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?8H BY GLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. .-?_;?;_ -: m XHE Firm.of J. J. BAKER & CO. dissolved by limitation on January ist, 1890, J. J. Baker retiring, having Bold his entire interest to A. W. Kay and S. C. Baker, who will conduct the business in future under tbe Firm name of KAY & BAKER. All - Accounts, Notes and Mortgages due J. J. Baker & Co. mupt be paid at once to . -j* Kay & Baker, wno are od pointed to receive the same. J. J. BAKER <fc CO. : WE, the undersigned, have this day formed a copartnership under tbe firm name of KAY & BAKER, to engage in a General Mercantile Business, which will be oon ... dncted at No. 2 Granite Row,'Anderson, S. C, (J. J. Baker & Co's. old stand.) , - We appreciate and thank our many friends for their kind patronage in the past, and earnestly solicit an opportunity to serve them in future in our new position, feeling confident of being more able to please, in all respects, than In tbe past. S"? '. To insure success we propose to conduct our business on strictly business principles, giving ocr entire time and Attention to same, adopting as our motto?Honesty and lair dealing with. all. , Yery respectfully, ? A. W. KAY, S. C. BAKER. Jmnaryl.l89Q 27 3 THE BEST m THE WORLD ! WHITE ? EXPECTORANT A YE such, universal satisfaction last Spring that we havo prepared a large lot of it for-?iis Winter, and-want everybody? V WHO HAS A COUGH To try iC"H 13 the Best Cough Syrup made, and is recommended by every one who has . uscd"it. ? .If you have a Cough buy a bottle, and if that one don't cure you, it will do so'much ^oou that you will be sure to get another. TRY IT. ?BR <Sc ST_.OA.3iT. \ FINE GOODS FOR FOR THE NEW YEAR BEST Four Grown London Layer Raisih3, Best English Currants, Best Citron, Best Almonds, Pecans, English "Walnuts and Brazil Nuts. Best G?t Edge Flavoring Extracts, in two ounce and one quart bottles. . v Largest variety of Sweet Crackers ever brought to Anderson. i^HogJer's Fine Cocoa?beat ever sold. ?*%ItammeV*Fhie Gaudies, Plain Candies,, Cigars, Cigarettes, &c. Full Cream Cheese 12* cents per pound. 25 pounds Rice for one dollar. ? ' . ?? .' 60 pounds Grits for one dollar.' ^.M Canned Fraite and Vegetables of every description. Special I*rioes.made in Quantities. r?JB6^\'0all and see us. CCEE 1 LICON, Wholesale and Retail Grocers. THIS WILL PLEASE YOU! The undersigned haye opened Class Bakery, At th3 old stand of I. M. Hubbard & Bro., next to L H. Seel. A FINE, NEW OYEN has been built, and our Establisbioent is equipped with every jXr'. liing needful In tbe Baker's occupation. We will have FRESH BREAD, ? CAKES, PASTRY, etc., every day, and we want the public to give us a trial order. We s guarantee satisfaction.. We wiU also keep in stock? A MCE LISTS OP CONFECTIONERIES, Etc., "Which will be sold at very low prices. We will sell Twenty-Jive Bread Tickets for $1.00, And deliver fresh Loaves to our customers every day. ??* We will Roast Fowls, or any kind of Fresh Meats, and Bake Cakes to order.. 33. BOOK & CO. Dec 5,1389_22,_ HERE IS YOUR MULE! BUCKLEY & FRETWELL'S Exposition Building is now open for the t patronage of the Public?we refer to t)ur Immense Sales Stable, On Corner McDi?ne and Benson Streets, ) SlNCE our opening we have received Three Car Loads of Fine yo-mg Kentucky MULES, and a lot of Fine HORSES. We assure our friends and customers of? FAIR AND SQUARE DEALINGS, As it is not our intention to misrepresent Stock, but to sell them just for what they are. If you need any Stock at any time, call at the Stebles on MAJ. J. N. VANDIVER, who is in charge of them, and will be pleased to show you around. , We have now a good large assortment of? YOUNG MULES AND HORSES ON HAND, And can sell you also? BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, HARNESS, t COLLARS, BRIDLES, &c, CHEAP! We do not propose to deal in old rips?we handle only clean, nice young animals, and excellent bargains cud be had at our Stables every day. BUCKLEY & FRETWELL. TEj??HiftS'GoLUMl, - 1?-?. ... All ccrhmunicationsi intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. (V_ HOW BEST TO INTEREST PUPILS IN SCHOOL WOBK. The following admirable essay was read before the last Teachers' Associa? tion at Bel ton, by Miss Nora Hubbard, and was unanimously requested for pub? lication. We commend it to the careful attention of every teacher and school patron in the County: How to increase the interest of the pupils in school work. This is a question which daily con? fronts ns, and sometimes puzzles not a little. Could we find explicit direction, which, if carefully followed, would cer? tainly produce the desired result, how eagerly would we all avail ourselves of them t If, for instance, school teaching were like cooking, how easy it would be I .We could meet together, exchange recipes, and return to our work, feelling confident of success if we followed' the directions. But unfortunately for us, such is not the case, and any directions we may be able to give on this impor? tant subject will somewhat resemble "Mrs. Mudlaw's recipe for potato pud? ding." This old lady had an enviable reputation, for making potato pudding, and was once waited upon by an anxious young housewife, who, with note-book and pencil in hand, begged for directions. The old lady began: "Boil your pota? toes." "How. many?" interrupted the young housewife. "Why just as many as you think you'll need-?.if the potatoes are small it will take more of them than if they are large?then beat the whites of your eggs Btiff," continued the old lady. "How many eggs?" asked the other. "Well, just as many as you need; but when eggs are scarce you need not use so many as if they are plentiful; then mix the sugar with the yelks." "But bow much' sugar ?" was anxiously inquired. "Just aa much as yon like," calmly pro? ceeded the old lady; ''some folks like things awful sweet, and some don't; then add the spices." "How much, and what kind?" "Just as you please, some Hko one kind and some another; lastly stir in the flour." "How-much?" was in? quired. "Why, juBt enough," and look? ing over her spectacles the old lady con? cluded with this good advice: "You must-use your common sense." So it mast be concerning these per? plexing questions of school methods; we 'can only discuss the general principles, and then say to each teacher; "you must use your common sense" in regard to de? tails. In no place is this old fashioned arti? cle, common seme, more needed or more useful than in the school room. There is a homely, but true saying, "a pound of learning needs ten pounds of common sense to apply it." The modern name for ibis same quality is tact, and the teacher who has most tact, is usually most successful in gaining the interest of her pupils. So, instead of giving directions concerning the pupils at this time, we will discuss the teacher. No one rule or method will be successful with all. There are so many circum? stances to be taken into consideration that we hesitate to say one plan is best. We can, however, with confidence assert this fact, if a teacher expects her pupils to be interested in school work, she must be intensely interested herself. We have never known an earnest teacher who failed to arouse a reasonable degree of interest in her pupils. This interest on the part of the teacher must be real, not a pretense, for children are quick to de? tect ? "sham." The interest of pupils can never be forced higher than that of the teacher. We must show by example that we consider each exercise of the echool of great importance. One very sure way to awaken the inter? est of a pupil is to let him help himself all he possibly can. Better spend half an hour, if necessary, in teaching him how to do the work himself, than take five minutes to do it for bim. This rule has been given by one of our ablest edu? cators; "Never do for a pupil anything that he can be made to do for himself." We speak from experience on this point. When, after spending considerable time in trying to show a pupil how to help himself, we have been amply rewarded by the look of grateful intelligence dashed upon us as he exclaimed, "0, now I see howl" In this way we give the pupil a sense of power in himself, and the interest follows as a natural re? sult. One very sure and easy way to gain the interest of pupils is to win their iriend ship. Bea/nendas well as a tescher. LWi neglect to speak to them whenever you meet them on the street. Visit them at their homes and make yourself famil? iar with the home surroundings of each. The teacher's greatest help or hindrance lies in the home life of her pupils. We may have some from homes where parents are educated and all possible encouragement is given to the children in their stady; we will have others whose home aurroundings are just the reverse. By all means in your power try to in? terest the parents in Bchool work. Visit them if you have leisure, if not talk "school" to them whenever and wherever you meet. When once the parents become interested in your plans, your greatest difficulty is overcome, and inter? esting the children will be an easy task. Our greatest trouble is not the children ; (in fact our own experience teaches us that children enjoy being managed) but most of ub know how hard it is to manage unreasonable parents. Here is another help ; try as nearly as possible to put youreelf in the place of the pupil. Sympathize with his troubles, and as much as you can, anticpate his difficulties. If your own school days are not too long past, let your mind revert to them. Try to remember your own diffi? culties and perplexities and this will cer? tainly lead you not to expect too much of children. Don't be afraid to descend to their level, or at least meet them half way. Try the experiment of Bitting down side by Bide with the pupil who needs your help; similarity of bodily NDEESON, S. C, TI position sometimes has a wonderful influ? ence in bringing about sympathy of mind. Make your school room attractive and comfortable. A broken window pane, through which wind and rain find en? trance, is often the prime cause of lack of interest on the part of pupils near it. Insist upon punctuality. The pupil who is allowed to remain at home for every trifling cause can never become interested in school work. Irregular attendance does great injustice to both teacher and pupil. Claim a suitable degree of attention to each branch in the course of study you have arranged. Here is a point of much difficulty with many teachers. Parents frequently insist upon the whole atten? tion of the pupil being given to someone study, to the neglect of others which the teacher knows are of equal importance. The teacher who attempts to arrange her classes and course of study to suit the ideas of each individual patron will soon find herself in a most unpleasant and perplexing situation. Interest on the part of the pupils in all school duties is not alwayB voluntary, and when persuasion fails, the teacher's authority must be brought to bear on same. Don't depend upon the whims of pupils in regard to school duties, but rather seek to raise them to that higher plane, where duty and not pleasure is the standard. Let the motive be this: I must perfor u this task, not because it is pleasant and I prefer it, but because it is my duty. The reward will be that high? est pleasure, which comes from a sense of duty conscientiously performed. This is not a difficult or impossible task; even very young children may be influenced by it. "So linked with grandeur is our dust, So near iB God to man, When duty whispers low, 'Thou must? The youth replies, 'I can.'" Above all, do not despair, even though you sometimes fail entirely in arousing an interest in study such as you desire. Our work is not confined to the intellect of our pupils; we must teach morals as well. The teacher who trains the intel? lectual facukies of her pupils does a good work, but she who combines with this moral training does better. We may teach a pupil to solve the most difficult problem in mathematics, but if, while so doing, we fail to teach him those high moral principles of obedience to law and regard for the rights of others, we but poorly prepare him for working out the more serious problem of life. Last of all, after using all possible means to awaken this interest, we must learn to wait. Teachers have need of much patience in this respect, for very few of us are permitted to see the imme? diate results of our work. The true teacher can not afford to be selfish. She must adopt this unselfish rule: "Not my? self, but the good of my pupils." Per? haps the mout heedless and indifferent boys and girU may, in after years, through the influence of an earnest teacher be developed into the most earnest and useful men and women. Thus our highest reward may come "after mauy days," perhsp* long after we have passed "beyond the river." We may but sow the seed, and others be allowed to enjoy the harvest. It matters not, if we have done our duty. Our life work need not end with life, but may be continued through after years by the influence of that life. "Need we the praise of the love-written re? cord ? The name and the epitaph carved on the stone ? The things we have lived for let them be our story, We, ourselves, but remembered by what we have done. "I need not be missed, if another succeed me, To reap down the fields that in life I have sown ; He who ploughs and who sows is not missed by the reaper He is only remembered by what ha has done. "Not myself, but the truth in life that I have spoken, Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown Shall pass on to ages ; all about me forgot? ten, Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done." Lenora C. Htjbbard. ? This story is told about the ccptain of a schooner who had a flock of aheop on the deck of his vessel. As he was turning and twisting the wheel to keep the schooner on her course, the old ram, who headed the flocir, taking umbrage at his motions, came up behind him, and at one fell swoop butted him over the wheel. The enraged captain seized his wooly as? sailant and threw him overboard, when, presto! away went the whole flock, pop? ping over the rail, one after another, into the sea, ? There is said to be, in Athens, Ga., about half a dozen ladies known to be afflicted with that strange disease called kleptomania. Of this number three are married ladies, two are old maids, and one is a very young lady. A prominent Athens merchant says: "We are com? pelled to keep a constant watch on sev? eral highly respectable ladiea in the city afflicted with this Btrange disease?if you call it a disease at all. I call it thiev? ing, downright thieving." ? A man who has practiced medicine for 40 years ought to know Bait from su? gar ; read what he says: Toledo, 0., Jan. 10, 1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.?Gentle? men :?I have been in the general prac? tice of medicine for most 40 years, and would say that in all my practice and experience have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with as much con? fidence of success as I can Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre? scribed it a great many times and its ef? fect is wonderful, and would say in con? clusion that I have yet to find a case of Catarrh that it would not cure, if they would take it according to directions. Your3 Truly, L. L. Gorsuch, M. D. Office, 215 Summit St. We will give $100 for any case of Ca arrh that can not be cured with Hall's Catarrh Curp. Taken internally. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., IUESDAY MORNIN? A Sketchy Article on Temperance, BY A LADY OF ANDERSON. Nearly half a century ago the temper? ance cause swept over the land like a wild tornado. The banner of total abstinence and the entire suppression of the liquor traffiic was thrown to the breeze, and it has not been lowered from that day to this. If memory serves correctly, it was in the year 1842 that the Rev. B. Mi Pal? mer, D. D., was a pioneer in Anderson in behalf of the temperance cause. He was entertained at the late Judge Whit ner's beautiful home with Abrahamic hospitality. He was, at that time, a licentiate in the Theological Seminary, Columbia, S. C, and though he was pale, wan and grim, his features were stamped with intellectual vigor, force of character and determination of will, which at once gave confidence to the cause and its success. The Judge being in full sympathy with the movement, a society was soon instituted, and though the membership was small, earnest, faith? ful work characterized it. The Presby? terians were foremost in the ranks to enroll their names under the white flag of total abstinence, and to that denomi? nation Anderson is indebted for being the first to promote the temperance sen? timent in this County. The late Judge O'Neal was one of the moat effective champions of temperance that this State ever produced. He was instant in season and out of season?if it can be out of season to speak for the cause?when travelling his Circuit in making comprehensive speeches in its behalf, the masses thereby beiog in? structed in the principles of reform, the' cause was greatly strengthened through? out the upper portion of the State. The temperance workers, however, in those days did not meet with the difficulties and impediments that now confront them on every side. The promulgation of their principles pleased the people, now it displeases. Where and on whom does the responsibility rest? If the shades of the departed are permitted to look back through the veil, they certainly cannot utter a satisfied amen over the change that has taken place in the temperance sentiment in this place in this last quar? ter of the nineteenth century We have flowers for the graves of the departed, let us now speak of the living who, by the magic silent influence of love, made homes happy that were once desolate. In 1842 the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance organized a subor? dinate Division of their Order in this place, with Mr. A. B. Towers Worthy Patriarch. For many years the growth of this society was slow but sure, but when the late Civil War broke out in our unhappy land the society was virtually suspended, most of its members having enlisted for the long four years' war. When peace, sweet peace, reigned again, and the graceful folds of the star spangled banner waved throughout our Sunny Southland, it was through the untiring efforts of Mr. Towers that the society was re organized. The difficul? ties and embarrassments that the execu? tive officer met with were appreciated. Apostacy had demoralized their ranks, and the foe was not then as it had been before the war, mostly confined to the lower class, but the cultured, refined and intellectual were ensnared into the glittering coils of the "crested serpent." Dismayed wires, mothers and sisters, overpowered witn anguish, made the inquiry, "How can this terrible evil be destroyed?" Philanthropy held aloft the beautiful banner of total abstinence as a place of refuge, with the command to press onward and upward with the firm determination to destroy the license system whenever it exists in our jurisdic? tion. The silver lining at last broke forth with resplendent lustre from beneath the cloud that hovered over our people like a dark pall. It was in 1870 that Mr. Carswell, P. M. W. A., Oshawa's noted humorist, held his auditors spell-bound for over one hour in the Court House, moving them into laughter, or forcing them into silence at will. It was a pen tecostal season then, and the society received a large accession, for many were convinced that the best interest of the people would bo conserved by the propa? gation of temperance principles, and that earnest, intelligent work, by frater? nal combination, would be omnipotent in destroying the evil. In 1884, through the influence of Mrs. Chapin, the noted temperance worker, a society was organized in the Baptist Church called the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Executive officers were appointed from different denomina? tions of the city, with Mrs. J. S. Murray, President. They have done what they could. Oh! who would not yield to these earnest, patient workers the full tribute of their admiration? I would gladly twine a wreath?but the task is for an abler pen?as a memorial of their constancy and devotion, but no matter if their names are never memoralized on earth, on the right hand side of the throne there are star-gemed crowns in waiting for these tireless workers throughout the United States who have organized the saving forces of society for the reform of evils, whose existence can neither be denied or ignored. I readily admit that the rostrum is not for women, but when the sacred precincts of home are'invaded by devilB, not men, who galvanically brandish around with disordered intellects and countenances rendered brutal by drink, terrorizing children on whom shame, woe and the most bare-faced poverty nre entailed, I ask what are women to do? Is their whole duty confined to the domesticity of the tent? Must fear of getting be? yond a prescribed limit prevent the development of powers and possibilities by which she may become a mighty instrument in rescuing our homes from the inexorable bondage of wrong ? Al? ready there are luminous examples of effective work accomplished by our sex who have preserved in their purity the gentleness, grace and modesty of femi? nine character. The most important command that has ever been committed t) our race was first broken by a woman; beautiful, fresh and innocent from the hands of her Creator, and by which transgression of the Divine law she hi- 1 9, JANUARY 23, 18 felted her position among the Unf?llen celestials. Dr. Hagood, in his sermon, said God, through Christian civilization, is making a new earth and getting ready to make a new Heaven. Let me ask is it unreasonable then, in these new times, for women to find new opportunities for the enlargement of their work 1 Should not every method be used consistent with feminality for humanities uplifting and regeneration, and their restoration to the high poeitiou from which they have fallen. The brilliant, chivalrous, progressive and much lamented Dawson said: "The cause of temperance reform in the United States is in the best possi? ble hands when it is in the hands of the women in the United States. It is wo? man's work first and last, and no other but woman can perform it." Both of the above societies were in a nourishing condition when the sharp contest for prohibitory legislation was brought before the people in '87, tho defeat of which is a primary cause for depression, from which our temperanCe workers have norer rallied, notwith? standing the eloquent voices of Dr. Mar? shall, Wightman and others, were heard throughout our country during the cam? paign. Wives, mothers and sisters don't become discouraged, the beautiful tri? colored flag of temperance is still float? ing in the breezo, and by the help of Gcd it will never be lowered. Why and how did prohibition meet with such a signal defeat is a problem. I will' say, without circumlocution, that the credulity of the ignorant by every art and device was utilized in the inter? est of the successful party, and that the colored race, who have a morbid fear of re-enslavement, were very susceptible to their arguments, and readily believing, as they did, that prohibition was a scheme of intrigueing legislators to ensnare them back into bondage, natu? rally the defeat was overwhelming. Martin Luther said, "I will go to Worms if there are as many devils there as there are tiles on the roof of their houses." What a noble precedent for moral cour? age and heroism 1 Every son of intem? perance should have the spirit of hero? ism that stops at no sacrifice or obstacle until the nation is rescued from the "crime of crimes," and from the heart? aches the Unf?llen angels have been weeping over the last century. A celebrated English essayist when discussing a question of vital interest, began with this remarkable assertion, "There are in the British Isles 30,000, 000 people, most of them fools." It was certainly a very rude, unpatriotic asser? tion, nevertheless, it can with truth be said, numerically speaking, that the above classes are always in the ascen? dant when a question of vital interest is before the people, and what is more Bur prising, they always understand one another. What an eloquent appeal in favor of a wider dissemination of tem? perance literature, the educative value of which has been demonstrated to be of great value to the people. It has also been demonstrated that for the correction of bad habits long indulged in,,or for the overthrow of established evils, men must be appealed to through their intelligence. But from our opponents we may learn wisdom; they are united in action, we are not; they are active and on the alert for the advancement of their interests, and though we are true to ours, there is a vast amount of moral power lying dor? mant, which, if called into life, much good might be accomplished. It has been demonstrated that line upon line are of little value when tempta? tions abound, and a chalice filled with an exhilarating draught is to be found in every saloon, where unsuspecting youths are methodically allured into the coils of the deadly serpent, which lies concealed beneath the rare exotics that wreath the golden bowl. They soon become satiated with saturnalian feast and revelry, but when the habit is once formed, th?se midnight orgies are almost irresistible, and no matter bow strong the desire to resist the temptation, it may be too late. Fathers, how dreadful it will be in the eternal world to hear the mournful BOliloquoy from behind the iron gratings, It is too late! too late! How can a Christian, a father, or a Son of Temperance Bupport any form of license, however Bpecious the argument in its favor, and one of the most falla? cious is that the city's prosperity is greatly enhanced by the handsome rev? enue annually paid into the treasury. Can there be a heart base enough to enjoy prosperity derived from the unhappiness of others? No, no, no. I will say, how? ever, that if there is one individual who will look with pride and satisfaction upon the glittering coin that will flow into the treasury from such a polluted source, he should be categorized with a Nero, a Judas or a Tiberius. Who would trust him ? If the chivalrous, magnetic white plumed knight of Navarre, who fought on many a battlefield with dinted sword and battered shield bad pursued and fainted not, his sword would have been sheathed amid shouts of victory. The days of chivalry are not over; the tem? perance workers who are at war to res? cue our country from the gigantic coil, will never surrender to the enemy, but will go iu and win the honors of temper? ance knighthood. "We are but few, but toil-tried but true; And hearts beat high to dare and do." Prohibition is not dead. Occult forces are at work preparing the way for the great temperance to pass through by and by. We already hear, in imagination, shouts of coming victory, which is as sure H3 the pledges of Jehovah, and which will be hastened if the men and women of social influence, the Christian ministry, the church and the members of the temperance organizations will unite in one solid phalanx against the liquor traffic. May God bless and crown the cause with success ! And when the Son of man comes in glory and power, the shimmering veil between the material and spiritual world will be lifted, and the world's moral heroes will receive tho verdict, "Well done good and faithful servant." ? Mothers should never fail to keep Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup convenient in or der to relieve their little ones of cough speedily and Burely. 25 cents. 90. BILL ARP. The South Adding to 1th Wealth Daily. Atlanta Constitution. Was there ever such a time and such a country? Verily, it looks like the an? cient Aladdin had come to life with his lamp and was just going about building cities. Two weeks ago I was at CroBS Plains, a little place fifty miles from here, and there wasn't anything there much? not very much?just a wide place in the road and a range of high hills a mile or two away. There was some good cotton land stretching out in broad, level acres, and there was a creek not far away. There was a little settlement of unpre? tending cottages and a few stores, where the merchants sat upon the boxes and whittled and talked politics and watched the trains go by, and that was all. There wasn't a blank acre in town that I could not have bought for ?200. Well, Aladdin hasn't rubbed his lamp yet,~nut he is there fixing to rub it. Millionaires have been there since I was, and they have bought out the whole concern?everything but the women and children and graveyard, and they have stocked the 2,500 acres at a million dollars and have laid off a city and actually sold three hundred thousand dollars' worth of city lots in three days, and the cry is still they come. I am told they havent sold a hundred acres yet. Three thousand dollars an acre. Just think of it! I wonder what the poor fellow thinks who sold it for fifty. But he got all it was worth and ought to be satisfied. He couldn't make it worth any more?but capital can. This is the power of money. Money is going to put machinery there and build fur? naces and rolling mills and banks and magnificent hotels. Why, they have got a bank already with a hundred thousand dollars capital?all paid in. Had to have great big iron safes expressed there to k6ep the money in until they could build a bank.; Some of the Vanderbilts are in this ring, and lots of monied men from all over the north. They say that in twelve months there will be five millions invested at Piedmont. That is the name they have given the new city. We used to think that such things were just an artful scheme to fleece the lambs, but it does not look that way now. The whole South is on a boom. Look at Florence, only two ye&rs old and twelve millions invested. Look at Sheffield and Decatur, and Fort Payne and Middleboro. Yes, Middleboro, only six months old and ten millions invested. Look at Birmingham, only ten years old and fifty millions in? vested?and this thing is going on from Virginia to Texas. The mighty north is moving this way, nigger or no nigger. They send down their agents to spy out the land, and before we know it they have squatted somewhere and-Aladdin goes to rubbing his lamp. What is to be the outcome of all this thing? Within the last twelve months one hundred mil? lions in capital has been added to the in? dustrial and commercial values of the south. They will take a wide place in the road and buy up 2,500 acres of land for twenty-five thousand dollars and "presto change," in a week is worth a million. Well, of course, there are min? eral treasures behind all this. The mountains or the hills are close by and they are full of iron, or coal, or something. Now will these movements make a break into the solid south and help us solve the nee problem that seems to disturb the country so much? Will we become yankeefied, or will they become Dixie fied, or will it result in a harmonious mixture ? A year or so ago, some Boston yankees settled a little town, not far from us and went to work. For awhile they were shy and peculiar, and when one of them was introduced to one of our folks, he reached his hand out at arm's length, but by and by, they got acquainted and found out we were a very harmless and clever people and we found out the same about them, and now they shake hands right up close and tell jokes and anecdotes just like we do. They have got a news? paper in their little town and have em? ployed a regular South Carolina rebel for an editor, and sure enough, when Jeffer? son Davis died, he slapped the black mourning lines all over a whole page, and they said it was all right and just human, and the paper went to Boston on the ex? change list, and a Boston paper saw it, and now wants to know by what legerde? main or hocus pocus or transmogrification a Boston republican- can go to Georgia and live a year or so and become a Jeff. Davis rebel. Well, that is all right. He is not a Jeff. Davis rebel, but he is a high toned, liberal hearted gentleman, and had respect for the feelings of the people he lived with, and expected to die with. In the first place, if he hadn't been a gen? tleman, he wouldn't have come here at all. A gentleman is not afraid to go anywhere. A true gentleman can get along with any people. I have observed for forty years that the northern men who come south to stay are among the very best citizens we have. A young man of our town told me the other day that when he had made up his mind to come South his perilous ven? ture was made the subject of earnest prayer in the family, for they believed he was risking his life, and they felt as much concern as if he was going to the Cannibal islands as a missionary. We are glad he came, (or he is a gentleman, too, and I wish some more of the same sort would come. Right now it does look like we were harmonizing, Even Ingalls is re? penting and is going to make a speech for peace and pay a tribute to Grady. He has been very sick, they say, and that doe3 take the venom out of a man. If Ingalls does repent and will shed all the tears he ought to shed, it will give many a disconsolate Peri a chance to get into heaven. But there is an old rhyme that says : "The devil was sick?the devil a saint would bo, The devil got well?the devil a Saint was he." All we ask is that the race problem be let alone, and it will work out ils own salvation. Providence is overaeeing this business. It was His will that they should be brought here, and held in bond? age and for a purpose. New England ships and New England money brought them here and maybe they will get back to Africa in the same way. Who knows ? The South has had them in school for a hundred years, and if they are not now fit ten to go back and civilize their breth? ren in Africa they will be sent, I reckon, YOLUM But the time has not come yet. Arkan? sas seems to want them a while longer, and wants more of them. So let it work ?long. They are doing very well in our part of the country. There is no friction. We are all calm and serene upon this question. If he wants to go, we say go and God bless you. If he wants to stay, we say stay and behave yourselves. So it is all right all round with us. I can draw water, and cut wood, and feed my horse, and work my garden. I can cook break? fast and my wife or daughter can cook dinner and supper. I havent a child girl or boy?but who can catch Molly and put the harness on and hitch her to the buggy, and drive, and go when they please and where they please. So it is no, ground hog case with us. The old ones will stay anyhow, and they will last about as long as we will. Uncle Sam. says he ain't gwine nary step; says he will run away fust?just like he used to, when old massa gwine to whip him. "Where will you run to, Uncle Sam?" said I. "Run to de canebrake, lay dar all day, and sleep wid one eye open, come out at night and git sumfin to eat. I hain't forgot how to run away." The truth is we havn't given it up yet that they have got to go at all. Wise men keep on parading that old maxim of Jefferson and other philosophers that an inferior race can't live in peace with a superior race? Is that so? Why not? They are doing it right now all over the world. There is just as much difference between the Gastiliacs and the greasers of Mexico as there is between the negro and the white man. There lira grades and castes all over China and India, And here are the Jews and the Gentiles, both races claiming to be the peculiar people of God, and yet they ^efc along. Let us wait and see. If the negro will behave and the white man be considerate, I am sure we can get along. If he doesn't behave he will have to go somewhere, and that is all of it, Here we are paying $850 to the co red teachers of their public schools in Car tersville, and we furnish a good school house for them, and yet their part of the school tax is only fifty dollars. The white folks pay eight hundred dollan, and the negroes pay fifty to educate their own children ; and it is that way all over the South. Now, the yankees don't believe that, and we don't care whether they do or not. We are going to run this machine according to our own convictions of justice and morality. It is either our fight or our funeral, and we are ready to meet it. Bill Arp. CAROLINA'S SUNDAY SCHOOLS. A Call for a Sunday School Convention to be Held at Colombia. The following call for a State Sunday School Convention, to be held in Colum? bia on the 4th of March next, has been issued by the officers of the State Asso? ciation : Spartanburg, S. 0., January 19, 1890. To the Sunday School Workers of the State of South Carolina. Dear Brethren: The Interdenomi? national Sunday School Convention of South Carolina is hereby called to meet in the city of Columbia at eight o'clock the evening of the 4th day of March, 1890. An attractive programme, with speak? ers representing all sections and denomi? nations of the State, is being prepared and will be announced through the press in a few weeks. Arrangements for special excursion rates will be made with railroads and published in time for the information of al! concerned. Chairmen of County Conventions are earnestly requested to forthwith confer with delegates elect to said annual State Convention and to urga upon them to make their arrangements at once to be in attendance. If any of them cannot or will not attend, let the alternates be urged to go in their places, or substitutes appointed by the chairmen of the County conuentions. In the several Counties where no interdenominational associations are organized, the denominational associa tions, unions or conferences are earnestly solicited through their proper officers to anthorize and appoint suitable delegates to represent them in this Interdenomina? tional Sunday School Convention. Or, where no organization exists, the pastors and superintendents of individual churches and schools are cordially invited to attend themselves or appoint represen? tatives. Every person attending is as? sured of a warm reception and is promised a profitable occasion. Every County organization, whether denominational ornot, is urged to prepare and send up to this meeting full statistics of the numbers, conditions and prospects of the Sunday school work iu their re? spective Counties or districts. Any facts regarding this great department of Christ's Church in this State will be gratefully received. Mr. William Reynolds, of Illinois, President of the International Sunday School Convention, who has been in at? tendance upon the last two South Caro? lina Annual Conventions, and who, by bis active participation, added so much to the success and pleasure of said meet? ings, will be present at Columbia and will probably bring other prominent workers of national and international prominence with him. Besides, as many as possible of the leading and moBt prom? inent Sunday school workers in this State will be in attendance; and alto? gether the most successful, the livest and most largely attended Sunday school convention in this State for years, is promised. Nothing in the way of effort will be spared by the executive committee and the local committees to make this the best convention ever heid in the State. Let every friend of the Sunday school cause offer fervent and constant prayer to the Father above '.hat His special blessings may be upon this meeting and that its deliberations may result in the upbuilding and extending of His kingdom in this State and in the salvation of thousands of the precious children of our land. Every pastor and superintendent iu the State is requested to read this call to his congregation and his school at least once before the meeting of the convention at Columbia. Every paper in the State, both reli? gious and secular, is requested to copy this call and also a forthcoming pro gramma. Fraternally, Ciias. H. Carlisle, Chairman. E XXIV.---NO. 29. ALL SORTS OP PARAGRAPHS, ? The Californians gathered ripe wa? termelons on Decamber 1st. ? Be quick. You can't nee a minute but once?make the most of it. ? Mrs. Jefferson Davis will presently go to Colorado to live with her married daughter.' ? The average number of fires in New York city is twenty-eight hundred.'a year, about 7 a day. ? Leadville, Col., has produced more than $35,000,000 in gold, silver and lead during the past ten years. ? ? Never employ yourself to discern the fault;! of others, but be careful to mend and prevent your own. ? A Wheeling, W. Va., inventor is at work upon a watch which is expected, to run a month without winding. ? John Horn, of Orville, Ohio, ia six feet, four inches high, weighs 335 pounds, and is twenty-two years of age. ? The ^amount of money required to pay the pensions of the veterans for the present financial year is about $100,000, 000. ? A West Virginian has been arrested for personating his deceased twin brother and drawing the pension of the latter. ? ?- Alexander Montgomery, of San Francisco, has given $250,000 to the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, of. California. ?A Henning, Tennessee, doctor while drunk sewed an amputated finger on with the palm surface turned the wrong way. It united nicely. ? The Egyptian cotton crop iB larger this season than ever before, and the cotton is of a superior quality, though not equal' to that of the U.S. ? New York State is reported to have produced last season 2,088,845 pounds of. honey, being exceeded only by Tennessee \ with 2,130,689 pounds. ? A monstrosity in the shape of a calf with four eyes, four no?trils and four ears, and a mouth like a fish, ia exciting; the Citizen? of Jenning Tovmship, Indi---: ana. ? A company of Michigan capitalists ', bought between two and three tbomiand acres of Swamp land on the Santee riivory near Sumter. They propose erecting saw.; mills at once. "?i: '\? ? Laziness grows on people ; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.' The more business a man has to do the more be is able to accomplish, for he learns co economize his time. ? It is estimated that there have been 200,000 divorced in the United States in ' twenty years. Opinions as to marriage % being a failure may differ, but all will agree that divorce is a sucess. ? It is expected that by another year fresh figs, raised in Florida and Georgia, will be put on the Northern market in considerable quantities. Several large ? fig groves have lately been planted. ? It is said that the great oil fields of New York and Pennsylvania are rapidly becoming exhausted. The supply lias fallen from 100,000 to 43,000 barrels per day. Search is being made for new fields. . ? An Atlanta syndicate has purchased 800 acres of .land fifteen'miles from Ma con, Ga., and will set out a big peach orchard and establish a canning factory. The enterprise is backed by ample capi? tal for all needed improvements. ? The campaign against electric wires in New York has been carried on -in earnest. Gangs of men are at work cut? ting down all dead and poorly insulated wires in different parts of the city, and frorA fifteen to twenty miles a day have been taken down. Altogether over one hundred miles have been removed, and. the work is being rapidly continued. ? During the recent floods in Japan .; 2,418 persons were killed and 155 were wounded; 90,000 were deprived of thej> necessaries of life; 50,000 houses were . swept away-or rendered uninhabitable; : 150,000 acres of agricultural land, with their crops, were laid waste; 60,000 bridges were carried away and hun-. dreds of miles of roads were destroyed. ? A case is mentioned of a young woman becoming ill with a difficulty, ? which, at first, somewhat baffled the physician, though there appeared to be every symptom of arsenical poisoning'. The green wall paper of her room was analyzed, but without any trace of the~ suspected mineral being found. Finally, a green flannel dress, which the patient had begun to wear was submitted to an? alysis, and, as the flannal was found -- loaded with arsenic, the cause of the ill? ness was at once apparent. ? A worthy deacon in a Vermont country town was discovered by his pas? tor, one Sunday morning, sawing an armful of wood for the kitchen stove. The surpriee of the discovery caused the deacon to drop his saw in consternation. "I didn't suppose you'd see me, parson 1" he faltered. "Ah," replied the good man severely, "you must remember^deacon, that there is One higher than I who sees every evil act you commit." "Yes, par? son," assented the deacon; "but then He doesn't make such an awful fuss abont it!" ? In view of modern progress in embalming, desiccation and other meth? ods of preserving the dead for an indefi? nite time, it is interesting to note that it has been estimated that more than 400,000 human mummies were made in Egypt from the beginning of the art of embalm? ing until its discontinuance in the Seventh Century. There were three grades of embalming. For preserving his relative in the most approved style the Egyptian had to pay $1225; in the second grade the operation cost about $377; the third method was so cheap as to be considered "within the reach of the poorest citizen," and involved the pick? ling of the body for some days, and then a boiling in bitumen. These mummies are devoid of hair and eyebrows, and are black, heavy, dry and very hard to break. Progress. It is very important in this age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleas, ng to the taste and to the eye, easily ta? ken, acceptable to the stomach and healthy in its nature and effects. Pos? sessing these qualities Syrup of Figs is the on3 perfect laxative and most gentle diu- ? rect known.