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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. TUE NEW S With Feeder and Condenser, WITH KEVOLYING HEAD. 5HE BEST GIN MADE?embracing all improvements, and ^ V - correcting faults in others, A. PERFECT OrTHTl THE ACM E POWER COTTON PRESS. THE BEST, CHEAPEST AND HOST PRACTICAL COTTON SEED CRUSHER MADE. BUY DeLOACH SAW MILLS. > A Four-horse Engine Runs Them. HEADQUARTERS FOR FARM MACHINERY. SXJEMYAN HARDWARE CO. SB5-00 S5.00 S5.00 ; REMEMBER that we offer oar usual Premium of FIVE DOLLARS for the Lar? gest Turnip raised from our Seed and brought into our Store by 15th November. ORR <& SLOAN. HERE-IS YOUR CHANC WAGONS, WAGONS, AT YOUR OWN PRICE. L HAVE determined in the future not to handle Wagons, and for the next few weeks I will offer the Wagons I now have on haud at Manufacturer's prices. Come efcrly and see me. I still keep on hand a big 6tock of? BUCCIES, PH/ETONS, CARTS, ETC. Which can be bought at Low Prices. Ia always open and ready for business. J. L. McGEE. FOUNDRY AND BKS. E. F. DIWER, Proprietor. Builder and Repairer of all Kinds id Rep of Mi achinery. Dealer in Machinery Supplies. I i_ HAVE established a FIRST CLASS FOUNDRY in connection with my MA? CHINE WORKS, and can supply you with any kind or style of CASTINGS, from a pair of Fire Dogs to a Fine Iron Store Front. I also have a? CIN REPAIRING DEPARTMENT, Where your old Gins can be repaired at short notice. I have a supply of good workmen,50 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 Seco^l haud ENGINES always on band. Sgy Come and see me. May 8, 1880 ? 44 6ra ?SH REMEMBEE; we seil fresh Goods. Wo do not buy huge bills, but small bills, and in that way keep up our stock, und have it always fresh. No OKI, siaie goods. We Buy all kinds Country Produce for Cash or Barter. E. W, TAYLOR <6 CO. Tjj}A?HjRj|?QL?MN. -T?^ All Communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to D. H RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, S. C. CONCERNING SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, Whether the teacher incorporate much or little of co operation of pupils in his system of school government, there is, I believe, a correct order of procedure in securing what is desired from the pupils. The rules of Bchool, writteu or unwritten, enacted by the joint action of teacher, and pupil?, or dictated by the ab* solute will ot the teacher, are be? fore the school. Infringements, or what closely borders upon infringements, of these rules como, as come they will. What is the teacher's tr?e course of pro? cedure. What course will stop infringe? ments of laws and, and secure the best order with the leaBt friction, and with the best effect upon the pupil ? What is the line of least resistance? Let me ' suggest by a concrete example. It is agreed that during study or reci? tation periods the best results will be secured if the undivided attention of the pupil is given to the work in hand. One or more pupils are noticed to be quite frequently giving attention to something else than that to which their attention ought to be given at these times. Per? haps they are looking out of the window from their study seat, or are inattentive in a recitation, They are old enough to recognize that they ought not to do this. The teacher suggests, in a way that will be more likely to attract the attention of the transgressor than any other pupil, that there is a time for outdoor attrac? tions and a time for indoor duties, and everything should be done in its proper time. Or if it be inattention in a reci? tation, the teacher's qubk eye detects the inattentive student and suddenly asks him a question that be cannot un? derstand because he has not, on account of his inattention, known what just pre? ceded. Of course he cannot answer. The teacher pauses a moment that the pupil may have time to think of the cauee of his failure, or it may be neces? sary for the teacher to make some sug? gestive remark to make the moral of the incident plainly known to the pupil. Such a course as this will be sufficient for many pupils, but others from various reasons may persist in similar transgres? sions. If. they do repeat the offense, the teacher secures a private interview with each offender, discusses the transgression with him, shows him the reason for the rule forbidding it, and secures his well considered promise to desist, or firmly requests him to desist entirely, in the future. This step eliminates another class of pupils from the ranks of offen? ders. Still there may be now and then one who does not yet desist. Now cornea in the majesty of the law, aud the power of the executive. This pupil must be coerced into obedience Wheu the teach? er is once satisfied that the pupil does not mean to obey, or that ho is forgetful beyond what is juat to the school, the teacher immediately joins the issue. The question is now obedience or disobedience to just reqC^ementa. The teacher diveats the misdeed of all its accessories. He makes the issue plain and tiuequivocal. He must, now, by every power at his command, compel instant and complete obedience, or be must abdicate his au? thority. If the law of the school has been an outgrowth of school legislation, if it is just, if the teacher has followed the general course indicated above in executing it, the teacher now has, in this supreme moment, the unquestioning moral support of his school in compell? ing obedience even by extreme measures. If he is"worthy the place he fills, he will conquer, the diacinline of the school will be maintained, and the pupils taught a wholesome lesson in obedienee to law. It may be that in some cases the steps indicated above should follow each other in quick succession. Each should follow its predecessor as soon as that preceding step 13 shown unavailing. In exception? al cases it may be unnecessary to dwell upon any step before the last. There may be now and then a pupil with whom the issue of obedience or disobedience must be joined and he coerced into obed? ience before he will be at all susceptible to the other efforts. But such casea are rare indeed. Let me close with a statement of the principles involved in the above. The true order in efforts to secure what is right of pupils is: (1) Suggest or hint. (2) Request after giving reaaons. (3) Compel obedience. Under the last point I suggest: (o) Never atop Bhort of this unless the other steps secure the desired end. {b) Do not threaten, (c) Remem? ber the power of an unknown penalty. (cZ) Assume that what you require will be done. Never by slightest indication reveal any doubt upon this point. Deafness Can't be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous liuiug of the Eusta iin tubs. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, aud unless the in? flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the muco.13 surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that wo cannot cure by taking Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. Seud for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, 0. 8?uSold by Druggists, 75c. ? Judge J. P. Smith, of Fort Worth, Texas, whose wealth is now estimated at $1,000,000, once walked from Kentucky to Texas because he didn't have money enough to pay the pnssage. Owing to the opening of new roads the walking is much belter now than it was then, not? withstanding which, the Judge says, he very much prefers to make the trip by palace car, lNDEESON, S.C., T SILL ARP. The Forty Acres and a Male In National Finances. Atlanta Constitution. Another howl from the Grand Army of the Republic. They had a great gathering in Boston last week, and nearly all the speakers yelled for more pensions and bigger ones. The speakers were all poli? ticians, and the old soldiers and all their kinfolks have got votes and want money, too. A politician will ride any hobby to catch votes. I don't believe that the solid people of the nortb, the business men and taxpayers, favor this pension plunder, but they can't stop it. Tbese annual meetings of the Grand Army of the Republic may have a little patriotism, but are mainly for politics and plunder. More than half the Grand Army were foreign hirelings and substitutes who fought for tbe money and nothing else, and these are the fellows who are drawing most of tbe pensions. They were hospi? tal rats and camp followers and teamsters and got sick easy, and have played sick and disabled ever since. Their numbers prove what a set they were, nearly 3,000,000 against 700,000, and they have 600,000 pensioners still alive and kicking. Sam Jones told them up in Missouri that if our boya bad known bow bad we were whipping them tbey would have fought on until now. "You fellers," said he, "are drawing all the pensions and tbat'a right. You fought for money and you ought to have it. Our boya fought for patriotism ?for love of their country, and they've got that yet. You never conquered it out of 'em, and you never will. So it is all right. Every soldier ought to have what he fought for." This is very fine sarcasm, but still I am not happy as long as some ofthat pension money comes out of me. If the war is over how many years must the south pay out $40,000,000 to northern soldiers and draw none for her own. If we could pick out the pa? triots who really needed a pension we wouldn't say a word, but it's a northern outrage to continue this business. It is an outrage on the north aa well as the south, and if the Alliance don't stop it, it won't be stopped. The Alliance can do some big things if tbey will. The nation can't stand this extravagance. How can the tariff be reformed and reduc? ed with an empty treasury ? Mr. Cleve? land left it full, but it's empty now. Where is the money to come from to build warehouses and advance 80 per cent upon the produce ? The average farm tenant buys $100 worth of goods in a year be? sides his meat and bread. Of that $100 he pays $40 in tariff to the government at Washington, but does not pay more than $5 in tax to his own State goverument. Judge Wright was once a member of Congress and told me in a whisper tbat if the farmers of this country knew how much tariff they paid on their hats and shoes and clothing and axes and plates and knives aud forks and paper and pens and lamps and kitchen ware and every other ware they would rise up to a man and shoulder their muskets and swear by the eternal they wouldn't stand it. He said it wouldn't be safe to let them know it. Judge Wright is on the Bide of the toilers?the bread winners and the far? mers. I wish it was so that he could join the Alliance, for I know that his heart is with them. I believe he would join if it wasn't for that oath of secrecy. A man told me that he had joined and was writing thunder and lightning for the Alliance paper?but I reckon be is mis? taken, for I remember that about 35 years ago, when the know nothing party was about to take tbe country, the judge took me out beind the house and advised me, as a friend, to keep out of it, for it was contrary to the principles of a free gov? ernment to have a secret, oath bound po? litical organization. I didn't take bis advice, but like a young fool joined them and was sworn in one dark night in the top loft of Chamber's millhouse, 5 miles from town, and never got home till after midnight, and told my wife a story about pressing business detaining me down town, but next morning she got up before I did and found flour and cobwebs all over my clothes, and I had to tell her the truth, and how we were going to keep any more foreigners from becoming citizens of our great republic, aod our motto was that of Washington, who, the night before a great battle, said, "But none but Amer? icans on guard tonight. But Aleck Stevens and Judge Wright took the field against our party because it was secret, and they gave us hail Columbia and broke it up. It must be some other Wright?but not our "Gus." Our Gus is an old "settled" man. I like tbat word settled. Uncle Sam says folks ain't much account till they get settled. He ssid he would hunt us a settled 'oman for a cook, for these young fly up the creeks dident know their own minds and wouldn't stay any? where long at a time. Judge Wright is a settled man. But it don't matter about the secrecy if the farmers will reform things. We want them to turn the rascals out of office everywhere and begin a system of econo? my in government. Reform the tariff and educate the people so that they will know exactly what the tariff is, and how much it takes out of their pockets to protect the manufacturer, and maybo they will stop it without the Bholgun. Let every Bchoolboy know how much less his pocketknife would have cost him and he will raise a racket before he can vote. The politicians are making a big fuss about the money and say the government must expand the circulation. Make money cheaper by making more of it? Borter like we did during the war when it took $10 to buy a bunch of yarn and ?200 to buy a pair of cotton cards. In January 1865,1 paid $3,000 for a little old measly cow that gave about half a gallon of milk a day, but that was enough for a poor 'little half starved, war born baby, whose mother's milk had dried up from anxiety, while running from the everlast? ing yankees and dodging their hirelings like a Hcared rabbit dodges the hounds. They say we must have more money, and" they make the peoplo believe it will be dividrd out among them whether they earn it or not?another case of forty acres and ft mule. Fool the people-that's tbe HUESDAY MOENIN idea. They are raising a big fuss because the national banks are not allowed to lend money on farm mortgages and I hope they will have that law repealed, for it is of no consequence. No bank is fool enough to lend money on a mortgage. Will Howard is a big banker in our town ?a private banker?and he is not prohib? ited but I'll bet $10 he hasn't got a mortgage in bis vault. Banks lend money on business integrity with a good endor? ser or a collateral that can be converted into money in thirty days. It takes 18 months to foreclose a farm mortgage, and if the farmer dies it takes a year longer. George Truit, of Troup County, has made a grand success at farming. The State Alliance visited his farm the other day and George said be began with nothing since the war and has made all that be has got at farming, and that economy and diligence and constant care and watchfulness will do more for the farmer than all the legislation that can be devised. You can pick out farmers here and there in every County who have by hard work got ahead and prospered while their neighbors have been waiting on the Lord or luck or on the politicians. There isn't a country upon earth where the far? mer is so surely rewarded for hia industry as he is here. They had a big camp meeting up at Pine Log last week, and just such a spread of good things as the farmers took there every day was never ?een before. Such a wealth of chickens and chicken pies, and roast pig and mut? ton, and kid, and potatoes and pies and cakes and jellies and pickles and wines, and all were home raised and homemade. Will the good Lord make us all thankful for what we have got and incline our hearts to be thankful. Bill Aep. The Devil's Den. The cave near Joseph Dees' in Hamil? ton County, known as the Devil's Den, has ever been a myBtery. Nothing now living has ever explored its depths, and many cnrious tales are told in connec? tion with it. The editor of the Jasper News has gone to it at least half a dozen times, with the express purpose of ex? ploring it, but, upon reaching its open? ing, deep down in a dark ravine, over? shadowed by tall pines and spreading oaks, feeling the cold, chilly current of air that is peculiar to the place, listening to the dripping waters echoing in the cavernous depths, which seem ready to give way and fall, and the impenetrable darkness of the cavern, all combined, have never failed to produce a feeling of awe, that would soon ripen into fear, and cause him to get away from the place faster than he went to it. It is related that in the early history of the country old Uncle Billy Baasett once happened to pass that way at a late hour in the night. It was brilliantly lighted up, and the sound of music and revelry were heard therein. He, know? ing nothing of the cave, joyfully suppos ed that he was approaching some house where he could obtain rest for the night, followed its course till upon turning an angle of rock he came full upon the mouth of the cavern, an opening some twelve feet high and twenty wide. He took oue look at the scene within, and iucontinently fled from the spot with the speed of a frightened deer. He said that on a high ledge of rock four or ?ve uncouth looking characters were clus tered, making music on instruments that he was unacquainted with, while on the floor any number of naked yellow devils seven feet high were dancing with might and main. Ever since that time it has been called the Devil's Den. Another story is that during the war it was occupied as a refuge and hiding place for deserters. Gne of them one day concluded that, to pass away the time which was hanging so heavily on his hands, he would explore the cave and see what it contained. Up to this time its occupants had never gone thirty or forty yards into it. So, procuring a good torch and accompanied by a com? panion, be set out, or rather in, on a voyage of discovery. At a distance of seventy or eighty yards they came across hundreds of skeletons of human beings, which so terrified them that they quit the cave entirely, preferring a life in the army to an abode with the dead in that lonely cavern.?Florida Times-Union. Her rrayers Useless. An Augusta family was about to move down the river into what was reputed to be a malarial country. In the family was a little girl. She, like the mother, did not care particularly about making the trip. She was saying her evening prayers at her mother's knee the night before their departure. After finishing those she had been taught, she surprised her mother by adding, with a peculiar emphasis, "Now, doodbye Dod; to-mor? row we are doing to Sleepy Hollow." The pathos of this leave taking would have lost its import if that family had brought with them a supply of Dr. West? moreland's Calisaya Tonic. As an anti-periodic and stimulant, and as an eradicator of malarial poison and safe? guards against its inroads, it is the medi? cine of the age. No family in malarial districts can afford to be without it. For sale by all druggists. ? Worth Knowing.?Hughes' Ton ic, the old time, reliable remedy for fever and augue. Reputation earned by 30 years' success. You can depend upon it. Try it. Druggists have it. ? Dr. Louis Duncan has recently pointed out that though the generally accepted views about an electric current have profoundly changed in the last few years, the ideas have not spread very widely even yet. The old idea was that electricity flowed through a wire very much as water flows through a pipe, but the new idea is that the energy does not flow through the wire at all. The energy is actually transmitted by the ether out? side the wire. In running a motor the energy used in running it does not pass through the wire at all, but passes from the dynamo at the electric lighting station to (he motor Ihrough tho elhcr. The wi:e acts as the coro of a dis-turbancc in the ether, making the transfer of energy possible, but not itself transferring it, G. SEPTEMBER 4, : TUE CAUSES OF LOCKJAW. Tho Naturo and Cause? of Tetanus, or Loclcjaw. At the resent Farmers' Institute at Ridge Spring Dr. W. B. Nilea, of the South Carolina University, read an ex? cellent paper on lockjaw, Theesaay waB of unusual interest to the farmers. Thoy saw that Dr. Niles was thoroughly informed on veterinary science and asked him questiou after question and obtained from him considerable valuable informa? tion. The paper of Dr. Niles is as fol? lows : TETANUS, OR LOCKJAW. Gentlemen : Although I have written on a medical aubject it has not been my object to prepare a paper for professional men alone, but to present the subject in such a way that the stock owner may obtain some facia which will enable him to prevent to a great extent the lose which occura from tetanus, or, as it is usually called, lockjaw. I have chosen this sub? ject for two reasons. First, on account of its frequent occurrence and great fatality in our moat valuable animals? horses and mulea?and, second, from the fact that it can usually be prevented. "WHAT IS TETANUS? Tetanus may be defined to be a painfnl and fatal disease characterized by tetanic, that ia, spasmodic, contractions of certain muscles, or groups of muscles. Aa the mouth is kept fairly closed at certain stages by the spasms of the mueclea of the jawa tho disease is commonly called lockjaw. Caeea of tetanus are frequently met with in the human family as well as in domestic animals. Of domestic ani? mals horses and mulea are the moat fre? quent sufferers, Among these animals caeea are of very frequent occurrence. In cattle and the smaller animals the disease is more rarely met with. This disease is one of the oldest and, on account of its distressing symptoms and ita fatal termination, one of the most dreaded. It occurs more in warm than in temperate or cold countries, and in all countries it is more frequent in summer than in winter. In this State it is much oftener met with than in the Northern States. The reason for this will be notic? ed when speaking of the cause of the disease. THE CAUSE OF THE DISEASE. Tetanus is usually described aa trau? matic i. e. resulting from a wound on some part of the body, and idiopathic when it occurs without obvious cause. Most cases observed follow a visible wound, and we now suppose that the few caaes which do not follow a visible wound are the result of a wound not viaible. Thia makes all caeea traumatic. Recent investigationa in regard to the exciting cause of tho trouble indicate that infection always takes piace through a wound. Not only are accidental in? juries followed by tetanus, but many Burgical operations aa well. Why woundB in certain regions and certain operations are more liable then others to be follow? ed by the disease has until recently been a mystery. The disease in men most frequently occura from wounds of the feet, knees and hands. In the horse and mule punctured wounda of the feet are the moat dangerous. Aa an example may be mentioned punctured wounds of the feet, caused by treading on old nails. "Sticking a nail in the foot" is a pat, of the history of the most of the casea of tetanus in these animals. In general we find that punctured wounds (wounda penetrating deeply into th tissues) and wounds (accidental or su.gicai) which are apt, from their location, to come in contact with the soil or litter of any kind, are those usually followed by the disease. Tetanus may very properly be called a nervous trouble. The symptoms indicate a deranged function of the ner? vous ayatem. Inatead of the muscles receiving only a sufficient amount of nerve stimulous to cause them to perform their ordinary work, a sufficient amount reaches them to keep them in a apaamodic atate of contraction. SYJIFTOMS OF LOCKJAW. This gives rise to peculiar symptoms which are easily recognized by most horse men. The symptoms appear a few days after the infliction of the injury, usually from the fourth to the fourteenth day. Very often the wound is slight and almost healed before the first symptom occurs. There is usually a stiffness in the muscles near the seat of the injury. Soon thia extends to other muscles and eventually the whole muacular ayatem becomea involved. The muscles of the head become affected early and the ani? mal has then great difficulty in working tho jaws. Saliva flows from the mouth, swallowing is performed with difficulty and aoon the jaws become ao aet that the animal cannot eat at all. At thia stage the eyeballs are drawn within the sock eta, causing the hair to Bhow in the cor? ner of the eye. The neck ia so stiff that the head cannot be moved from side to aide nor lowered to the ground, the breathing is accelerated, the nostr?B dilated, the tail is kept elevated and works like a pump handle if the animal be disturbed. If made to walk, the movements are performed with a great deal of difficulty. Although the apaa? modic contraction of these muscles is continuous the amount of muscular con? traction is not at all times the same, If the animal be auddenly disturbed by a strong light, noiaes, etc., paroxysms of great severity occur. These symptoms continue to increase in severity. The muscles of respiration become involved and the animal dies about the sixth to tho ninth day from suffocation caused by spasm of the muscles of the throat and diaphragm. When recovery takes place the spaaraa become gradually leaa severe until they disappear in about six weeks. THE REAL SEAT OF THE DISEASE. Poat-mortem examination reveals a congested condition of tho large nerve trunks, the brain aud spinal chor1, Until recently the symptoms of tetanus have been supposed to be due to nervous irritation in tho wound. The wound was thus supposed to be the exciting cause of the disease. We now knon that the wound only serves as the meant for the entrance into the tissues of tbt disease germs, which are the true cause Bacteriological research ha3 proven thai many diseases are due to minute living organisms or germs called bacteria 1890. These diseases are called infectious and contagious. These living germB consti? tute the virus of such diseases. These germs grow and multiply in the animal body, in the blood and other organs, when they disturb the normal functions of these tissues and give rise to the dis? ease symptoms. They enter the body by means of wounds, with the food, water and air. They leave the body along with the excretions, and if the conditions are favorable enter the body of another animal of the same kind, when the characteristic symptoms of the disease again develop. In the strictly contagious diseases the germ does not multiply in the soil, water and other media outside the animal body, but lies dormant until taken into the body of a susceptible subject. In infectious dis? eases the germ grows and multiplies in suitable media (soil, water, etc,) outside the animal body, and thus finds its way indirectly from animal to animal. It is thuB seen that an animal contracts a contagious disease usually by coming in immediate contact with diseased ani? mals. THE GERM OF GLANDERS. As an example of such a disease glan? ders may be mentioned. This a contagi? ous disease found most frequently in horses and mules. The germ of glanders develops and multiplies in the body and gives rise to the symptoms of the disease The animal has a high fever, the lym? phatic glands under the jaw swell and a nasal discharge appears. This discharge contains the virus of the disease, thus making it the means of the communicat? ing tho disease to other animals. As examples of infectious diseases may be mentioned typhoid fever in man, Texas fever in cattle and tetanus. Here the disease germB are not obtained direct from sick animals, but from the soil, water, etc. It was not until recently supposed that tetanus was an infectious disease. Bacteriological investigation has shown, however, that the exciting cause of the disease is a living organism that grows in the wound. This organism exists in the soil and is conveyed into the wound at the time of its infection or enters afterwards. The germ of tetanus is abundant in the Boil of warm countries, warmth being favorable to the growth of low forms of life. This explains why the disease is more prevalent here than in Northern States. The disease can be experimentally produced by putting a little earth containing the germ under the skin of a mouse. I have several timea at our laboratory in the University at Columbia produced the disease in mice by inoculating them with a little soil from the University grounds. Such soil if conveyed into a horse's foot by a nail would produce a case of lockjaw. THE BEST PLACE FOR THE GERM. The germ of tetanus grows best in a deep wound and it is for this reason that punctured wounds are the most danger? ous. During the growth of the organ? isms a substance is produced which acts upon the system as a poison and gives rise to the spasms which characterize the disease. To sum up, we may say'that tetanus is an infectious disease, produced by living germs which get into the wound at the time it is made or are introduced later. TITE MEANS OF PREVENTION. Knowing the cause, prevention is easy. All wounds should be disinfected as soon after they occur as possible As a disin? fecting solution, corrosive sublimate, one part to one thousand of water, or carbolic acid, one part to fifty of water, may be used. The wound should be kept wet with the solution for several minutes so as to effectually destroy all bacteria that may have gotten into it. All punctured wounds should be opened so that the solution can get to the very bottom of the wound. Punctured wounds of the feet require the most careful treat? ment. The opening in the solo made by the nail or other penetrating object should be at once enlarged sufficiently | to allow the deep portion of the wound to be thoroughly disinfected. It Bhould then be plugged with cakeum or jute, and a bandage tied over the entire foot. If kept perfectly dry the wound will be well in a few days. Wounds treated in this way will never be followed by tetanus. This treatment applies to all animals, including man. By disinfect? ing all wounds, not only is tetanus pre? vented, but blood poisoning and supper ation are obviated. Wounds, after being disinfected and dressed in such a way as to prevent the entrance of bacteria, heal rapidly without suppurating. In regard to the treatment of tetanus, but little need be said. Host cases terminate fatally. Many drugs have the power of relaxing the contracted muscles, but as soon as the effect of the medicine passes off the spasms return with even greater severity. Mild cases sometimes recover if kept in a very quiet place and the strength kept up by giving such food as the patient can eat. The disease should be prevented instead of cured, and when the way of prevention becomes more generally known cases of the disease will be of much rarer occurrence. ? Harvesting of wheat is going on every month of the year, in one part or other of the world. In the South Tem? perate Zone, the harvesting takes place in November, December, January, Feb? ruary and March, and in the North Tem? perrate Zone this work is done in the other months of the year. ? One of the beneficent results of the various experiments which have been made during the last two years, with a view to determine the value of electrici? ty for killing purposes, is the establish? ment of the fact that not only can cattle be dispatched by the electric current without the least pain, but that the meat of the animal is actually" improved by the passage of the current, and will keep louger than by any other method. The successful operation of an electric slaugh? tering apparatus is reported frem Color? ado. The apparatus consists of a pen provided with a metallic floor divided into two sections, to secure a good elec? trical contact, with which the hoofs of the animal are made wet. The killing is effected either by applying the current direct to the metallic floor, or making a direct application of the electrode to the head of the animal. VOLTJ] A Warning. About six years ago, Eugene W. Beck, living at Clayton, Rabun Co., Ga., killed his wife and sister-in-law, in cold blood. He early formed the habit of strong drink ?often to excess?which grew upon him as he became older. Notwithstanding this habit, he was a wholesouled, gener? ous man, a kind, loving busband and father, respected by all who knew him. His relations with his family were never marred by quarrels or harsh words. In personal appearanco, we are told, he was a magnificent specimen of manhood. While under the influence of whiskey, crazed by a long debauch, he placed a revolver at his wife's head and instantly killed her. Turning to his sister-in-law, who was also present, he fired on her, causing her death in a few days. He was tried and found guilty of mur? der in the first degree, but recommended to the mercy of the court, who finally sentenced him to imprisonment for life, in the coal mines of Dade County, Ga. Until sickness overtook him, he worked underground, in the dismal light of a minor's lamp. He was taken sick some time ago, and finally died on the 17th of last May. Before his death, he wrote the follow? ing pathetic letter to his old friend, Terrell Mozeley and wife. His wife's name was "Ella;" "Addie" was his sister-in-law, and "Callie" was his friend's wife. We copy the letter verbatim, as fol? lows : Cole City, Dade Co., Ga., April 3,1890. Mr. T. H. Mozeley? My Dear Old Time Friend?I am going to attempt to write you and Callie a short note. To begin with, I have not been well lor over two years?suffering with my broken le?, &c. This spring I have had the lagrippe. I just heard Sun day of the death of my aunt, Mary Lam? bert. My mother's people are all dead hut two, and they may be dead for all I know; I never hear from them. I am left alone to mourn the death of the dear? ly beloved ones that the Lord has seen fit to call to his kingdom above. My dear father and mother, then my dear wife? my darling beloved wife?and my sweet sister Ada. Why couldn't it have been me? No, I am left to mourn in mental anguish for those I loved with all my soul, body, mind and strength. Terrell, I told you I could not write to you when you came to see me in jail. Terrell and Callie, they say my heart is hard as stone; (I mean that has been said of me,) but if they knew and could see me this evening, my heart overflowing with sorrowful tears for the errors of my past life, they would think other? wise. Terrell, I am well and kindly treated by the authorities. I get plenty to eat and good warm clothes to wear, and I try to keep up a faithful heart and cheerful disposition; but, my dear school mate, you who I loved when we were little boys, and then on in young manhood's days, and on and on, and will continue to love you till death, and then after death. But there is no use for me to refer to our past happy life. I know you and Callie couldn't help but be sad when you think of my unfortunate, unhappy, sorrowful, miserable, depiorable, woebegoneful con? dition. Broken hearted, broken spirited broken character; in a felon's cell, dressed in stripes; sent here for killing the most beloved woman on earth. You know, but if you don't, the good Lord knows, tbat I would rather have killed myself ten thousand times, than to have hurt a hair of my beloved Ella's head. Terrell, it would not have happen? ed if I had been in my right mind. There is not'a man in the asylums of the United States who is more crazy than I was at the time of the tragedy. My dear Terrell and Callie, I bid you good bye and I will try and write again. Give my love to Capt. Bearert and Mag., and to all your children. Write me a long letter. Give ray love and kindest respects to any of my old North Carolina friends, if they will accept of it. I remain as ever, Eugene W. Beck. What a sad ending of a once happy family, and all brought about by the devil's favorite servant, Whiskey. You who become intoxicated, with passions inflamed by strong drink, beware or on some unforseen and unlucky day, while in the devil's clutches?scarcely knowing or caring what do you?you may strike down to death a beloved relative or friend, and bring yourself to tho dreaded gallow31?Highlands Sta:-. ? Colonel J. L. Orr has returned from a trip to Anderson and Fendleton. He says that preparations for work on the Clemaon College are being pushed. Prof. H. A. Strode, the newly elected president of the college, is giving all his time to superintending the arrangements for everything, and is giving much practical advice. A contract has been let to W. B. Beacham, of Anderson, for the building of the laboratory.?Green? ville News, 21st, ? The Mississippi Constitutional Con? vention consumed its session Thursday in discussing a plan to bestow suffrage on every woman owning three hundred dol? lars' worth of property, her vote to be cast by written proxy by some male relative. The plan developed wonderful strength, and was referred to the Fran? chise Committee. Prominent delegates say this plan, coupled with the Austra? lian ballot system, is the best solution of the suffrage problem, and believe the Convention will adopt it now. It has decidedly more followers than any other plan. ? The "grip," or epidemic influenza, says the Illustrated American, obligingly went all around lhe:worJd and to nil parts of it, in order that all medical men might have a good opportunity of study? ing it. Most medical men availed them? selves of the chance, and they were help? ed in their investigations by large num? bers of unclassified laymen. Yet aa em? inent physician is quoted as saying thai with all the investigations that had beer done, nothing had been learned that hac had not been on record for centuries especially in connection with theepidem ics of 1510 and, 1743, m XXV.- -NO. 9. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS. ? In and around Charlotte, N. C, there are thirtytwo cotton mills. ? Men are often said to "feel their oats" when in fact it is rye or corn. ? In Iowa the honey crop is a failure, and the bees are starving. ? There are .fully 10,000 dealers in New York city engaged in handling fruit. ? The area in corn in the United States this year is about 83,570,000 acres. ? The present cost of sustaining the Federal Government is $1,000,000 a day. ? In North Carolina there are now ! 4,273 Sunday Schools with 253,000 pu? pils. ? President Roberts of the Pennsylva? nia Railrosd started life as a track hand thirty years ago. The combined salaries he receives now amounts to $100,000 a year. . ? A well to do farmer named Richard Carmichael, of Queen Anne County, Md., has kept a diary for thirty years, and it shows that it has invariably rained on the 26th of July, duriDg that time. ? Ex-Congressman W. L. Scott sold from his farm in Northampton County last year $85,000 worth of truck. The farm expenses were $63,000, a net profit of $22,000 was made. ? "Give me a dollar's worth of stamps, please," said a lady to the clerk at the post office. "What denomination, mad 'ara?" "Presbyterian, I suppose. That is what Mr. Wanamaker is, I believe." ? Temperance advocates are rejoicing over the fact that Rlaine is now a total abstainer. It is remarked that the list of public men who have joined the various temperance organizations of late years is a long one. ? Snow still remains on the ground in the Yosemite regions. Many mountains in the Sierras are still covered twenty feet deep, and the result is that the melting enow keeps the streams full and the wa? terfalls are superb. ? We lose two pounds of water in the twenty four hours by perspiration, and the more we perspire the cooler we be? come. There are 27,000,000 poreson tho surface of our bodies, which, if placed in line would extend twenty-eight miles in length. ? A Charleston policeman ran after some negro children for stealing papers from store doors early in the morning. A girl about fourteen years old was so badly frightened that she jumped from the wharf into the water and was drown? ed. ? Some one estimates that getting born costs the people of the United States $225,000,000 anually ; getting married, $300,000,000; getting buried, $75,000,000. It is a serious question which of these amounts are the most judicious expendi? tures. ? In New York the law against ciga? rette smoking goes into effect September 1, Minors under 16 caught puffing the vile things will be fined two dollars and imprisoned for one day. Some people think a good whipping should be thrown in. ? Mr. Mandersville Wiggins, of New Brighton, Staten Island, suggests drown? ing as a humane form of capital punish? ment. He Bays he came near being drowned not long ago himself. He went far enough to discover that death by that method would be painless. ? The lazy man has no excuse now, even if the Waterbury watch made him tired. A self winding watch has been patented which is wound by the move-, ments of the wearer, fifteen minutes' ex? ertion on his part winding the watch for 24 hours. But then, oh my! it will be no benefit to tho lazy club, because the true blue member will not move for 15 minutes continuously. ? A new departure has been taken in gifts intended for the edification of the public in the electric fountain which has been presented to Lincoln Park, Chicago. The fountain has over two hundred large jets, which are artistically inter? mingled, the highest of which throws a stream of water to a height of seventy five feet. The fountain, when illumina? ted, is a most beautiful sight. The spray separates into innumerable drops, each of which reflects the glitter of the electric light, giving the effect of a shower of diamonds. ? J. R. Wilson, stated clerk of the Southern Presbyterian Church, publishes a summary of its statistics, from which it appears that that body now has 71 pres? byteries, an increase of three over last year; 1,179 ministers, an increase of 34; 2,400 churches, an increase of 79; 11,400 additions on examination, an increase of 1,499, and 16S,791 communicants, an in? crease of 7,049. The contributions for all. pnrposes have increased, except for edu? cation, which has fallen off nearly $16,000 below the unusually large sum of $54,869 of last year. The total for congregation? al purposes and benevoJence is $1,727, 263. ? The Detroit Evening Journal, co op? erating with Mr. Henry Gilman, former? ly of that city, and now United States consul at Jerusalem, conceived the plan of raising $15,000 to restore Jacob's well, described some weeks ago in letters on Palestine. After some of the preliminary arrangements were made an insurmount? able obstacle arose. Tho Russo Greek Church?that is to say the Government of Russia?has purchased the well from the Turkish Government, as it has a number of other historical sites in Pal? estine. The Government proposes to erect a church over the site, and thus ac? cess to the well will depend upon the conditions that may be imposed by the officers of that church. As it was in a ruined condition, and rapidly being filled up, wc are glad that the church has bought it. The authenticity of the well is known and the Russian Church will preserve it. A Pleasing Sense Of health and strength renewed, and of ease and comfort follows the use of Syrnp of Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature to effectually cleans the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50 cenlB and one dollar bottles by all leading druggists.