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BY CLINKSCALES & LAN GS TON. ANDERSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1892. VOLUME XXVII.- -NO. 15. For Asthma, Bronchitis Colds, coughs, la grippe, pneumonia, and all diseases of the throat and lungs, take "For more than twenty-flve years I was & sufferer from lunt trouble, attended with coughing so severe at times as to cause hem? orrhage, the paroxysms frequently lasting three or four hours. I was Induced to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and after taking four bottles was thoroughly cured- I can confidently recommend tuts medicine."? Franz Hotman, Clay Centre, Kons. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral prn,.redbyDr.J.C.AyorfcCo..Low.ll,lfM.. PrompttOact, SUretOCUre OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ???_i.li ?SSMaMSSS? ALL OF OKJR DRESS aOODS AT COST FOR CASH, Including all our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. The Oaahmerea 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. liue at 33Ja, the 75c. line for half a dollar, and the dollar line for 75c. You will save on a $2.40 Dress Pattern 60 cents, on $3 00 Pattern the same amount, bnt the difference on the 6aer goods is greater: On $4.80 you save $1.80, on the $6.00 line you save $2.00, on the $9.00 line you save $3.00, on $12 00 line you save $4.00. Remember, this sale will be only for Thirty Days. LADIES' STORE STILL LEADING IN HANDSOME GOODS! 0 J?R Buyer has been lu the Northern marketu for three weeks, aud has bought the HANDSOMEST 8TOCK OF LADIES GOODS that has ever been brought to tfcis market AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL. We have added a new feature in ihe way of? A B4RGAIN COUNTER. Js$* Don't fail to inspect our entire Stoek, for you will SAVE MONEY ! Thanks for the past and hopes for the future, Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. Successor to Peoples & Burriss, still Headquarters for House Mil Goofls, Fancy Cliiiia, DiMer Sets, Vases, Holiday Goods, &c. The celebrated IRON KING COOK STOVE is much improved over the old pattern. We have a fine Stove, No. 7, for $10 00, with 25 pieces, as ornamental as any first close housekeeper need want. A big lot of Second Hand Stoves must go &t tome price, so come in and price them. TINWARE LOW DOWN ! t&- Bring your BAGS, EIDES and BEESWAXtorn. Those indebted to the firm of Peoples & Burriss are respectfully invited to call in as soon as possible aad settle their Account at the name old stand with JOHN T. BURRISS. Having bought the A. 0. Means Stock of CLOTHING, SHOES. HATS, &C? And being desirous of closing out the same, we will SELL ALL GOODS at FEW YORK COST I When we say New York Cost WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY. Come early and make your selections and SECURE BARGAINS. TAYLOR & CRAYTON, Red Front Granite Row. WHY ORDER PIA1TOS AND OTtOrJ^JSrS From any otlier Market when THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Can and will Save you Money by Buying at Home. OUR Goods ars bought in larsre lots from the Manufacturers for CASH. I Our expenses are much lighter than dealsrs in larger cities, who sell almost exclusively through Sub-Agents, thus adding largely to the prices charged yon And.-beaides, we have the LARGEST STOCK IN THE STATE to select from, and every Instrument is sold under A POSITIVE GUARANTEE. v. ^?P^ctfully solicit your patronage, which will be highly appreciated. Respectfully, C A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. AXBERSOX, 8. C. 3E5?! IVTcGree & Dillirigliair;. We are very much obliged to our friends for their liberal pitronage for the pas year, and will say that we will havo on hand at our Stables? FIRST CLASS MULES AND HORSES, AND WILL GIVE YOU LIVING PRICES. fta sure to ?all and see us if you wait a First Claas Mule or Horse cheap for e*?K <>r with good security. ?Ve also can furnish you s firgt o.Sasu Turnout at any time*. Our Livery De? partment is pquipr>ed with rir.i c'h^ ll -rsos and Hu<rjtjeH. We also have on hand a lot of? PHjETONS, BUGGIES and HARNESS That we will sell at Rock Bottom Prices. MoGEE & DILLINGHAM. "Btt All oeramunications Intended fo tbis column should be addressed to C WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C. The examination of Wachen will take plaoo od Saturday, the 25 ad inst., instead of the 21at, at published. Applicants will please take notice. Mr. W. P. Holland will teach at Lib? anon next year. The patrons bare been fortunate in securing bim. They like fco have made a serious mistake. The work of the shool room should be made as practicable as possible. Pupils should be shown the importance of each lesson, as well ax its plaai in human lira. We give our readers Iba benefit of some fine thoughts from the pen of Mr. Eddie P. Vandiver. We refer to his graduating speech published in this col? umn. >. Tbe weather is indicating tbe necessity of comfortable school houses for the children during tbe wlator months. It is tbe duty of tbe Trustees to provide eomfortable sobool housfo. It is their duty and they ought to do it. Columbus Day will be observed in some of the schools We would be glad to see all observe the day. 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 tbat you would not be willing for your children to read. Qive tbe children good, clean papers to read, and encourage them in reading chem. A newspaper claws in the school might be of benefit. THAT IA8Y PLACE. We are told in mythology tbat tbe an cient Grecians believed tbat their gods dwelt on the summit of mount Olympus in Thecsaly, that beautiful mountain whose summit reached above tbe clouds, and whose lofty peaks were oovered with perpetual snow. Here they feasted on ambrosia and nectar, discoursed upon tbe affairs of Heaven and aartb, and were delighted at intervals by tbe sweet music of Apollo's lyre. This brief mythologi? cal history is in itself a clear definition of "Tbat Easy Place;" a place of idleness, happiness and of no responsibility; a place where the bauds are folded, tbe eyes are closed aod the poor mortals slumber free from the cares and anxie? ties that vex tho busy world. But there is another place, tho opposite of that easy place, and the path that leads to each of them are open to every youth, both of tbem be cannot take, but one of tbem be must follow. Tbe nature of these two paths is beautifully illustrated by Prociu.i in his narration 'x>nceroin2 Hercules. He says that when Hercules was advancing from boyhood into man hood, a period at which the young be? coming their own masters begiu to give intimations whether they will enter upon the path of life by tbe way of vir? tue or tbat of vice, tbat he went forth into a solitary place and Bat perplexed as to which of these two paths he should pursue, and while thus meditating two lovely maidens approached him. One of them rau up to him and exclaimed : "I see tbatyou are hesitating, Hercules, upon what path you ?ball enter upon life, if now you will make a friend of me I shall con? duct you by tbe 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. Sweot Bleep shall refresh thine eyes before they become weary, and tbe choicest of dainties the appetite before it bscomeu hungry, and you shall take freely of what others ac? quire by labor." Herculos on hearing this address said : "And what, 0 woman, be thy name!" She replied: "My friends call me happiness, but those who hate me oall me vice." In the meantime tbe othor maiden approached him and Baid : "I, also, have come to address you, Hercules. I have known your parents, and have hoped that you would direct your steps along the path tbat leads to my dwelling and become au excellent peformer of whatever is good and noble, and tbat I might appear more honorable through your illustrious deeds. I will not deceive you, however, with prumisss of pleasure, but will set before you things as tbey really are, for of whatever is good and noble, nothing is granted to mankind without labor aud care." Thus spoke virtue to the fabled hero, and thus she speaks to all. The young men of our day, like Heroulee, are called upon to decide whioh of these two paths they will pursue. If they would attain that easy place they must avoid the easy and flowery path of vice, it leads from idlenees downward, step by step, to tbe 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 tbem and stand on the summit, joy and happiness, that tbe idler can never know. It leadi to that easy place. We should always bear in mind that what we call an easy place is reached by a bard road. Men can not soar on flowery beds of ease to tbe high? est and 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 roceive large salaries for light duties, it is only the just reward of years of hard studs and application. Tbe highest and noblest positions iu life are obtained by labor and self-denial. Yet, clearly cs these two path* have been marked out, there have been persons in all ages lha' have chosen the fiuwery path of vice in order to shirk the hard fought battles of life. We need no?, search for their names in history, for they mad? no record and left no name behind. In tbe evening of the nineteenth century, whi< h has justly been termed the age of pro? gren and improvement, we find men who will sacrifice truth, honor anU every other high and noble quality that adorns mankind, for au easy place. The effoct of following tkat eaay path Is esau by every one in everv department of life. We see its effect on the grownjup man'who!wai a lazy school boyandfloved play better than study, consequently be grew up to be au Ignorant nan unfit for anything but the bumbleet positions in life. We see its effect on the farmer who loves sleep better than labor. In summer his crops are choked by the briers and weeds, and in autumn his bars is empty. We see it also on some of our merchants, lawyers, doctors and somo times even the preachers them selves are not osempt, and the effect in every case Is nothing less then poverty and disgrace, far ?o it ever has been and so it ever will be. Virtue trnly said nothing good caa be accomplished without labor. All the great inventions that have made many thine: easy that were once thought im? possible, all the grand discoveries of ! science and art, are the results of long years of cteieleeti labor. Newton's won? derful discovery that onables us to cal? culate with precision how muck the moon curves in her path around the earth each second was the result of sev? enteen years of hard labor ever long col? umns of figure:). Kepler's three grand and iudispanaable laws of astronomy was also the result of seventeen years of men cnl toil. And that asost beautiful poem in our langungs, the Elegy, written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray, which ha9 been read acd loved nliko by the young and old, was not the produc? tion of a moment's thought, but was the result of eight years of diligent study. Honost toil is the noblest thing on earth, it converts the wilderness into grain-bear? ing fields, it rears cities and adorns the earth with architectual monumeuht, it whitens the seas with the wings of com? merce, and binds nations together with the fast holding bands of railroads and telegraphs. Labor holds wider sway than the conqueror, his name becomes tainted and his monuments crumble to dtut, but labor converts his bloody battle Melds 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 shun that easy path as we would the prince of darknens 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. Vandivbe. A Man-Eating Plant. There has been discovered in Nicara? gua a flesh-eating or rather man-eating plant, which is called by the natives "the devil's snare." In form it is a kind of vegetable octopus or dovil fish, and it is able to draw blood of any living thing which comes within its clutches. It appears that a Mr. Dunstan, a naturalist, has lately returned from Central Amer? ica, where he spent two years in the study of the plants and animals of those regions. In one of the swamps which 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 he 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 the branches of the weep ing willow denuded of its foliage, but of a dark, nearly black, hue, and covered with a thick viscid gam that exuded from the pores. Drawing his knife, Mr. Dunstan at? tempted to cut the poor beast free, but it was with the very greatest difficulty thai he managed to ssver the fleshy, muscular fibres of the plant. When the"" dog was extricated from the plant, Mr. Dunstan saw to his horror and amazement that the dog's body was blood-aUined, while the skin appeared to have been actually sucked or puckered in spots, and the animal staggered as if from exhaustion. In cutting the vine the twiggs curled like living sinuous Angers about Mr. Dun* stan's hand, and it required no slight 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 adhee ive and of a disagreeable odor, powerful and nauseating to inhale. The natives showed the greatest horror of the plant, and recounted to the naturalist many stories of its death-dealing powers. Mr.1 Dunstan 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 loss of skin and even of flesh. As near as he could ascertain, however, its power of suction is contained in a number of infinitesai 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 Timts. Buckiens 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 mouey refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by rJillBro*_ ? An Abilene (Kan.) man recently advertised that he would like to buy a ?ec>nd hand mower, and to address 'X L.' pijsiuffice. He received one unsvit-r that struck him favorably, and, after corresponding some time, hunted lbs party up and found It to be hi* wife, who wan trying to aell him their old on?, BILL ABP'S TALK. Toxea Is a Grant Stet?, and H?r Faople Among tho B?tt in ihm World. Atlanta Oon?Mt*tio*u Bj tho tint this reaches your readers 1 will be in tbe Lont Star 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 promises and see tbe bright side of her country and her peo? ple. We always see the bright Bide when we go visiting. When people come visit? ing ns at oar house we are on our beit behavior and everything is sweet and lovely and when they go home they tell everybody what a delightful time they had and what a ebarming family and what good cooking and what good beds to sleep on and somebody tells us what they said and tbat pleases us and com? forts us and maksa 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 every family audit vs ill come to the front every 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 wits and loosens the old gentleman's pmfioatrings 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 bis little snarly, unfriendly dog. When asked what was the secret of his attachment to the brui?, he said: "Well, I like tbe little dog just because he likes me and that is reason enough." I am going to Texas this time in search of the end of a raiubow tbat is over thore. It stretches from Texarkaoa 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. I am 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 w:'h some Third Party friend?if I can find one! Mr. Blaine had tu publish a card and ex? plain why be 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. I like Mr. Blain? because he liked Ben Hill and was the first man to send a check for $50 for bis monument. I like him because he is opposed to the ! roe bill?I don't like him for many otbe. things too tedi? ous to mention. But I don't reckon ray one vote will be needed no how, for tho Third Party is sick in Georgia aud get? ting sicker evory day and will bo quaran? tined before tbe election. Weaver and Fields and Mm. Lease are quarantined already. About nine years, ago I visited Texas for tho first time and noted tho state of public morals and found all the new towns in a wild, recklefs, uusettled 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 tho saloons wore all opon and tbe billard balls were crack? ing and tbe faro banks in full blast and Bogardus was obootiug pigeonB in the suburbs and the church bells rang feebly and few and they hadjutt furnished a four story jail that was 200 feet long and wasu't half big enough, they said. But the devil dm't run the business now. Good men and women banded together, and more of them kspt coming and cburchea were built and Sunday Schools established and the Y. M. C. A. became a power and they drove tbe devil out and now it is an orderly, Godfearing city. Young men who are uiaaipr?ted and reck? less c*re nothing about the morals of a town, but when meu of families wbo are raising up ci.uJren 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 wou't settle iu a Godless town. Texas is now as much a land of church? es as aay State iu the union aud is em? phatically tbe land of schools. I re? member when it was supposed tbat it was tbo land of outlaws and refugees from justice and my wonder now is what became of all the rascals who were said to bavo run away to Texas? When I wa.s out there* last summer a man came up to me and said "howdy, major." "Weil, tell me who you are," said I. He whispered his name and said, "I knowd you over in Georgia. About twemiy years ago I happened to kill a man over little accidentally iu a fight, and I didn't have no money to fee a iftvyer and so I just stepped over here to save trouble." He told me his name and I promised to keep bis secret, for thoy said ha was behaving himself. I don't believe in hunting a man down after ter, 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 theso directives and reward hunters juat for the reward tbat was once effered 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 and was raising up respei* table children when suddenly a detectiva found him and selxsd him and rudely tore him from those who lo7ed him and carried him away to a distant State to prison. It is all wrong aud does no good. had carried the burden of hii crime like a nightmare for years and yeirt. Ik* had suffered enough. Thinking about Texas rcraiuds me <-f whnt EJenry Grady said to me some ye.sis ago when I told him I was going there. "Are you not ofruid?" said he. "Afraid -of what?" Iasksd. "Why of robbers ?train robbers?those fellows that hold up a tmin und go through ii awl \ w. yl.-i muzzle of u dorrtug*r at ever) mau'd head und kofcp it thero uutil he disgor? ges, I would like tn ?te that doue. f would give ?5G to be on a train when it was held up. If I wsc travelling out there and knew what train tbey would ?top, I would take It just to aeo the fun. The idea of two men attacking the engi naar and fireman and conductor and bag? gage man and expre>a men and brakes? men and porters and messengers and subduing them all and paralyzing a hun? dred passengers and taking all their money is to me one of the grandest and most extraordinary performances in the world and I want to see juat how it is done and feel how a man feels while it is going on?don't you?" "Not much?no I don't," said T. "I don't see any fun in it, nor grandeur; but it Is certainly very 1 extraordinary. There 1b not a car full of passengers 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 bis ssat and shoot tke rob? ber before he gets to him, I don't under? stand." "Paralyzed," said Grady, "the very audacity of tke thing paralyzes them and I wan't to realise it. I want to try some audacity myself. I would look the fellow right in the eyo and smile and say 'My friend, let's oompro mlse this business?let's divide?you take half and I'll take half,' and I'd look so sssiliag and unterrlfiesl that he would pass on. Don't you know that when three of the eommune went into Rothchild's bank in Paris, during the revolution, and demanded his money under the cry of liberty, equality and fraternity the old Jew never quails 1 nor trembled but said 'how much money have I got?' And they said, 'forty millions of francs.' 'That is right,' said 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. Thoy took them sheepishly and went out. Now nobody ever stops to talk to these robbers or to reason with tbeaa but tbey become par? alyzed and surrender. I would like to meet them and try a few broken remarks upon thorn. They are desperate fellows, no doubt, but thoy are men like we axe and have th*ir 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 such men in a war?wouldn't they whip an army?" "No," said I, "Lhoy wouldn't make good soldiers. The best soldier-; wa had wero men who would not rob anybody, nor impo?e on anybody ?nor bs looking out for au insult. They wore men who were more peaceable than quarrelsome. The fellows who went about with pistols in their pockets before the war dident make good soldiers and they dodged every battle on some pre? text." Henry pondered awhile and said : "Maybeyou are right, but I would like to be on a train when it was held up." Grady had great admiration for hero? ism of any kind whether it was in Wil? liam Tell or a nowsboy?whother in a ganeral or a pugilist, or an outlaw. How eagerly ho used to listen to the story of Forrist with his 800 man following Strait with his 1,600 for a week and overtaking bim near Rome and demanding hia sur? render and compelling it by kis audacity. What a hero ho r.iada of Lewis Graves, the saloon koper, at Rorno, who jumped into the swollen river and saved a poor boy from drowning when nobody else dared do it! But I am not going to carry much money on \hn tr?.':o ?nobody does now, except tho exprr-4 ;nd there is no more daoger in Texts ib.au in Alabama or I Florida. There is not as much down 8outh as there is North and West. I I believe that the hard times have done their worst and better times are coming. Cotton is going up and politics will soon subsido and the Third Party vanish away and if we do elect Grover Cleveland aud put Mrs. Frankie and Ruth in the while house we will see the dawn of a new era and everybody will be oalm and serene. Bill Anr. - t O f - ? There U a good doal of truth and philosophy in tho remark made by a wit when he heard of the divorco of a couple recently married : "I am glad they married each other, for if thoy had married somebody else thara would have been two unfortunate couple* instead of j one." Somo fancy tho charms of the lily-white maid, Of etherial form and languishing oye, Who faints in tho sunshine aud droop? in tho ahado, Aud is alwayB "just ready to dio." Hut giro mo tho girl of the suimhiuo face, Tho blood iu whoso veins courses lioal tby and froe, With the vigor of youth in hor movemont of grace, Ob, that is tho maldon for mo I She is the girl to "tie to" for lifa. The sickly, complaining womau may be an object, of love and pity, but ?ha 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. Piorce's Favorite Prescription is a suro euro for these distressing com? plaints, aad will transform tho feeble, droopiag suffjrer into a healthy, happy, blooming woman. Guaranteed to give satisfaction in every case, or inoucy paid for it refunded. Tho Folly of togloct. Neglect is the cuuse of failure. Suc? cess is In every man's reach if he takes pains to succeed. Wo must fscoour task and work with our might to accomplish it. Your gird?n does not grow up iu weeds because it might not be otherwise, but because you neglect it. The school? boy fails aud goes to the foot of Lis claw bvctuss he does not take pains. Tue sermon is crude aud rambling and puts the congregation to sloop, because ttio pastor allowod himself to be diverted by othar things from the work of careful pre paration. ?'Diligence initiras success," elackntes and neglact mean insviubla failure. To know how, is of cuurae much ; but to do t?u boat you know, ncd keep diligently at it, is the best way to k-arn how, and the only sure road to -.ucce^.?Cumberland Presbyterian, ? ? Mount Ararat, tbe resting place of the Scripiuml ark, is in reality two mountains fspsrtrod by a valley. The j higher peak is 17,210 feet and ?he lewer 13,000 feet abovv level, GOOD READING FOR FARMERS. Dr. J. H. Carlisle furnishes tbe South? ern Chrittian Advocate with the following j letter from Bishop Henry H. McTyeire, j j written thirty years ego in tbe "war time, of 1862." Tbe signature If. P. is j meant for "Methodist Preacher," and tbe letter is one of a series written from Alabama, where the author bad refngeed | from Nashville. Dr. Carlisle says let this "Butler Lodge" letter be read >t many a happy fireside in tbe 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 set, and I partly believe it. It appears even in their salutations. Meet neighbor Jones ou tbe road or speak to him across tbe fence : "Good morning, Mr. Jones. How are you and all yours T" "Pretty well, thank you; no right to complain" Now, I would hare you understand tbat when Jones says this it is going well with him and hi". Nobody, ncr man nor beast, is ail? ing; no lack of rain ; no stress of weather. Yet, at hit very best estate, tbe most you can get out of Jooce is?he waives his right to complain. I have been considering why this lc so with farmers, having of late got to be a small one myself. No class of men ought to be more thankful, more cog? nizant 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, tbe earth, tbe dews, tbe sun? shine, the showers, tbe quickening seed, the growing ear, the ripe corn. Truly, to thsm everything cometh from above, from the Father of mercies, They deal with first canses; others with second and third and fourth causes. They drive tbeir trades by crediting the laws of nature, tbat tbey will bo true, and by trusting God, that Ho will remember His cove? nant with the earth ; others drive their trades, more or lets, by trusting in men. Thoto things, aside from (heir separate nsss from the temptation and strife of mixed masses, letd us to the conclusion that, as a class, farmers ought to be godly. And, to use one of their averag? ing expressions, "take them up one side and down the other," I think they are; they are manly, self-reliant, honest, vir? tuous. But to their complaining pro? pensity?what grumblers they are ! Al? ways getting ruined, and yet somehow or other steadily on the increaso. Unlike tbe banker, the farmer has no monthly exhibit of bis business to make out, swear to before a notary and publish in the papers. His affairs are open and confessed. Every one ?bat rides along the road can look over tbe fence and see for bimtelf what sort cf a crop he has. If his stock and teams are sorry, or if tbey are fat, they haTo hit brand and mark on tbem, and you oin tell their condition, meet them where you will. It wouldn't do for tbe sexton to lament that he had no business; this would be indecont. It wouldn't do for the lawyer or the doctor; this would be the sure way to have none, for moat pooplo 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 casss. He would ride into the village in a dash and dash out again; and so be 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 froe and bore himself like everything was moving on swimmingly, and so preserved on bis credit with the timid and weathered the storm. But the farmer can't fool any? body, and be has no noed to. What if he were to flatter and "put on." It wouldn't kill the grass or help his crop a bit. Ho deals with honest old Earth, and she can't be tickled, except with a hoe or ploughshare. He may brag a little on some out of the-way field tbat no one is apt to see ; but brsggiog is not the farmer's style. I smiled inwardly a few Sundays ago, at s Baptist meeting, on overhearing a deacon behind me whisper to the brother who sat next to him: " You ought to tee my swamp corn." There was an under tone of exultation iu the remark that made the brother to whom it was ad? dressed mourn, for ho wore a face of duo length, and had just been complaining of drouth and the prospect of starvation. There is another and a better reason than the one assigned already. As the former carries along a variety of inter* ests, hardly any dispensation of Provi- j donee is favorable to them ali, and hu? man like, he grieves over the farthing lout more than he rejoices over the shill? ing gained. I was forcibly reminded of this confiiot of dosire and interest the othor day. A parcel of fodder bad been pulled and was curing fozt under a acorching sun ; by to-morrow morning it would be roady fur stacking. Good sun. Good sunshine. Just the weather for curing fodder. Why don't I feel more thankful ? Because the potatoes seem to say: "Mighty dry?can't make anything at tbia rate." Tho patch of rice, wilted and sick, cries out for rain. As for the peas, they are at a standstill. Presto, ohauge! While I was ruminating rather than thinking on this state of things, the clouds had begun to thicken and soon it thundared. When a man changes a heavy rail from one shoulder to the otbsr, he is not moro distinctly conscious of shifting a burden than was I. A new conflict, of wishes and fears nrose. In vain I rebuked mysolf; the conflict con? tinued as the blessedly burdened cloud y;r?w closor and heavier. If it rains, well for the peas, tho potatoes, the rico, and woe to ihe fodder! I wanted it to rain and I didn't wunt it to rain Mr Editor, I crave from you and the rast of mankind forbearance toward complaining farmers. It in not that tbey are unthankful; really it is not. For itfrer tho Lord decided it fur me, .^ ruling down a sbowsr that aid the <kiit, and nweetened the air, and washed off the leaves, and sot tbe dry streams to singing and everything 'o growing, I felt very thankful, und that evening in our family piayet? read tho 65th Psalm with the spirit and the un? derstanding also. Next day, if I had met'neighbor Jonea. I rniiht have said: "All well, thank you'j'rjo right to com? plain" M. P. Butler Lodge, Ala., Sept. 3,1862. Farming Tkit Pays. We wonder how many of the thou? sands of people who come into and go out of Charleston harbor during the year, and of thoso who passes to and fro be? tween tho city and Sullivan's Island every summer, know that the little clumps of trees and white houses which apparently stand in the marshes on either hand mark the tikes of some of the vary 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 deck of a steamer is very deceptive. A closer ap? proach, or a visit outright, would dis? cover that the marsh ends short of where the clumps of trees begin, and that the slightly elevated ground is occupied in fact by widely extended vegetable gar? dens in the highest possible state of cul? tivation. Probably a farmer from the interior, looking over the low grounds, would de? cline to accept the whole landscape as a free gift. If he went to buy some of it, however, he would leain that he would have to sell from fifty to a hundred acres of his best 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 viow," the property of Mr. John Boyd lies on the edge of Christ Church Pariah, between the mouth of Sham Creek and Oooper River, and is under the superin? tendence of M?ns. L. Pudigon. It in not a "model fairm," perhaps, in tho accepted sense of that term. That it to say, tho Blables are not furnished with spring beds for the horses sad other stock, and it is not the rule to whitewash all the ploughs and hoes, and pots and pans, aud grass plots and such articles once every week or so, and the 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 ftcre 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 aud management, and it is 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 bo: beds and ilower 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 i* to disabuse the minds of people at a distance of the idea that all farming in this part of the country is crude and unprofitable. Another object is to impress two important lessons on the minds of farmers generally in South Carolina who have not learned them already. The first of theso lessons re? lates to drainage. The land on the "Bayview" place is worth several hun? dred dollars an acre. But for the net? work of sub-soil drains in it, it would not be worth more than five or ten dollars an acre at the moat. So that good drainage pays. The drains on the place, it may be added, are made of rough pine planks, and experience proves that they are good for perhaps an hundred years' service. Another lesson relates to hay-making. Tho Newt and Courier has appealed to every farmer iu the State to make enough hay for his farm use, and to sell. This is the plan pursued on "Bayview" farm, except that the bay is not sold ; there is use on the farm for all that is made. And this brings us to the next and last leeiion. 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 cau digest. To help to supply this demand at "Bnyview" a plan is employed that will strike most Southern farmers no doubt a? new. There is a considerable number of hogq of line broed peuued, two or three in each pen, in a corner of the farm. They aro fed liberally, and their pass are bedded deep in bay and peavines for the dole purpose of making manure. The hogs are not bred for pork and bacon. They pay fcr all they cat and all the care taking, and more besides, by the fertilizing olementa obtained from their pens. The row of pens is Bimp'y an open air fertilizer factory, of the cheap est character. The bogt) are more valua ble alive than dead, 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 hama and lard from beyond the Mississippi River, and mo*t of thewe who have a few hogs on their farms regard the pens as an unqualified nuisance 1 We have said enough, perhaps, to set 6ome of our old fogy agricultural friends to thinking, and that, we are sure, is what tbey most need. There is nothing like brain-work for makiDg farming pay. ?Newt and Courier. Deafness Cannot be Cured By local applications, as they caunot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There ia only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con? dition of the mucous lining of tho Eusta? chis Tube. Whan this tube gels in? flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, aud when it id entire? ly closed Deafness is the result, and ualcis the inflammation cau be taken out and this tube restored r.o its normal eondition, hearing will he destroyed for ever; nine cases out often &re caused by catarrh, which ia nothing bu; an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars fnr any objs^ of DeaiuC'HS (caused by catarh) that ca:inot be cured by Halt's Catarrh Cure. Sand for circulars, tree. F. J CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo,0. J^TSoId by all I.V. ggiats. 7C>c, All Sorls of Paragraphs. ? The Methodius have built their 1 church inSpaiu. They begin with thii five members. ? It h a queer thing that after a ; baa consented to fly with a nran_i usually has to walk. ? The mitten from a girl baa knoc out naore men than tho prize-fight gloTe ever did. ? Dr. Bull's Cou.?h Syrup is the 1 in tbe market. A single bottle will o vioce you of its excellence. Try it. ? Happiness is a good deal like m ey; a great many persons who have coming to them are cheated out of It. ? Bridge No. 2: No other woman t wore this ring, did she, darling? V? ower: No woman on earth ever ha on. ? Woman never realizes what perf ous scoundrols men can be until marries one of them and gives hin letter to mall. ? Condition of food has a great c to do with its digestion, and so wH toast is crisp it is more readily tritura by tbe 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 Saracens in Spain in A. D. 800, and v? brought to England by Catharine Arragon, wife of Henry VIII. ? When a man is in love he thi his girl's name is the sweetest In world, but when they are married thinks it is too old-fashioned to give children. I ? The forty-first chapter of Gencfl fourteenth verse, contains the earl reference to shaving of the beard, wl it is told of Joseph that be shaved h self. ? The largest greenback extant i $10,000 bill, and only one such bill been printed by tbe government, the $5.000 bills, tbe next largest, tb are seven. ? There is still burning in Inditj sacred fire that was lighted by the 9 sees 12 centuries ago. The fire is I with sandal and other fragrant woods M in replenished five times a day. fa ? A lady writing from St. Louis J| that her hair is fifty-four inches! length ; and there is another ladyfl Chicago who can easily stand on I hair, which is five feet nine inches lc ? It is said to be a proven fact t the wearing of high, narrow heela ~ hurt tbe eyesight of many who w foolisb enough to follow that style p sistently. Physicians agree to this. ? There is a fence of wire netting miles long between the Australian c oniea of New South Wales and Quee land. Its object is to keep the rab from migrating from one colony to other. ? The fiwt coins minted in No America were produced in Mexico 1585, and the coinage of tbe oolor that afterward became tbe United Stf used the Mexiean dollar as tbe stand of value. ? In tbe United States there are foi four people in every one hundred v 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 propoBet a young lady, but was rejected. ', feelings were again hurt when a wie sent him tho 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 tbat calls for immediate attenti Tbe best preparation to arrest furt Ion of hair and restore the scalp t healthy condition is Ayer's Hair Vij ? Of negro communicants in j United States there are 1,280,000 B tists; 1,166.000 Methodists; 121, Catholics; 31,400 Presbyterians; 6, Congregationalists and 4,900 JSpjscoi ians?a total of 2,610,525 colored cht members. ? The deepest soundings ever ta in the Pacific Ocean, or, in fact, i place on tho globe, were made in vicinity of the Ladrone Islands, wl the depth was fouud to be 26,850 fee! about five miles. ? A fine head of hair is an indisp sable element of beauty. Ayer's I Vigor maintain* youthful freshness luxurissce, restores to faded and g hair its original color, prevents baldc removes dandruff, and cures scalp i eases. It gives perfect satisfaction. ? The latest triumph of Yankee veutive genius id en Iudia rubber worm. It is said to be a remarki good imitation of the common c: worm, is indestructible, and in ac use proves as alluring to the fishes as genuine article. ' ? The largest and most powe search light in the world is destined the 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 cat power and will cost about $4,000. ? A grocer says if a lamp chimne washed in co.il oil and never even wi with a damp cloth, it will be practic indestructive, and will smoke jet b! before it will crack. He has Fee mended this remedy to customers yoars and never beard of its failing. ? The story is told of an eminent vine and hi* bright boy which is not void of instpjctiveness. The father a way of saying to hu son when lew home, "Renumber whote boy you a The lad one day turned the tables calling out to hi* father, "Good-1 papa; remember whose father you a ? When Mr. Vanderhilt was abou appear hefor* the recorder, to hear will of his father road, it occurred to i that a mistakeof any kind at thatcrit moment might cost him ?50,000,00( $60,000,000, which money might be quired by the disinherit. He th fire gave Mr Evarts $50,000 to go court and -.it beside him, rcsdy with wit an ' his brain*, if those remarks characteristics should be needed in fenss of the great heir. Mr. Evarts i everything wis all right and walked of ein with his hnlf a hantrretTtS and.