The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, September 24, 1891, Image 1

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BY CLIMKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1891. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 12. HOW TO MAKE YOUR J WEAR LONGER! KEVEIJ try to wear a Shoe too small, or that is not the shape of the foot. Nover let your Shoe get hard or dry. ^ Don't let it .ran down at the heel or side. A Shoe repaired in time will retain its shape and comfort, and it is true economy. Naver pot wet Shoes by the fire to dry, bat dry them gradually and carefully. Naver dry a wet Shoe without first applying some oil and grease. Don't allow a thick crust of blacking on your Shoes. Wash it off occasionally and apply ft little castor oil; you can polish it over in an hour or two. We now hare a complete line of the Celebrated Hamilton & Brown Shoe Go's, goods in stock, and it is a duty you owe to yourself to give these goods a trial. f' Our Ladies' $2.50 Dongofa and Goat Button Shoe?made on Opera, Half Ope? ra, and Common Sense iaats?we believe stands without a rival. Oar Gents' $2.50 Calf, Button, Ball's and Congress?made on London and French toed lasts?wir simply astonish you, to see how the Shoe could be gotten up f >r that money. We have the Largest and Most Complete Line of Shoes in the State, . iind considering the CLOSE PRICES at which we buy, and SMALL MARGIN at which we sell, we can isafely say you will lose 15 to 25 per cent in buying else? where. Very respectfully, R. S. HILL, Manager, No. 10 S. Main Street. LOOK OUT FOE THE RED, BLACK AND YELLOW FRONT, G-ood G-oods, Nice G-oods, ^ Cheap G-oods. 2ly Stock is complete and replete with Goods that have been bought at hard time prices, and I am determined to give my Mends and customers solid values for the money. Don't be deceived, but come and get my prices and see my Goods before you buy. Come one, como all, And give me a call, The Bargains I have Will do for this Fall. W. A, CHAPMAN ? Agent. Next Door to Masonic Temple, A EABE OPPOBTTJNITY/! "FTPON the dissolution of the Firm of Gossett & Brown, recently at Williamston, the U Book and Stationery Departments were sold to our Mr. James P. Gossett. We take pleasure in announcing to'the Anderson people that we have arranged to tmove this stock into the :-oom under Hotel Chiquola, rented for our Shoe Business ; and, as we will open up enr Stock of Shoes on October 1st, we will offer some rare bar ,Sains before that date. The stock is new and comprises lull lines of? Fine and Commercial Stationery, Writing Tablets, Papeteries, Blank Books?a complete assortment, Gold and Fountain and Steel Pens, Lead and Slate Pencils, Slstas, &c. Ink and Mucilage, School Supplies, Hand and Family Bibles, Hymnals, Photograph and Autograph Albums, Writing Cases, Music Portfolios, Pocket Books, Shopping Lists, Books in Fine and Paper Bindings, Pictures! Pictures!! Pictures!!! Pictures!!!! - Very Special inducements to large buyers. It will afford us pleasure to show any one our stock, for we are confident we can please. The goods are now open lor in? spection. Come early, while the assortment is yet unbroken. Very respectfully, JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO. for Infants and Children. "Cas t orla is so mill adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription ^aoira to me." H. A. Ascheb, M. D., . JU So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, K.Y. Castorf? cans Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion. Without injurious medication. Tue Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. s Q2ATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson Cousnr. By W. F. Cox, Judge of Probate. WHEREAS, 8. J, Fisher lias ap? plied to me to grant bim Letters of Admin istration on the Estate and effects nf A. M. Fisher, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admon? ish all kindred and creditors of the said A. M. Fisher, deceasd, to be and appear before me in Conrt of Probate, to be held at Anderson Court House, on the 3rd day of October, 1891, after publication hereof, to shew cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given ander my band, this 10th day of September, 1891. W. F. COX, Judge Probate. eptl7,WW " U " B 2 LAW CARD. IAM now prepared to give prompt and special attention to all Law Busi ness intrusted to my care as an Attorney or Counsellor at Law, not being otherwise en? gaged. COLUMBUS "WARDLAW. Williamston Male Academy. J. W. GAJNES, B.S., M.M.P., Principal. THOROUGH instruction given in all English branches, Latin, Greek, German, French and higher Mathematics. Tuition, $1.50 to ?3.00 per month, according to grade, Good board may be obtained for SI0.?0 per month, fttrict discipline. Session opens Monday, Sept. 7. For further infor? mation apply to principal before Sept. 1st at Town vllle?lifter Sept, 1st at Willlamston. J. W. GAINES, Principal, July 9,1891, 1 im. TsjAGHE^'GoLUMN, AH communictions intended for this 'Jolumn should bo addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. THE PUPIL'S FIB ST TEAR AT SCHOOL. Editor Teachers' Column: In compliance with your request, and in answer to numerous inquiries from teach? ers, we will give our own experience in teaching the "word-method." This; will include an outline of what we usually expect little pupils to accomplish dnring their first year in school. We do not claim that our plan is the best, bnt it has given very satisfactory results in the "Home School," and may perhaps work well elsewhere. No method or plan should be adopted outright simply be? cause it has been successfully used in one school. The motto for teachers should be "adapt rather than adopt." j Some of tbe questions asked are as fol? lows : Should print or script be taught first ? How long should the pupil be confined to reading from the Chart alone? When is spelling introduced? When is writing commenced ? &c. We will answer all these from our own expe? rience. We have always taught print first, for the reason that we wish as early as pos? sible to place a reading book in the hands of the little pnpil and teach him to use it. As he will find print in bis reader, we think it best to teach printed form first, so there need be no confusion in his mind when he discontinues the chart and takes up tbe reader. The chart we use is "home made;" we made it to accompany Swinton's Primer, which was the little book we then used in teaching by words. We have since made a change in tbe book need for this purpose, of which we shall write later. Now as to the time. The first class we ever taught were kept on the chart for four months; later we reduced the time to three months; last term our little class were given readers at the end of two months, and now we have taken two little ones to try using the reader at the first, without any chart-lessone. We think it a mis? take to keep op tbe use of the chart too long. Chart-lessonB should be simply a starting point. This is especially true in most of our un graced country schools, when one teacher has charge of pupils of all grades. Much more may be accom? plished by giving the little pupil a reader as soon as he is able to use it. A good plan is to let him have a "word hunt;" teach him a word on tbe chart and then give him a book of any kind, and let him find that same word as often as possible. The little folks enjoy the exercise. One caution we would give to all?"go Blowly," especially at first. The first twenty words are usually the most diffi? cult to teach, and we are always well satisfied if tbe little pupil learns this number thoroughly during the first month?one word a day. The second month the work will be less difficult and double that number may- be easily learned. Do not be satisfied if the child only knows the words on the chart; he must be able to recognize thorn anywhere he sees them. Therefore we repeat, do not harry. Drill on each new word until the child knows it, and review daily on the ones already learned. Of course all little ones will not make the same pro? gress ; all we may eay has reference to the average child of six or seven years. At present, after the little pupil has thor? oughly mastered thirty or forty words, we give him "Harper's First Reader." This little book snits the purpose admi? rably. Tho type ia large and very dis? tinct, the illustrations are attractive, and all new words introduced are placed at the head of the lesson for preparatory drill. A little later in the course a spell* ing book is introduced. And now comes up the oft repeated question: "When and how does the child learn the letters ?" This we cannot really answer; the truth is, we don't know. This, however, does not alter the fact that he has, in some way, learned a great many of them, either from their sound in the words, or from hearing others spell. Children are naturally inquisitive and learn much from hearing others. We usually have to teach the names of some of the conso? nant^ those less frequently used. The spelling book used in our Home School is Part I. HarriDgton's Graded Speller. This begins with very simple words, and, side by side, the same word is given in script and in print; so that just here, we think, tbe script form is more easily learned than at first. Later, in tbe same littlfl book, the words are used in sen? tences, which are also shown in both forms. Still farther on words only are given, and the pupil writes sentences using them. Now as to writing and drawing, which we think is of equal importance. Begin these at tbe very first, with the chart-les? sons. We teach the little ones first to make figure*, and with this work begin simple number-lessons : this is for slate work. On our "home-made" reading chart we have simple combinations of numbers up to ten, which we teach with the word-lfcssous Now as to writing, we differ from many teachers on two points: oue is we never teach a child to write on a slate or with a lead pencil; the other is we teach witting by tbe word and not by the letter, and with pen and ink from tbe very beginuing. A nice help we find for this purpose is a little series of Tracing Copy books (Harper's) in two numbers; one using small letters, and the other teaching capitals. Tho words are printed in blue iuk to bo traced over by the child in black. This gives him a correct form, and by the time he has finished these two little tracing books be will be ready to "go alone," and will have a good idea of proper proportion in forming letters. Another good help is to write a word on the black-board and tbeu have tbe little pupil trace it over there. For this pur? pose we have a ruled black-board with lines of different letters. Side by side in importance with writing we place draw? ing. We all know the old maxim: "Writing makes an exact man." Writ? ing begins the training in exaetness?; drawing continues this training and de? velops it more fully. All children love to make pictures, so why not make this' natural liking serve a useful purposed With the first little tracing copy-book we use KruBi's Drawing Book. Any teacher with tact can use this little drawing book. Thus we have given our plan for read? ing, writing, spelling and drawing dur? ing the first year. We have also slightly indicated the work in numbers. Now there is one other study which we begin the first year, that is Grammar, or "Lan? guage Le^sous." This we begin in First Reader. When the child learns to read the first sentence teach it the capital let? ter at the beginning, and the period at the close. Next teach the question mark and comma. Then explain that a noun is a name word, and as he reads a sentence have him tell all the name words found iu it. Later, in the little spelling book when he writes sentences using the words of his spelling lesson, have him underscore all the nouns he uses. By the time- the First Beader and a proportionate part of the speller are completed, the child has a nice start toward "Language Leusons." For calis? thenics during the first year, we have free gymnastics and wand drill. These with little motion songs give pleasant variety and exercise. Now, remember, we do not give this as a "cast-iron" pro? gram, neither do we think this all that may be accomplished in the first year, especially in number;. Due allowance must be made for the different ability of pupils. We have simply given these notes from our own experience, hoping they may prove helpful to some others. Lenora C. Hubbard. Home School, Sept. 1891. ?????i?O?il? Anecdote of Andrew Jackson. On the border of Bodgersville, in the State of Tennessee, there is a grand spring known for a hundred years by the name of Federal Spring. Forty years ago the colored women took clothes there to wash and "battle" them, as they termed it; and the colored women of to-day are doing the same. It was also a festive centre. Could it speak it might tell us of many peculiar scenes witnessed there. When Gen. Andrew Jackson was judge and he and the members of the bar had gathered on Saturday at Bod? gersville to be present at court the fol? lowing week, Rev. Dr. Henderson came riding into town and observed Judge Jackson and the attorneys around the spring betting on a cock fight. The next day the judge and the lawyers all went to hear him preach. The minister preached from the text, "God made man upright, but man hath sought out many inventions." After set? ting forth the glorious manhood of Adam as he was made upright in the intellec? tual and spiritual image of his maker, he turned to consider some of the many in? ventions be had Bought out after his fall into disobedience and transgression. In the course of his remarks ho called up the scene be witnessed as he was riding the day before into town. "I was prom? ising myself as I came to fill my appoint and satsi fact ion. I called to mind the fact that the judge of the court would be here, and educated attorneys, and that I should bo edified by tbeir intelligent con ment," he said, "a great deal of pleasure rersation on matters of interest and im portance. Imagine my surprise there? fore, as I was passing the Federal Springs, at seeing these same attorneys and the judge in tbeir midst, highly ex? cited and betting on acock fight!" The next morning Gen. Jackson called on Dr. Henderson and said to him: "Al? though I felt ashamed and mortified at your allusions to myself and the bar iu your sermon yesterday, I honor you and thank you heartily for faithfully dischar? ging your duty." Inviting the minister to accompany him to a store, be bought him a suit of broad cloth, and going to a tailor, he requested him to take Dr. Hen? derson's measure for pa?ts, vest and coat, and to make them up for him, and add | ed, "I will settle the bill." This incident calls up the story of a man from Teunessee who went to. Wash? ington when Jackson was President and called on him at the White House on Sunday, to beseech him for au office. While they were conversing the church bells rung, and the President said, "Rev. Dr. Durbin of Philadelphia is to preach this morning and I am going to hear him. Will you go along?" "How did you like the sermon ?" the President asked his Tennessee friend as they came from the church. "Not much," was his answer, "though I suppose the minister did the best he knew how." Durbin was a man of more than ordi? nary pulpit power. He was to preach again at night, and Jackson and his friend heard him, and the office seeker's criticism was like that iu the morning. Two weeks after the Tenneaseean wrote to a friend in Washington to call on the President and get his appointment When called on, the President replied, "I have none for him. No man need expect an appointment under my admin? istration, who is such a poor judge of preaching as he is." Deafness Can't be Cured By local applications, as tbey cannot reach . the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deatness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this Tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbling sound or im? perfect heariDg, and when it is entirely closed, Deafnees is the repult, and unless the inflammation can bo taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine caBes out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any .ase of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Bg^Sold by Druggists, 75 cents. ? Mrs. Mary J. Oates, of Oates, Dar? lington county, au old lady about 75 years old, who has been toothless for many years is now cutting a third a?.l of teeth. She has four front toeth'on the lower jaw, and the indications art) that 1 she will soon have " full &ei. BILL AltP. Sad Because Bla Younger child Has gone oiT to a Distant City. Atlanta Constitution. These arc solemn times now?there is nobody dead or sick, but there is a lost chijd, and that is nearly as sad. We know where she Is, for we sent her tboro; but it is hard on tho old folks to send their youngest child away, especial? ly when she is a girl and tho last of the litter. Tt took us a few days to realize that she was gono. Sometimes she goes to spend a night with a schoolmate, and it seemed liko sho was there and would soon como hack, but sho doesn't. Her piano is closed, and its dark rosewood case looks darker now. There is a feeling of sadness around the house. Tho sowing machino is having a rest, for sho made her own clothes, and sho cleans up tho house and sets tho table and lights the lamps and helps her mother, and when the cook qnits she can mako as good a biscuit as I can. She loves hor homo and loves mo, and when I am grunty or sad Bhe knows it and rubs my head with co? logne and combs my b ;ck hair and cheers me up, and Iget well, but I am sick now and she isn't here. I was in hopes wo could finish her schooling right hero, but we can't. Wo have no college and tho high school is limited by poverty. We aro taxed enough in all good conscience to have everything wo want. 1 am paying now about one hundred dollars a year for other people's children, and have to send off my own. There aro many parents here who are do? ing tho samo thing, and to my mind it is all wrong in principle. Our county pays $17,000 to the school fund of tho State and wo get back only ?7,000 of it. The other 910,000 is scattered all over the State to educate black and white. Our town pays out ?1,000 a year to educate the negroes in the corporation, and we get no thanks for that. All this tax is based upon the idea that we get it all baok in making good citizens out of the children as they grow up. If that is really so, we will try and bo content, but the whole system is a strain upon our philanthropy. Every community would liko to keep their money at home, and if it is not spent right wo can make a fuss about it. Our town pays ?6,000 for school tax and our county pays $17,000 more, and we can't help thinkihg that if wo could keep the ?10,000 that is sent away what a home college we could build in our own community. Ton thousand dollars a year for an income would give us a first-class institution, and it would save us a big lot of money, be? sides ?2,000 a year that is going away right now from this town to other female colleges. That makes ?12,000 a year that we are out of pocket, and our people are not happy. But all's well that onus well. Our Jessio has goue to tho Agnes Scott, at Decatur, to finish up. Wo had to send her somewhere, for sho couldont climb any higher at hoinoi And besides, it was thought best to sond her away for rest and repose. A number of our best girls have been sent away recently for repose. Tho boys of tbe town don't seem to have very much to do, and they indulge in the delightful employment of visiting the school girls, and this disturbs their tran quility and distracts their susceptible minds from study and wholesome reading and meditation. By day and by night they aro coming and going, getting up parties and playing tennis and oasoball and other hilarities, and as it couldont be stopped without bad manners it was thought best to send the girls away and let them stay until their minds came back to them.- I heard one afflicted parent say that bo was afraid bis daughter's miud was clean gone. We aro not troubled about Jessie on that account, but she does need some time that sho cau call her own. Some time to read and study and dovoto to her music. Sho is gono now and the boys will frequent theso parts no moro, I reckon. No moro will wo bo en? tertained with the thrilling narrative of baseball and tennis, and tho heroic achievements of tho Cedar!own nino aud the Acwortb nino, and tho Cartersvillo lawn tennis club that cost ?10 for its equipment. I heard Sam Jones preach a sermon ouco to parents about this samo troublo, and he stretched forth his hand and said : "Now, boys, I see you here and I want you to hoar me. I want you to keep away from my house until I toll you to come. | My daughters aro at school, and I don't want their minds distracted from their studies. I liko you and I liko your fath- i era and mothers, but there is a time for all things and you must kcop away from my house. Well, of course, if you come I will treat you politely and invite you into tho parlor, and I'll send for Bob and Paul to come in and entertain you, and if you can mako anything oft' of Bob and Paul you aro welcome to it, but you shall not sco my daughters." Well, it's right hard to drivo tho boys' away, for they como with good intent, ' and I never saw a mother who was not pleased with attontion to her daughter4; and I never saw a daughter who was of? fended at it, and so wo just had to send.' tho girls away. Of course, it costs money, but what is money compared with the. restoration of a disordered mind? I' restored Mrs. Arp's mind by marrying her whon sho was sweet sixteen, and somo of theso boys want to try tho same medicine. It's most astonishing how close tho youngest child gots to a parent's heart? tho boy to his mothor's hoart, and tho girl to her father's. Ono by ono tho oldor ones marry or lcavo us, and wo get wcanod af? ter a timo and tako fresh hold and cling the closer to the last. The sweetest pathos in tho Biblo is tho pleading of Judah for his little brother Benjamin. It made Jo? seph weep and it makes mo weep every timo I read it. Our "Benjamin" hasn't got a coat of many colors, but ho has a spotted cap and a rod surcinglo that he wears, and I'm afraid tho Ishrnaclites will got him somo ol those days. The Agnes Scott is a now institution and has just gotten a fair start. Tho loved and lamented Tom Cobb named his col? lege at Athens for his daughter Lucy, but Mr. Scott has named this ono for his inolhcr. Ho has already spent ?SO,000 on it, and keeps on spending. I predict that ho will not stop as long as ho lives. Just let a man get his heart tied onto somo great charity or something for tho goal of humanity, and it seems to expand and absorb him, and becomes his life work. I believe that a wise Providence designed this so that groat things might bo done, and ho raises up men to do it. Alfred Shorter began his great works with ?10,000. That is ail ho thought ho could spare. But after awhile ho strained himself to ?20,000, and then to 930,000 and ?50,000, and ho never stopped until ho died, aud ho had given ?125,000 to found the Shorter college at Rome, and it is there to-day as his monument. The Agnes Scntt is mosL happily loca? ted. It is just far enough from tho State capital to get all pf its advantages and patronage and nono of its hindrances. It is in the heart of the chinquepin region ?a region too poor to ho sickly, and wboro the timber grows only largo enough to he storm proof, and the hills and the hollows arc just high enough and low enough for drainage and good roads. The institution is in a beau? tiful grove and elevated, tho ground de? scending gently from every side, and it is loss than five minutes' walk from the depot, whero twelve passenger trains a day go and comn from Atlanta, and a dummy line besides. The lighting, heating and ventilation seems to bo as perfect as human ingenuity can make it( and th? protection against fire absolutely secure. The rooms are all models of comfort and provided with th? most sub? stantial furniture. Nothing has been neglected that tho pupils need for their health and their reasonable pleasure. Bathrooms, with hot and cold water, are on every floor and the entire outlook and inlook aro cheerful and refining. I would like to take Mrs. Arp thero and let us become inmates and stay, at least as long as Jessie is there-* With a corps of the host educators that could bo found in the South, this institu? tion has nlready taken a high stand among the female colleges of tho land. Tho time has come when it was wanted, and it is there. Long may Mr. Scott live to enlarge it and equip it for its great work in educating and refining our daughters until they shall become as tho polished corners of a temple. May this inrtitution loom up and become a cyno? sure like tho old granite mountain that is in full view from its turrets. That samo old imporishablo mountain that used to be our trysting place when Mrs. Arp and I were young and lived near by. Sweet are its memories. Once thoro was a lofty Lower upon its crest and I re.uembor as? cending its spiral stairs with my sweet? heart by my side and when we reached tho pinnacle wo saw tho floecy clouds bo low us, and as I looked into her hazel eyes it seemed to mo that I was a little nearer heaven than I had over been be? fore. Delightful memories! Ambition was high then, so was hope and expecta? tion. Tho world was very lovely and I was thankful that I lived. But now tho mountain's top seems bleak and cold and cheerful, and my experience is that tho safest retreat and tho surest happiness is found among the humble flowers that blossom at its base. _Bill Arp. A Woman's Remarkable Memory, A curious incident illustrative of wo? man's remarkable memory occurred yesterdaj'. A lady who formerly lived in this State, but now a resident of Ohio, was riding on the East Eighth street car cable, casually glancing at tho houses as she passed. In one of the yards she saw a crazy quilt hanging on a lino. Instant? ly sho got off the oar and going to the house, rang tho door boll and asked if Mrs. Blank lived there. On receiving an affirmative reply she entered, and two old friends were soon chatting over old times. Afterward, in explanation of her visit, sho said that she had recognized the quilt as one she had seen her friend make in Cen? tral Missouri eighteen years ago. A lady had just come from tho East bringing with her a crazy quilt which was so pret? ty and hard to mako that tho east side lady fashioned another ono just like it. This was tho ono that brought the two friends so unexpectedly together. "I knew that thoro wero only two quilts like that in tho world," she said, "and I instantly concluded that this must be yours, al? though until to-day I did not know whero you liyed." Vorily, the mind of woman is past find? ing out. A mau would not have recog? nized his last year's trousers had they been hung on a lino in his own backyard. ?Kansas City Times. Childish Faith. An example of childish faith, of a kind dull ago wears away, was seen tho other day. A littlo boy was sitting in the yard of an old country homestead ; on either sido of him sat a hugo dog, patient and loving. The sun shone down scorching ly on tho trio, and its rays wero Uncom? fortable. Shading his eyes with his curved hand tho child looked skyward and said : "Put in that sun, please." The sun shone brightly, aud tho littlo follow repeated softly: "Please put in that sun, man up in tho sky, it hurts my | head." Just then over the face of the orb there sailed a wnito summer cloud, then another, and the yellow blaze turned suddenly to a hazy, restful gray. Turning to tho dogs, the littlo boy, putting an arm /around tho neck of each, said : "Did you . sco the sun pulled in, Romeo and Chief ' tain? Whon you wants anything, if you <is good, and asks God for it, he gives it to ?you. The sun hurt my head and I asked ?'him to put it in, and didn't you seo how he did roach out and put it in forme." Tho dogs looked wise, loaned their heads ,-loviugly toward tho diminutiyo little ;theologian, and, whatever might have been their belief, kept an inscrutable si? lence.?Providence Journal. Wouldn't Marry Him Because He Drank. Savannah, Ga., September H.?Guests will gather at a Brunswick homo to-night for a wedding. The supper, however, (will not bo graced by a bride. Her friends may feast, but not with hor. Sho stole away silently yeslorday, and spent last night in Savannah. Miss Ella Inez An? derson was tho bride-elect, and Mr. E. W. Biugham was to be the groom. Miss ?^Anderson is tho daughter of wealthy pa? rents and had received many handsome presents, had prepared her trousseau and j the Presbyterian Church was decorated. 'Sunday the groom called. IIo had been drinking and kissed his prospective mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Tho bride-elect Hod to her room. Sho was shocked and mortified and refused to seo her sweet-heart aud had hysterics. Tues? day she made up her mind to lice. So she loft a noto breaking tho engagement, took tho train aud camo to Savannah, wheuco sho goes to Macon to-night. Mr. Biug? ham is connected with tho Brunswick Times. Miss Anderson says sho will not marry a dissipated man.?Atlanta Jour? nal. Tho Beauty Standard. The standard of female loveliness va? ries greatly in different countries and with individual tastes. Somo profer tho plump and buxom typo; somo admiro the slendor and sylph-like, and somo tho tall and queenly maiden. But among all people of tho Caucasian race-, ono point of beauty is always admired?a pure, clear and spotless complexion?whether the female bo of tho blonde, brunetto or ha zcl-eycd type. This first great requisite of loveliness can bo assured only by a pure stato of tho blood, active liver, good appetite and digestion, all of which aro secured by tho use of Dr. Pici cc's Golden Medical Discovery. It is guaranteed to accomplish all that is claimed for it, or money refunded. If you would have a clear, lovely complexion, free from erup? tions, moth patches, spots and blemishes, uso the "Golden Medical Discovery," Why Some States Grow Bich. The census of 1S90 reveals a remarka? ble contrast between manufacturing and agricultural S'.ates in respect of tho late of increase in assessed valuation of real and personal properly in the last ten years. In an article contributed to the New York Times, J. S. Moore is at the pains to collate the figures and draw the obvious inference. Eight manufacturing States?Connecticut, Maine, Massachu? setts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Ver? mont?have in the last decade increased their valuation by $1,931,416,790, Penn? sylvania having accumulated profit to the extent of $909,382,010 and Massa? chusetts to the extent of $500,377,824. These eight States happen to be the States for whose capitalists the present tariff and all others since 1807 have been principally constructed. The results should be satisfactory to the tariff lords of these States, seeing that it is a big thing for the rest of the country to con sent to part with its wealth for their aggrandizement. Turning from those that receive to others that give, Mr. Moore finds that the five great agricul? tural States?Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio?have increm-ed their assessed valuation in the last de? cade by but $591,601,051. Their popu? lation in 13,289,547, but their people, though more numerous and occupying vast areas of very productive land, have not been able to accumulate one third as much as the eight manufacturing States have done. The larger number of men with fine natural advantages increase their wealth by about $500,000,000 in ten years, while the smaller number of men, with smaller natural advantages, swell their wealth by about $2,000,000,000! The thing is against reason. There must be some artificial condition that blesses the one area at the expense of the other. "The reason for this discrepancy," says Mr. Moore, "lies in a nutshell. The protected American feudal lord buys what he needs and consumes iu the cheapest market in the world and sells his product in tbe dearest, whereas the rural American serf sells bis product iu the cheapest market iu the world and has to buy all necessaries of life in the dear? est market, which is the protected home market, and the only market where he can supply himself. This is lamentable enough as indicating a false and unjust economic adjustment. The poor ought not to be compelled by law to enrich the rich by being forced to pay artificially enhanced prices for every manufacture tbe protected capitalist produces. The thing is not right, and it is sad to see self interest so greedy. A sadder thing, however, is the facility with which the tariff lords can lead the agriculturist to believe his hardships are due to any cause but the true one?the "demoneti? zation of silver," 'Jot example, or tbe want of a larger "per capita of money." "The poor, benighted farmer can not," ! says Mr. Moore, "for tbe life of him, gee that if he uses one bag of salt iu a year and pays for it $2, as against $1 per bag if there were no duty on salt, he keeps that other dollar in his pocket; nor can he see that if this is applied to his cloth? ing, to hie farming tools, to his cutlery, to his Bible be takes to church on Sun? day, and to tbe varnish on his coffin, indeed to every conceivable article he uses, be would save half the present cost, so that it would follow that his expenses would be only one-half of what they are now." These are among the things that are too plain to be seen. The excessive price of manufactures under a protective sys? tem is a tbbg that meets tbe man of small income at every turn. He may not see it, because the tribute be pays tbe tariff lord is hid away in tbe price of bis daily purchases. But it is there, and by the end of the year it hes eaten a big hole in tbe profits of the year's work. Mr. More thinks our farmers are being reduced to f.n interior position, analo? gous to that of the peasant or serf of the old world. This is a degradation the country can not afford. Our farmers have till now been the chief buttresses of our political institutions. In the clash of privat a interests struggling at Wash? ington, for tbe mastery the farmers of the country have till now constituted the element to which patriots appealed when the constitution was in danger. The country can not, therefore, as has been already said, afford to see this conserva? tive and patriotic class of citizens lose their influence through tbe impoverish? ment the protective policy ie bringing upon them. We can not agree with Mr. Moore that, "after all, these farmers and tax payers Hike such a state of affairs, tbe public ought to be satisfied." The patriotic publicist can never be satisfied to find our best population handed over to poverty and ignorance. "Of course," says the writer, "if the farmer were relieved of these hard sensations then the ether fellows, the mill owner monopo? lists, would not be able to become great millionaires and buy feudal castles in Scotland or acquire effete European aristocracy for their daughters." This is very true, hut tbe d creased growth of castle owners would ba an endurable hardship.?Bedtime, c Sun. A Hainau Footprint in a Stone. On May 13, 1882, Mr. John B. Wig? gins of Wavorly, N. J., while searching for ethnological specimens on top of Blue Mountain, Perry County, Pensylvania, discovered what is now believed to be the earliest trace of man in America. It is a piece of stone composed of metaphoric lime, about 1)1 inches thick. 9 inches long, 4 inches wide and weighs six pounds. In this solid rock is the perfect impression of tbe right foot of a man. The footprint is 1\ inches long, 3} inches wide across the ball of tho foot and 3 inches wide one half the distance from the amall toe to the heel. The print is about a half inch deep and distinctly shows the toes, five in number, the whole being a perfect impression of a shapely foot. Who was this early American, and in what age of the world did he step on that piece of soft clay which has now been transformed into a solid rock ? The Real of .sick headache is not in the brain. Regulate tho stomach and j-ou euro it, Dr. Picrco'a Pcjlols arc tho Little ? Regulators. Why Money is Scarce. According to tbo statement of tho Uni? ted .States Treasurer, there is more money per capita in circulation now than at any time sinco 1800. There is no doubt that money is very scarce in this section of the country. But thero is plenty of money in New York and other Northern States?that is plenty for tho purposes of trade and commerce ?thero novor will be enough anywhero for everybody to have all ho wants. Why is money scarco in this section of tho country? "Here aro some reasons oyerybody can understand: The annual pension? to Federal survi? vors amount to ?130,000,000. All this, practically speaking, goes into Northern States, while every Southern State has to pay its proportion of it. Tho average of each Stato is nearly thrco millions. South Carolina pays not lesp than two mil? lions. Then comes the import tariff, of which ?230,000,000 a year goes to thogovernmcnt and about ?600,000,000 to protected indus? tries, and of which South Carolina pays its share?estimated at eight millions? and gets back only a small portion?the great portion going to manufacturing States in the North. Say South Carolina pays out for tariff duties seven millions moro than she gets back. Again: Our railroads are all owned by Northern capitalists, and whatever the roads earn over actual running expenses goes North to pay tho interest on their bonds. Tbe gross earnings of the rail? roads In South Carolina for the month of July last was ?570,000. July is one of the poorest months. But suppose that to be tho average for tho year; there would be gross annual earnings of ?084,000,000. Sixty per cent, of this amount goes to running expenses and remains in South Carolina; tho other forty per cent., or two and three quarter millions, goes North to pay interest on tbo railroad bonds: Now add theso three items: For pensions.$ 2,000,000 For Tariff.. 7,000,000 For Railroad Bonds. 2,750,000 Total ?11,750,000 This is not all: We send possibly two millions Into Tennessee and Kentucky for mules. Newberry County alono sends annually about ?50,000. And then tbo corn and meal and bacon. How they do cost! And what immense quantities are shipped to this section from Tennessee and tho Northwest. We can? not approximate the amount; but it is enormous. Ono merchant at Newberry has received since January 1st, 17carloads of corn?8,500 bushels. About 30,000 bushels have been sold at Newberry and about 10,000 at other points in the County ?at an average of about 90 cents?say ?36,000 for corn. It is a groat drain of money to pav for all this corn and bacon and flour and hay and other products. And what have we got to raise money to pay pensions and tariff and railroad bonds with and to buy corn and bacon and other things? Cotton?nothing but cotton. No wondor we are poor. What Is the remedy ? Some say the sub-treasury. We do not think so. The remedy, it seems to us, is to raise our own corn and bacon aud mules, and thus keep a large amount of money down South to circulate amongst our own peo? ple. I For tho pension drain there is absolute ly no remedy. No party?Republican, Democratic, Allianco or what not?is making any effort in that direction. The Democratic party is lighting for tariff reform, and if successful will great? ly relieve the burdens of tho South. Tho railroad bonds have gone North to stay. All these three disadvantages are the result of tho war, which made tho North rich and the South poor. There is no hope for a remedy for any of them except in the possible reduction of the tariff. So that, do what we may?sub-treasury or not?tho South will continue to be drain? ed to pay pensions and tariffand railroad bonds. Tho North has a great advantago over us in these particulars, and we can? not help it. But we can prevent the im? mense drain mado upon our resources for tho purchase of Western mules and corn and meat, by raising these things at homo. In this way lies safety.?Newbcmj Observ Tue Color of Gold, "Moat people suppose," says an assayer, "that all gold is alike when refined, but this; is not tbe cane. An experienced man can tell at a glance from what part of the world a gold piece comes, and in some cases from wbat part of a particular gold district tbe metal was obtained. Tbe Australian gold, for instance, la dis? tinctly redder than the Califoruian, and this difference iu color is always percep? tible, even when tbe gold is 1,000 fine. Again, the gold obtained from tbe placers is yellower than tbat which is taken directly from quartz. Why this should be tbe case is one of the mysteries of metallurgy, for tbe placer gold all comes from the veins. The Ural gold is the reddest found anywhere. "Few people know the real color of gold, as it is seldom seen unless heavily alloyed, which renders it redder than when pure. Tbe purest coins ever made were tbe fifty-dollar pieces tbat used to be common in California. Their coinage was abandoned for two reasons?first, because tho loss by abrasion was so great, and secondly, because tho interior could be bored out and lead substituted, tbe difference in weight being too small to be readily noticed in so large a piece. These octagonal coins were the most valuable ever stuck." A Base Conspiracy Defeated, A close guess was made in a Hartford saloon tbe other day. In one portion of a money-drawer was a large number of pennies. Among the frequenters of tbe place was a man always ready to make^a bet. It occurred to tbe proprietor of the place, who had been taken a good many times by the betting man, to lay for him. He took a friend into his confidence, and tbe pair made up their minds to beat the fellow with the contents of the money drawer. So they counted the pennies and found there were just 625 of them. Then they laid low for their opportuni? ty. That evening tbe betting man was on hand, and in a manner not to excite suspi? cion the saloon keeper said to his friend: "I wonder how many pennies there are in this drawer?''* The betting chap picked up his ears and remarked: "Let each of us put up $5, and the one who comes nearest to the number shall take the pot." 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