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?feNKSCAEES ijnerican Fruit Reserving Powder AND ; Lia uid ! ,. E \have, solcl this.valuable Prepara ti: aa for several years, and takv great pleas sixtit in offering it again this reason. The -j.tiv&t'' crop having been short for several yciviSi we* ad vise our friehda to take advan -iHtf-a of-the abundant crop in prospect this y ii6Won,"^arud /provide^ for what may Ibe a .sihi^t'cropnetrt.' * ?' ?' ~ 7fVith One Dollar's worth of the Prepa iaUon, and a great deal less trouble than ; the old-fashioned way of canning, you. can save" r encmgh to .do a- large family the whoie WAnfsr; and you can open and use out of thejar.from time to .time.without \ injury. . /\ ? Ay?y tif< course it . suits some people to run thia Preparation down, because it inter. fertB, -witA their business, but ask T. D. Slow, of Ihm city, and a thousand others -throughout the County whb: have tried it with suc?cs3. and you will very soon see ; there is no humbug about it. HILL BROTHERS. LAVA " ? . ?"": r ? ': ?? ' ? ? . ? Av y r : . '.'-.'/..?'.. ?' : ?-' ? (3iac Colors, KsikeB a very Hard Finish, AndDriet Hard overnight. If IS JUST THE THING! Also, all other kinds oi EMS AND OILS, "OIBTJGr STORE, Pa^ West Female .College, T^SXT Session begins OCTOBER17th. . . J3i 'Full corps of accomplished and ex : perfect, mstructora. Splendid advanta? ges in Art, Music and ? Literary Depart /. v.riimts. - Moral tone of community and - .school all that could be desired. Located inohe ofthehealthiest towns-in the Pied * ::^ mocit country.': Excellent boarding depart-' >: itterit. Board.and regular tuition for the y 3a\- $1(55.00. For Catalogue addresc * f - MRS. L. M. BONNER. Principal, Or H. E. BONNER; Yice.Prindpal, y - ?' i Due WesCsTc. July 18,1889 2 SHERIFF'S SAl?. State ok South Caboluta, ^ County ov Andkbsoit. ?y virtue of various Executions to me directed, I will seilst Anderson C.H., Cilt on the-first Monday in August, 1889, -' all t?>xA. E.-Bohannon's interest in one . lot of Land containing five acres,-more or less, Jylng ?rwo miles South of Anderson 'Conii-House, adjoining lands of J. W. ;-.lanfolsC Cot. M.-P.-Tribble and others, j levied on .as theproperty 6f A. E. Bo hannon at tue suit cf W. C.Murphy and /others. Terms^-C'ash. Purchaser to pay extra - for iKS&essary papers. ' W. L. BOLT, Sheriff Anderson County. ?-. Jrjy U,18g9: ? 1 . - : .3 B Session Opens Sept. 10p 1889. i*0B Catalogue of WiUiamston Fc _Jr1i*iw?fc!<?Ue#si ?cl^ve, ^thorough, Sregressive, prosperous, cheap, up-country ebcol for young ladies, address Rev. 8. v Lamter. President,Williamston, S.O. Its " rnerifea widely known. One hundred and a sixty-five pupils last year. More expected nexin .Jtiyll,1889 1 2m JORDAN -HOUSE. MRS. E. C. JORDAN, Proprietress. Rat*s Reasonable, T)RIVATE and Transient Board solicit JL7--' i *d? The table is supplied with the best'tho market affords, and every atten? tion given to guests. April 25,1889 42 FOR SALE_OR RENT ! PREMISES at'Honea Path, S. C. for? merly belonging to Mrs. W. G. Smith. Two and a half acres of land, with buildings thereon. Apply to . ;-, : . GREIG- & MATTHEWS, ' - Charleston, S. C. April 18,1889 41 6m CIE0R?E E. PREJCE, ATTORNEY '* and - COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ANDERSON, S. C. A LL business promptly attended to. J\. Special attention given to col? lections. . I May 0,1889 44 ' 3m. HOME AGAIN V! ?' k :FTER an absencejof two years for the '?jqI? purpose of better preparing myself so as to more rally satisfy friends or parties who m?y ?mploy me to work for them, I have returned, and with eight well .trained hands, rough and ready, am well prepared to do .\ny kind of Work in the line of Carpeaitting at a very short notice. W ill either'work the eight and direct them, contract, or sub-contract All work done fi.^t-class . style, and- guaranteed, Call and see me before letting your work. Vary respectfully.- .. . ' PICEEN? BROWN. Anderson, 8. C. : May 5,1S89 43 3m Mm M\m Gin Ssaies, $60 beam Box Brass Tare beam. Warns ted -for S Years iVcight Paid. AOEjn^w^NTED. adtor'. HE PAYS THE FREIGHT." : u For Free Pries J/W, Addreta ?f BINQHAlITOli. B mgh waton, If, Ti i & L?NGSTON. TflACmflrtf'?OLUMN, 153t AU communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, 3. C._ It was qSrite an inspiration to stand in the presence of that splendid body of educators assembled in Columbia last week and hear .them discuss school problems. -It could not but make any teacher feel prouder of his. profession, and give him a willingness to work. All the indications pointed to a great awak? ening all over the State in the matter, of education, and all went home feeling strengthened fron having had a touch of the elbow. Knowledge, abstractly considered, is not repugnant to a child.. From the first .dawning of its reason it is constantly reaching out after knowledge, and the tef ,cher who takes hold of this instinctive desire of'the child to know things, and lef.ds it on step'by step will be a success, while the teacher who succeeds in mak? ing knowledge undesirable and school unattractive will be'a failure. Learn to present instruct'on in an attractive garb, and this will create in them a thirst' for' it, and yon wil'l be both surprised and gratified at the eagerness with which they will pick up the crumbs of knowl? edge. And dor.'t overcrowd their minds ? don't put moie before them than they can assimilate?give a little at a time and give itoften. The meeting of the State Teachers' Association in Columbia was a grand success, both as regards the numbers in attendance and the discussions engaged in. About 200 of the prominent educa? tors of the State were there, and almost every County was represented and, as usual, Anderson County took. the lead with 'the largest delegation, composed of ten of her teachers. Fourteen School Commissioners were present, and the subject assigned to them for discussion elicited a good deal of interest upon the part of those present, in fact, it was said to hr.ve been the most interesting feature of. the programme. The subject was,' ''How can the Public Schools of the State he improved ?" This was discussed by nearly all the School Commissioners present, and a resolution was adopted to memorialize the Legislature upon com? pulsory attendance of teachers at County Instates. A TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. "It is clear that in. whatever it is our duty to act, those matters also it is our duty to study." -Such was the motto of the Anderson County Teachers' Institute, and an apt one it was, too, judging from the thought and study bestowed upon all subjects connected with the great art of teaching. As the teachers who attended seemed willing and anxious to learn, it is to be presumed that all the self-satis? fied teachers stayed at home. Thinking, however, .that some would like to hear about it, we will try to take a brief re? view of the lessons and lectures given, not in, a spirit of criticism, but with a desire to give those unfortunate ones who : could not attend some faint idea of the work accomplished by the Faculty. For iho sake of convenience, we beg' leave to take the work of each' member sepa? rately. The Instituts opened July 3rd, ended July 11th. It. was conducted the first week by Prot M. M. Morrison of the Greenville Graded Schools, who was assisted by^Prof. C. H. Albert of the Stats Normal College of Punn. Prof. Morrison is well known to many of our teachers., therefore, needs no intro tion?suffice it to say his energy and enthusiasm in his work.is not one whit abated. Those who have listened to his inspiring and practical lessons, know him as an earnest and true worker in the Institute. The beautiful "gems" he gave as will not soon be forgotten. He is at home on the subject of history. Gave several interesting lessons, and empha? sized the value of teaching the history of your own State, also local history. Gave the origin of the names of. the Counties of Booth Carolina, and the origin of many local names. His lecture on In? dians was something every boy would like to hear.. In his "spelling" talks-he told as many excellent devices, used in teaching it. Hf3 practical talks on School Discipline were appreciated, also his way of 'caching fractions using ob? jects.. Prof. Albert gave his first lesson on the Underlying Principles of Teaching. He said they were essentially the same in all lines of school work, and proceeded to illustrate and explai-i \hcm. He showed the faults as well as lie uuauucu of our educational system. Spoke encouragingly to teachers who desire to do better work. H& emphasized the great importance of having a firm foun? dation upon which to bnild the super? structure of successful work in the school room, that is, on the "Bock of Ages." His lectures on Psychology, Attention and Practical Ethics, deserve especial mention. He taught the Grabe method?a true way to teach numbers. S?lden't Grube Method, published by Kellogg & Co., New York, will help one to use it. He gave a lesson on Busy Work. Dwelt on the importance of giv? ing object lessons. The one be. used as an illustration would certainly produce mach thought on the part of the pupils. All seemed delighted vjith his beautiful lessons on Geography. Says moulding is one of the best means of teaching it, Does not think minute map drawing essential?only necessary to impresa the outline of a country. . It was with sincere regret that we parted with Professors Morrison and Al? bert Friday afternoon. Hope to have the pleasure of meeting them again at our next Institute. The Institute was continued the fol? lowing week under the .management of Mr. Russell, Drs. Lander, Marshall and Prof. Tankersley. Dr. Lander, President of the William? ston Female College, gave some very instructive lessons on Physiology and Hygiene. The one, "What to Drink" was highly appreciated, as he ehowtd us bow to test drinking water to find if it Contained microbes of Typhus fevor genns. A lesson on school apparatus was well received. Told us how to get a cheap blackboard, how to make our own maps, and showed us several other helps he had made for himself. His way of teaching proportion is very easily com? prehended. Dr. A. A. Marshall,- a noted divine and a teacher also, added very much to the interest of the Institute by his clear and logical talks.' He lectured on methods, principles and applications of each. The advantages of the Natural Method over the Artificial, was clearly shown. He referred to the lives of Pestalozzi, Fro bei, and other reformers in methods. Gave a lecture on Laura Dewdy Bridge man, showing the lessous the teacher may get from a study of her case. His lecture on Discipline evoked much dis? cussion about punishments. Prof. Tankersley, of the Gaffnoy High School, was with us three days and taught Mathematics. He assumed num? bers taught, touched on the various pro? cesses, giving principles and many devices, and pointed out the "quick sands" into which both teacher and pupil are liable to fall. He gave us a beautiful lesson oo the No. 9, also gave some puzzles, or what appeared to be so, bat which could be readily solved by mathematical laws. He claimed if the principles of division and multiplication are well taught, there need be no trouble in having pupils understand Fractions, Percentage, Proportion, &c. His expla? nation of division; of fractions, causes that "bag ibear" to vanish. On Tuesday, 9th inst., Col. Bice, State Superintendent of Education, delivered a most practical and excellent address. It is impossible in this to give one even a faint conception of it, but we would say he had the undivided attention of every one present for an hour and a half. Many thanks are due to Misses Laura Nance and May Bussell, who very kindly acted as organists for the Institute, Daring the recesses we had the pleasure of listening to many beautiful Bongs ren? dered by some of the young ladies, among whom were Misses Watson, Bus sell, Brown, Miller, Watkins and Nance. We have only given an imperfect out? line of tho-work, not having mentioned the discussion periods or the "question box?' Hope other teachers will fill it out. And now, as to the results of the In? stitute oar school rooms will show what has been accomplished. All certainly have a truer conception of the high call? ing of a teacher. As Cap t. Patrick said, (by the way he contributed much to the interest of the Institute) we should not accept any and ail methods taught, with? out adapting them to our special needs, or without making them oar very own, for we would then be simply imitators, and could never hope to succeed. Mach of the success of the Institute is dae to the untiring efforts of our School Commissioner. By his successful man* agement the last week; we find he knows how to keep things moving, as well as how to keep teachers moving. In his closing remarks be showed his thorough appreciation of the advantages to be gained from auch meetings, and we may rest assured we will have another Insti? tute next summer. A. H. L. He Forgot Something. A .passenger on a street car was talking to a friend on a trip down town, and all the other passeogers listened with atten? tion, as the theme was one of general interest. His-little boy, a small urchin of three years, sat beside htm, regarding him with fond delight. "There is no sense," the speaker was saying, "in the way people go through the world forgetting things that they ought to remember. They hurry out of street cars leaving valuable packages behind them, forget their opera glasses in the theatre and their overcoats in hotels. Now it is a very weak mind that cannot remember its own bundles. Here I have a package?an umbrella and an overcoat. I coulcLearry them from here lo Kamschatka without ever forgetting them. This is my corner; good-morning." He bolted out of the door without: waiting for the car to stop, and the other passengers were musing over the troth and wis'd'om of what he said when a small, wailing voice piped out: "My paVgone off and forgot me." Then a bluff old man in the corner remarked: "We are all tarred with the same stick." And it was not until the return trip of the car that the man who never forgot anything recovered his small boy. ? The Farwell syndicate of Chicago, which contracted with the State of Texas ro but Id the new capital of that State for for 3,000,000 acres of land in the "Pan Handle," sold the land to an English, company. The property has been loca? ted, and is about 200 miles long and 25 miles broad. It has been leased as cattle ranches, but it is now announced that it is intended to make farms of it, and a rapid settlement of that portion of Texas is anticipated. ? James Willis was driving home to Bioomfield, Peon., the other day when the left spindle of his buggy broke and the horse ran off, dnmping the driver and his bulldog by the roadside. The dog made a dart, caught the lines by the bridle bit and clung there till bis master had the horse secured. JS?* A man who has practiced medi? cine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says. Toledo, O., Jan. 10,1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.?Gentle? men : I have been in the general prac? tice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience, have never seen a prepara? tion that I could prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed it a great many times and its effect is wonderful, and would say in conclusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. . Yours Truly, Li L. Goesuch, M. D, Office. 215 Summit St. We will give$100 #for any case of Ca? tarrh that can not be cared with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio: figjTSoid by Druggists, 75c. ANDERSON, S.C., 1 MRS. AUF IN THE SURF, And JPoor Bill at Home Alone. Atlanta Constitution. "Quite a belle." That is what one of the children wrote. "Mamma is quite a belle." I understand it all now. A mother and five children and a lot of grandchildren went off to St. Simons, to stay a week?only a week?and here it is ten days and no family. Left me one boy and no girlu?one boy to look after me and wait upon me if I got sick, and never left any medicine, not even the vasoline, nor a bottle of camphor. Our only company has been the dog and the calf and the pig and the chickens'. We two have been tramping around the house and counting the days, and the time has been out ever since Monday, and now a very self satisfied letter comes and eayn they are all having a splendid time, and mamma is quite a belle. I'll go after that belle?see if I don't. A woman can't be a belle without there is a beau? mayb? two or three beaux. That is what's the matter with me. But then, poor thing, she hasent had any outside attention in so long a time that I expect Bhe does en? joy it. It has been just forty years since she was a belle, When I go off on a trip I always have a good time and when some pretty girl pins a lovely little bouquet on my boBom I strut around smartly and re? new my youth, but I don't take the bou? quets home in my pocket, nor my valise, by no means.. "New arrivals every day and some splendid swimmers." That's what's the matter again. I am not there to see the pretty girls swim. I wonder when my folks -will get tired, and come home. My boy and I are lonesome, only 4wo of us to sit at the table and eat. I haveaBkedablesBiog on the same chicken three times for we are too lonesome to have an appetite and one chicken lasts all ! day and leave3 enough for the cook? cheap living, ain't it? So there is some good with the bad. We haven't bought a pound of butter since they left, nor hardly anything else. We live on home made eggs-and potatoes and chicken breast. It is the first time I have had a chance at the bosom of a chicken in two years. But Wo have worked hard, me and my boy?worked bard to surprise my wife with t, new bathroom; and it is ever so nice, and we built it and painted it and put a beautiful zinc-lined bathtub in it all read; for the waterworks that are nearly finished, and we put up shelves and wardrobe books and transom win? dows. They will alt need it when they get home?need it to get that Bait seal water off?that water where the alligators and sharks and slimy reptiles live. But I can taste the salt when I kiss them a welcome home. But they hive had a glorious time I know and thai , makes me happy, except that "quite a belle" business. Why, she hasn't belled -any for forty years; she never had time to run about and belle. She has got a taste for it now and will keep on going and belling I reckon. I got it by grapevine tbat a notable Atlanta man was in bathing at St. Simons the other day and thought his wife had al? ready left the bathhouse and gone into the Burf and so he thought he would slip up on her and surprise ber with a warm embrace which he did in a rapturous and voluptuous manner, and suddenly dis? covered it was another man's wife. He apologized with great pretended humilia? tion, and about those times, his own wife and the woman's'husband came skipping along behind and he said afterwards he felt just like he was betwixt the devil and the deep sea, which remark I hope he will never get forgiveness for, and my opinion is an ordinary man can tell his own wife from anybody else's wife, whether she is on the sea or on the shore, if he wants to, and I have read about, these drummers jumping off the train at a station and kissing a pretty cousin before she had time to think and then apologizing when he found she wasent his cousin, and'jumping on the train again as it was moving off. That is an old trick of the boys, but I dident know that the grandfathers had got at it. Thank goodness that my wife hasent tackled the ocean yet, and I hope she won't un til that Atlanta man goes home. And Carl writes that he shot a shark that was six feet long and they got the varment out on. the shore, and he was going to save his teeth for me, but a nigger come along in the night and stole him. And the next day, while out in a boat fishing, he got a bit; fish-hook caught in his hand, and the leaden weight that was on the line pulled the hook through from the palm to the back and the hook had to be cut off with a cold chisel and then cut out with a sailors' knife, and so he got his share of the bad with the good, and that is the way with every kind of fun in this sublimary life. If you bank on it there will be a big discount?about as much discount as cash. * * * * I had penned the above last night about midnight, for like Ahasbuerus.I got to ruminating and couldn't sleep, and so concluded to ventilate a few domestic reflections. I was thus engaged when there was a racket at the door like the sound of many waters. Mrs. Arp and the children had arrived and suddenly they seized me and assaulted me in a riotous and tumultuous manner. I embraced them all with dignified affection and licked the salt off their lips and faces and assumed an air of subdued and happy martyrdom. We talked and chattered an hour or so, and then Mrs. Arp suddenly spied an open door and a light in the bath room and she rose forward with alacrity and astonishment and cried out amazingly, and after she had inspected the new and beautiful apartment, Bhe embraced me again, and I am sure I have lost nothing by that belling business. She had & good deal to say about the kind good people she met, and mentions especially the Howell family, the Rome Howell and the Atlanta Howells and any other Howells, and I reckon if I ever have to shoot anybody his name will be Howell. The family and all the kin had a delight? ful time, and they praise the hotel and the host and the select company and go into raptures over the ocean and the tide and the big waves that swell and roll and break upon the beautiful beach and the pretty shells and the sand crabs and por? poises and sea gulls and the full moon TTUKSDAY MOEN? rising from out the far distant waters and. dancing its holy light upon the restless waves. They have memories, now bless? ed memories and emotions of grandeur and beauty they never felt before. I wish that everybody could go to the sea. Only $6 for the round trip and $2 a day at the fine hotel. Twenty dollars will cover a week's pleasure?that is for a man or a boy, but for a woman, oh, my country?the fare is all the same, but the fixing before hand is not to be mentioned if a man oweB any of "theBe darned little just debts," as Sara McCarney calls them and his creditors hear of it. Creditors are splendid watch dogs of a debtor's treasury and he can't Bpend money in going to the springs or the coast with? out their knowing it and they will talk about his extravagance if they don't do any worse. "Quite a belle." The next time she goes I shall be her chaperone?see if I don't. Bill Arp. Set a Bear on Fire. "Folks may not know it, but bears can swim like ducks. I don't know whether they can dive or not, bat if they can, one bear that I remember made the mistake of his life once by not diving, and that not only, but in not swimming under water from one bank of the stream he was in to the.other bank before he came out again. The fate of that bear was a fearful one, and a warning to all of the bear family to stick to terra firraa, in the oil regions. "I was one of the first seekers after riches that went up along the Cherry Tree Run in Vehango county to put down oil wellu. Good paying territory had been found and a number of wells put down in the vicinity of Cherry Tree. Trout fishing was excellent in Qthose mountain streams then, oil not having yet been produced along them in suffi? cient quantities to mingle with the water and spoil it for fishing. I was an enthu? siastic trout fisherman, and one day in June, early in the days of the rush to the Oil Creek valley, a friend of mine and I went very near to the head waters of one of the small creeks that entered into the Cherrv Tree Run for a big day's fishing. It was getting along toward dark by the time we bad fished to the mouth of the creek, and we were loaded down with trout, and about as near tired out as two vigorous yonng men could well be. In fact, we were bo near tuckered, out that we concluded to camp at the mouth of the creek for the night, although we were within three miles of the shanty where we were sinking a well. We ate a hearty sapper of trout, bnilt a big camp fire and lay down on the ground by the side of it to Bleep. The .fire threw a glare clear acrosB Cherry Tree Ran, which was wide and deep there. "I wasn't long in falling asleep. I never knew what woke me up, but I awoke Borne time m the night, suddenly and wide. The camp fire was still burn? ing brightly, and ta I lay there looking at the broad pathway of light Jit cast across the Run, I saw the water where the light rested upon it suddenly become agitated, and I soon became aware that some big object was swimming the stream, and coming directly where we were lying. It was a spooky sort of a situation, and to, toll the truth, I was scared, so much so that I couldn't stir. I lay there scarcely daring to breathe, with my eyeB fixed immovably on the approaching ob? ject. It pulled deliberately across the creek, and as it crawled out on the shore I discovered that it wsb an enormous bear. He didn't pause a second, but slouched right on toward the fire, evi dently prompted by genuine bear curios? ity. The spot where we had camped wasn't more than twenty feet from either stream. The appearance of the big bear and his advance upon our camp broke,the spell under which I had been lying, and I sprang to my feet, grabbed a blazing stick from the fire, and hurled it at the approaching animal, which wsb then almost within an arm's length of me. The brand struck the bear. If I had been frightened at the first appear? ance of the animal in the Run, I was simply terrified when the burning stick hit him, for like a flash of gunpowder the poor beast burst into flame from snout to tail. "With a howl that filled the wood with frightful echoes and brought my sleeping friend to his feet in terror, the blazing bear turned and fled to the creek and jumped into the water. If he had ex? pected to find help there he was wonder? fully mistaken, for in an instant the creek, from bank to bank and far above and below us, became a line of leaping fire, lighting up the gloom of the forest for rods on either side, and forming one of the most awful spectacles I ever wit? nessed and such a one as I hope never to witness again. Then came from that roaring stream of flame one long, un? earthly wail of agony. For a second We saw the blazing form of the wretched bear.writhing in torture in the burning creek. Then we saw and heard him no more. The terrible heat from the fire drove us back into the woods, where we remained for an hour or more, two terror stricken, trembling spectators of that sudden apparition of flame. Then it died gradually away and became extinct, leaving upon us such a sense of gloom and ghoBtliness that neither of us bad the courage to remain longer on the spot and we lost no time in making our way in the darknees to our shanty up the creek. We learned, on reaching there, that an oil tank had sprung a leak that evening, and before it could be stopped a great quantity of oil had run into the stream and floated down'on its surface. The unfortunate bear had struck this inflam? mable stuff when he Bwam the creek, and his fur had become saturated with it. My firebrand had ignited it instantly, and in jumping back into the creek, all ablaze, the bear had set the whole oily surface on fire and met his frightful fate. ?New York Sun. ? The wheat crop of the Northwest is soraetbiDg belter than a total failure this year. This blight extends as far North as Manitoba. The four new States will be the principal Huffererfl, it Beems, ; ; t m, AUGUST 1, 188! THAT SUNDAY IN JULY. The First Battle of Manassas July SI, 18G1. Augutta Chronicle, July 21. First battle of M'aoassas! Twenty eight years ago to-day. The battle was fought on Sunday, July 21, 1861. Since tbat year five anniveraa ries of the celebrated fight have fallen on Sundays, viz: 1867, 1872, 187S, 1884 and 1889. How rapidly time flies. The boy born on the day of that encounter now has children of his own whom be tells of this struggle as the Btory has come down to him from his father. Young men, slain on the field of Manassas, now "sleeping the years of their man? hood away," would be grandfathers if living. The stream which almost ran red with blood on that hot July Sun-, day now flown peacefully and untroubled through wide fields of nodding tassels, and the old si.one bridge, battered and bloodstained, is crossed to day by the farmer and plodding team, on his way to the quiet village church. How many of the great battles of the world have been fought on Sunday ? Every campaign, before Waterloo and since, has had its sanguinary Sabbath. An old soldier of Gen. Pat Cleburne'B yesterday told me that this commander made it a rule to have a "brush in Ten? nessee every Sunday. Somehow this Manassas anniversary has burned itself into the memory of people. A dozen old soldiers whom I met yesterday were speaking about the first battle of Manassas. I saw Mr. F. M. Stovall up at the Planters Loan and Savings bank. He was talking of the anniversary when I entered. There are special reasons why he will never forget that fight, It was his first experience under 'fire. He was a boy of eighteen, just from Frank lyn college, at Athens. Enlisting with the Rome Light Guards, of which his brother was a member, be entered the fight early in the day with the Eighth Georgia regiment. "It was the regiment' of the gallant Francis S. Bartow," said Mr. Stovall. "I aball never forget his face as,he went into the fight. His expression was a rare composite of benevolence, bravery and nobility. He had just received his commission as brigadier general, but had not formally accepted. He said he wanted to earn his title before he wore it. Placing himself at the head of his command, he weut into the charge early in the day and fell at the hottest moment of the fight. Bartow and Bee, brigadier commanders, both died on the field of Manassas. I love to think of this great Savannah soldier, whose boast was that he went out to "illustrate Georgia." "Then again our Lieutenant Colonel, Montgomery Gardner, was shot on that memorable Sunday. His leg was frac? tured below the knee. Standing by him, I saw him fall. It was in a dense pine thicket, and he had dismounted to pass through with his troops. I ran to support him and did carry him quite a distance. Gen. Gardner was severely wounded and now lives near Rome. He suffers from that wound still." Shortly afterward Mr. Stovall, whose company got at once into the thickest of the engagement, turned to look for his brother. In the hot melee these two had separated. The eldest brother was found lying upon his face, shot through the heart. He sleeps to day beneath a marble shaft in Summerville. "I do not think either army intended to fight just where they did. Beaure gard and Johnston formed a junction there, and the issue was joined right off. The morning was consumed with sharp engagements between different com? mands. I suppose it was nearly 2 o'clock before a line of battle was joined,'and not till 5 in the afternoon did the panic be? come general on the Federal side." "There were heavier and more savage battles during the war, but none with sharper fighting or more complete results. I have always thought we could have gone right into Washington after Manas? sas. I believe our leaders refrained from this for political reasons rather than from military considerations." Just then Mr. Wallace Delph, who was probably the youngest commissioned officer in the army, came up. "There is one remarkable thing about Manas? sas," said be. "A year later I was in the second battle. The Confederates had crossed over to the rear of the Fed? erals, and occupied the ground the Federals held in 1861. So the positions of the armies were exactly reversed from the first engagement. The fact that our army was victorious both times is not a little significant." Shortly afterwards I happened to meet with Mr. Jiles M. Berry. He, too, was in the first battle of Manassas. "Yes, I remember it well. I was in Kershaw's, then Bonham's, Seventh Carolina. The night before the fight I was one of one hundred picked men selected to form a vidette line in front of the enemy. Next morning the Yan? kee drums commenced to beat. I never heard such a reveille in my life. It was evident that the advance bad begun. We could see them coming. The Feder? al army was a magnificent body of men. They came forward with burnished En field rifles and all improved equipment. Their organization seemed perfect. Their commissary was in splendid order. No troops over had finer clothes or better food." "Well, our picket line waited until the federals were in a few hundred yards, and then retired under cover of woods. The first cannon fire of Manassas was made by a Yankee battery in our front at that time. To us it seemed the opening gun of the war. I remember the shot shivered a cedar tree near by, and this tree was pulled up by the roots and made into triukets a? a memento of the first cannon mark of Manassas." "It seemed lo me that the fight was pretty oveu' until Johnston, who had crossed over to the Junction, came up and joined Beau regard. .This was a splendid piece of strategy. The North? ern army bad no idea that Johnston was anywhere around. But for this, Manassas might not have been our bat tic." "Was the rout complete ?" 9. "I never saw such panic as seized the Northern troops. Men threw down their fine rifles and discarded well filled knap? sacks. Some returned home never to come back. Sutler's supplies were left in easy reach. - The turnpike was filled with fine horses, plump cartridge-boxeB, and dismantled field pieces. You see when the panic commenced all hands j 'ried to get to the road to return to Wash? ington. The pikes were speedily block? aded. Fine carriages were smashed and spectators forced to fly on foot." "What, were there spectators?" "Of course. There were members of , Congress, senators, sportsmen, ladies i and gentlemen. These latter occupied places of vantage and were ready to take in the battle with field glasses. No crowd ever went to New Orleans more confident of seeing Sullivan beat Kilrain than these people from Washington to view the annihilation of the Southern army. "It seems to me that everybody was there, except the general who was com? manding the Northern army. Gen. Winfield Scott was directing operations from the capital, McDowell doing the actual field work. These people came in fine carriages and brought their cham? pagne and lorgnettes. They travelled like fighting cocks." "But they did not fight that way." "Not that time. Of course we fell heir to the treasures. It was a picnic for us. And it was hard to restrain the men from enjoying the dainty spoil of an overwhelming victory." P. A. S. Carrying Pistols. Two or three cases at the late Sessions Court here were for carrying concealed weapons, From the reports of courts in other Counties, it appears that there are many such cases all over the State. Persons living in the country say the practice of carrying pistols is quite com mon among the whites and very general among the negroes. Many negroes carry them in their pockets while at work in the fields. In the trial of a negr? at the Newberry Court last week is was shown that the defendant was plowing in the field when be got into a row and shot his antagonist. No doubt many people about town also carry pistols?chiefly callow youths who think it manly; but there are some peaceable, sensible young men who carry them because they have never thought of what a loaded pistol in the pocket im? plies. It is quite probable that the habit of carrying pistols is more prevalent now than it was when the law against it was enacted ten years ago. The law has not caused this. It is useless to speculate here as to the cause further than to sug? gest that, because the courts and juries are so lenient towards deeds of personal violence, the law in this respect has lit? tle terror, and, therefore, many feel that they muBt be prepared to protect them? selves from bullies and roughs. So there are two classes that carry pis? tols: one to bulldoze others with, and others to defend themselves with. Most people claim to belong to the latter class, and no doubt persuade themselves that it is true. But their claim is not always well founded; for not one in a hundred has any reason to suppose his life in dan? ger or that it will ever become necessary to kill a fellowman in self-defense. No; it is a habit?a thonghtless habit ?in most intelligent and respectable men who indulge it, and a reckless, law lees habit in others who have no respect for law and no regard for human life. Whatever the reason, the habit of car? rying concealed pistols ought to be stop? ped. The law says so ; and the law is right. It is not manly; it is not Chris? tian ; it 13 hardly civilized. The frequent and persistent violation of the' law is fully recognized, as is also the fact that the violators are seldom brought to justice. Various remedies have been proposed. The Orangeburg Spectator thinks the punishment should be more severe?that any person convicted of this offense Bhould be sent to the penitentiary, the judge having no discretion in the matter. This would only make matters worse, by making it more difficult'to prosecute and convict. The trouble has not been that the punishment was too light, but that offenders have not been brought to trial. The Clarendon Enterprise thinks the law ought to be repealed; because, it says, law-abiding people who obey the law put themselves at the mercy of those who do not respect the law. This is an old argument, but there is nothing in it. Law-abiding people, as a rule, do not care to carry pistols in their pockets any? way, and they do not feel any need of them. A correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier think3 the law would be more effective were the offense put within the jurisdiction of. trial justices. We think so, too. Few care to become witnesses against an offender and have to dance attendance on the Sessions Court for a week or more; but a trial in a trial justice court would not involve much inconvenience or loss of time. More offenders would be prosecuted and con? victed, aud the punishment would be as heavy as 1b customary in the Sessions Court, for there it is seldom, if ever, the sentence exceeds $100 or 30 days impris? onment.?Newbcr) y Observer. ? Dr. Booth, in the British Medical Journal, tells a horrible story of the spon? taneous combustion of an alcohol consu sumer. He was sixty-five years old and a thorough sot. The remains were found against a stone wall in burned and char? red condition. The soft tissues had been entirely consumed. Such instances are rare, but not at all impossible. Dr. Henry Miller tells us of the phosphoric odor at times emanating from the skin of drunkards, and mentions that their breath has been seen to glow in the dark. ?The State Department of Agriculture has received from Mr. J. W. Oateen, cf Sumter, a sample of wool cotton. It seems to be a variety of cotton that has a peculiar similarity to wool, being dark, greasy and soft. It could act as a very good counterfeit for wool. The sample was obtained from a cotton field near Sumter. No doubt the seed will soon be upon the market, VOLUM Farm Life In China. Farm life in China, where an acre is a competency and rice land not in the vicinity of a city brings $600 an acre, reduces agricultural economy to a mini? mum, as the following extract from the above article will show: "In this Swatow region probably nine tenths of the men are engaged in agri? culture. The farmers who live in vil? lages, isolated dwellings being uncom? mon. The villages are walled, contain no wasted space, and are densely peo? pled. The wide spreading, flat fields, lying along the river banks at the foot of the hills, may be made to yield here oc the Tropic of Cancer a constant series of crops without interval on account of win ter. Their chief productions are rice, BUgar cane, sweet potatoes, pulse, garden vegetables, peanuts, indigo, sesamum, ginger, the grass-cloth plant, tobacco and wheat. Rice is the staple food of the people, and in the best years the local product just supplies the local demand. Sugar is the principal export. The cane requires less labor than any other crop, and will grow upon unwatered land, which is unsuitable for rice culture. One crop of csne or two crops of other produce may 'be grown in the same year upon unwatered land. On the best rice fields three crops, are sometimes raised. The early rice is sowed in April and har? vested in July; the late rice is sowed in August and harvested in November, and the field is then sometimes planted with garden vegetables, which are pulled in March. The expense of fertilizing the third crop is so nearly equal to its value that it is never reckoned as a source of profit to the cultivator. "The whole country belongs theoreti? cally to its sovereign, and upon all land that can be tilled with profit a tax is paid into the imperial treasury. The Bum due annually to the governmBut for the nse of land is fixed for each field, amounts to from sixty cents to two dollars, and averages a dollar and a half upon each English acre. "When a father dies his land is divid? ed equally among bis sons, the eldest receiving an additional tenth on account of the extra expense to which he is put in worshipping the names of the ances? tor. The land is distributed very gener? ally, though unequally, among the peo? ple, and is usually tilled by its peasant proprietor. Few own so much as two hundred acres; one who owns ten acres is reckoned wealthy, and he who owns one acre possesses a competence. Those who own from one-tenth to one-half an acre are most numerous, and therefore there are many who till land for a share of the produce. "Land that is too sterile for profitable cultivation or for taxation Bells for from six to sixty dollars an acre, while good farm land ia valued at from three hun? dred to eight hundred dollars an acre. Rice fields not in the vicinage of a city sell readily for six hundred dollars an acre, and not always to be bought at that price, becauB^those who own land find it the safest investment, and part with it only when under the stress of debt. The bursting of dykes, drouth, and bad habits are the chief causes of the transfer of land, and the sale of a child often pre? cedes that of the rice field, interest on money lent is from twelve to twenty per cent., .according to agreement between lender and borrower. "The chief expense of tillage is fertil izea beans and sesamum seeds from which the oil has been expressed, being commonly used, at an outlay of from six to forty and an average of twenty-four dollars upon every acre of land. Besides this, potato peelings, hair from shaven heads and all other vegetable and ani? mal refuse, is carefully husbanded and methodically applied to the soil. The clods of the field are laid up into little ovens to retain and be enriched by the smoke of the stubble burned underneath them. Adobe houses' whose walls have for many years absorbed the fumes of a kitchen and the. exhalations of human inmates, are pulverized and added to the ever hungry earth. Each growing plant separately receives distinguished consid? eration, a scrap of tobacco stalk being ? sometimes put beside its root to destroy underground grubs, while its leaves are frequently examined and seduously freed from vermin. The rotation of crops is always practiced. "As no milk, butter, or cheese is used, the only quadruped seen on the farms is the water buffalo, or the zebu, which assists in plowing and harrowing, Many farmers rear ducks, which are taken to the fields to devour the snails, crabs and young frogs which thrive there at plant? ing time. Fowls often accompany the harvesters, picking up the last grains left among the stubble. "Few families are without the ubiqui? tous black hog, whose usual habitat is at the door step. Its food is the bran of the rice hulled and eaten in the house; its bead is the chief offering set before the lares and penates, and its flesh is most e'teemed among festive viands. It is reared at small expense, makes no dispu? ted demand on space, furnishes the unc? tuous element in a satisfying bill of fare, and can always be sold at ten cents a pound." "The farming appliances are simple, and a complete outfit can be bought for forty dollars. A plow with two shares, a pair of harrows and a fanning mill each cost two dollars; a pump worked by treadles in irrigating the fields, four dol? lars; a water buffalo, twenty dollars; hoe?, sickles, baskets and sundries, nine dollars." One man, Pong Hia, is mentioned who supports a family of ten upon two acres. Bis son-in-law, a member of the fam'ly, helps him till the land, and they sell $20 worth of rice from their farm a year; have a water buffalo, two hogs, thirty fowls, ten ducks, two geese, a dog and a cat. This man pays $3.60 tf.x and has two hundred dollars out at interest at e'ghtcen percent. At half this rate the State of New York would sustain the pop? ulation of the United States.?Popular Science Monthly. ? The proposition to abolish the poll tax met with a more overwhelming defeat in Pennsylvania than did the prohibitory amendment. The majority agaiost it was 335,850. E XXIV.?NO. 4. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Cora on the ear is never found with an uneven number of rows. ? A turpentine well is reported to have been discovered in Laurens Couuty, Ga. ? At Sau Francisco union cooks and waiters get $50 per month and their board. ? They say the world's 1,400,000,000 people could stand in a plat ten mile a square. ? Of 138 saloons in Johnstown and I vicinity but two escaped destruction by j the flood. :\ ? Nine petrified "frogs were found in a solid rock at High Springs, Fla., during a recent day. ? A colored man in Albany, Ga., has servtd no less than twenty-one terms in jail for fightirjg. ? The historical works relating to the American civil war already exceed six ' thousand volumes. ? There is a young lady in Virginia who can write two love letters at once? one with each hand. ? A Kansas editor says that 60,000' raihoad cars will be required to haul-the wheat crop of his State.' ? The losses of property by the recent floods in Pennsylvania are estimated by Bradstreefs at $44,250,000. ? [ ? A Miss Patten, at Buton, was three times pronounced dead by the doctors, and she is now in fair health. ? Italy has a debt of $4,362,800,000, the largest of any nation in the civilized; ., world, calliDg for $190,000,000...ioteW est. ? ? .' - "Au ? There is not much future for a young man who knows how to spend a fortune before he knows how t to make : one. ? What is ancestry, after all?- The rich as well as the poor man came into' ! I the world without a shirt on to his back. ~ ? Queen Victoria is the richest woman . in the British Kingdom. She has accu? mulated a fortune of twenty million dollars. ? The Pennsylvania Railroad compa? ny gives employment to 80,367 men, an. army larger than that of some European ' nations. ? The losses to the various life insur ance companies by reason of the floods in the Conemaugh valley will reach over $250,000. ? It is said that alum and common , salt pulverized and mixed in equal parts will cure toothache. If you have the toothache, try it. ? When.yoa say to a mac with a boil oa his neck, "this is a beautiful morning and all nature seems to be smiling," you simply wasba your breath. ? A bee belonging to a swarm that a Dorsetshire farmer was attempting to hive got down the man's throat and stung him, and, the throat swelling very rapid? ly, the man died of suffocation. ? A man in Coehoction, Pa., has a safe that contains $125. It has been locked up three years and he has forgotten the combination. Meanwhile he is awaiting the return of the agent-of the safe compa? ny. ? Some idea may be gathered of the enormous increase of the fruit-growing industry from the fact that in 1850 the fruit crop of the United State? was valued at ooly $8,000,000, while io 1886 its7alne was $137,000,000. ? The White Lead Trust has obtained ".: control of the three leading factories of the United States. The trust now controls 90 per cent, of all the white lead produced ': io the country. The linseed oil factories - were consolidated into a trnst two years. > ago. ? A boy living near Abilene, Texas, - was recently bitten by a snaki and soon--1 taken with convulsions.' Al old Mexican scraped oat the bowl of a briar pipe and_A applied the Bcrapings to the chUd's i'' wounds, and the next day the boy was well. ? An Iowa man named Gasten, flung ?> himself upon a circular saw in a sawmill - - at Brew ton, Ala., and was instantly killed....,': From letters found on his person, it ; supposed he killed himself because his... engagement with a young lady of Dee Moines, la., had been broken off. ? It has been calculated that the-, railroads of the world are worth nearly ?? $300,000,000,000, or about one-tenth of the wealth of the civilized nations, or more than a quarter of their invested - capital. At this rate all the ready money ~ in the world would boy only about one-V-. third of them. ? A woman of AthsuB, Ga., who is 87\ % years old, it ia said does not remember to havct ever taken a drink of water, and cannot bear to drink the fluid. Her eye? sight has returned to her, and she can now do the finest needlework without ther, use of glasses. She is in fine health and bids fair to live a century. ? A small 7 year-old son was one day .; informed of the advent of a new brother, the seventh son. Much to his mother's dismay the next night a supplement to his evening prayer was: "Ob, Irtrtyv please send us twins next time. Yon know- \. it takes nine to play base ball and we've only got seven."?Philadelphia. Press, ? '?: ? "Is the lady of the house in?" he v asked, as he stood on the steps of a real-.' deoce in Cass Avenoe the other morning, "Which lady of de house ?>'asked the|$ girl who answered the ring. "Why, are there two ?" /'Sartin, sah. If you want \j de white lady, she am oat. If you has bizness wid de cnll'd lady, purceed to dewelop." ? A lady says the first time ehe was kissed she felt like a tub of roses swim? ming in honey, cologne, nutmegs andjf cranberries. She felt also as if something was running through her nerves on dia? monds, escorted by several little Capids in char iota drawn by angels, shaded by;., honeysuckles,' jd the whol? spread with A melted rain jows. The Ladles Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may use.theJiq uid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite rem- v edy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the \ taste, gentle, yet effectual in aoffag 6$ v ihe kidoeyg,-liver 80(3 bowels, '