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VOL. IX. BARNWELL, S. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1886. THE FARMERS’ CONVENTION. MR. B. R. TIUJIAirS VHRY DIM'LAIMKK. MUIIBKT The Ofcjfiftton. t» tb. Aptl»B of fho «'ohk*b- tton Con.ldfred—Thr HtraKicIlox Parmer.’ 4^>llefce and iU 4 o.t-< on.tltiitlon.l (’anvenllon. To the Editor of The Netex and Courier: Pressure of farm work since the adjourn ment of the “Farmers’ Convention” lias left me no time to reply to the fusilade of criticism called forth by its action. And, first, left me correct some mis takes and misapprehensions of your Re porter. The effort to belittle the Con vention and elevate me on the pedestal of the demagogue by saying, “It was Capt. Tillman’s Convention all the way through, ” etc., will not hurt our cause in the least, liecause it is not true. It was a representative lx>dy of earnest, in telligent men taking counsel for the good of the State, and what little control I exercised over its actions arose from the fearless manner in which I had attacked existing abuses and the unanswerable arguments adduced to sustain my posi tion. The committee on resolutions, who had full control, of all business brought before the 1 >ody, consisted of one from each county, ajipointed by each •ounty delegation. I hail nothing to do with their selection, and I don’t even know half a dozen of the thirty picked men composing that committee. What more need be said to show that these men went to Columbia with their minds already made up, and had no de«re to hear lengthy discussion on the questions I have been agitating and others liesides. I went into the Convention on Friday anticipating a long and hot del site. I was prepared with facts and arguments to sustain each and every one of my reso lutions. The speech made at the ojven- ing of the Convention hail required little labor and thought, while to show tin* justice, the wisdom, the necessity of the reforms I advocate has been my sole study for months. The Convention needed no arguments other than I liave already used in the News and Courier to convince it, and I am glad that 1 was spared the labor of making any. Die News and Courier will, if it continues its present Isimtianlnient, give me an oj>- poftunity to use much of this ammuni tion, so I may say it is well to be pre pared even If it was not msx-asary to shoot. But 1 desire to make a predic tion right here, and that is that the farmers of the State will ratify most if not all of the acts of the Convention, and time will show w hether it was a Farmers’ Convention or “Capt. Tillman's Con vention.” I can tell where the shoe pinches. It was a “Farmers Conven tion," and was a thoroughly representa tive body, and every one knows it, but it nearly kills some people because it agreed with "Farmer Tillman." The insinuation that the Convention was drunk on Friday evening, as shown by the use of the words “staggered in,” was unworthy the brilliant young gentle man whose otherwise full and accurate record of its proceedings is worthy of all admiration. I hope for his own sake tfiat it was a typographical error, and that he wrote or meant “straggled in,” for it cannot be shown that there was any drunkenness. “N. G. G.” was very mad about the Citadel Wing abolished, on paper, but this was an nngem runs way to get revenge, and the accusation only recoils on the accuser, if he so in tended it. One more mistake in the rejHirt of the proceedings and I will ]»ass on to the editorials. I had nothing to do with the 'calendar before Congress adjourns. If appointment of the committi'e of seven •to memorialize Congress. I did assist Mr. Tindal in making up the executive committee at his request, as it was to lie supposed I was better cognizant of what men were best suited to carry out this work than he was. I only mention this liecause it is so industriously tried to be shown that the Convention was an as semblage of pupjiets in my hands, w hich is totally untrue. The first objection raised by the News and Courier against what it terms the “Tillman platform” is the appointment of a committee to propose bills and wait on the Legislature next November and urge their passage, so as to change these resolutions into law. The “modern Moses” wrote his resolutions to cover all the points he wished to make, and gave no thought to the “stone tablets of his ancient prototype.” If I could have done this with less than eleven resolu tions, I would have done so I do "toot feel that I am ordained to lead the farm ers “out of the wilderness,” but I sin cerely and honestly believed the reforms embodied in these resolutions would go far towards helping to advance our agri cultural interest; so believing, I should be lees than a man not to boldly urge their adoption. This committee, representing the large and respectable body of farmers who re- ' cently met and authorized it to present these matters to the next Legislature, will exercise great influence, even if that ^body shall be composed 6f men other •^han’fanners. We will, if we can, send men to the Legislature to “take it.” But ft is surely penrfissible to show the jus- t lice and expediency of our action. One simple fact will shpw not only why this is necessary, but that the News and Courier is as ignorant on many of these questions as the member* of the General Assembly ace likely to be. It says; I'Ihe proposition to have the secretary (SOUaBriswnnrr) chosen, by a board of which itself ^all be nkrtnd convention, to el adopted. Such a proposition, we are sure, will never find favor in 'a South | Carolina Legislature, even though it were composed entirely of farmers.” “Let not the shoemaker go beyond his last.” The News and Courier, too, bet ter stick to “free trade” and let agricul ture alone. The legitimate duties of this officer would lie the encouragement, pro tection and advancement of our agricul tural interests. The collection of the phosphate royalty should l>e given to the comptroller general, ami in all hu mility I ask, Why may not the farmers of South Carolina lie allowed to control that department of the government which they alone support, which is, or \ ought to be, devoted entirely to ad vane-1 ing their interests? This method of choosing the secretary or commissioner is not new or unusual. A Ubard of agri- ] culture thus chosen, ami who elect their own secretary, lias existed in Ohio since 1847. The same system of agricultural administration exists in Maine, in Con- i necticut, in Indiana, in Illinois, in Iowa and many other Northern States. If the News and Courier can tell us why the agricultural societies, free from ! political influences, cannot select a Wtter lioard than the I-legislature, and why the Ixiard thus chosen cannot select their own executive officer and thus secure a prompt and efficient one, I would like to liave it do so. Without the power to dismiss an incompetent or mi worthy officer, the Isiard can accomplish nothing, i and if the Legislature cannot trust the I farmers to manage their own department j we had lietter abolish it altogether. 1 will next briefly notice the News ami | Courier’s bookkeeping. They say “fig- j tin-* woli’t lie,” but I have always thought it all depended on who set down the I figures, and with what motives. As the News and Courier enters some “words’, from my speech in its column of “prom ise,” and then charges up £W3,000 hi creased taxi's in the column of “perform ance” alongside, I may well ask permis sion to allow that its figures “lie” if I can. And, first, let me say that the present value of the plant of the Missis sippi College does not n'prenent its cost. Hie original cost of the buildings and j farm was ui the ueighlsirhixsl of •HM). There liave been additions in stock and other appliances out of each annual appropriation during the five years since it started, but a large jst cent, of its present valuation is increase in the value of the farm by a proper system of culti vation and natural increase in the large herds of cattle, etc., etc. Rome was not built in a day, ami we do not ask or expoebthat our agricultural college shall come, like Minerva from the brow of Jove, armed and equipisd for l>»ttle. All we ask is to plant it on the right foundation and let it grow . An appropriation of $75,000 with the $-.25,- 000 from the tax on fertilizers, which can l>e used the first year to build and ••quip it, is all we want. The l«ward of agriculture already possesses a complete hemical lalsiratory which would thus not liave to lie bought. Many of the Ikx)ks in the State library can lx- sjiareil for the agricultural library. Convict labor can be used in excavating the foundations of the buildings and in mak ing brick, etc., provided they can lie spared from that blessed “Columbia ditch,” and I guarantee that with these helps aild with the money mentioned the college can be opened on the 1st of January, 1888. Af for the experimental station, if Congress don’t give the $15,(MX) then the faculty will, as they now do in Missis sippi and Micliigan, carry on exj)eri- raents without it. My information is tliat the bill will (tass if it is reached on the urgent arguments why we should liave a Constitutional Convention, but I will not give them here. I will sum up as follows: Additional expenditures recommended: Real Agricnltaml and Mechani cal College $ 75,000 Additional tax on fertilizers 25,000 Made up to South Carolina College for land scrip 5,700 Costof Coustitutional Convention. H5,(XK) Total..’ $140,700 There are those who believe a Consti tution of our own making is worth this much, if for no other reason than to call our Constitution. The present instru ment under which we live was made by negroes, traitors and carpet-baggers. It was forced down our throats at the point of the liayonet. It lias provisions, man datory at that, which liave not and can not l>e obey. Our legislators scorn and spit upon it when it suits, ami give as excuse that they ary obliged to disobey some of its provisions, and thus they have lost res]>ect for it. If for no other reason we need a new one and should have it. But let us see whether the $140,(XX), w hich is a little less tlian one mill, can not be gotten without additional taxa tion. The work on (he State House should be stopped as soon as a good roof is put on and needed repairs made. We need education more than we do a grand State House. Seventy-five thousand dol lars can l>e obtained right hete, amTvntli out searching for a Legislature anxious to be economical can easily obtain the rest and still reduce taxes. If the fann ers do their duty in sending men to the next General Assembly there can be many thick-padded places found tliat w ill l>oar slicing. They Can find 1 'places to cut" if they want to. The Farmers’ Convention lias l»een blamed l»ecause they did not go into details. We were not a I.legislature and we knew it. We intend to elect one, though, that will carry out our recommendations if we ran. I w ill m another article notice some other things which have been said about the Farmers’ Convention and its work. B. R. Till mas. Hamburg, May 17, 188b. [Mr. Tillman has written a second let ter, confined chiefly to a reply to the criticisms of the Columbia Register and the News and Conner ] it is appropriated the money becomes available 1st July prox., and if the pres ent trustees of the South Carolina Col lege speuj it on the agricultural annex at Columbia the demand next winter for a separation of the agricultural college from the South Carolina College would l»e met by the argument that the exjieri- mental station had already been estab lished at Columbia, ami another link would be forged in the chain which now binds the two institutions together. This argument, which I used in the Conven tion, overthrew all of Colonel Duncan’s specious arguments and promises on be half of the trustees, and the fanners passed the resolution because they pre ferred a whole loaf hereafter to a crumb now. . If the Legislature grants our wishes in December next then the ex- l»erimental station can be provided for in planning the college. I am satisfied, also, that there is going to be a lively competition among the counties to secure the college, and I hope to enter Edgefield in the race if I can wake her up. This element in the estimated cost will amount to no small item, I imagine. If we allow the pres ent appropriation for the Citadel to keep it up an a school for girls; if we give the South Carolina College $5,700 in place of the land scrip fund and its tuition fees, both institutions, it would seem, could be thus bountifully sustained, so that there would be really no call for any money save the $5,700. Now, as regards the Constitutional Convention, I cannot see why it should cost exactly $100,000. Why not say $1,000,000? It would appear that the changes needed in our organic law could be secured in at least as short a time as the Legislature takes to make an annual addition of patches to that already over- patched volume, the Revised Statutes, which won’t stay revised, and I feel sure the savings which might be secured in our county government, by a return to our old way of managing these thing* to mj nothing ot many o4Imk leaks which might be stopped. wiB ■I *1 ixn KLL'M'I-ONPIMMIOV Mr \4mil.alllhr Kaarnttel YarU Tr.tllr4 lu ky Olhrr Uftnrur.. I.m Matin, (hat Ml* Ma- llirnasnni Murdrr. Maxwell, the alleged murderer of I’reller, has testified in his own In-half. His recital of his personal history shows tliat he has been accurately traced in all his movements, his •account corroborat ing all witnesses who have testified against him, except the detective who was in prison with him. He gave his name as Hugh Maxwell Brooks, aged 25, born in England. His account of the death of Preller is identical with his con fession published a few days ago. He liatl studied medicine, but hail no license to practice as a physician. He had treated Preller for trifling ailments pre- ious to coming to St. Louis, mid at Preller’s own request undertook to re move a stricture. Preller was the con senting jiarty to the use of chloroform, and the case was one which might and does sometimes occur in any physician’s practice. Preller die*! from the effects of the drug while under treatment. Max well says his mistake was in not report ing the circumstance at once, but he-was" in a strange land, ignorant of the cus toms, and unaware that his report would serve him had made it. Besides this lie was in great grief over the death of a man to whom he was much attached as friend. In this state of mind the thought occurred that he must hide the body and get away. He then packed it in a trunk, as described, and took what money he found in Preller’s trousers, about $T)<X). He made a number of pnr- cliases and drank a great deal liefore leaving for California. Questioned by his counsel: “What do you know about a piece of paper, read ing, ‘So perish all traitors to the great cause?’ ” The prisoner: “I wrote it My idea was that the authorities would find it and that it would puzzle them until an autopsy should be held. ” Counsel: “Was it your idea to delay them while you were getting away?” Prisoner: “Yes.” Counsel: “Did you do anything else with the same object in view?” Prisoner: “Yes. I shaved off the mustache.” Counsel: “Can yon tell how that cut came upon his breast?” Prisoner: “Yes. I did it with a scal pel, but can assign no reason for it.” Counsel: “Had you, when you ad ministered that chloroform, auv inten tion of killing Preller?” Prisoner: i‘I had not, sir.” (The pris oner spoke loudly and empliatically.) Counsel: “Had you any intention of injuring him?” Prisoner: “I had not, sir.” "Counsel: “Of doing him any bodily harm?” Prisoner: “No.” The rest of the testimony was taken up with his trip to San Frandsoo, some of the events which occurred, and his explanation of some of the big stories which he told about himulf on his trip to that city. Oat parties are the latest. A young girl givaa a party and each friend Invited brings her cat along with a ribbon about Ms neck to that worn by its loto «<(■■•$< KVOLI TIO.\ AND THK ( HCRCH. An E»rnr*t ConaMrration of Ihr Suhjrrt in the (•moral Aaaomby oft ho Kouthorn Proabvtoriana. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian (’hnrcli recently in wiwiun at Augusta, Ga., had under considered the subject of evolution in its relations to orthodox Christianity. The commit tee to whom the matter was referred made the following report, signed by nine out of the thirteen mem Item: “To the several overtures on the sub ject to the evolution of man, sent up by the Presbyteries, the General Assembly return answer as follows: The Church remains at this time sincerely convinced that the Scriptures, as truly and author itatively exjxnmded in the ‘Confession of Faith’ and ‘Catechism,’ teach tliat Adam and Eve were created, l>ody and soul, by the immediate aets of the Almighty |>ow- er, thereby preserving a jjerfoct race unity. That Adam’s body was directly fashioned by Almighty God, without any natural animal parentage of any kind, and of matter previously created of noth ing, and that any doctrine at variance therewith is a dangerous error, inasmuch as in the methods of interpreting Scrip ture it must demand, and in the conse quences which, by fair implication, it will involve, it will lead to the denial of doctrines fundamental to the faith. “Geo. D. Armstrong, chairman; Wra. F. Jenkins, R. K. Smoot, G. B. Stricken, L C. Yana, A N. Hollifield, M. . Wow Txtar, It. Tl. TSiltou, D. N\ Kennedy.” The minority prenented the following report: “Tin* undersigned, meinltera of your committed) on overtures on evolution, would recommend the appointment of a special committee to draft a jiastoral let ter to the Churches and Presbyteries of the Assembly, embodying the following liointa: “1. A recognition of thcalarm and mi- ■ ■asiness jiervading the Church on account of the evolution discussion, and tliat tliis alarm and uneasiness are not unfounded. “2, An luUniatHm of onr loyalty to the symbols, as tt«e correct interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, and determination to defend them against any inter])osition which would mar the historic sense or contradict any traditional doctrine of our faith. “8. The original application of the doctrines contained therein lielongs to the 1‘reabvteriee, and the Assembly con siders them conqs'lent for their func tiou; neither would it usurp or forestall this function, or hanqicr them in its per formance, by granting any in theai de liverances which could l>o construed into an auticii»ktory exposition of the law , but could not lie of lunding force. “4. The Assembly assures its Presby teries that the highest Conrt of the Church will lie ready at the proper time to uphold andendorse any judicial action of the IVesbyteries founded on the con stitutional law of the Church.” This re]K>rt was signed*by the Rev W m. Flinu, the Rev. F. L. Ferguson, the Rev. T. E. Smith and Ruling Elder V. H. Hendersou. The Rev. Messrs. Wm. Flinn and F. E. Smith presented the following addi tional minority report: “We the undersigned, members of the special committee on evolution, recom mend that the General Assembly decline to make a deliverance on the subject, Tn'cause the answer which is invoked by these overtnree, if granted, would violate our coustitutiou. (Note Confession of Faith, oliapter 31, paragraph 4) “Second. Recausy the Word of God, as interpreted by our standards, gives the faith of the Church. “Thud. Because before one of our lower Courts a concrete case is pending involving the matters of those overtures. ” The matter was discusstxl quite at length—two days l»eing consumed in the debate. The motion was then pnt that the mi nority report lie substituted for the ma jority report, but it was lost. It was mo veil tliat the vote be next taken on the majority report and that the yeas and nays lie called and recorded. Adopted. The roll was called and resulted in a vote of 137 yeas to 13 nays. So the majority report was adopted. OTHKK MATTERS. resumed liis duties as its Perkins profes sor about the middle of last December; that eleven students were dismissed and Dr. Girardeau lias resigned. Therefore, in view of these facts, eiq socially the small number of students and the large amount expended in training them, your com mittee recommend the following: Resolved, Tliat this Assembly recom mend the four Synods controlling that seminary to suspend it for the present until the Providence of God shall indi cate that it should lie opened again tie novo. Addresses were made by Drs. Mosely, Woodrow and Peters. The evening ses sion was devote^ h) the discussion of home missions. The following resolution was offered by the committee on foreign correspond ence: Resolved, That the committee appoi nt- ed to confer with a similiar committee of the Genejal Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America for the purpose of arranging for a cen tennial celebration, shall also constitute the Committee of this Assembly for carry ing out such arrangements. Dr. Richardson read letters from col leges in the different Presbyteries as to their conditions, which show them to be rather short of funds. Dr. Smoot said that they should edu cate their boys to be ministers—that if they had no ministers there could be no church. Fathers should press nixm their sons that the great object in this life is not to make money, but to glorify God. The afternoon was spent in discussing the report of the committee on theologi cal seminaries, which is as follows: The standing committee on theological seminaries presents a report on Union, Colombia and Tuscaloosa Institutes. The remarks on Columbia Seminary are as follows: A very brief report from the board of directors of this institution Aik us with sorrow and amazement It tells us that this beloved seminary, with its assets amounting to.$270,000 and an anting! cash income of $11,784, closes this tom with only eleven students, and th»i five of these are in the THK MHK\T LVHOK COCXML. • ______ Or^nui/ailou of Uimtiirmi in thr <'lrvrlau4 Con* vmlloa—Thr l*rorrt*4la4C». The Knights of I.al»or met in Cleve land, ()., last Wednesday. It was 9.20 o’clock whfen Powderly left the hotel, and it was 10.40 o’clock before the Gen eral Assembly was rapped to order by the chief executive. In the meantime the delegates congregated in groups in j the hall and corridors, discussing lalior | topics. When the call for the Convention was j issued by Powderly he only enumerated five causes of complaint tliat were to be adjusted. These were boycotts; strikes, j the Southwest troubles, the relation pfl j the Knights of Lalior to other organiza-1 | turns and the instituting of new asHem- bli«*s. Since the delegates liave arrived | many of them liave plans that they would like to spring ujion the special | session. Whether these will lie dis- J cussed or laid upon the table cannot lie determined as yet. One of these plans | is to-agitate the subject of Government I j regulation of railroads. A member of the Order from Allegliauy, Pa., lias pre- [tared a long address upon this subject, and a delegate from his district will try to secure a hearing for him. The gen tleman’s address also deals with the project of the national arbitration board. Another matter has been made public. For some time jiast tlie executive b<*rd has not been satisfied with some of the organizers of the Order, and several have had charges preferred against them | and had their commissions recalled. The first business of the morning ses sion was the acceptance of the report of I the committee on credentials. The new delegates were then admitted to the hall and the obligations administered Pow derly s address was then delivered ex- | tempo raucously. He referred the dele- ! gates to the call to learn what business [ was to lie brought forward, and taking up the five subjects of strikes, boycotts, labor troubles, difficulties with trades unions and increasing membership one by one, he odvised most careful thought and full discusaionH upon all questions. He asked that harmony, prudence and discretion should pr*'dominate in all matters, and that the affairs of the Con vention should lie acted upon with con sideration and dispatch. The best part of the address, treating of matters entire ly within the province of the Order, cannot be made public. Powderly re sumed his seat amid prolonged applause and upon motion ap)>ointed standing committees of five upon each of the fol lowing subjects: Laws, strikes, boycotts and relation of Knights to other organi zations. The usual commitU'es were then ap pointed. Delegati*s to the GeneraT Assembly ex pressed themselves as highly pleased at the action of the Cleveland Typographi cal Union in instructing its delegate to the annual convention to vote that the Union go over to the Knights of Labor in a body. The Convention will meet in Pittsburg‘Jnne 1, and it is confidently asserted that it will adjourn as a district assembly of the Knights of Labor. Abqut thirty five thousand members will lie addl'd to the Knights of Labor by this action, and it is claimed that com- (Kisitors in small towns where there are no unions will swell the numbers to fifty thousand. The Assembly met at 8.30 o’clock Thursday morning. The committee on laws presented a proposition that the executive board should be increased from five to eleven members. There was a general sentiment in favor of increasing the membership in the lioard, bnt the question as to whether it would be prop er for a special convention to take action in the matter met with some difference of opinion. The report was referred Istck lo the committee on laws without instructions. A large number of local Granges, and in some States the body of the farmers have gone into the Knights of Labor as district assemblies. Fanners’ Orders largely assisted the Knights in the late | strikes in the Southwest, and to show an appreciation of the brotherly aid the General Assembly appointed a commit tee to prepare an address to the Granges to be presented at its national conven tion. Powderly’s plan, as it is called, of State Assemblies will do away with many un necessary strikes. It provides, among other things, that no assembly bnt State and national shall have power to order either a strike or boycott If a local assembly wants to order a strike it must first get the consent of the district sad then of the State assemblies. One of the most important subjects under consideration by the Assembly jg the breach between the Knights and the trades union. An agreement or treaty may be formulated, whereby eaeh side will lose nothing of its principles and i eoabls sack other to work A Slat mi ml of Homo of Their Nomk oat Their Dtoroarogementa. (Prom the PhlMdolphiaTtmee ) “Idonotaoe what she has to com plain of. Works only six hoars a day, five days out of the week, and the rest of the time she can do as she pleegoj. She is paid by the public, so there is no chance of money loss, and, take it all together, she is os well off as anybody can tie who works for a living.” The above is the opinion, not of one or a dozen persons in a community, but of a majority. Because the school be gins at 9 o’clock it is taken for granted that the teacher’s duties date from that hour; because it closes at 4 or half-past four in the afternoon it is supposed that nothing remains for her to do, but she can don her wraps, go home, shop opd visit ad libitum until the hoar for retiring has come. During the hours of confinement in the school-room she can sit in her chair by a deak or walk qnietly around the room, looking after some two or three scores of bright-eyed young- stem who are busy studying (?) and real ly need little attention. That she earns her money eaidly is a foregone conclu sion. But does she? The fact is, the honest, earnest, faith ful teacher works harder and more con tinuously than almost any other laborer in the community. Mind, I say the “honest, faithful teacher." That there an- those in this employment, as in all others, whose only object is to get through in some way, it does not matter how, only tliat they are sure of their jiay, I do not deny. The result of their work, or the lack of it, shows how much of thought and euthumasm entered into ita doing. Their duties are left behind them when the school-room door closes in the afternoon, and “a good time" is the watchword until they enter it in the morning That is not the kind of teach er 1 am talking about It is the kind that soon finds no place unless political influence interferes to make and keep one. The }>o«ition of a oormruinturns teacher is no »an ecu re. Far from the labor be ing confined to six hours a day, it fre quently extends deep into the time which should be given to sleep. Present methods require quite as much brain- work to be done out of school boon as in. There are weekly, monthly and term examinations to be conducted. Most of them are fritted, and thin in- volves [the careful examination of as many (tapers os each teacher has scholars, multiplied by the number of studies pur sued. You who think this is s ■nail matter, try it for one time with one sub ject in your own family. 1 have known many teachers who spent every evening, those of (Saturday and Sunday included, for weeks at a time ill this kind of work, until liody and mind were utterly ex hausted. And these were not exception al cases. \ I cannot see where the “easy time" comes in for them. Aside from this m the absolute necessi ty of keeping abreast of the progress in all matters pertaining tireducation. Each year brings its clianges. Science Iocs not stand still. New discoveries are con stantly being made and what arms thought to be true yesterday may be proven false to-day. No severer critics exist than chil dren. Let a teacher be found lacking in knowledge or making a misstatement, and her influence is shaken. Repeated, and it is gone forever. It is easy to see then tliat the success ful toucher must lie constantly studying. Once mastered, always mastered, iff not true in her outer To be even decently prepared to do her work, she must be actively alert; to be all that ia demanAfd as an educator exacts hours of vigorous application to study, and these of neces sity fall into the evenings and holidays. Only a Jew weeks ago, a butcher told me that her vacation was to be given to at tending a course of university lectures in another city, in order to prepare herself more thoroughly for her work in a given direction. Bhe had no time to give to rest or recreation, and I knew that for weeks she had been “burning the mid night oil” over the examination papers of her pupils. To keep the control of the pupils of an average school requires the expenditure of no small amount of nervous force, how much one who has never undertaken it has no more idea than of the strength of wing it would take to balance the average man and hold him in the appear air. A mother is often worn oat with the effort of keeping her own children— limited perhaps to two or three—in order. What would she do were that number multiplied by ten or fifteen and the strain kept up for days and weekff and months and years? Of course I know that the mother is taxed in very many other ways, but the remark that “the care of the children is wearing me out” is a very frequent one. In almost every other employment which demands as many high qualifica tions there in a chance of advancement in salary sufficient to enable the worker to lay aside something for sickness and old age. In this there is little or for the woman who ever receive $1,000 a year for their labor are few number. Very tftany have famiK^ I lending upon them for mppotfc most pinching economy wffl RS* than make both ends u40MMt re gard to the future. no pennon for them when iinshh^ -r supwaanoa- tion fund when daj wor ^ *• panted. d “And yet,"J** “J- “ tbere ** for those who want to Fotr ewnry them for ■elf-support sod^y, prswgFB— n M< education snd the bringing op of a hfijr. The akry may be anaQ, but it is rid* tain. Then, too—a thing to be rytitii —a huge number of the girls who ba> oome teeehers do not look upon It life wort; but only a shift which wiS not tifot their in society until they assay. Thei quenoes or possibilities of long such wear and tear does not their oal-ndstiona. WHh energy, a probable drain apod to oas forces often counts but UtfU. Besides this, to to there are pleasures in her work phytic pain. The feeling opening new worlds to tot she is showing then worth living for, that to is them to become strong, breve area wm- cess, it is necessary for parents to gtlti her their confidence and sjianalhj. to regard her at their friend and! while demanding of her to beat that can be given, treat her not «e to hireling hardly worthy of her hire; bnt with the reepeet and oontiderellon fins to one who has to highest fatoatoi ct their ohiklreo in her enssga. Exiur 8. Boom*. thk ffx-cowmaansm VS Hal ihr Snr*Meg to k (W—atsgHs uapataa w i Gen. Manus J. Wright, an sx-< crate officer, who lieation of to rsbeflioo to auspices of to to following as to to occupations of to svore ends of to rix full federate Congress only Joseph E. af of tery drawings. Of I sppointsd to army several an living, is proflasor oil vertity of to South, is an Episcopal ogtireet ie keeping a Georgia, after United Blsti Hayes. D. H. Ha, of Norik was till recently pretidsnt of ( cultural Bchool of to Mato of and now saraa a living shfafir by Mg sine writing. Richard Tsysot; Mi at Taylor, issnguMdlnl a canal near Now Loo is a State. Jubol A. Earley pmottoss knv ri burg, although hit SUM rived from Us Of the major gremsk L is now pwtidari of to Miaristippiri Oxford, wt ash prolmuor ril election to to United i __ Wade Hampton is ip to BMrih is in Oongrem. Ha wealthy and one of in AWImmum t.i— H HrMAim »u (i mimmm, mob Sis UOraOS m 1 nd man sad figumf spicuouriy at to Mootgommy tion. Gen. Loring, of Florida, engineering in Egypt until a few j ■go, when he came to New York to wncfiL at the same profession. B. F.<“ ‘ appointed Nashville, Team., by Pretidsnt land. Bam Jones, of Virginia, it in j judge advocate general’s oto ette MeLawe is postmaster ri Ga. L. B. Buckner Uvea U Ky., where ho own a great drii # j of wU him. the revenne L. B. Frenoh which by engineering in L. Stephenaon is m T John H. Forney, man Forney, is in an Selma, Ala. Abnsy Washington, agent fora Bull insurance) also in the B. Trimble Uvea in Baltimore on a torkam i Trimble whiskey. Gen, ployed by to ig on Oadmns WOeox wau about the 8 mate < in whOo Gnat. Baku -j wmm Mhhone is £ E. C. Walthall, of PierpaM. &'