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Powder
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Liquid!
, v U aav* sold ihiB valuable Prepai
??ntor severalyeaw, and take great plejjs?:
: txr? in offering iV again, this season. The
BEpHipSfc adviseour friends tortakaaayan
. tage of the abundant crop in prcspect this
;--8eason,;"and:^provide':^;whAt. may be a j
^shorfcrop.'next. -j' . :
??'-Vy With One Dollar's worth of the <Pxepa?
^i?rcnyanffffgreat: deal less^-troable-'thah,
^j^oWlashioned^way of -canning, you can |
^ve^Kiough to' do * large famny the
Swhoiei Wintwr, and you can open and use
?nafrof the jar from ?me to time without
:&#bt- coarse it'suits some -people to run
i?<thtePrepwatdoo; down,: because It inter-;
;>feTesr.wittt ;theit;bhsln?ss, but ask T. D.
?^Sloan, of this'city,'and a thbusanaVothew
? ^throughout the County who have tneait i
&%i?fc taboos,- and/you wiU very soon see
?fc^ereishb humbug aboutit. - } \ \
;JO]EiI)AN; HOUSE.
MBS? ".. C J0B0?N, Prppfletress;
"i't'fi - ' .Rates.Reasonable, _ ?;
^ TilttYATE and "Transient Board sdidfrk
jr* v; -Qfc - Tix3.t?blels supplied wit&^tho|
.' best the market affords, and every atten^
"-' ttoa idvsn to guests."
^^r? 35,^1889;
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?S SALE OR REIT I
"SpifeBiimKS atHoaea.Path, 'S.'jO.? foV-1;.
%]aZ:.-a ' merly^belonjrmg, to..Mr^,JV/.G^
Wmltfii -Two; and a hair acres of land,,
v^^bundm? thereon. Apply to- ;
Charleston,S.C. v
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: :':": ATTORNEY
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" - ^UNSEIitOB AT 3LATT,; &
ANDERSON. S. C.
LL business - promptly attended.: to?
r < j^ Special attention given to coK
lections. . "
May 9,'188^-: ; U .
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OTICE'OF FINAL SETTLMENT... ,
Noticeis Jiereby given that thenn-:
ijrBgden^a^Pplyito theLJudgeof Pro-i?
of July, 1889, for ; a Final SettiememV
if theEstate ?fHiramB. Majors, deceased^
snd' a discharge .from their office as Att^
ndnistia trixs of said B^tate..
3; ? .-.MBS.ISALLIE MAJORS,|
^ ? MBS. MOLLIE C. SKELTON,
Administratrixa/-;'
7: June 13,1889 '49 h ;"
5-Ton Cotton Gin Scales. $61
BEAM BOX i
& BRASS TARE BEAM. |
s ? Warranted for 5 .Years
.Kraitfrt Paid- . ]
for ?era*.
^iefiB8 H? PAY8 THE FREIGHT-"
? For Free Price List, Address >?
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NATURE'S REMEDY.
: Ti? Syitra Absorbs it E*aiiily Through the Pores,
IT COPIES
Rheumatism,
Neuralgia,
Toothache,
Diseases of the Muscles,
Nerves, Throat,
Chest, Lungs, : V?
and Asthma. ?
] the Br st General Reuzdy ever offered^
.':??? 'the public. You cannot afford to be with-?M
: pgESr STISGS OR BIfES OF IHSHCTS> I
LARGE'BOTTLES, ? fl|?|
Olffl.Y 50 CENTS.
:;oi.D -DY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE^V
ASK FOB-TAKE XO OTHEK.{|j
' ; 'S^-Testimonia's and f?ll directions witiht^J
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mnicat'ons intended for
ioiiia be addreesed to D. H.
*wol Commissioner, Ander-1
)Y OF ENGLISH.
Journal of Education con
by .Miss Mary H. Leon
Winthrop Training School,
Sporne suggestions touching
jl?owledge of the English
by some pupils in our
i; not to mention college
je inefficiency ofold meth
grammar, so fat.as they
pil to apply his knowledge
L business of life, is noted,
"^expressed that there is a
jation to improve. On
si Leonard say^:
;few years textbooks in
u freed themselves from
id the forms of gramma ti
?have lost much of their
ichors have learned that
i of speech are to be sought
'means than grammatical
lave relegated syntax to
the higher grades .of
od are seeking to apply to
methods of instruction,
a question whether its
;? higher still, among the oh
tschool course.
Venture to predict that the g
^Instruction of English ?en
i.neverbe eliminated from our
>pnblio instruction^
g^rgeography and theyari
sciences are the centres of
wnost teachers. But we are
lat all efforts to displace the
^language study will lead
i" in the form of renewed
fe structure of the noble
l is the ( heritage of oor
ig people."
attention paid, in col
i'as'in schools, to the study
ebne evidence of the convic
locators that car language
jpQrtnnity for quite as much'
"? as do the dead languages,
ional languages of modern
^jtelnsane notion, rather prev
l^ears 8jgo, that the mental
jrded by Latin and Greek
^supplied in the study of
laa given place to the desire to
?liah high np in the university
iThis old. idea was the result of
"Philology had confined its
the dead languages, and the |
ass. other than English but
Igr^? their proper place,
vas'.deemed to be a subject with
Englishman or American
conversant. As one result
leas,-men left college in igno-.
le principles of their mother
_#e\ later, efforts to give English !
^jpia_cV ^have alreajdy improved
ship of our country and have
to improve the methods of
orar language.
inject is important to all classes
^ppie?not only to writers,
/lawyers and preachers. In the
"Hness of life, a knowledge of
ling language' is valuable in
~iat must suggest, themselves.
_Ijffi^^qimore excuse for bad
Sffgiis^when^it come3 from the busi
[nl^m^qrthe artisan than when it is
found:ini:;the atterances of the profes
si?j^hi^ber;;. The inability of a large
c||^)^fe;pwi)le to have their children
' l^ny; other language suggests the
Bnl'teaching English. The
ihopls. should'. pay especial
^n|toA;t6 the matter, though it is now
admitted that it should form a feature of
~" 3^a^instruction. The subject may
bly studied up to the student's
ation .?Columbia Register.
HOTELS OF STUDY.
umber of hours spent in school
J^rald vary with the age of the
is, five hours being the maximum,
^eonger the pupils, the more nnmer
^^|the^onger ?honld be the recesses,
be well to keep the very yonng
Idrec in the school room only so
gas^is : necessary for them to recito.
^^^??v^easy-stadieS should alternate
!' tw^^iput;: the day. Beceases should
O^& Afcblished . Very long sessions are
jnj^rious. Siegle sessions, which inter
fere,wiih lhe regular meal; hours of the
?M^lsj5'are injurious. Studious pupils
^^"Ofteh^need to be restrained in their
^o|k^andk: urged to -be in the open air
?^Da^'?:Pnpils of a nervous temperament
i^Mpt need the stimulus of competition..
Pupils under twelve or thirteen years of
ago should not be ti-quir^l ?o-.Mi.ly at
? h?mei "It is a mistake to enter pupils at
?school at too early an age. Healthy
children at seven or eight, those not
strong'still later.
' '?cjNine months is long enough for any
child: nnder sixteen years age to be in
I^Opl . ln any one year. The teacher
" mUDt not expect so much of his pupils as
he himself is able to do. Pupils at the
^present, time are probably being given
||jwp%beyond their years. Experience
P^?jleS^?nly with age.?N. Y.SckoolJour
nal.;
132 SCHOOL OF THE FUTTJBE,
I ^ihe school of the future must do more
ifinitt-we have done hitherto in the direc
ttipn^.of mental development?must lur
nish better training for the hand and for
the semes; must do more for the culti?
vation of tasto and the love of the beau?
tiful; must kindle in children a stronger
j iap^petite for reading and personal culti
[ vation; and r,t the same time bring them
intoW closer,contact with the facts of
realities, as well as the world of books.
And the public will look to yon and to
J-speli as you to fulfill this ideal.. There
:are-many grave problems in education
. which remain unsolved, and wbicb yet
J^wait speedy solution, and the answers
fi^iirijjepend largely on the decree in
Iwbicb the experience, and judgment of
pnr ablest teachers are brought to bear
Bpon; them. We are yet only at the
beginnings of a true science of education.
iSfahyofthe deepest principles and lsws
ni*lihat science have yet to be discovered.
f$!?in#Be laboratory of theschoolroom,
anil in a closer 'study lot child-nature by
teachers, that the most fruitful discover
fiwvWill be m&?ie.~-Mr, Filch.
BILL ABF.
The Cook Quits and Your Uncle Will am
Got* Bis Own Breakfast.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for
thou knowest. not what a day may bring
forth." ? No we don't. I dident know
last night'th.?t Mrs. Angelina Peacock
wouldn't be Ihore this morning. Nobody
1 knew it until there was a tap at the door
; and a voice a aid "Mrs. Peacock Beut me
to tell you she sick?can't come do more
for to eook till bef got well." David
saith, "Weeping may. endure for a Uight,
but joy c?meth in the morning." That
is so as a general thing, but smart de*
pendd bri whether the cook comes in the
morning. Kr? cook, no joy. Mrs. Afp
wasent well, nohow, and so I persuaded
her to be calm and serene, and let me
manage the breakfaBt; and so I called
Carl and Je8s:e, and we made a regular
frolic of it, and bad the best breakfast we
have had for a month. Mrs. Angelina
Peacock can't compare with us when we
take a notion to cook. She does her .best.,.
bat she is old and rheumaty, and weighs
about 250 pounds, and got fat and greasy
while cooking in old Virginny befo' de
wah. She is not the. lovely msideh that
Goldsmith wrote about in the Hermit,.
when he said:
'Turm Angelina?ever dear,
My charmer, tarn to see."
That was. aether Angelina. I. used to
cry over her tad wish that I was Edwin
when he clasped her to his breast.
But we made a division of labor and
got along splendid in preparing the
morning meal. Carl fired up the stove
and milked the cow and cooked the
meat. I toted water and made up the
biscuit and sitood around generally and
talked while Jessie took charge of the
hominy and coffee and milk toast and
scrambled eggs and potatoes. They al?
ways fatter me up to making the biscuit
and they do ssy that I can make better
biscuits than anybody, though I never
studied a cook book nor attended lectures
on the culinary art. You. see I use butter
instead of hunt!; I dont rub it in the flour
but I melt if in a tin cup and after it
cools a little I pour it in the sweet milk.
After the hordbrd has been put in the
flour, then siiuit twice or three times and
pour in the milk and butter and mix
thoroughly. Anybody can make good
biscuit that way. Every member of a
family ought to know how to cook.
There is no ether way of feeling indepen
pent. Let ths cook quit if she wants to.
White folks ought to be ashamed to admit
that they can't get along without negroes.
It is no discredit to anybody to cook. It
is about 83 ho norable a8 it is to eat, and
IB more scientific and takes more brains.
A hog can oat, but he can't cook. But I
want it understood th.it I am not a
standing candidate for that business. I
just want my family to feel independent,
so that when the cook quits it is not a
case of utter despair. Our children have
never rebelled against these domestic ac?
complishment. They can cook and milk
the cows and -. nake up the beds and make
their own clothes, and are always willing
to do it Wlt??u; there is a necessity.
I saw Carl milking the other evening,
and a sweet, pietty girl; who was no kin
to him, was standing close by holding the
bucket .for him, and it did look so
"confectionary," as Cobe says, that I
wanted a photograph of the Iancteah
scene., There was a Savannah girl up
here not long ago, and she had never seen
a cow milked and Carl had to explain to
her the process, how that one teat was
for sweet milk and one for buttermilk
and one for. cream and one for the calf,
and the sweet innocent believed it every
word.
But about this cooking business, I am
not uttering the sentiments of Mrs*. Arp.
She is constitutionally opposed to getting
up early in the morning. She is willing
to cook diuirer and supper, but has no
liking for cooking breakfast nor washing
the dishes. She conspicuously believes
that the-darkies were specially created for
this business. She is no great admirer of
King Solomon, either, and sometimes
hints that ?r?s respect for women and
children are very limited, for he wanted
switches and thresh poles for the boys,
and kept thrpq or four hundred wives to
wait on him and his definition of a virtur
oub woman ras "she riseth while it is yet
night and giveth food to her household."
He actually wanted his wife to get up be?
fore day and go to cooking, while he
slept until the bell rang for breakfast.
She thinks it enough for a mother to
nurse and worry with raising eight or ten
children, aoci after the crop is laid by she
I is entitled to rest and I think so too.
She shan't cook if I can help it. She
has made a thousand little garments, and
worked ten (thousand button holes in her
life, but, thank the good Lord, her eye
is not dimmed nor her natural force aba*
ted. No; she shan't cook. Our colored
nabor, Mrs. Fletcher, always comes when
she can, but she is raising a crop herself
and can't make a full haod in our kitch?
en. But variety is the spice of life, and
somehow I like for something to happen
that changes the monotony of things and
gets.up a commotion and stimulates our
energies. I like for the cook to quit and
the washerwoman to strike once in a
while. I like for the bucket to get into
the well or a young cyclone to threaten
us. I like for my vest buttons to come
off and my under garments to get ragged
so that Mrs, Arp will be sorry for me and
beg me to buy some new clothes, and I
can say r.ith a sigh that I can't afford it,
these, will do me very well; it doesn't
mafter how I look. I like to work the
garden while the son is hot and hear Mrs
Arp calling me from the window, "You
had better come in the house ; you will
make yourself sick again working in that
sun." I likes for her to hear mysterious
sounds away in the dead of night when
deep sleep falleth upon a man but not
upon a women, and when she punches
me in the side with her elbow I get up
and meander bravely all through and
around the house hunting for robbers and
ghosts just to show her what a protector
she has got. She is going to St. Simons
next week. And I am going to stay at
home. Soms of her married children are
going with her and she is to chaperone
the chaps or matronizs the party or
whatever you call it. I don't know
whether she is going to lave in the salt
ea wave or not, but I can see her now
ANDEKSON, S. C
standing upon the beach and with extend?
ed arms repeating the speech of her school
days:
"Roil on, thon deop and dark bluo ocean, roll?
"Ten thousand fleets bweep over theo In vain.
? * * *
'?Thou glorious mirror whero tho Almighty's form
Glasses itself on tempests. ? * *
Ob, she was a Bpeaker, she was, and she
is a speaker vet. She speaks to me some
times.
I wish that every aspiring soul could
go to St. Simons, or somewhere and look
upon the sea?the ocean. If a man has
a soul how it expands it I How diminu?
tive he feels in the presence of this
mightjr work of God ( Bat hundreds go
?there jnst like they go to a circusj They
have no new emotions, no increase of
reverence and no decrease in their own
conceit.
"A primrose by the water's brim
X yellow primrose was to him,
And It was nothing more.'*
Some people go through this world jnst
like they were sticks?no love nor hate
nor emotion nor ambition nor aim in life
?^no nothing but to live and eat and
sleep and hear the news?and as I pass
them I can't help thinking of a stick,
They had jnst as well never been born.
They never reflect that the snn shines
for them by day and the stars by night,
and for them the moon gives her holy
light. For them there is seed time and
harvest, and the birds sing and the
flowers bloom, and the earth is clothed in
beanty. Why, even the dog that lies at
their door was created for their comfort
and protection. Let a man commune
! with natnre and cultivate those affections
and emotions and aspirations that lead
him to a higher life.. St. Paul says that
man was made in. the image of his Maker
and but little lower than the angels,. And
Shakespeare says of him i "How noble in
reason, how infinite in faculties, in form
and moving, how express and admirable.
?in action how like' an angel?in appre?
hension how like a god." But those
kind of men are scarce. They don't go
about in droves. There are jnst enough
to prove what a man can be if he will.
Young man think of that and don't be a
clam nor a stick. If yon can't be great,
he good.
Bill Arp.
A Dog's Gratituie.
It remains for Col. Bill Brittian to
come to Augusta and pick up the best
dog story of the day. He found it in
the "flotsam," as it were, of .what some
people call Augusta's great flood, and it
is really one of the best things of the
kind afloat.
Col. Brittian happened in at Lan
dram & Butler's on Saturday, and be
noticed a fine Colly rush in the store,
and, passing all the clerks unnoticed,
made for Mr. Landram back in the of?
fice, whom he saluted with a regular
dog smile and a bow as unmistakable
as "Denver's" best salute on mnle pa?
rade. The delight of the dog was
evident, and the polite attention at?
tracted Col. Brittian's acute eye for any?
thing special in dog manners.
"Hello, is that your dog?" he asked of
Mr. Landram.
"No, but he claims me," replied the
senior member of the popular dry goods
firm. Mr. Landram then told the story
which Col. Brittian gave to the Evening
News.
It appears that the dog in question,
a handsome and intelligent Golly, be?
longs to Mr. John Bones Moore, ? and
makes his home with him for the most
part. During the September freshet
the dog was caught by the high tide in
Broad street, and although a good swim?
mer could cot make headway against the
swift current surging down Broadway.
He was caught in some brash or timbers
near Landram & Bntler's store, and
while there in durance, and in consider?
able peril, be was rescued by Mr. Land
ram, taken to the second floor and fed
for two or three days nntil the water
snbsided. Colly then went on his way
rejoicing.
So far the honors are in favor of Mr.
Landram, and now comes tho story of
a dog's appreciation and rare intelligence,
Every day Bince the flood that dog has
trotted around from Greene street, in
fact, twice each day; and rushing past1
clerks and customers, he calls on Mr.
Landram and salutes him with grinning
teeth and bowing head and a wagging
tail. He then curls up at his feet, goes
to Bleep and after his nap bows again and
returns homo. The interchange of civil
ties between man and dog is always in?
teresting.
And the interesting story does not
stop hers. Last fall Mr. Landram went
North to purchase his regular stock of
dry goods, and as Boon as the dog noticed
his absence from the store he sought
some other way of showing his gratitude.
And here is the strangest part of the
wonderful story. Although the dog had
never been known before to stop at Mr.
Landram's bouse, he took up his station
that night on the back piazza of the resi?
dence and there he remained till the
cook came in the morning to open the
house. Colly then left, satisfied that
all was right; and this nightly visit
and guard he maintained nntil his daily
visits to the store told him that' Mr.
Landratn was back home to protect his
own house at night. Now, if any body
has a story which better proves the pos?
session of intelligence and gratitude in
the dog world, let him bring it on !?
Augusta News.
? Benj. P. Ware stated at a Massa?
chusetts horticultural meeting that the
present crop of oranges in Florida is esti?
mated at 3,000,000 boxes, about half the
consumption of the whole country ; and
there are no less than 400,000 acres now
devoted' to oranges. Many thousand
acres, he remarked, would never produce
oranges, for they cannot be successful, as
cultivors well know, unless they are well
cared for. Nevertheless, the future crop
will be immense, for not more than one
acre in thirty is now in full develop?
ment.
? A Connecticut woman is suing her
neighbor for damages for putting up fly
screens. She claims that the flies which
cannot get into the neighbor's house on
this account will come into hers, and she
will thereby have double the usual num?
ber.
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THURSDAY MOEF.
It Is a Yalley or Death.
"In Yellowstone Park there Is a ravine
that proves aB deadly to animal life as
that Valley of Java, where wild beasts
perish by the score," Baid Henry W.
Mclntyre at the Palace Hotel last night,
The gentleman was connected with the
party who surveyed the reservation,
under the leadership of Arnold Hague,
the park geologist. While following the
streams to trace the extinct hot springs
the explorers reached a ravine in which
the bones of many animals, bears, deer,
rabbits and squirrels, were found. The
presence of the remains caused the party
much wonder, and a solution of the
strange affair was found only when a
crow bad been seen to fly from the aide
of the valley to a carcass that was yet
fresh light on its prey, and almost imme?
diately fall to the ground.
"The death of the bird," continued Mr.
Mclntyre, "was caused by gaseous exha?
lations, whose presence in the park had
been before unsuspected. The larger
game also met its death by inhaling the
?deadly gas. The ravine is in the north*
eastern part of the park, in the vicinity
of the mining Camp of Cooke Creek, and
not far from the line of the mail route,
All about this region gaseous exhalations
are given off, whioh form sulphurous de*
posits. In the almost extinct hot spring
areas of Soda Butte, Lamar river and
Cache and Miller creeks the ravine was
found. This region is rarely visited,
although it is an admirable spot for game,
which, however, goes unmolested by man,
the laws, against hunting being very
severe. The road to the valley has few
attractions, and the visitors to the Fossil
forests and Hindoo basin seldom make
the trip.
"In the centre of the meadow, reached
by an old elk trail, is a shallow depres?
sion that was once the bed of a hot
spring pool. This is now dry and covered
with a slight deposit of salt, and that is
the bait that attracts the elk and other
game of the region. The 'lick' extends
for seventy-five yards up the ravine and
is thicker and more palatable towards
the upper end.' The creek runs past
along the side of the valley and boih and
bubbles as if it was the outlet of a hot
spring. But the water is cold and the
disturbance in its surfaces is caused by
the emissions of gas, mainly carbonic
acid. It also contains sulphur, as parti?
cles of that are seen on the sides of the
! creek. As we went op the stream the .
I odor of sulphur became very strong and
caused irritation of the bronchial pss
sages. About eight yards above Cache
Creek were the bones of a large bear and
j near by was a smaller grizzly decom?
posed, but with the skin and hair yet
fresh. Only a short distance farther on
were the skeletons of many more ani?
mals, such as elk and deer and other
large game. Squirrels, rabbits, birds and
insects were lying about in quantities,
and the ravine looked as if it had been
the 'scoop' of a drive into which the
animals of the park had been hunted and
had there been left to die of hunger out
of mere wantonness. There were no
wounds apparent on the bodies before
us; all the animals had been asphyxia?
ted by the deadly gases that hung a few
feet from the surface of the gulch in a
dense, palpable curtain.
"The firBt bear we saw was a good way
down the gulch, where a neck is formed.
To that point the gas must have been
driven by the wind, and its deadly nature
may be easily guessed when ic is remem?
bered that the slightest motion causes a
diffusion of the ether that would tend to
decrease its noxious properties. Here is
the explanation of the oft repeated
assertion that game was being extermi?
nated by hunters in the Yellowstone,
notwithstanding the stringent laws that
had been passed for the protection of
animals there. I had seen it noted that
each year bears, deer, mountain tigers
and other wild animals were disappear?
ing from the reservation, and it was
asserted that friends of the people Who
had charge of the park were allowed to
hunt then in defiance of the law. There
were probably 150 bodies of wild ani?
mals in the gulch when I was there.
But, although there were skeletons entire
and single bones, it must not be supposed
these were the remains of all the game
that had found death in the ravine.
They had accumulated only since the
last rainstorm. Through this gulch a
mountain torrent runs when the snows
have melted from the mountains or after
a hard rain. Then all things, stones,
and bodies, are tumbled together on
their way to the mouth of the gulch,
whence they are carried away in the
creeks or are left to mark the course of
the stream and bleach on the table lands.
I had noticed near the Mam moth hot
springs the bodies of mice and bugs, but
had never attributed their presence to
the deadly gases that were ho rapidly
killing off the large game of the park."?
San Francisco Chi onicle.
Five Poisons In the Cigarette.
To he healthy, the cigarette must be
thrown away. It is very injurious, and
sure death to the person who smokes it
habitually.
Whv? Tobacco in any form iB bad;
but in a cigarette there are fire poisons,
while in a good cigar there is only one.
In a cigarette there is the oil in the
paper, the oil of nicotine, saltpetre to
preserve the tobacco, opium to make it
mild, and the oil in the flavoring.
The trouble with the cigarette is the
inhaling of the Bmoke. If you blow a
mouthful of emoke through a handker?
chief, it will leave a brown stain. Inhale
the smoke and blow it through the nos?
trils and no stain will appear. The oil
and poison remain in the head or body.
Cigarettes create a thirst for strong
drink; and there should be anti cigarette
societies, as there are temperance socie?
ties.
Teachers ought to watch and see that
their pupils do not smoke. In 1879
there were 900,000 cigaretteB manufac?
tured. Last year there were 1,200,000,000.
? From Paris comes the report that
Edison has invented a clock photograph,
which strikes 1 o'clock and then calls out
"Dinner time"-10 o'clock "Bed time,"
and so on, Fathers of marriageable
families will do well in to inquire into
this.
ENG, JULY 11, 1889
A Remarkable L'rlmc.
Atlanta, June 20.?One of the most
remarkable cases ever tried in a Georgia
court was before Judge Van Epps yes?
terday in the city court.
The case ia probably without a pre?
cedent in the history of crime. The of?
fense charged has extended over a period
of twenty years, here in Atlanta, and no
notice of it was ever taken by the police
or courts before.
As the case was called yesterday the
defendant was a white woman named
Nora Herron. She is 40 years of age,
but seems several year's younger, quiet,
intelligent and well dressed. She wore
a white summer dress and white straw
hat/and everything about the woman
was quietly preposessing.
Twenty years ?go Nora Herron came
to Atlanta. She had one Child with her."
One of her first acquaintances here was
Ashley Creech, a machinist. She applied
at his home for work, stating that she
was a young widow from South Carolina,
with one child and nothing but her own
labor between them and starvation.
Creech's wife was an invalid, the
mother of two children.
Under these Circumstances Mrs. Her?
ron was taken into the family, arid there
she remained. Mrs. Creech has been an
invalid these twenty years.
Soon after Nora Herron came into the
Creech family there was a very quiet but
radical reorganization of the family
circle.
Creech adopted Mrs. Herron as his
wife, and his real wife became a servant
in her own household.
Creech, it seems, had always treated
her cruelly. She was naturally a weak
minded woman and the change was made
without a serious protest from her. Nora
Herron was the acknowledged. mistress
of the house, and until the matter was
brought before the last grand jury hot
half a dozen people, living knew that
she was not Herron's real wife, or that
the real wife was not a servant."
Creech has bad five children by his
adopted wife, the last one-two years
old.
The two children by the first wife
were brought up in the same house.
Both were old enough to remember when
and how the'Herron woman came, bnt
were frightened into s ilence when they
were children, and have tolerated it since,
through a horrror of the scandal that
wonld follow its disclosure.
So twenty years have passed.
Creech's neighbors were told that the
real Mrs. Creech was an idiot and de?
pendent relative, kept through charity,
and that Nora Herron was Mrs. Creech.
Not long ago the daughter of the real
wife was married to a man named Drew.
She told him, after they werr married,
of her mother's real position, and Drew
carried the matter before the grand
j?"7
This daughter was the main witness
before the grand jury. She swore that
for years after Nora Herron first came
into the family there was only one room
to their house. After Mrs. Herron waB
adopted as Mrs. Creech, the wife slept
upon a pallet at the foot of their bed,
Afterwards a partition was built, making
two rooms of one, and the real wife was
sent into a separate room. It was the
real wife that did all the servant's work,
cooked, nursed, washed and ironed.
The Herron woman contributed to?
wards the support of the family by work?
ing in Selig's pants factory. She has been
there for years?one of the best and
most industrious workwomen in the fac?
tory.
An incident of the trial yesterday was
the introduction of the real wife as a
witness for the defense. She is much
older than the Herron woman and an
imbecile.
She shielded her husband and the
other woman as best she could. She de?
nied all that her children bad testified,,
bnt her statements were weak and con?
tradictory. The testimony was simply
overwhelming against the adopted wife
and Creech, and the jury were out not
exceeding two minutes.
There is a true bill against Creech,
and he will be tried if he can be found.
He learned of the grand jury's investi?
gation, and it is said left immediately.
The woman's sentence was $100 and
costs or sis months in the penitentiary.
A collection was taken up in the court
room aod over $70 was raised. Solicitor
Frank O'Bryan, who bad prosecuted and
convicted her, contributed $20, and
several of the jurymen contributed.
The entire amount was not raised, how?
ever, and the woman went to jail yester?
day afternoon. The balance of the fine
will probably be raised to-day and the
woman released.
Taking a lady's Am.
"The question is often put to me," said
a lady whose opinion in matters of eti?
quette is wholly competent, "whether it
is ever permissible to take a young lady's
arm in acting as her escort on a prome?
nade after nightfall. Unhesitatingly
and peremptorily, no. Not after night?
fall, nor by daylight, nor at any other
time. An invalid may lean upon a
young woman's arm; a grandfather, if
he is infirm, may avail himself of a simi?
lar support, and a Broadway policeman
seems to have acquired the right to pro?
pel his charges across that thoroughfare
by a grasp upon the arm, but those are
the only male persons so privileged. For
an acquaintance, a friend, or one who
aspires to a still nearer place, to take the
arm of a young woman when walking
with her on a public highway is inexcus?
able. You may be sure nothing will so
quickly offend her good taste, although
she may lack the social skill to resent
and avoid it. And the spectacle in
itself is most unpleasing. To see a
young woman pushed along, a little in
front of her escort by his clutch upon
her arm is neither suitable nor pictur?
esque. It reverses all preconceived ideas
of gallantry. The fair should lean upon
the brave. Virile strength ought ever
to support feminine frailness. Offer her
your arm, young man, ever time, and
never under any .circumstances commit
the familiarity and offense of taking
hers."?New York Sun.
? New York will spend $11,631,000
this year for paving and repaving Btreets.
Rah" Into a Washout.
Lynchbueg, Va., July 2.?A special
from Liberty to the Advance says: "A
fearful catasthrophe occurred about a
mile We3t of Thacton's, about thirty
miles above this city, at 1 o'clock this
morning, on the Norfolk end Western
Railroad, by which forty passengers
were killed. The accident was caused
by a washout on a high filling. It is
said that there were only about seven of
the crew and passenger's saved. All of
the cars were burned. Capt. Rowland
Johnston was in charge of the. train,
and is mortally wounded. Baggage
master Ford is said to be very badly hurt.
Major J. C. Oaasell, superintendent of
the Lynchburg division, was on the
train and was seriously injured. L. B. ?
Summers of Abingdon, postal clerk, was
bruised up considerably. -The other
postal clerk, J. J. Kose, of Abingdon, was
killed. Ail of the physicians and many
of the citizens of Liberty went to the
wreck as soon as information reached
here and did all they conld for the
wounded. Fat Donovan, the engineer,
was burned up, as was also a fireman
named Bruce. The train dispatcher was
also burned. Several of the wounded
were brought here and taken to a sani?
tarium. W. 0. Head olf Cleveland,
Tenn., is among the dead. These, are
all the particulars obtainable as yet.
Philadelphia, July 2.?PresidentF.
J. Kimball, of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, who has headquarters in this
city, when seen this afternoon in relation
to the accident on his road this morn?
ing said that while the wreck is a serious
one and has resulted in loss of life, the
report telegraphed from Lynchburg that
40 persons were killed is exaggerated.
Mr. Kimball is in direct telegraphic com-,
municatioc w'th ib: general manager
of the road. The information furnished
him up to one o'clock this afternoon is
that five persons were killed, nearly all
of whom were train bands, and quite a
number of persons were injured. The
train wrecked was known as No 2, which
left Roancke a few minutes before mid?
night. A heavy rainstorm had prevailed
throughout Virginia for about forty-eight
hours, and the train was moving slowly
and behind schedule time when it ran
into a washout about 1:30 this morning
near, Thacton's. The locomotive and
several cars were thrown into the ditch,
but the sleeper remained on the track.
The cars caught fire after falling into
the ditch, und quite a number of passen?
gers were ueverely burned, in addition to
those injured by the wreck, Telegrams
were at once sent to Boanoke for assist?
ance, and in short time a special train
arrived from that, city, bearing a fire
company and a number of physicians..;
Lynchiitrg, Va., July 3.?The Bcene
of the terrible disaster near Thacton's on
the Norfolk and Western Railroad, .is
beyond description. There is hardly
enough left of the train of eight cars that
took the leap to the bottom of the awful
pit to make one car. As soon as the
boiler of the engine exploded the entire
mass of debris took fire, and those who
went down who were not killed outright
were burned to death. Portions of eight
bodies have been taken out, and it is be-'
lieved that fully fifteen others were
entirely consumed. A survivor of the
wreck says cries for help could be heard
from all portions of the wreck, and those
unhurt were powerless to render assis?
tance. Women who managed to escape
lay about on the damp ground, suOering
from their injuries until day-break, and
many walked long distances to farm
houses. The few passengers left unin?
jured did all in their power for the un?
fortunates.
The charred remains of what are sup?
posed to be eight bodies were found in
very minute, particles. The body of
Engineer Pat Donovan was dug out
badly mutilated, and identified by his
watch.
Superintendent of Railway Mail Ser?
vice has received information from Postal
Clerk Summers, who was on the train
wrecked on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad yesterday morning, that the
postal car was burned and all mail mat?
ter, including three registered pouches,
destroyed, Mr. Rose, who was assisting
Summers, was killed. He was not an
employee of the government. Summers
was severely injured.
roanoke, Va,, July 3.?The debris at
the wreck on the Norfolk and Western
Railroad has been removed and a num?
ber of charred bodies have been found,
j Seventeen persons were killed.
I There were about thirty people who
I escaped with only slight injuries, and ten
who are seriously injured, The list of
dead will be increased as friends of miss
' ing people come forward in search of
j them. There is no way at present to
ascertain the exact number of dead, ow?
ing to the fact that the train was destroy?
ed by fire.
That Mar tie of Charity.
And the Good Book said in speaking
of many virtues, "but the greatest of
these is charity."' When a man is rich
and successful in business, he can afford
to curse the man "who won't pay his
debts."
Debts should be paid, and if a man can
and will not pay his honest debts he is a
dishonest man. But to the prosperous
rich man, let us say, put yourself in your
brother's place, who has been unfortu?
nate. Everything you touched seemed
to turn to gold?everything be touched
seemed to turn to sand. He is a public
man, perhaps, with thousands of charita?
ble demands made upon 'him daily, and
he is unable to pay his bills at the
instant they are presented. But don't
say he is dishonorable. The world is too
harsh in its criticisms of men.
An editor onco came outand published
Webster as u man who would uot pay
his debts, and Webster sat down and
enclosed his father's note which had been
given Webster's father for the editor's
schooling. Ths,t silenced the editor.
What a good world this would be if
Charity, with her beautiful folds, were
thrown arounds our fellowmen when the
harsh words of criticism are so unstint
ingly used.?Augusta Evening News.
? A fellow out West who bit ofT half a
man's nose, was bound over to keep the
piece.
VOLUl
Tabor and Dayrson,
The tragic fate of Capt. Dawson recalhi
the end of William Taber, of Charleston.-,
once the brilliant and handsome young
editor of the Charleston Mercury, thee,
and for some years after one of thu
most aggressive of southern newspapers.
Sometime in the late summer of 1S07,
I think, Charleston was shocked by tho
death of Taber, as she was shocked
recently, at the sudden and sad killing of
Dawson.
In the years just preceding the war,
political excitement ran high in the
South, and especially in South Carolina,
and the Mercury "was a political journal
that daily added to its warmth. It wai
owned and controlled by the Bhett fami?
ly, noted in South Carolina, and young
Taber, a relative of the family, was on
its editorial staff, He was young, bril?
liant and popular, a magnificent speci?
men of handsome manhood and bad
troops of friends. He was quite as amia?
ble and gentle in manner as was Dawson
when the writer first saw him, and though
a man of coun.ge, was not aggressive in
manners or disposition. But in those daya
the duello was a recognized institution
among the young men of the Sooth, and
nowhere more strongly than in South
Carolina.
At the date referred to there appeared
some caustic communications in tho
Mercary, aimed at Judge Magratb, who
still enjoys a robust and honorable old
age, and who was then a candidate fo r
Congress from the Charleston district.
These were supposed to have been writ?
ten by Edmund Bhett. They provoked
\ replies, and finally Edward Magrath, a
a brother of the Judge, became involved
I in a hostile correspondence with Taber
who, through a punctilio of the code,
became the avowed sponsor of the article
complained of. A meeting was held at
the usual place, near the old Washington
race course. Despite the efforts of mu?
tual friends and the active and indignant
protests of Dr. Bellinger, a distinguished,
physician, the combat was forced to ths
third exchange of fire, at which the hand?
some and gifted young Taber fell with a
bulletin his brain,"and Edward Magratb,
went from what was called the field of
! honorable combat to a wrecked and
wretched life. Charleston and the South
were shocked by the tragedy, but those
were days in which they were not uncom?
mon. Subsequent to the terrible war
which followed young Dawson found his
first employment on .coming to South
Carolina on the Charleston Mercury
over which Taber had presided.
Stranger still, when at the bead of
the News and Courier he became re?
nowned and received a guerdon from the
pope for his refusal to engage in a duel
with Col. Alfred Bhett and his earnest
and successful attack upon the practice.
Taber, young, handsome and brave, fell
upon what was called the field of honor
in a quarrel not of his own seeking and
making. Years after Dawson, who bad
so powerfully aided in destroying the
so-called field of honor, met his fate in
Charleston, in attempting to defend ths
sanctity of his home. Jude Magratb, ths
innocent author of the Taber tragedy,
lives, full of honors, and is the advocats
to defend the slayer of Dawson. What a
strange thing is life. How many start
lingevente are embraced within its bounds
that make the solid truth cast into shade
all the efforts of fiction I Which was
the sadder fate, that of Taber or Daw?
son ??Exchange.
Charmed By a Snake. -
Denniston, Texas, June 21.?Mr. E.
P. Hedden, who resides Southwest of
Denniston, brought to the city this morn?
ing his little child Sallie to be treated for
a snake bite. About .9 o'clock this
morning the little giri left the house with
a pail on her arm to gather blackberries
near Stone Spring. The child was ex?
pected to return home soon, as the family
was to leave early to pass the day with a 1
neighbor. The child being absent some?
thing over an honr, Mrs. Hedden pro?
ceeded to the spring. The child was not
there, and the mother called her name
loudly several times, Receiving no re?
sponse, she left the spring and walked
into the blackberry patch to hunt up tho
child.
Passing through the patch she saw a
scene which made her almost faint with
horror. The child was seated on a rock
and in her lap was a large rattlesnake*.
The child was carrying the snake, whosa
head was slightly elevated and moving to
and fro. Sometimes the snake head
would almost touch the lips of the child,
who pushed it away without appearing
to anger the snake. The child was so
completely under the spell of the serpent
that it paid no attention to the mother,
who screamed so loudly that her husband
heard her'a quarter of a mile distant, and
hurried to the scene.
When Mr. Hedden appeared, the snake
placed itself in an attitude of battle, and
the air vibrated with the noise of the
rattles. Mr. Hedden advanced upon the
Bnake, the child fell back as if in a swoon,
and the snake struck it on the thumb of
the right hand and then sprang at Hed?
den, who killed it with a stone. Hedden
sucked the wound, which, he is confident
saved the life of the little girl, Salaratus
was also applied to the wound. The hand
and arm of the little girl were but very
little swollen when she was brought to
the city for treatment.
The child says that ehe was sitting on
the rock picking berries when the snake
appeared, and that she was unable to
move when she looked at it,- that she wkb
not afraid of it, and that when it waved
its head to and fro in her face she felt like
going to sleep.
Tho Southern Situation,.
Has been a puzzle to the President,
and many would-be statesmen have aired
their petty opinions through the press
and on the stump. A question of still
greater moment is how shall I rid myself
of malaria. The question is easily an?
swered if you will only take one bottle
of Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic, the
greatest anti-periodic and stimulant of
the age. It will purify your blocd, give
you an appetite and make you feel like
yourself again.
This remedy is sold by all of ycur
druggist.
LE XXIV.?NO. M
? ALL SORTS OP PABAGBAPHS,%%
? The American silver dollar first
?made its appearance in 1794.
? Kind words never die; hut they -
frequently Btay a long time from home.
? An earthly treasure?A rich hus?
band, whom his widow has just buried.
? The flood damaged the property of.
Pennsylvania to the extent of $44,250,-?
000.
? Man, with all his wisdom, never.;
knows who is his best friend as well as a :
baby.
? Four new comets have been discov?
ered by the astronomers. This means a'.'
good crop year.
It takes three hundred men to har?
vest the wheat crop of one ranch in Com .
sa county, Cal.
??John Lawe3, the heaviest man 'in
America, died in Elmira, N. Y., las c week. -
He weighed 640.
? An English syndicate, it is said, has
made an offer to buy the Elgin Watch
factory for about $10,000,000.
? Norway is the most thoroughly :';/
Protestant country in the world. Out of , .
a population of 1,802,172. by the census
of 1886,1,794,934 are Lutherans.
?? Pittsburg and Cincinnati now"filter
and boil their drinking water. It would
be well for-the dwellere in cities every?
where to follow their example/ :
The legislature of Missouri at it* .
recent session passed a bill which prohi
bits the marriage of first cousins, and '-;
declares such marriages absolutely
void. , .
? Mr. Wm. Throckmorton has a farm
near Griffin, Ga., called the MLine Creek^
Possum farm." Here he raises 'possums
for sale. He has eight, bundred-~all't;:
sizes. '?* ?".::;]
? Since 1850 the Roman Catholic '
Churches have increased 12 per cent ir. '
the United States, while the Protestant; ;
Churches have increased eigbty:seyen pei
cent.
? An old gentleman in the' 'Cleveland ':
section, Oconee County, has a relic in the -
shape of an iron wedge, that has been in. v
his family two hundred and twenty-five
years. ''::'^v*?b
? James Edwin Vardeman, -who died
near Sparta, Ga., could repeat the namet, - :
of all the senators and representatives in ;."
Congress from the beginning of the gov?
ernment.
? The New York Ifornwg-, 'jwrnai^ijl
8peak8.of a graduating dress which cost
$500. Extravagance - may sometimes
help the poor, but this is plainly carrying . "
it too far.
?Nicotine, the principle of tobacco,'is"? ^
one of the most powerful of the known ??
nerve poisons. It is virtulent as prussic.'-..
acid. ? No known substance'ean counter '. ;,
act its effects.
? A lady in Santa. Barbara,. Cal, .
wrote to Cleveland end Harrison asking. ?"?
contributions for a new Methodist church;;^;;
Cleveland sent $5, and. Mrs. Harrison
sent ten cents.
? There were manufactured in thr
United States last year, in round numberr .
14,000,000 pounds of tobacco, 400,000 -;
pounds of snuff, 4,000,000,000 cigars, 1,- $
500,000,000 cigarettes.
? Alfred 8. Kidder, of Portland, Ore., ? ',
inherited ?50,000 fonr years ago. He lost
it at poker, and when his last $500 went
that way last week in Richmond, Va., he
blew out his brainB.
? Mr. Anthony Eilenburg, a reliable
citizen of Cedar Creek, Pickens County, S.
C/, reports killing a rattlesnake nine feet . :
long. The snake bit a valuable dog.of Mr. '0
Ellenburg and killed it. ?\
? A negro boy near Camden, S. C,
lost a dollar that belonged to his mother. ?.'
He felt so badly about it that he.begaa i;,
crying bitterly, and did not stop for 25.
hours, and then he died from ejihau?
tion.
? Elberton, Ga., has a curiosity in the
form of a colored boy. Eis advantage lies./;*'
in the unusual Bize of his .mouth.., Hf?
can put a large baseball in this organs ?;
and then have room for bis hands i;o pult"^:;
it out.
?- J. H. Lipscomb, of Sparenburg ; .
had a double-headed chichen hatched re \ ->
cently. It had two well formed beaks and
three eyes. One- of the eyes was central ^
between the two beaks. Such chickens
never live.
? The first official act of a woman
mayor in Kansas is reported no have been
fining a man "$5 for a plain drunk. On
the same day she made two gingham
aprons, set a hen and returned five calls."
Could a man do better.
? In Leavenwortb, Kansas, a man
mastBign a certificate setting forth that
"a
he is sick before he can get a drink at a
drug store. The highest record of sickness %
in any one month was reached in June "
1888, and the number of Bick men was _v
22,000.
? It is said of a kind and conscientious .
farmer that he always, sent the laziest
man he had after the cows, and when he .:
had none lazy enough to suit he went-5
himself. He knew the folly and loss from^l
worrying and hurrying cowi. with udders^
full of milk. "?J1H
? A sharp fakir is making a godi%
income by advertising a sure method oL?:
killing all insects. . When you send him'
fifty cents you will receive a printed card?;:
on which are these words: "Get youxln^
sects to smoke cigarettes, and they will
die within an hour. So long."
? In China one can always boabw?|
on the strength of having a son, but no?
body would advance him a cent if ho had
a dozen daughters. The former is re*S
aponsible for the debt of his father for
three generation. The latter is only re?
sponsible for the debts of her own hoa-v*
band. ?'.".^
? A Washington special to the Louis?
ville Courier- Journal sayu: The sugar,
trust cleared fourteen million dollars ia -
188S, and in the five months preceding
June in this year, $6,230,000, The pricaT
of sugar has been made so much higher )i
that profits during the rest of the year wilts]
be larger.
Progress.
It is very important in this age of.vast-.-|
material progress that ;i reme^^'lia*.
pleasing to the taste acid to the eye^
easily taken, acceptable, to the stomach
and healthy in its nature and effects.!
Possessing these qualities, Syrup of . Figs
is the one perfect laxative and most gene?
tic diuretic knowm