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BT CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ? _i_uj_i_|_l__immw^? -- ~' ~~ in? i um n ?? ? ?! If MONEY..,.IVIONEY.MONEY. T^VERYBODY ia willing to admit that the people need more money, and we hope Xy . they will get it. We would not mind having a little more ourselves. It is ter? ribly scarce, but we have? ONE FIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE ^j-Ieft, and are saving it for the man that will raise the? - HEAVIEST TURNIP FROM OUR SEED. A Big Lot of Fresh Turnip Seed Just in, and for sale at lowest market price. All Turnips competing for the Five Dollars most he brought to our Store by the 15th of November. Hi MACHINERY! PROGRESS I Steam Engines S5^^^^^^^^^^^^ C?tt?n Gi^s m I Boilers. ^^^^^^^^ Presses ? THE CELEBRATED SMITH GrllLST With Feeders and Condensers. 3 ? \TEB gin partakes of the BEST FEATURES in others, and corrects the DEFECTS in all. RUBBER and LEATHER BELTING, Sold under a positive guarantee that will protect every buyer. By recent special contracts with Manufacturers we are in shape to corn Is pete with the world. AH we ask for is a fair opportunity and no favors. HARDWARE, CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, . In such quantity and variety as to give us the lead not only in Anderson but in this State. f r DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, AND FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. Buggies, Baggies, BUGGIES We have NOW IN STOCK AND ARRIVING DAILY A LARGE STOCK OF BUGGIES. Tyson & Jones' Celebrated Buggies, Hade in North Carolina, are the best sold in this market. They are superior in material, style, workmanship and finish to any other maka, and present, with their elegant silver mountings, a very neat appearance, besides combining durability and strength with lightness, and easy riding qualities. In fact, there cannot be said too much in their praise, and all we ask is for you to come and see them before buying elsewhere. The well-known Haydock Rice Coil Spring Buggies, Of which we have sold so many during the past two seasons, have given universal satisfaction, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. They are conceded to be the easiest riding Buggies made, and less tiresome for long distance travels -~-1han any other. We keep a complete stock of these constantly on hand. Besides the foregoing we have a variety of other manufactures, and are there ^ fore prepared to suit all alaases of trade. Prices Low and Terms to Suit Purchasers. \ - We also keep a large assortment of all kinds of? HARNESS FOR SALE. .JQ* Before buying elsewhere be sure and call and examine our stock and prices. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. for Infants and Children. "Castorfs la so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription Jmorvn to me.1' H. A. Abcjieb, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, givea sleep, and promotes di I Wit?outkijuriou8medication. Tag Centaue Company, 77 Hurray Street, N. Y. WANTED. TWO or Three good GOOD BUSINESS MEN. Compensation from Seventy five to One Hundred Dollars per month to the right kind of men. Address - . , BUSINESS, . yP. O. Box 188, Greenville, S. C, 3 4* CJu^23,I8bl. F. L, DENTIST, ANDERSON, - - O1 s. c. ,FFICE over Merchants' and Farmers' Bank. Preservation of the Natural Teeth and Roots a specialty. June 25, 1891 51 *y TeJaghHrS'Golumn, "ffia All communications intended for: this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. . MEMORY GEMS. "Children, love your parents." "Parents, train your children for heaven." mam ? What a pleasure a teacher must realize in seeing his efforts to help develop the mind crowned with brilliant success, and to see his pupils taking high stands in the different vocations. The teacher is doing a wonderful work and has much to do in shaping the destiny of the country. Education is given a practical turn and boys and girls are shown the great advan? tages of well trained minds. The good teacher does not consider the simple literary teaching of the lesson as the end of his work, but endeavors to show the pupils how these things learned in the school-room play an important part in every day life. How the school room education is but the preparation for the further and greater, and better edu? cation that continues to* increase, until we reach the grave, and then possibly has barely begun. Knowledge ever in? creases. In the little speeches and recitations of the school children on Fridays and at other times there is not evidenced enough pride and ambition. We are aware of the fact that people generally, cry out against pride and ambition, but both are commendable, and should be in every human heart. However, they should be controlled, and not allowed to control. And even .the very manner and style in which a little recitation is delivered af? fords an opportunity to the teacher for work of the very best kind. Teachers, seize every occasion to train the children in the right way of thinking and doing. I wish, every boy and girl.in the school room could realize the great sacrifice, both of money and pleasure, their pa? rents make for them. We often hear of the aged wishing to be a "child again just for to-night." How we do wish it were possible for every child to be a mother or father just for one night, and thuB realize how many sighs, tears, heart? aches and anxious longings are felt for them. They would then love their fath? ers and mothers in a manner they have never yet dreamed of. They would feel like falling on their knees by the bedside of their parents in the early morning ami pledging obedience and love to them in a spirit of love and earnestness never be . fore felt. First impressions are always made by the mother. Since they are the most lasting, what a golden opportunity does motherhood afford, and yet what a fear? ful responsibility does it impose. Me thinks I can see a mother in that last day when all things shall be revealed looking over the life of her darling boy or girl and tracing the amount of good he or she has done to the first impression made by her in early infancy. And here again a mother sees revealed the dreadful life of a man who has at every turn gone from bad to worse, and in trac? ing it back to its starting point she is horified to find it is the life of her own child, and this life of woe and misery started in the nursery around her knees and she started it. If such can possibly be true of our dear mothers, what will be true of the fathers in this country, whose example leads the son into Bin and care, lessness? The real purpose of a recitation is to find out in what the pupil is deficient in that lesson, and then to teach the child what it doeB not know. So often we hear the teacher say, come say your lesson, John? nie, and Johnnie comes and Bays his les? son and goes back to his place without knowing a single thing more than he did before he "said" his lesson. Suppose the teacher should ask herself the quee tion before the pupils leave the recitation bench, what have I taught them in this lesson they, did not know. The nork of the teacher is to help, as it were, the pu? pil in the work of developing the mind and the comprehension of new ideas. Every lesson affords an opportunity for the assistance of the teacher. Thomas Jefferson once asked himself the ques? tion, "whether my country is the better for my having lived at all." Let the teacher a3k himself or herself the ques? tion after each lesson, "is each one of these pupils benefited by any thing I've said or done duriug this recitation ?" Try to do something in each lesson to help the child. There is a decided tendency among the leading educators of the country against the adoption of text-books by the State. The Superintendant of Public Instruction of Virginia says: "State uniformity of text-books tends to despotism, corruption, and intellectual death." The prevailing opinion seems to be that the State should forbid the use of all books containing false or offen&ive matter, but in other re? spects each teacher should make his own selection. And it is a fact that many of the teachera disregard the adoption made by the State and use the books of their own choice. To throw the schools all open to the use of the best books regardleas of State adoption would bring down the price of school books, improve the quality of work, and increase the efforts of authors to give out better books. Let the adoption of books in each school depend on the merits, as regarded by the teachers, and endeavor to raise the standard of teachers to the point at which there will be very little risk, if any, in leaving the matter of books in their hands. There h not so much in the book as there ia in the teacher. A good teacher will do good work with any book or even a newspaper, while an inefficient teacher will not do good work, it matters not what books or helps he or ahe has. There? fore, as it nnpparii to the writer, the most important part is in the selection of a teacher. Too littlo attention is given to thia moat important part of getting a good school. ANDERSON, S. C, The parents do not seem to realize the great trnst the impose in a teacher?the future growth and development of the minds of their children. No man or wo? man in the ordinary business affairs of life act with so little thought. Oh I Some says, but the teachers all have certificates of qualification, which state that their moral character is good, and that upon examination, by those presumed to be competent, they have shown themselves well qualified to teach. This is true, and every fact stated in these certificates should be litterally true. But it is im? possible by a written examination to teat correctly the ability to teach, and of course the moral character part simple means that the Examining Board knows of nothing against the character of the applicant. But be all this as it will, there is a wonderful difference in the ability to teach among teachers of the same grade. If the teacher is right the books will take care of themselves. Duron", the Animal Traiucr. Signoi Domino, biographer of clowns, bareback riders and circuB people gen? erally, has written a curious lot of remi? niscences of the Russian Duroff, the most famous trainer of trick animals in the present generation. Duroff was originally an instructor in Latin and modern languages in a Russian high school. He practiced then his pow? ers over domestic animals?first of all his dogs?and decided that the docility of doga, cats and geese was far greater than the docility of school children. He has never altered his judgment in this respect. He quit teaching boys, therefore, and joined an itinerant circus, to the scandalizing of his former col? leagues. Domino met him one morning in the empty ring of the Circus Schumann. After talking a few minutes, Duroff said: "And now you must excuse me for an hour, as I have a class to instruct at this time." "But Burely you havn't gone back to teaching ?" exclaimed Domino. "No, no; you don't understand. I have just begun teaching, in fact. The recitation in question is by rats and mice." Domino got permission to listen to the recitation. Duroff fetched a load chest and Bet it down in the middle of the ring, lifted the cover a little, and then began chirping, trilling, and whistling on a little lead flute. A mouse stnck its head through the crack under the cover, tumbled out and trotted gayly over to Duroff's feet. Another mouse followed, and then a big rat plunged out into the ring. It marched gravely up to Duroff and scrambled around the bottom of his trousers, More rats and mice followed, till some thirty were scratching and Bquealing at Duroff's feet. The clown stepped a few yards back? ward and his little flock followed. He fed them cake and retreated again. They followed and he rewarded them as before. Thus he led them around the ring several times. When three or four of them fell behind the procession to play or fight he attracted their attention by tossing sand at them. Finally he invited them to come up, and in an in stant'they were on his shoulders, in his coat pockets, and racing up and down the back of his head. He caught three rats by the tail, swung them around and then let them shoot off into space. The instant they struck they were up again. They ran back to Duroff, climbed to his shoul? ders and got the same treatment again. After an hour of this the flute was laid aside and the rats and mice were packed away for the day. Duroff was the first man to train a pig to grunt accompaniments to songs, dance aronnd a ring and jump and waltz to or? ders. He had then also taught a rooster to crow at command and had instructed successfully a goose in the buiness of fetching and carrying. Domino, after disscUBsing these triumphs of training, asked Duroff whether or not he ever tired of bis new occupation and wished to return to instructing boys, as he had once done in the Russian high school. Duroff did not catch Domino's exact words and answered: "Instruct children ? Instruct animals ? These are two processes which can hard? ly be compared. The difficulties vary so?there is no comparison." "You misunderstand me," explained Domino. "I acknowledge that your work now is much more difficult" "More difficult?" shouted Duroff. "You must be crazy. Why, it is easier, indescribably easier. I would rather teach ten pigs than a single child. I would rather teach five geeBe than a boy. A pig or a goose never forgets, is never impudent, is never noisy. But a child! With it you never know where or how to begin, and when you stop?bumps !?all forgoten."?New York Sun. ? "No, Mies Amy," remarked young Dr. Paresis, "as a physician I cannot ac? cept the Biblical account of such lon? gevity as Methueelah's." "0,1 can," re plied Miss Amy, sweetly, "there were no doctors in those days." ' ? Out of 900 foreign missionaries at present in India, is is said that the oldest is an American?Rev. John New? ton, of the Presbyterian church, the vete? ran missionary of Lahore, who, at the age of 78, is still a worker in his chosen field. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars for any caae of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and be? lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus? iness transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Tr.uax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Ejkkan & Marvin, whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the Bystem. Testi? monials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. THURSDAY MORN AN IDEAL TOWN IN AN IDEAL L0 CALITY. Salida, Col., July 20,1891. Editors Intelligencer : ? Some time ago I was fortunately called to Sa? lida on some business which required my presence here for two or three months, and during idle hours, I have visited many of the places of interest which are adjacent to the town on every hand. Colorado is abundantly supplied with grand and wild scenery, and also with many scenes which arrest the '"^ter est of the gentler taste which more'readi ly appreciates the beautiful than the grand and sublime; yet of all the grand mountains and lovely valleys where pas? toral scenes greet the eye of the tourist, the mountains surrounding Salida and the valley of Arkansas in which it is sit? uated, are the most interesting and lovely. Salida is situated at the west opening of the grand canon. At this point the walls of the canon widen suddenly and the train which has fought its way over dizzy cliffs and around cruel curves, rushes out into the broad valley of the Arkansas Paver and in a few moments pulls up in front of the Monte Cbriste hotel in the town of Salida. I arrived in tho morning just before daybreak, and as I walked up the main street of the little city, I thought that if all the lovliness of paradise could be con? centrated in one moment upon one spot it could scarcely rival the splendor of the sight upon which my eyes rested for half an hour. Mt. Shavano rises only a short distance from town to a height of 14,238 feet, and against its snowy summit the sun was shooting its first rays from away down behind the eastern mountain ran? ges. I stopped on the river bridge and gazed in awe at the wonderful sight. Al? though darkness still hovered in the val? ley, the golden streaks of sunlight il? lumined the crest of the grand old moun? tain, and as I gazed out beyond the dark? ness that surrounded me I saw the few streaks of yellow combine into one splen? did flood of light which gave the moun? tain top the appearance of a knob of shining gold. As the moments passed the glow of light crept downward and began to touch the tops of the lower mountains in the range, and finally when the entire range of mountains was flood? ed with the morning light it seemed that a wall of blazing gold had risen up against my vision and had shut out the entire world save this one lovely valley and its surrounding mountains. Ab I passed up the street I felt like uttering the old time cry of the miney, "Eureka," which cry has many a time rung out in the midst of the mountains when some forlorn and weary toiler into the earlh has suddenly and abundantly been smil? ed upon by the fateB who jealously watch over and guard the mineral treasures of the Rocky Mountains. In a few mo? ments the sun peeped over the eastern j mountains and filled the valley with life and light and beauty, the breezes crept out from their mysterious noctual homes, the trees by the river side became muei cal with the songs of birds, and the mists began to curl up from the valley and to roll away into the vast reaches of Bpace, and all nature seemed to silently bid "good-morrow" to the rising God of Day. It was a lovely morning. The sky in a vfew moments was clear of every cloud and fog, the lark was Bporting in the Al? falfa and sending up to heaven his notes; the river was dashing along between its rocky banks shouting and singing to the universe a song of gladness that rose up to the clear sky and was lost in the ca? dences on high, and I thought of the beau? tiful lines, "The morn is up: the dewy morn, "With breath all incense and with cheek all bloom," and here where the breath of a thousand wild flowers perfume the morning and the bloom of health is on the cheek of everyone, I began to appreciate the sen? timent of the poet. South of the town of Salida the San gre de Christe Range of mountains ex? tend for many miles, and there ia scarce? ly one mountain in this range which does not riae far above timber line. To the north liea the Collegiate Range, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and many other peaks which are famed for the grandeur of their scenery, To the west are the vast mountains that constitute the Continental Divide, the Backbone of America, where the waters divide and flow respectively east and west. To the eaat are the mountains which separate the valley of the Arkansas from the fa? mous South Park, In the midst of these ranges Salida nestles, an infant iu the lap of a strong protector; so situated that the cold winds of winter do not reach it, and so elevated that tho sum? mers are never other than delightful. During the month of July one may en? joy vegetables raised in one's own garden and at the same time look out of the window upon a half a dozen snow cover? ed peaks near at hand. In December one may sib on ones porch and in the daily papers read of the terrible storms of snow and rain in the east and at the same time enjoy, in the heart of the mountains, the most delightful winter climate in the world. Salida was founded ten years ago in the midst of a country which had but few inhabitants and little development. It may appear remarkable to the people of Anderson that in this limited time the town haa attracted 4,000 people aa per? manent residents, has completed a first class electric light plant which lights all the streets and buildings of the town, has cooatructed a splendid system of ir? rigation canals by means of which every one is enabled to have a luxuriant gar? den and to shade his home with beauti? ful trees, and a system of water-works which supplies every building iu town with the moat wholesome water iu the world which is brought from the melting snows of the mountains. Yet all this and much more haa been accomplished during the brief existence of Salida, and aa the Star of Empire haa rested for a period, in its journey, above the valley in which it is situated, all traces of the rude customs that characterize new towns and rapid settlements have disappeared and given place to a degree of culture and refinement which ono would not ex? pect to meet within a new Kocky Moun? tain town. ING, AUGUST 13, 1 But as I am writing more that i in? tended to, I will close after devoting a few words to the grandest of Colorado's many sublime attractions and wonders? the grand canon of Arkansas. This can? on is so famous that no one needs to be told of its grandeur to appreciate the fact that here the Almighty has touched and breathed upon one of His creations and given to its towering rockB and crags an inspired beauty which it surpasses the ability of man to fully appreciate and far less describe. After the river winds down the valley it comes to a point where the mountains rise up in its path? way reaching higher than the clouds up into the regions of the thunder's home. It is impossible for the river to flow over the mountains and there is no way to get around them, so it must go through, and so it does. Entering the opening be? tween the high walls of the canon the river rusheB downward through the bo? som of the mountains toward the endless plains beyond. Here in this canon may be seen some of the most masterly engi? neering that the world knows to day. Along the bank of the river, sometimes with its bed blasted out of the living Btone, runs the Denver & Eio Grande railroad. The curves are short and the seething floods below make one dizzy as the train creeps along its way. The sol? id walls of the canon rise higher and higher until they seem to be but an open? ing leading up into the bosom of heaven. The shadows fall athwart the waters of the roaring river and the spray dashes up against the rocks in the wild shape and figures of ghosts, and when the train Blows up on entering the Royal Gorge, where the canon is only fifty feet wide and where the railroad swings in the air from iron bars placed above, one may gaze upon the most wonderful natural freak in America. Directly under the train flows the river, above the walls of the canon rise half a mile high and are only seventy feet apart at the top where the narrow patch of blue sky seems but a little thread stretched across the face of heaven. A thrill of awe passes through the soul as this gorge is passed through and the unmeasured power and majesty of Almighty God begins to dawn upon the intellect of the observer. But the train soon emerges and seeks the endless plains where the view is only obstructed by the drooping horizon, and the traveler bids farewell to the mysterious and sublime mountains. Hal. Strickland. Mr. King is a Sabbath-Breaker. Memphis, August 2.?E. S. Hammond, district United States Judge, has handed down his decision in the famous case of E. M. King, the seventh-day Adventist, who was convicted a year ago of Sabbath breaking by ploughing on Sunday in Obion County. He appealed to the Supreme Court, and the sentence was affirmed. Then the Adventists and National Secular As? sociation took up the case. Don M. Dickenson was engaged a3 counsel, and the case was taken to the Federal Court last November on a writ of habeas cor? pus, the contention being that the con? viction was contrary to the bill of rights of Tennessee and the Constitution of the United States, and '.ai the defendant was held prisoner by the sheriff without due process of law. The application was argued several months ago, and Judge Hammond baa had it under advisement ever since. The opinion is long and dwells exhaustively on every phase of the arguments ad? vanced in favor of the religious prisoner. The defendant, however, is remanded back to the custody of the sheriff to pay the fine or serve the time in'lieu, accord? ing to sentence. The decision is based not so much on the constitutionality of Sabbath laws as upon the fact that King was convicted under due process of Tennesee law', and it is not in the province of the Federal Court to review the case. The Judge says that it is not necessary to maintain that to violate the Sunday observance custom shall be of itself immoral to make it criminal in the eyes of the law. It may be harmless in itself, because, as the petitioner believes, God has not set apart that day for rest and holiness, to work Sunday, and yet, if man has set it apart in due form by his law for rest, it must be obeyed as man's law if not as God's law. A War Story. Col. Alfred Aldricb, of Barn well, tells a good war anecdote about Gen. P. II. B. Young and some of his staff. In one of the battles in Virginia Gen. Young was thought by Maj. Church, his adjutant general, and by Capt. Robert Aldrich, who was assistant adjutant general, to be mortally wounded. Maj. Church, be? lieving that Gen. Young was going to die, asked Capt. Aldrich to pray for him, but the captain replied that he did not know how, and he in turn requested the major to pray, but the latter acknowledged that he too did not know how to pray. Mr. Sandy Dunken, of Barnwell, was the orderly of staff. Maj. Church asked him first and then commanded him to pray. Sandy gave the same excuse as his supe? rior officers, but ho had to obey orders, like Jim Bludroe? "He was a careless man In his talk, And an awkward hand in a row; But he never lied and he never flanked, 1 reckon he never knowed how." Sandy took off his cap and knelt by the stretcher on which the wounded mau lay. He began to pray and to talk to the Lord iu quite a favorable manner, about as follows: You know, Lord, thegener al is badly wounded, and not liable tore cover; have mercy on him, for you know he has been a wicked man. Just tbeu the general interrupted, aud said: Sandy, what is the use to remind the Lord of that? Why don't you say something good in my favor ? Sandy being interrupted, was discon? certed and ceased praying, remarking "at he couldn't pray much nohow, and if h couldn't do it in his own way, he wouldn't do it at all. The general said that such prayers, re? minding the Lord of his Bhort-comings, were not calculated to do a man in his fix much good, and did not urge Sandy to proceed any further,?Augusta Chronicle. ? Satan is busiest when other people are resting. -CT--"'? 891. BILL AltP. He Dilates npon tlio Love ol a Mother. Atlanta Constitution, Cartersville, Ga., August 1.?The most vital, providential and beautiful trait in our humanity is the maternal in? stinct. The love and caro which a mother has for her offspring is the saving grace of childhood. Without it the little helpless things would perish in their infancy, and the world become depopulated. For years and years I have watched these mothers?watched and Wondered? and to my mind there is no greater proof of the love of God to the human race than the intense, all absorbing love of a mother for her child. This love is not founded in any philosophy that we can understand. Why should ?he love one child more than another? Why love her own ill-favored, fretful, troublesome off? spring more than the beautiful, affection? ate child of her neighbor? There are 65,000,000 people in the United States, and every one of them had a mother?I reckon?though the Scriptures do speak of "man that is born of woman," like there might be some other sort some? where. Perhaps 64,000,000 of them had a mother's love and care during infancy, and if that love and care could have been exclusive, uninterrupted and unprejudic? ed by outside influences what a world of good people we would have. I was ruminating about this the other night, because about midnight, "when deep sleep falleth upon a man," but not upon a woman with an infant child, there was an alarm up stairs, and my wife struck a match and hurried up to And the little grandchild suffering with the croup. There is nothing in the world that so alarms a young mother as the croup. It comes so suddenly, and, with Buch a sharp, metallic, unnatural crowing sound, that death seems right at the door, and what is to be done must be dona quickly, or not at all. The anxious mother trembles and begs piteouBly for help?help to save her child, her only child; but Mrs. Arp has raised ten from the cradle to courting time; and they have all had the croup, a good deal of croup, and it is hard to scare an old soldier; but still she has a holy horror of this insidious, night-loviDg, treacherous disease, and she goes to fight? ing it like killing snakes. Syrup of ipeca is her favorite remedy, but she uses warm lard and turpentine, and flax seed, and onion juice, and calomel, and Dover's powder, and liniment and warm water, and lobelia, and nitrate of silver and somo other things when necessary, ac? cording to circumstances, and some of them always do the work and bring re? lief, and I have thought that if a small portion of .all these remedies was put in a bottle and well shaken before taken, it would cure most any infirmity that flesh is heir to. We were talking about the alarm we had the other night and I remarked that the inflammation of the mucous mem? brane of the larnyx was always attended with ? "It was croup," said Mrs. Arp, "the child bad the croup." "Of course," said I, "but you know, my dear, that when the trachea and bron? chial tubes become partially obstructed with false membranes-" "The child had the croup," said she. "It was a clear case of old-fashioned croup." "Under such circumatances," said I, "it is essential that the inner cuticle of the larnyx be suffused with absorbents, and the outer epidermis be subjected to counter irritants because-" "Syrup of ipeca is better than either," said she, and so I subsided. The next morning, after a case of croup, my wife begins with calomel and quinine to work off the cold, and she generally prevents a return. She takes the lead as the family doctor, and keeps on hand a pretty fair drug store. All that I have to do in such emergencies is to stand round aud be handy, and move with alacrity and wait on her, and fire up the stove and bring hot water and "spill some of it on my bare feet and never flinch. If croup was the only infantile trouble our conjugal life would have had a fair share of felicity, but there has been the wear and tear and anxiety of teething and colic and scarlatina and whooping cough and measles and mumps and wounds and bruises without number, but it all's over at last, for the crop ia laid by. We are playing patriarchs now, and helping these young mothera when we can, but we have lota of reBt and our old age ia calm and serene. Mra. Arp is, I know, for she ia on the go more than I ever knew her, and hasent any carriage to go in, either, and she is president of a missionary society, and takes missionary papers, aud takes all my little money, too, and the tennis court is right close to the Church where the missionaries meet, and I never know where she ia exactly, and last night she went to the blind man's concert, and I had to stay at home with the young mother and her child for fear of accident. That is all right. Mrs. Ar*p aaid ahe would atay if I wanted to go, but ahe did not say it very strong, and I meekly told her I dident care to go, so it's all right, I wauted the youug mother to go, too, and leave the child with me, but she looked surpriacd and aaid: "No, indeed, I woulden't leave my child for all the shows in the world." And that's why I was ruminating over the maternal instinct, aud I wish that it prevailed all over the world, and would keep these city mothers more at home in? stead of going to the theatres and operas moat every night and leaving their tender offspring with a nurae, or some poor, tired old mother. If a woman has no little children, and wants to preach or exhort or do aomething to reform mankind, no? body ought to object, provided aho ia fit for the business; but there are not many of that kind in this part of the country? not enough to surprise and alarm the pres3 and people?and ao we will not make any fu88 about it. Ninety-nine out of a hundred had rather be mothera at home than speakera abroad, and alwayB will, I reckon. It is the maternal instinct that makes women the beat teachers in our schools ', -jfRHTTd ;6?Oiat>UO ) v!i/-i:f y.T-fj: ill -iff. :'.{?? j'n'.T srBoi! J/i hoil'i'jua -id y. VOLUM i ' Ii in im ii i i i 11 ->? i li i n vhere the pupila are generally of tender rears. Tender ia the wofd?the right vord. When a boy gets tough he should )e taught by a man, and he generally is. 1 tough, rough boy has no business in a voman's school. It is fit that a woman ihould teach and train the young children. Eier kind manners and womanly sympa hy refines them and supplements their nother's training, ol lack of training at aome. Just as a little girl loves her doll, 10 doeB woman love a child?anybody's mild. Just as a little boy does not love i doll, so does not a man love other peo? ple's children. Thanks to the human progress, women are now the educators of :hildren on all this broad land. There is aothlng in the calling that militates against their modeaty or purity of thought, or aeclusion from contact with the world, but how far beyond this a wo* can go and yet preserve her womanly modesty, her self-respect, and the respect Df the opposite sex, I do not know. We read that the warden of Sing Bing was interviewed the other day, and was asked what waa the prime cause that brought the prisoners there. It seems that the law makes it his duty to obtain I a short biography of every one, and he answered promptly: "The lack of paren? tal control at home and moral training in the schools." And yet there are fathers who turn their boys loose at an early age, and if a conscious teacher tries to restrain them it provokes a war and raises a rumpus all over the town. The old landmarks are better than 'he new ones in this regard. There are little sons of respectable pa? rents who go by my house every day smoking cigarettes, and I have seen them beg them of a paaaing negro, and yet those parenta wouldent believe it if told, and perhaps would be very indignant if they were punished for it by the teacher. What man would give those boys a place in his office, or his store, or his shop? What man would trust them with his ac? counts ? It ia hard upon a taxpayer who has no children to be compelled to help educate other people's children, and he is only reconciled and submits because it is best for the State that all her children should be educated. There ia a growing, increasing doubt upon this subject, especially considering the tax that is upon us to educate the negro children, and the little good and less thanks we get for it. There are many conservative thinkers who object to being taxed to educate the children of the wealthy, but who would submit cheerful? ly to a tax for the poor. Private schools are becoming more popular than public schools, because there is more heard in them and better associations, but if we must have public schools let the parents stand by the teachers and sustain them. They are the beat watched people in the world, for beaides the board of trustees every child is a detective and every mother a sentinel on the outposts. It takes a smart man or a gifted woman to please them all. ' BilLlAbp. The American Tomboy. The tomboy has never been regarded as peculiarly the representative of fash? ion. Her ways are not the languid ways that we have been taught are essential to obtain recognition for her as a social "swell," but there is no doubt in healthy minds that one day of tomboydom is worth many years of fashionable languor. Without guiltiness of mannish vanity a man may set down the world known truth that the deareat object in a woman's life is men's approval and admiration even as the deareat boon of man is wo? man's approval and admiration. Per? haps men endure men in a more tolerant and catholic spirit than that which ani? mates woman in her relations to women. But having agreed that the approval and admiration of man as an institution are the chief felicity of women, it becomes important for women to know how to in? spire those sentiments in man. They may practice all the clever arti? fices of coquetry, employ all the applian? ces ever devised "adorning" their per? sons and exercise their womanly diplo? macy to comparatively little purpoae if they are feeble in body, languid in action and of sluggish blood. In auch caae man may pity them, but he cannot admire them. On the other hand, the tomboy, whom moat women recoil from with lit? tle shrieks of horror, become women whose presence is a delight to men, whose joyous health and bubbling spirits and unconquerable cheerfulness brighten hei world to tho farthest horizon. She is not only an inspiring companion, but a living, breathing, glorious incarnation oi Gesundheit, a most beneficent tonic. Tc look upon her ia to feel the highest beau ty of living, and to be much in her so? ciety is to yield unto her the approval and admiration that are dearer to the av? erage woman than even her powder rag, When sensible men meet a grown-up tomboy and take involuntary note of hex royal mein, her elastic tread, her lithe movements, her relish of the fresh ail and of beefsteak, they hasten to lay al her feet their loyal admiration. Thev quickly understand that she is no moan? ing drone, whose happinesa con8ista ol misery, but one of themaelvea, so to say, ready to front the responsibilities of life, with joy that ahe haa found the world a theatre of action. Such a woman is s man's exemplar and prod, In her pres? ence supineneas or whisper would make him ashamed. "In her track will be sound philosophy; in her thought bold cess and originality; in her heart heaven's purity, and the world is better that she lives in it." Let us have aome more tomboys.? Detroit Free Prm. A Back Number. This ia the alighting remark that ia of? ten applied to women who try to seen: young, though they no longer seem so Sometimes appearances are dpceitful Female weakness, fuuctional troubles displacements and irregularities will adc fifteen yeara to a woman's look8. Thea? troublea are removed by the uae of Dr Pierce'a Favorite Prescription. Try thh remedy, all you whose beauty and fresh' nesa ia fading from such causes, and nc longer figure in society as a "back num< ber." It's guaranteed to give satisfactior in every caae, or money paid for it re turned. See guarantee on bottle-wrap a : era >.: J A.08ZZLI? .** ? im .r.i TgrJOUA YA0.8JIUHT IE- XKyi^NCT,^? ;_ . ? 5 '^M.-.rfn All Sorte ?r raragTapnsiO?f293fa0P .ao::.?! ; '??j_;' .N S7?n oj rmiooB Jl ? New York..QHy"emj^~8J5|^ school teachers. boiifcoi islimfe ?uii ? A tomato weighing ^f?^J^^'^i pounds has been raised*^V^?yoJuw*J?v/ ? Each of the 150C street carajof ?Newig York earned twenty dollars a day %t'u~ year. o ? Nevada will send to the World's Fair a bar of solid gold weighing 10001 pounds. ? One of the duties a man owes to himself is to live so that he can respect himself. ? There is a well ' grounded rumor from Paris that hoop skirts are coming in next year. ? Thirteen more women than men voted at the municipal election iu Caw ker City, Kan. ? It is said that the five leading hotela at Saratoga take in an aggregate of^ $2,000,000 a month during the busy sea? son. ? It is stated,'that the lumber output of North Carolina this year is expected to amount to 800,000,000 feet, valued. aVi>%| over $10,000,000. ? When a prisoner at the Kansas penitentiary refuses to work, they starve ; him until he begs for a job, and that is never longer than two or three days. ? Many farmers are now doing their, own thinking about the sub-treasury. . They are not swinging to the coat-tails of the big speech-makers who are working for office. ? Buttonhole makers in London who operate a machine are expected to work;|gl 3,500 holes in a day of nine houra and ?.? receive a penny a hundred, or thirty-five cents a day. ? The consumption of poultry and , eggs by the people of the United States is $560,000,000 worth per annum, which .'- ^ is greater in amount than the wheat and cotton crop. ? Daring 1891 there were built in the . United States 8500 churches; u?nisteJB^P< to the number of 4900 were ordained, and a membership, in all denominations, of 1,090,000 added. ? Twenty-four foreign nations have;' formally accepted the invitation to take , vi part in the Chicago fair. Bussia, Turkey, Denmark, Persia and Egypt are recent - .^ additions to the list. ? Some land in Paris has been sold at the rate of $2,000,000 per acre; some in r ^ London for what would net $5,000,000 y per acre, and some in New York for a sum equal to $8,000,000 per acre. ? Joshua Atkins, of Deadwood Hill, Penn., has a curiosity in the shape of a i?$ pig. It has eight legs, four ears, and ^ two tails, lacking only another head to constitute two pigs grown together. It is the intention of the owner to place the : ' ? little wonder on exhibition. -?A Missouri farmer filled out the ~ census blank requiring the cause ^ his farm mortgage with the simple stab -;_J: "Mortgaged to buy negroes." Before the war he had placed an incumbrarjce A on his farm iu order to add to his stock ^ of negroes. He has never been able to lift it. ? Michigan has amended its ssate laws so that children suffering from corw_ sumption or chronic catarrh must be ex? cluded from public schools. The public is gradually waking up to the .'x c that consumption is a contagious disease, th spread of which can be greatly l-wren by suitable measures of precaution. ? A scientist who has been investi? gating, the subject claims that a man drowns on account of the weight of the blood in his body. Blood being heavier than water, it always sinks, and therefore the weight of the blood in a human body is so great as to sink any one who falls into the water and is unable to swim. . ? Mre. Nancy Kennedy, of AugUBta, ~ Me., celebrated her - 118th birthday on 4th August. She was born in 1774, and she says she was 6 yeare old when the. ; 4 historic dark day of May 19, 1780 oc? curred. June last her second husband died, aged 90. She can't read 01 write, her education in youth having been neg? lected. Her sight is good, but she has to walk with a cane. She spends most of her time knitting. ? Up in Sussex county, N. J., they ^ sell cows by the quart A new way, to be sure, yet a good one. They give the cow a fair week's trial, keeping a correct account of the number of quarts of milk ?he gives, and then divide it by seven, giving the number of quarts daily. The % rule is to pay $2.60 a quart. If the cow i: gives an average of twenty quarts daily ehe is then valued at $50; if, say sixteen quarts daily, then the price is $40. Not a bad way to get at the value of a cow.. M ? The chigger may chig with all its. v might, and the mocking bird mock and ; sing, but the Kansas crops take the cake, is and the corn, you bet, is king. The V cricket may crick and the froglet frog, and the farmer may chant his strain, for . the Kansas crop is always on top?when there's plenty of rain. . The chinch bog ._ may chinch, and the grasshopper hop, and the hot winds make you tire, but if any one says there are such things here, just call him a horrible liar. Oklahoma may boom and Texas howl, and Missouri shoot off her chop?but this is the place. to get a home and raise a great big crop. ?Harysville Newt. ? T. M. Mullis, who lives just a mile from Eastman on his farm, relates that ^ he has for a long time been much puz- V zled to know what was sticking fine holes in his eggs and drawing out the contents, until he kept strict watch on the hen's nest, when the maratitlecjptlffl found to be a sap-sucker, which with its keen, awl-like bill had contrived from time to time to suck dozens of eggs, pick? ing holes in many, from which he used very little of the contents. The bird was ' promptly shot, since which time no de? predations have been committed like, those of which it had been found guilty. ^? ?Eastman Journal. Tourists* Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle ofl Syrup of Figs, as it acts most plessantly^ and effectually on the kidney% liver and j bowels, preventing fevere^lieadache and* other forms of sickness.- Forsale in ?je* and $1.00 bottles by all leading drug-' giflti, 4