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BT GIJNKSCALES & LANGSTON. THE NEW S With Feeder and Condenser, with HEvoLviisra head. THE BEST GIN MADE?embracing all improvements, and correcting faults in others. A PBRFI30T G-HsT! tHEAGME POWER COTTON PRESS ? TEE BEST, CHEAPEST AND MOST PRACTICA! COTTON SEED GRUSHER MADE. BUY DeLOACH SAW MILLS. A Fcnr-lior.se Engine Runs Them. HEADQUARTERS FOR FARM MACHINERY. SULLIYAK HARDWARE CO. S5.00 S5.00 SS.OO REMEMBER that we offer our usual Premium of FIVE DOLLARS for the Lar? gest Tnrnip raised from our Seed and brought into our Store by 15th November. ORR & SLOAN. HERE IS WAGONS, WAGONS, WAGONS, AT- YOUR OWN PEICE. HAVE determined in the future noc to handle Wagous, and for the next few weeks I will offer the Wagons I now have on hand at Manufacturer'* prices. Come early and aee me. I still keep on hand a big stock of? BUGGIES, PH/ETONS, CARTS, Which can be bought at Low Prices. MY LIVERY ST la always open and ready for business J. L. McGEE. FOUNDRY A R. F. DIWER, Proprietor. Dealer in Machinery Supplies. Builder and Repairer of ali Kinds of Machinery. X HAVE established a FIRST CLASS FOUNDRY in connection with mv MA? CHINE WORKS, and can supply you with any kind or stylo of CASTINGS, from a'pair of Fire Dogs to a Fine Iron Store Front. I also have a? GIN REPAIRING DEPARTMENT, Where your old Gins can be repaired at short notice. I have a supply of good workmen,a Iways ready to do your work, and will do it promptly. I am? Manufacturers' Agent for all kinds of Machinery, And keep on hand a large supply of BRASS GOODS, PIPING, FITTINGS, OILS, &c. Also, New and Secmd hand ENGINES always on band. JO?* Come and sec ?ie; May 8,1880 44 Cm to GOODS, f JJEMEMBER, wo sell B? rewJs CJoorts. Wo do not buy large hilhvbnt small bills, goods and in that way k'cfp'ttp ?tir ?i<vk, anil have it always Ircsh. Sfo ?>I?I. sJnlo We-Buy all kinds CotttUry Produce for Cash or Eftrtr.r, E. W, TAYI.OR # C'O. TE}AGHE}i$'G0LUMN, ?T""3^ All communications intended fo this Column Bhould be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. A PLEA FOR THE COMHON SCHOOLS. The following Essay was read by Miss Leila Russell before the recent Teacher's Institute ; In attempting to write on this subject I fear that my older and more experi? enced comrades will think me presumptu? ous, for I am very young in the work of teaching, having taught only one school term, but really I feel there are serious defects in our common school system, when I consider the temperature of the weather, and then think that I shall re? turn to my school in a short while. Hu? man nature is a selfish, thing. Whenever anything effects one's own self they investigate tho matter immediately to fiud the cause of tho grievance and to remove it. But to whom shall we look for help. Are tho defects in our echool system due to Unwise legislation? It seems to me that it is due, in a great measure, to the want of interest on the pare of the parents aud Trustee?. If we could ouly awaken in them an interest in the school and its workings. I think it ia in their power to do a vast deal towards removing the barriers. We can not run the school successfully without this co operation. The school is talked over at home. Parents listen to the child's accounts of tho transaction, and no matter how much the child may love his teacher, he will listen to his parent's conclusions. So let us try to get these parents interested in the school by invit? ing tbem to come and see its workingp, by visiting them and talking school to them when and wherever we see them. A further means of interesting them is to send tbem specimens of their children's best work, having succeeded in this it may arouse these parents and Trustees to action, and they will tax themselves heavier for the maintenance of the schools. We might in this way get bet? ter Bchool houses. Some of the houses in use are mere hovels. As Prof. Albert said: "Ought the house where an immortal soul is to be trained, where character is to be built up, to be poorer than our jails f" I visited a school once in this County and found the children sitting on slabs, and having only an awkard desk, which was so high that the children had to stand up to write. How could those children progress? We will not discuss this point further; suffice it to say that this co operation is one of the things for which wo plead. We need longer school terms, also. In most of the common acbools the term is to short that you can scarcely prepare a curriculum, and the children are just becoming interested in their work wheu the term expires. And ere the next sessiou begins, the ideas gained from last session's work have been almost obliterated. This is very discouragiug, both to teacher and pupil. The former almost reaches the conclu? sion that her work is vain, and then, too, the parent is very li&ely to attribute tho non progression ot his child to a defi? ciency in the teacher. Oh 1 we teachers have a great mauy discouragements. The poet was not far wrong when he said: "Uneasy lies the heads Of all who rule, And his the most Whose kingdom is a school." But we are making some improvement in the length of a term. A good many of our schools have an eight month's term, but there is a point of objection here. Most Trustees have this divided, making a Bummer term. They want you to open school the last of November, or first of December, and teach until last of April and dismiss, taking a vacation of over two months, commencing again about the second week in July, and at this time wo are having such hot weather who could do good work ? Neither pupil nor teacher. It is so hot that to exer? cise either body or miud is very fatigu? ing. And as all teachers know, we have to undergo both physical and mental strain, for which we receive very little pay, in a pecuniary point of view, not that we should look forward to this as our only reward, for we have others. Look on it as a means, not an end. In ancient times the Roman soldiers were paid barely enough to buy their salt, so they called it salatarium, and from that we have the word salary. You see a teacher's salary fully illustrates the derivation of the word. It will barely buy tbeir salt. The people dou't seem to realize that good salaries command good teachers. If they would only tax themselves the two mills extra, which they have the privilege of doing, and get good teachers. Teachers who know how to teach. Not every one who has knowl? edge in store is gifted with tho power to impart it. Some of the finest scholars will utterly fail in the school room. If they will get good teachers, then will the children be rightly fducated, and the people also. There will be less crime und lesa use for priaons and jails. School teachers are cheaper lhan judges, and school houses are cheaper lhan jails. So let us pay better salaries, get good teach? ers, and instruct and educate the people. We are repaid partially, though, by the thought that the fruits of our labors are not all reaped at once, but exteud on. Ages on ages after the poor clay in which the creative intellect was enshrined has moldered hack to its kindred dust, the truths which it has unfolded, moral or intellectual, are holding on their path? way of light and glory, awakening other minds to the same heavenly career. We must be satisfied to work energetically with a purpose, not so much for our reward here, as for our reward hereafter. ? There is an old man named Archie Andrews living near the dividing line between Chatham and Orange counties, who will be 103 years old next February. He married when only 17 years old and he and his wife lived together for SO years she haviiig died 3 or -i years ago. Ho has a pom now living who is 85 years old, and another who is 8-1 years old. Mr. Andrews health is gnod, and ho h:m the prospert of living aevcral yo:irs lunger. Now, trot out your old men I ?Chatham, N, C, llccord. lNdekson, s. a, t: BILL ARP'S PHILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution, If the threatened boycott did no other good it certainly waked up the nation. Thousands of people who knew nothing about the Lodge bill and cared less, wak? ed up and inquired what all this racket was about. The newspaper ventilated it freely, and while the northern press de? nounced the boycott, most of them de? nounced the Lodge bill, and so it is all right. When the devil come3 at us with a torch, we must fight him with fire, but when he puts down his weapons we will put down ours?we are not hunting for another fight. Wo are the friendliest people on the face of the earth, but the north can't make us trade with them by force nnr by threats. We won't even trade with "our people unless they are civil and polite aud tote fair. Everybody claimB the right to gratify their preferen? ces and their prejudices. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. We are all more or less clanish. Nine times out of ten, a Baptist will trade at a Baptist's Store, and so of the other denominations. The lawyers stick to? gether, and so do the doctors, and have their fee bills like a trust, and if they sue you for professional service the whole fraternity will swear to it. Labor unions put a trust on their wages and will strike and boycott to enforce them. The far? mers would put a trust on their cotton if they could aad make the world pay fifteen cents a pouod for it, They are running the political machine, and have boycotted all other trades and professions. They won't, play with us any more. Tbey are playing with Zach Hargrove, the high arch-Kepublican of this district, but they wou't play with me. There are lots of Republicans in the Al? liance, and some of tbem were delegates to tho conventions that nominated our members of the legislature and they've got things mixed up bo I don't know where I am nor whom I belong to. I feel like I'm just runoiDg about loose and no bell on. If somebody don't bell me I'll get lost sure. Zach is a friend of mioe and told me the other day to be quiet and raise no rumpus and everything would work out all right. Zach has the Rome poslofiice and .is running the Alliance, but Where ami? An old farmer told me in a whisper that the Democracy bad captured Zach and Palmer and a whole lot of Republicans and it was done on the sly through the Alliance and tbey would get 'em all before long, and the niggers, too, and burst that party wide open, but for the life of me I can't tell whether the Alliance has caught Zach or Zach caught the Alliance. Zach says it is all right and Livingston told me it would all be right if we outside Democrats would be? have, but somehow I don't understaud the machinery. I'm behaving just as good as I can, but I'm not calm and Bereue. Zach winks one eye at me and says "be quiet," and Livingston winks the other and Bays "be quiet," and I am quiet, but I don't know what I have done to any? body to be left out in the cold. I don't see how they can turn me out of my party for nothing. One time my old darkey, who was a Methodist and was given to falling from grace, was overtaken bv a fault in the shape of a bottle of whiskey and be went to sleep on the sidewalk and woke up in the calaboose. He sent for me and I asked him what he had been doing, and be said "nothing?nothing at all, Mas William-'fore God I ain't." "Well, Jeff," said I, "tbey can't put you in here fur no'.hing?no, sir; they can't do that." He brightened up for a mo meni and then looked rouud at the prison walls and said : "But Mas William I is in here?'fore God I is." That's my fix. I ain't done uotbin', but I feel like I'm in the calaboose. I writ to Jud Clemens to help mc out, but he said he couldn't, for he was in the soup himself. I writ to Everett and he said, "be quiet." I wrote to Stewart and he said "pray without ceasing." George Barnes telegraphed me 815 pounds of sympathy and Grimes en? closed me a few lines of poetry, begin? ning: Old Grimes is dead?that good old man? He planned, but God disposes, Harris he knew, and Gorman, too, But did not know one Moses. I asked a farmer where he found Moses, and be said, "in the bullrusbes." But it don't matter where tbey found him. I'll bet he is a good man, for they say he has been a school teacher for ten years and bad the biggest and best school in the couuty. That's a good sign. A man who can mauage and control 150 children is no sardine. Hurrah for Moses. On the whole I don't feel so very bad. The Farmers' Alliance of Louisiana has choked off tho lottery, and that's a good ?ign. The lawyers wouldn't do it, nor the bankers, and Sam Jones says the preachers wouldn't. Hurrah for the far? mers ! Old Father Hayuie says they are not going to hurt me. He lives on the road I used to travel, and bis well is in the front yard, and that's a good sign?he don't hide his water. Old man Phelps was the friendliest man I ever saw, and his well was close to the front gate, and had a trough outside so that you could water your horse, and his apple orchard was close by aud he didn't like it if you didn't stop and drink and eat and water your horse. Father Haynie says if I had stuck to the farm they would have eleva? ted me about this time. Yes, I reckon tbey would. They made me overseer of the public road while I was a farmer. He says if I will move back they'll elect mo a constable. Thanks 1 But the skiea are brightening?tbe clouds are clearing away. If we can make peace with the north it will beat everything else. I won't care a cent about party if we can have peace and be friends. I would be willing to sleep two in a bed with a Republican if he was friendly to us. They write me all sorts of letters from up there, and I believe they are getting friendly. I got three to? day?one from a New York Democrat, who says we made a great mistake in threatening the boycott, for it has de? feated the Lodge bill with its bayonet clause;'that wo should have let them pass it, and it would have killed the Re? publican party so dead it wouldn't even have a ghost. Another letter is from an Indiana man who says: "God bless Bill Arp. His philosophy is cutting, but it is sound. The force bill is an infamous outrage aud we don't blame you for the threatened boycott. I am a northern man and a Republican, but I say 'God bless you. Hit tbem again." The third If ttcr was from a negro?a colored man?and he writes ju3t like white folks. Ho writes from Markbatn, Va., and says: "I speak for myself and my people. We desire our white friends of the south to know that we want no force bill thrust upon us. It will prove our greatest curse, for it will stir up strife and oui race will be the victims. Our true friends arc the southern whites. There is no race problem between tbem and u3, and never will be if the north will let ?3 alone. Wo have lone since found out that the north eres nothing for in?. We aro in the .South to stay, and are doing well. What is good for the white people of tho south is good for the negro and if it takes a boycott to kill the force bill our people will join you in it Your cbedieut servant, "J. L. Saunders. Well, I reckon the force bill is dead, but the animus, tbe malice, the venom that inspired it ia not dead. Tbey Fay that Blnine gave it :i black eye and that ho kicked the lariH' bill in the pit of the stomach, and wo say hurr.ih for Blaine. I'll hurrah for anybody who nrnves him !<r!f r friend and an honest otalesman. 1 d iu't care what parly ho belongs to. Tho fact is, I bnvn'fc got any party now [TUESDAY MC-ENIF except a southern party. I chop my stove wood and have a right smart 'tater patch, but Tom Lyon says they won't let me in. He says I must raise some cotton to put in the Alliance warehouse the govern? ment is going to build. But Zachariah says it is all right and Livingston says it is all right if I behave. Now, please tell me how long an outsider must behave before he can get his naturalization paper and be somebody. I would like to get back into the party if I'm fitten. But still the Alliance treats me very kindly. And some of them hauls me wood just the same as ever and takes my silver dollar as kindly as he used to. Old Father Haynie says he will sell me corn and fodder at the town price. Livingston asked me if Dr. Felton was going to run for Congress against Everett, I said I didn't know. Then he aaid if the doctor run he would be the worst beat man that ever run in the State of Georgia* "I'll come up there and take a hand in that fight myself," said he. Wouldn't that be fun.? Our boys wsnt to see it. The farmers have made splendid crops and they are in a fine humor, and we all want to see some fun. The doctor is a farmer and a patriot just like Everett, and so the general verdict is, "Let em fight, let 'em fight." Bill Akp. The Glympli Murder Agaiu, This quiet village, just across the Sa? vannah river, has long been a haven for divorco seekers from South Carolina, on account of the stringent divorce lawu in that State, ssys a Hartwell (Ga.) special to the New York World. One of the divorce cases to be settled, soon is of great interest. The plaintiff is Mrs. Jen? nie Glymph, and she asks the court to grant her an absolute divorce from her husband, George, with the privilege of resuming her maiden name, Jennie Townsend. At the last term of the supe? rior court she was granted legal separa? tion from her husband, the verdict in the absolute divorce to be rendered at the coming term of the Court. In her petition she gives the following account of her life, which is substantiated by abundant evidence: Twenty-three years ago there was born to the Townsends, one of the first fami? lies of South Carolina, an only daughter. This child was reared in wealth, given every comfort and indulgence. Her beauty was remarkable, and she had many suitors for her hand and heart. Prominent among these were John and George Glymph, the former being about her own age, and his brother being about twenty-five years old. To the younger of tho brothers the girl gave her heart and promised her band. The older brother gave up all hope of winning the girl and appeared soon to have lived down his love. When she was seventeen years old Miss Townsend was being educated in a prominent seminary in her native State, but her love for John Glymph did. not abate, and he proposed an elopement and a marriage at a neighboring minister's and she offered no objection. He was to meet her about eight o'clock at night in the grounds of the seminary and take her in a carriage to tho minister's house. The young man took hie brother into his confidence. John was delayed by some? thing happening, and George went to the grounds to quiet the young lady's anx? iety. When George reached the rendez? vous he found the girl already at the appointed spot and anxiously awaiting her lover. The night was very dark, and as soon as he came in sight she mistook him for his younger brother?whom he very much resembled?and flew into bis arms. Without correcting her he lifted her into the buggy in which he came and drove to a friend's, where they were mar? ried.. This,was made possible by the peculiar marriage laws of South Carolina, which neither requires a marriage license nor a minister to perform a legal cere? mony, but simply to consent in the pres? ence of two witnesses. The girl had not seen the face of the man she had married until he carried her to his homo, and when Bhe discovered her fatal error she was crazed with grief. John Glyrapb, when he reached the rendezvons and did not find bis sweetheart, was likewise grief-stricken; but when he discovered his brother's perudity he took bis disap? pointment even harder than Miss Town send did. Mrs. Glymph succeeded in keeping the matter a secret. Two daughters were born to the Glymphs, but soon George began to maltreat his baud some wife. When John Glymph heard of this he took a house near the Glymphs, in order to protect his former sweetheart if there should be occasion for so doing. Ho did so once and was shot and killed by his brother. George was arrested, but was acquitted on a techni? cality. His wife removed to this place and began divorce proceedings, aud there iB little doubt but that the coming term of court will grant her request. A Freak of Nature. The most wonderful thing that I have ever seen, and a description of which I now propose to give your readers, came before me very unexpectedly this summer, as I was traveling on the cars one night from St. Matthew's in Orangeburg Coun? ty, to Columbia, S. C. You know we South Carolinians think that most all the wonderful things in the world are to be seen in our State. The wonder of which I apoke was the Carolina Twins, the only case of two united human bodies, except the famous Siamese twins. They were born July 11th, 1851, in Columbus Coun? ty, N. C, near Wilmington. They were in charge of Mr. Joseph Smith, of Branchville, S. C, whom they had been visiting, and in whose family, while in North Carolina they were born. They are full-blooded negroes. There was nothing remarkable about their pa? rents except that their mother was unus ally large. Their names are Christine Millie and Millie Christine. Their bod? ies were united from the lower lips of the shoulder blade down.. They had two heads, two arms each, two stomachs, two hearts, two paira of lungs each, but the remainder of their bodies were one, ex? cept that they had two lower limbs, and could walk upon two feet or four feet. I saw them walk upon four, their usual custom now according to tho advice of their physician, but they formerly used only two feet in walking. They have traveled over most of the world, and cau converse in four different languages?English,French, German and Italian. They are evidently two beings, though I noticed that thoir companion, Mr. Smith, spoko of Miem as one. They travel on one railroad ticket, but they converse with each other like other peo? ple. They can talk to different persons and can read different hooka, papers, etc., at the same time. They have two minds. They have the same sensation when touched below the point of union and different when touched above. A pain in any foot is felt by both ; but a pain in one hand is felt only by the body to which it belongs. They have different ideas on most subjects hut never disagreo on any? thing, especially about what they shrill do. When ihey arc sick tho physician divides the dose and gives half to each head. When one has fever the other has it also. One may, however, have a slight sore throat, without fever, and the other will not ouffcr from it. If one should be killed the other would die soon from blood poison. These are wonderful be? ings, and arc an interesting subject for investigation to physioIogisLs and meta? physicians. -~ There ja more real religion in pay? ing one hundred cchln on Tho dollar than in nomc of the most eloquent pray? ers Ihnt were eycr delivered, fG, AUGUST 28, 18S B?RDETTE IN CHURCH. Sonic Advice How to Bohavo Yourself and Have Other Poojple do Likewise. The editor of the Sunday School Times received the following query, and referred it to Robert J. Burdette for an answer: "LoiiEDO, Texas. "Editor the Sunday School Times: Will you please give us a few points on Church etiquette 1?Inquirer, "Inquirer" knocked at the right door for instruction. The Sunday School Times Bureau of Information is tho fountain head for encyclopedial knowledge. The editor answers all the hard questions himself, and the easy ones are turned over to the wandering deacon who hap? pens along juat as the question box is opened and the birds begin to sing. How Bhall we behave ourselves in church i Oh, well, it depends somewhat on the church we attend. Each has its own rules, carefully codified, for the guidance of the members in their attitude toward each other and toward strangers who may seek to worship with them. These rules are hung up in the pewB, on the walls of the church, on the front of the pulpit, over the choir, overywhere, in plain sight. Tbey are not printed on card board, but are made "plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it;" and that is just what bo wants to do Bometimes. Tbe regular occupants of the pews, by manner, expression of coun? tenance, by significant gesture and action, translate these unwritten rules so clearly that every man may hear them speak in his own language, and "the wayfaring men, though fools, need not err there? in." The nest time your journey leaves you stranded in the great and delightful city of New Chicorkadclpbi on the Sabbath day, if you should go to the church of Saint Indolence,?I can recommend it as having the slowest singing and tbe soft? est pew cushions, with a preacher to match, in the city,?you will see the following "Suggestions to WorsLippers": "Fall or slide into the eo? of the pew nearest the aisle. "Stay there. "Do not sit erect, but lop. Rest one elbow ou the arm of the pew, and sup? port the side of tbe face with the out? spread hand. If the cheek can be pushed up in folds and wrinkles, so as to wholly or partiaily close one eye, all intelligent expression will be destroyed, and the atti? tude of utter and disrespectful laziness will be heightened by the charm of ac" quired imbecility or natural stupidity. "Do not rise during the singing of the hymns. The fact that you played tennis or base ball all Saturday after? noon, or walked four or five mile3 around a billiard table Saturday night, entitles you to a little rest Sunday-morning. This is the day of rest, and you are no Sabbath-breaker. "Take advantage of the long prayer, when other people should have their eyes closed and their heads bowed, to adjust yourself into a position of limp and lounging listleasness that you can endure comfortably through the sermon. "Extend your legs as far under the pew in front of you as you can make them reach without sliding off your seat. "Gracefully and politely cover your mouth with your hand while yawning during tbe sermon. If the minister is looking at you, cover the mouth with both hands, and at tbe close of tbe yawn, bring your jaws together with a cheerful snap. "It is a mark of the Lightest culture and best breeding in refined society, to look at your watsb frequently during the service> After looking at your watch, always turn your head and gaze longing? ly and earnestly toward the door. "Do not move if a stranger, accompan? ied by his wife, and daughter, attempts to enter your pew. Permit them to climb over your legs, no matter how much it may annoy you. This is the Lord's house, and all bis children are welcome. It is not ChristiaD, and it may even be questioned if it is really polite, to put your knees up agaimit the back of the pew when a family of stran? gers attempt to enter. It is practiced in some churches, but we have never openly advocated it here. "Do not annoy strangers who may enter the church by looking at them, or even glancing in their direction. Noth? ing is more embarrassing to a sensitive person than to find himself an object of attention, under the eyes of strangers iu a strange place. If he really wants a seat, be will find one without the obstru sive interference of other people. Some of the ablest scholars in our denomina? tion believe the employment of ushers to be a relic of paganism and a legacy of Romanism, if, indeed, they are not the Scarlet Woman himself. "At a close of service remark aloud, but to yourself, that you are hungry as a shark, and set off for home at a brisk trot. Tbe house of the Lord is no place for idle chatter and worldly gossip with strangers." Possibly, however, your denominational preference will lead you to worship in tho imposing edifice of the Church of Saint Dives of Giltedge. I have gone lo thac church occasionally on hot Sundays in July, when I was fearful of sunstroke and couldn't afford to put ice on my head. The suggestions here are far more scriptural in form, are so up lifting that the ordinary man is so buoyed up that he finds it almost impossible to sit clown. "The earth is the Lord's, for be made it; but this pew is mine, for I pay 5=700 a year for it. "How hardly shall they that trust in poverty get a sitting on the centre aisle ! "The poor ye have always with you, but you can get away from them a little while oh Sunday. "He that keepeth his pew, keepeth his life. '?'As a bird that wanderetb from her nest, so i3 a stranger who wanderetb into a church without an invitation. "Give mo neithGr poverty nor poverty. "The rich and poor meet together, but not on the same day. " 'But as for the mightv man, he Lad the earth' (Job 22: S). "Blessed i3 tho man that considereth the poor a nuisance. "If thou bast nothing to pay, why should he not stand thec up in the vesti? bule? "It is a cold day for the stranger. "He that giveth his seat to a stranger, of a Burcty he shall smart for it. "If thou bast stricken thy hand with a stranger, thou art snared with the words of thy mouth." Or it may be that you will be led into tho Church of Saint Greedy Ownself, wheuce you will probably run before you get through reading the tablet. "Come early, and secure your own pew before anybody else can get into it. "Count your hymn-books carefully tho first thing. "If one is missing,?tho old one with the back torn off.crane your neck in various directions, looking into the neigh? boring pews for it. "If you cannot find it, take the best one within reach, in placo of it. TI113 is a Christian duty. Paul says, 'If any provide not for Iiis own, ho is worse than an infidel.' "Hold one hymn-book in your baud, and sit on the others until tho rest of your family arrive. Look pious all the lime. If you see any one looking around for a hymn-book, bow your head upon the back of the pew iu meditation, and they won't disturb you. Besides, it ia a prop? er attitude, and that i;i what you arc here for. "When your family is supplied, il there,ia oiih book over,- hide it uudcr the cushion. If yon lent! il, you may novel sec il again. 10. 'Leave strict orders with the sexton to seat no one in your pew, as you may bring friends to church with you. (He knows you haven't a friend in the world you would share anything with, but never mind.) "If you find a stranger in your pew, stare at him until he walks out. If he won't walk out, sit down and make it pleasant for him. Crowd him into the corner. Push all the Bibles and hymn books into the other end of the pew. Turn your back on him when you rise to sing, and sing loud out of your own book, holding it so that he can't see. If he iB one of these prayer meeting Christians who knows the hymn-book by heart, when he begins to sing, do you stop sing? ing and look at him, very much as a cat might look at a robin. "If the stranger should come in late, and ask you for the number of the hymn, or for the text, look out of the window. Or, if you desire to be elaborately but chillingly polite, say 'I dunno.' If, after service, he ventures to say that he enjoy? ed the sermon, say "Huh ?" and hurry away. He may want to borrow money of you. "Should the pastor ask you who were the strangers in your pew, say yo? don't know and you don't care/but you hope they'll sit( somewhere else if ever they come again. Say this so the strangers will hear it. Then they will wonder how on earth you can get such fine clothes on over your bristles without tearing them all to pieces. "If a woman with a child gets into your pew, glare at the child every time the little one moves. When you Bpeak of it to your neighbor, a man whom you really love?has a night-latch on his pew-door-call the child a brat. Smile pleasantly when you hear the sexton try? ing to coax your dog out of the church. That dog is too cute for anything. Might let him stay in; he wouldn't bother anybody." Again, it may be that by Bome mis? take you stumble into the Church of the Samaritans. You have no dealings with these fellows, and you would back out as soon as you see where yon are going; but tbe Samaritans are wide awake, with some very informal notions about church etiquette*. The sexton, standing on the porch, sees you are a stranger, and the minute you pause hesitatingly in front of the church you are his. He hypno? tizes you with a cheerful nod and a beckoning hand, and passes you on through the open door almost before you know it. An old deacon in the vestibule has you by the hand at once, and intro? duces you to "our church clerk," adding, as he reaches your part of the introduc? tion, "I don't exactly know your name" ?as though he used to know it like a book, and has a pretty trood inkling of it now, but can't quite place you. An usher at each door is ready for you? there is a perfect picket-line of sexton and deacons and ushers along the front of the Church of the Samaritans; not to keep people out, but to bring tbem in; it isn't a fort, it's a hospital; it's a man? trap, baited with Christian courtesy, and the man who is caught there never tries to get away. The older you are, the better seat you get; if you just bint to ! the young fellow who is leading you for? ward that your hearing is a little "near? sighted" he'll get you the best seat in the house, if be has to ask a resident Samari? tan to give it to you. You get comfortably seated, und somebody pushes a hassock toward you ; "a child from the next pew hands you a hymn-book; an old lady puts a Bible into your hands. The min? ister looks at you as though he bad seen you before and waB glad to see you again. Before you get fairly out of the pew, after service, somebody has you by tbe hand, telling you he is glad to see you there, the pastor is asking you to come again, tbe usher is telling you tbe hour of evening service, the superintendent is giving you an invitation to^ stay to Sunday-school, and when, a little asham? ed of the way you felt when you tried ro back out, you say, rather meekly, that you are a member ff the Church of Jeru? salem yourself, they eay, rea33uringly, "Oh, that's all right! there isn't much difference between the Samaritans and the Church of Jerusalem now; lots of your people drop in and see us on their way to Jericho"; the deacon tells you "he got the best wife in the world out of the Church of Jerusalem"; and so you have a good lime, and go away with such a glow at your heart that if it wasn't Sunday, and in town, you'd take off your coat. You see, it is just here; the Samari? tans feel at home in their church, and consequently they know ju3t how to make strangers feel at home there. It is their Father's bouse, and they conduct themselves there as easily, cordially, naturally, as children at home. A church of that sort bus a home like atmosphere the visitor recognizes and enjoys. Any guest cau tell the family living-room from . the "square room" with his eyes shut. The trouble with some of our churches isthat the members frequent them so seldom they have a cat iu-a-otrange garetty feeling them? selves when they do go, and are conse? quently awkward and constrained in their efforts to make the stranger feel welcome?very much as I should proba? bly act if, being a chance visitor at the palace, I should attempt to receive Queen Victoria's guests in the drawing-room, while she finished her luncheon of bread and honey in the kitchen. Get acquainted in your - own church ; feel at home there yourself; get iuto the habit of frequenting the house during the week; and on Sunday attend both services and the Sunday School?see how easily the "workers" of the hive and the little people receive and entertain guests?and you will Boon find yourself as cordial and warm-hearted as those fellows over in the church of the Samari? tans, and won't ask for a letter of intro? duction and countersigned credentials before passing a hymn-book to a stran? ger. And remember always the injunc? tion of Peter, "an rpostle of Jesu3 Christ," writing "to the Stranges scat tercd throughout Pontus, Galatit, Cap padocia, Asia and Bithynia"?"Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compas? sion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous." ? Recently several gentlemen met in a hotel at Kingston, Ont. One of them received in chaugo a ten cent piece on which was inscribed the mystic symbols, "H 7S." "By Jove!" said he, "here's a ten center that some fellow has marked to see if it will ever come back." "Let me see it," replied .1 geutlein.in of the party. "Gentlemen," he said, "my name is Henry Dcrmond. Twelve years ago, at Halifax, N. S., I marked twenty ten cent pieces as this is marked. This is the third one that has turned up." He offered the owner of the coin $1 for it and got it.?Toronto Gbbe, How's This ? We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured bv taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned havo known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, aud be? lieve him perfectly honest iu all business transactions, and financially able to carry out auy obligations mado by their , firm. 1 Wjest & Tku.vx, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, 0. Waldixg, Kixxan & Marvin, 1 Wholesale Druggists, Toledo 0. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken intern.il f ly, anting directly upon the blood and > mucous surfaces of the system. Tosti r moniala sent free. Price 75c. per bottle fi!@*Soltl by Druggists, 75c, VOLTJ] The Greatest Army in the World. There is in this country the greatest army in the world?not a standing army, but a constantly moving body of 700,000 men, who march and countermarch day and night through heat and cold from year's end to year's end. Every year they have 2,000 killed and 20,000 wound? ed. One man in 357 lost his life last year, one in every thirty-five was wound? ed, and the total loss by the operatives of the army was 5,833 killed and 25,309 wounded, Upon the soldiers of this army three millions of our people depend for their living, and but for the continu? ance of their operations, the whole coun? try would be under blockade. One month's inaction along the whole line would leave the country in a state of siege and cause bread riots in every city in the land. This is the greatest army in_ the world, and its soldiers are tbe railroad employes of America. In spite of their great service to the country, in spite of their ceaseless toil day and night, there has been no general movement on the part of the people for the relief of these soldiers. In time of war the whole nation glorifies the soldier and the taxpayers are burdened with pension rolls for half a century after? wards; but for this grand army, fighting in time of peace, knowing not heat nor cold, braviDg danger and warring with elements for the commerce of the coun? try, there is no reward beyond the ordi? nary lot of men. They have asked nothing more, but they do ask, and they have a right to ask, for government inspection of the reckless- methods by which such enor? mous loss of life and limb is brought about. It is of no avail to call attention to the vast business of the country and the great number of railroad employes when the statistics show that the mortality on American railways is more than twice as large as it is on those of Great Britain and France. Here there is annually one death for every 357 employes; there, one for every 875. Here one in thirty-five is wounded ; there, one in 158. There is some difference in the circumstances. The longer average haul on American railroads undoubtedly makes it a more difficult matter to keep down the mor? tality; but an inspection of the tables furnished by Secretary Adams in the third annual report of the interstate commerce commission shows that the greater part of the trouble is due to causes which may be removed. Of the 1,972 deaths of employes last year, 783 were due to coupling cars and falling ofF trains, 167 to collisions, sixty-five to overhead obstructions and 125 to derail? ments, making 1,150 deaths resulting from causes which might, in large meas? ure, be prevented by higb-class rolling stock, good road-beds and perfect discip? line. The uniformity of gauge, leading to a uniformity of equipment, which renders possible the general adoption of safety appliances in coupling and other work, promises a great reduction of mortality and bodily injury. In this connection, Mr. Adams significantly remarks: "Tbe gauges of 4 feet Si inches and 5 feet 9 inches, inclusive, are now used by 1,371 roads, representing 93.3 per cent of the total mileage. The three-foot track in 1S89 was used by 234 companies, rep? resenting 6 per cent of the total mileage of the country. It thus appears that over 99 per cent of railway mileage in the United States ia adjusted to what, for all practical purposes, may be regarded as two gauges of railway. This fact is sig? nificant for two reasons. It shows, first, that the railways of the United States are being welded, by the need of inter? change traffic, into a system, so far at least as conditions of operation are con? cerned. And in the second place, it indicates a movement towards uniformity in physical conditions, which, working its way into uniformity of structure of cars, will do something to remove obsta? cles that thus far have defeated all attempts to bring certain safety appli? ances into general use." This is a consummation devoutly to be wished, and will be as gladly welcomed by railroad managers as by the humane public ; for back of the humane feelings this intelligent class of men possesses in common with other respectable people, lie their pecuniary interests, which de? mand a reduction of damage fees and costly litigation. The report above referred to brings out a face at once gratifying and instruc? tive. Since tbe advent of the railroad commission Georgia has been one of the leading states in railroad development. This report shows that she was second among the States in railroad building last year. California came first with 536 miles, and Georgia followed 498. Color? ado came third with 451, Texas fourth, with 446, and Michigan fifth, with 438. Of a total increase of 7,857 miles in the United States, the twelve Southern States report 2,423 miles. Both the west and the south are far ahead of the middle and New England States, and Georgia shows more railroad building than any two Southern States. This approximate? ly has been the report from Georgia's railway building since she established a commission to regulate freight and pas? senger fares, and it shows the truth of the remark of the chairman of the commis? sion that State legislation benefitted the roads because it inaugurated a just policy which mates for their permanent prosperity, while railway management, independent of regulation, is often direct? ed to give a speculatian value to the stocks, by a policy immediately swelling the dividends, though in the long run it kills the goose that lays the golden egg. Under the just rates of the commission the State in large and small towns and country has prospered, aud each year's reports furnish new evidence that a well conducted railroad commission is the best protection for both the people and the bona fide investors in railroad stock. ?Atlanta Constitution. A Terrible Cyclone. WlLKESDAP.RE, PA., AllgUSt 19.?At 4 o'clock this afternoon the most terrible cyclone that was ever experienced in this locality struck thi3 city. It came up the river. From what point it originated is not known now. Tbe suddenness of its coming was ono of its awful features. The heavens were as black a3 night and the wind blew with the most frightful velocity. Whole rows of trees were blown down. Following this huudreds of houses were unroofed, partially blown over or completely demolished, and worse than all the visitation of death was sent upon a number of people. The total loss so far as ascertained is twelve. Four men are known to have been killed at tbe Hazard wire pipe works. A house on Scott street, occupied by miners who had just returned from work, fell in and three of the inmates were killed. The huge smokestack of the Kytle plan? ing mill fell on a man aud two horses and all were killed. A little colored girl was killed by a falling building on Southman street. Two men met their death by the falling of a portion of Seig man's brewery, and a third incurred the same fate through an almost complete demolition of S. L. Brown's handsome brick business block on East Market street. Theie are undoubtedly fifteen or sixteen others killed. Other reports arc coming in constantly to that effect, ? The manufacture of cotton goods in Ceylon has for the past few years made remarkable progress. The island promi? ses well to become as dangerous a rival to India in that branch of industry as in the cultivation of tea. Wages i?i even lower thero than in Jndin. ME XXV.?NO. 8 ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? Nine billion dollarB are invested in the railways of the United States. ? For two years the Southern States have led the world in railroad construc? tion. ? A young woman at MadUon, Ind., being frightened, screamed loudly, dislo citiug her jaw. ? We are sent into this'world to make it better and happier; and in proportion as we do so we make ourselves both. ? It is estimated that there are twen? ty-seven thousand married men in New York city who are supported by their wives. ? The government mail bag repair shop at Washington gives emptoyment to one hndred and thirty five persons of both sexes. ? ? A luminous buoy has been invented, the light for which is produced by phos pure!, of calcium and is visible two and a half miles away. ? P. T. Burnum's fortune is estimated at eleven million dollars, every cent of which be has accumulated since he reached his fortieth birthday. ? If the salt held in solution in the ocean were spread over the earth it would form a layer of more than thirty feet deep covering the whole globe. ? A lover received the following note, accompanied by a bouquet of flowers: "Deer?I send u bi the boy a buckett of flours. They is like my love for u. The nite shade menes keep dark. The dog fenil means I am ure slave." ? A weak galvanic current, which will sometimes cure a toothache, may be generated by placing a silver coin on one side of the gum and a piece of zinc on the other. Rinsing the mouth with acidula? ted water will increase the effect. ? "So you are married, Jack ?" I am, Jim." "I hope you considered the mat? ter well. It is a serious matter of assum? ing the responsibilities involved in mar? riage." "You are wrong, my friend. I I have no responsibility at all now. My wife's the bos?." ? The lawyers are being left out in the cold over in Georgia. Of one hundred and fifty-four members of the Legislature nominated so far only sixteen of them are lawyers. It is predicted that the Legis? lature will not have enough jurists to fill the general and special judiciary commit teesr ? An Englishman was boasting to a - Yankee that they had a book in the British Museum which was once owned by Cicero. "Oh, that ain't nothing," retorted the Yankee; "in the museum in Bosting they've got the lead pencil that Noah used to check off the animals that went into the ark." ? "Do you take many periodicials ?" asked a young minister on his first visit to one of his parishioners. "0, no sir," replied the good woman; "I never do. but I'm sorry to say that my husbana takes a periodicial about once in every two months. I wish you could induce him to sign the pledge." ? The time may come when politics will mean all that is noble and good; when a small boy will break an apple in tjvo and give bis little sister the bigger half; when a tramp will work, and a stray dog won't bite; but the day will never dawn when a fly can tickle a drowsy man's nose without making bim jump. ? Nineteen years ago a Gratiot coun? ty, Mich., farmer refused to let his daughter go to a candy pull. She went though, and remained away. Last week she drove up to her father's door, lifted out her eleven children, coolly took off her wraps and astonished her .father by declaring that she had concluded to return and stay home, and hereafter be an obe? dient daughter. ? A Georgia correspondent vouches for the remedy for horse colic here repro? duced from the Southern Cultivator. He says: "Take a blanket and cover the bowels of the horse with it. Then secure it in position with two girths tightly to the horse. Apply hot water, or as hot as the horse can bear it, freely. The bowels are relaxed and the horse relieved of the colic like a charm. ? The thirty machines used in the census office at Washington for counting the population, work with clock like ac rucy, and count from one to twenty per? sons each time a small ivory key is touched. The machine looks like an up? right piano in a polished oak case, and has a key board like that of a typewriter. Most of the machines are worked by girls, and they are able to count accurately one million names a day. ? It may just be well to mention that Uncle Sam's dominion extend a little more than half way around the globe. Therefore, when any of Her Majesty's subjects get off that chestnut about the sun never setting ou the British domin? ions, wo can brag of the same thing, too. The distance from the eastermost point in Maine to the westermost island in Behring sea is a little more than one hundred and ninety degrees of longitude, so that it is full sun up in Maine before it is sundown in Behring sea. ? The Chicago Pod is firmly of the opinion that "there is a good deal of the natural savage still remaining in the civ? ilized man because word comes from Li? beria of a white missionary who conclu? ded that he would rather imitate the sav? ages he had been sent to convert than to Christianize them. He has accordingly abandoned the ways of civilized life, and is living with the natives in their wild state. His fellow missionaries are pro fouudly astonished, but civilization has many irksome restraints, and a savage life may have many substantial advantages." ? "You have asked me poiutedly if I can marry you, and I have answered you pointedly that I can. I can marry a man who makes love to a different girl every month ; I can marry a man whose main occupation seems to be to join any gaunt? let in front of churches, and other public places, and . comment audibly on the people "Who arc compelled to pass through it; I. can marry a man who makes bar rooms his favorite resort; I can marry a man whose only means of support is an aged father; I can marry a man who boasts that any girl can be won by the help of a good tailored an expert tongue; I can marry such a man, but I w-o-n-'t. ? J. Milton Turner, ex-minister to Liberia and the Moses of the Western negroes, has a great scheme ou hand, having secured $150,000 from the gov? ernment for fees in Indian land cases. Mr. Turner sets about devising plans for the elevaliou of his race. He has secured funds for tho establishment of a negro manual training school at Kirkwood, a pretty suburb of St. Louis, and now pro? poses a wholesale exodus of negroes from the United States lo Mexico, where he says he and his associates have secured twenty-three million acres in fee simple. The land was purchased of the Mexican government direct by the syndicate, whose representative Mr. Turner is, and it is proposed to settle the negro:s on this tract aud sell them farms at a rea? sonable advance. Mr. Turner is sanguine of the success of the scheme. Commendable. All claims not consistent with the high character of Syrup of Figs are purposely i avoided by the California Fig Syrup Company. It acts gently on the kidneys, i liver and bowels, cleansing the system s effectually, but it is not a cure all and ? makes no pretensions that every bottle will not substantiate.