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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. .ANOTHER CUTTING S?BAPE. THE PRICES ?N Sill Bils, 'SMoistf, BM Boois, Sciool Sil, PICTURE FRAMES, NOVELS, And all the rest of our Stock has been dangerously stabbed. Come at once and secure bargains, for we are offering real bargains in our line. WATKINS' BOOK STORE. J. N. WATKINS, Proprietor. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! In order to reduce our Large Stock of Winter Dry Gfoods, WE WILL NOW OFFER THEM AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, COMPRISING A COMPLETE LINE OF FOREIGN and DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS, &c We would call special attention to our large and well assorted line of BLACK CASHMERES, HENEIETTAS and MOHAIRS that can't be beat in the city. HOSIERY. Our line of Hosiery for Ladies, Misses, Children and Gents is immense. :~r- NOTIONS. A large line of Notions of all kinds. TABLE LINENS, DAMASK, TOWELS, &c. FLANNELS A.T COST. BSu We are agents for Ferris Bros. GOOD SENSE CORSET and Hall's BAZAR FORMS. TO THE LADIES. We extend a most cordial invitation to call and inspect our entire stock, as we-will iake pleasure in showing you through, and will guarantee to sell you as cheap as anybody. Promising you prompt and polite attention, We are yours truly, SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING. SHORT PROFITS NOW ALL WE EXPECT. ALL WE WANT. We will give yon lowest WHOLESALE PRICES on EliOUR, CORN, HAY, BRAN, OAT'S, &c, &c. ARMOUR & CO'S. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR HAMS, MEAT) LARD, CANNED MEATS j@- LOWEST CHICAGO PRICES made on Cases and lots weighing one hundred pounds and over. Latent flours. Our BALLARiyS BLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Try a Barrel. No Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. BELL When the rain stops you will have to do about to get ready for planting; so to get a good start buy one of these Crystal Metal Bells to wake yourself and neigh? bors up at four o'clock in the morning and make up for lost time. Cunningham Bros, will sell you one of these Bells low down. Come and Bee them, and you wjll find lots of other things yon need? Hames, Traces, Backbands, . Plow Stocks, Singletrees, Plows, Hoes, Rakes, Forks, Spades, Shovels, Briar Hooks, Bush Blades, Heel Bolts, Log Chains, Cow Chains, Horse and Mule Shoes, Blacksmith Tools, Builders' Hardware. S&" We have a few SHOES ;md HATS that we are selling at COST. Come and see us. Yours truly, OUIsrNIISrGEIAM BROS. Pc ? ^ ??To those who owe us past duo Accounts collect unless they are paid in the next thirty days. We will be compelled to C. B. 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HOOFING and GUTTEKING promptly done, and warranted first class. Also, Roofs Painted. STOVES low down. ^?J* Come-and see us before you buy, and we will SAVE YOU MONEY. SEEL & AECHER, TE}A?HE}r$'GOL:UMN, All Communications intended fo thislOolnmn Bhould be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY GEMS. "0 what a tangled web wo wear, Y^heu first we practice to deceive.'' "True worth is being, not seeming, In doing each day that goes by Some little good?not in dreaming Of gre?t things to do by and by." The school at Flat Bock is without a teacher. This makes a place for a teacher who is a good disciplinarian. Will the grammar classes of the Coun? ty parse this sentence and send us their work ? "John said that that that, that I wrote, was a pronoun." We saw it on the blackboard at Hunter's Spring. The Examination of Teachers takes place on the 24th of April. Those ex? pecting to come before the County Board of Examiners for certificates should re? member this date, as no special examina? tion can be had under any circum? stances. Abbeville County heard from. The following pupils of Miss Nannie Hark ness, teacher at Level Land, in Abbeville County, have sent in answers to the questions, but they came in too late for last week's issue: Cora Bell, Carrie McWhorter, Emma Carwile and Lula McWhorter. The .following names came too late to appear as answering questions last week: Claude E. Gambrell and Walter L. Casey of Melton's Academy, L. Eugene Knight of Whitefield school, Neta McGee of Ivy Hollow School, and A. M. Eeed, .H. W. Caldvrell and P. 0. McAdams of Shady Grove Bchool, in Fork Township. Two miles from Savannah, Ga., is a spring neatly walled in called "Jasper Spring." Hundreds of visitors resort to it. How did it receive its name, and what makes it bo interesting to visitors? All the history schools who can do so will please send answers to the above questions to the Editor of the Teachers' Column. M; N. Mitchell. The Superintendent of Education has requested the School Commissioners and other members of the County Board of Examiners to meet with the State Board in Columbia on the 3rd day of April. All interested in tho cause of education are invited to be present at that meeting. It is stated that many things of impor? tance will be considered. We should be pleased to see a goodly number of the teachers of Anderson County in attend? ance on thi3 occasion, 3rd of April. We should be very glad to see around every school bouse in Anderson County a neat, well kept flower garden. This can be doue without trouble, and will vidld a rich reward. Let each pupil bring a nice rose busb, chrysanthemum or something else, and all work and care for them. Let the children get a collec? tion of wild flowers also, into their gar? den. Tho effort should be to get a vari? ety, and remember they should be well carod for. Will not tho teachers look after this. At Hunter's Spring, in Centerville Township, is a good school house, but very poor and uncomfortable seats. That community is able to treat its children better than that. For about one dollar a scholar we can supply the beat patent de6ke, and should be very much pleased to see them placed in Hunter's Spring school bouse. What do the patrons think of this? We can supply the very best patent desk3 to the schools of An? derson County cheaper tbau they can be purchased from any other source, and should be pleased to help the patrons supply the 6cholara. We do not wish to make a cent by the transaction. All we ask is that the patrons pay the whole? sale price. We will give them our com? mission, which is very large. It will be more than any other one man will be called on to give. This is a golden opportunity. IRREGULAR ATTENDANCE. There is nothing about which we hear so much and universal complaint among the teachers as the irregular attendance of the pupils. And we might add that there is nothing that militates more a?ainr,t the progress and development of the scholars than this. An enrollment of forty pupils gener? ally gives an average attendance of about thirty. That is, almost one-fourth of them are absent all tho time. This is probably due in part to the inclement weather, but not altogether so. It is safe to sfry that the average attendance is not more than four fifths of the enroll? ment. This causes more trouble than any other one cause. It places the pupil ab? sent at a disadvantage on its return, and breaks the chain of the lessons, and to that extent checks the interest of the child in its books. It causes so many hindrances iu various ways, that we could not cnumerato them all if we so desired. Some children are always glad of an opportunity to stay away from school on any pretext. Others never stay away when they can help it. Some? times children are kept at home to help with work of one kiud or another, or to go ou an arrand, or aro allowed to lose a day from school tc go with papa or mamma to town. Sometimes, may be, a boy or girl stays at home every chauce becauae lie or she feoia that the teacher and the other children will not miss him or her. This is oftcu tho fault of the teacher and other pupils. The teachor should never allow a pupil to feel that it will not be missed when away from school. Each pupil should feel that the teacher is deeply interested in it and its progress. A pupil should never be allowed to re* turn after a day or more's absence with? out the teacher's taking notice of its return and enquiring the cause of ab? sence, and expressing gratification at its being back again. This has a wonderful power in it. It is cad to see a child in ANDERSON, S. C school who feels that the teacher takes no interest in it, and does not care whether it returns the next day or not. Be interested in such pupils and let them know of that interest, Manifest it to them. Children, in some respects, are like grown people. They do not gener? ally like to go where they are not wanted. In most instances the irregular attend? ance can not be charged against the teacher. It is to be charged chiefly against the parents, either directly or indirectly. In many instances they do not make the school house comfortable, and the children regard it a punishment to be required to go and sit for hours on the 'hard, uncomfortable seats in the school room and suffer with cold feot and bodies, too, sometimes. In many in? stances there is absolutely nothing to cheer and encourage the child in its pur? suit of knowledge. No maps, globes or anything else, except a very poor black? board. Provide your school house with all that you can to help and encourage your childreu. What have you, parents, to live for. except your children. Make your school house a place where children will want to go. Anderson Couutj's Own fllosby. Mance Jolly, of Anderson, was one of the most noted Confederate guerrillas in the South just after the war. He was fearless of all danger, as courageous as a lion, and at the same time as kind hearted as a woman. He was diowned in the Brazos river, in Texas, several yearB ago, aud a gentleman who lives in Texa3 aad is in the city, yesterday told a reporter some of Jolly's daring deeds. Jolly and five of his brothers were Con? federate soldiers, the guerrilla being a member of Orr's regiment of South Car? olina volunteers. He was as daring a Boldier as a guerrilla, and went through the war with his Company. Fate was cruel to his brothers, and all of them were shot dead in different battles. Jolly determined upon revenge and swore that for every brother who had-been killed he would kill one Federal. He returned to Anderson and began to terrorize the Fed? eral garrison. The garrison was made up largely of negro soldiers and little respect was shown the people of Anderson by the negroes until Jolly began operations. A large reward was offered for his capture by the commander of the garrison, a man named Brown, and this infuriated the guerrilla. Every effort made to capture him was unsuccessful and generally re? sulted in some of the soldiers being killed or wounded. The people in the County sympathized with him and gave him Bhclter. Jolly seemed to lead a charmed life. The superstitious negro soldiers began to think that he was not a human beiog and his sudden appearance in a party of them was the signal for a helter skelter race for a safe hiding place. Guns were thrown dowu and the few ne? gro and white soldiers who had the pres? ence of mind to fire at him were so frightened that their bullets went wide of their mark. Joily owned a magnificent sorrel horse named "Dixie." It was sure footed and as fleet as any in the country. The ani? mal was as well trained as those of the Indian scouts years ago, and Beemed to be endowed with the brains of a human. Oa his charger, Jolly rode one day into a party of negro soldiers at the "Blue Ridge" depot in Anderson. He asked them what they were doing there, and Bome of them replying curtly, he began firing with a pistol from each hand. Some of the soldiers were shot and' the others fled. When Jolly's pistols were exhausted he gave rein to ''Dixie" and went out of town. One day Captain Brown seut a squad of men to search the country for Jolly. They went to Jolly's mother's house aud not finding him there, they took a beautiful gold watch from Jolly's sister. The watch had been sent to her by a dying brother, who was Bhot down at the battle of Chaucellors ville. Jolly heard of the depredation and next day rode into Anderson well armed. He called at the hotel for Cap? tain Brown, told him he understood there was a large reward for Mance Jolly and said he had the man. The commander asked where, and Jolly said "Im the man. Your crowd stole my sister's watch. I'll give you twenty-four hours to send it back to her. If it is not back in that time there'll be twenty-five dead ynnkees here." The commander knew Jolly meant what he said and the watch was returned. Jolly rode quietly out of town. One Sunday he went to a country Church to attend services. The soldiers heard of his being there, surrounded the Church and demanded his surrender. With a pistol in one band and a knife in the other, he jumped out of a window, mounted his horse, cut the haltor and dashed away with the bullets whizzing by his ears. He went a number of yards, got behind a protection, and with his carbine relumed the fire. The soldiers were routed. Tho foregoing are only a few of the many daring deeds of the guerrilla and his escapes. It is said that he fulfilled his oath. He tormented the garrison as long a3 it remained in Ander? son and theu moved to Tesas, married and became a peaceable law abiding citizen. His whereabouts was never known to the Federal officers.? Greenville New Marek ldth. ? ii. ? ?It's sometimes said patent medicines are for the ignorant. The doctors foster this idea. "The people," we're told, "are mostly ignorant when it comes to medical science." Suppose they are 1 What a sick man needs is not knowledge, but a cure, and the medicine that cures is the medicine for the sick. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures the "do believes and the don't believes." There's no hesitance about it, no "if" nor "possi? bly." It says?"I can cure you, only do as I direct." Perhaps it fails occasional? ly. The makers bear of it when it docs, because they never keep the money when tho medicine fails to do good. Suppose the doctors went on that principle. (We beg the doctor's pardon. It wouldn't do.) -o Choking, sneezing and every other form of catarrh in the bead, is radically cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. CO cents. Sold by druggists everywheio. ? Reports from Delaware promiso an abundant peach yield this summer, ' THURSDAY MORI BILL ARB'S CHAT. An Essay on the Keeping of Sweet rota toes. Atlanta Constitution. Uncle Simon Peter Bichardson heard a man say that he had kept sweet pota? toes sound and sweet all winter and some years until potatoes came again. "That's so," he replied. "I have no doubt of it. I have seen them kept for seven years, and they were still keeping, and what is more remarkable, they were growing and getting larger every year." Uncle Simon's assertions are very fre? quently surprises to hiB hearers, for he has traveled much and seen a great deal, and is a man of observation. His manner of talk carries truth with it, and being a preacher, the presumption of truth are all in hiB favor. "I lived at Key WeBt a long time," he said, "and as there is no winter the potatoes don't sleep long in the ground, but start up again and grow some more. They swell and crack open and put out sprouts, and are not fit to eat, but they don't rot if left in the ground. They will grow and grow until they get as big as a young log." Some? times a man weak in faith will walk off from Uncle Simon, and leave him talk? ing, and hence he is very cautious about Darrating extraordinary experiences for fear they will not be fully believed and it will bring discredit upon his calling. It is astonishing how little we know about other countries and other people. When I waB in Florida I heard a man ask another man if he had any sweet potatoes to sell. And he said, "No, but if 'laps' will do you you are welcome to them. I expect you can get a 100 bushels in half a day's plowing, if you don't mind the trouble." "All right," said he, 'Til go for the laps." I found out that laps were potatoes left in the ground after the sea? son was pasasd and they grew again and made potatoes the next season without cultivation and the second crop was call? ed laps. A friend of Uncle Simon told me that he wa3 a trnthfnl man?strictly truthful, and not given even to innocent exagger? ation. Said he: "I had heard that be was born and raised in South Carolina, and as that was my native stale, I asked him one day what part of the State he came from and he replied, without hesi? tation, "I came from Dutch fork." Ho saw me smile and said: "You are ac? quainted with the Fork I presume. Yes, I was born and raised right there and am not ashamed to own it, If I am anybody or have done anything worthy of a mau I deserve the more credit for having sprung from the Fork." My friend told me that Simon Peter was the first man he ever heard admit that he came from Dutch Fork?for it was a poor, barren, God-forsaken region, between two rivers about twenty miles this side of Newberry, and the people who lived there had nothing and dident want anything, and raised their scrawny, tow-headed children on potatoes and dirt. Clay was a popular diet among them and a good substitute for chewing gum and tobacco. Uncle Simon used to be a book agent. That business is a good school for a man or even a woman to acquire cheek and learn the ways of the world. He was appointed an agent to sell Bibles, and to beg money to buy more Bibles, and he gave Bibles away to the poor, and so he traveled overland all over the country, and talked and prayed and preached as he went along. No refusal over bluffed him, for his heart was in his work, and he rarely left a man without getting something out of him, or leaving a Bible with him. One day he stopped in front of a store and introduced himself and made known his business. The merchant was a loud-talking, obstinate man and said: "Well, you needent stop here for money. We have been bled to death in this town. There's hardly a day passes but what some broken down man or wo? man come3 along for charity. No, sir, we are bled to death." "But," said Uncle Simon, "my work is for the Lord. I'm after giviug the peo? ple God's book, and?" "Well, you'll get nothing out of me. I tell you we are bled to death." "Won't you give me ?1 for tho Bible cause?" "No, r.ir." "Fifty cents ?" "No, sir." "Twenty-five cents?" "No, sir; not a cent. I tell you we are bled to death by beggars." "Well," said Uncle Simon, "pleasoatop inside and let me show you my arm." "I don't wane to see your arm," the man said, gruffly. ?'Well, just come in. I want to show it to you. It is a curiosity," And the crowd followed Uncle Simon into the store and watched him take off his coat and roll up his sleeve. He point? ed out threo little scars near the elbow, and said: "Ono time I was very Bick,and sent for a doctor to come and bleed me, and he tried throo times to hit the vein, but missed it, and never got a drop of blood." He rolled down hia sleeve and put on his coat and remarked : "A man can be bled that way every day, but if no blood come3 ho i? no worse off for blood, is he, my friend ?" The crowd laughed, and tho merchant's face turned red, and ho look Uncle Simon back to hia deak and gavo him five dol? lars. Ono time tho old geutleinun was trav? eling iu a hack that waa full of passeo gera, and as they were pasaiug a poor, desolate farm thsy saw a woman picking cottou, and there were six little half clad cotton headed childrou noar by tryiug to help her. One of the men pointed at her and said: "Yonder is the old hen and her chickens; I'll bet tho whoio shebang don'L get fifty pounds a day." LTucle Si? mon Baid; "Slop driver; atop a minute. Gentlemen, that ia a poor woman; a very poor woman. She can hardly stand up etrdight, she has been stooping so long over that little low cotton, Let ua make her happy for awhile. Suppose wo give her one dollar a piece. They all agreed but ibe first man who had made fun of her. The others made up five dollars and Uncle Simon called the eldeat girl to the fence and gave it to her. She looked wild and Beared and took it in her trembling ?NG, MARCH 26, 1 hand and ran to the mother. "Go ahead, driver," said Uncle Simon, but every head* was turned toward the old hen and her chickens, and when Bhe seemed to understand that no harm was intended aud it was a gift from generous men, Bhe took off her old sun bonnet and bowed to them and pointed her hand to heaven. It was learned afterwards that the woman was a poor widow, and she was trying to harvest herhusband'd crop. That v/as a big thing in that family, and they are talking about it yet I reckon. The other mau caught theiufection before they reached their journey's end, and gave another poor child a dollar for bringing him a gourd of water from the spring at the foot of the hill. He didn't want the water, but just wanted an excuse to get even with the crowd. But I have heard as big stories as Un? cle Simon's tater story right here at home, It was in the Judge's room one night when we wore all talking about what a great country was Gilmer for ap? ples and Irish potatoes and cabbages. Judge Underwood declared that you might take a sprout from any poor, no account apple tree down here and stick it in the ground in Gilmer.and it would grow and bear fine apples. And General Hansell said he had been to see the fa? mous apple tree on old Cantrell's place, about a mile off the Dahlonega road, and he found it Bixty feet high and sixty feet broad, and he Btood up beside it and tried to span it with his long arms and couldn't reach more than half way round. He looked to Judge Underwood for a nod of confirmation and got it. "That is so-so, exactly so," said the judge. "I have seen that tree. It came from a seed that was planted by old Noonatootly,'a half-breed Indian who came from North Carolina about fifty years ago." Thus fortified General Hansell continued his remarks by saying that the average annual crpp of this tree was 500 buihels, and the ap? ples were what is known as the black apple?they were such a very dark red. Judge Underwood cleared his throat and said: "And general, don't you re? member that lane?Frazier's Lane, on Laughing Gal creek?where there is an applo tree in every fence corner on both side3 of the lane clear up to the top of the hill, and the limb3 of the trees have got tangled up together in a solid mass and you can't see the sun above you as you drive along?" "Oh, yes," said the general, "I remem? ber it perfectly. And one fall when you and Trippe and Chastain and Hanks and Hatchet and John Word and Hooper and ever bo many more of us Btruck that lane there were twelve buggies all in a row going to court. And you and I were in the hindmost buggy and that lane was ankle deep in apples, and the horses could hardly get along, and I looked back and the horses and the wheels had mash? ed apples until there wa3 a stream of ci? der running down the hill that was big enough to turn a mill. You remember that general ?" "Perfectly, perfectly," said the general, but he was weakening a little. "And old man Frazier told me," .said the judge, "that one year he turned the cider into the vats ir. his little tanyard, and it made very fine leather. Cider makes very fine tannin, you know, gener? al. My father wore a pair of calf-skin shoes for seven years that were tanned with cider, and you could turn them wrong side out as easy aa india-rubber." Tho judge had out heraded Herod and a general h ilari ty succeeded his last effort. Baron MuDehausen and the Arabian Nights had a wonderful influence over the grand old gentlemen of the olden time. They were fine story tellers, and and could just make them up right along. Bill A.kp. Population of the State by Counties. The last bulletin issued by the United States Census Department gives the following as the population of the several Counties of South Carolina: 1S90. 1880. Abbeville.46,S54 40.S15 Aiken.31,822 28,112 Anderson.43,696 33,612 Barnwell.44,613' 39,857 Beaufort.34,119 30,176 Berkeley.55,428 . Charleston.59,903 102,800 Chester.26,660 24,153 Chesterfield.18,468 10,345 Clarendon.23,233 19,19? Colloton.40,293 36,386 Darlington.29,134 34,485 EdgeCeld.49,259 45,844 Fairfield.28,599 27,765 Florence.25,027 Georgetown.20,857 19,613 Greenville.4-1,310 37,496 Hampton.20,544 18,741 Horry.19,256 15,574 Kershaw.22,361 21,538 Lancaster..20,761 16,903 Laurena.31,610 29,444 Lexington.22,181 18,564 Marion.29,976 34,107 Marlboro.23,500 20,598 Newberry.26,434 26,496 Oconee.18,687 16,256 Oraugeburg.49,393 41,395 Pickens.16,3S9 14,389 Eichland.36,821 28,573 Spartanburg.55,3S5 40,409 Sumter.43,695 37,037 Union.25,363 24,0S0 Williarnsburg.27,717 24,110 York.3S.831 30,713 From tho above figures it will be seen that our population increased from 995 577 in 1880 to 1,151.149 in 1S90, or about fifteen per cent. ?I'vo been a sufferer from rheumatism for years and have boon unable to obtain auy relief at all. Salvation Oil gave me entire relief, and I heartily recommend it. HENRY WINKEL, Baltimore Md. ? Michigan has a cow insurenco club, of which the Dairy World bays: On joining each person pays into the treasu? ry 75 cents for each cow in his possession, and when a cow belonging to a member dies an assessment is made and ?40 is paid to the loser. After the initiation feo the members are required to pay nothing except the assessments, and as tho club already numbers 130 members, a comparatively insignificant sum is levied upon each. Three claims have thus far been paid. 891. WHY DO NOT WOMEN WEI) 1 Is It "Wholly the Fault of Men, or are Wo? men to niamo ? It requires considerable temerity to recommend to the attention of a reading public already distracted with a prolong? ed and hysterical discussion of the ques? tion, "I9 marriage a Failure ?" the con aiders'./on of another question antedating the former in sequence if not in impor? tance, namely: "Why Women do Not Marry," or rather why so few in propor? tion to their numbers attain the dignity ofwifehood. ? But an ingenious man correspondent of ths rail Mall Gazette has thrown down theguantlet by declaring with the assur? ance peculiar to his sex that the reason is simply because men do not propose, supporting his premise by a collateral assertion to the effect that men do not propose because one-half of the women world is too modest to attract and the other half not modest enough to win the regard of the superior creatures of the genus homo. 'Twas ever thus since the days of the feasting of forbidden fruit in the garden, woman is always the offender, the originator and precipitator of disas? ter. With all due respect to the Gazette's "Modern Daniel come to judgment," it is safe to assert that the real reason of the celibacy of woman is not due to their own deficiency in grace or person or man? ner, but simply to the fact that there are not men enough in the world to marry. Go where you will?to the seashore, in the mountains, to receptions, balle, teas, any of the important functions of social life where men and women are gathered together?the men are in the minority. It is safe to premise that not one woman in fifty ever lived to be 40 years old with? out receiving one or more proposals of marriage, and not one in 500. may be found who might not have received more offers than she did if she had hot avoided them with all a woman's kindly tact ahd diplomacy. In the same ratio that the old chivalric adoration for women has diminished among men a certain dignity and strength has developed among wo? men. The avenue of employment, usefulness and honor that the necessity of woman has opened and is continually widening make some future possible for every wo? man of intelligence besides that compass? ed by the clear starching of one man's linen and the cooking of one man's din? ners to that standard of excellence es? tablished by the way h;s mother did it, Marriage is to many women the inter? ruption rather than the consummation of her ambition, and she is inclined to weigh well in her mind the worth of the man who honors her with his regard before she relinquishes interests endeared to her to bear his name, provide for his home and rear his children, all for the sake of support, in many cases lees satis? factory than she could if ? untrammelled, secure for herself and for his love, which sometimes outlasts the decay of her beauty and survives the fascination of the first fair face that comes under his observation and frequently does not. As has been already stated, there are more women qualified to become compe? tent wives than there are men capable of developing into worthy husbands. In every group of children, girls and boys in the same circumstances of life and subjected to the same influences, a greater proportion ofgirlsgrowupintosweet, wo? manly women than there are of boys who develop into honorable, successful men. Formerly there was no alternative but for the girls to wed the boys, worthy or unworthy. A woman unwed was a wo? man dishonored. The old maid's prayer for "Oh, any man ; good Lord," was un? consciously the desire of every girl's inner consciousness. Now the stigma of dishonor has been removed from the brow of tho spinster, and the petition is changed from "any one" to "the one, good Lord"; for, in spite of being brack? eted with senior wranglers; holding pro? fessorships and offices of honor and trust, notwithstanding the writing of books, and the perfection of great enterprises by woman, the woman's heart vibrates jnst as sweetly, as tenderly, as gladly to the touch of true love as in the days when Adam won his consort in the garden, when Paul'wooed Virginia and Siegfried kissed Brunhilda's silent lips to lifo and lovo. Now the average woman of intelligence realizes that tho unmarried girl has the best of it. As some one has said, "In the soul of every unwou woman there lies eternal youth." Within her heart is hidden still the holy of holies, violated by no high priest, however rigb-eous, wherein golden-winged cherabim preside over the sanctity of her womanhood. She is, as a rule, fresher and fairer and better dressed than her married sister in the same circumstances, stronger in body, brighter in intellect. Walking the floor nights with teething babies and crying one's eyes out over husbands that stay out at the club-until the keyhole ia a whirling Catherine wheel, are not conducive to health or beauty. The un? married woman reads and studies more than tho matrons find time to do, with tho children and the marketing and the husbands and tho social duties. She rides and rows and runs, thinks and travels and lives, If she baa money ehe is to be envied of the gods. If she hasn't she sets about earning it in tho manner most congenial to herself, and spends it, too, right royally in her own adorning if she will, without giving an account to any oue of her purchases or buying a cheaper bonnet, because Johnnie ha3 to have shoes and tho baby a cloak, because trade ia poor or John ha3 bet on the wrong horao or lost a pile in the street. It rc quirea something besides a tailor's sr.nd witch man in stylish clothe?, a conceited bor.u who dreams all women arc ready to wed him, a widower with small children who ia locking for a nuno or a gourmet who ia seeking a cock to convince this stylo of old maid that she is a blighted beiug. As for those who havo old maidism thrust upon them?there are- hundreds of sweet-hearted, womanly women to whom wifehood and motherhood belong by all that 13 worthy in inatinct and pure in purpose who ure cheated out of their birthright by the lack of enough men worthy to touch the hem of their gay ments, by designing and false hearted women, who bear off matrimonial prizes only to be unfaithful to the husbands and neglectful of the children; and by the conditions under which wo live, which enable the girls with money and influence to secure husbands in a most' mercenary way, to the inspiration of ranter? on tho "Is Marriage a Failure" question, the cynicism of men and the despair of women. The question, "Why do you not marry ?" was asked a young woman, and she answered, "I cannot earn enough to support two yet." To a young man the same question was propounded, and the reply was: "The ones we want will not marry us, and the ones we might have we do not care for." When the reaction comes from this unmanageable age* when men and wo? men mutually require less of each other in the marriage vows, when women do not look upon husbands as safety deposits of wealth where drafts are cashed on sight, when men explain carefully their resources to their wives, giving them their share of the income as freely and unrestrainedly as they help themselves to their own allowance instead of doling out the shekels niggardly, as to beggars upon the highway, and when the little god of love ceases to be so raerconary and so malicious, hurling his darts at random among the people, causing the impossible and unattainable to be ever the desirable, there will be more giviDg in marriage, more solemnity in its cere? monies, less talk of its failure, and more devotees to its convenants. The New Cotton Picker. Waco, Tex., March 12.?The Lcne Star Cotton Picker Company was re? cently organized in Waco, Tex., capital stock $5,000,000, Colonel E. J. Gurley president and Mr. Seth P. Turner secre? tary and treasurer. Mr. Angus Camp? bell, the inventor and patentee, is a citi? zen of Waco. The controlling interest is held in this city. Grounds have been purchased on the east side of the river for the location of the factory. Machin? ery has been bought and will soon be placed in position for manufacturing tho picker. The company ie chartered under the laws of the State of Illinois. A brief description of the Lone Star Cotton Picker might be interesting to your readers. The picker is mounted on two traction wheels, so balanced as not to press heavily on the necks of the horses. It can be readily raised or lowered by the driver while in operation* There are 300 picking fingers inserted in a drum having a compensating movement that allows the fingers to stay in one position while in the plant, thus avoiding any drag motion that would injure the leaves, blooms and immature boll3. The fingers are bearded with innumerable points of bristles, placed in longitudinal grooves^ projecting slightly from the periphery, and while in the plant have a rapid rotary movement about their individi!.;; axis, instantly engaging the fibrous lint and spinning it around themselves. As the drum revolves the loaded fingers, upon reaching the top, come in contact with a stripping device. This device is a series of large disk-Ehaped brushes, which aro on one shaft, double in diameter tho length of the fingers, and run at a fast speed, eo that the brushes strip the cotton from the fingers and the centrifugal force throws it into a large receptacle in the rear part of the machine. This machinery is encased in a box or body, open front and bottom, wire gauze sides, top and end. The entire weight of the picker is about 1,000 pounds, of light draught and easily drawn by an average pair of horses or mules. Only two laborers are required to operate it. It will pick 90 per cent of all open cot? ton, and will gather per day from 3,000 to 3.G00 pounds, or two bales. The lint is as free from dirt or trash as that picked by hand. It was thoroughly tested last fall in the cotton fields of Waco, and pronounced a success by all who witness? ed it in operation. It does not injure the plant. The Little Children that arc Gone. Why do they come, these little ones, that enter our homes by the gateway of suffering, and that linger with us a few months uttering no words, smiling in a mysterious eilenco, yet speaking all the time of tho purity andsweetness of heaven. Why must they open the tenderest foun? tains of our natures only to leave them so soon, choked with the bitter tears of loss ? It is impossible wholly to answer such questions of the tortured heart; but one can say, in general, that these little temporary wanderers from a celestial home come and go because of the great love of God. It is an inestimable bless? ing to have been the parent of a child that has the stamp of heaven upon its brow, to hold it in one's arms, to minis? ter to it, to gazo fondly down into the lit? tle upturned face, and to rejoice in the unsullied beauty of its smiles, and then to give it back to God at his call, with the thought that in heaven, as upon earth, it is still our own child, a member of the household, still to be counted al? ways as one of the children whom God hath given us. Such a love chastens and sanctifies the hearts of father and mother, carries them out beyond time and sense, and gives them a hold upon the unseen. As things of great value always cost, it is worth all the sorrow to have known this holy affection and to have this treasure in heaven. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that contain Mercury, as mercury will surely de.itroy the nerso of smell, and completely derango the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Snch articles should never be nserl except on prescrip? tion from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do k tenfold to the good ycu can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, and nets directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh hs sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made bv F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. Q, C?uSpld by Prnggia's, 7;>c;. [E XXV.- -NO. 38. All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? It 13 estimated that Indian wa havo cost tho United StatC3 Government $70,000,000. ? In this country alone 5,000 young physicians are turned out from the ical colleges yearly. / ? Missouri paid over $7,0001 for tobacco supplied to the convicts the State penitentiary. ?A rich man's heir3 weep together on their way to the graveyard, but they hate each other on tho way back. ? To complete their growth, the nails of fho left hand require eight or ten days raoro than these of the right. ? What so wonderful as a severe cough cured by Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for twenty-five cents. Try it 1 ? North Carolina, Tennessee and Vir ginia crop of 2,970,000 bushels peanuts, averages an annual yield of $2,500,OOO.H ? The California millionaire, Mnrphy,gg owns 4,000,000 acres of.land, which is * equal in area to the State of Massachu? setts. ' ? In 1890, 52,685 Irish emigrants came to the United Stated, against an average for the four preceding years of 01,785. ? He who gives pleasure meets with it; kindness is the bond of friendship and the hook of love; he who sows not, reaps not. ? If the' spine is weak rub it with mixture composed of one teacupfal o water, one tableapoonfnl of brandy am pinch of soda. ? A Boston, Mass., Judge has decide that cigars are medicine, and as sue may be sold on Sunday. The judge must be a smoker himself. ? By due process of law in New York last year 100,000 people who could not pay their rent were turned out into tHe%? street without a place to go to. ? There is a house in Fayette,Me., 90 years old, in which, it is said, four gene- % rations of the same family have lived, -Tig and yet only one death.has occurred. V ? The wide awake" farmer visits otber ~ farms than his own. When he finds . conveniences, methods and crops better than at home it improves his farming. [f.'M ? Samuel N. Rockhill, a prominent citizen of Bordentown, N. J., blew out his brains with a revolver Sunday night : after having been told by his doctorj^bat-^ he had Eright's disease. s* ? The ice harvest in Maine is now practically completed. The crop is con- . / sidcrab'y less than one half as large'as [ '.?[ that of last year, when, old ice included, ;?* there were about 3,000,000 tons under,- ^ cover. ? Patient?"I am ever so glad to be^J up again, doctor. You wouldn't do any? thing to cause a relapse, wauld y?u?" ? Doctor?"Why, of course not." "Then don't bring in your bill for about twelve months." ? "The other night, just as Robinson was getting down on his knees to propose to a girl, his suspender parted." "Hew T" unfortunate. I suppose Robinson was in a terrible rage, wasn't he?" "No, but the girl was." ? A wealthy Atchiaon (Kan.) woman made her will recently, and Bhe says in it that at the end of five years all her for? tune is tu be given to her husband if he . can prove that ho has visited her grave ten times in that length of time. v ? Blankets are loaned to the poor, du? ring the winter months, free of cost, by a kind-hearted citizen in Brunswick, Ger? many. They are stamped, to prevent ~~ them from being sold or pawned, and . they are returned at the close of the cold weather. ? Young John Jacob Astorgoes tr' housekeeping, in Bpite of tho fact tb1 potatoes are $1 60 a bushel and McE7. j leyed eggs aro high. And his ealary" being an Astor is only about $100,00 month. It is strange what chances yoi people will take nowadays. ? Mr. Brantly Saunders lives down No. 8 township, and it is safe to say that""' the combined weights of the members will aggregate more than any other fam? ily in North Carolina. Pr^Iia' his wife together weigh 490 pounds; four sons ' weigh 670 pounds; and four daughters pull the scales to 815.?Concord JEmea. ? Adam Oberhoizer is an 80-year resident of Wapakoneta, O. A year or ' so ago he induced a young woman to marry him by giving her a large oil farm j and ?5,000 cash. The other day she pre- I seated him with a son and heir, and Adam vented his joy by going about the streets singing at the top of his voice. ? J. H. Inman tells the Augusta A Chronicle that while no definite proposi- ? tion has been made it is more than likely j| that the Richmond Terminal will lease" the Georgia Central for ninety-nine years. He says minority stock holders will be consulted and that every effort will be_ made to perfect an arrangement satisfac? tory to everybody. ? The increasing prevalence of the scientific spirit, with its passion for exact statement, makes it more and more neces? sary for men to say precisely what they mean and nothing else. "What is your last name, my little man?" asked the-?1 new teacher. "Tommy," answered the boy. 'Tndeed I What is your full name?" "Tommy Jones." "Then Jones is your last name?" "No, ma'am, excuse me. When I wa3 born my name was Jones, and they didn't give me the other for . more than a mouth." ? It i.3 said that between the island of Madagascar and the coast of India there are 16,000 islands, only 600 of which are inhabited. In any of these islands a man . can live and support his family in prince? ly luxury without working more than 25 days in the year. In fact on eome of these islands he needn't work at all," as nature provides,the food, and no clothes are required. It is Etrange that the great fraternity of lazy men have not drifted to these islands; or it would be if they were not fo lazv. Confirmed* The favorable impression produce4joa->~ the first appearance of the agreeable li? quid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, a few > years ago has been more than confirmetT and the pleasant experience of all who - have used it, and the success of ^the pro- ag prietors and manufactures.the.Ca^ifornia | Fig Syrup Company.