympathize with them, lift them up, and one day you will not regret it.?Spartanburg Spartan. A House Made of Paper* There is a paper house in Atlanta. No wood, brick, iron or other material is used about the building. At 108 Decatur street a neat little store, painted sky blue, has attracted considerable attention re? cently. The gaudy color is not the cause of the little building being the object of so much attention, but the ma? terial of which it is constructed. It is made entirely of paper. The store was built by a Frenchman named Smytbe (spelled of course in a French way), who is agent for the paper of which it is con? structed. The rafters, the weather board? ing, the roof and the flooring are all made of thick, compressed paper boards, im? pervious to water and as durable as wood. The house cannot catch on fire as easily as a wooden building, because the sur? face of the paper is smooth and hard. The building is used as a store by Neal Kelly, who says he finds it warm in cool weather and comfortable when the weather is warm.?Atlanta [Ga.) Journal. Oil of Sassafras? The manufacture of the oil of sassafras is becoming an important industry in some parts of the country, especially iu the Southern States where this tree is common. Only the roots are used; they are chopped up into small pieces by a machine constructed for the purpose, the oil being then distilled from the chips by the aid of steam. About one gallon of oil, weighing nine pounds, is obtained from 1,000 pounds of the chips. The uses for which the oil of sassafras can be employed are numerous and varied.' It is a favorite perfume for soaps and can? dies ; it is U3ed as a solvent for different gums, and as a liniment. It is also very largely employed in the manufacture of several popular proprietary medicines. The importance of this industry may be expected to increase rather than dimin? ish, as the sassafras and the persimmon are the two trees which are spreading most rapidly over the old and abandon? ed field? throughout the Southern States outside of the pine belt proper; and at present prices good wages can be made digging out the roots.?Garden and Forest, VOLUM] raralyzed a Whole Family, New York, April f>3?At Pond Kidge, one of the email towns in West ehester County, Saturday night, Leverda Adams was visited by his uncle, Noah W. Brown, aged eighty years, and the latter's sen, both of Danbury, Conn. The members of Mr. Adams's family, including his wife and six children and the Messrs. Brown, were seated at the dinner table when the thunder-jtorm broke over the town. They were sud? denly startled by a terrific clap of thun? der followed by a bolt of lightning, which struck and ran down the chimney. The dining-room was badly wrecked, the stove being knocked over and all the persons in the room rendered insensible, Edward Adams, the eighteen-year old son, was the first to recover from the shock, and found that the house was on fire. He at once set to work to rescue the others. He dragged their insensible forms out one by one and carried out his infant brother, who was sleeping in a cradle. The infant, though stunned, was apparently not injured. After he had rescued all those in the dining-rcom he succeeded in extinguishing the flames. By this time some of the neighbors csme to his assistance, and the insensible per? sons were removed to the nearest houne. Sunday afternoon Mrs. Adams and all her children, with the exception of her ten-year-old daughter, had recovered froui the shock. Mr. Brown's son was also out of danger. Mr. Adams was in a critical condition, being badly burned from head to foot. His clothing was nearly all torn from his body. Little Nellie recovered consciousness and lived until 7 o'clock Sunday morning. She bad made preparations to observe Easter Sunday, and for the event gathered a lot of choice flowers. A few moments before little Nel? lie died she asked her mother what had caused her injuries, and when, she was told that it was lightuing, she said: "Oh, ma, how it did hurt me. I guess I won't need the flowers." The child then died in ber mother's arms. Mrs. Brown died during Sunday night. Last night Mr, Adams was still in a very critical condition, and but very little hope of his recovery i3 entertained. Tho house, which was an old-fashioned frame structure, is a total wreck. The lightning, in passing down the chimney, struck the hearth and seemed to separate into three electric balls, which played sad havoc through the building. The furniture was badly wrecked, the doors and windows smashed and the beams and rafters in the attic were snapped or splin? tered. The kitchen cooking utensils were melted and twisted into different Bhapes by the electric current. During the same Btorm the barn of Mrs. D. L. Park, near Bedford Station, was struck by lightning and set on fire. Two cows and a horse perished. The same night the lightning played a curi? ous freak in the building known as the Old Club-house, at Milton Point, in which Stephen Gaunung resides with his family. A bolt of lightning ran down the chimney, and after zig-zagging around the room, upsetting chairs and knocking Mr. Gaunung down, ran out the door and struck a dog, instantly kill-: ing the animal. Curiosities in Georgia. Valdosta, April 13.?Did you ever hear of or see a deer farm : Whether you did or not, there are two here, and deers are raised just like chick? ens or turkeys. It costs more to raise venison than it does turkey, and there can be no argu? ment as to which is the finest meat, Deer farming ia now a venture, but it has been tried and proven a success by such men as Mayor W. L. Thomas and Mr. J. C. Hunt. Each of these gentle? men have a drove of deer that run about in a pasture like cattle. The only difference between the two pastures is that it is necessary to enclose the deer within a wire fence about twelve feet high. Each of the above named gentlemen have a pasture of this kind 1 planted in rye, upon which their herds of j deer graze and keep rolling fat. In the winter it is, of course, necessary to feed them upon grain, but as a deer can be j fed on the same quantity, or very little more than a turkey, the cost of raising them is very slight, while they sell at a high rate. At present neither Messrs. Thomas nor Hunt raise more than a do.ien annually, and consequently they have not yet commenced selling the ven? ison, as their families will consume that amount. But within a few years each of the gentlemen will doubtless realize a handsome sum upon their deer farms, The original stock came from the country below here on the Florida line, which abounds in deer at present. They were captured when young, and the herds are now as gentle and kind as Jersey cat? tle. the guinea cow. Lowndes County also produces a little cow, which is indeed a curiosity. It is the same distance in height, length and width, and is supported by legs not more than twelve inches in length. It bears the name of the guinea cow. The first were brought here from Spain by an old Spaniard who came to this country before the war. The cow is very small and chunkey, but it keep3 rolling fat on almost nothing, and is a splendid milker, the average giving from three to three and a half gallons of milk per day. Mr. R. L. Stapler has a herd of fifty perfect little beauties. He disposes of young cows for $100 each, which almost equals the price paid for Jersey. While their milk is not so rich as the Jersey, the people here prefer tho guinea.?A Hanta Constitution. ? Miss Jane Blackman of Lancaster County, a young girl just blooming into beautiful womanhood, was so seriously burned one day last week, by her clothes catching fire, that but little if any hopes are entertained of her recovery. She was with her stepfather in the new grounds where brush-heaps were being burned, when her clothes caught fire, and before the flames could be extin. guished, fanned by the brisk wind blow? ing at the time, her person was bUstered from foot to head. Her physician con? siders her condition hopeless. E XXIV.- -NO. 43. ALL SORTS OF PAR.IGKAPHS. ? The greatest of look) is ho who im? poses on himself. ? A gardener in Marion county, Fla., has raised a cabbage eight feet and three inches in diameter. ? Fifteen Philadelphia girls have formed a health club which requires as its only condition of membership the discard? ing of corsets. ? Alabama boasts of nineteen cotton mills, representing an investment of nearly ?2,000,000, and an annual produc of over $1,500,000. ? Another reckless fellow has suc? cessfully made the leap from Brooklyn bridge. As he was drunk at the time the jump did not injure him. ? It has been calculated that not less than 20,000,000 of meteors, each large enough to be visible as a shooting star, enter our atmosphere daily. ? A woman in Baltimore bled to death from a cut on the leg, caused by the breaking of a whisky bottle that she habitually carried in the 3tockings. ? Cats are iu great demand in Dakota. A speculator who has been shipping large lots of these musical pets in that direction reports that he is making mon? ey. ?A syndicate of New York capitalists has purchased 14,000 acres of land near Auburndale, Florida, and are going into tobacco culture on an extensive scale. ? A man at Walla Walla, W. T.f eats an egg for each year of his life on every birthday. He was recently 42, and ate that number of eggs on that day. ? Peach stones find ready sale at $6 a ton in Vaca valley, Cal. They are used as fuel, "burning 'as long as coal and giving more heat." Apricot stones are also burned. ? The carpet manufactories of Phila? delphia have 7,350 looms in use, employ 17.800 hands, and manufacture annually 7,500,000 yards of carpet, at a value of $44,970,000. ? The Florida strawberry Beason was at least three weeks late this year. It now only costs 10 cents per quart transporting to New York, shipping via all rail in re? frigerator cars. ? An offer of $500 was recently made for a madstone owned iu Charlotte, N. O. The stone has a record of having cured more than a hundred cases of. mad dogs and snake bites. ? An eminent physician states that he cured a consumptive cough with hot buttermilk. He also found it very bene cial in the case of a patient recovering from congestive fever. ? The kernel of a cotton seed contains 1,300 oil globules, and a ton of well ma? tured seed, under hydraulic pressure, will yield forty-four gallons cf oil, which is about 94 per cent, of the oil contained. . ? The citizens cf Fayetteville, N. Cij have invited Jefferson Davis to deliver the address at the centennial celebration, of November 21, of the ratification of the federal constitution by North Caroli- ?'. lina. ? A lazy genius in Maryland has in? vented an automatic fiahing-pole, which ? i>y the aid of stout spiral springs, yanks out the unwary denizens of the streams, ? while the fisherman smokes and reads in peace. ? A negro who was giving evidence in a Georgia court was reminded by the judge that he must tell the whole truth, "Well, yer see, boss," said the dnoky witness, "I'ae skeered to tell the whole truth, for fear I might tell a lie." ? P. T. Pratt, cashier of the First Na? tional bank at Ankosa, Minnesota, is a defaulter, and is supposed to have appro-' priated to his own uses $100,000 of the Bank's funds. He has run away and is supposed to have gone to Canada. ? John Hamilton, of Frankford, Philadelphia, was bitten some months ago on one of his hands by a dog. Since then Hamilton's hand has been almost useless, the bones appearing to decay. His phy? sician has recommended amputation of the hand. ?The Texas umbrella tree is becoming a favorite for shade and ornamental pur? poses in California. It is a large and beautiful tree, resembling an umbrella in the spread of its foliage, which is so dense that it affords perfect'protection from either rain or sun. ? A peculiar accident'jwas met with by Oliver Tucler, whose home is at El dervills, Pa. He was climbing a tree, wb'^n it split, allowing him to drop into the opening, which closed upon*him, crushing him terribly. One of his eyes wa i squeezed from its socket. ? Lightning acted strangely in a Mid dletown, (Pa.) barn. One large ateer next to the wall was found dead, two next without a hair singed, while the fourth was killed outright. Then it crossed the entry and performed the same feat, the one nest the wall and the third one being killed. ? There's a gander in Coweta County, Ga., that has recently been bereft of its mate. He has since taken up with a rooster and is trying to learn how to crow, but so far without success. When the rooster flaps his wings to ? crow the gander does likewise, and stretches his neck in a vain effort to imi? tate the music of the cauticler. He tries hard to fly up on the roost and is very affectionate in his attentions to the rooster. ? A lovely flower, called the rice l?yj grows thickly in part of sou thwestern Georgia. It is extremely sensitive to the light. The blossoms fold up at night but open in the morning. At night, while the white blossoms are closely enfolded in their purple covering, and the flowers are asleep, if a lamp is placed near them they will gra lually open and turn toward it. If a st* ong light is placed on one side of the vase containing them, the half of the bouquet that faces the lamp will be unfolded, while the other half that is in the shadow will remain tightfy closed._ Entitled to the Best? All are entitled to the beat that their money will buy, so every family should have, at once, a bottle of the best family remedy Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the sys? tem when costive or billious. For sale in 50c. and $1.00 bottles by all druggists.