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Apply to GREIG & MATTHEWS, Charleston, S. C. April 1?, 1889 41 .Cm JUST RECEIVED, A fine lot of Children's Carriages, With Steel Wheels. ALSO, A Lot of Kefrigerator8, "^THICH will be sold at low prices at ToiiVS FURNITURE STORE! May 23,1889 _46_ A. C. STRICKLAND, .TOTTROPS.OXIDE given at all times ii-i.. fur. the Painless Extraction of Teeth, .?,?3>T Office on corner , of Granite Row o' tr Bleck ley Mercantile Co. ' Nov l?, 1888 19 &&;j*Ai*GSfONs jaafci mm i ruaririy. n ??? n_ TgAGTO'Goi?MN, -ttSi A11 communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander* son, 8. C. HOW TO TEACH LANGS A?E. I never saw "grammar" studied in an ideal manner but onceA Well-educated young man once cams to ask advice of me as to what be had better turn hia hand to, to get a living. He had helped edit a paper/ had written stories, for which he had. been well rehbmerctcd, and yet had:. never stndied grammar. Having loat his position as clerk in a commission house, he wished to make use of his literary attainments in some I work more agreeable to his literary ) tastes. I advised him to take ]a country school and ? follow ttp the profession or teaching. He protested that he could not pass a written exami? nation in grammar, as he bad never studied it. I lent him a grammar,;and told him he might sit in my school roomy as a Visitor, tor one week and read the book, and I would converse with him on any of the topics 'he did not under? stand. He read several hours per day i until the. book was carefully read through, when he said, in a laconic way, "I see nothing in that which waats explanation." I questioned h.1 m, and found he Was ready at every point. From this instance and similar ones,. I conclude that grammar is a science which needs more of mature mind and less of cramming, for comprehension. . "Language" seems nothing more nor less to me than an affection to dodge the word "Literature.". The best results I have ever had in language were result?, 11 did not seek. Language fuf language's sake means nothing more nor less than trying to get children to say something for the sake of talking, rather than to say something because they have something to say. it seems to me that life is altogether too precious to waste very' much on the "how" a thing is done. The point is, the "what" is done, and not the "how." When children read to get a "point", instead of a "manner," they will get the manner and the point too. It is far more important that they should have the idea than that they should express it. It is &r better to express a large ideai even badly, than to express a small idea well. "Ihe hotse runs." Well, what if it does f What has that to do with build? ing up a child's aspirations to be or do good? "The iarmer sows bis Beed.!' ''She passed on her way abging the songs of former years," "I hope tiiey will accept this proposition," "He will return very soon"?are all well-made sentences from Weih' grammar. Bat what have stich sentences to do with the development of a child's interest in the great humanity that lies about him? Grammar, and language, too, as taught to young children who are to go ont and do bard work in the world, is all bosh and an imposition, except as it involves that sort of thought which is to wake up a child's imagination bo .that he may see and love the beautiful and the good; or, the thought which shall call forth his reasoning powers concerning the impor? tant things with which he must grapple; or, the thought which shall set him on the search for the wonders in nature. Here is a sentence from an essay which one of my pnpils, at the Jones School, wrote for me: "By bearing something read from the book, called Prae and I, I learned how to intertain myself when alone, by look? ing into the sky and imagining myself building castles in 'Spain, and I learned something that 1 never knew before, for when I went out and looked op into the sky I saw clouds (as green as grass) the color of Paria Green, and the sun was just setting and the reflection of the sou'b rays on the clouds made tbem look like gold." I hold that it is far more important that the girl has learned to "intertain" herself by observing the colors in the sky, than that she should have expressed the thought correctly. "I am inclined to believe I like the Golden Age somewhat better for mythol? ogy knowledge." "Mythology knowledge" i3 certainly better than a fine sentence not having any "Golden Age" back of it. That the child can compare "Golden Age" with "Wonder Book," as a better Bource of certain phases .of "mythology knowl? edge" speaks more for the quality of ber thought than any number of well made, detached sentences having no relation to each other. In those few w^rds she ha? handled two well written cU-sics. "I was very much interested in 'The Sad Little Prince' because it teaches us that we are not so unhappy but there are some one unhappier;" This sentence would surely be much "unhappier" if it came from the dry bones of "language," instead of an aroused sympathy. "Horthorn is my favorite author." The boy who wrote this sentence has read one volume of Hawthorne'a works and several volumes by other authors. He has made a choice. It is worth a great deal to a hoy to have an idea of selecting a favorite. He who has "Hor thorn" for a favorite is on the royal high way to good "language." "If I had $40 to spend for books to a boy and girl off in the country I should Boots and Saddles, Prue and I, Music and the musicians, the Wonder Book, Birds and Bees, Geography, Physiology, Life of Wm. Loydy'b Garrison, Green Mountain Boy's, Konrod of Lystonfield, The Sad little Prince, and Twilight thought." This little girl is twelve years old, and the books she has learned to care for she has come into a knowledge of at school. Her sentence was written with the inten? tion of giving me some information in regard to her taste. It is full of mistakes, but there is no mistake in the thought that underlies the sentence. She has a clear conception of what she would like to share with a boy or girl off in the country. "If I was to leave school I would buy books and finish edncationing myself." . That' a boy Bhould wish to continue "educatloning" himself after he leaves school, and should know how to do it, is far more important than that he should leave school beautifully "finished." The object of all "language" work, and of all school work, as far as I know anything of it, is growth?a growing into the love of whatever is kindly and beau? tiful, When children care to be kindly and unselfish, their phrases' of speech will soon correspond with the dignity of their thought. Ttn thought badly expressed, will soon Beek to right itself. The child will naturally try to clothe his good. thought in appropriate drees. A good thought badly clad will seem rude to him. If the thought is taken care of the "language" will soon take care of itself.?Mary E. Bitrt, in Itlmoiiy School Jon) hat, Honor the "Bebel;'? CSBBt The following is'the letter of Capt. W. E. Earle in response to the invitation from the Bntler Guards, of this city, to attend their annual pic nie at Farr*s Mills': " Washington, 1). C, July 20,1889. Gentlemen : I desire to thank you very sincerely for your kindly remembrance and consideration of me as manifested by your courteous invitation to epend the 25th ir.st. with you at Farr's Mills. I greatly wish that I could accept aiid I would gladly niafce it the occasion of a visit to my family and friends, but Sly ill health forbids, You young men of the present Butler Guards carry with your name a weighty responsibility* for on your shoulder"s rests the obligation of maintaining the char? acter, honor and espret de corps of the command that was trained by Henry Lee Thurston and to the death followed Hoke, jPulliam, Powell, Cagle and Isaacs. How well I remember the pride and admiration with which I looked upon those dirty, ragged rebels as they passed through Charleston in July, 1863, after bloody.Gettysburg, in which all but six were struck, and on their way to avenge their dead at Ohickamauga. Never blush to be called "rebels." Wash? ington, Greene, Lee, Hamilton, Knox, Pinckney, Marion, Sumpter would have been rebels if they had failed; but they succeeded and were "patriots." Success? ful revolutionists are "patriots;" unsuc? cessful ones "rebels," but success and failure are not the criterion? or standards of right and of wrong. It is the faithful and honest discharge of duty which makes success and failure alike honora? ble and the Confederates have made "rebel" a title of distinction and of honor among men. The Confederate who saw hia duty and! went for it whilst in Bight, should not only not blush at the title of "rebel," but should justly elevate his men with conscious pride of right. Look at the facts) wholly without manu? facturing facilities and our ports blockad? ed, eleven States with less than one-third of the population and less than one fourth the material resources of the rest of the Union, we upheld the unequal contest for four long, weary years. It cost a debt of twenty thousand, seven hundred and fifty-seven million dollars and an army of twelve hundred and sixty thousand men to put down our rebellion. Weyielded only when we were exhausted, and there are more names on the pension list of the Union than there ever were on the muBt er-rolls of those who fought under the "Bonny Blue Flag." Does that not prove that we focght because of our conviction of right und that we had the courage of our convictions? Think of this: The First Keglment of Rifles (Orr's Regiment) from Pickeus, Anderson and Abbeville, lost by death eighty-one per cent, of its entire enlistment. The 26th N. C, (Vance's Regiment) just from the other side of the same mouutains, lost eighty three per cent. Such valor is unheard of in the annals since the invention of gunpowder. I have met thousands of men who fought against, us, but never one who did not admire our bravery and grit. Let us never fail to . respect, our? selves. The war is over and with all the incidents and vicisitudes of disaster and defeat, it is better for us that we are again a homogeneous part of this great Repub? lic; but every judge of human nature knows that we are better citizens of the United States and trmsr Americans be? cause we were true, to our sense of duty and of right during that most trying period. I wish you all a good time at Farr's MillB, and though I can't be with you, I shall think of you pleasantly on the 25th. With highest sentiments of esteem and regard, I am, yours sincerely, Wii. E. Eaele, Lieut. W. C.Beacham and others, Com? mittee of Invitation of Butler Guards. ? A Portuguese doctor asserts that he has cured seven cases of hydrophobia by rubbing garlic into the wound and giving the patient a decoction of garlic to drink for several days. ? Georgia Legislature will soon have a bill before it to pension a colored man, Eli.Picket, who waB severely wounded during the war. He was born free and went into Confederate service and was always on hand when there was c fight until a portion of hia head was carried away with a piece of shell. The negroes will give him neither help nor sympathy. He ought to have the pension. jjgfAman 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 Hali'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 directious. Yours-Truly, L. L. Gobstjch, M. D, Office, 215 Summit St. We will give $100 for any case of Ca? tarrh that can not be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. ??rSold by Druggists, 75c, ANDERSON, S. C, ' ?p. T IT ifil illill ?I I Mill I *mm**mm~?- im BILL AUF, Arp ?od His Friends Discuss Old-Time Lawyers. Atlanta Constitution. It tfaS tt goodly company and wg phi? losophised and critici&d and told anec ' dotes till the small wee hoursof midnight. Judge Maddox wa? thefe ?nd ?hr preach? er, and that is proof enough that our conduct and conversation was genial and becoming. I recall that we were discuss? ing the tricks and strategies by which lawyers so often accjuit the guilty and the judge remarked i "And that reminds me of Judge Underwood's charge to ihe jury . in a criminal case of some importance and which had been preceded by several cases in which the defendants bad been acquitted. The judge's charity for the infirmities of human nature were exhaust? ed, and ju:it as soon as the argument was closed he leaned forward to the jury and said: 'Yea, gentlemen, you have heard the counsel for this prisoner repeat that old thread bare, worn out, scare crow of an adriidnilio? that it is better that nine? ty-nine guilty persons should escape rather than one innocent man should suffer, and he said that the good book says so. I charge you, gentlemen, that the good book says no stich thing. ,The good Book Bays thai .the angels rejoice more over the repentance of one sinner than over ninety nine who need no repentance, and that is all the n i nety-nine there is in it. Nevertheless, gentlemen of the Jury, there is Stich a maxim, and I charge you that ninety-nlue gdlity per? sons have already escaped, or are escap? ing, and the court has no recollection ef an innocent man having suffered, nor is ouch a tine in any danger in this tribunal; But I charge you, gentlemen, that the innocent are in danger from the guilty ninety-nine who have escaped and that danger is increasing every day. The maxim of the law used to be that when a man was acquitted that it was a p resump? tion of his innocence, but nowadays it is a reasonable presumption of his guilt, and this court cannot restrain a desire to pass sentence on many a man who is not found-guilty. The court cannot help % gentlemen/ ' "in duo time the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty, and the judge re? marked : 'Well, that forecloses the mortgage, and makes an even hundred who have escaped. Hereafter t shall rule that the maxim does not apply in this conrt. Madam Boland exclaimed, 'Oh, Liberty I Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name I' and this court can exclaim with equal emphasis, 'Oh, Justice I Justice ! how many rascals are acquitted under the machinery of the law.'" Judge Underwood's abhorrence of crime and criminals Was so great that he was called the partner of the solicitor, and the lawyers had to fight one as hard as the other, and when they succeeded in clearing a fellow they would jokingly Bay to him daring recess or at night at the hotel: "Well, judge, you lost another case to day," He took this badinage most kindly, and would say, "YeB, gentlemen, I lost another case, for it seems that the devil reigneth in this part of the country. 'And the Lord said unto satan whence cometh thou ?' And Satan said, 'from going to and fro on the earth, and walking np and down in it.3 And if he were to answer now he would add, 'And I spent to-day in the courthouse at Dallas, and harvested among the law? yers.' " The - first time he ever held Court in Harralson county he was not aware of the sparsfty of the colored people in that region, for it was remote from railroads, and the corruptions of civilization. And when a negro man and bis wife were ar? raigned before him for petty larceny and were convicted, the judge Baid: "Well, I will dispose of these parties right now. These free persons of color seem to have now taken a notion that the Almighty made a mistake when he Baid, 'by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread,' and they have quit sweateniog and gone to stealing for a living. The negroes are Btealing and pilfering everywhere. If you have one to work in your field he steals your corn and your pigs, and yonr chickens and your ax. He does not want j ! the ax to cut wood with, but to go 'poB sum hunting and coon hunting and cut down a tree. I have known him to steal a gun to go rabbit hunting with.' The cook steals flour and lard and sugar, and the washwoman steals your clothes. I am going to make an honest effort to stop their trade wherever I preside, and so I will send this man and this woman at hard labor in the chaingang for two years. I'll stop their pilfering in Har? ralson county if I have to depopulate it of their color.*' Now, Merrill had de feuded the darkies without fee or reward, but in the vain hope that if he cleared them he would make tbcm work it out in hi3 cotton patch. And so ho rose forward, and with great gravity said: "Allow me to congratulate your honor on the premature success of your honor's determination, for these are the only two darkies in Harralson county." Bob. Fonche was employed to sue old Father Bigelcw for a lot of land. During the trial he introduced a witness to prove that Bigelow was a common squatter, and claimed every lot that had no settler upon it. Bigelow is a very ancient inhabitant, and is as lean, bony and vigorious as he was half a century ago. His age has been guessed at from 90 to 150, and still anno domini makes no im? pression upon bim. Fouche thought it enlivens the monotony of the case to get up an issue about his mysterious advent into the world, and so he asked the wit? ness if he knew how old Bigelow was. The witness wanted to be facetious and replied: "No, sir, I don't know for cer? tain, but when I was a young man I heard the old settlers say that when they came here in 1839 they found Bigelow settin' on a rock by the big spring, and he was claimin' all the land, and some folks say he came along with De Soto's band and dropped out of the gang in this neighbor? hood. I don't know about that, but I do know that about thirty-five years ago he burnt a coal kiln on this lot." Underwood did not rise to object, but let him rattle along, and when his time came to introduce evidence, he quietly remarked that he had no occasion to do so, for hie brother FoucEe bad very tH?RSDAY MORNI kindly fiaved hira the necessity. "I will make a few broken remarks ia conclusion/' said he. As he was relying upon the* statue of limitation and twenty years possessions he took the position that Eigelo w'r title was better than the Indian title, for he was here before the Indians. That it Was better than a title from the State, for the State bought from the Indians. That the land was his by right of discovery in 1536, and as the heir and sole survivor of De Soto-tbat it waB his by squatter sovereignty, when he was found ?itting upon the rock by the big I spring in 1836, and lastly it was hid by actual possession for thirty-five years, and all these rights and muniments of title had been clearly and fdliy establish eel by the witness who stands before you unimpeached," He gained* his case and Bigelow still lives, and has recently taken a contract to furnish the Anniaton furna? ces with iron ore. Judge Underwood was a gifted man, a great man, a good man, and the most nst ural lawyer I ever knew. If there had been no law he could iiave made it and expended it, and he would have made it right. It was no strain upon his judicial mind?no deep study, no midnight lamps. He never reversed his decisions, but an? nounced them at once from the bench. The greatest strain upon his patience and his courtesy was to be constrained to listen to an argument upon the law of the case and to the tedious reading from authorities and precedents. He was self conscious that he needed no instruction, but he was not vairi of his perceptions. His sympathies were always" with the right side and he could not help his leanings that way* "Justice is represent? ed as blindfolded," said he, "but that is a mythological mistake. She is always peeping with one eye under the handker? chief, and she ought to. She ought to see enough to know whether it is a woman against a man or an oppressor against the oppressed." On one occasion he was employed in a ciyil suit against a woman. She was present in the court? room, and was fair to look upon, and Col. Dabneyj who was her lawyer, had closed an admirable speech in her favor. Judge Underwood arose and complimented him and then said-: "But, gentlemen/he had a client?a presence?an inspiration that could not fail to make him eloquent. The fear and the chivalry that constrain? ed him will restrain me, I will do the best I can under my surroundings. How happy would I be to keep my cause and exchange my client." Judge Underwood was an old time lawyer, and had no respect for the modern tricks of the trade. "Sometimes I think," said he, "that Cis Morris was right when he said, 'the law is a kind of thing fixed up by lawyers to scare a passel of idiots/ and Macklin was right when he said, 'the law is a hocus pocus that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket."' Well, the awful majesty of the law does impress and subdue the poor and the ig? norant, but has no terrors of the rich and vicious. Just let the sheriff summons an humble countryman as a juror or a wit? ness, and he will drop everything and come a running. I have known them to start before day and come afoot several miles, and bring their dinner in their pocket, and they would bid farewell to their family like it was doubtful whether they would ever return. They are gocd citizens these humble people. The rich and smart ones can get excused, but the poor have few friends. Bill A hp. The Anniversary of the Crater. A number of middle-aged citizens of Bichmond will remember that yesterday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the hottest day that the Confederate soldier ever saw, as far as the combination of the weather and man's power could work up the temperature. The remarkable battle of the Crater opened at daybreak with a terrific explosion of the mine that shook the earth and echoed to the heavens and back again. Appalled by the sudden stroke and the destruction of the battery and a part of the South Carolina brigade that were blown in the air, the Confederates stag? gered back for a while and the Federal troops charged and took the salients. The Federals pressed into the broken lines, but the Confederates recovered themselves quickly and there ensued one of the most desperate fights of the war. There have been critical discussions about this passage-at-aruis, and as to whom was due the credit of restoring the lost battle. We are not writing history} and only celebrate the anniversary with one point of fact which we can vouch for, and that is that the Richmond Otey Battery, commanded by Capt. David Walker, had a good part of the work, and did it well. The Richmond boys not only worked their own guns, but manned a gun of another battery that did some of the best work of the day. All Virginians will be glad to remem? ber how that knightly Boldier, Col. John Haskell, of South Carolina, distinguished himself that day, as he always did when the opportunity offered. The final charge that restored the line was made about noon by Mahone's divis? ion. Colonel Hillary Jones and other dis? tinguished officers of the artillery have claimed that this famous fight was won by the artillery, and without pretending to write history, we are inclined to agree with that idea. The Otey Battery boys, of Richmond, think so and they ought to know. "In sooth, 'twas an awful day."? Richmond Times, July 31. The Railroad Accidents. Which occur every day with such wonderful Ioes to human life are suffici? ent cause for a man to stop and reflect on the fate of scores of his fellow-men, but a greater cause for his reflection is any danger to his own health. If he suffers from malarial poison he may stop and reflect on the cure. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic is warranted to uproot the malarial poison, and when the blood has been purified it will leave the sys? tem strengthened to repulse the attacks which may come later. The wise in? vestment of a dollar in a bottle of this valuable medicine may save a largo doc? tor's bill. Sold by all druggists. NG, AUGUST 15, 18 ?^?T^^Tn'r? um BEN TILLMAN AT HOME. Something About Hlghvlew Vineyard nnd' Dairy. E, B. Hook, in ?iiijil?a Chronica. Ten acres; five thousand vines, ex? pense $400; crop, 50,000 pounds of grapes. In a nutshell that is the result of an ex? periment which Mr. Benjamin R. Tillman is making in grape culture at bis home in Edgefield County, 5. ?. Learning that grapes were now ripe iu his vineyard, I drove ovex to Mr. Till man's place on Thursday, and spent the day looking around It is thirteen miles from Augusta oh the old stage road through Edgefield County, neaf to fiigh view Presbyterian church, from whibh Bis vineyard and home take the name? Highview. Mr. Tillman is a large landowner and planter, At Ninety-Six he has 1,100 acres of land, runs tin plows, and raises 100 head of sheep. At Highview he owns 700 acres, of which 400 acres are cleared land, and rents 500 acres besides. At Highview he has 200 acreB of cotton, 120 of Corn, besides fields of oats, barley, peas, sorghum, potatoes and other stand? ard crops. He also raises annually 50 head of hogs, which average 150 pounds net When killed, He has a fine peach orchard and a garden which supplies everybody on the plantdtiou with vegeta? bles. His vineyard and dairy complete the list. "My place is divided into three branches, you see; my farm, my vineyard and my dairy," Mr. Tillman Baid to me when we firBt began to talk. .That night I said to him i "You have now told me all about your vineyard and your dairy ; how about that third branch?what have you in your corn and cotton depart? ment f" "Vexation, tribulation and damnation little profit," was the emphatic aud feel? ing response. With the simple statement, therefore, that he makes all he needs to live on, and doesn't have to buy every? thing he uses on the plantation, I will leave this department and give special notice to the vineyard and dairy. When he goes into anything Mr. 'Till? man goes in earnest. It is probable that there are some prominent men in Caroli? na who are prepared to admit this. So when he became, from, careful investiga? tion, convinced that there Was money in grape culture he ordered at once 5,000 vines. The great bulk of these are set out on nine acres, which crown a high hill by the roadside, whose splendid ele? vation at once justifies the title? "Highview Vineyard." Near the house and on opposite Bides of it are two small vineyards?one of wine grapes, the Clinton, and the other an experiment station containing sixty-two different varieties. In this little vineyard Mr. Tillman plants one or more vines of a kind to test its adaptability to the climate and soil, its fruitfulnesB and flavor. Satisfied of the value of a variety, he plants as many as are desired in his main vineyard. He started setting out his vineyard in March, 1887, and this is its first harvest. He has made his first shipment to New York, where he will go for his market, but has not yet gotten returns of the Bales. In a monetary point of view, therefore, the result is not yet determined. But Mr. Tillman has already established some facts in reference to grape culture that are sufficiently satisfactory to induce him to double his acreage. "I have charged every bit of work of all kinds that has been done in the vine? yard against it," said Mr. Tillman, "and including the rent of the land it has cost up to date $400. At two cents a pound it would be a profitable crop. After the first -expense of buying the vines and posts, and establishing the vineyard, its j annual cultivation will cost no more than an equal acreage of cotton. A fair crop is 4,000 pounds to the acre; at five cents a pound this would be $200: The same land with the same labor and expense would bring in cotton half a bale, or $25. "I find, further, that intelligent negroes, With my supervision and instructions, are able to do all the work of pruning, pick? ing, packing and all that is to be done. This relieves the problem of labor, and places grape culture on a footing with the other crops." "Of course," said Mr. Tillman, "this thing is yet in the domain of experiment, aud until I find out how the grapes will sell in New York I cannot give any prac? tical monetary results. I have establish? ed the fact, however, that they can be cultivated as perfectly in Edgefield as elsewhere, and that the difference in lati? tude and altitude in ray favor will give me the same grapes, ready for shipment, about ten days earlier than thoy ripen in the vineyards at Greenville. I don't see Anything in the experiment as yet that justifies any extravagant calculations, but if my Bales are reasonable satisfactory to New York I shall feel justified in doub? ling my present acreage, and making a specialty of my vineyard aud dairy to the gradual exclusion of other crops, ex? cept enough to furnish work for my hands all the time." One who has never been in a large vineyard has no idea of the ravishing beauty of the picture and the rich per? fume which pervades the atmosphere for hundreds of yards around. As I ap? proached the place at sunrise Thursday morning, an entire stranger in the locali? ty, I knew I had reached my destination long before the house came in sight by the delightful fragrance of the grapes wafted from the distant hilltop to the public road below. The vines are trained on two wires stretched between posts like a wire fence. These rows are hundreds of yards long and sbiut ten feet apart. Beneath the luxuriant foliage of the vines the luscious fruit hangs in glorious clusters of pink, white, red, blue and black; the Delawares, Ionas, Ives, Con? cords, Brightons, Lady Washingtons, Clintons, Perkins, Merrimacs, Goethes and Norton's varieties mingling their rich colors aud viewing with each other in luxuriance, beauty, fragrance and the delicacy of their "bouquet." One can wander for hours among the sweet-scent i d avenues and not tire of the beauty and fragrance of the sceue. Though widely dissimilar in character, the dairy business is not lean attractive 189. in aome of its features. Mr. Tillman has twenty-seven mrlch cows, and over thirty young heifers.. They are* graded Jerseys and thoroughbreds. This is the third yea? he has been running a dairy, and he has more profit in it than any other business. Some of his cows he is milking now are ordinary scrub Stock, and most of them are only grade Jerseys. He is breeding thoroughbreds, however, and gradually weediDg out his inferior stock. At present half of hia herd are heifers ' with the first calf, and some of his calves are over six months old, so that just at this time he is not getting a large yield for the number of cows milked. He sends eighty pounds of butter to Augusta every Saturday, the most of which is delivered to regular customers at their homes for j thirty-five cents a poand. It is too far to town for him to sell milk, and the skimmed milk goes to the calves, and the clabber and buttermilk to the pig3. Male calves are sold to the butchers at siz weeks old at from $4 to $8, and the heifers are raised to take their place in the herd when grown. Jeraeys mature very early, and he has cows less than two years old with calves almost as large as themselves, From some of his cows he gets nine pounds of butter a week. "I am working," he said, "to get a herd of fifty cowb, each of which will give me 300 pounds of butter annually. This will be 15,000 pounds, which at thirty-five cents a pound will be $5,250; and two thirds of the snm will be clear profit. When I reach these figures with my dairy and get my vineyard to paying well, too' I will say good-bye to cotton and corn, except just enough to make feed for my stock and keep my hands busy. Last year my dairy made $1,103, of which over $600 was profit. The value of the manure overbalances the cost of milking, etc. With such profits in sight no one will blame Mr. Tillman for sticking to his vineyard and dairy and letting farming alone. His dairy is built by a cold spring, and the milk cans are set in the cold water for the cream to rise. Next year, however, Mr. Tillman will buy a separator, into which the milk is poured as soon as taken from the cows, and from which it emerges in two streams?one all cream, the other skimmed milk I am free to confess that this statement slavered me, for I thought cream was a stage of development in milk, and not a component part; and that it would be just as easy to separate clabber or butter from milk, when it is first milked, as to get cream out of it be* fore it rose to the top of the milk. This stamps me an ignoramus among the dairymen, but an honest confession, at least, shows my willingness to learn. The cream is churned every day, the butter thoroughly worked and pressed into one-pound "prints" with "B. R. T." stamped on each print. These are kept in buckets in the cold spring water, and on Saturday eighty pounds of the purest, sweetest, cleanest butter imaginable is brought to Augusta for the use of those who are so fortunate as to be on the list of Mr. Tillman's customers. The calves are not allowed to suck their mothers at all, but are raised on skimmed milk, which is warmed and fed to them in buckets. The rearing of the calves is entrusted to the boys aud girls, who make great petg of them. The clabber and buttermilk is fed to the pigs. At milking time the cows come up to the barn from the pasture, and wait their turn in the milking stalls. Three milk? ers are constantly at work, and it is re? markable to see the way the cows are trained. As soon as one is milked tho man calls out: "Come here, Brownie," oi whichever cow he wants to milk next, and though a dozen cows are between her and him, she walks out from the group and into the milking stall as sedately as though it was a very usual thing for a cow to do what she is told. A pretty picture lingers in my memo? ry The simple farm house of pine boards, innocent of paint or pilaster, but attrac? tive with its vine-clad piazzas and its hearty welcome to the stranger, nestles on the hillside above us. The last rays of the setting sun are flinging our shad? ows in long lines aslant the meadow below, and gilding the distant hill-tops with cloth of gold. At the barn on our right the cow3 are waiting their turn, and we can hear the ceaseless music of the milk as it streams into the shining pails, A dozen pigs are making merry over a trough of clabber, or grunting with lazy satisfaction as they rest from their labors and stretch their corpulent bodies on the ground. A tidy negro woman is busy about the dairy, and the cool spring water forms a tiny branch which mur? murs at our feet. Three little children are playing about, and a fair haired girl of thirteen stands iu the middle of a score of .-oft-eyed Jersey calves who gather arouad her and stretch out their pretty black muzzles to bo caressed by her loving hands. A hat whirls in zigzag circles overhead, and the birds chirp nois? ily as they go to rest in the neighboring trees. A comely woman appears in the doorway, and the baby stretches out his arms to his father. Happy Ben Tillman! What matters it to him if the farmers of Carolina do not appreciate the course he points out to them, and the politicians sneer at the sincerity of his motives and call him Moses. Around his own fireside he has everything to make a mau happy, and in directing the industries which his brains and energy have inaugurated be has oc? cupation for mind aud heart. ? It may be interesting to know how much it takes to feed a champion prize fighter. Here is the record for two of John L. Sullivan's meals in one day: For breakfast, a good sized broiled bass, fivo soft-boiled eggs, half a loaf of gra? ham bread, half a dozen sliced tomatoes and a cup of tea. At 1 o'clock tho cham? pion CRme up smilingly for his usual din? ner of "three chickens, with rica and chicken broth and half a loaf of bread." ? A West Seneca (N. Y.) woman has for tho last few years supported herself from tho earnings of a seventeen-acre flower farm. Her income is at time3 as much as 82,000 a year. She recommendB floriculture as a good business for women and the wild west as the best field to begin in. HOT SEPULCHRES. Revival of a Gurions Method off Disposing of tho Dead. A new method of disposing of the dead is now advocated, and an organization has been formed to put it into practice. Nine out; of every ten people have a horror of being buried in the earth, bot not one of the nine has the courage to give directions that he be cremated. The new system proposes to dispose of the dead bodies by dessication, which, in plainer English, means to dry them out like so much dried beef. The plan is not a new one by any means, for it is a known fact that the Tartars and Colchians practiced this method in primitive style eentnries ago. Their way was to hang their dead op in trees and leave them there to be dried by the air and sun. The advocates of the new method propose to erect large build? ings to carry ont their plan of dessica tion. These buildings are to be divided into many rooms of different sizes. In each of these rooms there will be built sepulchres of concrete large enough to admit the body of any ordinary sized individual. There will be two openings in these sepulchres or box-like arrange? ments. This will be concluded with a system of conduits, each sepulchre, how? ever, having a separate conduit. The body will be placed in the sepul? chre in an open lattice work casket, and through one conduit will be forced hot, dry air. This air, it is claimed, will circulate around the body, accumulate a certain portion of liquid and gases from the corpse and pass through the rear conduit down to a furnace, where it will be purified once more by fire. It is. claimed that this dry air has a greater affinity for moisture than a sponge has for water, and that all the moisture will gradually be drawn from the body and leave it in a sort of a dried apple Btate. This will take about four or five months, and then the sepulchre will be hermetically sealed and the body will remain in its dried up state forever. The projectors of this scheme say they have for precedents the doings of the Tartars and Colchians in olden times, already referred to. AI30, they assert that in the Western part of this conti? nent, where the air is extremely rare and dry, men can be hung up and dried in the hot sun without fear of putrefaction. They claim that a human body can be dried the same as a pear or an apple. The ancient Peruvians, the Dooshais of India and the Arno aboriginies in Japan also practice dessication. In the well known catacombs of the Capuchin monks, near- Palermo, the bodies are dried first in an oven and are then hung up in niches. It is said that the dessicated body of a Sicilian sovereign, who had lain in his tomb for over four hundred years, was found upon inspection a short time ago to be as good as uew. But all these attempts at dessication were rude, and it is now proposed to bring scientific prin? ciples into play. It will be remembered that the body of the renowned explorer, Livingston, who died in Africa, wa3 dessicated by the natives of that country before removal to England. This method of disposing of the dead seems to be very feasible. It would cer? tainly be more pleasant, if such a thing could be, than being lowered into a hole six feet deep. The general health of j every one would be improved, for it is known that the burying of dead bodies in the earth is a menace to the health of j those living in the vicinity of a burying ground. Another important matter in connec? tion with the dessication method is that the features of the dried corpse preserve a life-like appearance that is remarkable. Should cny question arise in the courts as to the identity of a dead man a visit could be paid to the sepulchre and all doubts be set at rest in a way that would admit of no dispute. j Eight months ago experiments were made on a man weighing 164 pounds. At the present time it is said that the body is perfectly dessicated. The skin has not become discolored, but instead has become hard, feeling like leather to the touch. Another thing which will tend to make the system popular is thai there can be no chance of being buried alive. There could be no grave robbing under the new system either. It is eminently sanitary, for all the gases are conveyed to a furnace and made innocuous. It appears to be very rational, clean and rather a pleasant system of burial, and it is said it will soon be put into practice. An Appeal for Wives* BOSTON, August l.?A novel appeal for wives was received to day by "Mayor Hart from W. A. Wbeelright, Mayor of Teco ma, Washington. The writer epys thaj the Territory of Washington, and the city of Tacoma in particular, are filled with sober, industrious and enterprising men, mostly youag, who are desirous of marrying. The letter says that there are about ten men to every woman in the Territory and is followed by a resolve "that the Mayor and Common Council of Tacoma appeal to the .people of Massachusetts to send all the women of marriagable age that can be spared to the Territory and city, with a view to making pleasant the homes of thousands of able-bodied, indue trious young men who would bo glad to marry." Another resolve is to the effect that the proclamation be forwarded to the Mayor of Boston, with the urgent request that it be published throughout the State. ? The London Justice says that all the people now living in the world, or about 1,400,000,000, could find standing room withiu the limits of a field ten miles square, and by the aid of a tele? phone could bo addressed by a single speaker. ? Lightning struck the house of Col, L. N. Edwards, of Oxford, Me., knock? ing a kerosene lamp into a thousand pieces and taking a metal clock from the wall of the room and hurliug it under the colonel's bed. Nothing else in the house was disturbed. IE XXIV.?NO. 6. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? The first shoe was patented in 1811, by two Massachusetts men. ? The American silver dollar first made its appearance in 1791. ? A threo-legged alligator was shot the other day near Albany, Ga. ? The flood damaged the property of Pennsylvania to the extent of $44,220, 000. ? Man, with all his wisdom, never knows who is his best friend as well as a baby. j ?Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some can carve a* ball. ? A stitch in time saves nine?but this was said before the sewing machine was invented. ? There is a man in Hart County, Ga., who spells his entire name with two-*', letters, BobBobo. ? It takes three hundred men to harvest the wheat crop of one ranch in Colusa county, Cal. ? John Lawes, the heaviest man in ?* America, died in Elmira, N. Y., last week. He weighed 640. ? The richest clergyman in all the world is, probably, the Primate of Hun? gary, and his income is $380,000 a year. ? The famous shoe house of E. & A. H. Batcheler & Co., of Boston, has failed The liabilities are about a million- and a quarter dollars. ? Mrs. May Roberts, who died at the age of 80 the other day at Sharon, Pa,'?-?j i was never inside a postoffice and never rode on a railroad train, ? At Lexington, Ky., a lawsuit that was begun in 1811 has just been settled. It related to a land claim, and the sum"".' in dispute was originally about $5,000. . ? Some years ago John McClure took up a piece of cactus land in Los Angeles . : county, Cal., and set it to grapes. Last spring he refused ?150,000 for the place., ? The largest watermelon patch in the world is at AdamB Park, Ga. It embra? ces eight hundred acres, and is expected to produce over four hundred carloads of j melons. ? There is said to be a schoolboy at Kingston, N. Y., who studies hard and commits his lessons to memory well, but if he goes to sleep he forgets all that he has learned. ? Jay Gould says that for the first year of his married life he lived on $100, got up at daybreak, went to church every Sun? day, and was as happy as a boss bumble? bee in sweet clover. ? The people of the United States use annually about seven postal cards for ' every man, woman and child; that is to . ; say, their total consumption for a year ; reaches 400,000,000. ? A remarkable cave in Stone county,^ Kan., is said to have been explored for. twelve miles, to have two rivers and mil? lions of bats. It sounds as if John Mul hatton had been out there. ? A French coin of the time of Louis XIV was found in a cornfield at Marengo, Ind., a few days ago. It is supposed to have been there since the days when the French traded with the Indians. ? The most original swindler of the day is the one who has been telling the colored people of Georgia that the world will come to an end August 16, and has sold 150 pair of "angels wings" at $10 a pair. ? The photographs on the White fi House desk of babies born since the elec-;^ tion and named Benjamin Harrison make; a big bundle. Every State of the Union, with but one or two exceptions, has con? tributed. ? A Ru?aiau traveler in the Malay Peninsula claims to have found in' use there the smallest "coin" in the world. It is a minute wafer, made from the juice of a tree. Its value is about the millionth part of a dollar. ? John G. Gantt; the celebrated tramp printer, who is known in almost every , printing establishment in the central and southern States, is 70 years of age, and has been constantly on the' tramp since the close of the civil war. ? The colored women of Little Rock, Ark., have just organized a washerwo? man's association. The society has been legally incorporated, and its objects are to care for members in times of illness and to promote the general welfare of the laundry business. ? Stranger?"You are not boomhg your State very much at the present time, are you ?" Kansas Citizen?"No, we are not advertising at all, now; but wait till the cyclone period arrives, and yon'U see the name of our glorious common? wealth in every paper you pick up."? Omaha World. ? The most valuable book in the world is said to be a Hebrew Bible at the Vatican in Rome. In 1512 Pope Julius, then in great financial straits, refused to . sell it to a syndicate of rich Venetian Jews for its weight in gold. The Bible weighs more than 325 pounds, and is never carried by less than three men. The price refused by Pope Julius was therefore about $125,000. ? A weeping peach tree is one ct? the curiosities of Dennison, Tex. It is visited by many persons daily. At times a perfect mist or spray surrounds it. A number of superstitious persons think, that spirits operate upon the tree. A leading Spiritualist visited the tree last Sunday, and thought that a seance would explain the mystery. The negroes at? tach considerable significance to the name of the variety of the peach, which, is known as the Robert E. Lee. The most ignorant declare that the spirit of the dead Confederate chieftain is operat? ing upon the tree. After dark they give the neighborhood a wide berth. Jamea Walace, a negro who has been afflicted with inflamatory rheumatism for the past two years and bed-ridden most of the time, was impressed that the fluid from the tree would effect a cure. He was sponged with the fluid, and said he felt much relieved. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may use the liq ; uid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under i all conditions make it their favorite rem: i edy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the ) taste, gentle, yet effectuaUn/Jag?ng ojtj the kidneys, liver and bowels.