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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. THE * 51 ?Pi I I fl With Feeder and Coiide.iLs^v, WITH EEVOLVING I-ITHAD. THE BEST GIN MADE?embracing nil improvements, and correcting- faults in ether?. JL PBBFBGT GrUsT! THE ACME POWER COTTON PRESS THE BEST, CHEAPEST AHB MOST PRACTICAL COTTON SEED BUY De LOACH SAW MILLS A Foiir-horsc 3;:j^iz?? RhsiH Thoasi. BTERS FOB FARM MACHINE SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. ?o.OO ?5,00 ?5.00 REMEMBER that we oiler our usual Premium of Fl Vi: HOLLARS for the Lar? gest Turnip raised from our "Hec? 1 ami brought into our Store by loth November. ORR *V SLOAN. WAGONS, WAGONS. _AT YOUR OWN PBICE, I HAVE determine-.: in l'!7i''.>r'"oc'..) bandle '-V.;.:..?:.=. and for the next few weeks I will oiler the V/agoaa i :t >v; S:av. ??? i "T Af:'M:--""?:!uri:! V price*. Come early and see me. I :?t!)l keep on iia < ??? BUGGIES, PH/rr?BJS, ??ARTS, ETC "Which can be bought at L >\v l'fire*. ? I? s W I? a% a ^ a #?% is always oj?ct? ready P.-r buMnc?*. j, Li McGEE. E. F. DIWEE, Proprietor. Builder and Repairer Gf ail Kinds { ?oaler in of Machinery. i ?ft?ehlaary Supplies. I HAVE established a I'JIST CT, V?!'? >L::n DFA' in o):i::cc!,imi with mv MA? CHINE WOUKS, and can supj/.j) > ,11 with kin ! ??? yse of CA m IN(JS, irotn a pair of Kirc l)o?s 10 a Iran >rc Fro it. Whero your old Gins can b - repair d ai bort ;?.: workmen. ~ I ways ready to do your ?vori:, and wilt il .ve .t supply ('f good pliv. ? am? Manufacturers' Agon* for ail fcto's or :/;r,chir:cry, And keep on hand :i larycsui OILS, ftc. Also, N-'w and r> ? &X>" Come and -r:L' mc. May 8, 1SS0 if Ll:Ar.-: 1 1 ink PII'INC. iTTTINCS, on hand.* <>m 9 a v. : ??? ?i-'.-' v it * j\ v-^.- ?-.,. ^ EMEMKER, v. 1 tliii: v Wn liny nil !?.;??: .. Idil . I.n! ? n.r.l! l.ijb-; 1 ?!?. No o?!C. stnlc ?Miry ''<??'?> " r-.r v>!i or ]V;r!**r. TEjA?HEftS'GoifUMN, ??!??All communieatic .s iniomk'il fo tliis 'Jolniun should bo addressed to I?. H UUSSKIjL, School Commissioner, And or .son, S. C. "TEACHING." The following Essay was rend by Miss Lizzie Anderson at the recent Teachers' Institute: "What a general subject!" I hear you say, "Why in the world didn't you take some pari ot it?something more spe? cific ?" Well, nothing *ould have suited mebetter, if 1 only could have decided what to take. When I read Mr. Kus? sel!'.! note requesting me to prepare a paper on any subject I chose, I thought and thought and thought, nud the more I thought the more bewildered I became. Finally, when I had given up all hope of ever deciding among the subjects con? tending with each other in my mind, a dim light flashed over that chaotic mass, aud 1 observed two or taree which seemed to have the mastery over the others, so then I concluded not to wait any longer for only one to present itself, but lake up my pen at once. Hut 1 beg yuu to remember that ii H not because 1 know so much about the whole thing that 1 chose the above, ilenll ? and truly I fear there is ? totally iliii'crent reason, that of knowing so little about any doc of them (f any further apol? ogy is needed this paper, no doubt, will be able to apologize for itself; but just here let me say : I had rather be right than be original, so you are not at all likely to bear anything new in this?just what has been said time and again. I would like, i. I only could, to get down to our every day needs, for now is the time for each of us to think for our? selves what we lack?what difficulties we have to encounter in cur work, while we have these kind instructors here who are able and willing to help us. The day of machine teaching has gone by, and that filled with life and vigor is taking its place. Education once looked backward and con.-isted simpiy in im? parting to the child the wisdom of the past. It now looks forward and seeks the development of the highest powers through !he self-activity of the child, lu other words, the teacher helps the child to educate himself. How ? By put? ting a book into his hands and telling him to "Get that lesson by heart." Ah, wc all know the words of the book arc often memorized without the ideas contained therein. The victim of this mode of study gropes helplessly among the mass he has collected fur replies to the most common-place questions, and is never sure whether !ip Iihs drawn the riebt answer or no:. Memory work should be ; incidental; rules, servants; processes i means ; and thinking, the central point of ', a lesson. No doubt yuu have all seen ? pupils in solving problems in arithmetic : du splendidly when holding the book | and following the rules, bui jus; put them i on their own ri'-.uirivs and ilu-y are At ; st-a. They are akin u> the well known j boy who foiled in work a pr-iblem con cerniug turkeys, because he c< uliin't find ' the'?turkey rule" in his iio-.-k. Arith? metic is truly a though; study;? not much ! in it hi memorize, unless i; is ti e : :u:ii- i piuatiijii table, and a row of buttons on a win- wiil do away with some of that. If our pupils form the habit of relying too much on what the book says without doi;:g much thinking themselves, it will be hard ever to get them to do otherwise. The listless manner in which some pupils I go through their recitations is often due to this form of study. I do not accuse teachers here of teaching with the above result, but we are constantly subjected to the temptation so loug as we place as much confidence as wo do in our text? books, and assign a certain number of paragraphs on pastes, especially to pri? mary pupils. Wc arc aware it takes but half the time and not a hit of skill to j have pupils memorize definitions, in Form study for instance, but what is the result? Only one faculty exercised? facts glibly recalled but soon furgotleu. Ou Hie oihei baud, by means of the i senses, all the faculties have been set i:i ; molir.n and the facts obtained are ever at Iiis command, t>: course the memory retail s thai .vbich has gone through the mill of reason and understanding, much j better than word memorized. Thou should wo teach our pupil's only that which they can comprehend, or have i them memoiize nothing ihey du not i;n- j dtrstand, even ii i: be useful ever after- j wards h, have in mindV In the. old-j fashioned spelling exercise it was j though! necessary fur the pupil to learn ' thc speinhg of a li-t of word.-; without i regard to the meaning; How much bet ter lo put them in thought-bearing seu-r toneo.i .than to deal with isolated words. I am thinking of a class who composed thcir own spelling lessuu on the black? board, and never did eye-, .sparkle rn"re than when it was time fur that exercise, and they .'earned ;o spell, ten The study of things by means of the senses is j often a pleasure instead of a drudgery, j IHit learning can nut always be made ! entertaining. Children.can not be edu? cated by amusement li such were pus- j sible it would umit them for the stern I realties of life, but hard study vvili make 1 them strong, brave, independent men and women. As dessert ]< to dinner, so i-i amusement to study, but do let us have some dessert in 'iir school-'. l>o you think wc eari put too much system and precision i:-.'." uiir work? If a boy in swimming across tin- river pays more ;iHcution tu the motions be is making than to the direction in; is going, lie will be likely to drift, fio with the teacher; he may drift at least away from the pupii, for mind's power to.act may? be endangered by the clock work like ojiCr?tious ofttMj required by she teacher. Wo should not be afraid io vary ? ur plans from day lo day. Iteereatiomi are a m cecity, and a p'ca-'ni change fr??m she regular work on I'riday afternoon iJ most acceptable I i the pupils L"l every exorcise be used wisli " defioHc purpose, and there will be no dead rou'iu'\ Sli'iiihl we permi! our pupils lo rie-h I'orwMrd in one branch, reading, f?:r iiwlame; v,l>'<\" ib?y an- behind in o!li (???:'.' T!i!m^vin-oii'i'i! :?. !r:tehi?r v.'lio had m pupil, nr?| quite iioven yeni.-udd.to read NDEKSON, S.C, T through chart, primer, first, second and third readers?all within six months; Ho was not equally advanced in other subjects. Do you not think loo much lime was devoted to the one thing, and that such a course would fail to develop the mind in all directions? I have also heard the assertion that teachers do too much for their pupils, especially in graded schools, but there is more danger of erring in the opposite direction. Once I happened to hear a teacher as? sign a spelling lesson. .Stic pronounced each word distinctly, and had the pupils to do the same. Some enquired their meaning. She said she would fell them if she only had lime, but she did not once refer them to the dictionary to find out for themselves. Most of the pupils were from it! to M years of age. The reaction from the old memorizing days to the present has brought a dis countgiug feeling to some teachers who are faithfully trying to find the right way and walk in it. In an ungraded school want of time is a great drawback. Much as she would like, the teacher of thirty five to forty pupils can not possi? bly plan and prepare all the lessons of each class separately for the following day. Then there arc so many things that ought to he taught that are not laid down in the public course of study. Lessons in form, drawing, singing?on plants and animals- -in fact, many object lessons and general exercises can be given to the whole school, if the teacher only had time to do it. Indued, I claim she should set apart a time fur these things, even at the risk of neglecting some book knowledge. It may be of use to know the names of the Presidents of the United Stales, and of all the sover? eigns of England, but the power of think? ing and observing is far more useful. "Nature's open book," if more freely used, would banish much sham learning from our schools. Oil, that we could have in our school rooms not only eyes which can see, ears that can hear, brains that can think, but aiso controlled by a will made sensitive to the lightest touch of duty. Now, I would like to know more about the application of motives for study. We can't appeal alike to all pupils toil? ing them "it is a glorious thing to study," etc They will not listen to the higher motives. If we could only establish the right feeling?"love for study"?all the rest would be easy, but we can't always do that. The hope of promotion and the fear of losing a grade furnish sufficient stimulation in graded schools, but we hav'nt that to stimulate a pupil in our country schools. I have in mind a pupil who studied well enough, but very nu witiingly. Declared he would never put his loot inside of a school room if his father did not require him to do so. Ijiiw much better for the boy and his teacher if he could have been brought to see hi: duly fn m a different standpoint. But he is not half s:i bad aj. the boy who possesses so small an amount of'energy that I-5 doesn't care whether he knows his lessons at all or not, or the girl who deems -uc'n low studies as gram mar, geography, &c.j entirely too insignificant for her superior intellect, and who, in answer to the question "Have you solved all ::?<: problems assigned?" would be likely to reply, "I did not think it worth while t) work but one or two, all of them looked as if they were, so simple." Oh, do help us, teachers of the Institute, and show us how to inject into the vains of these indolent pupils some of the "elixir of life." I imagine that iherc are not a few of us who arc ready to quote the old adage that "Teaching children is not working with little angels all the time." Even now the ''star of the unconqiiered will rises before me," but I bear no spite against the dear little things. As a gen? eral thing (he child, naturally, is good, and, if he were always surrounded by an atmosphere of truth and right, the wrong would have little opportunity to a-sert, What a tremendous influence for right or wrong is exerted by parents and teachers. The assertion that our leaching is not practiced enough is a hard'one to under? stand. I think that whatever we teach is taught with a view towards Us future use. either to develop the powers of the child, or to train him for his work in tne great human family. It is not the work of the public school to give a business or professional education, but these advo? cates of "practica! education" seem to think so. In other words, they believe in teaching only that which will assist one in solving the "bread and butter" problem, or will aid iu bringing in dol? lars and cents. If such things were the object of an education, what a set of narrow minded people wo would be ! Then, why do parents interfere and say, \ "Don't leach my child such trash," while ail the time the teacher knows it is not "trash" at all, but just what the child needs to wake him up, and make him think'.' But it makes very little differ? ence what people say, for we have jouly to heed just criticism, and do the best 1 we can to improve. "Let us be content lo work?to do the thing we can, and not presume to fret because it's liltlc." I think J hear the self-satisfied non Insti? tute teacher a<k such questions as these : "What's the use of my wasting time over their les sons in primary geography and arithmetic when 1 know all about them, and all 1 have to do is to ask the ques? tions'.' What's the use of my beiug so pvtTilcn\a?. p.uvfcovr, wuh ?iese iiltfc shavers? 1 won't receive any thanks lor it. What's the use my working my? self nearly to death for them, when I'm not paid lor half I do already? What's the u-e of spending what little I do make in buying books or papers, or in attend j ing Institutes'? Tin: people here wouldn't I appreciate it." Hut it will not lie long, ! I a-sure you, until this teacher will *o I lib qui/.s thus : "Why is it thai that i little upstart, who is .mo', a graduate of any college, should get the place ! ap j plied lor.' I'm sere lie doesn't deserve it, even if he does allein! the Institutes every summer. Why is that I happen to to tret into a neighborhood every lime where '.be pe?qde lake no interest in edu? cation ? M,;dn'l I belter quit t'-i.'. tin thankful hu-im s*, am how, am! g > at j something else?" If !h:>i I iJ' qn> lion should be answered it: (be al'inr.ative, ne st of.u.-. Weilhi be leiiipfed l?i he- low 1 the plandi! "W: M done/' May it ?! "i c HUliSDAY MOHNES of IB ever deem ourselves loo wise to attend and take an interest in our County Institute. Well, you think you've had enough talk from an humble source?so do I. You know we can not always practice what wo preach, yet our preaching may be correct. It in wcli to have an idea], though we never reach it. Without an idea of something, we can never reach out to attain anything better. ''Not failure, but foir- aim is crime." Congressmnn Tillman Opposed to the Sub-Treasury Hill. Wasjh n*( .fox, August 11 .?Congress? man George I>. Tillmnn of South Caroli? na, the brother of Farmer I Sen Tillman, who is tobe the next Governor of the Palmetto .State, has written an alliance letter, which will create a sensation, lie is brief and pointed, and in answer to the sub treasury question firmly replies "no." The letter is written to an alliance committee of Harnwell, composed of Messrs. W. 13. Rice, W. G. Si ranis and J. K, Smith. Me says: I have received your official letter, as the organ of the Barn well County Farm? ers' Alliance; requesting my views as a candidate for Congress in the Second South Carolina District on certain mea? sures of proposed legislation indicated in five interrogatories. Understanding from your communica? tion transmitting the interrogatories that you do not want a long letter, but only categorical replies, 1 shall be as brief 'as possible to define my position without equivocating, by merely quoting each interrogatory separately and making abso Into answers thereto. Will you, uninfluenced by party caucus or otherwise, support the following prop ositions in the National Congress: First?The abolition of the national banks and the substitution of legal ten? der treasury notes in lieu of national bank notes issued in sufficient volume to do the business of the country on a cash basis ? Yes. Second-A freer, unlimited coiuagd of silver? Ye?.. Third?That Congress bsuc fractional paper currency in sufficient quantity to facilitate exchange through the mails? Yes. Fourth?Do you approve, and will you support the financial system known as the'''sub-Treasury plan" adopted by the National Alliance and Industrial Union at St. Louis, December 7, 1SS0 ? No. Fifth?The enactment of such laws as will prohibit the ownership of lands by aliens ? Yes, but this has alreadv been done by an Act of March 3, 1SS7." AN ALUAXfc'EMAX AND FAUMlil!. Permit me to add that for thirty years I have had no industrial occupation but cotton planting, which ought to identify me /.ealousiy with the welfare of cotton planters, who not only constitute the bulk of my constituents, but have repeat? edly honored n:c with high commissions, and that if re-elected to Congress I shall continue in the future as I have done in the past to support whatever I believe to be the best for the interest of my class and section. I myself am a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and deeply sym? pathize with the purpose-sand ellortsof the organization toreliovethe widespread and long continued agricultural depres? sion, but the South alone cannot correct the fiscal and financial abuses of the Federal government, which is now and has been dominated by the Eastern Stales ever since the war. The West must co? operate with the South before success can he achieved ; and in conclusion let me take the liberty of advising the South ern wing of the Alliance to move a little mere cautiously till it shall have been demonstrated that the western wing are in earnest about taking the proposed new departure of abandoning sectionalism and uniting with the South for a redress of mutual grievances. Very respectfully, G. D. Tii.i.max. In speaking of his letter to-night Col? onel Tillman said: "My letter tells it ail. No one that reads it can fail to un? derstand my position."?From theAny tu? la Chronicle. Killed Before Ins Wife's Eyes, II kill lax i isj, N. C, August 12.? Une of the most thrilling, horrible and deplor? able, tragedies in the history of the old North State transpired near here yester? day afternoon late. Falling over a precipice one hundred feel high, Mr. Vanderhorst Lewis, ime of South Carolina's most prominent rice planters, was dashed to death. And thai, too, before the eyes of hi* wife, his daughter and his niece Then for three hours the wife, by lean? ing over the edge of the precipice, looked ?t.her husband; unable to reach him. Highlands is one of the most popular resorts in North Carolina, and is frequent? ed by the wealthiest, most refined and prominent people of the two Carolinas, Many private, cottages have been erect cd here, and one of the handsomest on the table lands was the summer home ol Mr. Lewis. Tliisiyeai Mr. Lewis's household con? sisted of himself, his wife, one of the most beautiful and accomplished society women of the Palmetto State, their only child and a niece, Miss Vanderhorst. Two miles from the Highlands arc the Gleen Falls a popular resort. Along one side is a steep precipice over one hun? dred feet high. This is a favorite prome? nade for the visitors, and on Monday j afternoon Mr. Lewis, bis wife, child and niece, left the collage for the falls. After reaching the falls, the party w;.s i walking alone near the edge of the pre? cipice, when Mr. Lewis's foot slipped. Before he could regain himself he tumbled over the edge and dropped to the bottom, fuily one hundred feet below. There was no one near to assist him. The iadies began calling him by name, but received no response. Mrs. Lewis rushed to the edge of the precipice, and by leaning cautiously for? ward could sec her husband lying a hun? dred fret below. Jit: was motianlc-s. The distracted wife continued to call him by name; but no answer came back. For three hours she remained upon the very brink of the terrible fall her hus? band had taken. While Mrs. Lewis was keeping up that terrible watch, Miss Vanderhorst was running to the High? lands, two miles away, for help, j Worn-out; she reached the hotel and j startled the guests with the tra.-ic story. Instantly a duzen men started for the ci?r. When they reached the place they found Mrs. Lewis holding-her child by the band, gazing down upon llie appar? ently lifeless body of her husband one hundred feet below. While i-ome one look charge of her, others went below lo rescue the husband. ? Mr. Lewis v.;-.-, alive, but beyond a n :di I it ion of bis siluat.imr. He was carried i tu Iiis cottage and an hour later dii i. Iremain ; were scnl to i !liar!< -!? n i to day. j Mr. Lcwi.s'.s sad death lias cast ? gloom i over the place and Iih wife's grea' sorrow I was sad lo witness'. Several years ago another <?? utleman b's! his lift* in lite ?:iinn ir:ty :il alnut iiie Kami" -pi:'. I< i.< 11 o pile.', that the l,;o ? e. >:i mop hiin been cut very -.<.:! '??. !ry ' weather and hot wind'. IG, AUGUST -21. 189 BILli AHl'-'.S I'lIILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution, The Ibiee bill is n big lliin?r. and .-o is LliC boycott ami the alliance, and the pri? mary election, and the elephant, but our conk has quit.- end that's what's the mat? ter at our house. She said she was tired, and T reckon she was, and I'm tired, too; paying $1.0 a month and perquisities A cook's month i- four weeks exactly, and that is right, for they don't understand fractions, and so I pay her every Saturday night. I nay in silver and they."like it, and [ hope the free coinage will begin soon. I do want to handle some free money. The truth is, 1 wanted m r to quit. Site is n good cook and gebt around lively, but we don't cook nct so much when we have to do it ourselves and thing- last longer She will have a resl and we will have a rest and then send for her again and renew Ilm battle of life. J said 1 would cook breakfast; and my wife naiiI .-he would cook dinner and the girls would cool; supper ami wash dishes all day. and so I got up early and fired up the stove and filled up the lea kettle and put on the hominy as usual. It had been a long lime since I made biscuit, but I hadn't lost the lick, and bad a family reputation lor healing Dclmcaico on bis cuit. I found the tin cans in their accus? tomed places?one with soda an:! the oth? er with acid, as I thought; and I measured them both and mixed with the .'lour. Then I got the lard and the milk and the salt and made up the dough. Weil, of course, I didn't forget to was!; my hands first of all, and if they were not clean they became so by the time the dough was made up. My wife she likes biscuit right hot from the oven, are.', so 1 dident put them in the oven until the family were all ready and the beefsteak was broiled ami the coffee made. Hut those biscuit behaved very peculiar. Instead of rising upward I hey fell downward; and got Hatter end thinner and uglier as they baked and browned, and so 1 tasted one to see what was the matter, and it was as sour as vinegar. The family were all seated at tbolestive board awaiting the morning feast. 1 asked the blessing as usual, excepting on the biscuit and wailed for remarks. Mrs Arp looked at them with curiosity all over her countenance and as she split one opened and raised it to her olfactories said : "Why, what upon earth did vou out in the biscuit!" "Von told me lhat I would fiud the cans where they used to be," said I. She went, to the kitchen and when she returned said: "Well, you got hold of the wrong can? aud you have pur. acid in the flour twice and no soda at ad and made up the dough with sour milk besides." So she got some lighlbrcad and toasted it and wo got along pretty well, anyhow. My failure was privately discussed and I heard somebody say ? "Your pa is get? ting loo old, anyhow, and Ids eyes are not good and you had better look round and hunt up another cook. If you can find one who can cook breakfast and milk the cow we can tret along very well the re=t of the day."' 1 never said, anything, but the next morning I slipped out while they were all asleep and I got a breakfast that was a breakfast, and my Iforsford biscuit were just elegant. I wrs nearly ready to ring the bell when t!i2 cook came, i was about to discharge her when I thought of the cow. "Vou can milk the cow," said I, and I gave her the food and the bucket and as she went forward she ."aid, "does she kick :" "I\o,".said I, "she is very gentle." In a few mi mil es I looked lhat way, and she was tilting on a box on the left -ide of the cow and pulling away at the milk for dear life, and she looked at me and said, "1 can't milk dis here cow." Jit-.; then old Sukey raised her hind leg with a jerk aud kicked her and the box clean over. "J knmved flat cow was gwiue to kick," said .-he "Did you ever milk a cow." said I. "Used to milk sometimes when I was a chile," said she. ''You have forgotten which side of the cow to milk from," said I, and 1 gave her leave In depart these coasts withVdaerity. The next one was a young woman, with a red striped silk handkerchief, that she to? ted around in one hand at the table and didn't know what to do with the other. We had company for dinner. The girls had prepared it and had ice et earn, for dessert, and while the company was en? joying it insido the dining room; our new woman had helped herself outside. She dined and left us without saying good? bye or offering her services as a dish? washer. Like the cowmilker, .-he was a town raised darkey, and, of co.ur.ie, no account. If you want a working woman who can milk and churn and cut the wood if necessary, you have got to take- an old woman, or else a country raised girl. Get one from the Alliance, and if she can't cook very fine, she is not afraid of work. The truth is; the town raised negro men are much better thau the women. Their wives and their 'laughters arc lazy aud proud, and have already got the idea that to work out for wages is unfashionable; "! ain't agwinc to hire out to nobody," they say. A negro man told me to-day thai his wile's sister w?s a good nurse and could get S-3 a month, and lie was gwlne to make her hire out, :sr he wouldn't fee ! her any longer. These ideas of g- ,:'i!y they get from the white people, for ?oeie :y says tits' a working young man or young girl 'v.rc not lir:-: class, and can't mix with our set." ft is a great tiling lor a family to i-e in? dependent; it is a good thing for the boy-f and the girls to fcnow how to do all the family wort, and to be willing to do it, and we have tried to raise our (lock that way. The boys can liang a gate or a window curtain, or put in a pane.of gi:;*s or mend a chair or make a wagon j for the baby, or cut the wo ?c! and feed the j slock, and the girls can paper a room as nicely as Mattck, and they can cut and lit and make their own garments, l"n ni cali? co to silk, ami conk as good a meal-as anyboily, but we d >n't want them to do these thing- all the lime, and they shall not a.T long I can help it. There are some social privileges and pleasures that are reasonable and natural and innocent and we all like to o:;juy them. If a friend comes lose;- me, 1 wish to entertain him pleasantly and cordially, and not have to say, "I've got to cut some slovewood right now, and you will have to excuse me." If ladies call to see my wife and daughters, it would not be pleasant or polite for them to say, "We don't keep a I i.-.-.k and are doing our own work, and you will have to excuse us this morning " j The poor should net envy the rich for en? joying these social plcasur:.nor should the country people be envious of the town ; c tple. All would do the same thing if | titty v.<mU1, \w>\ \\ vs everybody?* en'y to better their condition ii' they can. Nine farmer.-' nut of ten would move lo io.wn if ih'ty.could afford to. They would do U for their children's s.tr e?ior-beJte.i si hool and better Drenchers and better social ad vantages, lint nine out of ten can't move aud so it is their duty to build up I he country schools and country-churches, and raisi* th-J grade oi'both;. Ii the Al? liance dn?- no ;;'!:: ! wt ,v. f;; the legisla? ture than to d;and enfore.e a !.? ; that will e lab'-sh a good ton month s.i i'.- . l i.: ) :?; iclean :.. that can num? ber :'.!;;: r?;:Ij fhtrs b ?: :.??? a the ages of mglii and eight*, a, il v.-Li have accom p!;-,i d ? a: w :: k. t-tjiv-o I be ????ontr. cliihlte:: a rhsmv. i; they had had ?I hen to fore i would have been in the country fanning until ii".,, lor lucre my children spent the happiest years of life. Thev talk about it yet wiiii memorivs i I delight. Tin; springs and branches, and lidi ponds and Ihe creek and inili not, far away, lite wa hhulc ami springboard the walks through diady; winding wavs ' t i (lie lime ink field, and the littb iqe.ing \ hovomi lb '.' wa<s?verliuiigwith bawlrcr-', I ih;Vdell.; ai d eove-1, .'ill'! meadows, where I Hie v:iM llowers grew. I ho hunl lor litick 0. leben ic*, maypops and blackhaws, and scalybarks and walnuts, the ripened grain, and the grass falling before the reapers blade, and their sweet dizzy rides on the lop of the loaded hay. They still love to tell how they fldied. and seined, and hunted s? iu irre is and rabbit-' and film.*, and set traps for birds and killed the water moccasins that hung in the bushes that bordered the meadow branch. They talk about the coits they raised, and the narrow escapes they had from butting rams and vicious bullsand runaway teams ami they magnify all these accidents and incidents the more and more as time re? cedes from those happy days. If they live to the allotted ai/es of three score years and ten, they will -till recall their farming li!'- with foudt-r memories than any other. I wi>h thai I'm. children ?:( >i.is blessed, bountiful laud could be raised, at least, in part, iu the country upon a well watered, well managed, farm. I'.ti.i. Ani*. I'liadulternicil Wcndacily. ()f ail the reminiscenses of Chickamau ga's iron hail storm, Jim Prot her ton's experience was the hardest strain on credulity. .Mm was fighting lite best he knowed how. He was in the thickest of the assault on Snodgrass Hill; As he charged across the road and over the field toward the Dyer farm, Jim caught a glimpse of the house he was born in. But valor did not make dim forget discretion. He took advantage of all the pine trees he could when going into and coming out of the light. his back was strapped his knap-ack, and over the knapsack was roiled his blanket. The two made a hump which projected beyond the trees behind which Jim took temporary shel? ter. When dim unloaded his knapsack and blauket the night after the battle he found that thirty seven bullets had pene? trated il. "Tos, sir," said Jim, looking the listen? er straight in the eyes. "Thirty-seven bullets had gone into my blanket and knapsack?thirty-seven bullets anil two : buckshot. If I iiad that blanket and knapsack now f wouldn't take 61,000 for it. Alter the battle i gave them to mother and told her to keep Lkcm for me until I came back from the war. Hut you know how it is when folks is moving around. Things get lost. I don't know what became of the blanket or knap? sack/1 There was only one veteran who told a story which approached that of Jim nrolherton iu pieturesqueuess. lie was Private Siunattt who came all the way from Virginia to attend the reunion. Private Siunatl was particularly anxious to meet and renew acquaintance with some of the Twelfth Georgians; A big man of the Twelfth Georgia saved his life. Private Sinnatt said. He explained how. When he got into what seemed to him the hottest place he had ever fot>ud, Private Sinnctt lay down behind a tree which wasn't more than eight j?uehes through and made himself a.-s small as possible. While he lay there wondering how long it would before he would be hit, a strapping fellow from the Twelfth Georgia grabbed him by the leg, lifted him from behind the tree, and lay down where 'no had been. Sinuatt says the Georgian was about twice as big as he was. He couldn't lick him, so he made the best of a bad situation, crawled up close behind the Georgian and kept quiet. It wasn't but a few minutes until a bullet struck the Georgian and killed him. Tinnatt lay still behind the body, which stepped iihci'n bullets before the wave of battle passed on. That is why Private Siunafl says he will always cherish a kindly feeling lor the Twelfth Georgia ? a in1"- Democrat. Acre-, of (.'round on Fire. Cincinnati, Ohio. August II.?Late edition of the evening papers contained bare announcements 61 a wonderful and startling spontaneous explosion of nat? ural gas-not far from Wahlron, Shelby County, Ind., about seventy-five miles from the city, almost on the line of the Pig Four Load. To-night, from passen? gers on incoming trains, full details were received. The scene of the upheaval is near the mouth of Conors Creek, twelve miles from Shelbyvillc. About 9o'clock a tremendous explosion, rocking the entire country for miles around, fright? ened the people greatly. As they ap? proached the spot Jrom where the noise of the explosion came a ivondcriu! sight greeted them. Acre afcer acre of ground had been lorn up to an unknown depth. From a thousand points huge shafts of flame reared their crests into the air. At times it appeared as it a fiery lake had settled down upon the earth, and as the wind liiew across k the appearance was that of a great field of grain swayed by the moving atmosphere. Strangest ui' ail, from the centre of the stream, flames thirty feet high came sputtering and hissing through the way throwing the spray in glittering showers fifty feet each way. The peculiar odor that pervades all natural gas sections was overpoweringly strong, a-; '.fa vast quantify of gas was in the. air. After the .first astonishment was over people began lb look about for dam? ages done, li was found that gigantic cracks iike irreal wrinkles dotted ihe earth lor huudreds of feel in some direc? tions. Stones were found scorching hot two miles away, and as the wind occa? sionally parted the Harnes it was seeu that the earth was scooped out to a depth of fifty feet over an acre in extent. < Jgden's graveyard, an abandoned country church yard two miles and a haif away; was .-buken and graves cracked open. Natural gas was never suspected in that vicinity, and how it caught lire is a mystery. Tu ere is the greatest excite? ment, ami the entire population lor miles around is on the spot. The only damage done i.- lb-: tearing up of some twenty five acres of good ground. To night Indiana has a verit? able lake of fire, lighting up the country fi r miles lion's"This I We oiler one hundred dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannpj be cured bv taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. .1." CHFN'FV ? CO:, Preps, Toledo, (!. We, the undersigned have known F. ,i. Cheney for the last 1"' years, and be? lieve l.im perfectly hobest in ?11 business transaction:*, and financially able io carry out anv obligations ma'!?.? ! ?? their linn. Wit-rCc Tur.w. Wholesale Or ijiaisN, Toledo, i >. W.vlluxs Kix NAN iS M'A'i'.VlN, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo < >. i bid's Catai'rh Cure \< taken inierurd iy, acting directly upon the bb.ud and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi? monials s;=iit free. Price 7">c. pei btilfle; Crtf'SoM i.\ i iriiggisis. 7-V. -? I. W. Funk, a farmerof ITayworth II!., is me of the 1-1,000 inveriuir* who arcCompeting fur the prb.? of l'J?.OOO oinVrcil by tin- government of New Sovdh Wab for th* iiap '.visier..may be 'oeided t.i lie the oi .-t ubdy '?? be'el!'., sive ; ridding that ivnuttry its fear:;:, pest ol crop d. ;i ?v:n-r r.?Li?-.He h:, - received a letter from Australia saying lind the committee which is to decide ihe mattet has looked with favor upon Ids mod" !, and inviting him to-visit Australia anil demonstrate the working of the trap, lie wili pr.ibably do so in ;i few weeks The irap is simple an?! cheap. It is-l device to dump the labldt-.oneai a timo into a j it i>v iiie:uis:oi :i phil.fcrm swum ?"?I pi" !- '? ? 1 >.v ;i - ; p :. ! d li lit. In : Irap . : similai device lie caught fifty seven rabbits in one nighl in a cornficl I VOLU." JfOTOK VEKSUS STiM.Tf. Klci:trir:ly is Ituj.lilly Takln;: iltn !':.:<<? ?I !!<il U'aJcr Tiip advance made by c!c< Irica! science ami application daring the last lev. years has been so phenomenal that it is hard t>> define its extent, and it i; only when an attempt is made to follow the develop? ments in any particular branch that an approximate idea of its mighty pr tgress a; a whole and its far reaching and ever widening infiucneohi the industrial world can be arrived at. From an investigation of om field alone, lliot of the electric meter; it at once becomes apparent that a revolution of limitless extent is being effected in industry and manufacture; There can be no doubt that the electric motor is the most simple and alfeetive piece of me? chanism yet devised for the transmission and transformation of energy in a trust worthy and economical manne r for useful work. It is quite possible that several of those who read these lines may never have seen an electric motor, yet it is none the less true that there are to day already in operation in this country over 30,000 electric motors of various size-; engaged in an endle-s variety of occupations. One company building motor.- reports that its machines are new employed in I nearly 200 distinct industries; and that new uses are found daily. This develop? ment has been seen almost entirely with? in the last three years. From lSS'i up to 1S87 electrical engi? neers aud contractors have giver, their attention mainly to the installation of electric lighting plants in American towns and cities, with the result that there were some 1,200 central stations in operation supplying the arc light o: the incandescent light, and sometimes both; A great many of these stations paid well from the start, but it was soon found that the lighting business was after all a limi? ted one?thai is, it could only be carried on during tbe hours of darkness, so lhat a valuable piant often lay idle sixteen or eighteen hours out of the twenty four. Vet the current which such a plant could generate woub! lend itself as readily to driving au electric motor as to furnishing light in a lamp, and the same circuit that conveyed to the lamps would also convey it to the motors. It was this fact that gave a great stimu? lus to the electric motor industry about three years ago, and led to the perfecting of what had theretofore been a very crude and cumbersome piece of mechanism. As is now very generally known, the electric motor has but one moving part, the revolving armature, and by menus of a pulley placed at the end of the arma? ture shaft its power can be applied to any piece of apparatus or machinery known to the aria; Cut up to 1SSG nearly all the electric motor?, had been badly designed and poorly built, and the cur? rent that should have been converted into power was simply wasted in devol opiug heat, *?o that the machines rapidly burnt out and otherwise became useless and were altogether too expensive to run. At the present lime, however, there are | several electric motors in the market of exceileut design aud workmanship for which as high an efficiency a3 over HO per cent, is claimed, and there can be no doubt that the rale of efficiency in the smaller sizes as well as in the larger is the highest that has yet been attained by any piece of power transmission ma? chinery. Thus an electric motor of one half or one quarter horse power will easily show as high an efficiency as that of another sort of motor of ten or fifteen horse power, yet nobody dreams ci* ex? pecting a gas engine or a steam engine of one quarter or one half horse power to give anything but a small return upon the fuel applied to it. Moreover, with the electric motor an enormous advantage has been the fact that when it has been installed and c-:. necliona have been made with the- cir? cuits connecting it witii the central sta? tion, it is practically ready that minute for work. All that is necessary is the turning of a switch and the current is instantaneously there. With the steam engine, even when the steam is taken from the sieam mains in the street, con? siderable attendance is necessary, and in the vast majority of instances the steam has to be manufactured on lite spot, so that boilers arc necessary, involving the attendance of an expert engineer the supply of water and coal and the removal of ashes. Such steam plants a!s<- occupy considerable space aud throw off no small amount of heat. The idea, however; with tin- ebe'ric motor is to concentrate in a centra! sta? tion all the inconvenience connected with the generation of steam and to transmit the energy in the form of cur? rent, so that ail the user has to do is to draw off the supply as he wants it. just as he would do in "turning a tap to pro? cure a supply of water. New York city, to go no further, fur? nishes many interesting examples of the manner in which electric motor.- nave been applied to a variety of use.;. Wherever the circuits pass they are lap? ped for power purposes, and thus the cenlratstation; widen furnishes current al night I'j- lighting, i.- supplying cur? rent in the day time for power In the lower part Gl the city a large number of motors are in use. These arc generally employed for ventilation purposes; though not a few may be found running freight and passenger elevators. A large num? ber in the section below Chambers street arc also to be found in printing offices. In that section, too, and elsewhere the motors arc employed in a variety of other work, such ^ driving gangs uf sewing maciiihes, saw mills, machine shops; drug mills, pumps, ice cream freezers ami the like. In one of the large confectioner* fac? tories the electric motors grind up all the chocolate and other raw material. A large number of motors are used by dentists to run their lathes and other small machinery. The motor-' may also often be four..! i;: barbers' salo iris, where lliey not only furuis'i ventilation, but in some instances are used to run the rotary brushes piovidc-i for tbe happy custo? mers'heads, I n oue large office ir. the city the electric motor i.^ employed to run a little stamping machine, which stamps thousands and thousands ?'! >i fc unu'.nls everv da? with urserrins re<:ii!ai ity.-AVe- y.-rh S>nu !$:-.:ps, ?Vfgg?--HnPJ l?!?J I'... ;ry. "Softer than "leap's arc- the i'< '.? ? t rcsso, Kinder than i. ve that betrays .:: 1 blesses, Wither than Spring when It : ;!.???? cr.t I tresses Shake forth ?tdigh. -!.i::e with rain. Tlte musing poet, who !:...? burnt his midnight oil until the over {.ised brain beats feverishly against its bounds. has loiirid health in I*.-. We t::m:;'a::.l"s Galisava Tonic, and pa\> ttibute ;?; vi: lues; "Weil m- v be. for its formula lias in it; ingredic:- .? thai have alii-. L-t. d hu? man ailments tv tl:- w? rid \ mug; IViit tie- o <:..': :: ..tio? ;? new and dv lined t. revolutions/::' the treatment of nervous disorders, ma'aria: symptoms; liver x-mn-^ plaints and d. rar.;vd dive ' .:.v. ? and chronic headaches For s:do" hv all druggists; ? A planter in Alp:wr?:l!l5, Ga. br? an acre of cotton, every slaik of which nl' a deep red color, leaf, boll ami lilimm Tili- novel Crop is the product of seed <i '? riVfld three years :ig<? from two i'ti'ks >> red cotton fmsnd in a i-otion \ > Id. Then i.i-i f(.?rlUll" in lh:;i |-.<>-.< ? . it ' . m be perpetuated 1 ? ME XXV. -NO ALL SO ?TS CE :\Ui.VliKAriiS. ? Ono man in Tiilare County, C?l;, h.'ii ' .'.I'!;?' :'.iT' - <>? V.'bei; thi> year. ? A St. !. ?'? farmer !:.:?;? ids barn free n.'ia's by r'i 'l-.- owls If! \'. ? ' >klahoma wen! Dc*mo<TiUic at the first election, after a 'iar;> contest. ? '1 he pi- of the New York posl oillce last year wore more than ?3;700; ooo. ? There :c.c drifts ofguow :':: the Little Smoky mouii'air:; Idaho that are fifty feet ij'ee:>s -- Never borrow trouble. The interest you have ' lor tiicaccomtiioiiaiicii is excessive; ? (leonria is asking for help to erect a monument to Vice President Alexander !:'. Sitphens ? A Long Branch girl has a girdle made of silver doli trs, and it looks like a waist of moneyl ? it is naid oi a fashionable young ;i;r.p. ti nt he never psid anything but a compliment; ? '.William IC. vannerbilt gave a;?5j into check to a young man who was bitten by one of Iiis dogs. ? It is probable that tin1 present cen? sus will locate the centre of population in Jennings County; Indiana. ? At Preston, Iowa, there is a disease that resembles cholera; fifteen persons have died and sev< nty are sick. ? A sheet (if manilla paper six miles in length and live feet wide, without a break, was made nt a papei mill at Athens, Oh., ;hc other day. ? A Democratic Congressional Con? vention in Ohio balloted 000 times with? out a nomination. The meeting adjourn? ed to meet at a later day. ? Atter you have weighed your neigh? bor in the balance, drop a nickel of fairness in the slot of self-examination and ascertain your own moral avoirdu? pois. ? Henry M. Stanley will improve ".ho time- between now and his marriage by delivering fifty lectures in America. After marriage Henry will be the audi? ence. ? W. S. Williams, of Cherokee Cocu ly, Alabama, is the father of twenty-eight children, the eldest of whom is-!!) years old, the youngest 0. Mr. Williams is 70 years of age. ? The extent to which child marriage still prevails in India may ho inferred from the- assertion that there are seventy thousand widows in that country under nine years of age. ? Dakota has a fifteen hundred foot well, six inches in diameter,and throwing four thousand gallons of water a minute. There are in that regiou wells three thousand feet deep. ? At Chisamba. Africa, the young people have asked the missionary to raise a Hag Saturday evenings, that they may know that the next day is Sunday and come to the meetings. ? A health journal says in going up? stairs the mouth should be kept closed. Most wives understand this. It -is not until after they have got their husbands upstairs that they begin to open their | mouths. ? A. young Washington mother who has ir> get up nights to attend to her little child has discovered that if she walks backward she will not hit her shirs against I he furniture in the dark. There is no patent on the iuventiou. ? It is paid that a provision in the charter of Kansas City taxes every voter who neglect-' to go to the polls at a mu- J nicipal election, Vi' ~>0. When he goes to Lpay his taxes lie finds that amount added to "his bill, if he- did not vote st the last election. ? .Ai r. Howard, of ' :?.ss Anchor, tolls of a rather strange ircak of lightning. Me says that in a cotton field a patch of about a quarter of an acre ia killed just two inches from the top on each stalk. Lightning did not strike anywhere in the neighborhood.? Laurcns Atlccrttor. ? The Yankee has got the grip on canned tomatoes, and even if a raw carrot is dropped into a csn occasionally to fill up thee, riittitr.er overlooks it on the ground of accident. Americau tomatoes are now sold in every country on the globe, and are as familiar in Eorueo as in Chicago. ? The ink contract at thirty cents gallon, awarded by the Cincinnati school board shows how g'eat a profit there is in selling at retail. The ordinary price is five cents for a little bottle holding less than a gill, and an;, schoolboy or girl can easily figure up ab- ut how much a gallon of ink would cost at that rate. ? I suppose, Tommy, you love your sister very much,'' said the gentleman who was paying his addresses to Tommy's sister. "1 love her when there are fellers around. She is mighty good to me then, but she is cross as tiie mischief after they are gone. r-!;e i-; 'like a fiddie. She is no good without a beau Ain't that so, Fan?" -- i'l.etc i- a movement on foot to move the S?rth Carolina tribe of Cherokee Indians to the Indian Territory where the res! of the Cherokecs arc located. II. ii. Smith, son i I the chief, is now at home, having been for two yesrsa teach? er in the Western tribe. He is heartily in favor of the move and thinks the mat? ter will be fettled this fall. ? i: was Benjamin Franklin who re? marked, "Avoid aii arguments at home." When Mrs. Franklin a^bed Benjamin to eo out into the yard and split on armful of kindling wood; instead of entering into a controversy over the subject he would put on his !?..-.'. and ;:?> down town to see a man. Thousands of husbands to day avoid argumenis ?! home by .-adopting the same method. ? According :.. !.' Nature, the year 1752, records the ;'.;.-. that the property by ir.dU rubber of era ir.g pencil marks was di covered at ab a;t that epoch by Mr. Magellan, a descendant of the /amou? cagitator whose name i: j erpc-tu&ted in the strait disc ivcrc ; by hi;;; st the south? ern extremity of South America. Pie vious to bread trnrnbs had he- n used as a reiiei; mark era er. ? He stopped on ths corner, gazed in? to the sky, scratt '.i>. i his chiu and pulled hi* whisker". Then he fumbled in h;s vcsl p.-.ckc-t, wri ik! I his brow; pursued u;> id - lip. scratched bis bead and blew his ho>e with a :;:..:t::->r more deliberate than the collet lion of a bad debt. Anon ht cpeued h:.- mi u h, tugged a: his lower lip; muttered, to \c-iv, and fixc-d ids eyes on the ehlm ey tops in a vacant, stony tare tha! soor collected a crowd thr.t*blockaded the sidewalk, lie was a married man, trying in vain to think what it was bis wile had charged him to j be r-urc to get". i - Or. Fell:--, the v.vd! known French 4 \ physkiatl, mention; a (ptocr e:\: c of left- ' dtamlcdbc:- lie found among his pa? re-.. l.t.ly will; a kfi handed baby. When her second child wao a year old, it, ? ?\ was lefr handed. The doctor found she alw.*m carried her children on her h t: hr: >. She way advised to change, and holding inr infant on her light arm it i ? : :'.?:?'.< i 1 j; t- with its right baud an i ???? n I? :. ma richtdiandcdi, si araes fir Ftimmnndnblc. ii it consistent, with the high 2 'ii Syru; id Figs are purposely " avoidi i by the I 'aiifornia !? ig Syrup Company. ', acts '.gentlyon the kidneys, liver s?nd bowel*, cleansing the r-ystcm { ? efi'.-ctuaily, but'it : ? pot a' curc all and j makes no pretensions tht' <vy Imttl i will not sulistsntiiiiC. 1