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BY CLINKSCALE American Fruit '?*-"**?? V!?i>>-v .?Vi? Preserving Powder AND liquid! E have sold this valuable Prepara? tion for several years, and take great pleas? ure in offering it again this season. The fruit crop having oeen short for several years, we advise ourfriends to take advan ' tage of the abundant crop in prospect this season, and provide for what may be a short crop next. < With One Dollar's worth of the Prepa? ration, and a great deal less trouble than the old-fashioned way of canning, you can save .enough to do a large family the wh'oie Winter, and you can open and use out of the jar from time to time without ?njury. Of course it suits some people to run this Preparation down, because it inter? feres with their business, but ask T. D. Sloan, of this city, and a thousand others th rough on t the County who have tried it with success, and you will very Boon see thioreJs no humbug about it. HILL BROTHERS. LAVA ELOOR PAINTS, Six Colors, Makes a very Hard Finish, And Dries Hard overnight. IT IS JUST THE THING! Also, all other kinds of PAINTS AND OILS, ? AT ? SIMPSON, RETD & GO'S. DRUGSTORE. GEORGE E. PRINGE, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ANDERSON, S. C. Jj^ Lli Jiusiness promptly attended to. ? Special attention given to col-. lections. May 9,1889 44 3m Session- Opens Sept. 10y 1889. I7<OR Catalogue of Willi&msitoii Fe 5 male College, a live, thorough, Srogressive, prosperous, cheap, up-country chool for young ladies, address Bev. 8. Lander, President, Williamston, S. C. Its merits widely known. One hundred and sixty-five pupils last year. More expected next. July ill 1889 1 2m Application for Charter . "VrOTICE is hereby given that applica J-j, .tion will be made to. the Clerk of Court of Anderson County on 16th day of August, 1889. for a Charter for First Creok Baptist Churcb. T. Lu CLINKSCALES, and others. Jrlyl8,18S9 2._4_ FOR SALE_OR RENT! PREMISES at Honea Path, S. C, for s ~,meriy belonging to Mrs. W;. G. Smith, ?' Two and a half acre? of land, with buildings thereon. Apply to GREIG & MATTHEWS, . ' - ? Charleston, S. C. April 1?, 1889 ' 41 6m Sue West Female. College. "EXT 8ession begins OCTOBER 7th. ._ Aft Pull corps of accomplished and ex? perienced instructors. Splendid advanta? ges in Art, Music and Literary Depart? ments. Moral tone of community and school aM that conld be desired. Located in one of the healthiest towns in the Pied morlt'cohntryi ? Excellent boardidg depart? ment. Board and regular tuition for the year $165.00. For Catalogue.address MRS. L. M. BONNER. Principal, Or H. E. BONNER, Vice Principal, ? Due West, S. C. July 18,1889_2_ STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I j ?; Anderson County. By W. F. Cox, Judge of Probate. WHEREAS, J. Norton Hunter has ap? plied to mo to grant him Letters of Ad? ministration on the Estate and effects of James Hunter, deceased. ?These are therefore to cito and admon? ish all kindred and creditors of the said James -Hunter, deceased, to be and ap? pear before me in Court of Probate, to bo held at Anderson Court House, on the 15th day of August, 1889, after pub? lication hereof, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. 1 Given under my hand this 25th day of .July, 1889. W. F. COX, Judge of Probate. Aug 1.1889_4_2__ FOR KENT. STORE ROOM, lT door to McCully, Catbcart & . ?Co., from 1st next .September. Ap? ply to1 ' A. H. OSBORNE, Hfly1!?, 1889 1 g 4 ? A) C. STRICKLAND, DENTIST. NITROUS OXIDE given at all times for the Painless Extraction of Teeth, ?ST- Office on corner of Granite Row ovtr Bleckley Mercantile Co. N0V1?.JS88 \% S & LANGSTON. TflA?Hflrtf'?oLUMN, "33^ All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. Any locality wishing to employ a good male teacher for ten months will be put in communication with one upon appli? cation to this office. We regret to learn of the serious ill? ness of Miss Nellie Stenhouse, in conse? quence of which she has .had to give up her school at Saluda. But we are glad to know the Trustees have secured a competent teacher in the person of Miss Flora Richey, f. recent graduate of the Winthrop School, who will finish the term. Miss Mattie Brown has taken charge of;the school at Bethesda, in Brushy Creek. We know Miss Mattie to be a competent, painstaking teacher, and the patrons would do well to keep her. Bat she and her pupils will need encourage? ment, and it won't hurt a bit if some of you parents np there drop in to Bee her once in a while. We note with pleasure the increasing desire on the part of the people for bet? ter teachers?for a higher standard of j scholarship?for more thorough work? for an improvement on the hamdram style of hearing recitations, in short, for teachers with teaching qualities inherited by nature, and improved by cultivation. More and more those teachers will sink to their proper level who think there is nothing more for them to learn, and day by day proceed around in a circle. How many parents have visited their schools since they began ? Some of your schools are running now, and we wonder how many are going to visit them. You are not busy now, and would it not be a good idea to hitch up some day and go over and spend two or three hours with the Bchool and see if your children are doing anything.? May be you don't know much about school teaching, but that tired teacher will be glad to see you and your own boy or girl will be helped by your manifestation of interest. We need professional teachers?men and women who follow teaching as a business for the purpose of making a livelihood, and we cannot have them until there is at least a good living in the business. No man or woman can afford to teach for three or four months in the year and then scratch aronnd for a living the balance of the year. The teacher who does this will be a failure? will satisfy neither himself nor his patrons. And the teacher who attempts to do this lowers the profession and les? sens his own self-respect. At the recent State Convention of | Teachers the subject of "How to improve the public schools,'' was discussed.by the School Commissioners present, and the universal sentiment was "more money." This opinion is entertained by nearly everybody, and the question is how to raise it. Everybody wants a longer school term, and longerierms mean more money. Now, how are we to get it? The only answer iB from the people themselves, from the whole body of the people,~and it must be "left tqthem to say whether they will pay it, and how. Every parent is interested in the educa? tion of his child, that he shall at least receive the rudiments of an education, and it is equally clear to every parent that his child will aot receive it going to Bchool two to three months in the year. Then will you lengthen the term by pri? vate subscription or by taxation ? When it is done by private subscription a few have the harden, and some receive the benefit without assuming any of the bur? dens. Bat the Legislature has provided by statute a very simple solution of the difficulty. Under the recent Act a ma I jority of the resident freeholders in any Township may petition the. Trustees to call a public meetiog of all the taxpayers of the District who return real or per? sonal property of the value of one hun? dred dollars, and this meeting, by a ma? jority vote of those present, may levy a special tax of not more than two mills, and each voter has the right to designate at what school house his money shall be expended. If the people" willIt&ke.hold of this it will give us about double the present term, "so that we, could have at least a six months' school. It is a mat? ter for each Township to determine for itself, and will not cost the people as much as it doss now to run a school by private subscription, for everybody will have to help. Many of th? Tow^Mrtt in other Counties have already acted upon it, and it is going into effect this next winter, and let us not be behind. ? Mr. J. M. Ca Id well, of Walton County, Qa., has a Bible printed eighty years before Columbus discovered Amer? ica, yellowed with age; a large, solid mahogony folding table and bedstead and set of silver teaspoons, all of which have been in his family over 150 years;' a lamp 134 years old, with the chimney made with the burner and intended us. a lard lamp; pair of andirons 150 j ears old, and a preserve jar about two centuries of age._ &ST A man who has practiced medi? cine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says. Toledo, 0., 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 Been a prepara-1 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. Xbure Truly, L. L. Goksuch, M. D, Office, 215 Summit St. We will give $100 for any cose of Ca? tarrh that can cot be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. I^-Solr} bj Drug^iBts, 75c. IUP ON EDUCATION. Advantages Given Children In these Days. Atlanta Constitution. Edward Everett was a great man and a college graduate, and he had defined a good education to be: "To read the English language well; to write with dispatch a neat, legible hand, and to be a master of the first four rules of arithmetic so as to dispose of with accuracy, every question of figures that com es up in prac? tice. If, in addition, you can write pure, grammatical English, I call it an excellent education." Who can do that ? How many college graduates can do it ? How many lawyers or doctors or preachers can read the English language well? When Bishop Beckwith or Dr. Axson reads a chapter in the Bible or a beautiful hymn it carries weight and solemnity, and the congrega? tion feels its power and its pathos, but with the average preachers it is the same old monotonous drawl or sing song. They read just like it was a part of the service that was not of much consequence but had to be performed. What theolog? ical, seminary gives lessons in reading? What private or public school pays any special attention to it? Select any schoolboy or girl between twelve and ! sixteen and ask them to read a few para? graphs from Webster or Goldsmith or Washington Irving and you will be disgusted at their lack of artification and tone and emphasis and feeling. Then try the college graduates on Hood's Song of the Shirt, or. Goldsmith's Hermit, or Sterne's Uncle Toby. Then ask a preacher to read you a chapter where God answers Job ont of the whirlwind. It is a shame that so few can read well or spell well or write well. B[ow many young men write "a neat legible hand with dispatch." Look at the letters that come home from the college girls, they are written in a coarse, unwomanly affect? ed hand, and yon can't tell any difference between an m or nor u or a or r. In fact it is almost impossible for a common man to read them at all. But it is the style. The practical value of good spelling, good expression and good writing is worth more to a young man seeking business than he is aware of. His first letter to a business house is either a credential or it is a back set that blights hin prospects at the start. The practical value of good reading to a lawyer or a preacher is just immense. If they read well they will be sure to apeak well. We have heard law? yers read authorities to the judge or the jury, and they made no impression and tired-everybody. Most everybody is de? ficient in the articulation of words. The singers in our church choir.':'are so indif? ferent to this, that nobody can tell what hymn they are singing unless the words are before them. We have been grading our public schools, and examining teachers, and selecting text books according to the modern system. I know very well that we old fogies have got to conform and fall into line, but still we are not recon? ciled. The whole machinery is too com? plicated and unbending to suit our old fashioned views?six years for the grammar school and three more for the high school, and three or four more for college. Twelve years of schooling right straight along, unmixed with laber or practical work, in the concerns of life, is enough to make a genteel vagabond of anybody. This is the system, but thankB to our natural condition, our children can't go through with it and don't do it. Not one parent in a hundred can afford it, and so the system is continually bro? ken and the average boy or girl does not get more than four years altogether, and that is taken in broken doses?a smatter? ing of language and figures, and various ologies and osophies. Four years is enough for the average boy if he begins at tec years and puts in bis time diligent? ly. It is a sin to send a six year old child to school. Some mothers do it to get rid of them, or to shirk the duty of ts aching them to spell and to read. They make the school room their nursery. Four years is a liberal and abundant privilege It is four years more than John Bunyon had, and two years more than Henry Clay. Then there are Burns and Cowper and Shakepeare and Patrick Henry who picked up in the old field all the educa? tion they got. These cases and hundreds of others are cited to show that there iB more in the boy. than in the number of] years at school. If a studious i no wedge loving boy is not saitsfied then let him go to college or to a university and take | in all he can get. We want colleges and universities for just such aspiring youths. We must have them and they should be w"*ll.f ndowed so that a poor boy could jave a chance if he was in earnest. Alex. Stephens was a beneficiary of Franklin college. But the average boy has no such ambition or expectation. Here are one hundred and fifty boys in our public schools and not ten per cent, of them will ever see a college. They have got to go work and earn a living, and if they had the good education that Edward Everett defines they have pretty good tools to work with. Free tuition don't amount to much, It will take free board and free clothes and free books to make the present system a success. No, that will not do it. That noblehearted man, Cincinatua Peeples, took a liking j for a poor boy who was hauling wood to town and told him he would"send him to school for a year and pay for his school? ing. The boy said : "I haven't gotten any clothes that are fitten." "I will get you some clothes and buy you some bocks." "But daddy can't spare me," said the boy. "He cuts the wood and I haul it." "Well, I will hire another boy to drive the steers," said Peeples; and be did it, and that boy is now a notable man. What the country people want is good common schools within easy reach of their children. A competent teacher ought to be provided for absut thirty children, and a. woman is better than a man for this business. They are more gentle and kind and have a higher grade of morality. I heard a good mother from a naboring town Bay: "I am sending my children to a Christian lady, and I can see the good effectB of her moral training every day. My children love her and respect her. She has a motherly care over their morals and their manners. She teaches truth and virtue 8ml honesty ANDERSON, B.C., r and kindnena es well aa booka." The teachers in the public schools have no time to do this. That Byatem is all machinery, and the teachers have all they can do to keep up with it. Undsr the old system it was an impor? tant consideration whether the teacher bad a gift for teaching and a liking for the calling. But now tbe sole question is one of scholarship, The examining board write out bo many questions, and the candidates write out the answers, and that settles it. If an applicant fails to tell that it was Andrew Jackson who first promulgated the doctrine of "to the victor belongs the spoils," she is marked down a point or two, although she may be tbe best teacher in the school. Then, again, tbe time and the place of writing out the answer is too severe a trial to those who are nervous and not always self-possessed. A sensitive young lady might be ever so good a scholar, and she could not do herself justice under such surround? ings. And then thb books?the beautiful books?was there ever an age in which the children bad so many attractive school books? It makes us wish that we were children again. What would we j have given for such readers and geogra-, phies and histories? How we would I have feasted upon the beautifui pictures! I verily believe that the average boy or girl could, with these books, and a little help from father or mother, get a good education at home ; and there is really no use for a school or a teacher except &e a persuader, that is all. I believe that two or three young girls could get together by night out doors, under the starry heavens, and learn for themselves everything that is in Mrs. Bowcn'a as? tronomy. It is a splendid work and we are pround of her as a Georgia woman, and proud of Professor Derry and Pro? fessor Sanford and Miss Fields, all from Georgia, whose books are growing into popularity. Of course we prefer southern books to northern, especially the histories. It is just impossible for a northern man to write a fair, impartial history of tbe late war, or of the causes that led to it. The ignorance of some of these historians is amazing. Here is a school book before me which has on one page the six great? est federal leaders and on another page the six greatest confederate leaders of the late war. Among tbe latter are Buc? hanan and Mitchell as our cbiief naval officers. Where he got hold of Mitchell nobody knows. He doea not mention them nor Hoffet in his book, and mentions Admiral Semmes only once, and that very slightingly in a foot note. He seems to have been entirely ignorant of the fact that Semmes destroyed over fifteen mil? lions of their property, and that it took TJncle Sam about twenty years to bulldoze the damages out of England for selling tho Alabama to him. But we feel encouraged with the bright prospect of soon removing the shame of our illiteracy. Dr. Boggs had done the State great service in arousing our people to the importance of education, aud Dr. Chandler and Dr. Nunnally are co-oper? ating nobly. They may differ in plans, but not in the great purpose. We feel sure that our law makers will do all they can do prudently. Let tbe "tools" be placed in the nands of all our children, and then let those climb higher who will. Mrs. Bowen is right. Let there be a normal school to educate female j teachers to teach. The country wants hundreds of them. There ought to be one for every five miles square of the populated territory. That would require thirty for the county, and cost about ten thousand dollars. Tax tbe people to pay it. It would be paid more willingly than a tax for courts and juries and jails. Let us removo tbe Bbame of our illitera? cy. Dr. Boggs says that nearly all the great men of the nation come from the country. Then let us cultivate and pro? tect it. Henry Grady says that the cit? ies and towns of Georgia have grown sixty millions richer and tbe country fifty millions poorer since the war. Cities and towns are on a craze after money, and they are getting it, and so let us tax tbe rich to educate the poor. Maybe that will help restore the equilibrium? maybe it will. Bill A nr. A Word to Mothers, Let boys assist in the housekeeping. How often do we see a poor, tired mother exhausting her strength and vitality in efforts to accomplish her daily task about tbe bouse, while at tbe same time a big, strong youngster is lolling in an easy chair or lying upon the sofa! Why ' should he not lend a helping band to his overworked and tired mother? and why should he not be encouraged and induc? ed to lighten the mother's burden, by going an errand, performing numberless little actions required during the day, taking labor off her hands that he is perfectly able to dispose of, anticipating wants that would be auggested by a loving and affectionate heart ? Had the moth? er, in his earlier days, taught her boy to lend hi3 aid in trifling household matters, when he grew apace in years bis reason and duty and love would naturally sug? gest to him in what manner and on what occasions his service would be welcome and opportune; nor would be consider that such actions detracted from his manhood, but make him feel that, by contributing to his mother's ease, he would be performing a good and noble action. The result of such training, on the part of the mother, would often keep the boy out of mischief, would make him handy, and an adept in domestic matters, would produce a feeling of solicitude for the care-worn mother, and last, but not least, cause him to have more considera? tion for his future wife in her struggles and efforts about the home circle.?Don ahoe's Magazine. ? An artesiian well in North City, a suburb at St. Augustine, Fla., is said to have the largest flow of any artesian well in the world. It is an eight inch well, and its flow exceeds the highest expecta? tions. The flow exceeds 8,000 gallons per minute, or over 11,500,000 gnllons every twenty-four hours. ? The return of the land grants made in Western Australia shows that one mau owns and controls nearly '1,000,000 acres. rHUKSDAT MOENI An Ex-Tramp's Story. Atlanta Constitution. An old man with tramp written in un? mistakable characters on every feature of his bloated face, walked into the Kim ball house one day last week. Before the porters could drive him out he bad solicited money from several gentlemen sitting about the rotnnda. Among others he begged from a party of legislators who were discussing the railroad bill. One of these gentlemen took a quarter from his pocket and handed it to the old man, at the same time saying to his friends that he could never refuse a tramp money, because he had once been a tramp himself. He was immediately assailed by a storm of inquiries, s.nd finally told this story of his strange expe? riences : "You gentlemen may not know," he said "that at one time I was a clerk here in Atlanta. I didn't like standing behind a counter all day and I found it especially hard work to keep my mind on my business, because all my thoughts were taken up by a dear girl who lived a long way off. It was my habit to go down twice a month to see her. I would leave Atlanta Saturday afternoon, spend Sunday with her and return in time for work Monday morning. These little trips used np all my spare cash and I was kept in a constant state of dead broke. A time came when I had to buy a new suit of clothes, and when I had paid for them I had just enough money left to buy ray railroad ticket to the place where my sweetheart lived and return. I thought nothing of that, how? ever, as I was in the habit of staying with the young lady's father over the one night I remained. As bad luck would have it, when I reached the place the house was full of company and I was obliged to go to the hotel. I didn't sleep much and didn't have a very good time. The next day I was thinking all the time how I was going to get back. I thought I would borrow the money from the girl's father. I hated that idea so much that I concluded to jump my hotel hill instead. Suddenly a bright idea occur? red^ me. I could pay my bill, leave like a gentleman and then hide in an empty freight car, and so return to Atlanta. That night I said good bye at the usual time and left for the depot. But ?ustead of taking the passenger train I nlipped around and crawled into a box car. After a long wait I heard some one run? ning over the roof of the car, and soon after we pulled out. It was rough riding, but finally I grew sleepy and, placing my traveling bBg under my head, lay down. I could see the stars through the open door and iay there and watched them, thinking *of the dear girl I had left behind me until worn out by anxiety I fell asleep. I must have slept very soundly because I had only an indistinct sensation of stopping several times and backing, with occasional severe jolts. After one of these stops I must of half wakened because I seemed to see a man's head looking into the car. Just as we were moving ahead again, the head rose until a complete man seemed outlined between me and the shining stars out? side. I started up, feeling sure some one was in the car besides myself. It was dark as "pitch, except just by the open door and I could distinguish nothing. I called and asked if any one was there but received no anawer. Then I thought it was all a dream and lay down again and went to Bleep. I was rudely waken? ed by a kick in the ribs, and as I tried to rise something struck me on the head, knocking me flat. Then I heard a voice out of the darkness, telling me take off my .clothes or my brains would be knocked out. I tried to remonstrate but another blow on the head was my only answer. When I came to myself I was quite naked and sitting in the door I could see the figure of the man. As I moved he sprang up and came to where I was lying. He kicked towards me the clothes he had himself taken off and told me to put them on. It was too dark to see anything, besides I was bewildered by the blows on the head and very cold, so I did as 1 was told. This figure which I could indistinctly see stood by with a club ready to strike until the train began to slow, then he ran to the door and jumped out. I thought we were going to stop and I could call for help but we had only Blowed down for a bridge and we were soon going on again as fast as ever. Finally we reached a station and I saw a man run out from the depot and say a few words to the train hands. Then the whole party came toward the place where I was concealed, and as they did so I he3rd a few words, among them, "convict"?"telegraphed" "escaped"?"this train"?were plainly distinguishable. Suddenly a bright light flashed into my car and I heard them all cry, "He's here!" Then half a dozen men jumped in, seized me, and dragged me into the depot. For a moment the light in the room blinded me, after the darkness. Then I caught sight of my own figure in a small glass over the man? tel piece and started back with horror. I was dressed in the striped clothes of a convict. I tried to explain, but the men would not listen to me. They threw me into a small closet and locked the door. I could hear my captor3 talking on the outside, and the station-master told how a notorious criminal had escaped from a convict camp down below, and how ho had been telegraphed to search every train for him, as it was thought he might have concealed himself in a box car to get away. The next morning a man came who said he was a sheriff, and put handcuffs on me and took me to jail. I tried to talk to him and tell him all my troubles, but he would not listen to me. He told me, however, that some one from the prison camp from which I was supposed to have escaped, would be up that evening s.nd take me back. My situation was very hard. I deotere that car only intending to steal a ride, and I was taken from it a convicted and sen? tenced burglar. That night the convict camp keeper arrived, and as booh as he bbw me began to swear frightfully. He told them I was not the man he wanted. They then began to believe my story, but even then they only believed it in part. They con? cluded that I was a tramp trying to steal ft ride ami aoouted the idoa of my being NG, AUGUST 8, 186 a gentleman. Early the next morning they gave me aome old clothes, very rag' ged and dirty, and a pair of old Bhoes, and told me to clear out. I didn't know a aoul in the place, and every one I asked for help turned away fromme with some remark about the cheek of a tramp. Finally I was forced to really become a tramp and made ray way home on foot. I tried to steal another ride on a freight train, but they found me and kicked me off, so I walked all the way home, beg? ging a little food by the way. It took me two days to do it. Fortunately it was night when I arrived here. I slipped into my room like a thief and I did not feel like an honest man again until I had taken a bath and burned my tramp's outfit. "I suppose," remarked one of the lis? tening Senators, "that that little trip cured you of going to see that particular sweetheart." "No, it didn't," replied the ex-tramp. "She is my wife now, but I can never refuse a fellow a quarter when I see he is down on bis luck." A Bad Boy and Ersl;iue College. A brother in a distantSlates writesa pri? vate note, a part of which he will pardon for us putting in print: "I knew much more of Erakine in ibi early history than of its later days. My father took me there the latter part of 1837 to begin school, when the famous John S. Pressly was ruler of the Presbyiierial Academy located on the ground where your mother's bouse now stands. Excep; a small yard before the door of the Acade? my the whole place was a chinquapin thicket where the village now stands, without a house in sight except the old church and the aession house. John S. Pressly has the honor of clear? ing up the thicket by cutting down all the straight ratoons from the roots of the bushes to use upon such boys as J. E. Pressly, A. E. Ellis, Jim Crossom, Frank Patton and others I could name. He literally killed out the chinquapins and made the jungle penetrable. The preachers had been discussing for years a manual labor school after the Cokesbury establishment. The Second Presbytery had secured the services of John S. Pressly and Rev. E. E. Pressly?the latter to instruct the girls in one end of the Academy. This was as far back as 1836. The boys' school flourished, but as the girls were thought to be in the way the neighbors erected a house on the lot next the graveyard in front of the bouse now occupied by Dr. Miller. Near the close of the year 1838, a difficulty occurred in the boys' school. It was after this fash? ion : A, G. Gaskins threw a hard, tawny old fashioned biscuit at the head of W. E. Hunt while Mr. Pressly was asking the blessing at the dinner table in the house now known as the Hobt. Penman house. You know the boys would snort out iu a loud laugh at such a praux, and when the teacher opened bis eyes and found the general crowd laughing, he at once concluded that they were laughing at him and he never would believe any? thing else. He dismissed Gaskins at once, though he protested that he never thought of making sport of the blessing. Gaskins laid the matter before the trus? tees, Abram Haddon, James Liudsay, John L. Ellis,. James Fair and Johnson Sims. The trustees required Mr. Pressly to take back Gaskins on his making suitable acknowledgment. He refused to do so. The next morning Dr. Ebene zer Pressly appeareed as teacher, and with the help of the theologues finished the session. Synod meeting very soon after the labor school and the Presbyte? rian Academy were merged into a col? lege. It has been said that Jenny Geddles started the Reformation in Scot? land by throwing a Btool at the priest's head while he was mumbling mass in her lug. So Erskine College was started by A. G. Gaskina throwing a hard biscuit and hitting W. R. Hunt on the bead, while John S. Pressly was asking the blessing."?Associate Reformed Presbyte? rian. The Care of Jealously. Nuida, that queen of cynics, says a clever woman is never jealous. She is not far out of the way. I have often noticed that women who lived in an at? mosphere of chronic jealously were, as a rule, of iuferior stamp. I know a woman who watches her husband as a cat would a mouse, or let U3 say a gay young rat, it sesrus more appropriate. He certainly will bear watching, but he is aware of this extreme vigilance; he chafes under it;, and, deter? mined not to be held in leadiog strings, goc-i to greater leDgtbs than he would were his wife to show more confidence in him. We might amend Ouida's state? ment by siaying a clever woman will never show jealously. There is no more pitiable or comtemptible object than a man or a woman who gives way to wild imagines and suspicion. Better, far better, to be hoodwinked or deceived than to suffer the dorroding passion of jealousy to warp and distract one's whole being. And if husbands and wives have not utter confidence in each other?the con? fidence that firmly believes that either one may pass through every ordeal of temptation unscathed?then they had not best live together. It seems to me that a most admirable element?that of bravery ?is often lacking in marriage. People grow faint hearted when thoy discover that they have made a mistake ; they are often fain to turn their back and fly from the duties they have assumed. Cowurdice in marriage is as reprehensi? ble as on the battle field. You may not like the noise and confusion ; the smell of the gunpowder may be unpleasant, you may long to get away from the affray and wander in smooth pastures and beside the still waters, but to turn one's back and ily would be despicable. Thus in matrimony. You may be disappoin? ted, disillusioned, neglected; there may be blandishments and enticements beck oniug you away from your conflicts but to go is cowardice?to stay is brave* ry. _ _ ? A chiropodist will henceforth bo at? tached to every German regiment. This may seem rather odd, but keeping soldiers' feet in order is one of the most important elemeaU of ?eusfu! war, S9. Take the Children to Church. Laudation of the past and complaint of the present are both easy and cheap. It is also a very ancient custom, for in every country and century the "golden age" has always been in the past. There is, however, an element of truth in it?just a saving ilavor. The "good old times" had indeed something good in them, something that perhaps our own time would be better if it had also. Many a good old custom has died out, or is fast dying, to leave the world so much the poorer. One such custom was the'way, once' general and now so uncommon, of the entire family going to church regularly of a Sunday morning. The family pew was an institution in those days, now that we think of it, so was the family. Father and mother and all the children (and a lot of them there were, big and little) were to be found in their places as regularly as the minister was in his. Those were the days of long sermons, too ?long and awfully dry for little heads, with their first, and secondly, and so on to thirteemhiy, and finally my brethren. That is a custom of the good old times that no one regrets or wishes back; but the puws have lost as many heads as the sermonB since the days of our grand? fathers. The little children are no longer seen there because "they are too little," and the older children are likely to be absent because, in their own esteem, "they are too big." Let us revive this good old custom and take the children to church. The Sunday school is no substitute for the church?a useful supplement we all concede it to bu, most useful and deserving of fullest development and support, but not a sub? stitute. If for any reason the children can not attend both the morning service and the Sunday school, by all means take them to the former. By all means, we say and we mean that precisely. It is of greater importance that they get correct religious habits and right religi? ous impressions just at the time when habits are so easily fixed for life and when impressions once made are most indelible. It is a great thing that a parent ha? done for his child when he has helped form a habit of church going. The chances are that it will stick by him through life ; and the chances are still stronger that if the habit is not formed in childhood it never will be formed. It is a thing for which, we venture to say, every Christian man is profoundly thankful if among his earliest recollec? tions is joining in his childish way in the worship of God?if he can not recall a time when regular church going on Suuday was not as much a part of his life as play was on the other six days of the week. Of course we recognize the fact that church-going is in itself a valueless form ; that the grace of God is the one thing that can change the heart of old or young. But is it not true that the due observance of forms ordained of God has much to do with the action of God's grace on the heart? We all remember the negro servant's happy answer to his master, a politician, who jokingly asked, one day, "Well, Sam, am I elected to be Baved?" "Dunno, massa, but I never heard of anybody's bein' 'lected 'less he was a candidate." We cannot make our chil? dren Christians by all our efforts, but can not we put them in the way of becoming candidates for God's election ? This is the exact office of the religious training of youth, to subject them to euch' influ? ences as are likely to make them respond to the grace of God working on their hearts. And how much more useful a Chris? tian and church-member one is likely to be whose earliest associations are with the church, who has grown up familiar with its usages, who is not an alien to its spirit and life, but one of the family from the first. We complain sometimes that the members of our churches do not understand distinctive Baptist principles and are uufamiliar with "Baptist usage." This is because so many of them lack the familiarity that can only come through this early habit of church going. Many of our members were converced in adult years, or come from other denominations, but a large proportion have come from Baptist families. The:e, at least, it was possible so to have trained that they would not have been, what so many of them are, like aliens and strangers un? knowing our customs.?Examiner. Georgia's Mammoth Cave. Benevolence, Ga., July 29.?In the northern part of this county on what is now known as the Grier place, is a quaint auci interesting cave of cousiderabie size, a miuiature mammoth cave of Ken? tucky. In company with Dr. W. W. Binion as chaperon, behind his plendid sorrel and in au easy riding Hart buggy, we commenced our drive for the wonderful cavern. En route to the object sought we pass the old plantation of the Wards, who in ante-bellum days owned thou? sands and lived in palaces in keeping with their wealth. Then we pass the old Sam Grier plantation, which, before the war, was one of the richest in the Stale, and the elegant mansion built in rich pattern of his day was known for its beauty and elegance outside of Georgia. On this place Mr. Grier made a fortune j burning and barrelling lime for market, and in close proximity to this antique lime kiln is located the miniature mam? moth cave. Its opening is about three feet in diam? eter, through which we descended about twelve feet to the stalagmite floor. The first room is about twenty feet square, with ceiling of glistening stalactite and moist carbonate of lime above. In it we found various Bhells the size of a large oyster shell, rocks of every shape and various curiosities. As we proceed fur? ther there are large rooms and small ones, and enclosures so small as to ne? cessitate crawling through to proceed further into its dark interior. About ono hundred yards in its interior you pass a beautiful placid stream as clear as crys? tal and deep, slowly wending its snakeliko path around the mounds of pultaceouB limestone and going?no one knows whore. Further on we find other enclo? sures aud large apd email rooms, blufl* VOLUS of rapid decent, winding stairways form? ed by nature and well made seats as if made by hand. Beyond these another stream wends its way, but with rapid murmurings, clear as diamonds, with a little wall of limestone on each side, which seems to act as guide for this babbling brook as it wends its way over its pebbly bed. We cannot say how far this cavern ex? tends, but 150 yards only carries you to new scenes, new windings, newshaped shells, new curiosities, which show that this might have once been the bed or bottom of some marine body of the habi? tation of marine animals. There is close to this cave an old In? dian trail, and various are the supersti? tions of this aboriginal tribe concerning it, one of which is that it was the abode of King Eolus,and at this opening he sat guard in his kingly splendor to sup? press the winds if humanity pleased him, or let them fly out in rapid ruin if not satisfied with mortal doings.?Macon Telegraph. The Death Penalty Does no Good iu South Carolina, During the summer term of our courts there has been an unsual number of trials for murder and they generally resulted in acquittals or mistrials. In most of our counties there are men, and some? times a dozen or more, who have killed their man and been acquitted. It is not j our intention here to discuss the justice t of the verdicts. The men who have done this killing may feel that they were justi I fiable and conscience may never whisper that they did wrong. Some of them may be going through life miserable men, be? cause they feel in their hearts that tbey are murderers, notwithstanding the ver? dict of the juries that heard the cases. The fact is patent to every one that we have many homicides and very few con? victions, and if a jury ever comes out with a verdict of guilty in a murder case, you may be sure that it is a poor white man or a negro that is tried. We are not going to object to our jury system or find fault with court methods, nor do we feel that the country is in great danger because acquitted murderers exercise the rights of citizens in nearly all of our coun? ties. Capital punishment is a failure. The guilty are not always visited with the death penalty, nor are the living de? terred from committing similar crimes. There is a general sentiment prevailing in the minds of many that banging is too severe a penalty, or rather the wrong ' penalty for murder. Consequently, this : sentiment often gives shape to the verdict of a jury room. No sort of punishment prescribed by our statutes deters men from committing crimes that are the result of high and uncontrollable pas? sion. An execution by lynch law is the most terrible method of punishing a criminal, yet the mob may hang a man for n certain crime committed under a high slate of passion and a similar crime will soon be committed by some one cognizant of the facts and knowing, if he is caught, he will have to swing to the nearest limb. Lynching for a cer? tain crime does not prevent the commis? sion of that crime. Hanging for murder does not prevent the next man from killing his fellow man. During great fear or excitement, or intense and mur? derous malice, a man does not think of consequences. The shadow of the gal? lows has no terror for him. When one considers actual results itf our trials for capital offenses, he is bound to come to the conclusion that a man of good family, or possessed of many good dollars, cannot be hanged in this State. Even hanging does not deter others from committing capital crimes. The acquittals and mistrials rather en? courage the thoughtless multitude to be bold in the commission of crime, believ? ing that they will be able to escape pun? ishment. It would be better to abolish the death penalty. Let a heavy fine and imprison? ment in the penitentiary be the penalty for murder or manslaughter. Many men are tenderer in their consciences. Leave it to the discretion of the judge and jury as to the fine imposed. Let it always be a3 heavy as the man and his friends can bear. A jury would often bring in a verdict of guilty when they knew the life of the accused would not be taken. Im? prisonment in the penitentiary and heavy fines would be more apt to, bring out correct verdicts than the present sys? tem and men would be deterred from killing when they knew their pock? et books were in great jeopardy. Then let the family of the slain come at them in the civil court for damages and it. would be found that a man with prop? erty would be very careful about killing folks.?Spartanburg Spartan. A Brcathiug Well. Wheelerville, Al?.., July 31.?The Texas and Pacific company sank a bored ! well some years ago near Eagle Flat sta? tion, in order to obtain artesian water. The well was abandoned when it had been bored 800 feet, but the tubing is still intact in it. For twelve hours each day a furious gust of air rushes into the tubing, and the next twelve bours an equally strong gush rushes out. This is truly a great natural phenome? non, but there is but one natural, common sense and philosophical reason for this great wonder. The well must penetrate into some large subterranean cavern which contains a large body of water. This water having connection, by an underground passage, with the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific ocean. If this be true, it is very plain that the suction and escaping of the air is caused by the eb? bing and flowing of the tide. As the tide ebbs down in this cavevn a vacuum is made underground, which is fill? ed by the air rushing iu through this well, and, conversely, when the tide comes up, the air is forced out through the same opening. The air while in this cavern may become mixed with various gasses, but not magnetized, as has been suppos? ed. ? " What're you doing with that cigar, you little rascal!" exclaimed a father addressing his sou. "Ma said if I hit the cat again she'd make mo smoke, ao' J bit her again an' am smokiogV' IE XXIV.- -NO. 5. ALL SOUTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Kansas has bad fourteen cyclones in six years. ? This year's peach crop is estimated at 2,79S,000 baskets. ? He that stands in the valley will never get over the hill. ? During the last fiscal year, the debt of the country was reduced $87,1S2,200. ? The hardest time for a man to show his grit is when he is forced to bite the dust. ? If some men were half as big as they think they are the world would have to be enlarged. ?The Cherokee Indians, in the Indian Territory, have put $200,000 in a semi? nary for girls. ? It is estimated that the wheat crop will be about 496,000,000 bushels, and; the corn crop 1,900,000,000 bushels. ? Edison sleeps only four hours a night. He got into this habit by keep? ing late hours with his wife's baby. ? The wheat harvest in Kansas is said to be the largest ever gathered in that State. Some fields yielded 120 bushels per acre. ? W. Shelly, of Milford Square, 111., has a Newfoundland dog ponderous enough to do all the family washing by a tread power. ? A recent count of money in the United States Treasury revealed a short? age of $35. The amount counted was $184,000,000. ? Another expedition to search for the north pole has been organized. The pole will not be found in time to be util? ized during the summer. ? The internal revenue on spirits and tobacco during the last fiscal year amounted to $131,000,000, and the tax on sugar to about $59,000,000. ? The following notice appears in an exchange: "This hotel will be kept by the widow of the former landlord, who died last summer on a new and improved plan." ? Experiments have shown that the skin of a white person transplanted on the skin of a Negro becomes black as the skin of a Negro, and that black inoculated on white loses its pigment and becomes white. ? One of the steam-engiues for the Paris exhibition is a little less than three fifths of an inch high, weigh 3 less than one-ninth of an ounce, and contains 180 pieces of metal. It is the smallest4^ ever made. ? Old John Cole, a stingy old farmer near Burlington, Vt., drew up valuable papers and used ink of his own manufac? ture to save expense. It faded away in a few days and he is about seven thousand dollars out. ? Terrible stories are told of the starving miners at Braidwood, Illinois. It is said that dead horses have been eat? en, and children may be seen with their hard, dry skin clinging to the bones of? their faces. ? The income of a professional rat catcher averages $1,500 per year, and there are only ten of them in the United States. The average income of lawyers is only $700 per year, and the ranks are overcrowded. ? A negro girl, of IMecklenburg county, N. O, died from hydrophobia last week. Her sufferings were very great. She was bitten about three weeks before^ her death. Butler's famous madi^ofre^ was applied, but did no good. i I ? Sirs. Dumpsey: "See Lere, Johhiy^ Dumpsey! you have been in swimroinj Now, don't deny it." Johnny DumpseyJ "Indeed, I haint, ma." Mrs. Dumpsey "Careful, sir! How doea your si happen to be on wrong side oc Johnny Dumpsey: "Me and Bill Bjj have been turning somersaults an' morning." ? England has over $1,000,000 invest ed in the manufacture of idols for heath? en countries. It is probably the only idol industry that is miking any money. - Oij country has more than $1,000,000 invq ed in the manufacture of idols Americans. They are called U. S. Mir and they manufacture an idol known the "Mighty Dollar," which is universal] ly worshipped. ? The largest vine in the world is sail to be one growing at Oys, Portugal! which has been in bearing since 1802 Its maximum yield was in 1864, in whicl year it produced a sufficient quantity of grapes to make 195 gallons of wine; in 1874,1463 gallons, and in 1SS4 only 79} gallons. It covers an area of 5,315 square feet, and the stem at the base measures 1\ feet in circumference.?New York Telegram. ? Mr. Young, a telegraph operator of Charles City, Iowa, has invented a square hole boring machine. His pacenthas been grauted in thirteen claims. He is backed""* by two moneyed men of the town. An exhibition of the machine was given be? fore prominent mechanics. It was pro* nounced a perfect success in every way, the machine boring an even square holej of any dimensions. It is possible thl business men's association may organize a syndicate to manufacture the machine, ?Chicago Herald. ? DeKalb County, Ala., has a wonder in the shape of a ground h//j. boy, who lives with his parents on Sand Mountain. The lad is 14 years of age, and those who have seen him say he has a head, hands and feet similar to 3 ground hog. He cannot talk, but makes a noiae like an animal. He amuses himself almost con? stantly by balancing a stick on one of his hands, and is very active. Several gentlemen have been talking of late of securing the consent of the parents to p^ce the boy on exhibition in all of the principal cities of the country, and, on account of their poverty, it is said it will not be a hard matter to make a contract with them. All who have seen the boy pronounce him a genuine curiosity, and believe a large fortune could be made out of him by placing him on exhi? bition. The Ladles Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may une the liq? uid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite rem edy. It is pleasing to the eye and to Icq taste, gentle, yet. effectual in lading QQ the kidneyg, liver and boweja,