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BY GLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 37 tF AS. JP. GOSSETT ?5fc CO. have the ezoloaive agency for E, P, REED & CO'S. I?A3>IES' FINE SHOES In the City of Anderson, s. o. Alii Goods sold by them of the above make are warranted by the Manulactu rers,imd are sold under a gna:r*ntee to the consumers. ... L?dies will do well to call and examine them, and they will be pleased, as JA?. IV 60S8BTT & CO- have the finest we make. i> MwchlO, 1892 J. T. BRINKLEY, SOUTHERN TRAVELING SALESMAN. 86 4 wek|avi again applied tu raps, AND THE f BICES OF HEAVY WINTER BOOTS AND SHOES ABE CUT LOWER. We must make room for Spring Gooda. Gome and get a REAL BARGAIN. JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO., Wholesale and Retail Boots and 8hoesy " Anderson, S. G, under Hotel Chiqnola. THE AS BEEN STRUCK. in Half! t tfVA fi h Goods to be Closed to make room for Spring stock. THESE ARE FACTS, we want yon to come and see for yourself and get some of the WE A?? OFFERING. Bon't delay, but come while the good things are going. ?ney saved is money made. W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Hext to Masonic Temple. WAITED! AGS, HytfSS and BEESWAX by PEOPLES & B?ERISS, at good prices. SECOND HAND STOVES An good or better than most of the new ones now offered yon, which we are offering a low price. We hope yon will be?r in mind that we deal in? Tin, China Crockery, Glassware, And EVERYTHING in the House Famishing line, and at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, tben come to see tut and you will be convinced. TIN ROOFING. GRAVEL BO0FXNG and GUTTERING, Promptly done by experienced men. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS.. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 11 DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CLOTHING BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you igni. Give us a call. Yours truly, Mm BROWN & SONS* TflA?HDRS'CoLUMN, -Se^ All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to 0. WARD LAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. 0. ?EMORY GEM8. "Oh, the*wasted hours of life that have drifted by; Oh, the good we might have done, loat without a sigh 1" "Be ashamed to die until you have gained some victory for humanity." TEACHEBS' ASSOCIATION. The Anderson Connty Teachers' Associ? ation will meet in the Court House, at this pl&oe, on the 19th of March, at 10 o'clock a- m. The following programme has been arranged: The Reading Chart and how to use it, by Miss L. C. Hubbard. The Arithmetic Chart and how to use it, by Miss Lizzie H. Anderson. - The Anderson Connty Teachers' Associ? ation?it's work and how to accomplish it, by Mr. J. W. Galnee. The profession of the teachers-how to secure for it a just appreciation and dig nttytby Prof. J.B. Watkins. All subjects will be open for discussion by the Association after opened by those, assigned. Every teacher Is earnestly so? licited to be present. C. WabdlAw, President. We have received answers to the ques? tions asked' from set era} pupils of the Walker-McElmoyle Bchool, taught by Miss Olivia Newton. They give a very fall and accurate account of the Wars, and bring oat well the moral of the Two Crabs." We v/iah we bad space for the letters. The following are the names of the writers: Misses May Johnston, Lucia Mai Unix, Annie Kay, Marie Richardson, and Masters Mac. Martin md W. ?. Johnston. _. MEANDEEINGS. ? The schools in Pendleton District are all lagood hands and are doing very sat? isfactory work. Daring our visits to these schools we were accompanied by Messrs. S. L. Eskew and W. A. Q. Mc Whorter, two of the Trustees of the Dis? trict. Mr. Bo wen, the other Trustee, would no doubt have joined us, but failed to get the notice of our visits in time. We regret that he was not with us, for any one would have been greatly encour* cged by what we saw and heard. It was fine weather for work, but the Trustees laid aside their work at home and joined us in our official work. We first visited the female school in Pendleton, taught by Miss Nannie Hood. Here we found a bevy of charming and interesting lasses, with a teacbur, judging from the order in the school room while we were present and Che recitations of the classes, who ia doing as good and effi? cient work as could be desired. The algebra and arithmetic classes made a very fine showing?one with which the Trustees and School Commissioner were entirely satisfied and very much gratified. In fact, we were satisfied with the whole work as far as we saw it. We next visited the school at Zion Church, taught by Mitts Mamie Warren. There were fifty pupils present in this school during our visit, who presented a most inviting field for work. The teacher is one who had given entire satisfaction in her work, and the showing the pupils made while we were there displayed the careful training of a competent teacher. The only thing we diolike about this school is that it is soon to close. The term is too short. We trust the patrons will reconsider and continue for at least three months. longer. The last three months will give the best results. It is a great pity to stop the school with forty or mure eager pupils, who have made such a fine start. They seem to under? stand- what thoy tave gone over, and are quick to catch a new thought. At Deep Creek school we found Miss Mamie Bailey with not so many pupils, but a sufficient number to furnish plenty of work. She presides over the school with the ease and dignity of a veteran teacher. She had perfect order during our visit, and what we' heard and saw convinced us that the patrons have not made a mistake in employing Miss Bai? ley. Besides we heard some of them say they were delighted with her. Her life, example and influence in a community la worth a great deal. The recitations and examinations , in our presence did credit to the teacher. On letf^ig this school we proceeded to Sandy Springs, where we found Mrs. Anna Darracotl, who is perfectly at home in a school room. We spent some time in this school, during which we got a general view of the work that is being done* Of course everybody who knows the teacher regards her as a good teacher, and they are not deceived. The progress of her pupils demonstrates this trnth. Mr. A. B. Riley is the pedagogue at Denver. He is a graduate of the South Carolina College, and is one of the most scholarly teachers in the County. We did not see very much of his work among the clauses, but we were pleased with what we saw. Mr. Riley has a wider range in his work than most teachers in the rural districts. He has several ad? vanced classes. We are glad to see this, and we hope to Bee more of the pupils in country schools studying the higher branches. We were present during the reading of several compositions, heard several recitations, with all of which we were very much pleased. This is a more important work than most pupils think it is. It tenches us how to put into use what we learn in some of our other stud? ies. In Centerville District we visited the Hunter's Spring and Ne* Prospect schools. The former is presided over by Mrs. 0. 0. Burrias, who is thorough as a teacher and exemplary as a disciplina? rian. She rules her school bo quietly and yet so well. (Mr. William Eskew was with us at this school and at New Prospect.) Mrs. BurriBs is fully up with the best methods, and her classes show this fact. She insists upon an intelligent expression of every example on the black board, and of answers to questions. We like her methods, and we were very much cleaned with her work in every particular. - > Mr. Pinson is the teacher at New Proa* pect. He lias a very interesting school, in which are more than the usual per cent of larger boys and girls. This we were very glad to see. WearealwayB pleased to see the larger boys and girls interested in getting an education. We know how to sympathize with them, and we do hope they will not relax their efforts until they have obtained a good education. It is worth striving for, and efforts put forth in securing it, are any? thing else bat lost. The teacher seems to understand the work, and to enter heartily into it. The order in the school room during onr visit was very good, in? deed, and we were pleased with the reci? tations the.t we witnessed. We visited, while in Pendleton, the colored school tanght by Rachel E. Rob? inson. She has taught in this County for years, and has the reputation of being a good teacher. We think ehe deserves this reputation. Her work is satisfactory, so far as we could gather. Oiled Bearings tc Go. An entirely new industry is about to be established in Philadelphia, which promiees to be an important factor in all manufacturing industries. It propose* to do away with oil as a lubricator for ma? chine and other bearings and substitute a material to be known as fibre-graphite. A large plant, covering eight acres, will be erected west of Nicetown, at the in? tersection of the Port Richmond branch of the Reading, and the Germantown and Chestnut Hill branch of the Penn? sylvania railroad. The concern will be known as the Holmes Fibre-Graphite Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $10,000,000, divided into 10,000 Bbares of full paid, non assessable stock, at a par value of $100 each. A temporary factory is now in opera? tion at Nicetown, where orders for fibre graphite bearings are being executed. An exhibit of these bearings was seen in operation yesterday at No. 123 North Fifth street They are now also being1 used by the Philadelphia Traction Com? pany, and are giving every satisfaction. Fibre-graphite is a solid, self-sustain? ing and self-lubricating substance adapted to all forms of bearings for re* volving and sliding surfaces of machin? ery. It is usually moulded into exact form for obo, but may be easily turned, bored, planed or sawed into special shapes. All attempts heretofore made to com? press graphite, so as to permit the solidi? fied material being worked and made into the form necessary for use as a lining for journal bearings or other sliding surfaces, and so do away with the use of oil, have been successful up to the time of Mr. Holmes' invention. He has succeeded in avoiding the intermixture of graphite with materials which are injurious to its anti-frictional qualities or detrimental to the sliding surface witb which it comes in contact. A curious and valuable property of this material is developed in the first few turns of a new shaft in fibre graphic bearings. Tbe material imparts to the shaft an exceediegly thin coating of its substance, which fills all the interstices with its own anti-friction particles. The journal itself is, therefore, protected against wear, and no further perceptible detonation occurs either on the journal or tbe bearing. Danger from fire originating by and through bot boxes is done away witb. The interest taken in the invention by tbe insurance company's officers attests' its great value in relation to fire risks. The cost of insurance will be largely, re? duced in establishments equipped with fire-graphite bearings ?Philadelphia Be cord. >_ Five Lady Physicians. Atlanta turned out five lady doctors this morning. Mrs R. S. Barret, wife of the rector of St. Luses Episcopal church, was one ef them. Tbe other graduates were: Ida H. Bishop, of Texas,- Mrs. Ada Smith, of Indiana; Mitis Bertha Scheid, of Illinois; Miss Jennie Brush, of Texas. The following ladies received certifi? cates as trained nurses. Miss Mary Leonard, of Michigan; Mrs. H, J. K. Thomas, of Florida. There were no addresses by the grad? uates, because it was thought best not to submit tbe ladies to any criticism for making public speeches. Dr. Pitteoger, of Raleigh, N. C, open? ed tbe exercises with prayer. Addresses were made by Rev. TnllinB C. Tupper, rector of St. Philip's Episco? pal church, and Dr, A. G. Thomas, pres? ident of the college. Mrs. W. J. Northern is president of the board of directors and Mrs. Dr. Barrett is secretary, Tbe other direc? tors are: Mrs. Hugh Inman, Mrs. R. B. Bullock, Mrs. A. B. Steele, Mrs. W. M. Dickinson, Mrs. W. A. Hempbill, Mrs. G. Thomas and Mrs. J. W. Stone. The past year has been a most suc? cessful one in every way with the col? lege. The five lady doctors are very proud of their diplomas.?Atlanta Journal. ? We've heard of a woman who said she'd walk five miles to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce'? Favorite Prescription if Bhe couldn't get it without. That woman had tried it. And it's a medicine which makes itself felt in toning up the system and correcting irregularities as soon as its use is begun. Go to your drug store, pay a dollar, get a bottle and try it?try a sec? ond?a third if necessary. Before the third one's been taken you'll know there is a remedy to help you. Then you will keep on and a cure will come. But if yon shouldn't feel the help, should be disap? pointed in the results?you'll find a guar antee printed on the bottle wrapper that will get your money beck for you. How many women are there who'd rather have the money than health ? and "Favorite Prescription" produces health. Wondor is that there's a woman willing to suffer when there's a guaranteed reme? dy in the nearest drug store. -o Dr. Pierce's Pellets regulate the Stom? ach, Liver and Bowels. Mild and effec? tive. ? A colored man took an oath in a Kansas Court the other day that he was 170 years old. BILL ABP'S LETTE?. The Sage Smoftng the Pipe of Peace. I love to meet a nabor, and hear him say, "how's craps ?" I continue to like farmin'. I like it better and better, ex* cept that the wheat Is somewhat doubtful about making a crap. A little long bug with a tail at both ends has got in the joints and sucked the sap out, and it's fallin' down in patches. Looks like there's always Bometbin' prayin' on sometbin', and nothin' is safe from dis? aster in this sublunary world. Flies and bngs and rust play on the green wheat. Weavils eat it up when it's cut and put away. Bats eat the corn, moles eat the goobers, hawks eat the chickens; the minks killed three of our ducks in one night, cholera kills the hogs, and the other night one of my nabor's mules come along with the blind staggers and fell np a pair of seven steps right into my front gate and died without kickin'. Then there is briars and nettles and thread Bafts and smart weed and poison oak and Spanish needles and cucklebure and dogfennel and snakes, that's always in the way on a farm and must be looked after keerfully, especially snakes, which are my eternal horror, and I shall always believe are some kin to the devil himself. I can't tolerate such long insects, but we farmers have to take the bad with the good, and there is more good than bad with me up to the present time. I wonder if Harris ever saw a packsad die. Well it's as putty as a rainbow, just like most of all the devil's contrivances, and when you crowd one of 'em on a fod? der blade yon'd think that forty yaller jackets had stung you all in a bunch and with malice aforethought, and there's the devil's . race horse, which flies around about this time, and, Uncle Isam says, chaws terbakker like a gentleman, and if he spit in you eye, you'd go blind in half a second. And one day he showed me a devil's darning needle which winds up the old fellow's stockings, and the devil's an a ff box which explodes when you mash it, and one ounce of the stuff inside will kill a sound mule before he can lay down. Then there's some flowers that he wears in his button hole called the devil's shoestring and the devil in-the bush. I like farmin'. It's an honest, quiet life, and it does me so much good to work and get all over in a sweat of perspira? tion. I enjoy my humble food and my repose, and get up every morning re? newed and rejuvenated like an angel in its flight, or words to that effect. I know I shall like it more and more, for we have already passed over the Bubicon and are beginning to reap the rewards of industry. Spring chickens have got ripe and the hens keep bloomin' on. Over two hundred now respond to my old/ 'omon's call every morning, as she totes aroun' the bread tray, a singin' "teheeky, teheeky, teheeky." I tell you she watches those birds close, for she knows the value of 'em. She was raised a Methodist, she was, and many a time has watched through the crack of the door, sadly, and seen the preachers helped to the last gizzard in the dish. There was fifty four chickens, seven docks, five gos? line, twelve turkeyB and seven pigs hatched out last week, and Daisy bad a calf and Molly a colt besides. This looks like business, don't it ? This iB what I call successful farmin'?multiply in' and replenishin' according to scripture. Then we have a plenty of peas and potatoes and other garden yarbs which help the poor man out, and by the 4th of July will have wheat bread and biscuit and blackberry pies and pass a regular decla? ration of independence. I like farmin'. I like latitude and longitude. When we were penned up in town my children couldn't have a sling? shot, nor a bow and arrow, nor a chicken fight, in the back yard, nor sick a dog on another dog, nor let off a big Injun whoop without some nabor makin' a fuss about it. And then again there was a show or a dance or a bazar or a mission? ary meeting most every night, and it looked like the children were jest a'bleedged to go or the world would come to an end. It was money, money, money all the time. But now there iBn't a store or a milliner's shop within five miles of us, and we do our own work, and have learned what it costs to make a bushel of corn and a barrel of flour, and by the time Mrs. Arp has nursed and raised a lot of chickens and turkeys she thinks so much of 'em she don't want us to kill 'em, and they are a heap fatter and better than any we used to buy. We've got a great big fire-place in the family room, and can boil the coffee or heat a kettle of water on the hearth if we want to, for we are not on the lookout for company all the time like we used to be. Wc aon't cook half as much as we used to, or waste a whole parcel every day on the darkies, and we eat what is set before us and are thankful. It's a wonder to me that everybody don't go to farmin'. Lawyers and doc? tors have to set about town and play checkers and talk politics and wait for somebody to quarrel or ficht or get sick; clerks and book-keepers jure and mul? tiply and count until they get to count? ing the stars, and the flies on the ceiling, and the peas in the dish, and the flowers on the papering; the jeweler sils by his window all the year round, working on a little wheel, and the mechanic strikes the same kind of a lick every day. These people do not belong to themselves, tbey are all penned up like convicts in a J chaingang, for they are the servants of their employers. There is no profession that gives a man such freedom, such lat? itude, and such a variety of employment as farming. While I was raminatin' this morning a boy come along and said the dogs bad treed something down in the bottom. So me and my boys shouldered the gnns and an ax, and took Mrs. Arp and the chil? dren along to see the sport. We cut down a hollow gum tree, and caught a possum and two squirrels and killed a rabbit on the run, and bad a good lime generally, with no loss on our side. We can stop work most any time to give welcome to a passing friend and have a little chat, and our neighbors do the same by us; if you go into one of these factories or workshops or even a printing office, the first sign board that meets you says, "don't talk to the workman." So? ciable crowd, ain't it? There's no monotony upon the farm. There's something new every day and the changing work brings into action every muscle in the human frame. We plow and hoe, and barrow and sow, and gather it at harvest time. We look after the horses and cows, the pigs and sows, and the rams and the lambs, and the chickens and the turkeys and geese. We cut our own wood, raise our own bread and meat, and don't have to be stingy of it like city folks. A friend who visited us not long ago writes back from town that his grate don't seem bigger than the crown of j his hat, sines be Bat by our great big friendly fireplace. But they do get the joke on me some? times. For you see I am farming ac? cording to schedule, and it don't always make things exactly luminous. For in? stance, it is said that cotton seed was an excellent fertilizer. Well I had 'em and as they was a clean and nice thing to bandle I put 'em under most everything in my garden. I was runin' inyun Bets heavy, and one morning went out to pe? ruse 'em and I saw the straight track of a big mole under every one of 'em. He had just histed 'em all up about three inches. He hadn't eat nary one, and thinks I to myself "he's just goin' 'round smellin' of 'em." Next morning all my sets were settin' about six inches up in the air right on top of the thickest stand of cotton you ever did see. It would have been more luminous. However, I knifed down, and set the inyuns back again, and nobody ain't got a finer crop. It's a great comfort to me to set in my piazza these pleasant evenings and look over the farm, and smoke the pipe of] peace, and ruminate. Ruminate upon the rise and fall of empires and parties and presidents and preachers. I think when a man has passed the Rubicon of j life and seen his share of trouble, smok? ing is allowable, for it kinder reconciles him to live on a while longer, and pro? motes philosophic reflections. I never knowed a high tempered man to be fond of it. It may be a mistake, but it seems to me a little higher grade of happiness to look out upon the green fields of wheat and the leading trees and the blue mountains in the distance, 10 hear the dove cooing to her mate, the whip poor will sing a welcome to the night, and to hunt flowers and bubby blossoms with the children, and make whistles for 'em and bear 'em blow, and see 'em get after a jumping frog or a garter snake, and bunt hens' nests, and paddle in the branch and get dirty and wet all over, and watch their penitent and subdued expressions when they go home, and Mrs. Arp looks at 'em with amazement, and exclaims: "Mercy on me, did ever a poor mother have such a set? Will I ever get done making clothes? Put these on right clean this morning, and not another clean rag in the house." Go get me a switch, right straight, go! I will not stand it I" But she will stand it, and they know it, espe? cially if I remark, "Yes they ought to be whipped." That saves 'em and by the time the switch comes, the tempest is over, and some dry clothes are fonnd, and if there is any cake in the house they get it. Blessed mother I Fortunate children I What would they do without her? Why her very scolding is music in their tender ears. I am thankful that there are some things that corner in the domestic circle that Wall street cannot buy, nor money kings depress. Bill Arp. Old DIgby Yielded. Young Toddleby was a true-hearted and promising youth. He had graduated with honor at Yale, and was studying law with Mr. Lofter. It so happened that Tuddleby became acquainted with a beautiful young lady, daughter of old Digby. He loved the fair maiden, and when he had reason to believe that his love was returned, he asked Mr. Lofter to recommend him to the father, Lofter being on terms of close intimacy with the family. The law? yer agreed and performed Li a mission, but old Digby, who loved money, asked what property the young man had. Lofter said he did not know but would inquire. The next time he saw the young stu? dent be asked him if he bad any prop? erty. "Only, health, strength and a determi? nation to work," replied the youth. "Well," said the lawyer, who sincerely believed the student was in every way worthy, "Jet us see. What will you take for your right leg? I will give you $20, 000 for it Toddleby." Of course Toddleby refused. The next lime the lawyer saw the young lady's lather he said : "I have inquired about this young man's circumstances. He has no money in bank, but he owns a piece of property for which, to my certain knowledge, he has been offered and has refused $20,000." This led old Digby to consent to the marriage which shortly after took'place. Ia the end be bad reason to be proud of his son in-law, though he was once heard to remark touching that very rare piece of property, upon the strength of which he had consented to the match : "If it could not take wing?i, it wa3 lia? ble at any time to walk off I" State of Ohio, Oity of Toledo, ) Lucas County, } 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 Catarrh that can uot be cured by the use of Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and eubscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D.1886. A. W. GLEASON, j seal j Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for list of testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. B6L,Sold by Druggists, 75c. ? Ten days per annum is the average amount of sickness in human life, ON A SPONGING VESSEL, How an Important Industry of Florida Is Conducted. The life of a sailor is arduous under the I most favorable conditions, but it is usual? ly so among that classs known on vessels I engaged in gathering sponges as "book? ers." I These are men who search the depths of the sea with water glasses for the ma? rine growths so essential in surgery and pharmacy, and pull tbem from their rocky fastnesses with three-pronged grappling irons. Tbeir companions, the "scullers," may find their daily labor toilsome in very hot weather, owing to the incessant movement of their arms from sunrise to sunset, bat tbeir work cannot compare I with that of the "bookers" in w?ari ness. Active life on a sponging vessel begins about 3 a. m., in fine weather, all hands I being then called by the cook to prepare for the labor of the day. After the men have dressed and washed, coffee, hot as it can -be drunk, is served to them in any quantity they want, and when that is disposed of they torn their attention to mending any oars, poles or boats that may need repairing. Breakfast is served about dawn, and finished before it's light enongh to begin the work of the day. In summer the men are often in their boats at half-past 4 a. m., and searching for sponges as soon as they have light enough to distinguish one species from another. Two men work in each boat, and while one sails it the "hooker" lies on his chest near the bow and closely scans the depths below through his water glass. This ap? paratus consists of an ordinary wooden pail with a piece of glass in the bottom. It is kept as deeply buried in the water as the "hooker" can keep it with one hand without potting its rim under. The sea being usually clear the man can descry.sponges fifty feet below him, and, if he is experienced, can distinguish i the various species at a glance, each hav? ing some peculiarity of eye or form to mark it from its congeners. / On noticing a valuable sponge the "hooker" signals or calls to the "seniler ' to stop the boat, then takes hold of the long, iron-pronged pole which lies in "chocks" beside him, lifts it over his shoulder with the right hand and sinks it to where the marine growth he desires is fastened. If the - prongs get under the sponge the "hooker" gives his wrist a peculiar inward and upward turn which may loosen the bunch immediately, or he may have to work it a long time before bringing it to the surface. Much of his success depends on the experience and deterity of the "sculler," for unless the latter can get the boat into the best position for effective work the "hooker" may waste mnch of his time and strength on a refractory spooge or be forced to leave it below. The poles used for gathering sponges vary from eighteen to forty-four feet in length, and while pliable and well bal? anced are difficult to handle in tideways and deep water. They are generally placed in "chocks," lengthwise the boat, about five feet of them being in front of the "hookers." These men must, there? fore, lift the remainder over their shoul? ders by main strength, raise the farther end almost perpendicularly in the air, and send the hooked end down to the sponges as promptly and directly as they can. When the men are working in water varying from six to eight fathoms the "scullers" generally aid the "hookers" in' getting the poles into the water by lifting ' the rear ends as high as possible until the men in front can push them down far enough to control tbeir movements without help. The long poles are "leaded" at the prongs to facilitate their descent and to hold tbem steady in the water. It re? quires unusual strength to handle these j grapplers promptly and few "bookers" could do it without the help of the "scullers." It would nevertheless be an insult to a "hooker" to have a "sculler" attempt to aid him with any pole less than thirty-two feet in length or to offer his services in pulling an obstinate sponge from its bed. Each grade has cer i tain ideas about its dignity and the cour? tesies due it which the other mast respect if its pretensions would be recognized ia , retarn. For a "scalier" to attempt to as? sist a "hooker" with any pole less than than thirty-two feet in length is a gross violation of these courtesies, and not to attempt it with one over that length is also a violation of the sponger's unwrit? ten code of ethics. When a sponge is torn from its home and friends it is placed in its natural po? sition in the boat to allow the blackish fluid called "gurry" to flow away and to prevent the bunch from being injured in shape and texture, for shape has mach to do with its sale, the roundest and moat even bringing the highest price. Spongers usually work with the tides and take every advantage they can of currents and shoals. Each crew may work a whole day without getting more than a few bunches; then again tbey may fill the boat in a comparatively short time with the best species known in the trade, the sheepswool. Such good fortune as that elates them until they are almost insane with joy, for it means a speedy return to port and handsome fi? nancial returns for tbeir labor. As soon as a boat is loaded, the sculler lifts an oar as a signal to his vessel to come up, but if she is far away the oar is surmounted by a hat or decorated with a shirt to make It more distinct, The cook, who has charge of the ves3el while the crew are at work, promptly re sponds to the signal, and on coming up to the boat receives its load aboard, each bunch being carefully placed face upwards along the railing. The sponge gatherers then regale themnelvea with a cup of hot coffee and hasten back to their labor, for every moment seems precious to them, and there is much rivalry between the crews as to which can make the beet showing for the day. The cook is kept busy aboard the ves? sel, for he must not only prepare the meals and arrange the sponges on deck, but he must also sail his craft in such a manner that he will he able to keep in sight of ail his crews, which may num? ber from two to nine, and respond promptly to their signals of "boat full; take us aboard." About 12 o'clock the chief sails his craft as close as he can to the center of the widely scattered boat crews and blows a long, loud and mellow blast on a punc? tured couch shell to announce that dinner is ready. This melodious call is answer? ed by an immediate cessation of work and within fifteen minutes every boat's crew is aboard. After washing them? selves carefully they sit down to an appe? tizing meal, for the storeroom of the ves? sel is well stocked with a variety of food, which is often increased by some deli? cious fresh fish, green turtle or oysters procured by the men themselves while at work. ' The assortment of provisions on a "sponger" is even better than that of the New England "mackerelman," and is said to be superior to that of the officers' mesa aboard a German or Italian man-of war. The sponge gatherers usually spend an I hour at their meal and, at a signal from the captain, jump into their boats and row or sail for the working grounds as enthusiastically as so many school boys, especially if the marine treasures they seek are plentiful. The labor of the af? ternoon is similar to that of the morning, and is comprised ia sculling, "hooking," or in vain efforts to find marketable sponges. The "sculler" only usas one hand at a time and can rest that at intervals, but the "hooker" can have no change except to transform one form of arduous labor from his chest to his arm, and as that is done by the same set of muscles he is of? ten so weary at the close of the day that he can neither sleep, eat nor think calm? ly about any matter. The constant lean? ing with his chest on the gunwale of the boat while searching for sponges through the water-glass produces blood "boils," which often burst while he is tugging at a refractory bunch, and the steady use of his right arm in handling a heavy pole causes the veins on his biceps and neck to swell and become bo sore that he can? not bear to be touched. I have heard of men who became partially insane from pain after a day's work, and whose neck, arms and chest had to be rubbed with healing oilments before they could even Bit down. The torture keeps them awake all night and prevents them from eating, so that they soon succumb unless they have extraordinary powers of endurance and the health and youth to enable them to rally promptly from the first effects of the business. Some become so injured to the labor after a while that it does not cause them any great inconvenience for a few years, but the * majority have to finally relinquish it for something less ardu? ous. Even the "scullers," whose lot is sup? posed, to be an easy one, are not as hap? py as one would imagine, for their con? stant standing in the hot sun, and the us? ing of their arms, give them severe head? aches and necks and faces that resemble boiled lobsters in hue. The spongers work as long as it is light enough to enable them to sea the growths on the bottom, then return to the vessel, and, after cleaning themselves, sit down to an excellent meal, well prepared. If the vessels anchor on the sponge grounds for the night the men devote the evening to card playing, singing or story? telling, seldom "turning in" before ten or eleven o'clock. Yet they are out of bed the next morning before the ear? liest aea bird. Their life may be arduous, b?? it has many compensations, not the least of which are good food, comfortable quarters and tbe prospects of high pay if the sea sou ia at ail favorable. The vessels en? gaged in sponge gathering in Florida work over three separate long stretches close to tbe western and southwestern coasts of tbe State. The most northern grounds extend from Cedar Key to Apa lachee Bay; the second from Cedar Key to Anclote, and tbe third from Biscay ne Bay to Key Weat. The best grounds range from five to fif? teen miles from tbe mainland, and have a depth of water varying from two to seven fathoms. This proximity of the grounds to harbors of refuge make spong? ing comparatively safe, even in tbe stor? miest weather, for I have never yet beard of a sponge vessel being lost while on the sponge grounds. Only six grades of sponges are known in Florida, but tbe Babaman product is divided into fifteen, although it is the same as that of the Land of Flowers, which is now the best known. Individual Dislikes. I hate to see a man chewing tobacco while he is whipping his boy for smok? ing. I bate to see a man with a suspicious breath boant of his temperance princi? ples. I bate to see a man always talking about how much he loves everybody and never do anything to help any? body. I bate to see a man always talking about what a happy place heaven is and doing nothing to make his home re? semble it. I hate to see a prominent church member slipping into a butcher shop to buy something for breakfast on Sunday morning. I hate to see a man remember every? thing the clown said twenty years ago and forget everything the preacher said lust Sunday morning.? Barn's Horn. Bncklcns Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, 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? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The word "mortgage" ought to be defined by its literal meaning: "Mort" meana death, and "gage" means grip, the two together meaning death grip. All Sorts Of Paragraphs. ? It is said that while 23,000 Ind? can read English, only 10,000 can r? their own language. ? Franklin says that the rich wide are the only second-hand goods that sell at prime cost. ? There is a pesch tree near Jeffer Pa., whose branches spread out tbij feet in one direction and thirty-one] another. ? Bread in a good state of preservat has been nneartbed in Pompeii recenj in the new rooms uncovered by the plorers. ? Leprosy is increasing to an alarm! extent in Spain. In one village there eight families, every member of wbi has the dread disease. ? If doll, spiritless and stupid; if yc blood is thick and sluggish; if your petite is capricious and uncertain, ~ need a Sarsaparilla. For best results De Witt's.-Wilhite and Wilhite. ? The oldest couple ever married] Iowa have joined hands at Jeffer The groom, George Thistler, is 76, at the bride, Sallie Barton, 71. ? The largest umbrella in the wor was recently made for an African klo] It was 21 feet in diameter and was; ed to a staff of the sane length. ? A little boy was asked by a Sundaj school teacher why a certain part of Church was called the altar. "Becat it is where people change tbeir names] he promptly answered. ? "Late to bed and early to rise shorten the road to your home in skies." But early to bed rind a "Lit Early Riser," the pill that makes li longer and better and wiser.?Wilhile3 Wilhite. ! ? Too many young people depend their fathers' money taking thee through this world and their mother prayers making everything all right them in the next. ? Lancaster County, in Pennsylvani grows more tobacco than any othe County in the United States. The crojl grown there in 1889 amounted to 19 217]) 800 pounds. ? An experienced dealer in watebe says he has known many men who have] tried to wind tbeir watches every mor ing instead of at night, bnt he has ne<s known one to succeed. ? Wo trnly believe De Witt's Lit Early Risers to be the most natural, mc effective, most prompt and economic pill for billiousnoss, indigestion and in?; active liver.?Wilhite <fc Wilhite. ? An engineer on the Missouri Paci has invented a coat of mail so contrive that when a man i3 held up by robl he can discharge a revolver while bot of bis hands are coniined above hi head. ? This has been a terrible winter for] stock on the Idaho ranges. Thousand*! of animals are dead, and the stockmen! eay that owing to recent heavy snows! there is no possible Lope for the remain-j der. ? Bright people are the quickest .*-p re-J cognize a good thing and buy it. We sell! lots of bright people the Little Early RI-S sers. If you are not bright these pills Will j make you so.?Wilhite <fc Wilhite. ? An absent-minded woman in Toron? to carried her husband's pants to Church] instead of a shawl, and didn't notice it I until she threw them over the back of the ? pew. That's what she gets for not bring-] ing her husband in them. ? Often the most aseful Christians] are those who serve their Master in. | little things. He never despises the of small things, or else he would hide bis oaks in tiny lcorns, or wealth of a wheat field in bags of little-j seeds. ? It is a fixed and immutable law th to have good, sound health one must h a1 pure, rich and abundant blood. Theve is J no shorter nor surer route than by a I course of De Witt's Sarsaparilla.?WOhito 1 & W?hlte. ? "Sal,," cried a girl looking out of the upper window and addressing a small girl who was trying to enter at the front door, "we've all been to camp meetin' and got converted; and so when; you want milk on Sunday you'll have come around to the back door." ? A tramp applied to a lady for workj. i and was given some carpets to beat, He j did the job so well that she commended him for it. "You must have beaten car? pets frequently to be such an expert," she said. "Never beat a carpet afore in j my life, lady; I've alias teacbed school," he answered promptly, ? It is a truth in medicine that the smallest dose that performs the cure is H the best. De Witt's Little Early Risers?"; are the smallest pills, will perform the oure, and are the best.?Wilhite <fc Wil? hite. ? "Do you keep corn-meal?" inquir? ed the man with the basket on his arm? "No, sir," said the grocer, "we eell it. How much do you want ?" "Did I say I wanted any?" mildly asked the man with the basket. And be went out and hunt-. J ed up another grocery where the i man wasn't quite so smart ? Congressman Bonn, of North lina, has introduced a bill providing tha any person who discovers a new pli fruit or flower, may take out a patent it, and may be entitled to royalt for its use by other people, just the i as if it were a mechanical invent Bunn may be said to. be entitled to cake. ? Early Risers, Early Risers, Risers, tbe famous little pills for cons put ion, sick headache, dyspepsia and ne vousness.?Wilhite & Wilhite. ? In family quarrels the most amiat tempered of tbe two is always the one t< make the first advances toward reconc ation, even though the other may be most in fault, which is usually the Maoy husbands think that gentlenc and soft answers in a wife indicate wc ness, when on tbe contrary, they are surest signs of strength?strength govern one's temper. ? Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, 111.;^ writes: "From personal experience I can recommend De Witt's Sarsaparilla, a cure; for impure blood and general debility."?'?'1 W?hlte & Wilhite. ? A remarkable feat was lately a'cnl crmpliehed in England?namely, tbe comple'e building of a locomotive engine and tender in a working day of ten hours.' The locomotive was begun at tbe Great ;' Eastern Company's work at Slratfcrd at nine o'clock, and was turned out com plete next day at 9.15 o'clock, a. m. The*" locomotive was a six wheel coupled en? gine and tender, weighing, in working* order, sixty seven tons. It was in foil: running order, and had been built in ten working hours. Four gangs of men we engaged ou the work, consisting in ali< eighty-fire men And bcyi,