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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1891. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 14 FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY! CHEAP A.1ST> BEAUTIFUL. THOSE who Lave an eye for the beautifnl should take a peep at my line of MILLI? NERY. I am prepared to furnish you with the? Li ATE ST STYLES AND LOWEST PRICES* Have just opened a full line of FANCY FEATHERS, WINGS, RIBBONS, and all material required to make a stylish Hat. -MISS xGLEHART, a Northern Milliner, has just returned from Baltimore with fresh ideas for the Fall trade. She will be pleased to show my Goods, and will do ail in her power to please her customers- Give her a trial and be convinced. My Stock of DRY GOODS is complete, and I invito you to call and examine them before buying. But don't forget me when you want a Hat. iS?- Those indebted to me are earnestly requested to come promptly and settle. Thankful for past patronage I solicit a continuance of same. MISS SALLIE BOWIE. HOW TO' MAKE YOUR B LONGER! NEVER try to wear a Shoe too small, or that is not the shape of the foot. Never let your Shoe get hard or dry. - Don't let it rur. down at the heel or eide. A Shoe repaired io time will retain its shape and comfort, and it is true economy. Never pot wet Shoes by the fire to dry, but dry them gradually and carefully. Never dry a wet Shoe without first applying some oil and grease. 3>n't allow a thick crust of blacking on your Shoes. Wash it off occasionally sad apply a little castor oil; you can polish it over in a a hour or two. We now have a complete line of the Celebratt-d Hamilton & Brown Shoe Go's, goods in stock, and it is a duty you owe to yourself to give these goods a trial. Our Ladies' ?2.50 Dongola and Goat Button Shoe?made on Opera, Half Ope? ra, and Common Sense lasts?we believe stands without a rival. Our Gents' $2.50 Calf, Button, Ball's and Congress?made on London and French toed lasts?will simply astonish you, to see how the Shoe could be gotten up for that money. We have the Largest and Most Complete Line of Shoes in the State, And considering the CLOSE PRICES at which we buy, and SMALL MARGIN at which wc sell, we can safely say you wiii lose 15 to 25 per cent in buying else? where. ? Very respectfully, S. S. HILL, Manager, No. 10 S. Main Street. NEW STORE. New and Elegant Stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. EVERYTHING FRESH, FIRST CLASS, AND GUANANTEED. FLOUR, MEAL, MEAL, GRITS, SUGAR, COFFEE, LARD, HAMS, MEAT, MOLASSES, . PICKLES, CANDY, CRACKERS, In short, EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT. J3?r Delivery Free to any part of the City. This is a new departure for me, and I want my friends to give me a trial. My chi6f thought shall be to please my customers. Yours truly, W. W. WHITE, No. 1C North Main Street, just above C. A. Reed's Music House. Book-Keepiijo, Shorthand, Teleoraphy, &c. Write for Catalogue and Full Information. usiness College for Infants and Children. " C astorl a is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription iaiowu to me." H. A. AncHEn, 31. D., 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. Castorla cures Colic.. Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes dl Sgestlon, Without injurious medication. Tna Centacb Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. We have moved into the Store Room recently occupied by A. G. Means, the Clothing man. We want all of our old friends and customers to come and see us in our new quarters. B. W. BROWN & SONS. All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMO BY GEMS. "The finest fruit earth holds up to its MaW is a finished man." "Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything." We want all claims of teachers pre? sented for approval by the middle ol this month, if not Booner. There is no money that will be avail? able for school purposes before January, and possibly later, therefore it strikes us that it would be well not to begin the public term before that time. Mr. Frank W. Roberts, of the Slabtown Academy, was in the city last week. He is a live teacher. He will continue bis work at Slabtown next year. The peo? ple np their appreciate their teacher. Mr. J. T. Rice, of Tupilo, Miss., has been secured as teacher at Townville for the coming session. We bid him wel? come, and wish him success. We were favorably impressed with him, and hope to hear of good results from him. We call on every citizen of Anderson County to aid us in having the poll tax collected. See that every man in your community has made his return. If he has not.make it for him. The Trustees are especially requested to look after this work. Miss Virginia Norris will teach at Poplar Spring, in Dark Corner, next Beo sion. Miss Norris has a good reputation as a teacher, and we have'no doubt she deserves it. The school house in which ahe is to teach is not quite large enough, and might be made more comfortable. We would suggest to the good people of Poplar Springs that if they want a good school fix for it. A good house, comfort? able and convenient, i3 one of the requi? sites. ^^^^ There were in Anderson County this year 47 white male teachers, 84 white female, 36 colored male and 25 colored female, making a total of 131 white teachers and 61 colored teachers. Theae teac?ers ^have been in charge of over 8,300 children between the ages of 6 and 18 years old. These 131 white teachers have had the training of 4,957 boys and girls, and the 61 colored teachers have been teaching 3,355 children. Think of it teachers. What a wonderful opportu? nity you have had presented to you. With just bow much sincerity, energy and success you have improved them eternity will tell. Cold weather is coming and do not be more neglectful of the children than of the cows and horses. Fix the school bouses and make them comfortable be? fore the stables and cow stalls are repair? ed. This may seem to some unnecessary, but it is a fact that some horses have better buildings in which to winter than some school children have in which to study, and yet good results are expect? ed. We hope to "see presented to every boy and girl in this County the opportu? nity to get a common school education, without too much suffering from cold and rain. It has been well Baid that "Edu? cation iB a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." The liberty of the people demand education.. Give it for liberty's Bake. There were enrolled iu the public schools of Anderson County this year over 8,300. This number only gave an average attendance of about 5,500. Teachers think of this. Parents think of this. A little more than one-third of the time of the school children of An? derson County has been lost. It must neede be that some will be lost, but there need not be one-third of the time. What is the result? A six months' school only give the result of what a four months' school should give. Who i3 re? sponsible for such a state of affairs ? It is. by littles that all the great misfor? tunes come upon us. A day at a time is the way this loss is brought about. One day will not make any difference, so aay some parents, and at the end of the year, this one day at a time make up a month or more. The absence from echool works more hardships- than the mere loss of a day to the whole class and the teacher. Parents give us next year a large average attendance, which must be secured by a more regular attendance. The following law was enacted twj the last Legislature : "At the expiration of the times pre? scribed by law to receive (tax) returns, each Auditor shall make out and forward to the Board of Trustees of each School District within his County a correct list of the polls returned from their respect? ive Districts. The School Trustees shall examine carefully said list and report to the Auditor as toon as practicable the names of all persons who 3hall have failed or neglected to make returns, and it shall be the duty of the Auditor to eoter upon his books the names of all persons thus reported to him by Boards of School Trustees." Approved December 2-itb, A. D. 1890. We desire to call the attention of Trus? tees to thin law, and if they have not re? ceived a lii>t of the polls of tbeirDistricts, they should call on the Auditor and get it, fir write to him for it. This is an im pur'.ant move, and will add hundreds of dollars to the school fuud. Trustees, let us beg you to perform well your part in this matter. ? Very popular, very small, very good. De Witt's Little Early Risers, the pill for constipation, hilliousncss, sick headache. For sale by Wilhite & Wiihite. t ? A good story is told of a Connect i cut parson. His country parish raised his salary from $300 to $400. The good man objected fur three reasons : "First," said he, "because you can't afford to give me more- than ?300. "Second, because my preaching isn't worth more than that. "Third, because I have to collect my salary which, heretofore, has been the hardest part of my labors among you, If I have to collect an additional hun? dred it will kill me." BILL ARP. Bill Arp Talks of a Mother's Love. Atlanta Constitution. "Too baby is dead." That was the Bad telegram that came to us from far away where one of our boys is living. It saddened the household, for we had never seen the child nor the mother, and they were to come and visit us next month, and expected to be so happy. There is trouble that is trouble-grief that is grief. The first child, and old enough to have twined around the young moth? er's heart and absorbed her very life. The father can love, too, and caress and feel a father's pride, and he can weep and feel desolate. Time will temper his grief, but a mother never ceasea to lament the death of her first-born child. It has been more than thirty years since we lost one, but the little garments that he wore are bidden away somewhere, and sometimes I see the mother fondling them as they lie in the old trunk?the trunk thai holds her heart's best treasures. It was Sterne who said "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and so in time the young mother's grief will be sweeter than it is sad, and she will rise from it with a hope and a trust she never knew before. A child in heaven is a bond that cannot be broken?it is not lost?it is saved. But still the pang of separation is very crushing to the parent's heart. How the world shrinks up; how me o and insignificant are all its pleasures, have felt that way, and been comft u with the feeling, and so I know has eve - ry parent who has lost a child. Well, I suppose I must answer my friend, Colonel Dawson, for he is a friend aod a Georgian, and was kind to me when I last visited New York, where he lives. He complains in the last number of tha Sunny South that I have given Montgomery as the author of that beau ful hymn : Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed. And writes two columns in proof that his mother wrote it. He says that he published this same declaration in the Chicago Current in 1834. I did not see that; nobody down south saw it. What iB current in Chicago is not very current here, and bo I think that is excuse enough. The hymn has been set down to Montgomery for :fty years or more without question. It is in every hymn book of every Ohristian denomination. It is in every edition of Montgomery's poetical works that I have ever seen. I have a copy before me, published in Ed? inburgh in 18G9, which giveB eight verses to the hymn. John Bartlett's standard work on "Familiar Quotations" is now in the sixth edition, and quotes the hymn from Montgomery. W. Davenport Ad ams, another standard author on English literature, gives the same authorship. And bo Colonel Dawaon has no good rea? son for requesting me "to be more careful in the future about aiding aud abetting British marauders of the property of American genius." I am sure that no American, and certainly no Southerner, desires to champion the claim of Mont? gomery, but rather would take both pride and comfort in seeing Mrs. Dawson's au? thorship established. It seems that Mrs, Dawson died in 1819, in Cynthiana, Ky., and left her poetical manuscripts in pos? session of a friend. Among them was found this hymn of ten verses in her own handwriting. It seems further that in 1819 Montgomery published a volume of bis own poems, and included this one, which he marked "Anon." How it got into Mr. Montgomery's possession is not explained. But enough of this. It is sufficient for me to know that it is a most beautiful hymn and to believe that Mrs. Dawson and Mr. Montgomery are both in heav? en. And now comes another friend and gently chides me for setting down John Wesley as a Methodist. He asserts that John and Charles Wesley maintained to the last their connection with and allegi? ance to the Church of England, and that they never deposed from it. No doubt that is true?but still they were the founders of Methodism. The established Church of England was closed against them. They and their followers formed a society, and it was called the Methodist Society. They appointed laymen to preach and assigned them circuits. In 1735 John came to Georgia as a mission? ary with General Oglethorpe, and return? ed to England in 1738, and connected himself with the Moravians. He sajs in his autobiography that he never waa converted until a quarter before 9 o'clock, on Wednesday night, 24th of May, 1738. In 1744 he attempted to preach at Taun ton and was forbidden by the magistrates. In 1770 he assumed the office of Bishop, and in 3.784 ordained Rev. Thomas Coke Bishop of America. Coke came over immediately and established the Metho? dist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wesley abridged the English liturgy?prepared his own collection of hymns and wrote his own discipline. If, with all these de? partures from Church government and Church control, Mr. Wesley chose to call himself an Episcopalian it was his privi? lege to do so, but hardly anybody else would so classify him. I do not say that his treatment by the Church of England was wrong or unreasonable, considering his iudc.'peudence and defection, but nev? ertheless, it waa such, that the Episcopal Church cannot now claim him with pro? priety. "He is the common property of the Christian world. Now, let me say that these letters from friends kuown or unknown are always welcome. Of course I make mistakes and am pleased to he reminded, for it provokes more careful investigation. There is no comfort that costs less and is worth so much as letters from kindred and friends, and yet there ia no duty so easily neglected. How longingly do the old folks look for letters from their ab? sent children?scattered children. How r.irefully does the good mother put them away when they do come. Sometimes there is a long interval, and she asks ev? ery day, "Is there no mail ?" and her lov? ing heart imagines that her boy or her girl is sick. Children, why don't you write to the old folks at home ? Write ofteu?write regular, write cheerfully, lor they won't be here long, and then you will wish you had. I had a good letter to day from an old army friend who is in his eightieth year, and his wife the same, and they are hale and hearty and happy, and he quotes, "John Anderson my Joe," and writes without glasses and says his love for old friendB grow purer and stronger as the years roll on. He writes me periodically and always cheer? fully and I put his letters away among my treasures. These letters lor the home and heart are the only compensation for absence, for separation of kindred and friends. Solomon felt it when he said, "As cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country." Then write to your parents, children?write to your brothers and sisters?write often, write though*fully. Don't write hurried? ly and carelessly like it was something disagreeable that had to be done?but take pains both in the manner and the matter?write a letter that is worth the postage and will do to read more than otce. There is no better evidence of good conduct and good principles than the af? fectionate and carefully written letters that a school girl or a college boy Bends home to the parents once a week. Bill Aitr. Sow Wheat, There is nothing the matter with the seasons and the lands of the Piedmont section when it cornea to raising wheat. In the old days before the war small far? mers made twice enough to aupply their own wants and Hour was hauled from our mills to Augusta and Columbia. People living in the towns could get a supply of flour from any wheat mill in the country. Seed wheat was alwaya abundant. Occa? sionally a partial failure would occur for the varieties were generally late. Fresh lands were generally sown then and the wheat was put in early so that a good stand was secured before the freezes came. Now the best land is saved for cotton. Wheat is generally put off in some odd comer and plowed in late in December without preparation and often without manure. About haif the years partial failure fo'lows as it ought to do. We cannot hope to equal the big yields of the Shenaudoah Valley or the prairies of the Northwest, but by sowing good land in time we may expect twelve to twenty bushels to the acre. Our farmers should sow wheat liberally this year. The small amount for sale iu the County is worth $1.25 a bushel. Fair flour is retailing at $6.00 a barrel. Eu? rope is demanding large quantities of American grain. Many persons believe that wheat will go to SI.50' a bushel. That would carry flour to S8.00 a barrel. Can Sparlanburg farmers afford to pay that when their own lands will produce wheat at less than a $1.00 a bushel? There are thousands of acres of idle land that would make good wheat if properly prepared. Of course there are many farmers who say that it will not pay to raise wheat. The same ground planted in cotton will buy twice the flour that acre will make. Such farmers generally buy their flour on liens. Take one acre and see bow cheap wheat may be raised. 25 Bushels cotton seed at.$3 75 1 Sack dissolved bone. 1 80 3 Pecks of seed. 93 1 Day's plowing. 1 00 Cutting and hauling. 75 Total coBt for one acre.$8 23 The probable yield of that acre would be twelve bushels, the cost of which would be only G8 cents a buBhel. Is that dearer than buying flour at $0.00 a barrel cash? Another objection farmer* make to raising wheat is that the mills have all run down and they cannot make flour fit to eat. That complaint serves as an ex? cuse for laziness. We used some flour made at White's mill from wheat not well dried, and it was first class. Noah Bell brought us a sack of "middlings" for which the children cried after they got a taste of the delicious batter cakes and "black bread" as they called it. A lady from Florida after trying Bell's "mid? dlings" left an order for a sack to be ship? ped to her home. Captain Isaac Padgett left some of his flour at our door last week and it is a beautiful cream color, and the taste is better than the whitest patent ever made. There are other good mills in the County, and if you will make the wheat they will all be put in first-class order.?Spartanburg Spartan, How to Get Rich. "The way to get rich," says an editor whose mind soars beyond the brink of eternity, "is to trust nobody, befriend uoue, get ail you can and save all you get; to stint yourself and everything that belongs to you and to be the friend of no man and have no man for your friend; to heap interest, cent upon cent, to be mean, miserable and despised for some twenty or thirty years and riches will come as sure as disease, disappointment and death. And when pretty nearly enough wealth is collected by a disregard of all charities of the human heart, aud at the expense of every enjoyment, death will finish the work?the body is buried, the heirs dance and light over what you have left, an. he spirit will go?where? By all means get rich, it will pay?the devil." Static of Ohio, City of Tolf.do, ] L?lJAS col'ntv, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State afore? said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarru that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's; Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CD EN FA'. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this ijth day of December, A . D. 188?. fr?? \ A. W. GLEASON, j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, 0. JB^-Sold by Druggists, 75c. The Seven Wonders of the World, "Will you please mention the Seven Wonders of the world, and oblige an old Subscriber 1" To this day a question of this kind is occasionally addressed to editors who are so obliging as to publish "answers to cor? respondents." The writers do not mean such wonders as the Hoosac tunnel or the Suez canal, but the wonders of the an? cient world?the wonders which aatou ished Plato, Xcnophon and Alcibiades. The "old subscriber" may have crossed the Brooklyn bridge that morning, and seen the statute of liberty loom up from the mist of New York harbor, and watched the steamer Majestic as Ehe moved slowly down the bay toward the ocean. But what he wants to kuow is the seven wonders which have been embed? ded in book3 for 2,000 years and provoked curiosity by excluding all the wonders of the world except seven. The editorial mind tc rl 7 cannot remember those old wonuers. Every time the question comes there has tobe a search for them in dictionaries and encyclopedias, where they are found to be of great Pyramid of Egypt, the Light? house of Alexandria, the Hanging Gar? dens of Babylon, the Statute of Jupiter at Olympia, the Colussus of Rhodes, the Temple 0/ Diana at Ephesus and the Tomb of King Mausolus! wonders which have all perished, except the Pyramid, and only Ou'j 01 which would seem re? spectable to the modern mind, namely the Lighthouse of Alexandria. We no longer approve the idea of wasting the toil of tens of thousands of men upon pyramids, tombs and tasteless colossal statutes. We desire that an ex? pensive and elaborate structure shall have a certain basis of good sense, and shall minister not to the pride of an indi? vidual, but to the service or gratification of the public. If an editor were asked to name the Baven wonders of the present world, he could answer the question by turning to Web3ter's Unabridged, The candidates for a place in the seven are numerous, and by the time he had his seven well chosen he might find, on reading the morning paper, that his favorite wonder had been effaced by a rival in another continent. A few years ago, the suspen? sion bridge over the Niagara river, with its span of 821 feet, might have put in its claim to be one of the seven ; but after a while the railroad bridge at Cincinnati, with a span of 1,057 feet, reduced it to the second rank, and then the Brooklyn bridge of 1,595 feet span put Cincinnati's nose out of joint. The bridge over the Firth of Forth in Scotland shows a span of 1,620 feet. The projected bridge over tho Hudson at New York is expected to bold up a span of 2,860 feet; and now we hear respectable er gineers expressing the conviction that a bridge over the English channel, 23 miles long, and lifted high above the top masts of the largest ships, is a possible feat o f engineering. Something similar has happened with regard to tunnels. Many years ago, when I paid four English pence for the pleasure of getting wet in the dark and oozy tunnel under the Thames, that work was regarded as the chief wonder of the modern world. By and by came the Hoosac tunnel nearly five miles long, and soon after the Mont Cenia tunnel through the Alps, seven and a half miles long, which has been followed by two other tunnels through the Alps. There was something exceedingly marvelous in the way the Mont Cenis tunnel was exe? cuted; particularly to persons not familiar with mathematics. This tunnel was bo gun at both ends in 1857, and was finish? ed about fourteen years after. During that period two gangs of men were work? ing toward one another through solid rock in the heart of the mountain, and when at last they met, it was found that the direction of the two portions was per? fectly identical. The two pnrts fitted exactly except that the level of one was a foot higher than the level of the other, which was a mistake not difficult of cor? rection, aud grew out of the extreme dif? ficulty of ascertaining beforehand pre? cisely how long the tunnel would have to be. It proved to bo fifteen yards longer than the engineers had calculated. Perhaps the most curious fact concern? ing these long tunnel is the trilling char? acter of their object. The object of the Hoosac tunnel was merely to shorten by two hours the distance between Boston and tho West, which object, it appears, was not accomplished. The purpose of the Mont Cenis tunnel was to shorten the distance between France and Italy by forty-two hours. At present, this tun? nel heads the long ?3t of tunnel wonders, and may hold that place until the pro? jected tunnel under the English channel is open for traffic. There seems no rea? sonable doubt of the feasibility of tunnel? ing the channel. Competent engineers are of the opinion i.hat the project is not even difficult, since the bottom of tho channel is composed of a thick bed of chalk. The niaiu object to the execution of this work is political. There is enough dread of the old dread of a French iuvation left to prevent the sanc? tion cf ihe undertaking by tho British Parliament. John Bull, it is thought, would not yc-t feel quite safe with a small hole open near Shakespare's Cliff, leading to France. It seems a childish fe.".r; but fear makes children of us all. There are no operations of the engin? eer that so startle aud amaze the unpro? fessional observer as those which are re? quired in constructing railroads across high mouutaiu ranged. Hero the engin? eers of the United Slates have wrought the greatest marvels. The Central Pacific traverses thirteen hundred miles of mountain land that never falls much lower than the perpetual enow line of the Alps. In this elevated region the re? sources of the engineers' art were tried to tho uttermost, and many of the devices employed were invented upon ihe spot. But even this exploit has been surpassed by American engineers in building rail? roads through tho Andes in South America, where we hear of lines laid along the mountain ridges nearly three miles above the level of the sea. The clids on one of these lines are so steep that the workmen bad to be lowered by ropea from one ledge to another until the level chosen for the railroad 'van reached. The engineers directing the work were carried from oue side of the ravines to the other in slings hung to a cable wire stretched across at the ravines to the summit, There is one place where there are twenty-tunnels in fifteen miles. At another the zig-zags of five pr .allel lines are visible from one point, and none of them are more than 500 feet apart. The highest level of this railroad is 15,(i45 feet above the sea, which is only ICG feet lower than the top of Mont Blanc, and this elevation is accomplished by an ascent of seventy-one miles. Buckle, the historian, doubted whether the continent of South America could ever sustain a dense population, because, as he remarked, the forces of nature and the magnitude of natural objects were too great to be made observient to human uses. The rivers were too wide, the for? ests too dense, the mountains too high and precipitous, the growths too rank, the plains loo extensive for man to grap? ple with and turn to account. But the great historian reckoned without con? sulting the yankee engineer, who is about to render the whole continent of South America as accessible to the trav? eler and the emigrant as North America. For it is to be observed that the execu? tion of difficult works prepares the way for greater and even renders them com? paratively easy. The second tunnel through the Alps co3t about half the toil, time and expense that the first did, be? cause in the second they used from the start all the machines which had been invented in excavating the first. One single boring machine trebled the rate of progress. There is no range of moun? tains on the globe which our engineers could not traverse by railroad. How, then, shall we answer the ques? tion as to the seven wonders of the pres? ent world ? If we confine our view to the works of the engineer, we might, perhaps, go into the nominating conven? tion with the following list of candidates: The Sierra Nevada railroad, the Mount Cenis tUL_?;l, the Brooklyn bridge, the Eiffel tower, the Forth bridge, the Suez canal, the Eddystone lighthouse. But all these are going to be speedily surpassed. So, at least enthusiastic pro? jectors tell us, and probably some of them are right. By and by, after the whole world has been made available for the uses of man. the combined power of cap? ital and constructive genius will take hold of the great cities, reconstruct them, make them beautiful, magnificent, sym? metrical, convenient and salubrious; not for one class of inhabitants, but for the entire population. Here is a field as boundless as it is inviting. Long ago it was proved that the money paid by the masses of the people for rent is abund? antly sufficient lo provide for them all tenements more desirable and more interesting than kings' palaces have ever been. Business enterprise will one day provide those tenements.?James Farlon, in New York Ledger. Be Willing to Learn. A man progresses just a3 long as he is willing to learn; but progression ceases whenever he reaches that point where he places hia knowledge in the bal? ance against that of other meu. Strange as it may appear, there are a good many just such men in this world. Some can? not be taught anything, it does not mat? ter to what branch of bureau knowledge it belongs. Others are perfect in but one thing, aud that relates to the busi? ness they follow. It is here that this egotistical importance works the most mischief, for it always cripples a man's usefulness in life. There is another -class of people who will accept knowledge only from those whom they acknowledge as superiors. They must know the source of every item of information, and it is rejected as er? ror, or accepted as truth, accordingly. They never think reason or experiment for themselves, and hence their belief and practice exibit a strauge mixture of the practicable and impracticable, of truth and error. ' The truly progressive class accept the truth wherever they find it and re? ject nothing because of its source. A hint dropped from the beggar's lips is just as valuable as though it came from the roy , alty itself. These are the men who do not thiuk, reason and experiment for themselves. Like the miners, it is gold they are after, and they never reject it because it is associated with dross and dirt but go resolutely tojwork to separate the pure from the impure, retaining only the former. . We heard a prominent agriculturist say in an addres?, that no class of people were so unwilling to learn of others, as farmers. We don't believe it. Farm? ers are like other men in this respect? no better or no worse. There is a large class of them, however, who have too much confidence in their own methods, drawn from their uwn experience alone, and can see little merit in other raeu'a methods. Experience is a good school, but a man cheats himself most outrage? ously when he imagines that his expe? rience alone is all that he needs on the farm. Empiricism is as applicable to the farmer as it is to the doctor, and one who practices it is just as much a quack as the other A farmer with broad, liberal views of his occupation, whose eyes and ears are always open billing to accept and use every fact that comes to him, no matter from what source, is u man to be admired and respected, wherever you find him. He stands in delightlul contrast to the man who blindly and obstinately refuses all aid and scoffs at all authority which conflicts with his methods, or contradicts his opinions.? Ohio Farmer. The Ladies Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may use the li? quid fruit laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels. ?Let those whose horses arc idle most of the time tio them out iu the shade af? ter meal time, if it is not desirable to pasture thein. With the earth for a iioor and pure air about ihein they will he f;ir bolter off than ;n a ^tu!ly ?table, says lh?> riiiWjktnan, Tho Girl of Fourteen. Fourteen is apt to be a trying age to a girl herself, and it is often a period of puzzles and problems to a girl's mother. Childhood is left behind, womanhood is not yet here. Too old for doll aud romps and the uuchecked freedom which she had the other day; too young for the company of the older girls to which she aspires, feeling strangely enough if she were ten years her own senior, at once timid and bold, restive under restraint, and dependent upon wife guidance, the little maid of fourteen needs, as she nev? er before, very loving, very patient, and very sympathetic treatment. The tides of her life being are rushing in upon her; she does not understand her own moods, she cannot account for her own caprices ; she has her little gusts and storms, as well as her hours of sunshine, and in this time of ferment, of revolt, yet of real sweetness, aud of peril, chiefly be? cause of the issues involved, our girl of fourteen is happy if her mother is her dearest and her safest confidant. No other can be so safe, and no other ought to be so dear. "What shall I do for my daughter at this most troublesome age ?" writes one overburdened woman. "Can you tell me of a good school for her, where she will have the best care, be under the best in? fluences, and wholly guarded from tho very thought of beaux?" The latter consideration semis to many parents im? portant beyond every other, where their young daughters are concerned, and it not infequeutly happens that the sedu? lous anxiety of mothers and teachers to shut out the other sex, to seclude the growing girl, or so regulate her inter? course with boys of her own age that is to the last degree formal and occasional, brings about the state of things most dreaded. A girl to whom the idea of boys as beaux would never have occurred, bridles, looks blushingly conscious of their pres? ence, assumes airs and graces, and laughs in an unnatural falsetto when they ap? pear on the scene, and all because nature and good breeding were forgotten in the first place. If only girls and boys could be permitted to meet and associate on the footing common to friends and playmates, with no thought of sex or sil? ly sentiment, there would never be the annoyance and irritation which spring from the placing of these young people in fake positions. But, dear mother, if the mitr-hief has been done, and your little maiden of fourteen cannot meet with boys without behavior that will cause her to be ashamed and forgetful when she shall be older, don't think to cure this by sending her away to a boarding school. The perhaps necessary, yet, to her view, rigid and arbitrary, restrictions which she will encounter there will only con? firm her in obstinacy, or arouse an un- | fortunate antagonism. Keep her rather j at homo, lovingly, mind you, under your own eye, and if you have no alter? nate, let school have the gc by for a year or two. She will not acquire the less readily, nor develop the less charmingly for an interval spent in studying domes? tic lore, in learning to be womanly, by being made her mother's companion, friend, and daily assistant. The girl who is fully and happily employed in work that occupies the hands, as well as the mind, will generally pass easily and gracefully through the critical period when she is in danger of doing or saying stupid things in regard to boys, who, dear, honest fellows, are perfectly ready to be iter friends, comrades, and compan? ions, if their fathers and mothers have not made that impossible. Indeed, a somewhat extended observa? tion of boys, and a very pleasant ac? quaintance with many of them, leads me to the conclusion that they care very little about posing in the role of beaux. It bores them and its only attractiveness comes to them by the rule of contraries. Being prohibited, it naturally becomes desirable. At fourteen a girl has her fit for gig? gling at trifles, and the sound of her bub ling and irrepressive laughter seems now and then to a severe taste like the crackling of thorns under a pot spoken of by the psalmist. But were you not once fourteen, aud have you forgot how little it took to make you laugh, how easily you were amused and diverted ? Life has taken so much out of you that now your laughter is a neighbor to your tears, in these graver years. Yet you cannot but be tolerant, if you pause to think of the mirth which is so innocent, so good humored, so significant of high health and hope. Besides, the dear child will nevijr be fourteen again. Let the little maiden by all means have a room of her very own, if you can, or, if it is impossible, give her a half a room, dividing her share of it by a screen from that of her sister or little brother. A seperate bed should be arranged for each child in the family, and, as you val? ue her future vigor, do not let your giri of fourteen sleep with her grandmother, or with an invalid aunt or cousin. Let her have her own little withdrawn spot where she may read or write, or study or pray?her clo?*' sacred to her use. And,;if you can, give tho g'rl of four? teen a little money to use as she pleases, an allowance, or, if you choose, as? sign her to certain parts of the house? work and then pay her for it. Money of 1 one's own means confers responsi? bility, aud we desire nur darling to bo a responiible womau?uiie who can be de? pended on in all sires" circumstances. In a mistaken denre to shield the dear child from trials, do not hide from her the family perplexities and embar? rassments, and then, havicg done this, do not add to it the injustice of blaming he?: for thoughtlessness. Trust her, love her, wait patiently on her inexperi? ence. Fourteen is only a bud, aud t uds are blighted by frost.? Mary E, Sanyslcr, in Congrega lionalist. 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When a week later, her hubby came whoopinf aud Btaggeiiag home, she met him at door with a pail cf ice waterrSnd sous him from head to foot b-;fore he coulc explain that he w.13 only shammj There is prohibition in that house! for keeps.