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She will be pleased to show ray Goods, and will do all in her power to please her customer". Give hnr a trial and be convinced. My Btock of DRY GOODS ia complete, and I invito you to call and examine them before buying. But don't forget mo when you want a Hat. Those indebted to me arc ' arnestly requested to come promptly and settle. Thankful for past patronage I solicit a continuance ot same. MISS SALLIE BOWIE. iTflA?HflRg'?oLUMN, All communications intended for thiaColnnin should bo addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. A supervision that is eternally troub? ling itself about the letter and neglecting the weightier matters is dear at any price. A remark that applies to teaching also.? Popular Educator. THE RECITATION. By W. W. Barnett, Houston, Texan. 1. Recitation should not be too long. 2. There should be a definite point in the mind of the teacher. 8. The recitation should have life in it. 4. The teacher should exhibit an in? terest. 5. A teacher should know the subject before band. 6. A preliminary drill should be given before the pupil prepares the recitation. 7. The teacher should stand in front of his class. 'S Look the class squarely in the face, 9. A question should be given to the entire class and then some individual should be called upon. 10. Pupils should never be allowed to recite until called upon. 11. Let the pupils understand that the I entire classs is to recite only when the ' teacher says "all together," or "class." 12. Glass management depends largely on the foregoing statement. 13. A recitation in which each pupil recites ad libitum is a farce. 14. Pupils should be taught to sit or stand in a position to think and recite in recitation. 15. A lazy, lounging pupil, leaning on desk or lying on desk, should not be tol? erated. 16. Pupils should pass to and from recitation in order. 17. "Concert recitations" are to be avoided?they lead to "parroting" and mechanical answers. 18. If a part of a class be prepared when the time for recitation arrives their recitation should be received. Otherwise the prompt pupils, from lack of encouragement, grow into habits of tardiness. 19. Seldom keep pupils in to learn their lessons. Make the lessons attract? ive. Recesses are for recreation. 20. Keeping in for failure is a bad practice, unless the proper Bpirit is shown. 21. The backbard pupils should be en? couraged, and the brighl ones, too. 22. Do not begin at the head and call on pupils in regular order; this leads to inattention. 23. Each pupil should feel that his turn may come next. 24. The pupils should do most of the talking in recitation. Teacher directs. 25. Mind grows when used. Lecturing expands the teacher's powers, while the pupil sits?sleeps?dreams. 26. Questions should be concise?not "catch questions" or "leading questions." 27. It is a good thing for a teacher to think of how many questions that he asks are answered by "yes" or "no." 28 Avoid complaining, being sarcastic, caustic and bilious in recitations. 29. Sometimes tbink of the powers of the minds you are trying to enlighten? not too difficult nor too easy be. 30. Every recitation should be as the brick placed in the building?invaluable. Losing a recitation should be to a pupil like losing a brick out of a building.? Popular Educator. METHOD i> OF TEACHING UNITED STATES HISTORY By C. Krell. 1. If the text book is faulty in arrange? ment of topics, the teacher may give black board outlines of each of the col? onies and presidential administrations as they are studied, requiring pupils to pre? serve a copy in tablet for reference and to recite therefrom. 2. Spend a few minutes in assigning advance lessonB, calling attention to im? portant parts, briefly commenting on the same. 3. Encourage comparison of state? ments of different writers, and notice any worthy outside material bearing on the lesson. 4. Let prominent historical characters be the centre of historical events as much as the subject matter permits. 5. Use maps frequently, locating all important places. 6. Send a number of pupils to the board, assign topics, require written work ; conduct recitation with remainder of the class, closing iu time to call at? tention to the board work for the pur? pose of criticism or of commendation. 7. Vary the monotony of daily recita? tion by the reading of historical poems or other appropriate selections, by con versational study of the lessons, then have a general written recitation on the topics considered, thus giving each child a test in spelling, grammar and express? ion, as well as history. Return papers to pupils that they may correct mis? takes. 8 Let pupils write dates, as the teach? er names important events, or reverse the process, then have pupils exchange pa? pers and correct errors. 9. Have general review questions giv? en by teacher, alternating with members of the class. 10. Use historical cards, divide class into sections, and credit the sections which gives the greatest number of cor rect replies. 11. Use one day in the week for gen? eral news ; credit the pupils for brief mention of important events in current history, thus encouraging an interest in the world of to day.?Popular Educator, ? A story is told of an old gentleman who always took note of his minister's sermons, and on one occasion read them to the minister himself. "Stop, stop," said he, at the occurrence of a certain sentence, "1 didu't say that" "I know you didn't," was the reply : "I put that in to make sense." ? You don't want a torpid liver. You don't want a bad complexion. You don't want a bad breath. You don't want a headache. Then uso Do Witt's Little Early Risers, tiie iainous little pills Wilhite & Wilhite. BILL ART What, he Thinks ot Prenohcra. Atlanta Constitution. The preachers are here?250 of them, and a ivhole lot more of laymen and edi? tors and professors of colleges and the board of education. It is the north Georgia Methodist Conference?a power in the land and a power for good. There are some bishops here, too, notable men, notable for piety, learning and eloquence. It is a feast to our people to listen to their picked men as they dispense wisdom from pulpits. They are casting bread upon the waters, they are scattering seeds of repentance and love and kindness that will grow and grow and bear fruit. Their influence is all for good. Oar city fathers did not increase the police force like they do when a circus comes, or when a political meeting or an election agitates the community. We don't lock our doors nor hide our chickens. They didn't come hungry and they don't look hungry and those who have honored our mansion only feasted on Mrs. Arp's good things out of respect to her. They know it is bad manners for a guest to slight the bounties of providence at a generous table. They are good company?rich in pleasant memories and wit and anecdote. A more unselfish, genial and self-sacrific? ing assembly than a Methodist conference cannot be found in this sublunary world. If the love of money is really the root of all evil, just think what a giaut curse these ministers escape. Most of them have families to support, for it is a phi? losophic tact that a preacher will marry if he can, and it looks like they all can. And they get good wives, too, for a wo? man is obliged to be good who makes up her mind to marry a preacher, and espe? cially a Methodist preacher. She has got to forswear the fashions and the follies of life, and live for her husband and her children?her duty and her God. It is entirely possible for a woman to do that and be happy, and move every two years besides. Their children are trained to economy, and they always have children ?lots of children who are born on the fly, sorter like some of our? were when my wife was running from the foul inva? der and dodging their scouts at every cross-roads; and sometimes they are in a pretty good house and sometimes in a' poor one that has a leaky roof and walls that are lively by night. But the comforts of the circuit riders are being gradually improved. Most of them have four Churches to suffer with, and have to provide their own transpor? tation, whether it be an old Methodist mare and saddle-bags, or a Presbyterian horse and buggy. Sam Jones says he furnished his own nag the first year he rode the circuit and received $65 for the support of his family. The average cir? cuit rider's pay in the conference is now about $400?some more and some lees. I see one name on the list who receirei only $134. I wouldent live in that na borhood if I could help it; I would not settle down in any neighbor? hood where the people dident pay the preacher. It is a bad sign. It is a Bign that the land is poor or the people mean. But, the preachers must go where they are sent, and it is missionary work to go to the poor and the ignorant and pro? claim the gospe.l. The preacher can do this from a sense of Christian duty," but it is hard on the wife and children. iL is a school where (he young preacher can loam how to preach and can develop, if there is any gum in him. It is like a young lawyer practicing in a justice's court. It giveB confidence in himself, and if he makei a blunder there is no one who knows i:. It is like a railroad man beginning hi* railroad life as a track raiser and climbing higher and higher, until, like Mr. Thomas, ho reach en the highest place. These bishops and pre? siding elders were all circuit riders at the start, and are f':ll of memories about their first experience and their many hardships. The example of John Wesley still animates these Methodists, .for be crossed the ocean to preach to savages. He forded rivers, crossed swamps, slept on the ground, and went bare-footed and with all that he lived to be eighty-eight years old and has left a name with more namesakes than any Christian man in the world. But he, too, had troubles worse thau Indians or swamps. He married too late, and mar? ried too much?a widow with four chil? dren can hardly mate a man fifty years old. She robbed him of his substance and ran away several times, and at last he let her go and wrote in his journal: "I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her, I will not recall her." Fortunately there were nu children born to them. It seems to me that I could very easily be a Methodist. To &ay that I could not would be a reflection upon thousands of great and good men who have lived and died in the faith, and are now among the blessed. And so, too, I could be a Bap? tist or an Episcopalian. I wouldent have far to go. But I like my own church government the best. The other day the preachers answered the question why are you of your faith, and each gave some plausible reasons, but all of them left out the reason that animates most Christians when they choose a Church. I am a Baptiet because my father is or because my mother wa3. This is the kind of rea? son that controls 95 out of every 100 members of any Church. Most every Church member went to a particular Church in youth, or to a particular Sunday School, and then and there got their religious associations fixed, and they had no desire to change it. They knew all the usages of that Church, when to stand up and when to sit down, and when to kneel, and when to siog, and how to take a nap on the sly, if the day was hot and the preacher dull. i\s my friend, Dr. Powell, would say: CiIt all depends either on the heredity or the environ? ment." The learned doctor is our guest, and, having for twenty years had charge of the State lunatics, he has made a spe? cialty of the laws of heredity, and it is both instructive and ent?rtaininp to listen to him. "If there is no heredity," said he, "then environment come next." The idea is, that if a man was of Scotch descent and his ancestors for several gen? erations were John Knox Scotchmen, he would be a Presbyterian just hh natural as water run:-j down a hill. Ho might be left an orphan in infancy, and grow up without religious training, and be as wicked as Satan, but if he became converted at a Methodist revival he would join a Presbyterian church. That is heredity, and it prevails in all denom? inations to a large extent. It is stronger than environments, both in man and in beast. Now, Mrs. Arp was a Methodist?a very exemplary Methodist when I mar? ried her, but her heredity on that line was not overly strong, and so, like a du? tiful wife, she came over to my Church. I was her environment, and it was stronger than heredity. She would have joined most anything for me then. If it was to do over again I have my doubts, for now she is my environment, and I am the prisoner. We have Dr. Powell and Dr. Glenn with us, and we had Mr. Yar borough and Mr. White, and they were discussing the prodigal sen when Mr. Yarborough remarked that "the return of the progidal and his generous, over? whelming forgiveness was the central figure in the painting, and all that about the envy of the elder son was just shad? ing put in by the artist to fill up the pic ture. The world is full of things really unnecessary, but put in as ornament. No doubt there are parts of a horse's leg that the horse could have got along without just as well." Right there Dr. Powell bounced him and denied that there was anything made without a beni ficent purpose^-not even the color of the hsir on a horse's leg, and he made the fur fly for awhila. They fought hard all round, but when the dinner bell rang they closed much nearor together than when they started out. The dinner bell does have a harmonizing effect. Blessings on the preachers. May they live long, and have free course wherever they go. It is safe to welcome them, for besides their example, their influence and their delightful companionship, the good book says, "touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm." Mrs. Arp says they shall not shake the dust off of their shoes when they leave her front door. Bill Arp. How he Saved Himself. Presence of mind and bravery in the face of peril was being discussed in the office of W. R. Rousenbark, general manager of the Maple Leaf Route, the morning after Thanksgiving. The cap? sizing of a yacht off the lake-front the day before suggested the theme. After listening to the thrilling experi? ences which each of the group present related?and somehow on the occasion of an exceptional accident people are prone to talk thrillingly of what they have passed through themselves?Mr. Rousen? bark told a story. He did not need to call our fancy to his aid to give interest to his tale. He had been a central figure in the well-remembered burning of the Newhall hotel in Milwaukee, being the only person above the second floor who dident perish in the terrible fire. Referring to the manner in which he escaped, he said that he owed his life to the fact that a man who was burned to ashes in the flames the same night had told him how he would try to save his life in case of fire. "ThiB is how it was, boys," said Mr. Rousenbark. "I got orders from my road to meet one of our agents, named Ware, who was to be transferred from Detroit to Milwaukee, and introduce him to our pa? trons in the Cream City. I joined him here in Chicago and we went to Milwau? kee together. It was the day of the New hall hotel fire. On the trip, by a strange coincidence, we began talking about fires. Ware, I think, brought up the topic. Yes, it was Ware, and what started him on the subject was the fact that he had witnessed a big fire in the Western Union building at Detroit at which five lives were lo3t. 'Isn't it curious, Rousenbark,' said Ware to me, 'how common sense will desert a man in the hour of danger ? I saw the big fire in Detroit yesterday. A number of operators could be seen stand? ing helplessly and in wild despair at the windows of the Wostern Union building. There was a perfect network of telegraph wires within twenty feet of them, by jumping on which they might have saved their lives. But they dident jump and they perished. What is puzzling is that the telegraph wires as a means of ""oape for the poor fellows did not occur to me until after all was over." "No accounting for these things, Ware,' said I to the Detroit man, and then we talked about other matters. "That evening, after arriving at Mil? waukee, we went to hear Minnie Palmer in 'My Sweetheart'?I remember it as if it was but yesterday. About 11 o'clock we reached the Newhall and were given a double-bedded room. When I was awakened by the beat and the stifling smoke and pulled Ware out of bed and the poor fellow dashed from the room and toward the staircase. I never saw him again, alive or dead, for he was burned to ashes. I rushed to one of the windows of my room and stood for fully half an hour, dazed and bewildered. Right undrr the window was a network of telegraph wires. Poor Ware's story of the Detroit incident flashed across my mind. I jumped to? ward the wires, and all that I remember is that I grabbed them. They told me afterward that I hung on for about a minute, and then fell to the pavement below. I was put among the dead in the old bauk across from the hotel, but I re vived, and two months later I was able to walk. "Ware inspired me with the idea that saved my life, and while he had the same opportunity that I had he did not avail himself of it. "It is idle, boys, to talk of what one would be sure to do under given circum? stances. There 13 no accounting for what a man will do wheu he is looking into the jaws of death." All the boys looked thoughtful, arjd agreed that it was so.? Chicago Herald. Biicklen's Arnica Salve The best Halve in the world lor Cuts, Br?.ses, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per I'ect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 csuta per box. For *u)e by Hiil Bros. WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW. Congress Stampetlert on a Catechism of Political History. Last week the St. Louis Globe Demo? crat sent forty reporters to Washington to find out what the great men of the na? tion know about some of the simplest facts in the history of the country. It was a cheeky thing to do, but the Globe Democrat reporters did it, and did it well. Out of several hundred men interviewed only three or four could answer all the questions correctly, and from President Harrison down to the sockless Simpson a pretty state of things was discovered. The report was published in the Globe Democrat on Tusday last, and filled four? teen columns in small type. It was sent to St. Louis by wire, and contained 23,639 words. The following is a copy of the card which was distributed among the Statesmen: 1. How old was George Washington at the time of his retirement, after having served eight years as President? 2. How many offices were included in the Cabinet of George Washington, and what were they? 3. How long did Thomas Jefferson live after the close of his second Presidential term? 4. When was the navy department created, and who was the first Secretary of the Navy ? 5. When was the Postmaster General made a Cabinet officer, and who was the first Postmaster General, who was also a Cabinet officer? 6. When was the interior department created, and who was the first Secretary of the Interior? 7. Who was the first Chief Justice of the United States? 8. What Chief Justice of the United States served the longest period, and how long did he serve? 9. What Speaker of the House of Rep? resentatives Berved the longest in that capacity, and how long did he serve? 10. How many Ex-Presidents of the United States died on the Fourth of July, and who were they ? 11. Had any President of the United States, previous to his election to that office, been Speaker of the House of Rep? resentatives? Give name or names. 12. Who was the first Speaker of the House of Representatives ? 13. When were the first ten amend? ments to the Constitution adopted? 14. What article of the Constitution of the United States prescribes the method of choosing a President by electors? Some of the Congressmen called these questions conundrums. They said it was unfair to arouse the curiosity without satisfying it. There was a key to the caiechiem, but it was not revealed until after the interviewing corps was called off. Here is the key : 1. Sixty-five years and eleven days. 2. Four?Secretary of State, Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of War and Navy. (Secretary of War and Navy one office.) 3. 1809 to 1826?17 years and 4 months. 4. In 1798. George Cabot. 5. In 1829. William T. Barry. 6. In 1849. Thomas Ewing. 7. John Jay. 8. John Marshall?34 years, 5 months, 7 dayB. 9. Henry Clay?10 years. 10. Three?Jefferson, Adams and Mon? roe. 11. James K. Polk. 12. Fred. A. Muhlenberg. 13. 1791. 14. Amendments, Article 12. It will be interesting to the South Carolina reader to know how the Sena? tors and Representatives from this State answered the questions. Senator Butler and Congressmen Elliott, Johnstone and Shell do not appear in the published re? port. Senator Irby, of South Carolina, looked over the questions in much the same man? ner that he had looked over everything else new in his novel surroundings. "Really I can't take time to answer them," he said. "This is my first morn? ing here, you know. Come around some other time. I'm sorry I am so busy now." Representative Heraphill, of South Carolina, was asked if he won Id tell how old George Washington was at his retire? ment from the Presidency. A pleasant smile came over the South Carolina's face wheu he said : "Excuse me to-day. Pressing business takes all of my time and thought. In fact, I don't know whether I am prepared to stand your examination or not. It generally re? quires a little preparation before takiDg a civil service examination." Representative G. D. Tillman, ol South Carolina, was next asked if he would object to arisweriug a few ques? tions which might be interesting to the numerous readers of the Globe-Democrat. Farmer Tillman said: "I can answer your fourteen questions which you ask by giving the matter a little study, but as you dou't give a fellow time to think I don't believe I cau go through your catalogue of questions at this time. Can't you call again wheu lime is not of so much importance as lo day ?" Representative W. H Brawley, of South Carolina, was asked how old was George Washington at (ho time of his retirement, after having served eight years as President. "Please excuse me this morning, as I am not prepared nor have I the time to either read or hear your questions read. I am a great friend of the press and am always willing to uerve its interests, especially when it un? dertakes such an interesting enterprise as your paper ha* in this case." Representative E. T. Stackhouse, of South Carolina, was asked if he would object lo answering a few questions in political history, lie said : "I am a new member of Congress, and an Alliance man. I am not much inclined to talk for the papers. If a man don't know much he had better keep it to himself." When a-ked how old was George Washington at the time of his retirement from IhejPtesidency, he said : "I think he was abotu Of) if what I have read of him is corrtc!." II" was also aski-d how many officers George Washington had in his Cabinet. "Four." He was also \ asked to name them. "Secretary of 1 State, Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War and Navy." The next question was, "How long did Thomas Jefferson live after the close of his second Presidential term?" "Seven? teen years, I think, was about the time." He was then asked when was the Post? master General made a Cabinet officer. He good-naturedly remarked: "My friend, I did not come to Congress to undergo a civil service examination. Now I have got to leavejyou and return to the chamber and cast my vote for Speaker." Governor Thompson, of the civil ser? vice commission, laughed outright when the full extent of the scheme had diffused itself through his intelligence. When he received the check bearing the legend "Pumped" he was like the fragile china cup that fell from the mantel?he was all broke up. He, like Mr. Lyman, spoke of the excellence of the questions. He said they were evidently the resuk of careful study and of the employmer.t of a good deal of ingenuity. Their answers would embrace, however, a good deal of detailed information that one would, perhaps, be better without. In a meas? ure their general character reminded him of an incident in the history of civil ser? vice reform. There came to Washington once a middle-aged man from Georgia, whose visit was for the purpose of sub? mitting to a civil service examination and the attainment thereby of a clerical position in one of the departments. On the day of the examination he sat him? self down with a number of others to go through the ordeal. He read over the list of questions two or three times, scratched something on a blank piece of paper before him and then left the room, the heavy tread of his some? what comprehensive boots telling all that heard that he was indignant. The paper upon which he had written a few words was examined. This is what it contained: "These is katch questions." Governor Thompson made no direct answers to the queries. He, however, showed by his comments, aa he read them aloud to Mr. Lyman, who had come into the Governor's room, that he was pretty nearly pat in most of them. Congressman Livingston, of Georgia, answered nearly all the questions; but most of the members felt like Congress? man David A. Harvey, of Oklahoma, although they did not say so in such ex? pressive language. After telling a reporter that he would "blaze away" at the questions, he concluded that he would give it up, and said : "No! Great Heaven ! I don't want to make an ass of myself, so don't put in that I saw you at all. Say, now, for God's sake, say nothing about me." How He Succeeded, The following letter to the Birming? ham Age-Herald is a very sensible one. There is not a farmer in the South who will not be benefited by reading it, and who cannot, if neccessary, achieve the same success. "Every one you meet, with a few ex? ceptions, has something to say about hard times, tight money, etc., and if you were to 'catch on' tc the complaint you would be about as gloomy a9 the most of the people appear to be. I have a short, faithful story to tell in your paper and hope it may aid the wise men of our State to arrive at the cause and the rem? edy for hard times among the fanners of the South. "In 1867 I fouud myself on a fair aver? age farm, just where I am writing to you, with one good mule, a broken down army horse, a fair Bet of farming imple? ments, mostly second-hand but without a dollar of credit and just $6.75 in cash. It was the last week in January, and the time had come for us to "pitch our crops" for the year. I had a small quantity of corn, about enough, with economy, to feed my stock and give*my family meal for four or five months. Times were hard with me then sure enough. "Mv near neighbor was a little better off, bu not as much as I thought bi:u to at the time. We were talking over the matter when he informed me that he was going to Gadsden the next day to make some arrangement for credit to en? able him to make his crop, and asked me to go with him and see what I could do. We went to town. It wasn't long before my neighbor had secured his credit with a note and mortgage, which he was to trade out duriag the year. "I tried to do th6same, but it was no go. The merchants did not know me and I couldn't give the security they demand? ed. Well, we went back home together, my neighbor with a smart load ofbacon, coffee, dry goods and shoes for the chil? dren, with dress for his wife and a Sunday coat for himself. My wagon was empty and I disconsolate, with nothing to take t<? my iireside but a heavy heart and a will to work. I told my wife about my failure to get credit and we talked the matter over until midnight: 'Well,' said she, 'Tom, wc have got two good cow?, Borne hens, and a few pigs, a good garden, and the best of health. So wc will stay at home and get our living from our work.' Bless her eonl, she xva.3 the wisest woman, I think, tbat ever lived on earth, a:id among the best that went to heaven. I tcok her advice, and at the end of the year I had Heven good bales of cotton, 240 bushels of corn, and saved 1,200 pounds of bacon, banked snugly 100 bushels of sweet potatoes, while my good wife had $10 7-3 made from her eggs, chicl:ens, butter and honey, and had bought herself a new summer dress and bonnet ;nd cloth enough to make the un dergaiujcnts for all the children. And best of all, I didn't owe a man on earth a cent. "My ce;ghbor, who had the credit I could not get , made eleven bales of cot? ton, ;i ?iijhII corn crop, no meat, and had bis credit until he was several hundred dollars in debt. I met him in Gadsden during the month of January, ISliS, after he had settled with the mercliauts and hail sold his >_otton. All he had to sbo.v lor his year's work was a uew bug? gy that he really did not need and about ?!J0 in cash. In 1S72 my neighbor sold out to pity his debtsj'.and keep the Sheriff away and moved to Texas, where ho came to want. Tlix sHino year I had ?2,:!20 loaned uut and drawing a good interest, well secured aud I have never borrowed a cent or a thing, or had r.iy name on a merchant's book for a nick? el's credit. I have often thought and be? lieve most firmly that the best thing that ever happened to me was my failure to get credit in 18G7. Nearly 25 years have passed since I had my diafr?i!.''';i'c ride back to my humble he Gadsden. I have since reared als of seven children, and given them the best education the country could offer, have built a large house and barn, and have enough, thank the Lord, to keep me and my family in comfort as long as I shall live. I want no sub treasury and never wanted it but once, and then, thank God, I could not get it. There is not a farmer iu Alabama worthy of the name of farmer, who cannot do as I have done." The Brand of Caiu. Under the above headiog Edward Wakefield discusses in an English re? view the bloodthirsty proclivities of the average American. Mr. Wakefield is sensational and ex? travagant, but it is impossible to read bis article and glance'at our newspapers without admitting that be is not far wrong. Within the past week the murder of a whole family in Florida, and the killing of his wife by a Georgia husband because the woman refused to assassinate a neigh? bor of whom the husband was jealous, have shocked our readers, and within the same period nearly every State in the Union has furnished something horri? ble to be added to the criminal record. A long red list of murders might easi? ly be made up for every month in the year. We talk sorrowfully about the lax morals of certain European countries, but in crimes of violence we outnum? ber tbera 25 per cent, and ^each census shows that while their criminals are de? creasing, ours are rapidly increasing in number. Our English reviewer does not strain the situation when he says that the brand of Cain is upon us. We are in? temperate, reckless people, with little regard for the rights or the lives of oth? ers. Even in our older States the law is frequently openly defied. Men wear their legal duties as lightly as they do their religion, and secret assassinations, as well as murdera, are beginning to crop out in business, politics, and domestic life. Two of our Presidents have been assassinated in less than a generation. Preachers and millionaires are targets for pistols and bombs. Husbands and wives murder each other. Sleeping fam? ilies in lone country houses are butcher? ed. And then the ordinary homicides? they are too numerous to classify. What is the remedy ? Frankly we do not know. Perhaps no speedy change for the better is to be expected. This young nation may have to wallow for generations in the slough of drunken? ness, and glut its murderous thirst for blood. It will take time for Christianity and civilization to do their perfect work. Despite our boasting, the church and the law have gained scarcely more than a good foothold in this new country. Their influence and their results are still in the future. That they will finally triumph over evil we cannot doubt, but it is to be feared that for many a long year to come the brand of Cain will be only too common among us.?Atlan? ta Constitution. Think Before You Strike. I remember reading in my boyhood about a merchant traveling on horse? back, accompanied by his dog. He dis? mounted for some purpose and ixcident ally dropped his package of money. The dog saw it, but the merchant did not. The dog barked to stop him, and as he rode fr?her, bounded in front of the horse and barked louder and louder. The merchant thought he had gone mad, drew a pistol from his holster and shot him. The wounded dog crawled back to the package, and when the merchant dis? covered his loss and rode back, found his dying dog lying there faithfully guarding the treasure. The following little story, told by a frieud of mine, is not a painful ODe, but adds force to the chought, think before you strike any creature that cannot speak. "When I was a boy aod lived up in the mountains of New Hampshire, I worked for a farmer and was given a span of horses to plow with, one of which was a four-year-old colt. The colt after walking a few step3 would lie down in the furrow. The farmer was provoked, and told mo to sit on the colt's head to keep him from rising while he whipped him, to break him of that notion, as he said. But just then a neighbor came by. He said: "There is something wrong here, let him get up and let us examine." He patted the coit, looked at the harness and theu said: "Look at this collar, it is long aud narrow, and carries the harness so high that when he begins to puli it slips back aud chokes so he caunot breathe." And ao it was, aud but for that neighbor we would have whipped as kind a creature as we had on the farm, because he laid down wheu he could not breathe." It was only the other day I heard of a valuable St. Bertiard dog being shot, be caue having a wound oa his bead, conceal? ed by the hair, he bit a person who han? dled him roughly. Boys, young and old, please remember that these creatures are dumb. Think before you striko any creature that cannot speak ?Presbyterian ? They don't speak now. They were engaged to be married, and called each other by their first names?Torn ar.d Fanny?and he was telling her how he had always liked the name of Fanny, and how it sounded like mu^ic in his ears. "I like Jbe name so well," he added, as a sort of clincher to the argument, "that when sister Clara asked me to name her terrier, I at once named it Fanny, after you, dearest." "I don't think that was very nice," said the fair girl, edging away from him. "How would you like to have a dog named after you ?" "Why, that's nothing,'' said Tom, airily; "half the cats in the country are named after me." ? You may cough and cough and cough aud cough and co?irli, but you will not if you tako De Witt's Conprh and Consump? tion Cure. Wilhito & Wilhite. All Sorts 01 raragrapiis. ? New York city annually consul about 500,000 bushels of peanuts; ? Have no business dealings man whomever has a good wor4 ?^'dy. '?ing to tho Balrnon industry the^ As. River is said to give oat mc, wealtn(Crjalrftny other river in the^ ? An\y: Papa, dear, M>| he loves we ground I wall No doubt, !&y daughter. Yc1 wants the t?atth. ? A trial cotayinces tho mostl Carefully prcp?ied, pleasant to tl_ Do Witt's C?ugnVum Consumption Curo is a valuable remltty. Wilhite ?fc W?hltet ? The mother oVft Kansas City baby is 17 years old, its gTJ^tanother S3, and its great-grand-motht iaT^jt 52. They all reside in the same hi ? Somebody estimate^ an average about $4,000^ till grown. This is rather ly when we remember tbat a? are not worth 5u cents a dozef job is finished. ? What measures are you stop that cough? Let us sugge Witt's Cough and Consumption is infallible. Wilhito & Wilhite. ? "Sea that fellow^over "Yes." "He has married fifty on women, and never lived with one of them." "The wretch." "But it's business." "To marry so raany women ?" ' "Certainly. He's a minister." ? "Feller spoke disrespectfully of my sister; said hs bet she was cross-eyed, and I sailed in." "Is your sister cross-r~"' eyed?" inquired tHa reporter. "Hain't got no siaiw," was the reply. "It was the principle of the thing what I got licked for." ? It is an established fact, that De Witty Little Early Riser's have an onormoutf"^ sale, and why ? Siniply because they are plcsant in taking and happy in results. A ' pill for tho multitude. Wilhito <fc Wilhite. ? As soon a.-. ^ L. Sullivan fimarlea his present engagemeut he will try the Keeley Cure for intemperance at Dwight, III. Sullivan says he believes the liquor habit is a disease, and he is in earnest about trying the new remedy. ? A little girl, very much excited, rushed into the parlor, which was fall of company, and exclaimed: "Jf am ma, just think of ii!" "Think of what, darling?" ?'Our cat has a whole lot of twins, and-1 dident even know she was married." .; ? "An honest pill is the noblest work of the apothecary." Do Witt's Little. Early Risers curo constipation, blllious ne3s and sick headache. Wilhite <fc Wil? hite. ? A Zulu prince, the youngest son of j King Cetowa Tetowa, is an interesting; figure on tho streets of St. Louis. The j prince is a slat wart young man, weighing 18G pounds, with a face of a rich copper hue and curly red hair. He is one of twenty one children, his father possess-J ing tho grand luxury of forty wives. ? The scheme of the reform adminis tration to raise tho assessment of &\ property to its selling price will fa heaviest on the landholders. The m| whose land is now assessed at $4,and] an acre will feel the burden when the price is raised to $12 or $16. If Tillman'a plan is carried out the tax on land and work animals will be increased 30 to CO' per cent.?Carolina Spartan. ? Ignorance of the merits of Do Wltf a Little Early Risers is a misfortune. These little pills regulate the liver, cure head? ache, dyspepsia, bad breath, constipation and biliousness. Wilhite <fc Wilhite. ? A new method of boiling eggs, without either fire or hot water, has been_ invented by a Frenchman. "In a liftle iron vessel of some kind," reads the re? cipe, "put your egg or eggs with a small piece of quicklime. By means of a stoat string lower this into the bottom of apitTv Two minutes later pull it up and you will discover your eggs to be cooked to a turn." ? There is one French custom we should like to see introduced into the United States and become universal. In France, when a funeral passes, every man raises his hat to salute it. The deceased person may have been a child, a.pauper or a beggar; it is no matter, the cortege*""" is saluted by every man, whether he bo prince, millionaire or mendicant. It is a good and lovely custom. ? Our experience covers maay ills, many pills and many bills. Otfr ills are smaller, our pills are smaller and ourbUlo aro smaller when wc use Do Witt's Littls Early Risers. Wilhite & Wilhite. ?A horse in the Boston police depart? ment is getting up a reputation for hos? pitality. 'When one of the officers leaves his horse in the same stable and fastens him near by, the other horse picks up hay and forces it through the iron grat? ing of his stall for his guest to eat. He ? began to show his hospitality about a year ago, and h:.s continued it twice a day ever since. ? A man, while fishing, suddenly fell into the water. A fellow fisherman of benevolent aspect promptly helped him out, laid him ou his back and then began to scratch his head in a puzzled way. "What's the matter?" asked the bystanders. "Why don't you revive him?" "There are sixteen rules to re? vive drowned persons," said the benevo? lent man, "and I know 'em all; but can't call to mind which comes first." At this point the rescued man opened his eyes and said faintly: "Is there anything about giving brandy in the rules ?\^ "Yes." ?'Then never mind tho other fif? teen." ? A citizen of Beaver, Ta., suing for a divorce, brings against his wife the charge of having thrown a dish of fried eggs at him. Surely the man must be unreasonable. How does he like to have his leggs when they aro thrown at him? Tne usual missile form Of eggs must be distinctly more severe t?|g are fried eggs. Of course he may not like to have eggs in that shape thrown at him. 3! people share in that aversion. A womai who fires fried eggs at her husband is certainly too emphatic, but why i.his_ prejudice against fried eggs? Does man prefer to have a stove lid or flati shot at him ? Sonic pec-pic are han please. Syrup ol Figs. Produced from the laxativoand nntri cious juice of California iig*, combines with tho medicinal virtues of plants known to In most beuoiicial tu the hu? man system, act?s gently, on the kidneys, liver and bowels, effectually cleansing th Bystem, dispelling colds and hcadach and curing habitual coirsrtpation. omanV nd is this es thjA 4