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BT CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. :':' mLIVftlt- MANUFACTURING CO. ? ling NEW MACHINERY, . /^'liijr'pij(iif THROUGHOUT, . A FULL STOCK OF LUMBER, dressed of undressed, SHINGLES, LATHS, WOOD-WORK, and Si BUILDING MATERIAL of all kinds. -fe : - AJUL* Om>KE&S EXECUTED PROMPTLY. A CAR LOAD OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS. To t>e sold at Bottom Figrarea. '51i^:v'i-; , v * ; . - - ??"*/Onr Works are conveniently located 'near the C. & G. Depot, with Mr. ^ESSE M. SMITH Su peri d ten dent. .. r ,, 1 ? tRY A BOTTLE OF OUR STTDE^JbLl For Sick Headache, Indigestion, Biliousness, And all similar disorders. It is the best Family Medicine on the market. We havetan excellent line of? ? - CIGARS, TOBAGO? "?ND'PIPES, i AND THE NICEST AND FRESHEST STOCK OP JPerfomery and Toilet Articles . . .IN THE CITY. : \/;>^ ^There has been an Earthquake in the prices of GARDEN SEEDS, and we are at the tottom. Kb. 4 B^tel Block. f, TODD BROS , Druggists. NOT FORGET;! - THAT THE - itNDEKSON MUSIC HOUSE I? Headquarter? for the very beet makes of PIANOS and - V ^ - - ' ORGANS, "where von can gtt lowest Prices and beat terms, under a positive guarantee. ~*i&ee Gar Loads of Carriages and Buggies Jaat received, and. we WIIiIi NOT be undersold. SEWING MACHINES. ! After twenty years experience I havo found out which is the very best Sewing Ma : -fihroej and-we will be pleased to explain the merits of the celebrated New Home* . which anrpuses all others. We alao. sell the Favorite, St. John, Union, 1?hlto, Victor, and several other makes. It will pay you to inspect my stock and get prices in either department of my boririsBS before buying. Respectfully, O. A.. REED, Agent ? ' ' . -v. ? - n Hi ws THE CHESAPEAKE GUANO CO., OF BALTIMORE, MD., Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS. ?:? =::.-.-; - .1.; Parties wishing to use this OLD and RELIABLE PETILIZER can be supplied Ij ?pplyimg to J. B. DOUTHIT. March 13. 1890 36 2* THE ALLIANCE CO-OPERATIVE Sf0i HAVE MADE FURTHER SWEEPING EEDUCTIONS ON ALL MNTER GOODS! Silling at Cost, or Less, WITH US MEANS SOMETHING. All-Wool Blankets at Cost. All Overcoats at and below Coat. Dress Ginghams at 5c. PREPARE FOR SPRING. New Embroideries now in stock. New White Goods now in stock. New Wool Dress Goods now in stock. Just received a full assortment of Children's Clothing. Men's Clothing at prices that will allow any man to dresu wolL For ?0c. we will Bell.you a SHIRT you have always cheerfully paid 75e. /or. It is 1600 linen bosom, linen cuff* and collar band, Mansutta body, reinforced patent stay. In fact, as well made as a dollar Shirt. We are here to sare money to the people, and we are doing it. 3,200 Bushels Pure Spring Seed Oats Jost Received, And everything else needful on the fann ooostantly oa hand. Very rsepegTally, FL S0 sHILLbj Manager. T^??hW?oI/?mn. A11 communications] intended for this Column should he addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, 8. 0. Having spent the night with oar old pupil, L. M. MahafFey, at his relative, Mr. Hugh Mahaffey's, we proceeded with him the next morning to pay his echool a second visit. Since the occasion of our former visit the patrons have bestired themselves and have added an additional twelve feet to the uo?se, with a stove and a fire place, and Lewis and his forty five pupils are very comfortable. And we saw evidences of aome good work being done there, and it is a very grati? fying fact that the patrons have put their hands in their own pockets and have supplemented the teacher's salary, and propose to keep him at it for eight months. This is as it should be. The public money is good help as far as it goes, but left alone it is almost the same as none, and more than that no compe? tent teacher who attends to business as it Bhould be done can or will take hold of a school for just the public money, and if he would the patrons themselves, in jus? tice to their own children, cannot afford to let him do it, in fact, they ought not, as a rule, to employ a teacher who offers to do it, for be will likely prove to be either la?y,' indifferent or shiftless. Don't do it, but do as the Ce? dar Grove folks have done, and supple? ment the public money. ' Even the man of means who pays taxes on five or ten thousand dollars worth of property can? not refuse to help when all his neighbors are helping, upon the ground that he pays a school tax, for at moat he only pays ten or twenty dollars school tax, and this will not more than pay the tui? tion of one or two pupils. Let all help and always help. Before we left we witnessed a splendid drill by a large class of little ones in reading on the chart, most of whom learned to read since the new year began. This is bard to'beat. We took occasion to make a second call on Miss Nettie Hal/;, at Gross Roads school, and found her up to the eyes in work. Her school is much fuller than at our last visit, and her pupils bespeak the careful teacher. Full of energy and business herself, she seems able to .in? spire her pupils with the same, and good results are following and will continue to do so. This is Miss Nettie's second term at this place, which is evidence of the estimation in which she is held by that community. Having chosen the profession of teaching, she is studying to fit herself for the high calling, and Bpeaksof spending a short season at the Winthrop Training school. Onr first visit in the Fork was to Miss S. J. McLain, at Shady Grove, who still retains the confidence and esteem of the people, as manifested in the f ict that she has been there three years. And the pupils show the effect of the carelul and faithful work of the teacher, as was shown by their readiness and promptness. Miss McLain is a growing teacher, and uaei every opportunity to acquaint her? self with the best means and methods of teaching. At Smith's Chapel things have taken a great leap forward. Miss Julia Dean came among them a little more than a year ago, and we found her then in an uncomfortable and unsuitable building, with a handful of pupils, but presiing forward bravely. This winter we found her still pressing onward, but. in a new and larger building, and with a full school of bright and eager pupils, and evidences of good work all about. Teacher, patrons and pupils have all done well, and they propose., with one more spurt forward, to place good, com? fortable desks in their school room. A pleasant night beneath the roof of our friend, John C. Gantt, and we arose the next morning to find the clouds pouring down floods of waters, and our Belf completely water bound. We made an effort to get across to a colored school in sight of us, but could not do it, and. thence turned our hone's head in the direction of Townville, where we found comfortable quarters with'Mr. James A. Gantt, together with our quandam neighbor and friend, Mr. W. A. Dick3on, with both of whom we chat? ted away "until the wee email hours ayont the twal." Morning found us ready for business, and we made our first call upou W. G. Craig, the teacher of the colored school. This teacher has been at work here for years, and his work meets the hearty commendation of both whites aud blacks, by reason of the fact that his influence upon his race, and the moral example he sets before them are both of the right, sort. His work in the school room wo saw, and can justly speak of it in terms of praise. Our next call was upon the new school recently-started under the direction of Mr. J. Monroe Fant, a recent graduate of the Patrick Military Institute, at An? derson. This teacher is making his maiden effort, and the day we called had some thirty odd pupils, the most of whose faces were familiar to us. We passed a pleasant hour with some of his classes, especially a large one in geography, which was well up in the study. There is some excellent material in this school, and success ought to be achieved with such as that to work upon. Hard by this we found the old Acad? emy, which has been the trysting place for the school children of the community for many years past, and here we met Mr. N. W. Macauly, a veteran of many a hard fought battle in the class and school room. Some thirty or more were present of old familiar faces, who greeted us cordially, and we soon felt at home in our old accustomed place. And Ibe earnestness of the teacher seems to-have impressed ifself into the pupils, for all with whom we came in contact gave evidence of earnest work. An educa? tional interest is abroad in this commu nity, for within a radius of one mile, more than two hundred and fifty chil? dren, white and colored, are enrolled in the schools. ANDEKSON, S. C, \ BILL ARP. Atlanta Constitution. Our people muBt be prospering, for the young folks are mating and marrying all around us. It seems to be an epidemic or a contagion or something, and the town talk is, "who next,"?some of the poets sing sadly about marriage, but most everybody tskes a lively interest in the performance, and it looks less like a-fu? neral than anything I know of. Only a few days ago one of the churches was dressed in bridal robes, and half the town gathered there to see and to hear and to give good wishes, and everybody felt so good, that they kissed all round, and they have been talking about the handsome couple and their bright prospeects ever since. And there was another one yes? terday at another church, and the young people put in again to lend a helping hand. My young folks stayed at the church all day, with a whole flock of chattering birds, and they say they want? ed a frame for a wedding bell to hang in the center of the arch, and so I bad to hunt an old bird cage and take out the bottom and squash in the top and make it bell shape, and then I got an old wash pan and cut out the bottom and turned it upside down and fastened it securely and made a first-class bell frame. The girls covered it with evergreen and roses and nsed a large calla lily for a clapper, and so it was a success and I contributed my mite to the elysian show. There was no? body cryiog that I observed, and all went merry as a marriage bell. I like the Episcopal marriage ceremony better than any one, except for one thing that sometimes don't fit the poor fellow when he has to say "With all my wordly goods I thee endow," and perhaps he hasn't got anything but a dog and a pocket knife. It reminds me of the fel? low who wanted to quit his wife and con? sulted a lawyer as to the division of. the a?sets. "Squire," said be, "spoain' a fel? ler what bad nothin' married a gal what had nothin', and they agreed to quit one another, is his things hisen and her's hern ?or how ?" I married a couple once. It was thirty five years ago, when I was a judge of the inferior court and lived out in the fiat wooes among the poor folks. They sent for me one night, and I walked about a mile to a ljttle log shanty that had but one room and two . beds and a mud and stick chimney, and a great, broad fire place. The old woman was baking bis? cuit and gingerbread on the hearth, and frying chicken and roasting 'taters and making coffee. She had a pipe in her month and her daughter had a snuff stick in hers. There were about a dozen of the neighbors standing around the door, and when I said howdy, I asked if the parties were ready. They pointed to the girl and said she was, but Jim hadn't come. In a few minutes Jim put in an appearance. He w?% h rough country boy and chewed hin tobacco bard and fast. He was "nkeered," the boys 'said, and so was I. The outsiders came in and I soon bad Jim and Sally before me. I had got my lesson pretty well and was proceeding along to the close, when sud? denly I remembered that the law required me to see the licei.ee before performing the ceremony. I pauzed and said : "Jim, I forgot. I must see the license before I proceed." Jim looked bewildered and alarmed. Sally put ibe snuff stick in her mouth. After a few moments of silent embarrassment one of tbe boys came forward and handed the document and said: "I reckon that's hit. I forgot to give it to Jim." So I had to begin at tho beginning and do it all over again. When I pronounced them man and wife, tbe old woman smi'ed and said : "Jim, Balute the bride?that's the way I was mi'rried." Jim give her a smack that sounded like pulling the stopper out of a jug and the boys all followed suit, and tbey looked at me in such a way that I took a delicate tuste of what tbey had left on her juicy lips. I think she enjoyed it, for I wan pretty good looking then. ' The old woman invited me to stay to Bupper, but I excused myoelf and depart? ed those coasts, repealing those beautiful lines of Tom Moore about marriage : "And oli, tbero be an elyslum on earth, It is tbis-lt i s this 1" I took note of that young couple for several years?I felt an interest in them, for I had joined them together, and knew tbey lived happily. Jim was a hard? working boy, and supported his wife and her widowed mother in comfort aud in peace, and after the old woman's death he emigrated to Texas, and got him some good land and prospered. Tom Moore always wrote pleasing and delightful things about marriage, but By? ron was a woman hater, and had no con? fidence in woman's love. He said: "Marriages from livo, like vinegar from wine? A sad, 60ur, sober beverage," etc. Pope does not commit himself, but said: "Grave authors say and witty poets slug, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing." And he encourages the spinsters by saying, "There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late? Sho CnJs some honest gander far her mate'" Tom Hood sympathizes with the girl when he says: 3nt alas?alas for woman's fate, Who has from a mob to choose a mato, 'Tis a strango and painful mystery! But the more tho eggs the more the batch, The more the fish the more tha catch, The more tho sparks the worse the match,* Is a fact in woman's history." Emerson, the man who never smiled, was a cold, calculating philosopher, and was wedded to his own thoughts rather than to woman. He said : "Is not marriage an open question, fur such as are in tbe institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?" A poet cannot dieguise his heart and it is a comfort for woman to know that the greatest and purest and best of them have paid homage and tribute to the married relation. But the man and the woman must be mated as well as married. It is the mismating that brings so much discredit upon the Institution and keeps the young men from proposing. They are afraid to venture?more afraid than the women. I have known many a girl to keep her lover in tow, butat a respect? ful distance, hoping for a better catch. After while she accepted him as a last re CHUESDAY MOKNI sort. Colonel StanBell told me to-day of a young married woman who some yearB ago came to him to procure a divorce. As she was very reticent about stating her grounds for asking to be separated, he encouraged her by reading over the vari? ous things that the law expressed, but she said no to all of them. When he pressed her for a reason, she blushed and said she had married him for fifty, but had found out he was seventy-four. The poor thing had been tempted by his property to throw herself away, but he tightened his grip, and she was neither an old man's darling nor a young man's slave. How sadly romantic was Sam Houston's mar? riage, He was a great man, a grand man ; the governor of Tennessee, the friend of Andrew Jackson. He married a beautiful and lovely woman, and they had apparently every reason in the world to be happy, but shortly after their union he observed that she was not happy, and on pressing her gently for the cause, she told him frankly that she married bim through pique?that she had another lover whom she had discarded without just cause and her heart was breaking. Houston never upbraided' her, but in a few days kissed her an affectionate fare? well, and left her forever. He wrote her from the Cherokee nation to sue for a divorce, as he had abandoned her. She did so, and was married to her lover the day the divorce was granted. Houston marriedjMiss Lee, of Alabama, afterwards with whom be lived most happily, and they were blessed with a flock of good children. But tieing and untieing are very differ? ent things. Tbe one is glad and the other Is sad?very sad. There is no gloom upon earth as dark as that which bangs over broken vows. I t brings a cankering, corroding Borrow that preys upon the heart and ends only with death. Our people have long been blest with com? parative freedom from the flood of divor? ces that overrun the north. Illinois has only twice our population, but twelve times our number of divorces, and it is nearly as bad in ail tbe northern States. They tie and untie at their pleasure, but still they are unhappy because the negro can't vote. May the good Lord deliver us from their miserable condition. BrLL Abp. ;wiiy Tliey Wer* Poor, Two ragged young men, with faces pinched with hunger, stopped the other evening before a stately dwelling iu one of our large cities. As the curtains were, not drawn, they could, catch glimpses of the interior, tbe walls lined with books and pictures, and prettily dressed children playing. A grave old man, with white hair, alighted from his carriage and en? tered the house. One of the men muttered a curse on the "bloated aristocrat." Why should they live on tbe fat of tbe land, while you and I toil and Btarve." Now this was a hackneyed, popular bit of pathos, which has been effective since time began. Tbe world invariably bostows its sympathy upon tbe poor man out in the cold and darkness, while it is apt to nuapect the rich man, simply because he is rich, of being a selfish tyrant. The facts in this case were that the owner of the mansion had earned his fortune dollar by dollar, by steady, hard work. Now that he bad earned it, much of his time was given to considering and relieving the wants of bis poor brethren. He was sober and frugal and temper? ate. The men outside bad chosen drink and gambling in pool rooms instead of work. They had their reward in rags and starvation. The boys who read these lines will soon take their places as citizens of a nation, where tbe antagonism between tbe poor and rich is pushed by foolish and vicious men to tbe point of actual combat. Let tbem look at tbe matter as it is, unmoved by false testiment on either side. A man who lives in a pal? ace is not necessarily a Dives forgetful of God, nor is the beggar at his gate Bure of heaven merely because he is a beggar. It waa not bis poverty that carried Lazarus to Abraham's bosom. In this country there a great many men like George Peabody, Asa Packer, Stephen Girard, John Hopkins and Isiah Williamson, who have accumulated great wealth by bard, honorable work, and who have devoted it to the help of humanity. And there are countless poor men who owe their poverty to idleness, dishonesty or love of liquor. Learn to be just, boys, to tbe rich as to tho poor, and you will be lacking In charity to neither. If you inherited wealth, remember how hard it is for those who put their "trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God." If you are poor, remember you are no more honest, estimable or devout because you are poor. The man with five hundred dollars a year may trust in his money and exagger? ate its value as truly as the man with millions. If you lie or cheat or steal for a single dollar, it soils your soul the same as if it were all the diamonds of Goicon da._ i'oll is no Hjpocrite. "Now then, the bird will go safely, will she?" she asked of the clerk in the office who gave her a receipt for Poll's shipment. "Yes'm." "And tbe messenger will give her food and water?" "Yes'm." "And?and?he will not try to teach her bad words while in bis charge ?" "Ob, no, no, ma'am." "Because ray husband and I have been very, very careful of her bringing up, and if she thould get to speaking bad words we would?" "Oh, h?111" yelled the parrot at this instant; "give ub something new I" The clerk tried to look at the woman to see if her looks betrayed any particu? lar emotioo, but she wasn't there to look at. Her first jump must bave measured seven feet.?New York Sun. ? A glass factory in the State of New Jersey is said to be engaged in little else but tbe manufacture of bottles for Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, Price 25 cts. NG, MAKCH 20, 18! LANDL1W OF THE BIBLE. The Year of Jubilee and Modern Theories. Atlanta Constitution. They say this is a free country, but if ! you get aoy of it in Atlanta you have to pay from $1,000 an acre to ?1,000 a front foot. The air is free around you and the sunshine comes without cost, but the ground you walk upon can be had only for a consideration, not always for that. There are many people who think this a great infringement upon the natural rights of man, and of all such people Henry George is the apostle. This class is limited as a rule to those who have no land, for those who have it feel that it is an inalienable right to hold and to use what one has bought and paid for. The have-nots, however, are restless and aggressive, and in those countries where they are in a large and unhappy minori? ty, they make their opinions felt until everybody around Is made to shiver in the winter of their discontent. The uppermost .question now in crowd? ed countries is the land question. It is so in crowded New England, it is so in Old England, it ie so in Germany. This is why Edward Bellamy's book, advocat? ing the nationalization of land and everything else, has run to the 30th housand. It is bound to be so as long as some people have homes and some have not. It is this mainly that delays and compli? cates the settlement of the Irish home rule question. The conservatives have now and then shown evidences of a con? viction deep dowra in their hearts that there is right on the side of local self government. It is impossible that a people who wrested the rights of magna charter from King John, should have no sympathy for the same ideas among their neighbors. But they are handicapped by the in? fluence of English owners of Irish land. In parliament, on the hustings, every where iu England, these landlords exert themselves against home rule. They fear their long oppreBeed tenantB, and fly to the government for protection. . It is strange that in the magnificence of the queen's jubilee, no one thought of that other jjbilee canturies ago, a happy year from which the queen's celebration tooks its name. It is somewhat remark? able that the queen should name her festival for one which provided a regular distribution of the land of Canaan among the inhabitants every fifty years, sub? dividing it in exact proportion to the increase of population. No doubt it was thought to be a happy inspiration which gave the name of jubilee to the semi centennial of a glori? ous reign, but there is something of irony and a great deal of rebuke in a name which brings up the diffused wealth of the Hebrew theocracy In striking con? trast with the congestion in a country where a hundred people.own the most of everything?in one oppressed portion of which the foxes bare boles and the birds of the air have nests, but the children of men have not where to lay their troubled heads?where 5,000 were turned out on the highway and forbidden the shelter of the humble roofs which their own hands had raised above tbem. There is some? thing in this that political economy does not provide for, something the financier cannot take into account; but there is a provision in the human heart, a chapter in which the unwritten law works out their solution; and it is to the everlast? ing credit of our much abused nature that the world has a warm heart for the homeless. It shudders at eviction when the winds are howling without, and no man is comfortable in an easy chair if a pinched and purple face looks in at the window, unable to share the warmth within, but poaching pitifully on its light and cheer. It is this that provided our homestead laws, it is this in the bank? rupt law that allows a poor fellow.when he has fallen to get up and try it over, and it is this in the wisdom and geodnesa of man, this in tbe mercy of God, that will work out some equitable plan by which the poorest will have shelter, and the landlord will not be defrauded of his own. In England tbe law of primogeniture has prevented the distribution of land. In Canaan the law of the jubilee made division inevitable. The late celebration of the queen crowned an era in which the land was held in vast estates and wealth in all its funrr- was congested, The great festival of thj Hebrew theo? cracy CBme after seven Sabbaths of years to celebrate the redistribution of the land. On the modern pageant tbe mass? es look with mild enthusiasm or down? right indifference ; the ancient year of jubilee was UBbered in with joy, those who had been homeless and wanderers now returned to the estate of their fath? ers and in it each man of pure blood had his full share. Aman who bought land bought it for forty nine years, or less, and the price was regulated by the number of years before the jubilee. "Iu the year of this jubilee," says the law, "ye shall return every man untohiB possession. And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buyest aught of thy neighbor's land, ye shall not oppress one another. "According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee. According to the multitude-of years, thou shalt increase the price there? of, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for according to the number of years of the fruits doth he sell uuto thee. Ye Bhall not, therefore, oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God, for I am the Lord, your God." What was the result of this? Every fifty years the land reverted to its origi. nal owners, or their decendants. Where one man owned a piece of land at the previous jubilee, thero might be two generations of heirs, often twenty or thirty people, to claim the property when it reverted. Meantime, it might have been sold and re-sold, according to the number of years before the jubilee, but at the end of the time the children of the ancient Jews were in possession. Alien intermarriages were forbidden, and the land was held by the pure stock. The law of the jubilee at once preserved all 30. (he land of Canaan in the bands of the jjews and provided for an equitable dis? tribution of property among their chil? dren. It recognized thei right of heredi? ty, but also recognized the equities aris? ing out of improvements. These equities were provided for, first, by making the tenure forty-nine years, a period in which the buyer and his children could reap the fruits of their labor and get an adequate return for their money spent for improvements. The second and most important provision is in the exception made in favor of the man who bought a dwelling house in a walled city. A year was allowed to redeem it, after that it went into the hands of the purchaser forever. This recognized the fact that improvements may be so great as to overbalance the hereditary right. Village dwellings were not so except? ed. Those were days of war and surpris? es, and villages were liable to be swept away in a night; but the walled city required an army and a long siege to reduce it. The wall and the fortifications were costly, and the work of man, on those few spots, was the chief element of value. Village housea, unfortified and usually of an in expensive character, were of little worth in proportion to the land. The land there had hardly any value created by man and not given by nature. In these days there are no walled cities. There is less need of that kind of protec? tion, but modern cities are fortified at immense cost against .fire, contagion, epidemics, and many forms of disease. The mob within is the physical force which threatens; it has taken the place of the beseiging host tb at gathered around the walled city, and the defensive army is replaced by the po ice. The Trojan horse is now inside the city, and the danger is increased by the fact that we cannot always tell who is Trojan and who is a Greek. In the protective aenue every modern city is a walled city; walled about with its quarantine, its fire department, its police, its sanitary corps, its sewers, and its paved streets. The rights arising under all these improvements cannot be swept away by a theory. The improve? ments have entered into the value of the land aad make by far the larger part of it. .Man has added another value with the protective. His life blood has gone into it, his presence, his. virtues as a citizen, his social qualities that contribute to the pleasure and the happiness of the com? munity, the profits to be made on what be consumes. If you take the area of a city and compare it with an equal area of rural land of the same character in the same climate, you will see how large a percentage of the value is due to the presence of the citizen. In Atlanta, for instance, the corporation line is a circle three and one half miles in diameter, and encloses 6,154 acres. The average value of improved land in middle Geor? gia, would not exceed $20 an acre. At that price the land on which Atlanta is built, would cost $123,(100. The real estate is assessed at about ?30,000,000. It is worth probably $45,000,000. The work aad the presence of men have multiplied the value of the land 365 time?. The agricultural value at present prices is only a little over a fourth of one per cent of the value as city property. Of the present value one dollar is due to the land where 364 are due to the work and presence of men. The actual work in the houses is from $25,000,000, esti? mating the average cost of houses at $2,000 to $2,500. The 900 houses built last year was averaged by the Banitary inspectors at $3,000 each. They were nearly all residences and above the average, but the costly piles of brick, mortar and Btone in the heart of the city will run up the average at least to $2,000, and probably to $2,500. The granite paved streets, the sewere, the waterworks and other expensive improvements amount to several millions, so it will be safe to say the improvements on the land in Atlanta have cost $30,000,000 or about two thirds of the whole value of the property. The other third is what Henry George calls the unearned increment. It is due partly to the general protection of the city which is obtained by heavy expen? ditures paid mainly out of tax on the property?in Atlanta this sum amounts to about a million and a quarter a year, paid by property owners and administered by the city officers. This accounts for say, a half of the remaining third. The last sixth of the value of city^property is du a to the multitude of privileges and rimenities of city life. The whole of this value is fixed and sustained by the opportunities for making money?oppor? tunities that multiply with the increase of a population, in number and in purchasing power. This is the bulwark of the whole, for without it these massive piles would soou be left to the bats. There is a once prosperous city in New Zealand where the owners give a man the rent if he will keep the building insured. But within the city there are a multitude of influence that regulate the values of particular localities. Socal privileges enter into the value of the land and Dame Grundy touches her favored haunts with a golden wand. There are more things about land values tban are dreamt of in Henry George's philosophy. Land vidue is inextricably mixed with the work of men. It baa their sweat and toil and all the trouble they take under the sun, their wisdom and their whims, their virtues and even their vices. All these are recognized and prophesied in the law of tho jubilee, where the walled city was a law unto itself?a reality which became in large measure personality, conveying the advantages growing out of the work and character of individuals. But the law of the village and of the rural districts, as contained in a law of the jubilee, is a rebuke to tbe land grabbers who seek to establish squatter sovereignty over the who^e face of the earth?buying it for a song and holding it against the increase of population. W. G. CoorEit. ? There are only two kinds of women; one kind thinks her husband the greatest man in the world, and the other thiuks she is a greater man than her husband. VOLUM] The Spanish Peanut Agnin: In these days of hard times and shori: crops farmers must "make every edge cut" to make "both ends meet." Therefore, they must not "carry all their eggs in one basket, even if that basket is lined with 'old king cotton.'" Therefore, they must not only have diversified crops, but must choose the best paying crop. Three year's experience has satisfied me that there is uo better paying crop than the Spanish peanut. I have already published the first two year's experience, and now will give the third year's. I planted one acre as I did in former yeani, just like cotton with a similar culture. It was better land, but only produced about the same, fifty bushels, as the season was too wet, cauaiog tbe leaves to rust and the "terns to rot. Planted some orj a new plan?in com, like some plant "cow peas." The corn land was thin, sandy ridge land. Planted the corn the last of March, in rows about six feet wide. Abont the 20th of April opened a furrow in the middle of the coin rows, and planted the Spanish peanuts about 18 inches in the drill. Plowed the corn and peanuts tbe first time with a small plow, running arourd each one time. After that cultivated with a sweep, running one furrow be? tween corn rows and a peanut row. The peanuts didn't hurt the corn and made from fifteen to twenty-?ve bushels of peanuts to the acre. The corn was an early white corn and made twenty-five bushels to tbe acre, with stable manure in the drill. This is the way to make stock feed, and all kinds of stock love the peanuts?horsed, cattle, goats, chickens and especially children and rats. Yields lots of forage, which makes the very best "roughness." Then at the price I haye sold them ($1.50) they are a fine money crop, realizing from $50 to $100 per acre. Hope every farmer will this year try from one to five acres to the horse. Will furnish any information to any one who will send stamp. E. C. Folger. Central, S. C. An Old-Fashloued Girl. "I've been watching an 'old fashioned girl' for quite a long while," says a writer in . the Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel, "and I want to tell you something about her. "Her dresses, etc., were made in mod? ern style; but bless you, she is so old fashioned that she arose in the morning when her mother did, helped set the table neatly, and cooked one or two dish? es daintily her own self. "She had 'graduated,' yet she did :oot think because of that fact that the kitchen was not good enough for her. Ob, no. She was so much behind the times that she actually washed the dishes, made her bed, dusted, and then began preparation for the pudding for dinner. Now, wasn't she absurd, when she (following the accustomed rut) should have been lying on the sofa, with the latest novel in her hand, and her pug dog beside her I When her little brother came in crying because his knife was broken, instead of calling bim a 'horrid boy,' as it is the 'fashion' to do in some homes, she helped with her own hands.to mend it. Bow could she be in such a small business? "After dinner had been cleared away, she produced a small work-basket, and proceeded to mend the family stockings. Shocking! After her task was complet? ed, she accompanied her mother on a shopping expedition; and, although ?he met many fine looking gentlemen, she did not flirt with any of them, for, don't you know, she was so antiquated she would have been shocked at the idea. As if it was not elevating to the intellect to be on the watch for some masculine person to fascinate! "The girl of whom I am telling you was pretty looking, with a bright, fresh color in her, face, brought on by plenty of exercise in the open air and in the kitchen. But I cannot begin to tell yon half this queer girl did ; for, you know, she was so old-fashioned that she did whatever good deed came into her heart to do, and her heart was such an antique affair that only pure, noble thoughts entered it. Her home was made bright and sunny by her presence, and yet she was not bo perfect that she 'diedyoung.' Ob, no. She lives to day, a girl who has 'no secrets' from her mother." Noah and the Devil,. When Noah was planting his vineyard tbe devil came to bim and said: "What are you doing here, Noah'"' "Planting a vineyard," says Noah, "What is the use of a vineyard?" says tbe devil. "Its fruit,"'said Noah, "whether fresh or dry is sweet and good, and it's wine gladdens the heart." "Let us work on shares," said the devil. "Agreed," said Noah. Now what does tbe devil do? He brings a lamb, a lion, a monkey and a hog, sacrifices them on the spot, and then mingles their blood with the soil. "What is that for ?" cried Noah. Said the enemy, "These are four etages a drunkard will have to paaa through ; by taking a little be becomes as simplo as a sheep, allowing everybody to shear him ; a little more, he imagines himself a lion, none so violent as he; a little more, he becomes a monkey, jumping and dancing and imitating all foolishness. And a lit? tle more, he is turned into a sow, that walloweth in the mire, forfeiting the good both of this world and of that which is to come." ? "Is that immovable man sitting on the hotel piazza one of our citizens?" asked a visitor in a neighboring town. "Yes, he's an old resident," replied the person addressed. "He is a very dignified man, I judge," continued the stranger. "0, no; that's not dignity you notice," explained the other, "that's laziness." ? '"No Hiram," said the young girl, sadly, "I cannot be your wife. We are too compatible." "Compatible," he ex? claimed. "Isn't that the very reason why ?" "Not in our case. I should probably insist from motives of economy on dis? pensing with a servant and doing my own housework and you would probably let me do it, Hiram." 5 XXIV.?NO. 37. they lit of sydo-wJ ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? Luck is only the name for having- a enough sense to avoid trouble. ? Fifty years ago the population of the United States was only 17,697,420. ? The revolver and bank cashier are alike, they never go off unless they are loaded. ? There are some men to whom a loss of their reputation would mean mighty good luck. ? Marriage with a man is like the month of March: If be goes in like a lion be never fails to come out like a i lamb. ? If one wishes to take thiogs easy when one is old, it will be necessary to take things that are not easy when one is young. ? Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Aud it's lucky for the most - m of us that there is no building inspector \ around. . \ ? It is not a bad plan to think to . yourself what you would do in case you ' were awakened at night to find your house on fire. ? ? When the women get together they abuse the men, but it is to the credit the men when they get together they not abuse the women. ? The loss sustained by the strawberry Jk men alone in the vicinity of Evergreen, $r Alabama, on account vf the late freeze,;| is estimated at from $2,500 to $3,000^: ? "Doctors are queer men," remarked Dobbin to bis wife. "Why ?"asked"tfie^J lady. "Because you can't show them I your tongue, without they nhow you their " bill." ? The building proposed to be built in Chicago for the World's lair w*11^ coyer 193 acres. Its roof will be 1M feet high, and it will cost $5,865,000. .1 will be built of iron, glass and tiles. ? One of the greatest drains on th^ forests of this country is the railroad tie there are two hundred thousand miles of f single track in the United States' resting on wooden ties, averaging twenty-five hundred to the mile. ' ? A very large letter was recently mailed in Australia. It weighed 238' ounces, and the value of the stamps on it '. amounted to $55. That girl had better go back borne if she wants her fellow to have anything left with which to support her. ? A Chicago roan-fell in love with a ? telephone girl on account of her voice and proposed marriage. She accepted, but when he came to see her be flunked. Then that sad, sweet voice demanded $3, 000 in smooth, green cash, and he had to fork it over. ? It is said that a rather pompons minister once met P. T. Barnum, the circus manager, and said to him, "Mr. Barnum, you and I have met before on~^ the temperance platform, and I hope we shall meet in heaven. "We shall,"-.; replied Barnum, confidently, "if you're there." ?A Cincinnati man who bus preserved a record of three hundred and twenty railroad accidents happening in this country in the past year, finds that only thirteen out of the lot occurred from causes beyond human control. Every one of the others was due to drunkenness or carelessness, ? Every day girls are showing them^ selves capable of rivaling the Jboys their college and school matters. It is stated that half a dozen or more have been expelled from a female seminary at' Culpeper, Va. They stripped an offen? sive classmate and blackened her from1 head to foot with shoe polish. ? All estimates agree in placing the probable total population of the United! States, which this year's census will show at sixty-five millions. That would be fif? teen millions more than the total of 1880, and would represent a growth of thirty per cent., or the same as that of the de cenial period from 1870 to 1880. ? A bill before the Ohio legislature provides that when any person is con? victed of a crime, it shall be the duty of the court to inquire if the person convict? ed has a wife or any children under eighteen years of age depending upon I him for support. If there ate such persons, the family is entitled to receive 60 cents per day from the county for their support. ? A remarkably bold and successful' robbery took place at the court house at Wabash, Ind., on Thursday. While the; corridors of the building were deserted; during recess, the county treasurer's office was entered from the main hall, and the money drawer under the pay counter was forced with a pair of shears. Seve hundred dollars in checks, currency and silver was taken. The thief then locked the door and departed. ? The story comes from Augusta that recently an uptown hen hatched out a lot of chickens, but to one of them, for some unaccountable reason, showed much I aversion, finally driving the little chick from her flock. But the chick quickly found a sympathetic partner in a puppy that owed allegiance to the sa household. They eat and play togeth When the chick gets sleepy it hops on the back of the dog and dozes away with as much confidence as if under the pro tecting wing of its mother. ? Captain J. W. Wofford, of Spartan burg, has just received letters patetf for an improved feeder for cotton gins. His invention is the result of actual perience. After trying the beat feed of the market, he ascertained that all them would convey foreign substanceo the gin. Matches, stones, ? bones an sticks were carried with the cotton an brought in contact with the saws. Eis simple, strong and durable; it is structed in such a manner that all forei, substances will be rejected before t cotton reaches the gin. The cost of will be no more than the feeder now use. Captain Wofford will make arrangi ments to have these manufactured put on the market before the ginnin season opens. Its Excellent Qualities. Commend to public approval the cJ fornia liquid fiuit remedy, Syrup of It is pleasing to the eye, and .to the and by gently acting on the kj^ liver and bowels, it cleanses the sj effectually, thereby promoting the tel and comfort of all who'use it.