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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. THE LITTLE BOY'S SPEECH ! TT A?SES AND GENTJLEMEN?My worthy opponents have endeavored to dis ?vXJ . courage you by telling- you of the low price of cotton, but let me entreat you not to- stop to look at the dark sido of this thing, but go to the? GREAT BARGAIN HOUSE And see what a great heap of things thorn boys are offering for such a little mouey. Oil 14c. per gallon, Axle Grease 5c. per box, Candy 10c. per pound, and oh! so many things, but I-have not the room here to tell you of. ;,.- .. 2>. C. BROWN ?Sc BRO, -V: PROGRESS! v Steam Engines ^^^L^^^^^^^k Cotton Gins Boilers.1 {^^gpS^R* presses . THE CELEBRATED With Feeders and Condensers. THIS G.iN 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. Egy By recent special contracts with Manufacturers we are in shape to com? pete with, the world. All .we ask for is a fair opportunity and no favors. CUTLERY, IMPLEMENTS, &c, In such quantity and variety as to give us the lead not only in Anderson but in this State. DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, AND FINISHED BUILDING LUMBER, A SPECIALTY. & mm Sill SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. ggieSj ?5aggies, BUGGIES ;? == ? . . ..: -. ? We have now in stock and arriving daily a-large stock of buggies.- "?. Tyson & Jones' Celebrated Buggies, Made in North Carolina, are the best sold in this market. They are superior in material, style, workmanship and finish to any other mak*, and present, with their elegant eilver 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-fcnown Haydock Rice Coil Spring Buggies, Of which we have sold so many during the past two eeasons, have given universal satisfaction, and the demand for them is constantly increasing. They are conceded to be the easiest riding Baggies made, and less tiresome for long distance travels than any other. We keep a complete stock of these constantly on band. Besides the foregoing we have a variety of other manufactures, and are there? fore prepared to suit all classes of trade. Prices Low and Terms to Suit Purchasers. We alio keep a large assortment of all kinds of? HARNESS FOR SALE. . 8?" Before buying elsewhere be sure and call and 'examine our stock and prices. SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. CASTO 41 for Infants and Children* "CutorlaissoweHa<2aptodtocMdreiithat I Costorln cures Colic, Constipation, Anown to me." H. A. Awm, 30. D., I pestionT^ 111 So. Oxford Bt, Brooldyn, N. Y. | Wittout injurious medication. The Csstavb. Cohpaky, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. MON E Y.MON E Y.MONEY. EVERYBODY is willing to admit that the people need more money, and we hope they will get it. We would not mind having a little more ourselves. It is ter? ribly scarce, but we iiave? ONE FIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE I<eft, 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. Kjj $536- All Turnips competing for the Five Dollars must be brought to our Store by the J.5th of November. ORE ?Sc SLO-AJST. TeJa?heJr^'?olumn. -f?K AH Communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARD LAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMORY OEMS. "I have wasted time, and now time doth waste me." "What would the dying sinner give For one more Sabbath day to live V We want every Trustee in the County to meet in this office on Saleday in September. Let us consult with each other. Be sure to come. Mr. W. M. Riley and Miss Ella Kay have a large and flourishing school at New Prospect^ in Centerville Township. It is a subscription school, too. They are doing good work. Mr. W. H. Shearer is doing faithful .work at Flat Rock School. He is a de? serving, well qualified and earnest teacher. No risk is taken in committing a child to bis care and training. The two Memory Gems at the head of this column should be carefully pondered and fully comprehended by every one, and especially by the young. Waste not your time, and be not wasted by time." Miss Lucy Gambrell is teachings sub? scribed school at Dorchester, three miles west of Belton. Everywhere Miss Lucy has taught she is very much liked, and has been very successful. She has a I large school, and is doing a large work, j The community is fortunate that secures her services. "The Board of Trustees shall hold a regular, session in their School District at least two weeks before the commence? ment of any and every school term, for the transaction of any and all business necessary to the prosperity of the schools." This -is an extract from1 the school law. .Trustees are sworn to :dis-. charge their duty according, to-Jaw. Study the school law and see ^hatit is enforced. We trust next year no school will be taken just for the public term, unless it can so be arranged that the public term will last eight monthB, as it does in one District.. This strikes us as the best way to run the public schools. The Trustees should so arrange it that the schools will run the full term. Of course they could not pay teachers enough to justify them to teach, but the parents can come up with subscriptions and supplement the public fund. This has been tried and works well. The annual catalogue of the Honea Path High School is before us. It is well arranged, neatly printed, and shows a very successful'session. There were 222 pupils enrolled during the session of 1890. and 1891. We are glad to,see this good undertaking crowned with so great success. Pfof. J. B. Watkins, the able and efficient principal, is assisted by frur who know how to do good work in the school room. The Honea Path High School is a safe place at which to educate your boys and girls. The standard is high, and the work thorough. I The three schools in Broadaway Town? ship, taught by Misses Zella Campbell, Allie Major and Lizzie. H. -Anderson,, are three as good schools as can be found in the County. These young ladies are doing a work that is appreciated, and that will aid wonderfully in raising the people of this Township to a higher plane of intelligence and civilization. The work in these schools demonstrates what teachers can do. Finally, the teach* ers will be rightly appreciated. One of these teachers told us she had never lost a dollar of her tuition charges. Neither of these teach for what the public pays, but have their regular terms, and credit the patron^with what public funds they receive. Hurrah for Broadaway schools! The school at Calhoun, in Belton Township, has as teacher Miss Mary E. Henderson, one of the most enthusiastic teachers we have ever met. She is full of energy, and a faithful and efficient worker. The school house is kept neat and clean, and the pupils have well pre? pared lessons. Calhoun is one of the best locations in the County for a Bchool, and the people are well able to pay for the education of their children. The plan for a school at Calhoun should be changed a little. The patrons should make up, as it is termed, a school, each subscribing as many scholars as will be sent, at a fixed rate of tuition, and let the school run at least eight months. The teacher will draw the public funds and give credit for it to the patrons, and thus diminish their subscribed tuition. . Neatness iu Girls. Neatness Is a good thing for a girl, and if ehe does not learn it when she is young she never will. It takes a great deal more neatness to make a girl look well than it does to make a boy look passable. Not because a boy, to start with, iB bet? ter looking than a girl, but his clothes are of a different sort, not so many colors in them ; and people don't expect a boy to look as pretty as a girl. A girl that is not neatly dressed is called a sloven, and no one likes to look at her. Her face may be pretty, and her eyes bright, but if there is a spot of dirt on her cheek, and her fingers' ends are black with ink, and her shoes are not laced or buttoned up, and her apron, is dirty, and her collar is not buttoned, and her skirt is torn, she cannot be liked. Learn to bo neat, and when you have learned it, it will almost take care of itself.? Christian at Work. _ Bucklen's Arnica Salve The best salve iu the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corus, and all Skin Eruptions, aud positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill BroH. ? Tennyson is earning ?30,000 a year out of his poetry. ANDERSON, S. O, BILL ARP. Ho Discourses upon the Unhappy Condi? tion of the Bich. Atlanta Constitution, "Qui fit Macenaa" ia nearly all the Latin I remember. It is the beginning of an ode that Horace wrote nearly two thousand years ago. He was ruminating over the dissatisfaction of mankind with their lot, their condition, their occupa? tion, and he wondered why it was that most everybody imagined his own caBe a hard one, and that other people were bet? ter off. Ever since then history has been repeating itself over and over again. It is the same in the town and country. The humble tenant who rents land thinks he would be happy if he owned it. The farmer who owns his farm would be hap* py if he had a few more acres that join him. Country people imagine that the townsfolk^ have no trouble, and the townsfolks long to be rich and live in a city. We are all looking over the fence into our nabor'a premises and envy their bet? ter condition. If our nabor has ice, we want ice. If he has a carriage, we want a carriage. But the truth is that the rich nabor is no happier, for he, too, wants something he hasn't got, and so'it goes. Vanderbilt won't be any happier in his six-million-dollar palace that he is build? ing at Asheville, than his humble gar? dener, who lives in a cottage. The wrong in building it is that the palace becomes dead capital. Of course the six millions were all paid out for la? bor and are still in circulation, but the money could have been paid out for something of more use than a house for one family to live in. It would have built a thousand houses for the poor in New York. That is what Peabody did with his money in London. Mr. Kiser has just completed a grand building in Atlanta. It cost him a hundred thousand dollars, but it was wanted, is already oc? cupied by the Terminal railroad . for offi? ces. ' '? :"' ; The house is not dead, nor the railroad, either. Rents will accumulate and build another house, and the railroad will carry us and our products all over this great country. There is nothing wrong about that. It is a fair and honorable business. If a millionaire should choose to spend a million dollars in skyrockets just to see the fun, it would be a sin. Croesus or some other rich man once gave a feast, and the principal dish was humming birds' tongues that cose half a million dollars to get them. That, too, was a sin, and it is the follies of .the rich that make the poor bo mad, and keep up the strife between capital and labor. A swell fam? ily riding 200 yards to church in a thou* eand dollar carriage provokes bad thoughts and ripens the fruit of revolu? tion. The question goes round: "How did they get all that money ? I never see them work any." v ' Now, if the common people only knew how little of real happiness was to be found in the homes of the rich, they would not be envious nor covetous, There are more closets in large bouses than small ones, and therefore more skel? etons. There ia a rat's nest under every carriage seat and moths in every eeal skin and a prowling thief watching the silver on every table. The devil is asleep in the rich man's parlor waiting for his children. His imps follow them to the saloon and the gambling table and the brothel.. Not long ago I met a friend?a friend of my youth. He has worked hard and made a fortune, and is still working hard for more, and the lines of toil and trouble are set deep in his face. "How are yonr boys doing?" said I. "Not worth ad-n," said he. Of course not. They had.no inducement. They never heard their father talk anything but money, and they knew that when he died they would have enough. They were just waiting. And yet there are poor folks who envy him and would exchange places with him. Now, if a poor man, who lives in the country, could only know and realize the security that his poverty and his location gives to his children, the security against the temptations that lurk around the towns and cities, the devilish snares that beset society and destroy the peace and happiness of its members, he would thank God for his good fortune. The law of compensation comes into every situation in life. A good man will not murmur at his poverty. The man who brings me wood hauls it six miles. His capital stock is his lot of poor land, his mule and plow, a wagon and yoke of steers, hia ax and his strong arms. His children are being , raised to work, for he sets them a good I example. He comes with a cheerful smile, and if the rain catches him he makes no complaint. He has a cow and some hogs, and his wife raises chickens and sells apples and eggs and potatoes. That man is a good citizen and his chil? dren are likely to be. He has no case in court, and does not complain if drawn on the jury or summoned to work on the road. That family enjoys their food and rest, and when Sunday comes they go to the unpretending country church and listen to the counsels of the man of God and go home thankful to their Heavenly Father for his goodness. This is the pic? ture. Can a painter or a poet draw a better one ? Indeed, these are the pictures that painters and poets love to draw. Tom Moore said : I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curved, Above the green elms that a cottage was near, And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here." Gray wrote his elegy in memory of the humble cottages, and Burn's best poem was "The Cotter's Saturday night." Samuel Rogers was rich, but the wish of his heart was Mine be a cot beside the hill. And Goldsmith?poor, miserable, de? lightful Goldsmith?paid tribute to the humble peasantry of England when he wrote: His best companions?innocence and health, And his best riches?ignorance of wealth. The average farmer's life makes no dis? play in the world, and it was never in? tended that it should. A man has done his duty when he haa filled hia station according to hia capacity. There ia but THURSDAY MORE one Shakespeare, one Milton, one Gold? smith. There was but one Bonaparte, and that was one too many. I was pe? rusing a book on English authors, and waB surprised to find how few of them lived to a good old age. A literary life is short in years, though some of them are long in great works. Brain work is not healthy work when compared with the outdoor occupation and simple, temperate habits of the far? mers. Shakespeare died at fifty-two; Addison, fifty-three; Steele, fifty-four ; Gray, fifty-five; Pope, fifty-six; Gibbon, fifty-seven; Dickens, fifty-eight; Macau lay, fifty-nine; Charles Lamb, sixty; Scott, Bixty-one; Coleridge; sixty-two; Bacon, sixty-three; Collins, sixty-four; Milton, Bixty-five; Arnold, Bixty-six; Burke, sixty-seven; Southey, sixty-eight; Bulwer, Bixty-nine. Then there were Goldsmith and Barns and Byron and Thackeray and Hood, who never reach? ed their fiftieth year. I penned down thirty consecutive nameB of notable writers, and their average age was fifty Bix years. It would have alarmed me if I had written anything that was any ac? count, but considering all things I will risk it a little longer. If a man can keep calm and serene, and baa a good Constitution, he can do literary work a long time; bnt there are a big lot of little troubles nowadays. I see a book agent coming up the walk right now, and I have to fortify myBelf against him, and listen with patience and resignation to his little speech, and then look at his book and be courteous, and make my little Bpeech and let him go. I would like to buy all their books, but I can't. And there is the worry about cooks and company, and the everlasting frolics of the young people, for they are going all the time, and have run away with the towu. There hasent been a day or a night, except Sunday, in five weeks, that there wasent some town fool? ishness on hand they were just obliged to take a hand in, for fear of giving offense, they say, and sometimes they don't get home until midnight, and I wish we were all back in the country where we came from. Most every one of these vacation days is as big a thing as a country wheat threshing or a Sam Jones tabernacle meeting, and to my opinion, these long winded frolics are not doing the young folks any good, Irregular hours and ice cream and cake and cantelonpes and milk shakes have got them all churned up, and we can't get them up to breakfast nor get them home to supper. But it seems to be the family opinion that I am getting antiquated and unreasonable, and maybe I am, though I have heard some other parents say it has been the bangen* est vacation that came over Carstersville. It will soon be over, thank the good Lord, and then maybe we will all get our chil? dren back. Country people don't have such things, and they ought to be thank? ful. I bought a load of fodder to day from Mr. Gilreatb, a good, contented far? mer, and his little ten-year old boy came with him and was proud so set up on top and drive some, and he was modest and well-behaved, and has a good chance to make a good man, but if he lived in town he would be smoking cigarettes right now. May the Lord help us all to be content with oar lot. Bill Arp. A Wonderful Cave, Springfield, 0., August 9.?People are flocking by hundreds to the farm of George Unangt, on the Jerusalem pike three miles east of West Mansfield, Lo? gan County, the home of Gen. Robert P. Kennedy, to see the wonderful cave dis? covered there. It has only been partially explored, but gives promise of rivalling, not only in beauty, but in extent, Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. A brother of TJnangst, while out hunting, saw a hole five or six inches in diameter in a depression in the ground, and his curiosity was aroused. He dug down until he came to two stones blocking the hole. He pried them apart and gained an entrance thirty feet below the ground to a stone chamber about 40x40 feet and eighty feet high. He retarned home with the news, and an exploring party, headed by John Wal? ker and Editor St. Paris, of the Erie De3* patch, was organized. Next to the ante? chamber they found a big hall, GOO feet long, lined on each side by rooms that extended further than thoy could discern. At each end of the hall is a lake. One with water twenty-five feet deep. A na? tural stairway at the farthest end leads into another chamber larger than all the others. Its extent has not yet been as? certained. The party was afraid to go farther without having means to mark the way. It is believed that the cave extends for miles underground. A big exploring party will attempt to go through all of it this week. The railroads are arranging to ruD excursions to the place of discov? ery. How's Tills 1 We offer one hundred dollars for any case 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 theii firm. West & Trtjax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldinq, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi monials sent free. Price 75 cents pel bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ? Mrs. J. Campbell, of Easton, N. C. ran a needle into her arm when 0 yean of age. Little was thought of the occur rence until a few days ago when Bhe ex? perienced considerable pain in her lef arm. The family physician made an ex ami nation and found underneath th< skin the needle, which was removed During the twenty years the needle hat traveled up her right arm across the nhoul dere and down the left arm. TNG, AUGUST 20, 1 PLUNKETFS LETTER, The Old man Teil? of Old-Time "Ways. Atlanta Constitution. I read an editorial in the Constitution last week upon the importance of South? ern farmers using improved machinery. It put me to studying and made me think of what uster be and of what now is?of what has been, what is, and the possi? bilities of the near future. The generation before me used cow horns for plows and rawhide for traces. They watched closely for horns of the best shape to use in plowing, and they were stuck upon the round footed plow stocks and used as we now use the iron plow. We outgrowed the "horn period" pretty quick, and then came the "scooter" or "bull tongue" plow. This made the avocation of blacksmithing a most desir? able trade. Many now living can re? member when the rural districts were full of these workers in iron, but their business, like that of wagon makers, etc., has been concentrated at manufacturing centers till there in a mighty poor show? ing for a common country blacksmith; you can buy a new plow now cheaper than you can have one "relaid." Ma? chinery has done this, but who of my age would have thought it. The old two-wheeled ox-cart, the wheels sawed outen big trees, is another thing they uster have, but we soon out? grow ed that, and every crossroads had a man that could "turn" and "mortise" a hub for spokes, and we soon bad the reg? ular old high-wheeled ox-cart that many now living can remember. A couple of bull calves in them days were prized, for it meant a yoke of oxen in a short time? an ox-cart is a thing of the past and a bull calf is only thought of as fit for veal, and who of my age would have thought it? After the ox-cart period we come to saddles. Saddles for men and saddles for women, and mules and horses were ridden by both sexes as a great improve? ment over the jolting carts; but the wagon and then the buggy took the place of horseback riding, and have their place up to the preHont, but how long before these will be numbered with the things that were is more than I can tell, for steam and electricity is with us and it looks as if they are to supercede all other locomotion. This brings us up to the present, and looking back, can any old folks see any relaxation of anxiety brought about by all these change-'' t Of course a fellow who does not keep up with the procession must go to the wall, but is there better morals, easier living or happier homes ? When I pass among the crowded tene? ments in the manufacturing districts of the cities, I cannot help but think of the cooling breezes that uster fan the cheeks of the blacksmith's children beneath the spreading trees of a country home. The pale-faced girls and boys who drink at the city hydrants and pant like lizards in the city's beat, are in sad contrast to the boys and girls, that uster romp in the groves and drink from the crystal springs in days gone by. But so is progress, it must be, and it is every fellow's business to keep along with it, but I study over it and now and then I set down and try to figure out as to where it is to end and as to what will be the consequence. The oxen has gone, the mule and the horse must go, is the way I figure for the future. The sweet meadows of the stock raising districts, where the young colts kick np their heels in playful glee must be turned to some other purpose. Like the ox the mule must go to the wall, and as the coming generations skim along with electricity for the motive power, there will be old folks who will look back and say, "who would have thought it." It is hard for me to acknowledge that there is any way betterthan the old way, for the most pleasant feelings of my boy? hood was when I walked barefooted in the fresh turned soil behind the plow and jerked the single line along old "Ned's" sides. But such work won't do for these days. While it took me and "Ned"? "Ned" was the mule?a whole day to break an acre, and that was counted good work, it won't do for these times. Where a hand uster break one acre he must now break four to keep up with progress?one hand now must do as much work as four hands uster do. This is the "problem" and farmers must solve it. If in the use of machinery is the only way to accom? plish this, and I believe it is, the quicker we get at it the better, and everything possible should be done to stimulate in? vention and improvements. It hasn't been so very long ago since cotton was "ginned" with the fingers. Just think of picking the lint from the seed of the present cotton crop! It couldn't be done, of course. The need of the gin stimulated men to labor for its perfection, and this perfection has given cotton goods to all the world. Your mothers uster spin and weave and knit and sew. It is all done by ma? chinery now. There is no woman who would think of plodding away with knit? ting needles as of old, nor of carding the "bats" and spinning the thread for a Sunday dress. Machinery has done away with all this, every one can see the great revolution in many lines of busi? ness that has been accomplished, and yet, the average Southern farmer plods along unconcerned. Northern farmors have not been so in? different to the benefits of improved im? plements?they would have starved if they had. The old cradle was discarded from their harvest fields long before you could convince a Southern man that the nigger and the cradle was not the best. So it has been in plows for cultivation and in methods of gathering and putting away their crops. It is not just a few "progressive" men who should resort to the use of labor saving implements, but all Southern till? ers of the soil. This is the great need of our section, if we are to keep up with the demands of the times. Find out the way to have one man do the work of four as well or better thau it is done to-day, and you shall have solved a greater thing than the "negro problem." If farmers will get to studying on this line it will be done, is Ihe notion of an old man who hates to give up old-time ways. SARQE PLVNKETTi 891. Best and Cheapest Method ol Im? proving Worn-ont Lands. The following is an essay by Maj. Howard Swineford, read before the Tuckahoe Farmers' Club, and published in the Southern Planter : To the practical farmer there is no more interesting or important subject than the best method of restoring worn out lands. The fact that they are worn out implies that they were once fertile and producing crops. Such lands are worthy the attention of the farmer, and are more easily brought back to their former value and fertility than to culti? vate lands naturally poor and which re? quire building up and constant feeding. While these may seem too poor to grow even a crop of stunted weeds, yet there are elements in the soil which are ready to do good Bervice when permitted to do so. For instance, as long as the seed lies dormant in the land you cannot kill it; but make the soil mellow by turning it up for the action of the life giving Bun, air, and showers, then notice, if you will, the generation of millions of weed seeds. This vital help of nature's ever ready laboratory is what every farmer has when building up the waste places. The first growth of volunteer vegetation may not be strong, but the turning of this small crop of weeds will furnish more strength to each successive crop. If this be re? peated a number of times, the land will at last have received sufficient substance to furnish food for other crops. This is, however, a slow process, but within the reach of all, for the thorough breaking up of the soil is all that is needed?na? ture does the rest. The application of manures and fer? tilizers of various, kinds in large quan? tities is a more speedy process, but also an expensive one; and while it may be the best for the aggressive farmer, it is not the cheapest, and this is one of the points asked after in our subject, and one of immense importance to the average farmer. The practice of growing crops for the purpose of plowing them under to fer? tilize the soil is one that, in my opinion; has a very much greater advantage than any other, and there is no better way of cheaply improving it than this. To pro? cure a sufficient supply of manure is, at j the best, a very costly process, but a crop that may be easily grown in a few months aud then turned under, may furnish to the soil as much fertilzing matter as eight or ten tons of manure per acre, and this process may be repeated several times in one year. Manuring with green crops is not only the most economical, but, to most lands) one of the surest and most speedy means of improving the texture and fertilizing properties of the soil. Besides furnish, ing plantfood, the soil is made more mel? low and better fitted for producing other erops. Various crops are used for this purpose j some of courue, are more valu? able than others. If we may be permit? ted to place two at the head of the list as most valuable, we would name red clover and the cowpea, the former for general use and the latter as best suited to this locality. Among the numerous other crops used for this purpose are buckwheat, rye, oats, corn and millet. The Hon. George Geddes, well known throughout the United StateB as a practi" eal and scientific farmer, says of the clover: "If our soils require improving, we turn the clover crops under and repeat the operation until there is sufficient fertilty to allow us to carry the clover off. The oftener we can fill the soil with roots and then plow them Under, and thus allow them to rot, the sooner do we expect to get our land in condition to bear a crop of grain. A very considerable part of the cultivated land in Central and Wes? tern New York has never had any other manuring than this clover and gypsum, and its fertiity is not diminishing." He states that he had a field, which for seven? ty-four years, had been manured with nothing except clover grown upon it, and plowed in and that this field had pro? duced wheat, corn, oats barlev and grass The clover thus used had, for fifty yearsj been regularly treated with gypsum, and that the land was constantly increasing in fertility. Our own Dr. Pollard, late Commission? er of Agriculture, gives the following direction for improving partially-ex? hausted lands in the Southern Slates by the ub6 of vegetable manures: "It may be said that a considerable portion of our lands are too poor to pro duce clover or even a crop of grass. Then let 200 pounds of ground South Carolina phosphate and 300 pounds of kainit (Dr. Bavanel's ash element) be applied to the land and peas seeded; when grown, turn these peas under and sow clover, with wheat or oats, if thought best, and we shall be apt to get a stand of clover, particularly if the land be limed after the peas are turned under. But if the farmer cannot get the 'ash element,' let him sow peaB or rye early in the fall, or oats early in the spring, turn them under in June?then sow peaB then clover." This brings me to my owu experience of the past four years in bringing to a grass producing point a farm on which bushes and broom-Btraw reigned supreme. The plan most successful has been to sow rye during the month of October, applying 250 pounds of fertilizer per acre. The following Bpring, when the rye is in blos? som, plow it down and sow peas on this fallow, applying 300 pounds per acre of a fertilizer that will produce a quick and rank growth of vines. This is the point at which the money expended for fertil? izers yields the largest returns; the broad, rough leaves of the pea extract from the atmosphere vast quantities of nitrogen, which is soon to furnish the plants of the coming crop with food. (This is the only way I have been able to Becure a portion of the millions of tons of fertilizing elemeuts which our good president, in his lecture on the "Chemistry of the Farm," assured us was in the air about us.) By the aid of chains attached to the plows these vines are safely buried under the surface, and after an applica? tion of fifty bushels of lime per acre to i decompose the green cropB now in the i soil, the surface is well-harrowed and ! bowu to winter oats and grass. Sufiice it to eay, that I have not failodj with thie VOLUM treatment, to have good cropB of both grain and grass, which have paid me for all previous expenditures while improv? ing the land, besides having a well set crop of clover, ready as a fertilizing crop for any other. In my opinion, this is the cheapest and best method of improving our worn out lands. Before closing this article, I desire to give more than a passing notice to wha* I consider the most important factor in the restoration of worn-out lands. I re? fer to the cow or field pea. It thrives npon land too poor to grow clover. It produces a heavy, rich crop]in a shorte1 period than any vegetable fertilizer. Two crops can be produced on the same ground in one year. It leaves the soil in the very best condition for a succeeding grain Crop. It is so rapid in its growth and perfection as to make an interven? ing manural crop between grain cut in the spring and grain sown in the fall* It feeds lightly upon the soil, but extracts from the atmosphere the particular ele? ments necessary to a grain crop, and puts back largely into the soil those very elements. Is there anything in field culture that will likely call out more quickly our admiration than a large field of this plant with its apparently solid mass of green foliage, from which spring millions of fin? ger-like pods in all stages of growth, as many tendrils reaching after a support, while the myriads of bees enliven the scene by flying among the sweet purple blossoms which appear at the top of the plant? So wonderfu 1 and enchanting is such a scene that I cannot forbear to relate the impressions made on one of our best men when taken to the fields of our favorite, last September, and while taking in the view I have just describedj involuntarily exclaimed: "0 Lord, how manifold are Thy works; in wisdom hast Thou made them all; the earth i8 full of Thy riches!" Most Mothers Enow Her. We are all acquainted with her, the woman who never goes, who drops in for a call in the busiest part of the morning ?it little matters whether it is washing day or ironing day. It is all the same to her. Your irons may grow cold and the clothes may boil over, but still she stays. She usually mentions that she has drop? ped in on a little errand. It is probably a borrowing errand. Only after she has exhausted your patience and produced as much demoralization in your household as she can is she ready to go. But oh, the going! If you have any idea that she is really going you are quite certain to be disappointed. She come3 back to tell you about some neigh bor you had never seen or ever desired to see, to explain the whys and whereforeB of certain goings on in the neighborhood, in which you take no interest, and then she lingers at the door and keeps you standing far beyond your strength. It is impossible to calculate the time that is wasted by well meaning women in such ways as these. It would be an excellent thing if calls of all kinds could in some way be limited to a ten minute rule. In the social world among women of leisure it is con? sidered in bad form to lengthen one's visit beyond a set period, and when a woman has numerous acquaintances she usually has a visiting day and can be certain of freedom from interruption during the rest of her time. There is considerable excuse for the much abused "not at home," which is frequently used by women of society, and which simply means not at home to visitors, or engaged, and there is no reason for any one's tak? ing offence in the matter. Only working women, the busy far? mers' wives or women who do their own work, are subject to the annoyance of the announced visitor, who is bound by no social law as to her arrival or depart? ure or her length of stay. She is one uncertain quantity in all the routine of the household. It would take a keen mathematician to calculate the amount of spoiled dinners, spoiled washing and actual loss of money value for which she is responsible, to say nothing of the loss of temper and general misery consequent upon a disarranged household, delayed duties and work put of joint. The very worst effect is that upon the visitor herself. Her own work must go awry while she spends her time gossiping about the neighborhood. Her own char? acter detonates, while she becomes what our grandmothers were wont to call a "gad-about. Though she may have the most amiable intentions when she un? consciously repeats the interesting stories of the neighborhood, the temptation to enlarge, to impugn motives when possi* bly there were no motives, 13 likely to render her in time a veritable scandal monger, upon whose word no person of sense will place any reliance. It is not necessary to dwell upon the folly of borrowing, but it is enough to say that all provident and sensible house? keepers provide for the future and do not allow themselves to impose upon the good nature of their neighbors.?JSTeiu York Tribune. ? Those who believe that Dr. Sage'a Catarrh Remedy will cure them are more liable to get well than those who don't. If you happen to be one of those who don't believe, there's a matter of ?500 to help your faith. It's for you if the ma? kers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy csn't cure you, no matter how bad or of how long standing your catarrh in the head may be. The makers are the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y, They are known to every newspaper publisher and every druggist in the landj and you can easily ascertain that theii word's as good as their bond. -0 You watch your watch once a day Your liver and bowels should act as reg? ularly. If they do not, use a l:cy. The key is?Dr. Tierce's Pleasant Pel lets. One a dose. ? Over 9000 car loads of melons hav< been shipped from Georgia already this season. ? The people of the United State: drink seventy-two million dollars' wort! of coffee a year. They also drink 80,000 000 galten? of whiskey a year* E XXVI.?NO. 7. All Sorts of Paragraphs, ? There are nearly 6,000 pieces in a modern locomotive. ? Nine men out of ten love women; the tenth loves a woman. ? Of the twelve largest cities in the world three are in Japan. ? A herd of eighty-five buffalo will he. exhibited at the World's Fair. ? Chief Justice Lucus, of West Vir? ginia, is said to be only 4 feet high. ? The United States collects $639 and spends $461 every minute of the night and day. ? India, it is estimated will produce 110,000,000 pounds of tea daring the coming season. ? The receipts oi the French treasury are larger than those of any other civil? ized nation. ? One sheet of paper recently made was eight feet wide and seven and three- . quarter miles long. ? ? Hen who cover themselves with glory, sometimes find, after all, that they are very thinly clad. ? If the devil can get a man to worship himself he don't care how much he goes to Church. -?Forevery man who knows more " than he tells, there are fifty who tell more than they know. ? Edna Davis, a child, fell over a preci? pice 150 feet high, in Washington, and was only slightly hart. ? It is estimated that the yield of wheat iu Oregon will be 1,000,000 bash els more than last year. ? Missouri is the most populous State ) west of the Mississippi, and is nearly as big as all New England. ? Texas has a Fat Man's Association, the initiation fee of which is a cent a pound. Men who weigh less than 225 pounds are ineligible to membership. ? There is something significant in the fact that the Wyoming Legislature, - which imposes a tax of two dollars on'.,; ^ bachelors, was elected by woman's suf? frage. ? The biggest orange tree in Louisi? ana is in Terrebone parish. It is 15 feet in circumference and 50 feet high. The yield this year is expected to reach 10,000 oranges. ? Ingalls says the political leaders are . cowards. They are afraid to say what they think for fear they might offend ?' their constituents. There is a good deal of truth in this. ? There are a number of otherwise good people in this country who seem to have forgotten that neither gold, silver - nor greenbacks are current in the world to which they are going. ? A man can tell a lie by the wink of ' ^ the eye, a nod of the head, a shrug of . the shoulders, but it is as truly a lie as if the deceptive impression has been conveyed by plainly spoken words. ? A hotel has been built in Hambuig ' entirely of compressed wood as hard es iron, and rendered absolutely proof r. against both fire and the attacks of in? sects by subjection to chemical processes^ ?An Englishman has invented an ap? paratus through which, he declares, he can see the soul leave the body. He arranges lenses that so magnify the par? ticles of dust in the air that disturbance by anything passing upward can be de? tected. How he is to see the seals ^ that pass downward is not explained. ? The largest fig orchard in Jl world is expected to be one that be planted in Pomona Valley, Gal. Orel seven hundred acres will be planted or 73,000 trees. The projectors believe they can produce figs equal to the best Smyrna varieties. The trees will be imported from Syria. ? An over-careful physician in New , Haven washes all the greenbacks he re? ceives from patients for fear they might contain disease germs. He first uses soap, then rinsing the notes off in cold water, and he reports that the treatment * gives a clean, crisp look to even the most dilapidated bill. ? A member of the Legislature, from one of the lower counties, says the At? lanta Journal, has received a petition asking him to introduce a bill to prevent boys and girls from sitting together in Zion church. The petition recites that it interferes with the proper preaching of the gospel, and desires the bill passed at the "earliest possible moment." The member has not yet decided what to do about it. ? A saw has been designed for cut? ting iron, mild steel or other metals of fairly large sections. The inventor of this appliance claims that it is a cold iron saw, at once simple, powerful and effec? tive. It is always in readiness for work and can be manipulated by inexperienced - workmen. The machine is fitted with fast and loose pulleys, strap fork and [ bar, and is stated to be capable of mak? ing 400 cuts through bars of Bessemer steel 4-inch diameter, each cutting occu? pying six minutes on the average, with? out changing the saw.?New York. Com? mercial Advertiser. ? Another marvelous piece of me? chanism has recently been exhibited in . Paris. It is an eight day clock, which chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, playing three tunes every hour, or at any interval required, by simply touching a spring. The hands go as follows: one once a minute, one once an hour, one once a week, one once a month, one once a year. It shows the moon's age, rising and setting of the sun, the time of high and low tide, besides showing half ebb and half-flood. A curious devLe repre? sents the water, showing ships at high, water tide as if they were iu motion, and as it recedes, leaves them high and'dry^. on the sands. The clock shows the hour . of the day, the day of the week, the day' a of the month, and the month of the year. "4 The mechanism is so arranged as to. make its own provisions for long and , short months. It also shows the signs of the zodiac and the difference between sun and railroad time for every day irr the year._;_v Tourists, Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys, liverj bowels, preventing fevers, heacj other forms of sickness. Foi and $1.00 bottles by all lei glut*.