BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDERSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1892.
VOLUME XXVIL?NO. 15.)
For Asthma, Bronchitis
Colds, coughs,
la grippe, pneumonia?
and all diseases of
the throat and
lungs, take
"For more tliau twenty-five years I wt.s a
'iuflerer from lurg trouble, attended with
coughing so severe at times as to cause hem.
orrnage, the paroxysms frequently lasting
three or four hours. I was Induced to try
Ayer?s Cherry Pectoral, and after taking
four bottles was thoroughly curod. I can
confidently recommend this medicine."??
Franz Hofman, Clay Centre, Eans.
AVer's Cherry Pectoral
Pr*r*redbyDr.J.J.AyerkCo.,Low.U.U?.. PrORipttO act, SUf? tO CUiTO
OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY!
ALL OF OT/B
AT COST FOR CASH,
Including all our Fall Purchases.
HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES,
SERGES, BROADCLOTHS,
BEDFORD CORDS,
LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors.
The Cashmeres you pay elsewhere 20c. for we will let you have at 15c. The
35c. line at 20c. the 40c. line at 25c, and the 50c. line at 33Jc, the 75c. line for half
4 dollar, and the dollar line for 75c.
You will esve on a $2.40 Dress Pattern 60 cents, on $3.00 Pattern the same
anount, bat the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4.80 yon say* $1.80,
on the $6.00 line yon save $2.00, on the $9.00 line yon save $3.00, on $12 00 line
you save $4.00.
Remember, this sale will foe only for Thirty Days.
jjg ?gg fag
LADIES' STORE
STILL LEADING IN
HANDSOME GOODS!
0.
J?? Bujer baa been in the Northern markets for three w?*fcs, and has bought
the HANDSOMEST STOCK OF LADIES GOODS that has ever been brought
to tUi market AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL. We have added a new feature in
ihe way of?
A BARGAIN COUNTER.
tST Don't fail to inspect our entire Stock, for you will SAVE MONEY !
Thanks for the put and hopes for the future.
B?spffctfully,
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS.
JOH1T T_ ZBTTIRIRISS,
Successor to Peoples & Burriss, still Headquarters for
tee Msli Goods, Fancy Glilna, EMer Sets, Vases,
Holiday Q-oods, &c.
FhE celebrated IRON ZING COOK STOVE is much improved over the old
pattern. We have a fine Stove, No. 7, for $10.00, with 25 piece*, as ornamental as
any first class housekeeper need want. A big lot of Second! Hand Stores must go
at some price, so come in and price them.
TINWARE LOW DOWN !
19. Bring your BIOS, HIDES and BEES WAX to ui.
SQL Those indebted to th* firm of Peoples & Burriss are respeotfuily invited
to call in as soon as possible and settle their Account at the same old stand with
JOHN T- BURRISS.
Haying bought the A. G. Means Stock of
CLOTHING, SHOES. HATS, &?,
And being desirous of elosiig out the same, we will
SELL ALL GOODS at
3STEW YORK COST I
9L9* When we say New York Cost WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY.
HSU Come early and make your selections and SECURE BARGAINS.
TAYLOR & CRAYTON,
Red Front Granite Ro-w.
WHY ORDER
zpi-a-nsros AND ozrg-^i^ts
From any- other Market when
THE C. A. BEED MUSIC HOUSE
Can and will Save you Money by Buying at Home.
OUR Goods are bought in large lots
from the Manufacturers for CASH.
, Our expenses are much lighter than
dealers in larger cities, who sell almost
exclusively through Sub-Agents, thus
adding largely to the prices charged yon
And.-besidee, we have the LARGEST STOCK IN THE
STATE to select from, and every Instromer.c is sold under
A POSITIVE GUARANTEE.
We respectfully solicit your patronage, whioh will be
highly appreciated. Respectfully,
C A. REED MUSIC HOUSE.
anderson, B. C.
IVTcGree & Dillingliam.
W E are very much obliged to our friends for their liberal pstronige for the pas
year, and will say that we will have on hand at our Stables?
FIRST CLASS MULES AND HORSES.
AND WILL GIVE YOU LIVING PEICES.
R? sure to ?all and see us if you want a First Class Mule or Horse cheap for
es?1', or with good security.
^'?'e also can furnish you a 6rst class Turnout at any time. Our Livery De?
partment is equipped with fir.t claw Huries and Buggies. We also have on hand
a lot of?
PEPTONS, BUGGIES and HARNESS
That we frill sell at Rod: Bottom Prices.
McGEE & DJLLINGHAM.
"VK All oemmunicntlons intended fo
this Column should be addressed to C
WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An
I daraon, 8. C.
The oiasai nation of toacbero will tike
plswso on Saturday, the 22ad inot., i notoad
of tho 21b*, at published. Applicants
will pltaie take notice.
Mr. W. P. Holland will teach at Leb?
anon next year. The patrons have b?n
fortunate in securing him. They Ilk* to
have made a serious miitai*.
The work of the ahool room should du
made as practicable at pouiblt. PupiU
should be shown the important of eaoh
leuon, as well as its ph.o? in human lifo.
Wo give our readers the bono?t of
some fine thoughts from the pan of Mr.
Eddie P. Vandiver. We refer to his
graduating speeoh published in this col
j umn.
t; The weather is indicating tbo necessity
j of comfortable sohool houses for the
children during the winter months. It
is tbt duty of tb? Trustes? to provide
comfortable school houseo. It is their
duty and they ought to do it.
Columbus Day will be observed in
some of the schools. Ws woulct be glad
to see all observe the diy. It is a good
occasion to teach and impress the his?
tory of the discovery of America, and
the man who discovered our fair land.
We have repeatedly said that we would
like to see more interest taken by the
young people in reading newspapers, and
hence no newspaper should be allowed
to enter your house that you would not
be willing for your children to read.
Give the children good, clean papers to
read, and encourage them in reading
them. A newspaper clais in the school
might be of benefit.
THAT BABY PXACB.
We are told in mythology that the an
cient Grecians believed that their gods
dwelt on the summit of mount Olympus
in Thessaly, that beautiful mountain
whoie summit reached above the clouds,
and whose lofty peaks were covered with
perpetual snow. Here Ihey feasted on
ambrosia and nectar, discoursed upon the
affairs of Heaven and earth, and wtre
delighted at intervals by the sweet music
of Apollo's lyre. This brief mythologi?
cal history is in itself a clflar definition of
"That Easy Place;" a p.ace of idleness,
happiness and of no responsibility; a
place where the hands are folded, the
eyes are closed and tho poor mortals
slumber free from the cares and anxie?
ties that vex th 3 busy world. But there
is another place, tho opposite of that
easy place, and the path that leads to
?ach of {hem are open to every ycuth,
both of them he cannot take, but one of
them he must follow. The nature of
these two paths is beautifully illustrated
by Procius in bis narratioa concerning
Hercules. He says that when Hercules
was advancing from boyhood into mau
hood, a period at which the young be?
coming their own mastoro begin to give
intimations whether they will enter
upon the path of life by the way of vir?
tue or that of vice, that he went foith
into a solitary place and sat perplexed as
to which of these two paths he should
pursue, and while thus meditating two
lovely maidens approached him. One of
them ran up to him and exclaimed: "I
see that you are hesitating, Hercules, upon
what path you shall enter upon life, if now
you will make a friend of me I shall con?
duct you by the easiest and most delight?
ful road. You shall taste of every spe?
cies of pleasure, and lead a life far from
any sort of trouble. Sweat sleep shall j
refresh thine eyes before they become j
weary, and the choicest of dainties the
appetite before it bscomeo hungry, and
you shall take freely of wnat others ac?
quire by labor." Hercules on hearing
this address said: "And what, 0 woman,
be thy name 1" She replied: "My
friends call me happiness, but those who
hate me oall me vice." In the meantime
the other maiden approached him and
said: "I, also, have come to addreso you,
Hercules. I have Ljowu your parents,
and have hoped that you would direct
your steps along the path that leads to
my dwelling and become an excellent
peformer of whatever is good and noble,
and that I might appear more honorable
through your illustrious deeds. I will
net deceive you, however, with promises
of pleasure, but will net before you things
as they really are, for of whatever is good
and noble, nothing is grantnd to mankind
without labor and care."
Thus spoke virtue to tho fabled hero,
and thus she speaks to all. The young
men of our day, like Hercules, are called
upon to decide whioh of these two pathc
they will pursue. If they would attain
that easy place they must {.void the easy
and flowery path of vice, it leads from
idleness downward, Btep by step, to the
lowest depths of poverty and disgrace,
while the rough and rugged path of vir?
tue, betet by many difficulties, offers to !
those who will surmount thorn and stand j
on tho summit, joy and happiness, that
the idler can never know. It leads to
that easy place. We should always bear
in mind that what we call an easy place j
is reached by a bard road. Men can not
soar on flowery beds of ease to the high?
est aad most honorable positions in life.
It was not an easy road that General
Garfield travelled from his humble, boy?
hood home to the Presidential chair.
And so it is with many of the learned
professors of our colleges who receive
large salaries for light duties, it is only
the just reward of years of bard study
and application. Tho highest and
noblest positions in life are obtained by
labor and self-denial. Yet, clearly sa
these two paths have been mark?! out,
there have been persons in all ages tha'
have chosen the flowery path of vice in
order to shirk the hard fought battles of
life. We need not search for their
namM in history, for they made no
record and left no name behiod. In the
evening of the nineteenth century, which
has justly been termed the age of pro
gre<* and improvement, we find men
who will sacrifice truth, honor and every
other high and noble quality that adorns
mankind, for an easy pluoe.
The effect of following tkat easy path
is seen by every^owe in every department
of life. We see its effect on the growajup
man*who?was a lazy school boy aad?oved
plsy belter than atndy, consequently he
grew up to be an ignorant seen unfit for
anything but the humblest positions in
life. We see ita effeet on the farmer
who loves sleep belter than labor. In
summer his crops are choked by the
? briers and weeds, and la autumn his
bars is empty. We see it also on some,
of our merchants, lawyers, doctors and
some limes even the preachers them?
selves are not exempt, and the effect in
every cue is nothing less then poverly
and disgrace, for so il ever has been and
so It ever will be.
Virtue Iraly said nothing good can be
accomplished without labor. All the
great inventions thai have atade many
things easy thai were once thor"*ht im*
possible, all tho grand discov. "es of
science and art, are the resulf- .ong
years of cotseleeo labor. Newton's won?
derful discovery that enables us to cal?
culate with precision how muck the
moon curves in her path around the
earth each second was tho result of sev?
enteen years of bard labor ever long col?
umns of figures. Kepler's three grand
and indispensable laws of astronomy was
also tbe result of seventeen years of men?
tal toil. And thai seost beautiful poem
in our language, tbe Elegy, written in
a country churchyard by Thomas Gray,
which has been read and loved alike by
the young and old, was not the produc?
tion of a moment's thought, but was tbe
result of eight years of diligent study.
Honest toil is the noblest thing on earth,
it converts the wilderness Into grain-bear?
ing fields, it rears cities and adorns tbe
earth with architectual monumeuts, it
whitens the seas with the wings of com?
ma roe, and bint"- nations together with
the fast holding bands of railroads and
telegraphs. Labor holds wider sway
tbaa tho conqueror, his name becomes
tainted and his monuments crumble to
dust, but labor converts his bloody battle
fields into smiling gardens, and erects
monuments significant of better things.
These examples present in the clearest
light the importance of a well spent life,
that we may attain a position of ease and
comfort prior to the time when the grass?
hopper shall become a burden.
Let us then shua that easy path as we
would the prince of darkness himself,
and like brave men go out Into the fierc?
est of the battle of life where we can
achieve the grandest victory and be use?
ful to the age in which we live.
Eddie P. Vakdivbb.
A Han-Bating Plant.
There has been discovered in Nicara?
gua a flesh-eating or rather man-eating
plaat, which is called by the natives "the
devil's snare." In form it is a kind of
vegetable octopus or devil fish, and it ia
able to draw blood of any living thing
which oomes within its clutches. It
appears that a Mr. Danataa, a naturalist,
has lately returned from Central Amer?
ica, where he spent two years in the
study of the plants and animals of tkose
regions. In one of the swamps wkich
surround the great Nicaragua Lake he
discovered the singular growth.
He was engaged in hunting botanical
and entomological specimens when he
heard his dog cry out as if in agony from
a distance. Running to the spot whence
the animal's cries came, Mr. Dunstan
found him enveloped in a perfect net?
work of what seemed to be a fine, rope
like tissue of roots and fibres. The plant
or vine seemed composed entirely of bare,
interlacing stems, resembling more than
anything else tbe branches of the weep
ing willow denuded of ita foliage, but of
a dark, nearly black, hue, and covered
with a thick viscid gam that exuded
from the pores.
Drawiog his knife, Mr. Dunstan at?
tempted to cut the poor beast free, but it
wan with the very greatest difficulty thai
he managed to sever the fleshy, muscular
fibres of tbe plant. When thef dog was
extricated from the plant, Mr. Duastan
saw to bis horror and amazement that
the dog's body was blood-stained, while
the skin appeared to have been actually
sucked or puckered in spots, and tbe
animal staggered as if from exhaustion.
Ia cutting the vine the twiggs curled like
living sinuous fingers about Mr. Dun
Stan's hand, and it required no Blight
force to free the member from its cling?
ing grasp, which left the flesh red and
blistered.
The gum exuding from the vine was of
a grayish dark tinge, remarkably adhes?
ive and of a disagreeable odor, powerful
and nauseating to inhale. The natives
showed the greatest horror of the plant,
and recountod to the naturalist many
stories of its death-dealing powers. Mr.
Duastan said he was able to discover very
little about the plant owing to the diffi?
culty of handling it, for its grasp can
only be shaken off with the Iobb of skin
and even of flesh. As near as he could
ascertain, however, its power of suction
is contained in a number of infiuitetai
mal mouths or little suckers, which ordi?
narily closed, open for the reception of
food.
If the substance is animal the blood is
drawn off and tho carcass or refuse then
dropped. A lump of raw meat being
thrown in, in the short space of five
minutes the blood will be thoroughly
drunk off and the mass thrown aside.
Its voracity is almost beyond belief.?
Horticultural Timu.
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Bucklens Amies Salve.
The best salve in the world for Outs
Bruises, Sores> Uloers, 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. _
? An Abilene (Kan.) man recently
advertised tkat he would like to buy a
second hand mownr, aud to address 'X
L.' postoffice. He received oue answer
that struck him favorably, and, aftur
corresponding some time, hunted tbe
party up and found It to be his wife, who
was trying to sell him their old one.
BILL ABP'S TALI.
Ttxai It ? Grant Stat*, and Her People
Among Ike Beit tn tht World.
Atlanta OontMntion.
By the tltae this reaohee your readers
*?- _?
1 will be in the Lone mar State again.
It is no fun for ma to leave home for a
month, but I like Texas and am going
back to perform my promisee and see the
bright tide of her country and her peo?
ple. We always see the bright side when
we go visiting. When people come visit?
ing ni at oar house we are on our best
behavior and everything is tweet and
lovely and when they go home they tell
everybody what a delightful time they
had and what a ebarmlng family and
what good cooking and what good beds
to sleep on and somebody tells us what
they said and that pleases us aid com?
forts us and makes us all as loving as a
mutual admiration society.
But it won't do for folks to stay too
long anywhere, for it is Impossible to
keep the bright side In view more than a
few days at a time. There is a dark side
occasionally in evsry family and It will
come to the front ove.y now and then
for man is born to trouble as the sparks
fly upward and woman Is, too. It is a
good thing to visit and be visited, for it
breaks up the monotony of domestic
affairs and improves our behavior and
sharpens our wita and loosens the old
gentleman's pursestrings and makes him
more shifty in providing something to
eat or to wear.
I like Texas?I reckon for the same
reason that Mr. Stephens liked his little
snarly, unfriendly dog. When asked
what was the secret of his attachment to
the brute, he said: "Well, I like the
little dog just because be likes me and
that is reason enough." I am going to
Texas this time in search of the end of
a rainbow that is over there. It Btretcbes
from Texarkaua to San Antonio, and I
shall peruse the country all along the
line and of course will see the bright and
beautiful side and write about it; and
your readers must take it with some al?
lowance for I am an invited guest, and it
would bo very bad manners lor me to
find fault with her country or her people.
Iam sorry that I won't be here to vote
for pure, unterrified Democracy, but will
try to do like Mr. Blaine did in the
Maine election?I will pair off wiib some
Tbird Party friend?if I can find one J
Mr. Blaine had to publish a card and ex?
plain why he didn't vote and he said he
was 200 miles away from home on elec?
tion day but he paired off with a "Dem?
ocratic friend." I liked that. Hike Mr.
Blaine because he liked Ben Hill and
was the first man to send a check for $50
for bis monument. I like him because
he la opposed to the force bill?I don't
like him for many other things too tedi?
ous to mention. But I don't reckon my
one vote will be needed no how, fur the
Third Party is sick in Georgia and get?
ting sicker every day and will be quaran?
tined bo fore the election. Weaver and
Fields and Mrs. Lease are quarantined
already.
About nine years ago I visited Texas
for the first time and noted the state of
public morals and found all the new
towns in a wild, reckleeB, unsettled con?
dition. Fort Worth had about 10,000
people and it scorned to me the devil was
running the whole business, for tbe Sab?
bath was a gala day and the saloons wore
all open and tbe billard balls were crack?
ing and the faro banks in full blast and
Bogardus was shooting pigeons in the
suburbs and the church bells rang feebly
and few and they had just furnished a
four story jail that was 200 feet long and
wasn't half big enough, they said. But
the devil don't run the business now.
Good men and women banded together,
and more of them kept coming and
churches were built and Sunday Schools
established and the Y. M. O. A. became
a power and they drove tbe devil out and
now it is an orderly, God-fearing city.
Young men who are dissipated and reck
leas cure nothing about the morals of a
town, but when meu of families who are
raising up children around them move
to a new place they want a Christian
morality fur their children's sake, if
nothing else. A man may have no
religion, but if he has children ho won't
settle iu a Godless town.
Texas is now as much a land of church
66 as aay State in the union and is em?
phatically the land of schools. I re?
member when it was supposed that it
was the land of outlaws and refugees
from justice and my wonder now is what
became of all the rascalB who were said
to have run away to Texas? When I
was out there last summer a man came
up to me and said "howdy, major."
"Well, tell me who you are," said I.
He whisper .d his name and said, "I
knowd you over in Georgia. About
tweasy years ago I happened to kill a
man over there accidentally in a fight,
and I didn't have no money to fee a
lawyer and so I just stepped over here to
save trouble." He told me his name and
I promised to keep bis secret, for they
said ho was behaving himself. I don't
believe in hunting a mau down after tor,
fifteen or twenty years and breaking up
bis family and carrying him back a
thousand miles and locking him up in
jail. But it is done continually by these
detectives and reward hunters juat for
the reward tbat was once offered and
never recalled. We read every little
while of the arrest of some man who ran
away and changed his name long years
ago, and behaved himself and married a
good woman und was raising up reipee
table childreu when euddenly a detective
found him and selx*d him and rudely
tore him from those who loved him and
carried hiui away to a distant State to
prison. It is all wrong aud does no
good. Ht? had curried tbe burden of his
crime like a uightume for yeart and
yean. He bad suffered enough.
Tuiuking about Texas reminds me of
what P?-.nry Grady said to luesnmo yeais
ago when I told him I wai going there.
"Are you not afraid?" said he. "Afraid
-of what?" Iaskad. "Why of robbers
?train robbers?thojo fellow* that hold
up a train and go through u aud put lb*
muzzle of u derringer at ovary mao!d
bead and ke&p it there uutil he disgor?
ges. I would like to see tbat done, i
would give $50 to be on a train when it
wae held up. If I was travelling out
there and know what train they would
?top, I would take it just to see tbe fun.
Tbe Idea of two men attacking tbe engi?
neer and fireman and conductor and bag?
gage men and express men and brakes*
men and porters and messengers and
subduing them all and paralyzing a hun?
dred passengers and taking all their
money ia to me one of the grandeat and
most extraordinary performances in tbe
world and I want ,o gee just how it is
done aid feel how a man feels while it is
going on?don't you ?" "Not much?no
I don't," said I. "I don't see any fun in
it, nor grandeur; but It Is certainly very
extraordinary. There is not a car full of
paiaengers on any western train that has
not got half a dozen loaded pistols in it
?perhaps a dozen either in hip pockets
or grips and why some fellows don't
squat behind his seat and shoot tke rob?
ber before he gets to him, I don't under?
stand." "Paralyzed," said Qrady, "the
very audacity of tke thing paralyzes
them and I wan't to realise it. I want
to try aome audacity myself. I would
look the fellow right in the eye and
smile and say 'My friend, let's compro?
mise this business?let's divide?you
take half and 111 take half/ and I'd look
so ssailisg and unterrlfiesl that he would
pass on. Don't you know that when three
of the eommune went into Botbchild's
bank in Paris, during the revolution, and
demanded his money under the cry of
liberty, equality and fraternity the old
Jew never quahed nor trembled but
said 'how much money have I got?' And
they said, 'forty millions of francs.'
'That is rigkt,' aaid be, 'and there are
40,000,000 people in France.' Then he
threw three francs on the counter and
said here are yours?tell the rest to come
on and get theirs. They took them
sheepishly and went out. Now nobody
ever stops to talk to these robbers or to
reason with theas but tbey become par?
alyzed and surrender. I would like to
meet them and try a few broken remarks
upon them. They are desperate fellows,
no doubt, but they are men like we are
and have their good points. Jesse James
was no brute; he had some chivalry
about him and if be had had a fair
chance would have made a splendid citi?
zen. I, would like to command a regi?
ment of ouch men in a war?wouldn't7
they whip an army ?" "No," said I,
"tboy wouldn't make good soldiers. The
best soldiers we had were men who would
not rob anybody, nor impose on anybody
?nor be looking out for au insult. Tbey
were men who were more peaceable than
quarrelsome. Tho fellows who went
about with pistols in their pockets before
the war dident make good soldiers and
tbey dodged every battle on some pre?
text." Henry pondered awhile and
said : "Maybe you are right, but I would
like to be on a train when It was beld
up."
Grady bad great admiration for hero?
ism of any kind whether it was In Wil?
liam Tell or a newsboy?whether in a
general or a pugilist, or an outlaw. How
eagerly ho used to listen to the story of
Forrist with his 800 men following Strait
with his 1,800 for a week and overtaking
him near Rome and demanding his sur?
render and compelling it by kis audacity.
What a buro ha made of Lswis Graves,
the saloon koper, at Rome, who jumped
into the swollen river and uavod a poor
boy from drowning when nobody else
dared do it!
But I am not going to carry much
money on ih? ir-.in? nobody does now,
except tho exprr-4. *nd there is no more
danger in Texas ib.au in Alabama or
Florida. There is not as much down
South as there is North and West.
I believe that the hard times have
done thoir worst and better times are
coming. Ootton is going up and politics
will soon suosido and the Third Party
vanish away and if we do elect Grover
Cleveland and put Mrs. Frankie and
Ruth in the white house we will see tbe
dawn of a new era and everybody will be
oalm and serene. Bill Arp.
? Thero U a good deal of truth and
philosophy in tbe remark made by a
wit when he heard of the divorce of a
couple recently married: "I am glad
they married each other, for if they had
married somebody else thers would have
been two unfortunate couples instead of
one."
Some fancy tho charms of the lily-white
maid,
.Of etherial form and languishing oye,
Who faints in the sunshine and droops in
tho shade,
And ia always "juat ready to die."
But give me the girl of tho sunshiue face,
Tho blood in whose voins courses heal?
thy and froe,
With tbe vigor of youth In her movement
of grace,
Oh, that is the maldon for me I
She is the girl to "tie to" for life. The
sickly, complaining womau may be an
object of lovo and pity, but she ceases to
bo a "thing of beauty" worn down by
female weakness and disorders, subject to
hysteria and a martyr to bearing-down
pains. Dr. Pieroe's Favorite Prescription
is a sure cur 3 for these distressing com?
plaints, amd will transform the feeble,
drooping BuiTorer into a healthy, happy,
blooming worn in. Guaranteed to give
satisfaction In ovory case, or money paid
for it refunded.
The Folly or Neglect.
Neglect is the cause of failure. Suc?
cess is in every man's reach if he takes
pains to succeed. We must face our task
and work with our might to accomplish
it. Your garden does not grow up in
woods because it might not be otherwise,
but because you neglect it. The school?
boy fails aud goes to the foot of hi: class
because be does not take pains. Tbe
sermon in crude aud rambling and puts
the congregation to sleep, because the
pB&tor allowod himself to be diverted by
other things from the work of careful pre?
paration. "Dillgenco insures suocesa,"
slackness and neglect mean inevitable
failure. To know how, is of course
much ; but to do tbe best you know, and
keep diligently at it, is the best way to
learc how, and the only sure road to
success.-?Cumberland Presbyterian.
? Mount Ararat, the resting place of
the Scriptural ark, is iu reality two
mountains sspsrated by a valley. The
higher peak ia 17,210 feet aud the lesser
13.0Q0 feet above sea level.
GOOD READING FOR FARMERS,
Dr. J. H. Carlisle furnishes tbe South?
ern Chruiian Advocate with the following
letter front Bishop Henry H. McTyeire,
written thirty year* ago in the "war
times of 1862." Tbe signature U. P. is
meant for "Methodist Preacher," and
the letter is one of & series written from
Alabama, where the author had refugeed
from Nashville. Dr. Carlisle says let
this "Butler Lodge" letter be read '.at
many t happy fireside in the country;
and we hope it will encourage young
farmers to persevere cheerfully, thank
fully, in their noble calling.
Mb. Editor : Farmers are said to be
a complaining net, and I partly believe
it. It appears even in their salutations.
Meet neighbor Jones on the road or
speak to him across tihe fence: "Good
morning, Mr. Jones. How are jou and
all yours ?" "Pretty well, thsnk you;
no right to complain." Now, I would
have you understand that when Jones
says this it is going well with him and
his. Nobody, nor man nor beast, is ail
iag; no lack of rain ; no stress of
weather. Yet, at his very but estate,
tbe most you can get out of Jones is?he
waives his right to complain.
I have been considering why this is so
with farmers, having of late got to be a
small one myself. No class of men
ought to be more thankful, more cog?
nisant of God in all their ways, more
directly and constantly sensible of their
dependence upon His blessings, than
farmers. They deal with Him. They
are the high priests of nature, waiting,
with faith and hope and labor, upon tbe
seasons, the earth, the dews, the sun?
shine, tbe sbowero, tbe quickening seed,
the growing ear, the ripe corn. Truly,
to tbem everything cometh from above,
from the Father of mercies. They deal
with first cauteB; others with second and
third and fourth causes. They drive their
trades by crediting the laws of natura,
that they will be true, and by trusting
God, that He will remember His cove?
nant with the earth; others drive their
trades, more or less, by trusting in men.
These things, aside from their separate
ness from tbe temptation and strife of
mixed masses, lead us to the oonclusioa
that, as a class, farmers ought to be
godly. And, to use oci of their averag?
ing expressions, "take tbem up one side
and down the otbor," I think they are;
they are manly, self-reliant, honest, vir?
tuous. But to their complaining pro?
pensity?what grumblers they are I Al?
ways getting ruined, and yet somehow or
other steadily on the increase.
Unlike the banker, the farmer has no
monthly exhibit of his business to make
out, swear to before a notary and publish
in tbe papers. His affairs are open and
confessed. Every one that rides along
tbo road can look over tbe fence and see
for himself what sort of a crop he had.
If bis stock and teams are sorry, or if
they are fat, they have his brand and
mark on them, and you oan tell their
condition, meet them where you will.
It wouldn't do for the sexton to lament
that he had no business; this would be
indecent. It wouldn't do for tbe lawyer
or tbe doctor; this would be the sure
way to have none, for most people dis?
trust their own judgment in selecting
lawyers and doctors and rely on the judg?
ment of others, as expressed in a large
practice. I have hoard of a pert physi?
cian procuring himself to be called out of
church and other assemblies on urgent
cases. He would ride into the village in
a dash and dash out again; and so he
rode into a practice. Many a merchant
has rubbed through a tight place with a
stiff upper lip. On the verge of bank?
ruptcy, he talked easy and free and bore
himself like everything was moving on
swimmingly, and so preserved on his
credit with the timid and weathered the
storm. But tbe farmer can't fool any?
body, and he has no need to. What if
be were to flatter and "put on." It
wouldn't kill tbe grass or help his crop a
bit. He deals with honest old Earth,
and she can't be tiokled, except with a
hoe or ploughshare. He msy brsg a
little on some out-of-the-way field tbat
no one is apt to see ; but bragging is not
tbe farmer's style. I smiled inwardly a
few Sundays ago, at a Baptist meeting,
?l overbearing a deacon bebind me
whisper to the brother who sat
next to bim: "You ought to tee
my swamp corn." There wss an under
tone of exultation in the remark that
made the brother to whom it was ad?
dressed mourn, for be wore a face of duo
length, and bad just been oomplainingof
drouth and the prospect of starvation.
There is another aid a better reason
than the one assigned already. As tbe
farmer carries along a variety of inter?
ests, hardly any dispensation of Provi?
dence is favorable to them all, and hu?
man like, he grieves over the farthing
lost more than he rejoices over the shill?
ing gained. I was forcibly reminded of
this confilot of desire and interest the
other day. A parcel of fodder bad been
I pulled and was curing faxt under a
scorching sun; by to-morrow morning it
would be ready for stacking. Good sun.
Good sunshine. Just the weather for
ouring fodder. Why don't I feel more
thankful ? Because tbe potatoes seem to
say: "Mighty dry?can't make anything
at this rate." The patch of rice, wilted
and sick, cries out for rain. As for the
peas, they are at a standstill. Presto,
change 1 While I was ruminating rather
thsn thinking on this state of things, the
clouds bad begun to thicken and soon it
t him dared. When a man changes a
heavy rail from one shoulder to the
other, he is not more distinctly oenscions
of shifting a burden than was I. A new
conflict of wishes and fears arose. In
vain I rebuked myself; the conflict con?
tinued as the blotaadly burdened cloud
grew closer and heavier. If it rains, v.-el 1
for the peas, the potatoes, the rice, and
woe to the fodder! I wanted it to rain and
I didn't want it to rain. Mr Editor, J
crave from you aud the rest of mankind
forbearunco toward complaining farmers.
It is not that they are unthankful; really
it is not. For nfrer tbe Lord decided it
for me, sending down a shower that aid
tbe dust, L'id sweetened the air, find
washed off tbe leaves, and set tbe dry
streams to singing and everything to
growing, I felt very thankful, and that
evening in our family prayers read tb.3
65th Psalm with the spirit and the un?
demanding also. Next day, if I had
met'neighbor Jones. I miarht have said:
"All well, thank you'j'fw right to com?
plain." M. P.
Butler Lodge, Ala., Sept. 8,1862.
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Farming Tkat Pays.
We wonder how many of the thou?
sands of people who come into and go
ont of Charleston harbor during tbe year,
and of those who passes to and fro be?
tween the city and Sullivan's Island
every summer, know that the little
clamps of trees and white houses which
apparently stand in the marshes on
either hand mark the sites of some of tbe
very finest farms on the continent?
Whether the fact is known to many or
not, it is a fact all the same. The situa?
tions as it appears from the deok of a
steamer is very deceptive. A closer ap?
proach, or a visit outright, would dis?
cover that the marsh ende short of where
the clnmps of trees begin, and that the
sligh tly elevated ground is occupied in
fact by widely extended vegetable gar?
dens in the highest possible state of cul?
tivation.
Probably a farmer from tbe interior,
looking over the low ground*, would de?
cline to accept the whole landscape as a
free gift. If he went to buy some of it,
however, he would leasn that he would
have to sell from fifty to a hundred acres
of his beat river bottom land in the up
country to raise the money to buy one
acre of the "marsh," and would have to
hunt for a seller at that rate.
One of the best of these seaside farms,
as is well known hereabouts, is "Bay
view," the property of Mr. John Boyd
lies on tbe edge of Christ Ohurch Parish,
^between the mouth of Shem Greek and
Oooper River, and is under the superin?
tendence of M?ns, L. Pudi^on. It is not
a "model farm," perhaps, in the accepted
sense of that term. That is to say, tbe
stablee are not furnished with spring
beds for the horses aid other stock, and
it is not the rule to whitewash all the
ploughs and hoes, and pots and pans,
and grass plots and such articles once
every week or so, and tbe work hands
are not drilled in Upton's tactics and all
that sort of thing. It is just a neat,
clean, well ordered common sense, 150*
acre South Carolina farm, every acre of
which is worth as much as a corner lot
in a city, because brains are employed in
its cultivation and management, and it it
made to produce all it can of whatever
it will produce, to the best advantage in
its season.
It would be too long a story to describe
here the farm and its varied crops, and
its hot beds and flower gardens and
other interesting features and attractions.
We do not propose to try to describe it
in any part. We have but two or three
objects in view in mentioning it. One of
these objects is to disabuse tbe minds of
people at a distance of the idea that all
fa'ming in this part of tbe country is
crude and unprofitable. Another object
is to impress two important lessons on
tbe mbds of fanners generally in South
Carolina who have not learned them
alrsady. The first of these lessons re?
lates to drainage. The land on the
"Bayview" place is worth several hun?
dred dollars an acre. But for tho net?
work of sub-soil drains in it, it would not
be worth more than five or ten dollars an
acre at the most. So that good drainage
pays. The drains on the place, it may be
added, are made of rough pine planks,
and experience proves that tbey are good
for perhaps an hundred years' service.
Another lesson relates to hay-making.
The Newi and Couritr has appealed to
every farmer in the State to make enough
hay for his farm use, and to sell. This
is the plan pursued on "Bayview" farm,
except that the hay is not sold; tkere is
use on the farm for all that is made.
And this brings us to the next and last
lesson. There is an insatiable demand
on the farm always for fertilizers, more
fertilizers, and even still more fertilizers.
It is poor economy to starve a work-horse
or a milch cow. It is sheer folly to
starve land and expect to get paying
crops out of it. It will starve its owners
first. The fine farms around Charleston
are not starved; they are given as much
food as they can digest.
To help to supply this demand at
"Bayview" a plan is employed that will
strike most Southern farmers no doubt as
new. There is a considerable number of
hogs of fine breed penned, two or three
in each pen, in a corner of the farm.
They arc fed liberally, and their pens
are bedded deep bay and peavines for
the sole purposo of making manure. Tbe
hogn are not bred for pork and bacon.
Tbey pay for all they eat and all the
care taking, and more besides, by the
fertilizing elements obtained from their
pens. Tbe row of pens is simply an
open air fertilizer factory, of the cheap
est character. The -ogs are more valua
ble dive than (Lad, but if killed would
give the price of every pound as clear
profit. Yet there are farmers in South
Carolina who buy all their bacon and
pork and bams and lard from beyond tbe
Mutiisjippi Biver, and most of those who
have a few bogs on their farms regard
the pens as an unqualified nuisanoel
We have said enough, perhaps, to set
some of our old fogy agricultural friends
to thinking, and that, we are sure, is
what they most need. There is nothing
like brain-work for making farming pay.
?Newt and Couritr.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
By local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is oi?1" 'ie way to cure Deafness,
and that i j constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con?
dition of tbe mucojs lining of tho Euata
chian Tube. When this tube gets in?
flamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, aud when it is entire?
ly closed Deafness is the result, aod
unless tbe inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever; uine cases out often are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
aBy oase of Deafness (caused by catarhj
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Core. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, 0.
??T*So!d by all Druggists, 75c,
All Sorts of Paragraphs. I
? The Methodists have built their i
church in Spain. They begin with thii
five members.
? It is a queer thing that after a ;
has consented to fly with a msn^
usually has to walk.
? Tbe mitten from a girl has knoc
out more men than the prize-fight
glove ever did.
? Dr. Bulla Cough Syrup is the 1
In the market. A single bottle will c
vlnce you of its excellence. Try it.
? Happiness Is a good deal like m
ey; a great many persons who hav<
coming to thsm are cheated oat of It
? Bridge No. 2: No other woman (
wore this ring, did she, darling ? VP
ower: No woman on earth ever ha
on.
? Woman never realizes what peri
ous scoundrels men can be until
marries one of them and gives hin
letter to mail, *
? Condition of food has a great c
to do with its digestion, and so w
toast is crisp it Is more readily trltort
by the teeth.
? It is too bad to spend half o
short life distressed with neural
when a 25 oeat bottle of Salvation
will cure it quickly.
? Brass pins were first made by
Saracen 3 in Spain in A. D. 800, and H
brought to England by Catharine
Arragon, wife of Henry VHL
? When a man ii In love he tbi
his gir. 'a name is the sweetest in
world, but when they are married,
thinks if; in too old-fashioned to give
children.
? Th* forty-first chapter of Gent
fourteenth verse, contains the ear]
referencs to shaving of the heard, wl
It is told of Joseph that he shaved h
self.
? Tho largest greenback extant i
$10,000 bill, and only one such bill
been piinted by the government,
the $5.000 bills, the next largest, tt
are seven.
? There is still burning in Indi
sacred fire that was lighted by the !
aeea 12 centuries ago. The fire If
with sandal and other fragrant woods,
is replenished five times a day.
? A lady writing from St. Louli i
that her hair is fifty-four inches
length; and there is another lady
Chicago who can easily stand on
hair, which is five feet nine inches 1c
? It is said to be a proven fact t
the wearing of high, narrow beehr
hurt the eyesight of many who n
foolish enough to follow that style p
sistently. Physicians agree to this.
? There is a fence of wire netting
miles long between the Australian c
onies of New South Wales and Quee
land. Its object is to keep the rab
from migrating from one colony to
other.
? The first coins minted in No
America were produced in Mexico
1585, and tbe coinage of the color,
tbat afterward became tbe United Sti
used the Mexican dollar as the stand
of value. ^~
? In tbe United States there are fo:
four people in every one hundred ?
are engaged in agriculture, as compa
with fifty-six in Canada, seven in E
land, sixteen in Germany, and for
eight in France.
? A Cincinnati preacher proposes
a young lady, bnt was rejected. !
feelings were again hurt when a wie
sent him the following text to pre
from: "You ask and receive not*
cause you ask a miss."
? When the hair begins to come
in combing, it shows a weakness of
scalp that calls for immediate attent
The best preparation to arrest furl
loss of heir and restore the scalp t
healthy condition is Ayer'a Hair Vij
? Of negro communicants in
United States there are 1,280,000 B
tista; 1,166.000 Methodists; 121
Catholics; 81,400 Presbyterians; 6.
Congregatiooaliats and 4,900 Epj^coj
ians?a totsl of 2,610,525 colwedcEI
members. * i
? Tbe deepest soundings ever ta
in tbe Pacific Ocean, or, in fact,
place on the globe, were made in
vicinity of the Ladrone Islands, wl
the depth was found to be 26,850 feel
about five miles.
? A fine head of hair is an indist.
sable element of beauty. Ayer's I
Vigor maintains youthful freshness
luxuriance, restores to fsded and f
hair its original color, prevents baldr,
removes dandruff, and cures scalp >
eases. It gives perfect satisfaction.
? The latest triumph of Yankee
ventive genius is an India rubber
worm. It is said to be a remark]
good imitation of the common ei
worm, is indestructible, and in ac
use proves as alluring to the fishes as
genuine article. j
? Tbe largest and most pow<
search light in the world is destined
tbe Statue of Liberty in New York I
bor, and will be visible for 100 miles
capable of transmitting messages 1
distance. It will be a 50,000 caj
power and will cost about $4,000.
? A grocer says if a lamp chimnc
washed in coal oil and never even wi
with a damp cloth, it will be practic
indestractive, end will smoke jet b
before it will crack. He has rec
mended this remedy to customers
years and never heard of its failing.
? The story is told of an eminent
vine and his bright boy which Is not
void of instructiveness. Tbe father
a way of saying to bis son when lea^
home, "Remember whose boy you a
The lad one day turned the tables
calling out to his father, "Good-I
papa; remember whose father you a
? When Mr. Vanderbilt was abou
appear before tbe recorder, to hear
will of his father read, it occurred to
tbat a mistakeof any kind at that crit
moment might cost bim ?50,000,001
$60,000,000, which money might be
quired by the disinherited. He th
fore gave Mr Evarts $50,000 to go
Ciurt and sit beside him, ready with
wit an ! his brain , if those remarks
characteristic!] should be needed in
fenss of the great heir. Mr. Evarts c
everything was all right and walked!
of ourf, with his half a huifdreaTM