The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 22, 1889, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALE PlANOSjHDRGANS GRAND SUMMER SALE For August, September and October. Buy Now and Pay when Cotton is Sold. SPOT CASH PRICES, and just a little cash down to bind the bargain. Only a little. See? PIANOS, $25 Cash and balance December fl, 'S9. ORGANS, $10 Cash ami balance December 1, '89. We wait your order and will do our best for you. Write or call on J. I. HAYHIE & DAUGHTER, 38 Westfield Street, GREENVILLE, - S. C. Aup 1, 1889 24 American Fruit Preserving Powder AND Liquid! m 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 our friends to take advan? tage of the abundant crop in prospect this Beason, and provide for whac 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 whoie Winter, and you can open and use nut of the jar from time to time without injury. 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 throughout the County who have tried it with success, and you will very soon see there is no humbug about it. HILL BROTHERS. LAVA FLOOR PAINTS, Six Colors, Makes a very Hard Finish, And Drierf Hard overnight. IT IS JUST THE THING! Also, all other kinds of PAINTS AND OILS, ? AT ? SIMPSON, RED) & OO'S. DRUG STORE. STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS, Ginning Engines and Horse Powers For Ginning Specialties ; also, Grain Drills and Standard Implements, Send for Catalogue. A. B. FAEQUHAR CO, (Ltd,) 5?4 York, Pa. Session Opens Sept. 10,1889. FOR Catalogue of Williamston Fe? male College, a live, thorough, progressive, prosperous, cheap, up-country School for young ladies, address Rev. S. Lander. President, Williamston, S. C. Its merits widely known. One hundred and sixty-five pupils last year. More expected next. JnlyJ 1,1869_ _ _1_2m FOR SALEjOR RENT! PREMISES at Honea Path, S. C, for? merly belonging to Mrs. W. G. Smith. Two and a half acres of land, with buildings thereon. Apply to GREIG & MATTHEWS, Charleston, S. C. April 18, 1880_41_6m JUST RECEIVED, A fine lot of Children's Carriages, With Steel Wheels. ALSO, A Lot of Refrigerators, "^yHICH will be sold at low prices at TOEliY'S FURNITURE STORE! May 23. 1889_4G_ Williamston Male High School. THE Fall Term of 1889 will begin Sep? tember 11th. Advantages: Beautiful locality, commodious and well-adapted nchool buildings, attractive surroundings, chalybeate mineral spring, thorough and. practical instruction, hi^h moral ana social status of the village proverbial. Rates of | tuition . low. For information, address V. H. WATSON, Principal, Anderson, S. C, until Sept. 11th ; Williamston, S.C , after Sept. 11th._ 4-ti A. G. STRICKLAND, NITROrS OXIDE giveii ar all times for il.e Painless Extraction i.f 'IVelh. par Office on corner of Gmni'.rf F!mw over Bleckley Mercantile Co. Nov 15,1888 19 S & LANGSTON. TflA?HflRg'GoLUMN, -863$. All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. AM I A GOOD TEACHER 1 I propose that we have an examination to-day. I know that you are not pleased with this proposal, for in every examina? tion there are two persons, or two classes of persons, who are dissatisfied. The examined and the examiner are each displeased with the other. The ques? tions are too easy or too difficult, and the candidate too dull or too careless or too dishonest. To avoid any trouble that may arise from any of these sources, I suggest that each one of you to-day be your own examiner; that you ask your? selves the questions, and, in the silence of your own conscience, record the answer. If the examiner be unfair, or if the candidate be unequal to the task assigned, in either event it will be a difficulty of your own causing, and you will have only yourselves to blame for it. The only part I intend to take in the matter is to suggest some questions for you to use in this self-examination, if you think the questions appropriate. You are teachers. You are engaged in one of the most important occupations in the world. The question of all questions which you ought to ask yourselves is, "Am I a good teacher ?" You certainly ought to know as much about yourself as any one else. Can it be that while other people have formed some very definite opinions about your teaching abilities, you have never turned your investiga? tions inward, and honestly asked, "Ami a good teacher ?" In some respects this is aa unsafe question for one to ask or answer. It is very natural for us to ask ourselves broad questions, and let our inclination rather than our judgment, answer them. Hon? est investigation must precede an intelli? gent, reply. In all self-inquiry, the general question must give way to the specific, if we would learn anything about ourselves. I will, therefore, divide the general question "Am I a good teacher ?" into Beveral specific questions which cannot easily be dodged, and which, honestly answered, will give you just that knowledge of yourselves that you need and desire to have: I. Do I enjoy my work ? Next Monday morning school will begin again. Next Monday, forty or fifty boys and girls will once more fill your school room. They will come with the inclination to have lots of fun, in school as well as out.. Next Monday several Bchemes will be set on foot to get over many regulations which you have made. You will be sur? rounded by fifty varieties of character, in a growingmand uncontrolled state. Next Monday the duBty spelling book and arithmetic and geography on your desk must be opened once more, and the same old subjects you have taught so often will again demand your attention. A goodly number will have poor lessons or no lessons at all, and render no satis? factory excuse for it. Next Monday an angry parent may call upon you and bit? terly criticise your method of instruction or government. The janitor may not have his work properly done, and the principal or superintendent may ask of you Borne new and unexpected task. In spite of all this, will you enjoy next Monday's work? If you enjoy your work, that school room will have no ter? rors for yon; you will be glad to see your pupils?every one of them. The pranks of the mischievous will not disturb your temper, for if you enjoy you work you must enjoy children. The old speller will be as interesting to you as to them ; and you will be glad to Bee the parent, enraged though he may be, for you may be able to convert him to you way of doing things. In this self examination to which I am inviting you, remember that if you do not enjoy your work; if the ignorance and weakness and natural frailty of your pupils interfere with your enjoyment and wear upon your nerves, remember that you cannot be a good teacher. What men like to do they do well. You can never force yourself to enjoy that for which your disposition and training has not fitted you. II. Do your pupils enjoy their work? Will they return to school next Monday morning eagerly and promptly ? Will they look out of the windows with long? ing eyes and wish to be anywhere but in the seat assigned them ? Will memories of turkey and cranberry sauce and mince pie keep spelling and grammar and arithmetic out of their minds ? Notice the exact words I have used in the question, "Do your pupils enjoy their work?" Your pupih?not a few, but tl:<j many. In answering, keep out of your mind those who always will e?joy study under any teacher or no teacher. It is natural for children to learn ; unnatural not to learn. That must be granted to begin with. If it were your task and mine to keep children from learning anything, how unsatisfactory would be our work, and what a miserable failure would we make of it! It is rather your province privilege to direct your pupil's learniDg. How are you doing it? Are you doing this in a way that makes his study a pleasure to him ?. Enjoy. Think of that word a moment. Enjoyment on the pupil's part, like enjoyment on you part, cannot be forced. It is a flower that blossoms when and where it will. Fortunate that teacher and school room where Buch flowers are abundant, Bhedding beauty and perfume upon all around! The pupil's desire to be promoted, and consequent eagerness to get hisles9ons, is not enjoyment. He may be studying, not for the sake of learning, but tbat be may get out of your room. Then notice that I say work. Do your pupils enjoy work f Do uot ask yourself whether your pupil is enjoying his play, bin schoolmates, the companionship of his fellows, or even your own acquaint? ance. Is he enjoying his work ? If he is not; if the great majority of your pnpils do not find their highest enjoy? ment in the tasks assigned in the school room, then you are obliged to confeas to yourself, if not to others, that you are not a good teacher. III. Have you the respect and confi? dence of your pupils ? There are some boys and girls who assume a "wonderful respect which they do not feel. They are shrewd enough to play upon a teach? er's kindness in hopes that special favors may be granted. Then, there is such a thing as genuine respect which does not find expression in words. Pupils ofteu say a great deal which they do not mean. They like to make sport of the teacher and often criticise those very qualities j which, in reality, they moat respect. In answering the questions above, therefore, do not be deceived or deceive yourself. If you are a student of human nature, and you ought to be, you must be able to detect geuuine from counterfeit confi -dence. Once more, then, ask yourself the question, "Have you the respect and confidence of your pupils?"' Not of a few of them; not of those with whom you are best acquainted, or in whom you may be most interested, but of the great majority of them. If you can answer this question in the affirmative, you have secured a vantage ground which is worth everthing to you. It is easy to aay that this or that child has no respect for any one ; that it has had no training, and never will amount to much, anyway. This may be true of the few, but if you are a good teacher, it need not be true of the many. The unsuccessful teacher always finds most fault with her pupils. Such teachers appear to be on the look out for bad qualities instead of good ones. The good teacher begins to work at that very point where that bad teacher ceases to labor. The weak teacher quickly decides that this or that pupil is incorrigible, and. imagines that this discovery shows great knowledge of human nature, and that her labor ends with the discovery. An orchard of apples or pears may contain a great variety of fruit! Almost any one can detect the difference in size, in flavor and in good keeping qualities. To cut down the tree whose fruit is small, or unpleasant, or unmarketable, is a simple task. But the good cultivator of apples hesitates to kill a healthy, young tree. So he grafts it with better fruit. He simply diverts the currents of the tree's life through other channels, and a bet? ter, a pleasanter and a more valuable fruit is the reBult. So with the boy who cares nothing for what you may say. Get near to him. Do not let the thought enter your mind that he should leave school. Do not condemn him to a life of ignorance. There must be a long and careful trial, and a painstaking sifting of evidence, before the judge will undertake the responsibility of sending a human being to the penitentiary. It is a serious thing to send from the school room forever any boy whose inclination is to do wrong and who appears to have little respect for any one. Rather change, if you can, the bent of bis tastes and habits. In some way, and every good teacher knows thousands of ways, secure his confidence, direct his thoughts, get down into his life and make yourself a partner with him, in his troubles and vexations. If you can do this?if you are not doi?g this very thing every day with some of your pupils?you are not a good teacher. IV. Do you do your work easily? There are some people who think that the quality and quantity of work done is to be judged by the amount of flurry and excitement occasioned in doing it. The teacher who is working the hardest is often accomplishing the least. Thoughts can be sent home to the mind of the pupil without disturbing a whole school room or wearying yourself. The natural method is the easiest as well as the most effectual of imparting instruction. Every teacher should be calm, deliberate and self-poised in the school room, not for the pupil's sake more than for her own. There are two ways of climbing a hill. One man advances firmly and steadily, now and then resting a moment to enjoy the scenery and glance back over the path already trodden, or look ahead at the difficulties Boon to be encountered. When such a traveler reaches the top, ho is not exhausted. He has enjoyed the journey, and bis companions have enjoyed it, too. Another man takes one glance and starts upward on the run. He meets obstacles entirely unexpected, and encounters difficulties for which he is totally unprepared. He reaches the Bummit, if he reaches it at all, weary, dis? gusted, and with little that is pleas? nt to say about the journey. What kind of a traveler are you ? lie member that you are a guide as well as a traveler. The country, familiar to you, is new to your companions. All the more reason, then, that you go carefully, j cilmly, thoughtfully, that both you and vi-nir pupils may climb this old hill of ict.ruiug with pleasure and profit, The florist's labor is very interesting. If be is a successful florist, he enjoys his work. He handles his growing plants tenderly and delicately. He could not hasten if he would, and he would not if he could. The small, the weak, the dis? eased, demand and receive his mo&t earn? est attention. He removes the weed and not the flower. He prunes, and grafts, and cultivates, and warms, and waters, until every flower seems to rejoice in his presence, to express its gladness and thankfulness with open lips and per? fumed incense. Are j'ou a good gar? dener 1?George G. Ryan, Principal of Lcavcnworth High School. A Lovely Complexion. Ia something desired by every lady in the land. The easiest way to get that beautiful color to the skin is to first make the blood pure. The impurities must be removed by the administration of some remedial agent which contains the most thorough alterative properties combined with those ingredients which tend not only to remove impurities of the blood, but also build up and invigorate the system. Such a remedy ia Westmore? land's Calieaya Tonic, which not only thoroughly cleanses the blood hut also invigorates the system and leaves the patient in a thoroughly improved and healthy condition. The price is within the reach of all, 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle, and every druggist in your town sell it. ANDERSON, S. C, BILL ARP'S TALK. There tu a Great Doal of Friction In Life. Atlanta Constitution. Ad old man with a well balanced mind and a good memory and cheerful disposi? tion, is a treasure?when he dies it is a positive lo3s not only to the family but to the community. He is like a clock that tells the time, or like a mile post that tells the distance, or like a signboard where the road forks. Such men are not numerous, for old age generally has some infirmity, but they are about and about and it is a pleasure and a comfort to meet with them. Wisdom hangs upon their lips, and they quiet your apprehensions aud give you courage to fight the battle of life bravely. They see life from a higher standpoint just as we see valleys and streams, and fields and forests from a mountain's top. I was talking to such an one the other day, and when I mentioned Mrs. Canfield's letter, and her desire to be up in some safe corner in the sky and see the negro heels upon the white folks' necks, the old man smiled and said: "Oh, wellj she is a foolish, thoughtless woman, and I expect wrote more than she felt. But we are obliged to have some friction. These little sputterings and 8patteriDgs don't amount to much. They are like the big rain drops that fall upon a pool or a pond of water. They dance up and down and make quite a commotion for awhile, but when the cloud passes over, the pond is as smooth and glassy as ever. I think that the north and south are harmonizing as they get better acquainted and mix up their money in southern enterprises, but we are obliged to have some friction. Nothing runs smoothly all the time?not your farm, nor your business, nor your politics, nor your domestic affairs, nor your church nor your religion. lu fact, friction is a good thing if you will keep it greased good." Mrs. Canfield's letter discouraged me for awhile, for I thought she reflected the sentiments of the northern women towarde us, but when I learned that she was a sister of Senator Ingalls-1 felt relieved. Malice and venom runs in some families by inheritance and they can't help it. The Ingalls family hate the south, just like shylock hated Christians. They would take the pound of flesh from nearest the heart and Bay, "if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge." Not long ago there was a grand rally at the Grand Army in Kansas, and they cheered the preacher who prophesied us all in hell, and such things are what the old man calls friction and will pass away. I was talking to a Kansas Republican about that and he smiled and said: "Our people do not feel that way. About in spots there are bad people who make a good deal of noise, and run the party with a howl and yell, but that is politics. Now, in a crowd like that I don't euppoEe there were ten per cent. of. old soldiera who were in the war, and perhaps there were fifty per cent, of foreigners who have moved here since the war. Our sober, reflective citizens don't talk that way, nor feel that way. I don't suppose that your State would have seceded from the Union if your old men and your conservative element could have beeu heard, but it went out with a shout and a hurrah from the thoughtless and the beliger ent." "We will not discuss that now," said I; "but I wish to know why it is your people select such bitter men as Ingalls to office?" "Because they are politicians," Baid he, "and know how to manipulate the wires. Our beat men won't go into the scramble, and I expect it is the same way with you. We have to take professional politicians, and besides we don't attach importance to their abuse of the south as you do. They have to have some battle cry to catch the floaters, and as there is not much involved but offices aud spoils, we haven't anything to huwl about except the rebellion and the niggers. It is all a fight for office. I have mixed with your people for years, and what prejudice I had haB gone, and if I lived down here I ex? pect I would be a State Democrat; but let me tell you a secret. The northern Republicans are just as good friends to the south as the northern Democrats. There is at heart no difference. A northeru man is a northern man, no matter what his politics or his religion. The northern Democrats manipulate you and flatter you for your vote, and that is all of it. Of course there is alienation on both sides, and when you southern Dem? ocrats pitch into our party in congress we are glad to have such a man as Ingalls to fight back. That is human nature, and we can't help it." There was some grease in his talk, but it doeg seem to me they have got some spite against us that won't heal. Of courae they are not responsible for their ignorance and their fanatacism about the negro. For nearly a hundred years their poets and their press have been publishing lies about slavery and their hatred came with their mother's milk. Harriet Beecher Stowe capped the climax by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was a romantic lie from beginning to end, and it was dramatized and played in every school bouse from Maine to California, aud did more to prove us brutes and barbarians than everything else. Not one of those contemptable men or women who slandered us in prose and poetry had ever beeu south to see slavery as it was. They knew nothing about it. But every one who did come from there and settle in the South became identified with our people, and most of them became owners of alaves. William H. Seward taught school in Georgia, and tried to marry a Georgia girl with a plantation and some niggers thrown in, and because she wouldn't have him he went buck and abused us. Our chief justice, Hiram Warner, came down and taught school and married a wife aud some negroca and stayed here like a gentleman. Old Dr. Church, the president of Franklin college did the same thing. The State used to be full of northern men with southern principles and it is full of their children now. Mrs. Lincoln's brother was on General Sam. Jones's staff on our side during the war. Mrs. Lincoln's sister presented a confederate flag to a confed? erate company in the beginning of tho war. General George H. Thomas, who THURSDAY MORNI was a Virginian, offered to fight on our side if he could get a brigadier's place? and so did Black Jack Logan. All Ihis is history. What a commentary upon principle and patriotism. But the friction goes on. General Lewis, the new postmaster in Atlanta, has put a negro by the Bide of a white woman in the postolfice, which be was not obliged to do and could have avoided if he had wanted to. Right there is where the friction comes in. Social equality cannot be forced upon our peo? ple by General Lewis or his master. They have tried it for twenty-five years and we thought they had given it up, but every little while it breaks out in a new form. Our people gave Mrs. Canfield and General LewiB Bocial equality, aod a warm welcome, but it is not appreciated. They don't understand our position on the negro question. It does not matter with us whether he is educated or not, or whether they are increasing faster than the whiles or not, the negro was given a back seat by the God who made him and he will keep it. Charles Dudley Warner knows how it is and has spoken. The negro knows how it is and would be content if the fools and fanatics of the north would let him alone. The solution of the problem is just this. When they get too smart they will be removed and that in a hurry. We had to remove the Indians because we couldn't get along with them. We will let the good negroes stay and make the others go. See if we don't. There is plenty of room in the world. Six millions of negroes scattered over the'great west wouldn't afflict any? body, and there is lots of room in Mexi? co. I used to think that the world was most full of people but it is not. China has only GO to the square mile, while Rhode Island has 254 and Belgium 4S0. If Texas was as full of people as Belgium she would have 125,000,000 ; twice as many as are in the United States. It looks like an acre would support one person andjthat would beJG40;to the equare mile and that would be over 2,000,000,000 in the United States. So we are not alarmed about the land. We will find enough to put the negroes on whenever the north drives us to that necessity. But I reckon they will let us alone after while. There is friction, and there is greaBe, too. When those New York Zouaves came down to Fort Valley to the reunion of the Third Georgia regiment they lubracated things smartly. Every time the blue and the gray get together there is grease. Charles Dudly Warner greased us at Suwanee. Dr. Mayo, of Boston, greases things every time he talks. Henry Grady poured on a good deal of grease in New York, but it don't seem to last, and I reckon he will have to go back again. They say now it was another Grady. And there is friction in the whiskey business?a good deal of friction and mighty little oil. The white folks of Rome could have voted whiskey out, but the negroes voted it in. They are in for all the devilish liberty they can get. The white women and children and preachers and all those who have suffered were for protection, but the careless and selfish and the niggers were the other way. I asked a Rome barber how the colored barbers were going to vote, and he said: "For whisky, of course, sir. Whisky is a good thing for the barberB' business. Let a young man get a drink or too ahead and he is liberal with his money, and it takes more cigars and twice as much shaving and shampooing to do him. His head gets hot and his face gets sorter red, and if he is going out to Bee the girls that night he has to be rubbed down and cooled off and powdered up. A young man who don't drink don't Bpend half as much money as one who does. Plenty of whisky and barrooms close by is a good thing for the barbers? it is shave." But those who have suffer? ed?think of them?the heart-broken mother who sees her first born going to ruin day by day; the silent-Buffering father whose hopes have been crushed ; the young wife whose lovely room is filled with sorrows and shadows. What a picture was that LaDghorn drew?and Bums wept over. I have thought of that young mother with the babe at her breast a thousand times. "Bent o'or her babe?her eyes dissolved with dew, The big drops mingling w"ith the milk it drew, Sod is the passage of its future years, A child of misery baptized In tears." If the kind, thoughtful people only knew of the misery, the grief, the heart breakings that shadow the hearthstone and he-dews the pillows with tears, they would have pity, more pity, for the silent sufferers who keep their grief a secret?se? cret because it is sacred. This iB friction for which there is no oil. We can endure all troubles but those that invade the love of our hearts for husband, or wife, or children. A family without friction among its members is a type of heaven. May God grant such a boon to all of us. Bill A nr. ? The province of Ontario, Canada, is possessed of the most extensive deposit of rock salt which has yet beeu found on the American continent. The salt was first discovered at Goderjch, about twenty years ago, at a depth of 1,010 feet, by a boring which was made for petroleum. The Bait measures extend over an area of 1,200 square miles. A man who has practiced medi? cine for 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar; read what he says. Toledo, O., Jan. 10,1SS7. Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.?Gentle? men : I have been in the general prac? tice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience, have never seen a prepara? tion that I could prescribe with as much confidence of success as I can Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have prescribed it a great many times and its effect is wonderful, and would Bay in conclusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. Yours Truly, L. L. CiORsi'Cir, M. D, Ofiicc, 215 Summit St. We will give$100 for any case of Ca? tarrh that can not be mired with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. ??ySold by Druggists, 75c. NG, AUGUST 22, 18 A TUSTLK WITH THE JAMS. Tho Iforrrlhle Experience of an Antl-l'ru lilbitlonlBt. From the Jacksonville Juries- Union. No, I never had !em but once, and not having any undue proportion of pork in my composition, I don't want to have 'em again. In the sublime language of the psalmist, I've got enough, I have heard of men entertaining eeveral visits of them, but no more for yours truly. I was living in Detroit, Mich., at the time; had splendid bachelor quarter.? at the Russell, au income up in the four ciphers, and neither kith nor kin, spent my time mostly at the club and the races when in season, first nights at theaters, and so on. I had been drinking very heavily for about two months, but what started me on such a colossal toot I don't remember now. It might have been because a woman jilted mo, or I broke my pet j meerschaum, or some other such tri tie ; but, at any rate, I was two lengths ahead I and still going it like a house afire. About this time I concluded I'd sober off, and found, to my great surprise, that I couldn't do it. Were you ever so drunk you didn't dare get sober? No! Well, then, all I've got to say is that you have missed one of the most peculiar fascinations of sporting life. However, that is the con? dition I found myself in, and I made up my mind I'd try a trip in the country, and see if I couldn't gradually get down to bed-rock again. I took the first train to Ann Arbor, and on arriving there hired a horse aud buggy and drove out to Whitmore Lake, a beautiful little sheet of water about ten miles south of Ann Arbor. There were two hotels there then?remember this was twenty years ago?and I put up at the West house, a good comfortable hotel, where the bar had some of the finest old rye I ever drank. I took a couple of cocktails and a half tumbler of brandy, and then went in to supper, Oo the table was some delicious fried chicken, hot biscuits and a lot of other truck, but I couldn't eat a mouthful; appetite all gone, and my own voice sounding far off to me. I got up from the table, makiug some excuse about having a headache, went to the bar and took a couple more drinks and started out for a walk along the lake. Great heavens! how nervous I was. I kept stepping high, never sticking to the path, and once or twice got nearly into the lake. That would't do, you know. I didn't care about furnishing the peice de resistance for some country coroner,sol went back to the hotel, bought a bottle of whisky and a bunch of cigars, and went up to my own room. Here I sat by an open window, drinking and smoking until I got calmed, when I went to bed and in about ten minutes fell into a profound slumber. In about an hour I woke up and lay there, ever sense active and alert. It was a bright moonlight night, and my room was light as day. Hearing a alight rustling at the end of my pillow, I turn? ed my head and saw a most curious looking lizard peering at me. It was aboat six inches loug, aud half its body lengthwise was green, and the other half purple. Its head was snow white, and one eye yellow, the other red as fire. It would peep at me a few seconds, and then dart back behind the pillaw. I watched it without a particle of alarm, but with a sort of strange curiosity. After a while it grew bolder and came entirely out on tbu pillow. Of all the funny creatures this was the funniest, It stood on its head, flirted its tail back and forth, sat up on its bind legs, put its fore foot up to its nose and wig? gled it at me, opened its mouth so wide I thought it was going to swallow itself, and went through a lot of other comic performances! The sight was so irresisti? bly amusiDg that I involuntarily burst out laughing. Instantly the lizard ran across the pil? low into my mouth and down my throat. It was followed by hundreds, yea thous? ands, of other lizards of all sizes and all colors. Some were hardly a half inch long, others at least ten inches. Some were black, some red; one, I remember, had a blue body, a green tail and yellow side whiskers. Great heavens, what a sight! I leaped out of bed hardly suppressing a sbrie^ and making to the bottle of whisky, filled a goblet brimming full and drank it at one draught. There was no more bed for me that night. I sat by the window until morn? ing, ordered my horse and buggy before breakfast, and by 9 a. m. was back in Detroit. I at once took a bath, and some auchovy sandwiches, and felt like anew man, Things weut ou this way for about a week. I kept up a prodigious drinking, but couldn't eat a mouthful of food, my stomach revolting every time lood was proffered it. Strange as it may seem, liquor had no intoxicating effect; a glass of the alrungest braudy was no more than so much water. It seemed as if I couldn't get drunk, but I slept pretty well, and had uo more halluciualious. Oue Saturday afternoon I started out with a chum for a walk along Woodward avenue. We had goue about a tqucro when I noticed a bug on my coat jieeve, near the cuff. I brushed iL off and thought no more about it. A little fur- i iher ou, however, and the same bug was on my elbow. I brushed at it, but miss? ed, aud it crawled up on my shoulder. I whirled around at it with a tremendous filap, and nearly jostled my chum off his feet. "For God's sake, Bill, what's the mat? ter with you?" said ho. "Didn't you see that bug?" I said angrily. "It was right on .T>y shoulder ?there it is again," I said making a frantic blow at it. "For heaven's Bake, Bill, be quiet," said my companion, "tjuit cutting up that way ; see how the people are look? ing at us." Sure enough, two or three persons had stopped and were looking at me curious? ly, and a policeman was crossing the street toward us. There was a saloon uear by, and my frieud hurried mo into it. Hero I took a hiiKO drink of brandy, and in n few 189. miuutes was all right again. While ordering the driuk I had glanced in the glasa behind the bar, and saw a white face with wild, starting eyes. Well, to cut a long story ehort, we got back to ray quarters, and as my chum bade me good by, he said: "Go to bed and sober up, old fellow." Sober up! Why, I had been wanting to do that for a month, and didn't dare make the effort. Telling my servant not to let me be disturbed, and, locking my door, I went to bed, the most depressed and unhappy man in the world. I was lying on the bed, every nerve in my body twitching, the perspiration pouring offme in stream?, when the door slowly opened, and in came the most savage animal I ever saw. It was a mad dog with eyes red and glaring, every hair on it? body bristling with rage, and flecks of foam falling from its champing jaws. It went unsteadily abouc the room, snapping and snarling at every obstacle in the way. I kept still as death, almost breathless, hoping that the dog would not see me, but it did, and, crouching down, leaped straight at my throat. As it struck the bed I grasped it by the throat with both hands, and then ensued a most fearful struggle. The beast's eyes shone right in my own, and my hands and the bed were spattered with bloody foam. I shrieked for help, but no help came. Summoning all my strength for one last desperate effort, I hurled the dog through the open window, and with a yell of triumph fell half fainting on the floor. At this moment my door was burst open with a crash, and four meo, led by my perfidious servant, whom I tried in vain to reach and kill, rushed in, grasped and put me back on the bed. The last thing I remember was some one saying, "Now put the morphine into him, doc? tor," then I lost consciousness. When I came to I found myself with shaven head, strangely weak, and the good old doctor gazing complacently at me. "How long have I been sick, doctor?" I asked in a thin, far-off voice. "Two weeks to day. You've had a hard pull for it, William, but are all right now. Promise me you will give up whisky, William." Boys, right then and there I made a solemn vow that I would never again touch the stuff, and I have kept that vow inviolate. Since that time not a drop of whisky has passed ray lips. Concerning Cloud Bursts. The deadly and destructive work of cloud bursta at the two Johnstowns has drawn public attention to these danger? ous catclysms. Thirty years ago our. people knew nothing about cloud bursts. For several years they were occasionally heard of in the far west, but they were not expected to visit the Atlantic States. The New York Herald giveB the following con? densed facts concerning this Dew dan? ger: The phenomena of a cloud burst, which can only occur in a tornado or whirl? wind, are not generally understood. The whirl in which it forms is not a very broad and shallow disk, but a tall colum? nar mass of rotating air, similar to that in which the Atlantic waterspout of the famous pillar-like dust storm in India is geoerated. While this traveling aerial pillar, perhaps a few hundred yards in diameter, is rapidly gyratiDg, the coutrifugal force, as Professor Ferrel has shown, acts as a barrier to prevent the flow of external air from all sides into its iuterior, except at and near the base of the pillar. Their friction with the earth retards the gyrations and allows the air to rush in below and escape upward through the flue-like interior as powerful ascending currents, The phenomenon, however, will not bo attended by terrific floods unless the atmosphere is densely stored with water vapor, as it was in the Cayadutta valley and as it was on May 31st in the Cone maugh valley. When such is the case the violent ascending currents suddenly lift the vapor laden clouds several thou? sand feet above the level at which they were previously floating and hurl tbem aloft into rarified and cold regioos of the atmosphere, where their vapor is instant? ly condensed into many tons of water. Could the water fall as fast as condensed it would be comparatively harmless. But the continuous uprushing currents support this mass of water at the high level, and as their own vast volumes of vapor rising are condensed, they add to the water already accumulated thousands of feet above the earth's surface?mak? ing, so to speak, a lake in high air. As the whirlwind weakens or passo3 from beneath this vast body of water, which its ascending currents have geoer? ated and upheld in the upper story of the atmosphere, the aqueous mass, no longer supported, drop3 with ever in? creasing gravitational force to earth. In severe cloud bursts tho water does not fall as rain, but in sheets and streams, sometimes unbroken for many seconds. The cloud burst of 1S38, at Hollidays Lurg, Pa., excavated many holes in the grouud, varying from twenty-live fro thirty feet in diameter, and from three to six feet deep. In a similar but mild? er storm, which visited Boulogne last May, fissures were cut in the streets eight feet deep and openings made large enough to engulf a horse and cart. It will be seen that human skill can afford little or no protection against euch a terrible force. We may guard against ordinary floods, aud even cyclones, but when an imnieu?e volume of water sud? denly descends in a solid torrent from mid-air, nothing can staud against it. The fate of the two Johnstowns may be? fall any other town. It is not safe to say that because a region has heretofore escaped such visitations it will be ex? empt. ? A woman of Athens, Ga., who is S7 years old, it is said, does not remember to have ever taken a drink of water, and cannot bear to drink the fluid. Her eyesight has returned to her, and now she can do the finest needle work without the use of glasses. She is in lino health and bids fair to live a century. VOLTJB A Brave Confederate. Lieutenant C. A. Coryell, formerly of the One Hundred and- Forty-first New York Volunteers, Twentieth Army Corps, was with Sherman on the famous march to the s?.a. One bright Sunday in December, 1S04, the Lieutenant was detailed to take charge of the picket line in front of Savannah, on the edge of a rice swamp. There was a truce between the pickets, and everything wore a Sab bath-like stillness. Coryell had nothing to do and was out of tobacco. How to get a chew was the question. Finally a handsome young officer from the Confederate side strolled out between the lines. Coyell hailed him at once: "I say, Johnny, if I come over to you can I get tobacco and return safely to my lines?" "Come along, I'll treat you right." "How do I know that I'll not be taken prisoner?" "You have the word of a gentleman and a Confederate officer." Coryell thought a moment and then decided to make the venture. He laid aside his sword and belt and started across the high and narrow dike leading to the Confederate line. On either side of the dike the water in the rfce fields was five feet deep. The Lieutenant reached the opposite shore without any misgivings. The Confederate produced some tobacco and a trade was made in no time. Then the two fell into a pleasant conversation. Suddenly Coryell saw a signal flutter from some distance in the rear of the Confederate line. "What does that mean?" he asked sharply. "I don't know," replied the Confede? rate. Just then an orderly dashed up on horseback and with a dignified salute said to the Confederate officer: "Lieutenant, the General orders you to take the Yankee officer to headquar? ters." Coryell was dumfounded. Then he looked at the Confederate Liutenantand noted his honest eyes and his manly face. "Am I your prisoner?" asked Coryell. The Confederate extended his right hand. "I offered you my protection," he said. "Go to your lines. I will follow you over the dike, and if my body can shield you from Confederate lead, you shall reach your command in safety. Good? bye, and God bless you!" The Federal started on his return trip. He was half way across when the first shot came. There was another and another, until the whole brigade seemed to be firing at him. The fugitive walked rapidly onward until he reached the Federal lines and vaulted over the breastwork. Theu he looked back and saw his protector stand? ing on the dike. The Confederate waved his hand, turned about and marched back to his own side. He had kept his promise like a true soldier.?Ailanla Con? stitution. "Limited." Many people are unaware of the signifi? cance of the word "limited," following the title of a corporation, and even those who are fully posted in regard to the liability limits of the stockholders in a I corporation having that word attached to :td name, will find the facts below of jj interest. The old principle of corpora? tions created by legislative act was that the entire.property of every stockholder ; was liable for the whole debts of the whole company, as the whole property of every member of a general member? ship is still liable for the debts of .the firm. This system made every share? holder responsible for bad management of which he might not be guilty, and deterred wealthy men from becoming intesested in shares of corporations. To remove this objection the principle of limited was introduced and, in order to notify the public that only the separate property of the corporation was liable for the debts of the corporation was liable for the debts of the corporation, the English law requires that the word "limi? ted" shall bo used in every case by the company. Most American corporations are constituted on the principle of limited liability, but few, if any, of the States enjoin the companies to append the word limited to their corporate titles. The matter is so generally understood in this country, however, that it is not necessary. The most noteworthy exception to the general rule is the case of the national bank ; and even in this instance liability is limited to an amount equal to the par value of the shares. That is, if the na? tional bank fails, each stockholder may not only lose what he has invested, but $100 more for each share ofstock he holds, so much is necessary to pay the debts ol the bank. Until within a few years all the Scottish bauks. were orgauized with unlimited liability, and when, eight or ten years ago, a Glasgow bank failed disastrously, there were cases of men who only owned a shar or two, valued before the failure at not much more than $100 each, who were assessed thousands of pounds sterling to meet the debts of the bank. Since that time the Scottish banks have been allowed to reorganize on a limited liability basis. ? At Birmingham, Ala., three young negro men, under the preaching of an old negro named Jackson claiming to be the prophet Daniel, became persuaded that they were the representatives ofShad rach, Meshach and Abedneco, and en? tering the cupalo of the iron furnace, de? liberately walked into the melting iron at white heat, expecting that, as in Nebuch? adnezzar's fiery furnace, they would receive no hurt. When they did not reappear, Jackaou auuounced that he saw them ascending in the smoke of the furnace, attended by angels, and that they would return to earth next Sunday. The negroes in the neighborhood are excitedly awaiting this event, and propose to assem? ble at the Church and hold a prayer meeting meanwhile. ? Edgar F. Lincoln, of Tokepa, Kan., has taken out more patents during the last two years than any other man in the United States. IE XXIV.?NO. 7. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? In England check reins are now entirely out of use, being forbidden by law. ? Ex President Cleveland is said to have invented a new fly for trout fishing. ? A colored man at Albany, Ga., has served do less than twenty-one terms in jail for fighting. ? At Seymour, Ind., four sisters met recently who bad not seen each other for twenty-five years. ? The most delicate, the most sensible, of all pleasures, consists in promoting.the pleasures of others. ? A gentleman living near Quitman, Brooks county, Ga., neyer ate a morsel of bread or meat in his life. ? The Alliance men of Alabama are going to build mills and manufacture their own cotton bagging. ? The negroes of Kentucky are hold? ing meetings aud declaring their inde peodence of the Republicau party. ? Seoator Quay is said to receive more letters thao auy other mau in the United States except the President. ? The New York Cotton Exchange has consented to fix prices on cotton re? gardless of the material used for cover? ing. This will be good news for the far? mers. ? When a father in Madagascar gets in the notion that his daughter ought to marry he puts a rope around her neck and leads her forth, and the first young man that he offers her to has got to take her or pay a forfeit. ? A boy living near Abilene, Texas, was recently bitten by a snake aod soon taken with convulsions. An old Mexican scraped out the bowl of a briar pipe and applied the scrapings to the child's wounds, and the next day the boy was well. ? Dr. Strong is authority for the statement that in the States between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Moun? tains there is one saloon for every forty three voters. East of the Mississippi the average is one to one hundred and seven voters. ? A hail storm in Viilafranca > Piedmont, was of such enormous 6tones that more than one hundred persons were badly hurt, and a boy and girl had their skulls fractured. The weight of some hailstones was estimated at two pounds. ? One thousand six hundred peoplo have been burned to death at Su Chow, China, making a half do;:ea stupendous calamities in the Celestial empire in as many months. Even the Chinese do not seem to grow very excited over such oc? currences. ? The White Lead Trust has obtained control of the three leading factories of the United States. TLe trust now controls 00 per cent, of all the white lead produced in the country. The linseed oil factories were couso'.luated into a trust two years ago. ? A lady who had losi; her voice for nearly a year stumbled and fell while making her escape from the recent flood at Eockford, W. Va. Iu her excitement she tried to scream for help aud immedi? ately recovered her voice and can speak as well as ever. ? A young married couple in Ashta bula county, Ohio, have been making a garden for the first time. When planting oaions they were at a loss to tell which j end to put down, so they compromised ; the matter, he putting them in one way and she the other. ? The practice of keeping night lights in children'^; bed rooms is pronounced very injurious by a well known physician. Instead of allowing the optic nerves the perfect rest afforded by darkness, the light keeps them in perpetual stimulation, with the result of causing the brain and the rest of the nervous system to suffer. ? The practice of cremation i3 spread? ing rapidly in Italy. In forty-two com? munities it has been adopted to the exclusion of every other method of dis? posing of dead human bodies. In twen? ty-one communities furnaces; have been in operation forseveral years. In nineteen communities the authorities are trying to raise money for the erection of creama tories. ? A verdant young man from near Delton drove to town, accompanied by his best girl, says the Hasting Democrat, to witness the wonders of a patent medicine auction, aud, in the exuberance of the hour, bought a box of tootli powder and a package of corn medicine. He gave, as he supposed, the tooth powder ;o the girl and the corn medicine he kepi for him? self. But he made a sad mistake, aod the package was divided vice versa. Sunday morning it was discovered that his once fair partner had used the corn annihilator freely on her teeth, Saturday evening, after her return home, and that during the night her teeth had all drop? ped out. ? A good story of old days in Massa? chusetts has recently-been published. In one of the churches in the eastern part of the State a bas3 viol was procured to help the choir. One summer Sunday, while the parson was iti the middle of the ser? mon, a bull got out of his pasture and came sw ..TgcriDg down the road, growl? ing as he came. The minister heard the low bellow, and looking up towards the singers' seals with a grave face he said : "I would thank the musicians not to tune during service time; it annoys me very much." The choir was surprised, but nothing was said. P-etty soon the bull gave another grumble, and then the parson was mad. He stepped short, and looking directly at the bass viol player, said: "I now particularly request Mr. L-that he will not tuno his instrument while I am preaching." This was more than the fiddler could stand. Popping up in his seat he snapped out: "It isn't me, parson; it isn't me. It is that darned old town bull." The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may use the liq? uid fruit laxative, Syrup of Pigs, under all conditions make it their favorite rem? edy. It is pleatdog to the eye aud to the taste, gentle, yet. effectual in"acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels.