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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1893. VOLUME XXVII- -NO. 51 Liver Complaint JaUFldice, I "In bilious stacks, and for sick headache, j I, u??il??u? u_ . ? . to which I am subject, I find no mediclno so SICK noacacne, Vertigo, effective as Ayer's Pills."-Chas. GambinL blliOUSnOSS, and I SrMm's Ranch, Sonoma Co., Cal. rfVMriensIa "1 was troubled w'th s'ck headacbe for tea *,J*lr**l*?,af : * s, but was finally cured by using Ayer's CUred by |r.us."-P. J.Haag.Seott, Wis. Ayer's Cathartic Pills Pr??aredbyDr.J.C,.Ayer&Co.,Lowell,Una. Every DOSO EffeCtivOo Josh Berry Grain Cradles! THE ORIGINAL, THE ONLY GENUINE JOSH BERRY GRAIN CRADLES. There are many imitations bnt no equal. BUY THE JOSH BERRY, And you are sure to get the best. The Josh Berry is the only perfect Fourteen-Finger Grain Cradle made. HEEL SWEEPS, HEEEL SWEEPS ! The "Victor" and the "Terrell." SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., TJIBEKTOX, OA ANDERSON, S. C. PEOPLES' BLOCK! FRUIT JARS. . 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Having Just Recoived a Large Addition to our Stock of HIGH GRADE PIANOS AND ORGANS! \V E can supply any who may wish to purchase an Instrument at Manufacturers' prices. The justly celebrated Wheelovk. iwru A Pond, Everett and Kim ball Pianos are our leaders Finished in latent style Cases of Walnut, English Oak, Mahogany and Ebony. Our SPECIALTIES in ORGANS are Par rand A Votey, Kim ball and ?*Crown," with several other well known makes always in stock. Each Instrument is hilly warranted for five years, and weguarantee price and qual? ity. You ar? cordially invited to vi-dt our Warer ?oms and inspct our immense Mock. If this is inconvenient please write us for Catalogue and Prices. We can aud frill save you money hy buying from us. Respectfully THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. The best Sewing Machine on the market? ** The Celebrated NEW HO ALE?'?always in stock. BILL ARPt He Is Tired of Being Made A Target, and Calls a Halt. Atlanta Constitution. Judge Clark had to rise and explain. The young people had engaged a hall wherein to have a little dance, and it Beems somebody who didn't approve of the business filed a bill of injunction, which came up for a hearing before his honor. Now the Judge is a scholar and has long perused and enjoyed t'ie gifted poets, and after hearing argument he re? fused the injunction, and calling to mind the beautiful Hues of Byron he carelessly said: "On with the dance; let joy be un> confined I" All of this got into the pa? pers, of course, and the Judge received so many letters from his good bre thren in the Church that he had to rise and ex? plain in a very pretty letter to the press. It seemB that I and my family are in a dancing scrape and I wish that I could get out of it as pleasantly as did his honor. Ours occurred nearly five years ago and ought to be barred by the statute of intimations, but ever and anon we hear of it from far away like the sound of a tinkling cymbal, and my Christian friends feel constrained to write me or send-the papers that tell about it. It wasn't much of an affair, bat grows big? ger and bigger as the years roll on. I have recently received the DaUtu News, which a kind lady sent with the dancing paragraph marked, as usual. It. was in a sermon preached there a few days ago by the Bev. George Stewart, the partner of Sam Jones in missionary work, and in it ha said: A decoy duck is a thing that proposes to be a duck and is not a duct. The devil decoys by a painted membei' of the Church that has not life. The devil can tie them anywhere. Here he related how he w.as caught by one of these decoys. He was invited to a birthday party given at the hoi ae of a Presbyterian elder. The Presbyterian pastor went with him. They had a good supper and a pleasant evening and left at 10 o'clock. The next morning ;he At? lanta Constitution had a glowing nccount of it and went on to say that at 12 o'clock the dining room was cleaied and from midnight to day the jolly party tripped the light fantastic, and among those present appeared the names of Bev. George Stewart and Dr. Hillhouso. I haven't got over that smirch yet. Letters and postal cards poured in Bay? ing : "George Stewart, what is the matter with you I" Somehow or somehow else whenever and wherever the Bev. Mr. Stewurt tells that in bis sermons it gets out tbi.t I am the duck?the decoy?and I hear of it from anxioua friends. If he told it as a fable or an allegory and named nc names I wouldn't care. It is a right good fable and there was enough foundation in fact for him to build on, and he built, It is now copyrighted and stereotyped. The facts are that when one of ok boys attained his majority in 1888 we did give him a birthday party, and he invited his young friends and we invited at me of ours who were older, and amonj; them was our pastor, Mr. Hillhouse. It was a goodly company of good people who were well raised and well mannered. Bev. Mr. Stewart was not invited, but some? how he came with our preacher i nd re? ceived a cordial welcome. He w as not decoyed hither by any of us. My wife and daughters had provided a bountiful feast. There was a big, fat turkey gob? bler at each end of the long table and all the space between was filled wit i good ? things. Mr. Stewart enjoyed it, 1 know, and was given a place of honor rind he partook most heartily and dispensed his wit and bis wisdom with abundant; free? dom. Our pastor enjoyed it, too, and joined in the general hilarity. There were none to molest or make them afraid. About 11 o'clock, after the fee at was over, Mr. Hillhouse said to my wile that he had reason to suppose that the young folks had planned a little dance, to which he had no personal objection, but as many good people had a different opin? ion, and as he was a minister, it would be better for him to retire. And so he did retire and took Mr. Stewar; with him. The young people did have a dance and we all enjoyed it, especially my wife, who was raised that way, but now, alas, can only look on and pat her litte foot to the music. The festivities closed a little after midnight and we ea d our prayers and went to bed. This is all of it that I know. The edi? tors of the Constitution have 'searched in vain to find any mention of the party in their "next morning" paper or any other paper, and hew it got out on Mr. Stewart we are at a loss to know. It nevt r got out on Mr. Hillhouse, nor did anybody ever call him to account in letters or postal card?. We are all truly sorry that Mr. Stewart got smirched at our bouse and as be seems to have never recovered from it, will do all he can to relieve him. "Touch not mine anointed and co my prophets no harm," it> a cardinal n-ixt at our house. Certainly we had no inten? tion to decoy or to smirch him, and hope he will have charity and cease making us a target. "He that hath no charity is aa sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." That is the cymbal that we have heard ever and auon from Boanoke, Va., to Dallas, Texas, and its disturbs our family traoquility for it does not seem amiable or Christian to accept the hospitality of a family and depart with their blessing and then make them a target to shoot at all over the land. King David said: "If I have rewarded evil unto hirr. who is at peace with me may mine enemy persecute ray soul and take it. May he tread my life into the earth and lay mine honor in the dust." That iu good Script? ure, too.- Now, as to the sin or iunccence of the parlor dance I do not propose to discuss that with anybody. My freedom of opiniou I will maintain on all sub? jects and I accord to others the same lit ? erty. While I differ with Sam Jones and hib co workers in many things 1 give them full credit for the good thoy are doing in reforming the thoaghtless and the erring, and I bid them speed on their mission. If pulling me down will help them to raise others up it is all right, but still I do not think it necessary and I write this letter more to relieve Mr. Stewart from the unintentional smirch that he says he received at my house than to relieve myself. Oar consciences are perhaps not as sensitive as those of some other people and we may be doing wrong in giving birthday parties with a parlor dance at the close, but no harm has ever come of them, except the smirch, that we know of. Our childteu love ?b and honor us and are good to us, and when they gather at the family mansion we are all happy together. We rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. I would not intrude even this much of our domestic affairs upon the public, but I have many friends in Texas whose regard I treasure in my daily memories, and it grieves me that they may believe me a hypocrite or a painted duck, and so I hope the D?llos Newa will copy this much of my letter and let me stand or fall by it?and let Mr. Stewart be relieved from the smirch from which he so long has Buffered. We are going to have another birthday party next week, on the 15th. It will be my own and that of our eldest grandson, who bears my name and my birthday, and will then be twenty-one. The young folks will gather as usual, and, no doubt, will close the evening with another par? lor dance. "Evil be to him who evil thinks." I am writing history now, and have nearly finished my little book. It will be published by Guun & Co., of Boston, and be offered to the schools by Pro? fessor Roberson, of Atlanta, in the early fall. It is not so good a book ag I ex? pected to write, for I have been sorely troubled with my head and eyes, aud the physicians have forbidden me to write or read, or even to think very much. It is not so comprehensive, I know, aa that of Professor Evans, whose faithful work I admire very much, but it is, perhaps, more suitable for the grammar school, and there is matter in it that will not be found elsewhere, and that I specially de? sire our young people to know. Bill Abp. - ? m - On the Way to the World's Fair. The poor old lady had never ridden in a railroad train before, and now she was making the long journey from New York to Ohicago. She asked me for my sym? pathy. "My son is in the smoking place," said she. "He only laughs at my fears. But I have read of all the horrid accidents in the papers, and I am sure we shall all be pluoged into eternity. Are you not afraid ? The train goes so fast. I cannot think what keeps it on the track. My son would take a fast train. 'If you've got to die, you may as well die with a rush,' he says. You would almost think he wanted to be killed. "Oh, you only say that to soothe me, but I am not to be deceived. It's reck? less to run cars so fast I know it can not be done with safety. There I What a lurch! Really, yon have taken t. <ie trains so often ? And do notbin" ..' happen? And they went so terribly faat, like this? I am sure you ease my mind greatly. I am much obliged to you. I thought it would do me good just to tell how miserable I was. So yon have a wife and children and ain't afraid ? I am sure you would not run any risk, and I am glad you comfort me bo. There's the colored man, He wants to speak to yon." "Beg yo' pardon, colonel," said the por? ter. "How does yo'like yo' head." "Mercy on me I How do you like your head. What possesses the man ?" "He means how do f' want my berth makeup. Make it up with my feet to? ward the engine, porter, please." "Oh, I see! Dear me! I'll never dare to go to bed. I shall sit up the whole night, dressed and ready for whatever happens." "No; don't i'eel *iat way. There is no danger. Retire j ust as you would at home, and yon will fall asleep and forget your fears. "Really ? Well, I will follow your ad? vice. You cannot think how you have calmed me." "I shall undress and Bleep like a baby. Porter, leave the window open at the foot of my berth and leave the screen in." "Yes, sir. Say, colonel, yo's right hav in* yo' feet made to'ds de enjyne. Dat's how I alluB tell de passengers. 'Feet to'ds de enjyne is de safest way ebery time,' says I." "Safest way?" echoed the old lady. "Goodneseakea! How do you meanit'B Bafest ?" "It's easy to see, I kin assure yo, ma'am Ef yo's sleepin' feet fust, why dar you is; but ef yo're sleepin' wid yo' head ta'ds de enjyne,den when dish yer train smashes into some other train yo' is flung right ag'in'yo'head, an'yo' neck is broke just like it was a throw." "Mercy on me! Are we going to smsBh into some other-" "No, ma'am; I did'nt say we was a goin to. AU I say is it's best to be pre? pared. I've been running on die yer road 32 years, an' I've seen 'leven kerlisions, and every time de folks what's killed is de folks which gits chucked agin' their heads Only last week in de accident at Osceola, which I were in, a stout lady like you she?-" But the porter addressed a vacant place. The old lady had fled in search of her son.?Julian Ralph, in Harpen Magazine. Bucklens Arnica Salve, The beBt salve in the world for Outs Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. ? The oldest bank notes are the "flying money," or "convenient money," Grat is? sued in China, 29G7 B. C. Originally these notes were issued by the treasury, but experience dictated a change to the banks under government inspection and control. The notes were printed in blue ink on paper made from the fiber of the mulberry tree. One issued in 1399 B. C. is still carefully preserved in the Asiatic museum Jai St. Petersburg. SARGE PLUNKETT. A Terrible 5term Slips Up on the Old ?Inn. Atlanta Constitution. I have Beed sights and felt feelings but I never seed nothing like a Cyclone be fore nor never felt nothing like the feelings they bring. Along in the night of Sunday night I was waked up by the old 'oman hunching me in the back with her elbow in no very mild manner. I bad resolved to lay still and let her hunch till she wore her arm out, for I thought she wanted a fire kin? dled, when a loud clap of thunder away in the northwest was answered by just as deep a roll from the south, which at once livened the old lady up, and she added kicks and shakes along with the elbow persuasion. Another clap of thunder and her feet played like the sticks of a kittle drum on my poor old body every? where from the sole of my feet to about the waiBtband of my pants, while her hands kept time by a general scramble with the rest of my feeble frame, especi? ally my hair. "What do you want?" I yelled, when I Beed she was desperately in earnest. Before she could answer again the thunders rolled, and deeper than before and much nearer. She lit out of bed and from the door I heard her scream: "Sach clouds 1 Suph clouds!" I thought by this time that it was well enough for me to get a move myself, for the lightnings flashed and the thunders rolled till it seemed a great battle of mighty clouds advancing to grapple each other. The one from the northwest seemed to be trying old Sherman's plan of getting around the one from the south, when suddenly the southern cloud chang? ed its direction and went rolling and tumbling to the northeast. I saw that the monsters were bound to cross each other's path somewhere and I was sure there would be a shock when they came together. I arose from bed with an air of not being at all scared, to run against the old 'oman who was in a fidget trying to get her homespun frock over her head. I was moving by this time; I didn't have no time to kindlo a light nor help her?I wanted my pants and wanted 'em bad, for by this time I was certain that a pow I erful storm was coming. I got a hold of my pants after skinning my shins over three or four chairs, but I couldent get into them to save my life. I was right smart on the fidgety order myself by this time, and slapped by right foot into the left leg of the pantaloons, and as I tried to stand on one foot to pull them off a sharp clap of thunder tbrowed me off my ; balance and I fell flat on the floor in a tangled condition, with my breeches and some chairs. I kicked a-looae in a heap shorter time than it takes me to tell it, and pants or no pan ta, the mules must be get out from among the old trees of the pasture. The mules had sniffed the dan? ger, it seemed, and met me a short dis? tance from the lot gate. I got the bridle on.the "big mule," as we call him, but I hardly know how I did it, for by this time the storm was upon us. The mighty clouds had come together with ajar that Bhook the earth. Boards were flying and timber was falling; whole panels of fencing were in the air, and houses screaked as they were wrenched from their foundations, and hay and shucks blinded the elements. I think "the big mule" had "been there" before, for he stiffened himself with all bis might, with tail to the storm. I held to the bridle like grim death as the storm lifted me from my feet and stretched me out, waving like a string, from the end of the bridle reina, Hold "big mule," hold bridle and grip! was my prayer, as I whirled like a cylinder or popped like a whip. In an instant the whole thing was over, and the clouds went rumbling, tumbling, like many mountains of Beething black? ness. Great waves collided with a re? bound, to meet in a moment again with gathered power. "You shall not cross my path" seemed to say one to the other, as they would come together in a roll of blackness and run side by side in zigzag curves as one or the other seemed the most powerful. As I watched these clouds I lay upon the ground at the feet of the "big mule." The animal had relaxed his strain and looked down on me as if he pitied my frazzled condition, but I knew that the pity of the average Georgia mule would not do to risk myself in that position very long upon, bo I gathered myself together as well as I could and went stumbling and scramb? ling to find the old' oman, The storm had not touched the dwelling, and I soon had all the comfort that could be given me by a free use of camphor, "spirits" and kind sympathy?principally "spirits" ?for a bright light blazed in the fire place and we were ready to laugh at our antics or cry in gratitude for the mercy shown us. I have not a word to say about our damage. We fared so much better than many of our neighbors that I am con? tent. Mr. Elijah Webb, the great old hardshell patriarch, living on a place settled a hundred years ago, with houses built in the strong way of those days, had all his outhouses bwept away. The storm handled the big hewed logs as if they bad been straws, and scattered them to the four winds. But he, too, is thankful, for none of his folks were injured and none of his stock hurt. Just a little further on was where the greatest cruel? ties began. Mr. Weaver lost everything, and all of his family were mangled and bruised. His dwelling, with every ves tige of wearing apparel, furniture and crockery, was carried off. His outhouses, fences and growing crop were torn away. The corn was twisted from its place and the field left bare. I mention Mr. Webb and Mr. Weaver because they were my near neighbors and the greatest sufferers in my settlement. Mr. Webb is over eighty years old and has preached at a little hardshell church near his home for forty years, and was never known to ask for a cent in the way of pay. Mr. Wea? ver was a Confederate soldier, and lost his right leg at the battle of Franklin, Tenn. In this storm his wooden leg wsb carried away, while he lay pinned down by fallen rubbish. He was badly hurt and some of his children are fatally so, the doctors say. This is written without their knowledge; but if every person who reads "Plunkett" this week would send just one dime to these two sufferers it would make a handsome sum to their relief. I would suggest that jour dimes be sent to Mr. R. A. Hemphill, Comlitu tion office, who, I am sure, will see to its getting to it; right destination, and he could hold them until all got in and then turn it over in bulk. I want these dimes to come from the Rio Grande to the Potomac, and all real good yankees can send some?if they choose. Of course our settlement is wild this week on storm talk. Many stories are told; some humorous, some pathetic and some of miraculous escapes. In the case of Mr. Weaver, a little son with skull crushed, lay all night in reach of his mother, butshe could not help h.ui. The agony ot that poor mother can be better imagined than described. The dumb brutes seem to know that something ter? rible is coming upon them as these clouds approach, and are most pitiful as they tremble with fear after they are over. There should be no other thought than pity for everything that is caught in these storms; but one will smile at the capers cut and the feelings had. I am going up to Atlanta and get some of the firemen to let me have a pair of them pants that you jump into out of bed. No storm shall ever slip up and catch me fudging at my pants legs like I did the other night. Nothing but being awoke in a burning building can come anyways nigh being as demoralizing as these storms. You can't find a match; yod tumble over chairs and run run against tables; get your pants on wrong side in front, if you wear pants, and if you wear dresses you can't get your head through the right place, and there is tacglement and dis? tress. These tbiDgs may seem foolish to folks who have never been slipped up on by these storms, but wait, you may think different some day. And the children, they are the greatest source of anxiety at Buch a time. If you get them awoke you can't hold them together. The little things get wild, and but for special providence they Would all be killed. These "close calls" make a fellow feel different to what he did. I have mended my deportment?would hardly take a little "spirits" in "case of Bicknesa." I was so glad I had quit cussing, and I have resolved that the little time I have left me shall be spent in making amends for the eins of a long life, all of which passed before me like a panorama, as I whirled from the end of the "big mule's" bridle rein. In the morning after break? fast, I went in and set down by the old 'oman. I drawed my chair close up to her and held out my baud. She thought I had a splinter in my finger that I want? ed out, but not bo ; I was seeking a revival of love; I wanted to court her again as I did in our young days, and I wanted to ask her pardon for the care? lessness i have shown her since she was all my own. We talked over the high spirits and happy feelings we started out with and made new pledges and sealed them with a kiss that smacked like the kisses of long, long years ago. I don't know how it will be when our scare is well over; but I am sorry now tbat I can't call back the years wherein I have been so uudemonstrative of an affection so much deserved. Younger husbands and wives should profit by these remarks, and if they do I shall feel satisfied. I hate war mighty bad, but I will take a slice of it rather than a cyclone in the night time. Sarge Plunkett. P. S.?To those sending aid to the two sufferers I will send, if they desire, a mighty pretty picture?a picture of myself?upon receiving address with two cent stamp. Send donations sb above suggested. S. P. 1 Prison Novelty. Down in the main prison building of the penitentiary there is a cell which is a curiosity, and shows how some men will occupy their moments while in prison in order to divert their minds. This cell is occupied by one of the best prisoners in the institution?a negro sent up from Barnwell county under a life sentence for burglary and larceny. In view of the fact that the law was changed bo as not to allow the imposition of a shorter term of imprisonment than the life sen? tence for this crime and many other cir? cumstances, repeated efforts have been made to have] the man pardoned but without avail so far, He has fitted his cell up in handsome style, Oa the floor is a Brussels carpet, and the walls are covered with pictures and Scripture quotations, all neatly framed. The bed ia kept aa neat aa a pin, and the pillows are covered with embroidered slips Bent the fellow by his friends. At the head of his bed is a Bible quotation expressive of his repent? ance of his crime. He has a horse shoe made of wood on his cell door. The whole makes an attraction of the peni? tentiary that is worth seeing. JDearness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deaf neas is cauaed by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the EuBtacbian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling eound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to ita normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten arc cauaed by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot he cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggiat3. ? There have been heavy inroads on the Uoited States public domain of late, but the government Biill owns nearly a billion acre3-9GG,HG,383, to be exact. Of this, however, 3G9,529,600 acres are in Alaska, and not likely to be ever brought into use, certainly not for many years to coino, leaving f)7(>,580,783 available in the other States and Territories. Need of Educated Christian Women. From the Baptist Courier. The above heading implies that educa? ted Christian women are by no means so many as are needed. And what is im' plied is but too true. One of the great* est needs of this day is more educated Christian women. There are about as many fool women in the world at thit, time as there are fool men, and that are not helping the young men of the coun? try either in the way of sense, or religion ?neither improving their heads nor their hearts. And this is the great duty, as it is the great privilege and honor of woman, to be reservoirs of healthful moral influence to the world, and thus save men from sin and impurity which debauch the intellect, as well as the soul and the character. I shall now mention some things that, to my mind, prove very clearly the great, urgent need of educated and particularly Christian women, in this our day. ' First, to begin with, here is this corset tight-lacing abomination, a thing which is against health, against intellect and sense, and against religion. The Chinese women glory in their little feet; our civ? ilized (I can hardly say Christian) wo? men glory in their little waists, though to have these little waists their bodies, and that too right over the vital organs, lungs, heart and liver, must be put into the compress, tightly laced corsets, just as the feet of Chinese girls are put into iron shoes. I have been told that in all the medical colleges, upon every gradu? ating class is charged the duty of warn? ing mothers as to the evils that come from tight lacing. Tallrng on this sub? ject with a very intelligent physician some time ago he said that in the medi? cal books there was described the "corset liver," and a "corset liver" means a "cor? set heart," "corset lungs," a "corset head," and from all these a "corset wo m^Hr" There comes into nearly every home in this State the inevitable fashion book, with its fashion plates of tall and spindling women, and the conspicuous part, and the part of the figure that seems to be emphasized and attention called to, is the little waist, which is made to be the perfection of womanly grace and beauty. If the thing goes on much longer, a race of women will be raised up without any waists at all. I almost shudder when I look at one of these fashion books, filled up with pic? tures of tightly corseted women for our daughters to gaze at and admire. If I had my way they shouldn't come through the mails. "Can," I ask myself, "such women as are represented in these plates, ever be the mothers of great men and great women ?" And this is need, No. 1, reform in corset wearing, and a great work it is for educated Christian women to do, to destroy this modern Moloch, to which is sacrificed the health and lives of thousands of women in eur land. And, secondly, here is the rage for dressing among women, though by no means is it true of all of them. It is not an exaggeration to say that a great many women spend the most of their time, thought and labor, on something to wear, Their minds neglected, their souls neg? lected, their homes too often neglected, and the serious duties of life neglected, and all for what ? Why, simply to grat? ify their 'ove of dress and show. There are m*:./ "Flora McFlimsey's," and tbey live in many other places besides "Madi? son Square," and spend their lives in complaining that they have "nothing to wear." It was to women, and of the matter of their dressing, that the Apostle Peter wrote: "Whose adorning let it not be that outward adornicg of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of put? ting on of apparel; but let it be the hid? den man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." The aim in life of great many women should very properly be measured with a yardstick. And of some of the prevailing styles of female dress I'm ashamed to speak, and in very bad taste particularly is a good deal of the ball gearing. The Apostle Peter, in the same connection with the words just quoted, speaks of the "chaste conversation" becoming to women; nor should they be less mindful of "chaste" dressing, which is also a lovely thing in woman. And here is need No. 2, reform in dress, and a great sphere of useful work for educated Christian women. And, thirdly, the " German" dance, and the harm it is doing to women, and through them to society, calls for the in? fluence and active efforts of educated Christian women to suppress it and thus save their Bisters and the young men of the country from its contamination. It is enough to condemn these so called "germans" that they encourage dissipa? tion, it being the case that at them the dancing and reveling are kept up nearly all night, and that they ignore all social and moral differences. This is the case particularly in regard to the men who go to them. They are terrible levelers, these "germans," and always level down. They are open to men who in character, are moral lepers, and shut out from all homes and circles of purity and refine? ment. It has always been a strange thing to me that some women, and the some are many, that eeem to hate vice and im? purity only in one of their own sex, and she often the victim of man's falseness and villainy. Paul, writing of the hea? then in his day, said : "It is a shame to speak of things done by them in secret," but in this Christian age it is a shame to speak of some things done openly in the "germans" and round dances of the day, and that by people who claim to be Christian people. And here is a wretch? ed thing about these "germans," that I cannot but regard as hurtful to women, as calculated to destroy that modesty which is their glory?the parading them? selves, in the newspapers before the pub? lic, in their elegant and costly dresses, just as they appeared at the get man. There was a time when public sent:meat wouldn't have tolerated such a th zu;, though done by the women themselves. We may well exclaim with the old Bo man moralist: "0 tempora, 0 morea." Here is need No. 3 for educated Chris? tian women. Fourthly and lastly, there is great need of educated Christian women to help in the great fight for temperance and prohi bit ion. I believe that women can do more to drive wiakey oat of the country and to make yonng men sober than any prohibitory law. It is in the power of the yonng women to do it. If they'd only let it be understood, and then act up to their resolution, that they would not notice any young man who drinks whis? key, plays cards, and whose reputation for good morals is not good, what a pow? erful effect it would have in lifting up young men to a pure young woman's own high plane of character. There is no other class of people hardly that can do as much good in the world, and have such influence for good over young men as young women, and therefore it is so highly important for them to be educa? ted and to be Christians. But, alas! the young wom?n of our country are not what they ought to be. If they were better, young men would be better. Women are like cotton?they rule the moral market. When women go up they carry the men up with them, and when they come down from what they ought to be and are expected to be, they always bring men down with them. Said a gen? tleman to me not long ago, and one who Is a gentleman, and travels all over the State, into every town in the State, "why don't you write about she women and try to make them do batter. As I go about over the State on the railroads, I see some very ngly conduct, and things to be grer.cly lamented, in women." It is a hard thing to say, but I believe it is nevertheless true, that men's standard of morality for women is higher than wo* men's standard of morality for men. No man of any pretension to manhood will marry a woman that is not pure and above reproach, and yet a great many women will marry men and associate with them whom they know, or conld know, are drunken and immoral. Oh 1 for educated Christian women to make the women better, acting upon their sis* ters like leaven, and so make the men, and especially the yenng men, better. This is need No. 4. Yes, I repeat, in conclusion, that one of the greatest needs of our time is edu? cated Christian women. We need them in our homes, in our schools and in onr Churches. We need them to be wives, to be mothers, to be sisters. We thank Ood that there are many such women in South Carolina; and that their number may be increased, let us labor and pray earnestly that our daughters, as well as our sons, may be early converted, and then let us see to it that they have the same, opportunities for thorough mental equipment as their brothers have. We have now entered upon the woman peri? od of the world?that is, greater oppor? tunities for women, better education and a larger sphere of influence and service. But while we seek to provide the higher education for our girls, don't let us fall into the mistake of neglecting their lower education, that is in training them, on their side of life, for its practical and every day duties, which may almost be summed up in the one thing?to be good housewives. There can be no happy, model homes without a woman so edu? cated, as its peaiding genius. A woman that can run the circle ef the sciences, and yet don't know how to make good bread and to prepare a toothsome meal, is like "a cake not turned," educated only on one side. It is true that "man cannot live by bread alone," but it is equally true that he cannot live without bread, and therefore to know how to make good bread is a very important part of female education. In short, a woman ought to be so educated that what Solomon saps of his model housewife, in the thirty-first chapter of Proverbs, will be realized in her. "Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband, also, and he praineth her." John G. Williams, Allendale, S. C. Making Candy at Home. Try a candy party and see if yon do not enjoy yourself more than you bad ever done befoire at such an affair. Why? Because at your novel candy party you are going to make some very nice candy and conduct the party on regularly organized principles that will insure its success. The materials required for the candy party are ten pounds of confectioner's sugar?obtainable at any grocer's?fire strictly fresh eggs, a cake of chocolate, half a pound of dates, a small quantity1 of desiccated cocoanut, some vanilla fla? voring and a few drops of peppermint or winter green. / You have now on hand the ingredients for fifteen or more pounds of candy much more than you care to make, no doubt?bo you may, if yon please, get only half the quantity of sugar. But it is more satisfactory to work with the larger quantity. Let the mistress of ceremonies break the five eggs into a big eartheru bowl, an', then, without beating the eggs, add to them an equal quantity of water. Now begin to stir in the sugar. It should be added a cupfull at a time until the candy mixture is so stiff that the arm of the stirrer refuses to perform its task. This is the critical part of French candy making. It ehould be so stiff that it will stand alone, like brocaded velvet. Now add a little vanilla flavoring to the compound, and let the amount of vanilla be determined upon by the cou? ple you have designated at the beginning of the evening to act as "tasters." All hands now fall at work upon the mixture in the bowl. It must be quickly and deftly molded into chocolate dropa, each one of which is quickly stirred in the melted chocolate by the couple pre? siding over the chocolate pan. When enough chocolate drops havo been made and set away upon glazed paper to cool a cupful of the mixture is taken out and mixed with the dessicated cocoanut, and then rolled into cakes by the couple appointed to look after the Interests of the cocoanut candy. Little balls of the sugar mixture are preaaed into the stoneless dates to make the "cream" dates of the candy store, and balls of it are pressed closely between the halves of Eoglish walnuts for "cream" or French walnuts. If pepperment drops are desired or wintergreen lozenges, a portion of the mixture may be flavored with these es? sences instead of with vanilla. III Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Tennessee was originally organized as the State of Franklin. ? Japanese children are taught to i write with both bands. L ? Sixteen ounces of gold are sufficient! to gild a wire that would encircle the f earth. ? It is a very honest man indeed who I will not try to pass a quarter with a bole] in it. ? Philadelphia has a girl burglar. All the professions seem to be open to J women nowadays. ? "Trotter seems to be a happy man. He never has any bills to pay. "How's] that 7" "No one will ever trost him." ? A horse owned by a farmer living) near OweuBboro, Ky., goes without master and drives up the cows every] evening. ? The corn exported to Mexico from] the United States during the recent] famine would fill a solid train 77 miles] long. ? "The last time I saw Trotter he wi deeply in love with two girls. 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