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BY CIINKSCALI ? 'V ?*""?mmmmm~Tmmmmmmlmt""""" For Angrustj, ! S optomber an dl, . J j Buy Now anil Pay when Cotton is Sohl. J .SPOT CASH PIECES, andgust a little j 033h down to bLc d-'tbe bargain; .Only a j little. See ? *7 ? : r ' - ? ? ' ] PIANOS, Cash and balance December 1, '39. 3p 4>BGANS, $10 Casb and balance December 1, ?09.- .*. We^aifc'ybur ofder and will do our best j fori$ou;-^Write or call on x x^haynje &-datjghtjeb, \ S8Weitfield Street, ,'p>r .?'ir> - v ; v ? GEEENVniLK, S-0.. *. Aug 1,1880^' 24: ?"' '? ft ; Preserving Powder " AND ' liquid! ?o jj have sold this valuable Prepara? tion for several years, and take great pleas .-? ure in offering it again this, season. The fruit crop iavingibeen.-ahort for several r- Vf years, we advise ovx, friends to take advan? tage of the abundant crop in prospect this ~ ~- 'seasons and ? ?provide for . what may be a ^ iBhort crop next. ;:v .:v .' With One Dollar^ worth of the Prepa? ration, and a great deal' less trouble than x , -the old-fa3hioned way of canning, yon can t : %8ave;-enough to diy a large family the l^whole Wintor, andf yon iCan. open and use /y- nut of the jnr from time.1tOjtime^w^.thout ^Jnjury. : f..~ " Of course it suits some people to run this Preparation-down,- becaus 3 it inter? feres with, their, business,-but ask TrD-: Sloan, of this c4ty,.;and.a .thomand others throughout the County who-have tried it wiith-:8iux^:^d>xoa--w1Ufi^-80?n'se8' thareisnohuhrbugaboutitj, -. TOQR PAINTS, ;v.'/; 'v'^jj, i/r--, j-..'-. :; ?-. ' ?' \ - ? ' Six Colors, :," g -;\ -?-' ?? ? ? -?? Makes a very Hard Finish, ' And Dries Hard overnight. . -~Jl z' ' "? '? V- '?? ? ' IT .IS JWBT TEE TiPLNft - :^^^'^isb, all other kinds of PAINTS JlHDOHS, -AT - ?ff ? " m SIMPS0Sf, REED & GO'S. jjv-v . Vat?-. ;?'_Vi .* ; . ? i;v---. - --V.V<;:: POR SALE OR RENT ?-' " : -V ?i'<^OREMlSES at Honea Path, 8. C, Ibr ^.r'.fJT . merly belongbg to Mrs. W. G. ' Smith. Two and a half acres of land, ?^wito-'bufldirigs toereoin.fr Applyto. /.A.vGBEI6'dr^iXHEWS, , Charleston, 8. C. ApfUlS,1880 "41 6m JUST RECEIVED," t A fine lot of CMldren's Carriages, ... With Steel Wheels. ALSO, ? * . A Lot of Refrigerators, "^^THICH will be sold at low prices at . ? r^y* . y m TOIiKTTS .BU?*iITURE STORE! GE?. S; flMIGE, Esq., ATTORN AT LAW, ANDERSON, - ?. C. COPPICE removed .io.the new building of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, North sido of Public Square. APg 22.1889 T_3m_ PATRICK MILITARY INSTITUTE, - ANDERSON, S..C. NEXT Session opens September lltb. .For particulars apply to CAFT. JOHN B. PATRICK. ? ' Principal. Aug 8,1889_5_6 5-Ton Cotton Gin Scales, $60 ;r";.'. beam box Brass Tare beam. Warranted for 8 Tears Preiset Paid. "JONES HE PAYS THE FREISHT," For Tree Price lAst, Address 70BS8 of BIHGHA?TON, B in gh ?.mton, N. 7, A. G. STRICKLAND, VVriTR?US OXIDE given at all times J-^/,; for the Painless Extraction of Teeth, Office- on comer of Granite Row over Bleckley Mercantile Co. Nov i?, 1888 19 S:& l?NGSTON. ? All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S..p. .,. ' _ ... Prof. Breaseale reports to ns that the Bel ton. School ha3 opened with flattering proapejctBjV haying: Enrolled fifty-two pnpilB the first day, and many others expected.- All'honor to Belton for the public spirit manifested j by her citizens' in going down into their pockets to main? tain two such teachers as Kemp and ' Breazeale.: , ? ' r j . We.had,a pleasant call last week from ! Misa Emma Allgood, who has bad charge i of the TKreerand Twenty school rthe past j year. Miss Emma has.decided to leave j the school room, for ;a year and enter Dr. j Laager's College, at Williamaton. This I is commendable in her, and we hope to ! see her again-in thejschool room doing good, work as she has done in the past. .Three of the city schools have.opened with flattering I prospects, i Miss Janie Erirrson, Mrs. Murray and Miss Lenora I Hubbard, each began on the 2nd inat. Wiith a fine array of boys and girls ready for business. We have not heard the Sg^t'rea in the first two; but Miss Hub-; bard began with eighty-seven oh the roll, and a prospect of more to come. - This is much the largest opening this school has ever hadj and augurs'well for its future 0QCC3SS and prosperity, and is an indica? tion of the estimate pnt upon this school by the citizens of the city. We have on file in this office a num? ber of applications for positions from some of our most experienced teachers, and communities looking oat for teachers' would do well to call. And now is the best time to select and engage a teacher, for the - reason that good teachers are sought after and generally make engage? ments early for. the .coming - term, and those who wait to engage their, teachers 0***1 time for the public schools to. open, almost always'bavc to take such as they can get. So begin to look after the mat? ter now, and f don't .wait until .the last moment and then if you fail to get a good teacher 'don't go to abusjng the. publicschoolsyitem. ;: :' L'"% Where is the teacher who does not feel day by. day": his . need of special fitness, of special preparation for his. work ? If such are 'to be found ; they be'.or.g to the self-satisfied class of teach? ers .with wbom all progress and improve? ment ended' when they entered the raoks of the profesaloL'. Teachers of this class, if not objects of contempt, certainly are of pity, fcr there are heights and depths in the work of the teacher which have never been reached. or'sounded, and the true . teacher is always reaching after something better, his aim is always just a lift tie above him,, his ; good is always just i little ahead of him. Do'not be satisfied when you have reached and joi-ed a point, but make that the foun? dation upon which to build for something higher and better. A teacher's work, like a woman's work, is never done, but reaches from sun to "sun, and he must, of necessity, be the most laborious worker in .all that busy hive, both in and out of the school room. He must be a constant learner himself, and must put himself in the .way of learning, ignoring nothiog which promises to give him. a better equipment for hiswork. It is s. pleasure these *breezy Septem? ber mornings to meet with and look into the bright, young faces of gronps of children troopug to school. Their merry laughter and happy faces give us an inspiration , for the work, of the day -that nothing else gives so well/and car* .ries the memory back to scenes of other days; when. we, too, romped along-the street to-school when John S. Presley wielded the rod over at the Academy, and when - the first exercise of the day after prayers was to call np four or five unruly chaps and balance accounts with them. How we dreaded to. go to school then ' All the joy and light of life was gone as soon as we entered those sacred prechr-cts, and everything, even the teacher, wore a funeral aspect. And how vre rejoiced when the time for dis? missal: came and all daDger of a whip? ping was over for the day. And yet men who taught school in that way were called successful (?) teachers. How differ? ent it all is now, and a difference that is an improvement, and real, genuine pro? gress xa the right direction. That boys will need to be whipped sometimes at school wjll be true until there is a rever? sal of the truth contained in the old nursery rhyme that "in Adam's fall, we sinned all," but that there should be an indiscriminate use of the rod for every trivia;: offence, even a trifling failure in a recitation, we do not and never did believe. So we say God bless and speed the schools of the present day and make them more and more useful/ ? A Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia liecoid says: "Harrison is a candidate for a second term, and he expects at least to be renominated. The members of his Cabinet all understand this, and so does everyone else at all well informed about what is going on. No member of Harrison's Cabinet, not even Blaine, to say nothing of Windom, will oppose himself to Harrison as a candidate for the nomination. In every State Harrison has picked one of the men like Chandk- in New Hampshire, Quay in Pennsylvania, Mahone in Virginia, and Platt in New York, who seemed to be the strongest and shrewdest politicians, and turned over to them the patronage of their respective States, regardless of their previous attitude to him, because assured of their f uture support. He has selected as bosses of patronage the men whom he considers most likely to control their State delegations at the next National Convention. This explains the exceed? ing energy and activity displayed by Federal office holders in the Iowa, Pennsylvania and Virginia Republican conventions. If Harrison is not renomi? nated it will not be for lack of effort on the part of office holders and would be officeholders, who at the dictation of the Dosses, are already 'endorsing' Harrison's administration, although its only achieve? ments so far (except Corporal's Tanners') are confined to the distribution of the spoils.-' BILL ARP Talks Awhile about tbe Question ol Trusts. Atlanta Constitution. "For heaven's sake don't let us make any such blunder. It will be as much ot a trust as you will find anywhere." i That is what a delegate said when the Alliance fixed the price of cotton at twelve and a half cents a pound. But he was alone. Nobody backed him ; nobody said'amen. . j E very man is for himself and the devil take the hindmost. Human nature is the same everywhere, and some kind of trusts will be formed by every trade and profes? sion, if it can be done. A trust is gener? ally the reaction of hard competition. It is business going from one extreme to the other. I remember traveling on a splendid steamboat from New York to Albany, and we were carried for nothing, and had a fine dinner thrown in. An Irishman remarked, "And faith we can thravel chaper than we can shtay at home, and we can do it in less time." I came back in a few days, and had to pay more than full fare, for the competition lines had formed a trust, aud they soon made up what they had lost. When I was a merchant I had a competitor who was smart and not overscrupulous, and he ran me pretty hard and we cut prices low down and made/no money for several months ; but in course of time we met in New York at the hotel and made friends, and bought our goods together, and form ed a trust and marked up our goods and stucL to it, and we gave cur customers "hail Colombia" and made money cud recovered what we had lost. ! The lawyers have a fee bill?a trust ?and so have the doctors. The lawyer charges bo much for losing your case and so much for gaining it. The doctor won't even graduate his fees, but gets the same whether he kills or cures. Old Dr. Let sem wrote an epigram about himself that illustrates? "When folks are ill they come to I. I physics, bleeds and sweats 'em. Sometimes they live?sometimes they die. What's that to me?L Letsem. The masous, carpenters, molders, prin? ters and nearly all the tradesmen have trusts. They have their rates and rules, and if a fellow don't join and conform they call him a scab. ? "Rowland," said I, "are you going to hold your cotton for twelve and a half Cents a pound?" .'.'What for?'? said he. "Why, I see that the Alliance has passed snch a resolution," said I. "Well, I don't know anything about it," said he, "and I don't care. My note is out for guano and supplies, and I'm gwine to sell my cotton in time to. meet my notes. That's what I promised to do, and I'm gwine to do it." "Rowland," sau I, "you are a scab." Most every profession has got some sort of a trust or combination to prevent ruinous competition. I reckon the preachers would have one if their preach? ing was uniform?more of a whatness? but it is so variegated they can't price it, and so the poor fellows have to take what they can get. The railroads competed and cut rates for a long time and made no money, and so they made a pool and got along bette'r, but have never'made any money to speak of. The construction company that builds one makes some money, and so do the manipulators of tbe bonds, and the receiver and the lawyers, who threw the concern into chancery. The roads don't earn any clear money. The orators of the Alliance abused and denounced them awfully at Macon and Montgomery. They made it a hobby?a hobby like jute, but they ought to give the devil his own property. Here is an iron property of 160 acres that is within sight of the East and West railroad, and the owner has been offered twenty thousand dollars for it, while a better property, a mile away, wouldent bring a thousand. The rail road has added nineteen thousand dollars to the value of that mine and gets no credit . for it and is in the hands of a receiver right now?and bo is the Borne and De catur and so have been the Alabama Great Southern and the East Tennessee and the Memphis and Charleston and ever sc many more. Everybody wants a railroad to come right by their door and just as soon as it comes they begin to abuse it. Between the legislature and the railroad commission and the people they hwe a hard time and it seema to me that there is no inducement or temptation to build a railroad except the love of power and dominion?the same love that made us buy niggers in Blavery days. The niggers never made us a cent, but we did love to own them. I did, and I havent repented of it yet. But let us hope that the Alliance will work a world of good, and it will do good if it keeps out of politics. The leaders have been riding the jute horse with whip aud spur and the great issue in Georgia is who killed him. I reckon he is dead. They say he is, though I read about some big farmers who are scabs and won't fall into line. I believe that the people would rejoice to have a good old-fashioned, sensible farmer for Governor?a kind of Cincin natus who would be modest enough to stand back and wait till the farmers called him?but tbe candidates are coming out before they were called, and have announced themselves and got to quarreling prematurely and with malice aforethought. If there is any good to the farmers in all this, I can't see it. A few will get office, but the masses will be in Berry Houck's fix, who, when he saw the slate and all the names who were to have all tbe county offices, and was urged to give his support to the ticket, said : "Well, I think it is a right good ticket, and they are all very clever men, but what are you going to do for Berry Houck ?" Every aspiring man must have a hobby horse to ride on, but to my opin? ion, the best horse to ride right now, and hereafter is a common school system that will be in reach of all the children of the State, and that will give employment to hundreds of trained female teachers. Let the State provide the teachers by es? tablishing a normal school for females, and let the counties educate their own children by a tare of taxation that will give them at least six months schooling DERSON, S. C, THI in the year. Thia legislature should begin the good work and do it in a hurry. When we put education in reach of the farmers' children you will stop the farmers from movirjg to town and give agriculture an impetus that it haB never known. Bill Arp. How to Deal With the Negro. The editors, correspondents, and scrib blera generally are : telling what to do' with the negro. The man who wishes to' parade his name before the public mounts the negro as a convenient hobby. These doctors are worse than Salvation oil men or any of the patent medicine venders, Their excessive wisdom is overpowering. What they do not know about the negro, his destiny and influence on our civiliza? tion is not. worth knowing. The wisest" men in their own conceit are those who settle the negro question, in magazines and newspapers. Meantime the negro, blissfully ignorant of all these doctors prescribe for him, is making a little pro? gress in the South. Their political as? perities are smoothed down somewhat. They are making a little progress in edu? cation. It is very slow, but they are go? ing forward. As tenants and laborers they are improving and certainly keeping pace with the landlords and employers. What the negro wants is. to be let alone so far as managing bis future destiny is concerned. He is after the present and there is where he needs help and encour? agement. The first thing to do is to make fair and plain contracts for the next year. Let there be no latent tricks and dishonesty with the negro. You must not only deal fairly with him, but he must feel and understand that you are honest. Get hi? confidence in your fair? ness and honesty, then you can get the best work possible and the least stealing out of him. The negro lumps white men together. When one defrauds him out of his pittance of wages he thinks he must get even by shirking work or stealing a little. Honest and industrious landlords and employers :make honest and indus? trious laborers. When one finds a white man riding a raw boned old horse, or driving an old rattling buggy, with harneBS as dry as a powder horn, and hears him cussing ncgroea because they are trifling and idle, you may set it down that the negroes do a little more work than the white man and are getting on about a? well in the world. The next thing is to settle this year's accounts fair? ly with the negro. Even if he is going to leave you and go to your neighber pay him the last cent you owe him. Then set him a good example in your home. Build good barns, stables and shelters. Take good care of tools, protecting them from the weather. Give good attention to your stock. Use the whitewash and paint brushes. Adorn your houses so as to make them attractive. Treat your wife and children as' if they were a part of your family. You will be surprised to see how your colored tenant will Boon begin to imitate you. They will begin to Bave and economize. They will protect their mule and milch cow from the win? ter winds and rains. Above all keep so? ber. When a white man sells his cotton and rides up home about 9 o'clock or next day, perhaps, fool drunk, the negro thinks he must imitate the "boss" the next time he goes to .town. Because a white man can make a fool of himself by getting drunk and spending the proceeds of his cotton crop for whiskey, the negro thinks he can do the same and live on credit the next year. The negro does not need your help as to his future destiny. He wantB fair dealing, an opportunity for constant work and a good example to-day. Let him have these and the negro will not give much trouble during the next twelve months.?Spartanburg Spartan. General Lee's Greatest Mistake. I can not, however, pass on to the Gettysburg campaign without caHing at? tention to Lee's mistake in allowing the Federals to escape across the Rappahan nock after the battle of Fredericksburg. To command in war for many campaigns and make no mistakes is impossible. General Lee, great in strategy and able in tactics, is no exception to the wisdom of this saying. Military history can only be made of use to the student of war by a close criticism of every operation, and the critic, no matter how humble, should not shrink from pointing out what he conceives to he the errors and mistakes made by even the most renowned com? manders. General Lee made some mis? takes in his most brilliant career, but the greatest was after the battle of Freder icksburg.' The more closely his conduct then is studied, the more inexplicable it appears. The reasons he gives in his published despatches for having failed either to push the Federal army into the river or to compel its surrender are most unsatisfactory, most insufficient. When the last Federal attack was repulsed on that eventful 13th December, Burnside's army was at Lee's mercy. It is, however, easy to be wise after the event, and to point out what might or ought to have been done. It has always seemed to me that, if Burnside's army had been destroy? ed, as it ought to have been, after its crushing repulse at Fredericksburg, the struggle between North and South would have assumed an entirely different aspect and subsequent events would not have been as they were. During the course of this long war some great opportunities were lost by the Confederacy for the delivery of a death blow to the Northern armies. But upon no other occasion was the opportunity, so apparent, or the re? sults that would bave attended success so evident as at Fredericksburg. That battle wa9 a brilliant euccess. Lee ought to have made it a crushing, if not a final victory .-Lord Wolstley in North American Review. ? "Meu drink from habit, says Dr. McCoBh. "If I could get twenty liquor drinkers to stop and turn to buttermilk or ginger ale for a month they would form a new habit. Not one whisky drinker in fifty likes the taate of the stuff." ? Reports to the Illinois State hoard of agriculture show that the aggregate yield of wheat in the State for the year will be about 34,^00,000 bushels, an in? creased yield per acre of unusually fine berry. JKSDAY MOENING. Cotton Bagging and tho Farmers, From the Augusta Chronicle. Editoes Chbonicle: Neither you nor the writer has the least antipathy to farmers, on the contrary we are anx? ious to have them prosper and improve in every social and bu?iuess interest. "Ill farea the land" when farmers cease to thrive, because they are the basis or groundwork of national prosperity. But it will not do to confound farmers as a unit with the mistakes of the Farmers' Alliance, because many farmers are anx iouB to have different measures advocated and different movements carried put. For instance, a county in my knowledge elected a one-horse lawyer to be its presi? dent of the County Alliance, and his election was carried by a large majority in a large membership. The lawyer who was acquainted with the ropes, pulled in spite of the regulation of the order which forbade his entrance, much less his prom? inence, because he was ineligible as a member of the legal profession. The Farmers' Alliance, lately assem? bled in Macon, was pulled about in the same way. The resolve to be indepen? dent of all bagging trusts was good enough, if the people can be supplied with other bagging in good time and order, to bale and sell the present crop; but suppose the supply will not equal the demand, what then ? The leaders of the Farmers Alliance say "let it rot in the field I" The Liverpool market is willing to buy Our cotton, but the leaders of the Alliance say, "you must pay 12* cents per pound or you shan't have a pound." (Compare this threat with the men who said it.) It would be equally wi?e to say to the Atlanta or Augusta markets: "You can't have any corn at less than a dol? lar a bushel, or oats at the same price. We have issued 'decrees in council' and sworn our men to carry out this busi? ness." Napoleon's war with England caused similar decrees in council to be passed, and if England had not been relieved by the advance of other nations to her relief, the people of that country would have been hopelessly bankrupt, where only suffering and poverty prevailed for some years over all the manufacturing districts of the British empire. The cotton growing States have no promi?e or hope of support anywhere outside of their limits. We must stand alone or fall to the ground. I listened to a similar resolve in the sixties. Your senior editor, Mr. Walsh, heard the cry of "King Cotton," and he can tell you all about it. We were told that Eng? land's dependence on our cotton, would secure the independence of the Confed? eracy?that she must have it, and would do everything to support the cotton grow? ing region. It is needless to go over the facts, because we all know that Eng? land wonld have seen the last man, woman and child exterminated before she would have entered into war with the Federal authorities. What did she do ? She turned her attention to the cultivation of cotton in her own domin? ions. We not only received no help, but crippled the future cotton trade of our own country. If India, Auatraia and' other British possessions had not raised cotton we might stand up and declare 12} cents per pound as a limit, and be sure of it, but the effect will be to strain every nerve and push every . acre that will make England independent of a country which takes spasms of indigna? tion every twenty-five yearB and throws cotton at Liverpool in the way of ammu? nition or blank cartridges. It is a natural result. Pennsylvania was, a few years ago, the autocrat of iron. Her coal fields and iron beds made her insolvent. As a result, the output in Southern States increased in an immense ratio, year by year, until iron manufac? ture in the South fairly rivals that of Pennsylvania, Commerce and trade, demand and supply govern the world. Where a thing becomes absolutely neces? sary, the price will be governed thereby ; and the cultivation of that product will be stimulated daily and hourly, to prevent interference or Iobb hereafter. Liverpool is quite as anxious to be independent of the South, as our far? mers are to be independent of bagging trusts, but is it good policy to run off a good customer, who has made the cotton crop of the South the means of lifting our people out of desolation and absolute ruin? I think not, and I shall not be surprised to hear that the cotton average of India and Australia is larger by half next year than this. I have heard of "cutting off your nose to spite your face," and this is a practical illustration. Suppose Liverpool makes 5 cents the' price? If I understand the resolutions of the Farmers' Alliance in Macon, it was "liberty or death !" Liberty to "rot the cotton in the fields" rather than use jute at 7 cents a yard to bale it in. Liberty to demand 12] cents per pound in cotton bagging if the world declines to pay 7 cents for the product. Liberty to shake ti fist at Liverpool if we fall back into bankruptcy. Liberty to elect a governor if the farmer estranges every merchant, railroad man and shipper io the United States! Suicide! Madness! ! That's a steep undertaking for a body of men who are in debt, with their lands mortgaged to Northern loan companies, and their present crop due to the people who have given credit and support to make it! A burnt child dreads the fire, and I saw just Buch bluster?just such madaess in the year 1SG1?and I saw a country ruined?strewn with ashes, and made to ran rivulets of human blood. That hullaballoo in Macon sounded like the session of the Georgia Legislature after South Carolina Beceded. If the affair does not prove a tragedy, it has all the elements of a farce! Liverpool never suicides in business. She Jleaves it to sillier people. What is the situation ? Merchants and bankers have furnished supplies and money to make the present crop. The farmers gave notes due in November and December to pay them. Their ability to pay is rather better this year than formerly. These people owe other people who are also expecting their money in the money centres of tho Union. The whole thing revolves upon the personal honor of the farmer. If his cotton rots in the field, or he refuses less , SEPTEMBER 12, 18 than 121 cents per pound, or he fails to use jute, when he can't reach cotton bagging?his note goes to protest, and the cards begin to topple and panic ensues, with its unfailing result of ruin to the weaker, and increased profit to the stronger. Unless the Alliance is prepared to si in, and advance money to meet these notes, the farmers had best take care of their own character for honesty, and remember the politicians afterward. If it was a season of drouth or disaster, which sometimes comes to the best and truest, then allowances might be reasona? bly made and credit extended, but to fly in the face of good crops and shake a fist at Liverpool which will be a hind ward kick at your own creditors, is a risky business for men who expect to do business next year. It is the old fable verified of the iron and earthen vessel afloat in the current. Farmers are not able to shake a fist or kick anywhere until they are absolutely free from debt or promises to pay. They are not able to "rot cotton" in the fields, nor are they able to say their cotton shall bring a cer? tain price; because that cotton belongs to other people who are not so anxious for "liberty" or "death" as to bankrupt themselves and their creditors. Mark the prediction 1 There will be more slipping and sliding, more assumed ownership of jute covered cotton in the seed, to be covered with cheap jute, which means an additional gain of a dollar per bale in weight; more dark lantern proceedings, and more knavery than the world ever Baw! For illustration: A certain Alliance man, who rose to he president of his county Alliance, made the welkin ring lastfall with denunciation of "jute thieves." He raved and he stormed ! He thought people who Bold jute to customers were equal in turpitude to those who bought jute. He was a Bimon pure patriot! I was curious to know how his own, or his wife's, cotton reached the market. I was told his ginner bought the jute, baled it, and it was sold without loss to the owner. Meanwhile the Alliance spouter traversed the platform at the depot, claiming su? perior virtue and patriotism. So wags the world 1 ? I am a farmer?all I expect to be, to have or to dois bassed on farm profits and success; hut that man doesen't live that could extract a secret oath from me to defeat my honest creditors, No well informed man will be hindered in his progress by a lot of dead beat politicians, who have tried to get recognition in every other channel and failed. The farmers are honest and innocent. These hard, weather-beaten tricksters, of the irresponsible variety, are in no danger. They are at the bottom, and "on the make." Look out farmers 1 Look where your money goes 1 See what^an abyss of disaster is ahead of you 1 Beware of "wolves in sheeps' clothing 1" Farmer. How Blood Circulates. The blood vessels of a vertebrate animal are fitly comparable to the railway syBtem of a great empire, by which towns and villages are brought into direct and easy communication with one auother and the frontiers of the country. In the human body justsuch high roads aud branch lines are provided by the arteries and veins; and the article,! of commerce and necessi? ties of life are represented by the vitalizing blood. The chief artery, as it leaves the great terminus, the heart, is called the aorto, and from this trunk main smaller arteries proceed direct to every part of the body. Arriving at their destination, they each divide and subdivide, and be? come smaller and smaller, until they all but lose their separate character in a vast number of* innnitessimally small tubes called the capillaries. These microscopi? cal ramifications are, however, each per? fectly intact, with this exception, that their walls are of a porous nature, and readily permit of an exchange of fluids through them. Along this extensive railroad the blood- ? propelled by the rhyth? mical beating of the heart?is constantly coursing. Arriving in the minute capil? laries, it saturates through their walls, and carries vitality and nourishment into every tissue and muscle. It receives back, in exchange, all the waste products of the body; and these are afterwards elimated from it by the curious filtering action of the kidneys. But the current of blood does not lose itself in this vastmaze of capillaries. After extensive ramifica tons and many subdivisions, these micro? scopical tabes get once more larger and larger and gradually widen out into the veins. The lesser veins merge into the larger, and these finally all run into one : or two trunk veins. Through them the blood goes by way o f one chamber of the 1 heart to the lungs, where it is aerated by the inspired air, and where it yields up its carbonic acid gas in exchange for oxy? gen. Thus purified, it proceeds again di? rect to the left side of the heart, to be once more propelled on its wonderful I circular tour, aiwayji proceeding by way I of tbe arteries, through the capillaries, to the veins, and back through the lungs to I tbe heart. ? Mr. James Baughman, a resident of the lower part of Lexington County, was bitten by a rattlesnake a week ago yester? day. He killed the rattler, which was found to be four feet long and to have five rattles and a button. Mr. Baughman at once took a dose of alum and spirits of turpentine internally and repeated the same at intervals. Beyond a slight swell? ing of the leg where he was bittenJ he has suffered no inconvenience and believes that bis remedy baa cured him completely from the effects of the reptile's poison. Yesterday morning Miss Melissa Daniels, a daughter of Mr. Emanuel Daniels, who lives near Hampton's mill pond, was bad? ly bitten by a moccasin as she was at tbe spring dipping up water. ? The will of William Shaw, the Pittsburg railroad king, has been admit? ted to Probate. The bulk of hia proporty will go to his wife and i.hildren. To va? rious churches and hospitals, he left leg? acies amounting to over ?350,000. The children's share will amount to $13,000, 000. ? Sumter County has a citizen 00 years old, whose heir and beard a year ago were snow white, but are now turning black I I (89. Hie Southern Political. Situation. The last number of Harper's Weekly, under the head of "A Great Question," reviews the situation of the white citi? zens in their relation to the negro vote. The article, which is in the style of Mr. George William Curtis, and was proba? bly written by him, recognizes tho strength of the Dlea set up by the South? ern whites in defense of their action, while deploring the violation of the law, which contemplates everywhere an equality of the suffrage, and especially forbids the suppression of a vote on ac? count of race or color. Mr. Curtis recognizes that the political situation is an anomalous one, and that it is exceed? ingly difficult to find a remedy for it. "It is a fact of the highest significance," he says, "that the great multitude of the most intelligent and substantial citizens of the Southern States, the leaders of their education, industry and prosperity, who are neither Jacobites nor Bourbons, who rejoice that slavery is at an end and who cherishlno aims or desires apart from the Union and the national welfare, are firmly persuaded that the political equality of the races, the unrestricted exercise of the rights of equal citizenship, is impossible in those States." As show? ing the cause of this feeling, Mr. Curtis cites the condition of a County in North Carolins, one of the quietest of the South? ern States, where the colored population is about one-tbird of the whole. "Just after the war," he sayu, (when many of the white people were disfranchised and the carpet-baggers were in the ascen? dancy, and consequently during the negro dominance,) "the County commis? sion was composed of a negro chairman and three negro members who could not write their names and one white man. They levied high taxes, and the financial situation was such that when they were driven from power the County paper was hardly worth ten cents on the dollar, and the colored Sheriff, one of 'the ring,' absconded with nearly thirty thousand dollars. There was universal and com? plete misgovernment. But under 'white rule' the County has paid the debt, the taxes are low and schoolhouses are open everywhere for black and white. There is general content and prosperity, except that the negroes are represented as even more ignorant and superstitious than when emancipated. There is, however, no ill feeling toward them upon the part of the whites^ and no disposition what? ever to re-enslave them. But the new generation, which never held slaves and is perfectly loyal to the Union, is deter? mined to prevent what it considers the lapse of their community in barbarism under negro ascendancy." This deter? mination, as Mr. Curtis points out, "contemplates, if necessary, that destruc? tion of the right of the majority, the overthrow by the whites of suffrage, from which alone they derive their own right to vote, and whereby, they secure politi? cal advantages over those citizens in other States -who obey the law." To determine to do this, Mr. Curtis says, "is to contemplate an intolerable and impossible condition." He goes on to say : "If is, however, undeniable that the reasons for this course are of the most powerful kind. It has been demonstrated that any other course in many districts abandons them practi? cally to the control of those who are absolutely unfitted for civilized govern? ment. Apparently it must lead to their abandonment by the whites, and to their* total occupation by semi civilized negroes. Yet, again, the negroes are acquiring a certain degree of instruction which will reveal to them their rights and their superior force, while the habit of servility sprung from slavery is rapidly disappear? ing. And all the while the negroes are increasing in numbers more1 rapidly than the whites, while the instinct of social self-preservation naturally welds the whites together, aud what they hold to be the safety of society itself is with them necessarily the paramount public issue. This compels the intelligence of the Southern communities to oppose any party which, by favoring negro ascen? dancy, seems to them to threaten civili? zation among them. In this grave situation something more is necessary than to say that a free vote and a fair count will settle the question. Nobody has yet proposed to show either how, under the circumstances, a free vote and a fair count can be secured, or how they would settle the question. A free vote and a fair count might restore the North Carolina County of which wehavespokea to the condition from which it has escaped. Is that a result which the country de?ires, or which it would wish to employ the army to maintain?" What ought to be done under these circumstances, he confesses, he i uuable to say. He regards the question as ''one of the most serious, and certainly the most difficult, that confronts the American people." He is far from thinking that they are unequal to its wise settlement, but he warns them that its treatment should not be approached in a narrow and partisan spirit;. "It appeals;" he says, "to patriotism, not to party, like the question of slavery and the war.'.' ? The Philadelphia Record says: "The amount of water that has fallen in ! the State of Pennsylvania during the summer of 1889 is something prodigious. The statistics of the weather service have calculated that if gathered in one place the rainfall would form a lake 1,000 miles square and about 25 feet deep. During the three days when the Johns ! town flood was at its height, nearly 7,000,000,000 tons of water fell upon the mountain plateaus and declivities of northern Pennsylvania. The figures de? noting the rainfall in this section are al most equally Btaggering. Small wonder, indeed, the summer has been a drenched and comfortless season for the mass of people." ? Mrs. Deckle, of Quitman, Ga., aged about sixty-five years, who has been con? fined to her bed for nine years, is very ill with rheumatism, which has drawn her limbs up in a most shocking manner. One of her lower limbs was drawn to such an extent that as to break her thigh bone just above the knee. ? It is estimated that viators and ex? hibitors at the Paris Exposition will leave 1 $200,000,000 in Paris. VOLUMI "The Best Boy's Story IEver Heard." "We have had a good many boya with ua from time to time," said Mr. Alden, the senior member of a large hardware establishment in Market street Philadel? phia, "as apprentices, to learn the business. What may surprise you is that we never take country boys unless they live in the city with some relative who takes care of them and keeps them home at night; for when a country boy comes to the city to live, everything is new to him, and he is attracted by every show window and ua usual sight, The city boy who is accustomed to these things cares little for them, and if he has a good mother, he is at home and in bed in due season. And we are very partic? ular about our boys?and before accept? ing one as an apprentice, we mast* know that he comes of honest and' industrious parents. "But the best boy we ever had is now with us, and a member of the firm. He is the one man in the establishment that we couldn't do without. He was thirteen years old when he was apprenticed to us, and he was with us for eleven years, acting for several years as salesman. When he first came, we told him that for a long time his wages would be very small, but that if he proved to be a good boy, his salary would be increased at a certain rate every year: and, as it turned out, when according to agreement we should have been paying him five hundred dollars a year, we paid him nine hundred, and he never said a word himself about an increase of salary. From the very outset, he showed that he had an interest in tbe business. He was prompt in the morning, and if kept a little overtime at night, it never seemed to make any difference with him. He gradually came to know where everything was to be found, and if information was wanted, it was to this boy, Frank Jones, that every one applied. The entire establishment seemed to be mapped out in his head, and everything in it catalog? ued and numbered. His memory of faces was equally remarkable. He knew tbe name of every man who came to the store to buy goods, what he bought and where he came from. I used often to say to him, 'Jone?, your memory is worth more than a gold mine! How do you manage to remember ?' " 'I make it my business to remember,' he would say. 'I know that if I can remember a man and call him by name when he comes into tbe store, and ean ask him how things are going on where he lives, I will be very likely to keep him as a customer." "And that was the exact case. He took the same interest in their purchases as he took in the store, and would. go to no end of trouble to suit them, and to fulfill to the letter everything he promis? ed. "Well, affairs went on in this way, until he had been with us eleven years, when we concluded to take him into the firm as. a partner. We knew that he had no extravagant habits, that he neither used tobacco, nor beer, nor went to the theatre. He continued as at the begin? ning to board at home, and even when his salary was the very lowest he paid his mother two dollars a week for his board, He was always neatly dressed, and we thought it was very probable that he bad laid up one or two thousand dollars, as his salary for the last two years had been twelve hundred dollarc. So when we made him the offer to become a partner in the business, and suggested that it would be more satisfactory if he could put some money into the firm, he replied: "'If ten thousand dollars will be any object I can put in that much. I have saved out of my salary nine thousand four hundred dollars, and my sister will let me have six hundred.' "I can tell you that I never was more astonished in my life, than when that fellow said be could put in ten thousand dollars, and the most of it his own money. He had never spent a dollar, or twenty-five cents or five cents for an unnecessary thing, and he kept his money in bank where it gathered a small inter? est. I am a great believer in the Bible, you knev, and I always kept two placards iu b;g letters up in tbe store. On one was this text: 'He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much;' and on the other: 'Seesfc thcu a man diligent in his business? he shall' stand before kings; he- shall not stand' before mean men.' And Frank Jones' Bucces3 was the literal fulfillment of those two texts. He had been faithful iu the smallest things as in the greater ones and diligent in business. That kind of a boy always succeeds," concluded Mr. Alden. A small boy of ten, who had listened to the story with eager eyes, as well as ears, said: "But we don't have any kings in this country, Mr. Alden, for diligent boys to stand before!" "Yes, we do," laughed Mr. Alden. "We have more kings bere tban in any other country in the world. We have money kings, and business kings, and railroad kings, and land kings, and merchant kings and publishing kings and some of them wield an enormous power. This is a great country for kings."? Mary Wager Fisher, in Wide Awake. Tbe Summer Sun. If you are are suffering with General Debility, feel sick, languid and good-for nothing, don't fail to get of your druggist a bottle of Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic. It will do you good. Faibyiew Post Office, June2,lS83. Gentlemen : I bought a bottle of Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic sometime ago for my daughter, who was suffering with a headache almost constantly, had no appetite and was suffering with gen? eral debility. It gives me great pleasure to state to you that she is now entirely well, and did not take any other medicine except your Tonic, and I don't hesitate to recommend it as a good medicine. Very respectfully. D. M. Peden. ? A grand barbecue will be given on the battlefield of Chicamauga, September 20th. Governor Gordon will make tbe welcoming address, which will be responded to by General Rosecrans. 5 XXIV.- -NO. 10. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Steamships six hundred feet long - will soon be common. ? The annual consumption of feathers.. in this country is 3,000,000 pounds. ? When a man gets to be a grandfath? er he sighs as he thinks how old his wife ? is. ? A prominent capitalist of Oaklahd,.^:'! California, married his fifth wife last , Tuesday. ? A goose with several links of a gold " chain in its craw was killed at San Lucas, ; Cal., recently. ? The South Carolina Eailroad has -: this year shipped over it 1,311 carloads of. watermelons as againBt 785 the previous j;^ year. - - ? Gebrge Green, of Alabama, has been>i serving 3 term of imprisonment-^ mur dering ai man who is now found to be living. -J&v V ? At'Waterville, W. T., Equirrels are so plentiful that they enter peopled hou? ses and eat the crumbs from under the tables. ? There are 1,566 convicts in the Georgia penitentiary, of which number two hundred and three are under sentence for life. ? While a party of children were out berry picking near Annapolis, N. S., a bear made his appearance and killed and ate one little boy. ? New Yorkers devour a million quarts of ice cream on a Sunday. A wag avers that they remember the Ssbbath_ day to keep it coldly. ? ? Melbourne, Australia, is to have a -'. public clock which will roil off a pop? ular air every hour except- during./^ Sunday, when only sacred music will be played.; ? Army" worms have made their ap-igj pearance at Lamar, Darlington County.. The farmers fear there will be great dam? age done to late cotton by them, as there i3 but little matured fruit yet.. ? Abraham Lincoln was the tallest President in this country, namely 6 feet 4 inches, Martin Van Buren the shortest, barely.5'feet 6 inches. Benjamin ICarri son is'sborter still, his height being 5 feet . 5'inches. ? A movement ia on foot in Philadel? phia to exclude from the burial services all female ralatives and friends of the deceased. Where are we drifting? ? After awhile the women will have no rights left? ? A New York chemist declares that every remedy for-^'tobacco smoking and chewing and the opium habit, contains morphine and opium in dangerous quan- ~" tities, and that thoso who sell them ought to be prosecuted. ? A Cademus, Mich., farmer fed a flock of swine several gallons of cider so ft. The hogs went on a glorious drunk \ for three days, and a few of them passed peacefully away, never realizing what had touched them. .' ; ? The present strength of the Grand Army of the Republic is 413,228, an in? crease of 59,000 during the past year; This is the organization which, according to Senator Vest, was the cause of Cleve? land's defeat in 1888. ? An old church in Cahokia, 111., that was built in 1684 of cedar logs, was torn ^ down a few days ago to make way for a more modern building. There were only two cb.urcb.e3 in America?at St. Angus* tine and Santa Fe?that were older. ? The fire losses in the United States during the first half of 1886 aggregated over $70,000,000, against a total loss of ? but $46,500,000 for the same period last year. In loss of life and losses of proper? ty through other agencies the first half of 1889 has been notable. ? When the Seminole Indians of Florida elect a chief they choose the big? gest fighter and most successful hunter of the tribe. If there happens to be a tie between two-candidates, their method of deciding it is to have each candidate place a live coal of fire on his wrist. The one who flinches first loses the of? fice. ' ? The last census shows that the av? erage yearly earnings of the whole American people amount to eight hun? dred dollars each. Mechanics average one thousand dollars of yearly earnings, clerks and other salaried persons earn - fifteen hundred dollars, and the learned professions average but twenty-five hun; ;dred dollars. ? Rev. Sam Jones met with tre? mendous success at Trenton, Tennessee. An immense tent capable of seating about 8,000 people has been crowded .all. the ' time, and people have flocked to Trenton ' by the trainload and wagon load, A correspondent writes: "On Tuesday 4,000 people had assembled at the opening of the meeting and greeted Mr. Jones's first appearance, but still they came, until Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and even Texas have sent their contingents to swell the vast concourse. Day by day the number grew until to-day, when the cli? max was reached. By early morning to? day every road leading into Trenton could be marked for miles by long winding clouds of dust that rose and fell with every breeze, The "oldest inhabitant" here never saw anything like it. Every ? train that rolled in was packed, until " people were actually hanging upon the platform steps and corners and tops of . coaches. Excursions were run in as far north as Cairo and as far south as Co? rinth, Miss. Passenger coaches were at- .}. tached to freight trains, and they also' brought their contingents. One train v alone, which arrived here just as morning; ; .i service was concluded, brought ljoW?? people from Corinth, Miss., and the num->% ber increased t5 2,000 or more before' : reaching here. Eight or ten train loads ' j have arrived during the day. At one time to-day 12,000 people were on the/ grounds and 18,000 or 20,000 in the limits| of the town. Notwithstanding the crowd," no confusion has existed, and even to-day everything was perfectly quiet and order? ly on the grounds. - To Dispel Colds, HeadacheB and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when cos* tive or billious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, use Syrup of Figs.