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BY CUNKSCALE pl?NOS^HORG?NS GRAM) SUMMER SALE For Angpast, p| ;. September and . October. ?r Buy Now and Pay when'Cotton is Sold. i - SPOT CASH PBJCESVand just a little oish down to bind tbe bargain. Only a u . little. SeeV tgjy PIANOS, $25 Cash and balance g Deeemberl,'S9. >i. V.'OROANS, $10 Casli and balance December 1, '89. We wait your order and will do our best Tor you. Write or call on 88.?westfield Street, GBJSEiTVTIiLE, - S. C. - Aug 1,1889 ' ?4 American "& Fruit WB . ; ; - . Presenting Powder AND ' Liquid! IS. have sold this valuable Prepara .- ti on for several years, and take great pleas? ure in offering it again this* season. The : ? fruit crop having been abort for several .years, we advise our friends to take ad van - -'M tage of the abundant crop in prospect this season, and provide- for what. may be a x short crop "next. ?- . With . One Dollars worth of the Prep? ; ration, and a great deal less trouble than the old-fashioned way of canning, you can save enough to do a larger family the whole Winter, and you can open and use ?'. nut of the jar from tj me. to time without V injury., ^ . Of course it suits some people to ruh f . this Preparation down, because It inter? feres \nth their business, but ask T. D. Sloan;- o f 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 mom paints, Six Colors. % Makes a very Hard Finish, ? '. c ?/? 't%?? ? And Dries Hard overnight. IT IS JUST THE THING I ' Also, all other kinds of PAINTS AND OILS, .:>' ? AT ? SIMPSON, REIB & CO'S, DEUG STOKE. Session Opens Sept. 10,1889. T7<OB Catalogue of Williamston Fc ?*JTJ male College, a live, thorough, progressive, prosperous, cheap, up-country School for young ladies, address Eev. S. Lander, President, Williamston, S. C. Its merits widely known. ? One hundred and - sixty-five pupils last year. More expected next. ?? . ' - July IX, 1889 _1_2m FOB, SALE OR BENT! ? ?? i TDREMISES at Honea Path, S. C, for JL merly belonging to Mrs. W. G. . - Smith. Two and a half acres of land, with buildings thereon. Apply to GREIG <fc MATTHEWS, Charleston, 8. C. April 18,1889 41 6m JUST RECEIVED, ? A fine lot of Children's Carriages, With Steel Wheels. ALSO, " A Lot of Refrigerators, "^jyHIOH will be sold at low prices at TOMMY'S FURNITURE ST OR Et May 23,1889_. 46_ GEO. B. PRINCE, Esq.; ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, - S. C. OfFTCE removed to the new building of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, North side of Public Square. Aug 22,1889 _7 _8m j Williamston Male High School. Fall Term of 1889 will begin Sep. . temberHth. Advantages: Beautiful locality, commodious and well-adapted school buildings, attractive surroundings, ' chidybeate mineral spring, thorough and practical instruction, high moral and social status of the village proverbial. Bates of tuition low. For information, address V. H. WATSON, Principal, Anderson, S. C, until Sept. 11th ; W?liamBton, B.C., after Septwdlth. - _4?6 A. G. STRICKLAND, "VTITEOUS OXIDE given at all times -131 . for the Painless Extraction of Teeth, ?&* Office on corner of Granite Kow over Bleckley Mercantile Co. NOT 15,1888 19 T^??H^?OLUMN, All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. R?SST3LL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. Bock Mills decided last winter that they would suspend the public schools until Bummer,' bo as to partly catch up and get their District on a cash basis. They now have two white and two ?col? ored schools in full blast. It T, as a relief to pass from the Wilson colored school to the Ridge Spring Bchool, taught by Miss Lizzie Shirley. Here we found "an orderly, well-kept school, with-teacher-and pupils all in place at the proper time, and everything In smooth running order. This is the maidcu effort of this teacher, but judging by whtit we saw and heard, she ateera the craft well, and having had good training at W?iiamston, we think she is going, to make i successful teacher. At WilUford'B Store^we found Mr. Charlie Barrett at work. We came on him Uu.vware in the midst of a recitation on the Reading Chart by about a dozen little ok38, and it was a pleasure to wit* ness tii& eagerness and readiness of the little cobs. They did themselves credit and their teacher, too, for it evinced care and painstaking on the part of the teacher. Charlie is getting to be a vet? eran iu the ranks of the profession, and it . Bpes&s well for him that those who have known him from boyhood appreci? ate him, .The colored school at Springfield is under the care of Lizzie Green, a teacher who doubtless possesses qualifications as to books, but lacks judgment as regards classify:'<g her ? pupils. We found two of her pupils studying Maury'a Revised Manual who could not define Latitude and Lcagitude. This teacher has no facilities for teaching, with practically no house and no equipments in it, and it would cut be wise to put any equipments in that house if they had them. The colored jutrons there must bestir them? selves ai'.^ do some work if they wish to have a school that is worthy of the name. We sp;>nt a pleasant night with the family of oar genial friend, Croft Gilmer, and ate" early hour .the next morning wended cur way to the colored school at Wilson, taught by Frances Williams. We were first on the ground, and shortly after the teacher put in an appearance, but had to wait some time after the hoar for opening before any of her pupils came ir and from that on they came straggling in by twos and threes as long as we remained. This school is not doing any good for several reasons. In the first place the parents are not inter* ested abont it or they would have the chil? dren there on time. In the second place they^are Caching p-ictically oat of doors, and in the last place the teacher lacks governing power. Something mast be done by these people before they can have rosy more school there, as it is a waste of public money to go on in the present i&ape. The following essay was read by Miss Loa Drske at the last meeting of the Teacher.v Association of this County. We comraend it to the teachers of the County: Though, my remarks on my chosen subject may be but the echo of what has already been said many times, yet we can never bay too mach in its favor. That these meetings and places of in? struction, are a means of unquestionable profit, is proven by the advanced position of other States and nationalities where they are more strictly patronized, and this behooves as to use more diligence and fidelity in this cause which involves the inte. its of the youth of our land. To speak of a few advantages, I would mention first the inspiration received to rise above our present, standing; make as less satisfied with oar present status, and more determined to fit ourselves for the exalted, yet bumble position, which we fill. This age requires oar best labor and effort, and no place is so aptly fitted to cultivate a desire for the above attributes and to improve our faculties for the a&me. At these places we are taught the best methods (and there is no talent greater than method) of various branches by able instructors who wisely direct us to more exalted standards, and since all civilization depends on some? thing higher, the more enlightened the teacher the greater results. Our wisest decision ia to grasp every available opportunity to enrich the mind. The social intercourse at these meetings is a feature which merits our highest regard. Who is it that does not feel a stronger relationship and more united'sympathy for those engaged in a similar calling, after having enjoyed their c mpanion ship for a while? And after hearing and knowing how others do, we are better equipped for the requirements incum? bent npon us. We can readily perceive the steps forward, made even in the last; decade, and if we respect and attend! these institutions, the future alone can reveal the -worth of our efforts. How to Woo to Win. "I gave her a rose and gave her a ring, and I asked her to marry me then; but she sent them all back, the insensible thing, and said she'd no notion of men. I told her I'd oceanB of money and goods ??tried to frighten her with a growl, but she said she wasn't brought up in the woods to b? scared by the screech of an owl. 1 called her coquette and every? thing bad. 1 slighted her features and form; till at length I succeeded in get? ting her mad,.and she raged like a Bea in a storm. And then in a moment I turned and smiled, and called her my angel and dear, she fell in my arms like a wearisome child, and exclaimed, 'we will marry this year!'" ? It is a curious fact that there are 200,000 people in the United States who have artificial legs or hands. This num? ber does not include the veterans of the Union or the Confederate army. In New York City and vicinity there are about 5,000 men and women who have supplied the place of lost Imfbs with the manufac? tured arJcle. SILL ARP. Bill Arp Fays a Visit to an Old Friend and Finds Everybody Smiling. Atlanta Constitution. It does look like the farmer ought to be happy. They made the best wheat crop that has been made for years, and now the fields are heavy with corn and soon will be white with cotton. The c&ttle are all fat and such a fruit crop was never known in Georgia. I reckon ; they are happy, for they are having pic? nics and barbecues all about and reunions among the Soldiers, and the cairip meet? ings bavo begun early and will keep on till cotton picking time. The Farmers' club aud the Alliance men seem to be masters of the situation financially, r$? ligiously and practically. ? A prosperous farmer is to be envied. The other day my wife and I were invited oat to my friend Billy Hood's to eat grapes aud melons, and we went. He lives at the foot of the thountain, two miies from town, and we found the front yard swept out, and the back yard, too, and the water pail aud wash pan had been scoured, and the children had put on clean clothes, and everything was iu apple pie order, for that ie the way coun? try folks do when town folks are coming to see them. We know all about that. But it is rather embarrassing when town company "takes them unawares on a Wash day or cleaning up day. I remember on one occasion my wife could hardly get one of the girls to go to the door, and, when she did go she opened it and got behind it and asked the company to walk into the parlor until Bhe could change her garments. Billy Hood is my ideal of old Argur's prayer, "give me neither poverty nor richer" He is just comfortable and has to work hard to keep so. He is always cheerful aud so are his wife and children. His good old mother lives not far away, aud his married daughter is in sight. He lives in a cottage that is shaded by Borne large oak trees, The well with its old oaken bucket is in the back yard and the garden and orchard are near at hand. Chickens of all siisee are meandering around, and the ash hopper and the dairy aud the cider press show signs of clean things and good things. There is nothing fine enough to be afraid of?nothing poor enough to excite your sympathy?everything is comfortable and that is all. "I said if there's peace to bo found in the world A heart that was humble might hope for it here." Billy Hood was a good soldier in the war and he is a good farmer in peace. He always has his premium aero in cotton and in com. I think that he can safely count on two bales of the one and sixty bushels of the other this year, and his crop is nearly as good. He is a good citizen aud never grumbles about bis taxes or having to work the roads. He is a good Christian and be always pays his full part to the preacher on the first day of every mouth, What if the world was full of Buch families, such fathers and mothers and children. "Their best companions, innocence and health, Their best riches Ignorance of wealth, How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labor with an age of ease." Beautiful, luscious grapes lined the gar? den fence on every :<ide. I began at the gate and eat all-the way round, and after a brief interval I had to sample the melonB. and in course of time a few ptars and peaches were packed, on top and then the cider was brought forward to make the repast complete. But I got home safe, and as we bad had only a lunch for dinner the girls had prepared an extra good supper with a green corn pudding attachment. When the doctor left me next day he thought I was asleep, but I beard him whisper to my wife that he thought there was a chance for me to pull through, for my constitution was a good one, considering how I had imposed upon it. Many inquiring friends called to see me, and while the morphine was working I thought I heard somebody say that the hearse had come, and I clutched the sheet to see if I was really in a coffin. It took me about a week to get straight again, but there is Borne good with the bad. I found that I had more friends than I knew of, aud I have received lots of congratulations, especially from the agent who insured my life. Now Billy Hood is just a common man with enough education to serve all his purposes. He reads the Bible and bis newspapers and the Sunday school books aud no modern trash, and is content 7 What does he want with more ? Some? times I think the world is on a craze about education, high education', Clascal e Uication. It is said that Georgia beads the litt of illiteracy. Well, that is bad I know, but Massachusetts heads the list of crime, and that is worse. If some of our people can't read and write, they are good citizens. Education is not a guarantee for good citizenship. Bight now the overcrowding of the learned profession is giving trouble in Germany. Their press is discussing the matter very seriously, and trying, to find*a remedy. Too much education they say, and it is breeding discontent and socialism among the graduates who can't find employment to suit their high culture. There are sev? enty-one universities aud twenty eight thousand students in attendance, and the number is increasing fives times faster than the population. What does this mean ? Pope said: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not of the Pcarian spring." I never did believe that; but now here is a new theory which Bays thai too many are drinking deep, and the professions are all crowded to an alarming extent. Is it possible that knowledge is coming to a discount, and much learning is making people mad ? Is it a fact that the number of graduates in the universi? ties ought to be limited, for fear of endangering the Bafety of the govern? ment Has a young man less stability and less patriotism because he has been through the j^iiversity ? Germany has boasted of \/d best educational system tDERSON, S. C, TH In tiie world. She has compulsory edd cation, and requires five years schooling between the ages of seven and seventeen and special attention is given to the mor? al training of her pupils. The illiteracy of her population is only 2} per cent, which is a smaller ratio than any State in our Union and yet Germany is alarm? ed at the spread of socialism. Weih, it looks like thers is another problem to solve. How much education Bhall we give to our children ? Pope is not infallible even though be was a "Pope." A little learning is not a dan gerouB thing? It is a good thing, a safe and harmless thing and every human being ought to have it. To read and to write and to cipher adds to the usefulness, the independence and the happiness of mankind. We can all agree upon that. A common school education does not put the man or the State in any peril. It does not produce any disinclination to work for a living?to work in the common avocations of life. But suppose we could by some enchantment, give every man and woman a college education, would we dare to do it ? Old Uncle Sam chops my wood and cleans out my stable and gets his daily wages and h content. If he was suddenly endowed with my learn? ing would he chop my wood any more ? If not what would he do for a living; who would do the cooking and washing, and scour the floors .and kill the chick? ens? Who would dig and plow and curry the mules and haul the wood' and butcher the cattle and hogs and work in the factories ? Who would be brakemen on the railroads or firemen on the engines? Who would be porters and draymen and hack drivers in the cold, sleety days of Winter? The college graduates won't do it now?would they do it then ? In fact, does not a high degree of culture unfit a man for laborious or menial pursuits? If it does then what pursuit is left him when the professions are overcrowded aB they are in Germany? Now, neither the State nor the people are responsible for the unequal condition of mankind. Some vessels are born to honor and some dishonor. Work has to be done?hard work, dirty work, un? healthy and perilous work, or else every? thing would stop and the human family would perish. We caunot help this. Fortune and misfortune move along to? gether. "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." Society is its own regulator. I have no just cause of complaint that I can't move in the first circles. I am happier in my own, and so is everybody, even down to Uncle Sam, the woodchop per. Our white people are getting along pretty well and the professions are not yet overcrowded to any alarming extent. There is still room at the top. But the negroes of the south are fast ap? proaching the condition of the whites in Germany. Their colleges are turning out scores who can find nothing to do?noth? ing that is congenial to their educated feelings. When a yonng man, white or black, has acquired a high strung educa? tion and can find nothing to apply it to he begins to brood over the unequal con? dition of things. He sees a class around him who are mentally his inferiors, but who have accumulated property and are reveling in wealth. He sees another class who have made fortunes by crooked practices, by extortion, speculation, mo? nopoly and political intrigrues. His thoughts fester and fret in idleness, which is the parents of all vice, and before he knows it he wants a division and is at heart a socialist. The negro does not have far to go to reach this point, for it is his nature to want a division. He begins to divide early. "How are you getting along, Dougher? ty?" said I to a clever old darkey who was raised in the family. "Poorly, sir, poorly. It gets worse and worse. My children are giving me a power of trouble since they came home from college. They won't work nary lick and they brings a crowd of them lazy college whelps to my house every day and they have pretty nigh eat me out," The working negroes give us uo trouble, but every now and tb'en one ot these college bred editors or school teachers try to stir up a war between the races, and they have an idea that they will be back? ed by their northern friends. But they are mistaken. The north has too mach money invested here now and is investing more all the time. The north will not take a part in i. race war. The northern mind is very much unsettled on this problem. On the last 4th of July a dis? tinguished orator made a speech in Far mington, in Maine, and said that the nation had committed three monumental blunders?one was in opening our doors to all the vagabonds of the earth ; anoth? er WAB in not hanging Jeff Davis and Bob Lee and all the leaders and officers of the rebellion, and the greatest blunder of all lay in giving the negro the ballot and Betting him up as a citizen. He denounc? ed the poor darkey as being worse than the Indian or the Chinaman. Well, I wish they would settle down and let us know what they are going to do about it. In the meantime let us be patient. Let the south roll on in her prosperity and let everybody be calm and serene. Bill Anr. ? An old preacher, after service one Sunday, announced his reading for the following Sunday. During the week some mischievous boys obtained his Bi? ble and pasted two of the leaves together right where he was to read. Sunday morning coming, the aged divine opened his book and read as follows: "And Noah took unto himself a wife who was"?and here he turned the leaf? "forty cubits broad, one hundred and forty cubits long."- With a look of astonishment, he wiped bis glasses, reread and verified the passage, and then said: "My friends, although I have read the Bible many times, this is the first time I have ever seen this passage, but I take it as anoth? er evidence of the fact that man is most fearfully.and wonderfully made." ? SawduBt is being used by Borne build? ers instead of sand. It is said to answer well, as it ib one-half lighter than sand, and can be very advantageously used on ceilings. Mortar made of quicklirao and sawdust, mixed with cement, docs well for brick or stone work. ?ESDAY MORNING PLTJNKETT AND ALLIANCE, Tlie old Man has a Lively Tali: wttii 13rown. "It would be er terrible fool that would wish anything but good for farmers," said Plunkett, as be threw the paper aside he was reading and put his specks in his pocket. "The .greed of grinding monopolists overcome tbeir better judgment, though, sometimes,'* retorted Brown. "I see in the paper," resumed Plunkett, without Seeming to heed Brown's re? marks; "that the Alliance convention has passed a resolution for farmers to hold their cotton till tbey get 12} cents for it." "And we'll do it," ventured Brown. "Thar'fl two Bides to every question, and it'} er darned Bight easier to talk about doing a thing sometimes than it is to do it," said Plunkett, as be proceed? ed: "Cotton ought to bring 12} cents, and more, too, but I doubt whether it 1b practicable for ?b to hold it and force the price. If we hiid made two million baled instead of six million we could get twice twelve and a half cents for it without any holding or uny forcing. But we've got the six million bales in sight and folks don't like to be forced?its human nature to get bull-headed when er fel? low's forced?and how we farmers can hold our cotton any great length of time I can't see. "How are we going to pay the hands we've had hired all the year ? "How are we going to pay taxeB ? "How are we going to get the girls new fall hats and pacify the old 'oman ? "How are we going to do er thousand things that has erbleged to be done, lessen we sell our cotton, twelve and a half cents or no twelve and a half cents? "They're erbleged to have our cotton," spoke up Brown, with a frown, "When the war broke out," Baid Plun? kett, "we bad er notion that the world would have to go nakid if tbey didn't get our cotton, but it didn't prove true. The whole world wore better clothes than we did and kept it up for four years. I'm afeard if we try to hold and force things the fool might do without it four years ergin, aud darned ef I want 'em to do it. I owe Borne notes that I am bound to pay and it takes money to do it, and while I cuss cotton er right smart, I know it is ready money when you get the bagging and ties on it. "Then, ergin, this holding business might prove catching, like the measles, and the western hog raisera might reso? lute to hold their meat and corn and wheat till they get 12} cents for it. "It makes me laugh to think erbout people er starving in the midst of all this meat and bread, when Brown claims we could thrive and grow fat ermong the cotton bales piled up under the gin houses. But then it is so, Brown says, and be'a been to the convention. But why in the devil the western fellows couldn't do some holding as well as we southern fellows is strange, and kinder addles my head. "I wish the farmers could run this whole government; I wish this from my heart, bekaze what is to the farmer's interest is to everybody's interest, but tbey mr.: t be cool and practicable. It won't do to count too much on the pretty speechmakers every time. I listened to speeches in the fifties till I thought the world would go to pieces if they didn't get our cotton, but it didn't, and I'm orfeard the darned thing would wag erlong if we go into this holding business, and, aa necessity is the mother of invention, they would go to 'sperimentingin other conn tries and develop things till tbey wouldn't care er daru if we kept on holding. "I worked for er fellow cnce at $1.50 er day, and I decided that be must gi ve me $2 or I'd quit. He didn't give it when I axed him, but I was sure he would have to do it if I'd be firm and hold out?he couldn't do without me, I thought, and be thought eo, too, but he got bull-headed, when he seed I was try? ing to force bim, aud begin 'speriment ing, and'the first thing I knowed he bad four or five fellows that could do the work as good as me and were willing to do it for 75 cents er day and board ther selves. Instead of hurting the fellow, I put bim to thinking of how he could get erlong without me and he was bene? fited and I had to hunt ernother job. "If we don't mind how we go into this holding business, these fellows that want cotton will go to South America and to India aud 'speriment and develop aud open up cotton lands till the South? ern cotton raiser will be without er job and other countries will be benefitted. Reduce the acreage. Produce 2,000,000 bales instead of 7,000,000 and you'll make ! no Bhow of trying to force, and will get twice twelve and a half cents for your cotton without any holding, and with cribs full of corn and smokehouses full of meat we can let the western fellows 'hold' and 'starve,' while we can boast of the.finest and most blessed country on God's green earth. "It would be a Godsend it the farmers would get to pulling together right, but it won't do to build castles. "I have reared many er beautiful structure?iu my mind?and had to keep from getting mashed to death when it tumbled. I've made many narrow escapes from my tumbling castles, and yet I'd get as mad as thunder with fellows who would advise me coolly and truth* fully. Anything that didn't get the castle higher what I was at work on made me mad, and I'd cuss my best friend, but since I've seed 'em tumble and tumble ergin I'm mighty cautious, and am sorter willing to look at both sides and am sorter willing to look at both sides and all erround erbout. Its no use in getting mad with er fellow that don't tickle your eai with sweet sourjding wordB of encouragement?sometimes he's right. "During of the wnr the ports were blockaded and all the cotton that got out had to steal out. This lasted for four years, and yet the world wags on. I'm crfeared tho farmers will get into im? practicable schemes if they don't mind. I'd like to tickle their ears?I like to be popular, for I'm thinking of running for coroner. I'd like to tell 'em that cotton is kiug, but I hain't er going to do it, for , SEPTEMBER 5, 18 I got disgusted with that sort of talk In the fifties. ''I sincerely wish that the farmers can do er great sight mor3 than they are doing, and I believe they will, 'their Alliance i? er good thing, but they mudfc keep their eyeB skin't on impracticable things?it takes practicable work and solid thinking to accomplish great re" forms. "It will be a glorious day when the farmers are ?o that the holding of their cotton will be possible and practicable. It would be getting back to old times. We uster could do it, and I wish the same old days were here ergin. Every farmer had his corn,- and meat and wheat then; he didn't need no money. His blacksmith shop; his shoe shop; his wagon shop, was at the cross roads. The farmers helped these workmen and the workmen gave the farmer a market at his door. Corn, wheat and meat Was as good as money to these brawny work? men. The farmer could pile his cotton up under the ginhouse, and hold it there, and prosperity resigned, and the world was happier and better. Progress has driven these workmen into the manufac turing centers; the pale cooped up chil? dren of the factories and workshops are in sad contrast to the blooming ones brought up a'; the cotintfy cross roads all over Georgia. These workmen can't raise their families in the country now, The farmer gets er new plow now for less than it costs to have an old one relaid. He can buy new shoes cheaper than he can have the old ones repaired. He can get a new wagon cheaper than he can mend the old one, and yet its harder times and the world is not so good. The closer the workman lives to the farmer the better it i? for both. These cheap prices are deceitful. When Europe floods our land with her cheap products I hope it will be better, but I doubt it.?Atlanta Constitution. A Touching Scene. We need not ask the Journal's venera? ble readers if they remember the prayer of their childhood, taught them by their now sainted mother, for it is a memory that goes with us to our graves. The greatest men of earth, in their dying hours, have recalled that prayer of childhood, and the sweet memories of the dear mother who taught their infant lips to repeat it at her knee before going to bed, Of all the sacred memories of childhood, perhaps this is the strongest and the most potent. A recent touching scene shows its remarkable power in another direc? tion?that of the mother herself. The venerable and beloved widow of the la? mented Bishop George F. Pierce lay on her death bed at her home in Sparta, Ga. Writing of her last hours to the Welseyan Christian Advocate, of Macon, her son says: "On Monday before her death, about 1 o'clock in the morning, she was very restless, and I had helped her to change her position to one she thought comfor? table, and said to her: 'Mother, do you remember the little prayer you taught me to say when I was a little fellow, and you had prepared me for bed ? Say that, now, and go to sleep.' Said she: 'You say it.' She fixed her bands in a clasp upward, and I repeated : 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; And if I die hefore I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.' "When I had finished she bowed her head, and went into what seemed a sweet quiet sleep, and never changed her posi? tion again. * * * The sweet spirit, worn and weary with the long struggle, had found rest. God gave her long life, and she served her generation according to His will." How many of the mothers who read the Journal are training'"their little ones to hold in their heart years to come such sacred memories? We fear that the oldtime way of putting children to bed has fallen into disuse. The poet Cowper, as well as many other eminent men, has left on record his tender tribute to a sainted mother whose "nightly visits to his chamber made" were the richest treasure in his memories. Few mothers realize in this age of rapid progress what a blessed privilege it is to put their little ones to bed themselves, and after hearing them repeat the iiweet prayer of childhood, leave them to their sleep with a fond mother's kiss, the memory of which will live in their hearts through all life's chances, and comfort them in many a dark hour, especially as they go down into the valley of the shadow of death.? Atlanta Evening Journal. Wonderful Watches. John Huntington and his son, W. T, R. Huntington, of Cleveland, own two of the best watches in the world. They are duplicates and were ordered by the senior Huntington in 1SS1. in Geneva, Switzer? land. He agreed to pay $5,000 in gold for two watches that would combine every movement then known to watch-making, a description of one answers for both. The case is of pure gold ; the work num? bers four hundred pieces. On the large dials appear four smaller dials. The one at the top shows by a diagram of the sky the changes of the moon, the firmament being lapsia lazuli, studded with golden stars. The next dial to the right shows the leap year, the tiny hand moving around the circle once in four years, and an auxiliary hand shows each month. On the dial at the bottom is a hand marking the quarter second*, and one showing the day of the month. At the left, on the fourth miniature dial, is a hand pointing out the day of the week, and another the tide as it ebbs and Hows. Around the large dial, besides the usual hour and minute hand, movej a second hand and an extra horse timer, eo ar? ranged that the distance between two horses at the finish is accurately noted in quarter seconds. By pressing a button the past hour is struck on a deep-toned bell, one of a chime; the quarters are a more silvery note, and a rapidly tinkling com? panion gives the minutes. The watch is a stem winder, and one spring furnishes the motive power. Where there is fric? tion the pivots are set in rubie?.?New York Sun. ? Tho rice crop in this State will be a heavy one. m TWO DUELS IN 0>'E DAT. And Killed his Antagonist In Both?The Oaeta in tflo Early Dar?. MlLLEDGEVILLE, Ga., AugUst 21? There are very few people now living who have ever been engaged in an affair of honor: still fewer who have been twice engaged in such a conflict, while it is hardly probable that there is more than one man in America who has fought two duels in one day and killed his antagon? ist in both fights, yst your correspondent has been given the details of such an affair, which the readeni of the Constiiu lion may have*. There is an old man that can be seen on the streets of Milledgeville at almost any hour in the day, peddling peanuts and earning scanty support for himself' and wife by raising chickens for market, and selling onions, cabbage and such other vegetables as he can raise in the small patch of ground adjoining his house?all that h left him of a once large fortune. He is now old and decrepit, and though a man of naturally splendid physique, the sickle of time has carved deep furrows in his face and the frost of ninety winters has whitened his hair. There was a time when he stood high in social relations?a man of wealth and honor?but fortune turned against him ; bis wealth vanished, be was reduced to a low position in life, and since the war he has lived with his wife in ntter retire? ment. This man is the hero of two duels in one day?only two shots fired? two men killed! In 1882 Columbus was one of the first cities of Georgia, Its position then as a business center was even more prom? inent than it is now, for it was the inlet of all foreign productions, while the home products of nearly all of southwest Georgia found their outlet there. Mr. S., for that was the first letter of his name, was a prominent contractor, and one of the foremost men of that city. At the same time Messrs. Jim Lock ley and Shelton Swift were in business together ?the leaders of the hardware trade of that city. They were men of means and honor, and were leaders of society. Mr. S., being a contractor, had considerable dealings with Messrs. Lockley and Swift. Their business relations, for a long time, were of the most cordial and peaceable nature. They were fast friends and there was a time when either would have cheerfully died for the other. But "it is a long lane that has no. turns," and a per? fect lite 'bat has no blunders. In a busi? ness transaction, a thoughtless word was uttered by Swift that stung S. to the core. A quarrel ensued, then a fight in which Swift was badly whipped. Lock ley took sides with Swift. - A newspaper controversy followed, and, for several days, the battle of words waged between Lockley, and Swift, on one hand, and S-on the other. When the controver? sy reached a certain pitch, it was carried on between friends of the two parties and resulted in a challenge sent by S to Lockley and Swift, which was prompt? ly accepted. Old Colonel Fanning, who lost his life in the Mexican war, was chosen as second by S-, while Jim Holland was the best friend of the other two gentlemen. The place selected for the encounter was just over the river from Columbus in an Indian settlement Fort Mitchell. Dr. Broadnax, one of the prominent physicians of the city, was summoned to attend S-, while Lock ley was attended by bis physician. Ten o'clock in the morning was the hour appointed for the conflict with Lockley, and the engagement with Swift was for three o'clock that afternoon. Promptly' at the appointed hour, the party were upon the field. There were probably fifty friends of the beliggerents on the scene. A feeling of awe prevailed, as the two men?Lockley and S-stood face to face in a conflict of death. At the command "fire," both men raised their weapons and two loud reports broke the death-like stillness. _ S- remained standing with his pistol lowered to his side, while ten paces in front of him Lockley lay upon the ground in a struggle of death, the first shot having done its work. S was uninjured and in a few moments was ready for the second act of this wonderful tragedy. The news of the duel was unknown in the city, nor was it reported until honor had again been avenged and the other duel bad been fought. At 3 o'clock that evening both gentlemen, with their friends, were upon the battlefield in Alabama?only a short distance from the scene of the first en? counter. The tragedy of the morning was still fresh in their minds; the two pistol shots were still tingling in their ears and this vision of Lockley's death followed them, as Banquo's ghost; yet the wonderful nerve of the two men broke down every barrier and, in mad desire to vindicate wounded honor, the tragedy of only a few hours before was completely forgotten. Promptly at three o'clock S-and Swift were face to face, six paces apart, quietly awaiting the com? mand "fire." As soon as this was given report rang out in the stillness. Sr.'iit bounced forward on his toes, reeled and fell forward on his face, his pistol invol? untarily discharging without damage. Next day the two dead men were buried with all the pomp worthy of their stand? ing. S? returned to Columbus, where he remained until 1853 when he moved to this city, where he has since resided. Alabama, at the time, was inhabited by Indians; the duel was fought there, so the .Georgia authorities were, powerless to prosecute the duelists. Mr. S-is very reluctant to speak about the affair, aud in talking to your correspondent on that subject yesterday evening said: " Yes, I've lived in this world for eighty-six years now and have always tried to mind my own affairs, but when a man runs against my persou or enters the sanctity of my home, it arouses the lion in me." Columbus furnished the material for two other duels during the same year. They were Kemp Woolfork, in which Woolfork was killed, and Lamar Woodson, in which Woodson was killed. All occurred just over the State line in Alabama.?Atlanta Constitution, ? Pay for your paper. VOLUM Four lives Saved. Editor National Tribune: On the night of May 24,1865, at the foot of the Saluda Mountains, in South Carolina, 25 miles from Greenvilk?, our pickets captured four Confederate soldiers. A short time previous to this a number of our sick and wounded soldiers had been sent back toKnoxville, Tenn., overland, and in passing through this same section of country they were mistreated by Confed? erate bushwhackers, besides being robbed of clothing, blankets, provisions, etc., which caused groat Buffering among them. This information was given to our brig? ade commander by come Union people in the neighborhood, which bo enraged him that he ordered me to have the four Confederates shot the next morning after their capture, as soon as the brigade had moved out of camp (Co. G, 13th Tenn. Cav. being rear guard). The Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon were requested to be present at the shooting. The compa? ny was dismounted and drawn up in line some 20 feet in front of the prisoners, the prisoners being placed in line also. They were informed of the order and"j given 10 minutes in which to prepare to meet their God. I had passed through many battles and trials, but this was the most trying ordeal of my life. The utter despair depicted on their counten? ances, while great rivera of perspiration ran down over their pallid faces, makes me shudder yet when I think of how near four innopent men were to being murdered by the command "fire" given from my lips. When all but two of the 10 minutes had expired, I noticed one of the Confederates make a sign. I did dot know the meaning of it then, but the Surgeon did, and he approached the soldier giving it. After a few hurried words, the Surgeon appealed to me not to shoot them, as it would be cold-blood? ed murder, for they had not participated in the mistreatment of our sick and wounded; that they bad been in the regular Confederate service all the time and had just returned to their homes; that some of Wheeler's cavalry had utolen their horses, and that they were in pur? suit of them when captured. They could establish these facts by their Union neighbors. I gave them the opportunity, and they made satisfactory proof. I disobeyed ordera, turned them over to the brigade commander at noon with a full statement of what, had occurred, and he discharged them. They were happy, but I cannot believe that they were more so than I was. A Masonic sign saved their lives, and, no doubt, saved me from great remorse. If those four ex-Confed? erates, or any of them, are liying, I would be very happy indeed to hear from them. At the time of this occur? rence wo were on the Stoneman raid, having started from Knoxville, Tenn., and were in the heart of the Confedera? cy about 75 days, seeing no other Federal soldiers during the entire time.?Isaac A. Taylob, Captain Co. B., lZlh Tenn. Cav. and A. A, A. G., Hartford, Kan. Four Mormon Elders Whipped. BiBiiiSGHAM, Ala., August 25.? News reached this city to-night of the whipping of four Mormon elders by White Caps in Marion County on Friday night. The scene of the whipping is about eight miles West of this city. Three Mormon elders, whose names are Taylor, Engel and Laired, have been proselyting in that County for several months. They have made a number of converts, mostly women, and had grown very bold in their work. Some time ago they made converts of two young married women, who left their husbands to fol? low the elders and aid them in their work. On Thursday night a band of twenty men, disguised by white masks, called at the house where the elders and the two women were stopping and left the following written notice, directed to all Mormon elders in Marion County: If you are in the County to-morrow night you will be in hell next day. White Caps. The elders decided to remain, and their converts in the neighborhood agreed to protect them. On Friday night a band of 100 men, all wearing white caps, took the three elders into the woods and suspended them to a limb by their thumbs. They then gave each one fifty lashes with heavy switches, and warned them to leave the County at once under penal? ty of death. Elder Taylor fainted from the effects of the punishment, and was almost dead when released. The two women were warned that unless they returned to their husbands at once they would be dealt with in a similar manner. The better class of citizens in the County denounce the whipping as an outrage. They have no sympathy with MormonB, but believe in upholding tbe law and oppose violence. A Bold {Scientist, Somewhere out iu Texas there is a certain Prof. Tracy, who has just come to the front with a theory which he thinks will revolutionize the world. The Professor believes that through the agency of electricity he will be able to produce rain at will even in thedryest deserts. He says that all rain clouds are generated by electrical forces and that by discharging electrical currents through tbe air by suitable appliances, producing detonations similar to thunder, he will be able to precipitate the latent moisture in the form of rain. The scheme sounds like a crazy one, hut a few years ago almost any prediction of some of the now accomplished facts of electricity would have been regarded as equally crazy. Still, very few will be prepared ^o believe that any human device can control the weather, and it is safe to say that che Texas Professor will be disappointed. However, the matter is interesting as aerving to show the increasing popular interest in electricity, and the general disposition on the part of even scientific men to believe in the almost unbounded potentialities of this mysterious force. ? Young men Bhould beware of rash entanglements this year. Owing to the failure of the beet root crop in Europe, and the sugar trust, the price of bonbons is going tip so that it will cost a fortune to keep one's best girl in candy, saying nothing of all the rest. E XXIV.?NO. 9. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? The crops in Georgia is said to be the best in the memory of man. ? Forest fires in Washington Territory have destroyed many feet of valuable tim? ber. ? President Harrison Bays he has not yet determined to call an extra session of Congress. ? Authority is like dried apples. A few cents' worth will puff a small man up astonishingly. ? The "Whisky Trust" proposes to ; limit next year's whisky production to.'."^V 11,000,000 gallons. ? The lima bean crop of Ventura county, Cal., this year will amount to 8,000 tons, worth $400,000. ? More buildings have been struck by lightning in Northern New York during the first half of 1889 than in any previous" year. ? Senator J. P. Jones, of Nevada, and D. 0. Mills, of New York, own gold mines in Alaska, which are said to yield - $1,800 a day. ? Statistics just published show that there are twenty-two hundred and seven-r . ty-two soldiers six feet or over in height ~ in the British army. ? John K. Davis, of Cleveland, O., has the smallest hand of any man in the country. He wears gloves which would be too small for a girl of 10. ? The 102 additional clerks granted to the New York poatoffice by Postmas? ter General Wanamaker will increase the force of that office to 1,297 employ- " ees. ? The National Bank Note company: in New York has made the government postage stamps since 1861. We use yearly in the United States 2,000,000,000 8 tamps. ? A watermelon farm, at Adams' Park, Ga., which consists of 800 acreB and produces 400 car loads of melons, la y^' said to be the largest watermelon patch . in the world. ? It is said that fifty thousand crates, nearly 20,000 bushels, of peaches, have^ been shipped from Eidge Spring, Edge field county, this season, and still they . continue Unship. ? The Florida orange crop for the coming year is estimated at about 2,000; 000 boxes, and the quality of the fruit ia ,';v good. The first of the crop will commence to come to market about the 1st of Octo? ber. ? The full magnitude of the calamity at Johnston has been carefully calculated, r The losses in Pennsylvania alone from the floods of May 40 to Jan 1 amounted to $30,000,000 and 6,500 lives.?Philadelphia Press. ? In Belgium a person arrested for . drunkenness is compelled to sweep the public streets for two hours after he-gets % sober. What spotless thoroughfares America might present by adopting this plan! ? A company of ten ladies and gen? tlemen met accidentally in a house in West Chester, Pa., a week ago, and their names were two Josephs, two Annies, ' two Marys, two Nellies and. two - Jameses. ? Many persons have a horror of being buried in the ground. Cremation . ?' is still more awful. A new method has been proposed. It is to dry the bodies in hot air chambers?t ? cure the corpses like bacon. ? We read about a million bushels of wheat, but few people realize what a vast amount it is. But if a million bash- i els of wheat were loaded on freight cars, it would fill a train fifteen miles long. If-*?* transported by wagons, the line of teams would be 141 miles long. A -T- At a cafe a group of gentlemen were;.- , discussing politics when a young student '. entered and joined in the conversation. Hia argument did not please the others, one of whom said to him, "Be quiet. At your age I was an ass myself 1" "You are wonderfully well preserved, eir," was the reply. "~ - ? Three sisters (all under 18 years of.. age,) in Missouri, weigh together 893 pounds. Lydia, 13 years old, is the heaviest, tipping the beam at 373 pounds. Two of the trio have six fingers on each hand, and the same number of toes on each foot. The parents are of ordinary size. ? A Brooklyn girl committed suicide by hanging herself by her corset strings. The only thing unusual about this is that she put the strings around her neck. Lots of girls are committing suicide every day, by the same means with one difference?the strings are around their : waists. ?There is a lady in Milwaukee who is the mother of nine children. None of them were named until they were twelve ? years old. They were simply called by their nicknames and their numbers, "One," "Two," etc. When they were 12 years old each one chose bis own name, and was baptized. ? The County of Custer, in Montana, is the largest county in the United States. It contains 13,569,920 acres and is 150 miles long and 125 miles wide. It is a.. place of historic interest, containing, as it does, the site of the great battle of the Little Big Horn, where Cus ter and his forces were massacred. ? About one month ago a young man> named Joe Harpster, of St. Louis, was^ struck on the back of the head with a pair of brass knuckles by a footpad^ knocking him senseless, and for more than a month he lay unconscious. XA few days ago he suddenly recovered his . senses, but when he did he was able to - converse intelligently only in the ! Germ an language. He was born of. American parents, who spoke German, and that was the language he first learn? ed. He gave that up, however, and ; learned English, using it at alL times, entirely forgetting his German. Now ; he can remember nothing of English. Scientists are wrestling with the prob- ? lern. 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