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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 41 SEASON OF 1892. Womens,' Misses' and Childrens' Fine OXFORD TIES! Duchess, Langtry, Brighton, Elite, Souvenir, Theo, Adonis, Everett and Southern Ties. ? Juliet, Strap, House and Opera Slippers. YACHTING and LAWN TENNIS SHOES. jas. p? gossett & co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes, Anderson, S. C , under Hotel Chiqnola, THREE CHEERS FOR TARIFF REFORM A1NX> FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. THESE WILL HELP YOU, BUT CHAPMAN Will put money in your pocket if you will call and see his Goods and Prices. My'STOCK IS NOW READY FOE INSPECTION, and I ask the Trading Pablic to call and examine-my Goods before baying. My stock was bongbt with (he HARD CASH, and I have? SOME RARE BARGAINS To offer the people of Anderson, thereby aaving them money on every dollar's worth of Goods yon bay from me. To my old customers aod"friend8 I would say that I am in a better position to save them dollars and cents than ever before. My Stock of Prints is - ? ?.Fascinating. My Stock of Canton Cloth is.Beautiful. My Stock of Delhi Cloth is.Immense. 7t p My. Stock of Ginghams is.? Lonely. ?^v My Stock of Cord Du Roi is- ?. Wonderful. My Stock of Embroideries is.Surpassing. My Stock of Laces.Beats the world. jfi My Stock of Wool Dress Goods- There is none better. My Stock of Braid is.The Latest. My Stock of Shoes.Beats the World. In fact my entire Stock is pretty, Bought Cheap, and Will be sold Cheap. COME AND SEE ME. W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. WANTED! MaGS, HIDES and BEESWAX by PEOPLES & BURRISS, at good prices. SECOND HAND STOVES At gocd or better than most of the new ones now offered yon, which we are offering at a low price. We hope you will bear in mind that we deal in? Tin, China Crockery, Glassware, And EVERYTHING in the House Furnishing line, and at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elisewhere, then come to see us and you will be convinced. TIN BOOKING. GRAVEL ROOFING and GUTTERING, Promptly done by experienced men. Yours very truly, - , PEOPLES & BURRISS. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 11 m DEALERS IIV DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, . STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. i$r We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you right. Give us a call. Yours truly, E. W. BROWN & SONS. HOW TO SAVE MOM! You can Says Money by Buying your School Books and Stationery at COLLINS' BOOK STORE. A full line of School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Pictures and Picture Frame?, and other goods too numerous to mention, all at the lowest prices, PHOTOGRAPHS. My Photograph Galiery has been lately refitted with all the latest improved appara ? tus for making Pictures of all kinds, from the size of a postage stamp to life size in the finest finish. Portraits enlarged toanv size, from small pictures, at reasonable prices. Don't forget this if you want a nice Phcto. Respectfully, J. H. COLMNS. MONUMENTS ' ? and ? TOMB STONES. Hav IXG purchased the Marblo Busi? ness of the late T. M. White we aro pre? pared to supply all Marble Work prompt? ly, in good style and? AT LOWEST PEICES. Give us a call on North Main Street, by the Railroad Bridge. WHITE-& CO. Febi8B2 SI ,' Sm TEj??HE}f$'GdLUMN, -flER All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson. 8. C. memory gems. Be true to thy God, and then it must follow, as surely as the day follows the night, thou can'st not be false to thyself, thy country nor thy fellowman. "Thou shalt not tahe the name of the Lord thy Gcd in vain." We are tryiag to arrange a program for the next meeting of the County Teachers' Association. At this meeting we expect Bome very fine work, and if we can secure the services of those we now have in mind, it will certainly be worth attending. We would again express the desire that every teacher in the County would attend. The program will proba? bly appear next week. Miss Maggie Evans and Mrs. Lucile Baker have a school that is certainly doing good work. We-epent a few hours there recently and enjoyed the time very much. They bare some as bright and quick pupils aB can be found. They seem to have a comprehensive and clear idea of their work. The girls are cheerful, happy and studious. We were very much pleased with their work. We can say the atmosphere ??f our school rooms is steadily improving; it is more moral, more permeated with the real essence of Christianity; there is a stronger demand for a higher grade of men and women. It is rare to hear of a teacher involved in any disreputable act. They are better educated, using the term broadly. The people are more jealous about committing their children to the care of strangers than formerly. In the recent examination of teachers we were impressed with the clearness with which some of the applicants ex? pressed their thoughts. We noticed also that some of the applicants left out some of the questions, and frequently parts of questions. The questions were better than any we have seen since we came into office. There were some that were very searching, and of course some very simple. We trust that each applicant has looked up every answer and knows what grade the answers given justify. A new school district was established by the County Board of Examiners at their recent meeting. It will be known as school district No. 18, and includes iLe town of Pendleton, with the sur? rounding country for about three miles. The people asking for said district ex? press the purpose of establishing a high school at.Pendleton that will run for ten months in the year as a public school. We are always glad to aid in advancing the educational interests-of any commu? nity. We visited Miss Ella Todd's school not long since. This' school is just outside the corporate limits of the city. We were really surprised to see so many children in.this school. They were ac? tually crowded. This is pretty good evidence of Miss Todd'a work. Her at? tendance is constantly increasing. She has been long io the work, and we have never heard a word of complaint from her patrons. We were very much pleased with the recitations while we were pres? ent. 8 _ Mr. B. E. Nicholson, the teacher at Flat Bock, is meeting with decided sue cess in his efforts to build up a school at that place. His attendance is large, and he is doing a good work. The patrons have shown their interest in the educa? tion of their children by employing this teacher for ten months. The pupils are making good progress, and from what we could gather they like their teacher. The patron8 are also pleased. They have a good house, but rather small. It is well furnished with patent desks. We are glad to^o such genuine improve ment in the cause of education. We congratulate the people on such a Btep forward. _ . Io it possible for the teacher as he goes into the school room to have some of the "eternal verities" of human growth in his mind and at bis command ? Should not his chief ambition be to attain to un? derlying principles, and build and oper? ate on them ? Is his need, his supremest need, -that of "a way of teaching," a method, a device which must vary with each temperament ? In attempting to deal with the unseen human mind, which is undoubtedly more complex than any machine, must be not have some clear idea, bo to speak, cf its general structure of its mode of operation, of the causes tbat propel it into action ? These are but a few of the questions that will come up when the business of teaching is seriously considered. Teaching is op? erating alocg the lines of the Creator, with the Creator, for the Creator, who is above all boards of education and their commands.?School Journal. HONOR LOLL OF TOWNVILLE HIGH SCHOOL FOB MARCH, 1392. High School Department?Emma Far? mer 98 4, Mamie Harris 98 2, Annie Compton 9S.0, Grace Thompson 97.9. Lizzie Grant 97.7, Lillie Grant 97.7, Janie Benjamin 97 6, Kate Sharp 97.2, Frank Farmer 9G 4, Vandiver Sharp 9G3; J. V. Johnson 96 0, Daisy Moore 95 9, John Wright 95 8, Cheves Ligon 94.6. Emma Compton 912, Jack Harris 93.9, Alice Harris 93 7, John Sharp 93 7, Qua Grant 92 7, Edgar Farmer 91 6, Jim Granc 90 2, Burder Ligon 90.1. Primary Department?Lida Johoflon 97 3, Mary Ligon 97.0, Jim Harris 96 4, Lillie Wright 96.1, Calhoun Boggs 96.1 Willie Harris 95.7, Pearl McCariey 95 4. Dock Bo^gs 95 0, Leila Wright 94 9, Winfieid Ubarp 94 6. Zora Mt.ore 94.4. Fiuva Boggs 94.2. Coke Wright 94.2, Wayman B>egs 93 7, Clara Hunt 93 1, John Buras 91.8. Teacher, Miss Kate Holleman We belwve in compliments when they are richly merited. We have the bent girls and boys we have ever taught. This epeaTs well for our patrons, for when children are properly trained at home, they are very little or no trouble at school. The morals of the people of Townville and community are good, and this is a cheap place for those to send to school who have to board their children. J. F. Rice, Principal. PAET3 OF THE BODY. By Lizzie M. Hadley, Lowell, Mass. Bo you know wbat we think Is better than play ? 'Tis the curious lesson We've studied to-day. We've learned that the body Each one of us owns, From the head to the tnes, Is all built of bones. That some of these bones Will bend, as you know ; See our shoulders go this way, Our fingerH move so. To these places that bend Each one of us points, And we all have been told To call them onr joints. See ! I shake my head, Tben all of us bow, And tbese are our neck-joints We're using just now. I point np, and tbeu down Right and left we all go ; 'Ti? our shoulderjoiuts now We are moving you know. Our hands touch our shoulders, And sides then, so free; 'Tis elbow joints this time, We are bending you see. We turn now our bands, And shake them?so, By moving our wri?t joints. Do yon see bow they go ? We'll open our fingers And then shut thorn all, And these places tbat ic/id We finger-joints call. Then deep in each thigh, Is a hip-joint, you eee; And here is a knee-joint, , Way down in each knee. Next down near my foot Not quite to the ground? Just here In my ankles, Are ankle joints found. Are these all ? do you ask ? No, just one thing more; If you count up my toe joints You'll find them a score. We've told you the names, And what each joint can do; Of the kinds of tbe joints, ?There are only two. In each shoulder and thigh, Ball and socket joints go; . The others are hinge-joints, I'm sure we all know. ? They all show the wisdom Ol One up above, Who fashioned our bodies With tenderest love. In His word Bent to guide, We know that He tells * That o?r bodies are temple*) Where He ever dwells. Jost Pegged On. There died down in the Neosba valley not long ago a man known for miles and miles around as Old Joe Kimpton, Bays a Kansas City' paper. Old Joe came to Kansas in 1856. He brought weak lungs with him from the "ager" swamps of In? diana, but he plugged along and was ail? ing off and on for a number of years, when he was "took down" with long fe? ver. It went into quick consumption and one of his longs was gone before he knew it. The dectors gave him np and didn't think he could live through the winter. But he just plugged along and allowed he'd pull through somehow. The children were little tots then and Joe bought a bunch of calves that Bp ring and said he guessed he'd have them any? how for the children to go to school on. The doctors told him he couldn't possibly get through the next winter and he made his will. He hung around tbe house and coughed most of the time, and the chil? dren helped him about the chorea in the cold weather. He had his spells and everybody thought be would die, but Joe he just plugged along and allowed he'd pull through somehow. The next year, and the next, and the next, he bought calves and steers and pulled them through somehow. Summer afternoons he used to sit in front of the long, low farmhouse, built of addition on addition, thinking and coughing absent mindedly. He waB a Democrat, and his chief dissipation was his attendance on the Oounty conventions every year and the State conventions when they came. He got to be known as a large cattle buyer, and strangers who saw him would look and wonder which undertaker would get him. But old Joe used to take a grim delight in counting up the doctors who had given him up, and had since died of natural causes themselves. Ev? ery winter he would have his spells, and every winter he would tell tbe doctors between his coughs that he would juat plug along and pull through somehow. He had attended the funerals of ten doctors whose bills he had paid for pro? nouncing him beyond hope and for tip? toeing in the room to tell him they feared the worst. He had a bad spell last winter. They said it was the grip combined with the old cough; but old Joe Kimpaon didn't 3ay anything, though he took their medicine with tbe old re? proachful look, as if to say tbe old words. Old Joe was getting along in years when he died. He was sixty-two and most of the lime enduring constant physical Buf? fering. Yet he seldom complained. All over Lyon County and Morris County, where tbe old man was known and lived, be will be missed. His peculiar case may pass into tradition and child stories may grow from it about a kind, grim old man who couldn't die. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole f ystem, when entering it through tbe mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good yon can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &' Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is tacen internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur? faces of the system. In buying Half's Catarrh Cure be suie you get the genu? ine. It is taken internally, and made by F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. BQmSold by Druggists, 75c. Testimonial free. ? He is powerless who fights p.galnst GoJ. THE COTTON TRADE, A Snngnlne View of the Prospects of the Staple. It is believed by many well-informed dealers in cotton tbat the true solution of the Southern situation is to be found in the cheaper and cheaper'annual produc? tion of larger and larger cotton crops un? til the United States, with cotton at 4 or 5 cents a pound and ajcrop of twenty million bales, will have starved out the cotton growers of all other countries and will hold the monopoly of production for the whole world, which will keep pace with the yearly increasing consumption. The News and' Courier has been requested by one of the Charleston factors who holds these views to publish the follow? ing paper from tbe annual statement of the Memphis Merchants' Exchange, written by C. P. Hunt, of that city, on February 29: "A careful review of the movement and prices of cotton since the first of Septem? ber will, we think, furnish food for reflec? tion, not only to people directly interest ed in tbe trade, but to all those engaged in corelative and collateral pursuits. At tbe beginning of the season, or say on the first of September, 1891, middling cotton was quoted in the principal mar? kets of the world as follows: Liverpool, 43<3; New York, 8Jc; New Orleans and Memphis, 8jc. Since that date prices have continued to decline, and to-day Liverpool is quoted 3 11 16; New York, 7 1 16: New Orleans, 6}, and Memphis Oh for tbe same grade, showing an aver age decline of about two cents during the time mentioned. "That the price is very low?possibly below the cost of production?is conce? ded, and the cotton wiseacres of the world, and those most affected by the re? sult, are busily engaged, not only in solv? ing tbe cause, but in trying to find a rem? edy that will effectually cure the evil. By moBt people over-production is as? signed as the sole and only cause of tbe present deplorably low prices, and Con? ventions of merchants, planters and Al liancemen are being held all over the South for the avowed purpose of induc? ing a smaller acreage and lessening prt ductiop. "That over supply is in pan the cause of the depression we admit, but it is cer? tainly n'?f. the B'ile and only c*us<?, and, in our opinion, it has only accentuated and accelerated a decline, which tr.utt have transpired in any event In periods of great financial distress, or national or sectional disaster, those who suffer >eem satisfied to trace their misfortune to some one conducing cause, and seem to forget tbat * combination of conditions may ex? ist, h!l of which have conspired to the general result. Such, at least, in the present iustunce, seems to have been tbe case. Following four years of financial and commercial activity came the disas trous cotton season of 1890-91 Prior to that time, and beginning in the spring of 1886, there arrived a period of prosperity and buoyancy such as the world has rare? ly seen. 0?>al, iron, grain, cotton, stocks, bonds at,d real estate all participated in tbe general elation. Gigantic enterprises, speculative and commercial, were inaug? urated, and in many inbtatices successful? ly concluded. Success enthused the com? mercial and financial element to tbe ut? most verge, and speculation was rampant throughout the world. Old lines were abandoned, and new and more specula? tive methods prevailed. Foreign capital bought out the stock yards of Chicago, and the beer breweries of Milwaukee. New minea were developed in Alabama and Tennessee. Coke ovens and rolling mills were erected all through these States, and new cities sprang up from abandoned old fields as if by magic. The capital of the world wa* taxed to keep pace with its enterprise, and inflation and speculation were tbe order of the day. Even prudent, conservativeEnglish bank? ers caught tbe contagion and, no longer satisfied with a legitimate 3 aod 3 per csnt. on undoubted collateral, advanced millions of pn?nds to a wild cat South American republic on wild-cat securities and at wild cat rates. "Thus were millions of money with? drawn from the legitimate channels of trade and placed in the possession of wild gaucheros aod adventurers, who do not lend money for any purpose whatsoever. Such a condition of a flairs could have but one termination. The bubble had filled to inflation and it burst. This transpired about the beginning of 1891 and since then has ensued a period of liquidation! Coal, iron, cotton and securities of all kinds have felt the effects, and we are now Buffering 'pour cause.' Grain, owing to a famine in Europe, a big demand at high prices, and an abundant crop, has alone escaped tbe general shrinkage in values. "The decliue in cotton, superinduced by the causes mentioned above, has no doubt beeu intensified by the enormous crop and abundant supply, but to entire ly eradicate the cause of depression we must look beyond a mere question of re? duced acreHge. Tne Southern planter is fitted by nature, education and surround ings to plant but one crop to any exteut, and that is cotton. We say to him, therefore, raise all tbe grain, meat, vege? tables, etc., tbat you may need for home requirements. Place yourself absolutely independent of Northern hog and grain growers, and then plant all the cotton for market you possibly can. You have your mules, your implements and your lease? holds You know how to raise cotton, and you don't know how to produce any tning else to any marke:able extent, therefore rai-<e cotton, and rake ail you can. Eeduce the cost of production and not the production itself. luaugurate the use of cultivators, cotton pickers, and other economic labor and money saving machines. Lenrn to produce cotton at four to five cents per pound. Run India out of the market. She is twice as far from all the commercial centres as you are. The cohI of transportation and in? surance on her product is double, and In dian cotton worth from two to three cents per pound less than American. ''Do these things, we say, and the pro? duction of America will never keep pace with the consumption of tbe world. Even at six cents per pound cotton will be ap? plied to a thousand uses .never before thought of. Experiments will be made with it in every branch of thread and textile manufacture. It will supply the sacking and baling stuffs of the world. It will largely supplant the use of jute and hemp. (Indeed, we understand tbe jute crop of India has proven a failure this year; that the price is abnormally high and that over 20,000 bales of American cotton have been shipped fo Bombay to make cotton bagging to cover the India crop.) "These are only a few of the many uses it will be put to. Experiments will be tried with it in every department of trade? and with India out of the race and the cost of production lowered, planters will find out that a crop of ten or even fifteen million bales will not be too much for the requirements of tbe world. Once let the trade discover that cotton is suited for uses to which it has not heretofore been applied, the trade will continue to apply it to these uses even at a higher price, and tbe consumption will continue to grow even at increased values. When this shall have transpired, and trade re? vives, the planter will find that he can market a crop of ten million bales on .just as profitable a basis as he has hereto? fore marketed seven millions. Then how foolish it would be for the South to aban? don or reduce the' production of a pro? duct which can only be produced in-the South, and go to raiaiog something that can be produced throughout the whole country, from Canada to the Qulf of Mexico. Fancy us iu competition with the great Northwest in the production of ?wheat and corn, and then imagine, if you can, what would oe the price of these ar? ticles at the end of the first season's ex? periment. A few years ago it was evi? dent to tbe dullest apprehension that con? sumption was rapidly outstripping tbe production of the world. 1 he American cotton crops of 1886 87, 1887 88 and 1889 90 were 6,505,000, 7,046,000 and 6, 938,000 respectively, an aggregate of 20, 489,000. These were, up to that time, the three largest average crops on record, and yet on the first of September, 1889, tbe visible supply of the world had run down to*832,000 bales. To show how great had been the increase in consump? tion during the fifteen or sixteen years preceding that period, we will explain that the cotton crops of 1869 70,1870 71 and 1871 72 were 3,122,000,4,352,000 and 2,974,000 respectively, an aggregate *of 10,448,000. and yet the vi-ible supply on S-pternber 1, 1892, Hmnunterl to the enormous figure of 2.124,000 It will be thin shown that notwithstanding an in? creased vield of 10,041,000 in the com paratfve years mentioned there was at the end ol that time a decreased visible sup ply uf 1,292,000, or say an increased con sump'ion <.f over 11,333,000 balfs "For the balaoce of this season we can see but Mule hopt? for any material ad? vance in prices. With famine in Russia, social disturbances in Germany, bad trade ? throughtont Europe, and the low (.-rice of silver, and the enormous stocks of tbe world now impending nver tbe market, there is nothing in the near future upon which to predicate a revival of trade, or a more sanguine view of the situation. Still, cotton will disappear at a price, and when tbe conditions improve and trade once more asserts itself, the world will wonder what has become of tbe enor mous stocks which now confront us from all aides. "We repea', therefore, be constant, be courageous a-.d out of our present adver aity will com* a new order of things, far superior to the old, which will add to the power and growth and riches of the South, and leave us, as of old, God's chosen people, ruled over by that most potent of all mundane potentates, King Cot? ton." Tbe Pistol Grip. "The question is often put to me," said a lady whose opinion in matters of eti? quette is wholly competent, "whether it is ever permissible co take a young lady's arm in acting as her escort on a prome? nade after nightfall. Unhesitatingly and peremptorily, no Not after nightfall, nor by daylight, nor at any other lime. An invalid may lean upon tbe arm of a young woman ; a grandfather, if be is in? firm, may.avail himself of a similar sup? port. Broadway policemen seem to have acquired the right to propel his charges across that thoroughfare by a grasp upon the arm, but these are the only persons so privileged. For an acquaintance, a friend, or one who aspires to a still near? er place, to take the arm of a young wo mau when walking with her on a public highway, is inexcusable. You may be sure nothing will so quickly offend her good taste, although she may lack tbe social skill to resent and avoid it. And the spectacle itself is most unpleasing. To see a young woman pushed along, a little in front of her escort, by his clutch upon her arm, is neither suitable or pic turcsque. It reverses all preconceived ideas of gallau'.y. The fair should lean upon the brave. Virile strength ought ever to support feminine frailness. Offer her your arm, young man, every time and never under any circumstances commit tbe undue familiarity and offence of tak? ing her*."?New York Sun. Oh, this ringing in the ears, Ob, this humming in the head, Hawking, blowing, snuffing, gasping, Watering eyes and throat a-rasping, Health impaired and comfort fled, Till I would that I were dead ! What folly to suffer so much with ca tarrbal troubles, when the worst cases of chronic catarrh in the bead are relieved and cured by the mild, cleansing and healing properties of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It purifies the foul breath, by removing tbe cause of offence, heals' the sore and inflamed passages, and perfects a lasting cure. ' ? The man who has never needed to have any teeth pulled is the loudest in advising the sufferer to "brace up like a man and have the thing out at once." ? The ruling sensation in London, England, at present, is the extraordinary leap made by a man named Milram Nig,' who jumps 250 feet from the top of the Aquarium and lands on his feet on the bare floor. He wears the costume of an American Indian, and his rapid descent is broken by some patent arrangement in? visible to the audience. "We Fools of the South.? ^ The above is tbe title of an editorial io the GreeDville News of Saturday. The article is so replete with truth, and ex? presses our viewa so fully, tbat we insert it here and ask our people to read it, ponder if, and then grapple with the sit? uation like men, free from prejudice. There is a great need for statesmanship, patriotism and unselfish devotion?for a leader or leaders possessing these quali? ties. t Looking at the present political condi? tions in the South and remembering that the same kind of thing now going on has gone on io all ages, we may well wonder tbat (he human race has made ao much progress, that so much good has come from so much bad. Here we are in the South flying at each other's throats on free silver and anti free silver, sub treasury and anti sub-treasury. In Alabama Kolk and Jones are fighting desperately. In Loui? siana it is McEnery and Foster. In North Carolina, Georgia and Texas tbe third party has been thoroughly and fully organized. What foola we are. Demagogues are stirring strife aod working harder to make class issues than they would work for the salvation of their own bouIb. The South needs of all things capital to develop aod build up her resources and such confidence in the stability and character of her State governments as will invite capital and immigration. Yet no effort is spared to create prejudice against capital and its representatives. Every energy is being devoted to divide us in hostile classes? to force one part of the white people into a position where tbey will have to choose between practical disfcanchisement and abandoning their party. Every effort to heal these breaches, to bring-about com? promises while it is yet time, to get our people together, is met with showers of abuse and derision. The men who at? tempt it are pointed out as public ene? mies. And the shadow of the force bill is hanging over us all thelioie. If a Republican Congress and President are elected next fall tbe force bill will come and the negro masses in Southern States will be backed by federal bayonets. Take South Carolina, for instance. A nice position we are in now to meet tbe furce bill and a determined radical effort ? In 1876 we won because we were all together. Rich and poor, country and town, rode and worked together. The people turned out as one man and offered their lives ani gave their votes. The rich poured out money to make tbe fight, with. The lawyers were ready to defend men accused of political offences, to rep-v_ resent the cases of the white people in tbe courts without fee or promise What shape would we be in now ? We are being taught to hate and distrust each other. Revenges are being planted in our hearts. Unless there is a change for the better, trouble, if it comes, will find us powerless. Not only are we una? ble to do anything to increase the pros? perity of our State and hasten her pro? gress, but we are practically helpless to prevent her from slipping back into tbe clutches of the radicals. Two yean ago we could tell the Re? publicans to pass th*ir force bill if tbey choose ; that it would accomplish noth? ing against a solid, united white race. We can not.eay so now. Perhaps it will come out all right. People have struggled through daogers as threatening, through trouble as thick, and have continued to go forward. On tbe other bad, people who persisted io folly and blindness and following falsa leaders have decayed to destruction. In every, part of the South every man who really loves his country and people who can see beyond a little office or a temporary grain or the gratification of bis hatreds or prejudices should give bis every effort to preparing the people for the trial tbat may be just ahead. Never has there been a more urgent demand for wisdom and patriotism than there is now. Demagogues and cranks and agitators ought to'be suppressed by tbe strong force of public sentiment. Tbe people of all opinions, positions and classes ought to come together with mutual con? cessions and fair promises that we may be ready to present a Bolid front when the assault comes. An Amusing Anecdote. Some time ago an amusing little anec? dote was related about the German Crown Prince while having a lesson in grammar from his tutor. Ooe is now being told about the second son of the imperial couple, Prince Eitel Fritz. The emperor ia exceedingly strict about his son's be* havior at table. Not long ago little Prince Eitel Fritz, using bis fingers in? stead of bis knife and fork, was corrected by his father several times to no purpose. At last the emperor's patience was ex? hausted, and be said: "Children who eat with their fingers are like little dogs that hold their food with their paws. If you use your fiogers again you must go under the table, the proper place for little dogs " Tbe little prince did his utmost not to forget this time, and used his knife and fork like a man ; but all at once be for? got again and began using his fingers. "March under the table," said his father, and the boy crept under as bidden. After a little while tbe emperor, thinking the prince very quiet lifted up the table cloth and peeped underneath. There sat little Prince Eitel Fritz undressed. His father asked him what he meant by un? dressing himself. The child answered, "Little doge don't wear clothes; they on? ly have skin." Bucklens Arnica Salve Tbe best salve in the world for Out* Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver SoreB, 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._ ? Grasshoppers attain their greatest size in South America, where they grow to a len* h of five inches, and the wings spread out ten inches, 0 Why JJot? A dealer brmnrht a lot of beef cattle into Charleston on Wednesday, which we wish every farmer in South Carolioa could see and study for his own benefit and that of the dwellers in tbe towns and cities of the State. They were fine, fat animals, were raised in Abbeville Coun? ty, and the dealer brought with him a paper signed by W. B. Milwee, president and treasurer of the Greenwood Oil Com pany, which records tbe weights of the cattle when they were bought by tbe company and when they were sold, and certifies that they were fed exclusively on cotton seed meal and bulls. The record of weights at date of purchase and at date of sale, March 25, for each ani? mal, is as follows: Lbs. Lbs. Inc. No. 1.Dae. 14- 765 Mar. 25?1,050 285 No. 2..._Dec. 18? 775 Mar. 25?1,045 270 No. 3....Dec. 28-1,000 Mar. 25-1,170 170 No. 4.Dec. 28? 575 Mar, 25? 710 135 No. 5.Dec. 28? 690 Mar. 25? 980 200 No. 6.Dec. 30? 590 Mar. 25? 760 170 No. 7.Jan. 8? 610 Mar. 25? 830 220 No. 8....Jan. 8? 675 Mar. 25? 875 200 No. 9.Jan. 8? C90 Mar. 25? 905 215 No. 10 ...Jan. 8? 700 Mar. 25? 875 175 Total increase.2,130 Tbe greatest increase exhibited, it is seen, is in tbe case of No. 5, which gained 290 pounds in 89 days or at the rate of about 3} pounds per day. The smallest increase was in the case of No. 4, which gained 135 pounds in the same time or at tbe rate of about 1} pounds per day. Averaging the time for all, the herd gained at the rate of nearly 25 pounds a day, or at tbe rate of nearly 2? pounds per head per day?or, to put in tbe strongest way, at tbe rate of nearly 10 per cent per month. The feed, as before, stated, was exclusively cotton seed meal and hulls, the daily ration being a quart of meal and a peck to a ba'f bushel of hulls, (accotding to the animal,) mixed dry and fed night and morning?the coEt being 12 cents per bead per day. Practical farmers will employ these facts and figures in their own calculations for their own instruction. Tbe general lesson to be dra.vn from the calculations we have made, however, is plain enough for any farmer who understands simple arithmetic, and is simply that there is a fair profit in fattening even common cat? tle for market on cotton seed rneal and hulls. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of beef grown in other States are sold in South Carolina every year. A great deal of it is brought from the shores of the lakes and from beyond tbe Mississippi Ri^er, and some of it is very far from be? ing of the best. There is no reason why this trade should not be captured and held by cattle raisers within tbe State, great'y to their own advantage and that of their beef-eating feliow-citiz9nsin tbe towns, as well. ? Another .point is worth considering, and we hope that some one of our farmer correspondents who is of a mathematical turn of mind will consider, and grve his fellow farmers tbe benefit of bis calcula? tions. Tbe price of cotton is very low now, and the average returns from tbe lint on an acre are very small. We should like to have our correspondents say bow much the value of the product of tbe acre would be increased if every pound of the seed grown on it were con? verted at the nearest oil mill into meal and hulls and fed to beef cattle on the farm, and the manure returned to the soil on which tbe crop was grown ? The oil mills are plentiful and easily accessi? ble now. It might be useful to make the indicated calculation very carefully, since if it should prove that thtre is a good profit in raising beef on the new system, there is no reason why our farm? ers should not export thousands of tons of beef to Northern and European mar? kets, and at tbe same time solve the vexed problem of how to mate cotton growing pay.?News and Courier. rTh?n a Revival Is Needed. When nobody is helped by going to prayer meeting. When tbe preacher has to look at the pews to see who is in them before he opens his Bible. Whenever there is trouble in the choir. Whenever there are unconverted teachers in the Sabbath school. ? When the only way by which money can be raised for Church purposes is by getting up a festival. When tbe prayer meetings become dry and formal. Wheu there are people in tbe Church who are not sure they have been convert? ed. When it is hard work to raise the pas? tor's salary, When nobody wants to sit on the front seats at prayer meeting. When leading people in the Church are not on friendly terms with one anoth? er. When parents are not much concerned about the spiritual condition of tbeir children. ' When people begin to shake hands with the tip ends of their fingers. A Fresh Fish Story. A man while fishing suddenly fell into the water. A fellow fisherman of benev? olent aspect promptly helped him out, laid him on his back, and then began to scratch his head in a puzzled manner. "What's tbe matter?" asked the by? standers. "Why don't you revive him ?" "There are sixteen rules to revive drowned persons," said the benevolent man, "and I know 'em all; but I can't call to mind which comes first." At this point tbe rescued man opened his eyes aud said faintly: "Is there anything about giving brandy in the rules?" ? "Yes." "Then uever mind the other fifteen." ?London Figaro. ? "What kind of a man is he?good, bad, or indifferent?" "Well, that de? pends on who teeters on tbe other end of the plank with him." "How so, sir?'' "Well, if you size him up alongside Judas Iscariot he looms up middling fair, but when you come to sit him down be? tween such fellows as you an' me, Jedge, he does dwindle terrible surprising?be does, fjr a fact." All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Courage fails whom God no longer supports. ? Colorado has a newspaper called The Watermelon. ? All the t*ees of the tropics except those imported from colder climates are evergreens. ? Be honest in your convictions, main? tain them with firronees; but don't fall out with your friend because be does not agree with you. ? Early Risers, Early Risers, Early Risers, the famous little pills for consti? pation, sick headache, dyspepsia and ner? vousness.?Wilhite it Wilhite. ? The curious information is given tbat tbe crown of England, which is val? ued at $500,000, has been in pawn four times, once for $10,000. ? She: It is always the unmarried man who knows all about tbe women. He: Yes, I bave noticed that tbe man who knows all about women won't marry them. ? Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, 111., writes: "From personal experienco I can recommend De Witt's Sarsaparilla, a euro for impure blood and general debility."? Wilhite & Wilhite. ? Join in any movement which will have a tendency to elevate the standard ' of excellence of tbe horses of your neigh? borhood. An increase in tbe value of the horses will bring many dollars into a community. ? A letter mailed at Mobile, Ala., on December 29,1840, has just reached its destination, Kalamazoo, Mich. It was not a valuable letter, and there is no ex? planation of its detention. The man who wrote-it has been dead three years. ? We ttuly believe De Witt's Little Early Risers to bo the most natural, most effective, most prompt and economical pill for billiousness, indigestion and in? active liver.?Wilhite <fc Wilhite. ? A man who died in Cincinnati, O., a few days ago, it is said, had not a single hard substance in bis bedy which would indicate tbat be bad possessed such a thing as a bone. Even bis skull was of about the same consistency as India rub? ber. ? According to a recent reckoning, a human being of either sex, who is a moderate eater and who lives to be 70 years old, consumes during tbe "days of tbe years of his life" & quantity of food which would fill twenty ordinary railway luggage vans. ? "Late to bed and early to rha will shorten the road, to your home in the skies." But early to bed and a "Little Early Riser," tho pill that makes lifo longer and better and wiser.?Wilhite <fc Wilhite. ? One of tbe drawbacks connected with Queen Victoria's lofty station is tbe law tbat forbids her reading documents or receivlug any letters except from her own family until tbey have been scruti? nized by the person in charge of tbe roy al correspondence. ? A Portland (Ore.) exchange says that a resident of that town has tbe tail of a rattlesnake in his possession con? taining fifty four rattles and a button. It seems incredible tbat a rattlesnake could attain the 8ge o;f fifty four years, yet the rattles were there to prove it, and were _ seen by numerous citizens. ? It is a fixed and immutable law that to have good, sound health ono must have pure, rich and abundant blood. Tb6re is no shorter nor surer routo than by a course of De Witt's Sarsaparilla.?Wilhite <fc Wilhite. ? At Athens, Ga., a farmer came along with a hen, and meeting an Athens mer? chant they soon drove a bargain, and the hen was left at the merchants' store. Tbe farmer went off, saying tbat be would call by a little later and get the money. He had hardly gotten out of sight when the hen laid an egg. Then farmer soon came back and demanded tbe egg in addition to his pay for the ben. Tbe merchant paid him for fhe hen, but refused to turn over the egg to him. This caused much argument and soms feeling between the parties. The dispu'.e is apt to get into the courts. ? Bright people are the quickest to re? cognize a good thing and buy it. We sell lots of bright people the Little Early Ri? sers. If you are not brighttheae pills will make you so.?Wilhite tfc Wilhite. ? Inquisitive city people in-the coun? try sometimes find small satisfaction in catechizing little country boys about their nam68 and affairs. A "summer boarder" once said to a small boy dressed in aging ham waist, long trousers and bare feet: "Hello, little boy 1 What's your name?" "Same's as pa's," said the little boy. "What'B your pa's name?" "Same as mine." "I mean, what do they call you when they call you to breakfast ?" "They don't nuvver call me to breakfust." "Why don't they ?" "Cause I alluz git there the first orte." ?JIf dull, spiritless and stupid; if your blood is thick and sluggish ; if yonr ap petito is capricious and uncertain, you need a Sarsaparilla. For best results takG Do Witt's.?Wilhite and Wilhite. ? Many people promise anything you ask of them, but make a small matter of keeping their promises. They entef into engagements with you to do this or that, to meet you o- call on you at a certain time or to do so some favor for you, and utterly fail to fulfil their engagements. Surely we ought to keep sedulous watch ? over ourselves in this regard We ought to be faithful to the promises we make, cost what it may. It is a noble thing when we find one whose promises we are as sure of as of tbe rising of tbe sun ; whose simpleast word is as good as his oath ; who does just what he says he will do at tbe moment he says he will do it. This is the kind of faithfulness God wants. ? It is a truth in medicine that tho smallest dose that performs tho cure is the best. De Witt's Little Early Risers arc the smallest pills, will perform the oure, and are the best.?Wilhite <fc Wil? hite. ? In the five years of iifebetwte i the ages of 20 and 25 the mortality of un? married men is 1,174 in 100,000, and of married men only -597. From 25, to 30 tbe numbers respectively are 1,396 and 865. These figures are derived trom the death registry of Scotland, but the pro? portion of the bachelor to the benedict death rate is believed to be about tbe ? same in this country. Taking tbe whole of the married men and the whole of the unmarried men, from the age of 20 to the end of life, it is computed tbat the Uvea I of the former average 59J years, whjle those of the latter only 40 years?a dif- I ference of 19} years in favor of married I men; that is, marriage increases the av- Jt erage c-ration of man's life by one-half, I lacking six months. r