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I ’ K %■ ' 7 m \ ■ tcm V. VOL. X. BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY, WAY 26,1887. SOME DARK TEACHINGS. A PLANTATION NIGHT SCHOOL KOK NEGKOKS HLKOUK THK WAH. the Some KutertaininK HecoUectioun of Tiinen Ileforethe-Clvll War. (From New York Commercial Adver iaer) As is well known, it was held to be , . . Against good policy, in the South, the Africa’s jamny old days, that the slaves shonld be taught to read. To teach them was, in fact, prohibited by law in most of the States. It would bo au error to suppose, how ever, that none of them were so taught. For the master of the plantation was, in many ways, an absolute monarch—every farm a sort of kingdom—and these potentates chose to judge for themselves how strict should be their obedience to general laws, how far they would Allow themselves to be controlled by the Legis lature in the internal economy of their littlftAMinci i lalitiea. . X Then, too, it must be remembered to m credit that they were ever found wi their faces set as flint when there was a uestiou as to the fundamental tenets of ie theology of their day. No one shall ever say that Gilbert ranked dancing other than as an nni>ardonablc sin, or that Isaac, eter held out hope of eternal wealth to the abandoned wretch who found comfort in whistling a jig or pat ting Juba, that rhvthmic memory of l itrapdr- Poor Joe neveij entered the ministry. He built houses instead. My father set him free before the war. At the close •of that struggle he was not long in rest ing that his genius did not find sufficient scope ifi fitting joists and nailing on shinglee. He became a candidate for the Legislature, imt licfore he know the joys of victory or the pi defeat ho died. I h id not seen him years, but I feel that the world is not quite so bright for me as it would be were this old friend of my youth still among men. To the last, even after I was a man, he said that in his opinion he was mv equal in natural capacity, and I am the last man in the world to dis- FAIOI TOPICS POK THK MONTH. S«KK*Mtion» ta Fanner* who Wish to Make Farming Profitable. A distinguished poet has made a cer tain young lady quite famous by having her on a particular occasion to sing: “If you’re waking, call mo early, call me ither dear; early, mo For I’m to be Quoen o’ May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.”_ . " TBereTs not much poetry,” and oven less romance, about it; but all the same the farmt r has to be called early and to stay late at his farm work for the next three months if he has any hope or ex- iiectation of succeeding at his calling. We know of no task-master more exact- ing and uncompromising than the aver- couia ft g 0 ootton and coni crop. Worked prop- J S 8 °f erly and the husbandman will reap his Ior reward just as long as the rainbow hangs in the heavens or the promise of seed time and harvest remain; mismanaged and poorly executed work, and disap- E intment and failure are sure to follow. rly and properly executed work on the cfop, to many people, seems, as far as all outward appea'ance^o, as lieing SWORN TO LAY A GHOST. HILL ARP TALKM. HI* View* THE LOVE LANE SPOOK AGAIN MAKES ITS APPEARANCE. The i’m-ann) HaMtiie of a Cemetery Who Once Mailt- an Aged Darkey Fiddle for a Devil'* Dance Come* Forth and Scare* Folk*. ————* qiiwww'Htw-NwwTrunrsuirr" *" _Onoe again spooks have made their debut in Love Lane, and the supersti tious citizens, particularly those of the Colorado moduro brand, who reside within the 1 miliwicks' of New Utrecht and .West Flutbush, L. I., - near the southwestern border of Greenwood Cemetery, and who Sre compelled to pass t list'marble city after dark, never consider themselves in full dress unless they have a pocketful of brick or wear carbines with flues like water mains. If the neighboring darkeys are to be on Slav* ry—Judge Warner. Hiram (From the New York Tribune ) quaint and pleasant talker of the old school is Major Smith—“Bill Arp”—of Atlanta, Ga., who waa here the other dav to deliver a lecture. The Major was a slaveholder in his younger days, hav ing received three families of negroes, some twelve persons in all, as the wed ding portion of his wife. In talking about the slave question, he said: “This talk that the Sooth lost $400,000,000 by the emancipation proclamation is all nonseiiM'. I am prepared to show that the Sduth did not lose a dollar, in all my experience as a- slave owner, if—h Southem planters were in the hal.it of n , )t laM . klnR ^ ^ 108tl[tct of hilltonciU having such of their sLiv^-Aofl^wft, to cntiriim the following story will show: read as they chose- law or no law. I, ' Gne day, ydars after he had been my iw of T pal of a school oom-iiung of half a dozen 1 book. * of mine and other*' slaves; and some ac-! “VYliat kind of a book do you want, eount of my methods may interest the ] ! teachers, professors and other literati of puto the proposition or to bear him a ” .7* Ik .iPtMili can only Im ssea al gnUflifft mgjnlainliig it! Tll&Cw^ X* * ^ 1 , .. our day. The object of Uie school was the high est possible. indeed, it was uot a school, nor even a College; it was a theo logical semiuary. AU my pupils were preparing for the ministry. To this day I reuieinUfr with pnd* bow thoroughly uuarctartau was tbt iu- struction. I mailr no iflort to buU 1 boss slaiea -utlo arei ptuig my Jogmas. as proof of whieli I oth-r the tael that when as 1 was tliru, as now, a sturdy Uphoklrr of Kpl«ei >|mluuiiMii. rverv one ; keystone to Miiccess or of failuro; it is * the dividing line between the cliKlhop)Kr n gf T , ,, . . and the intelligent fanner. You may a thilkiM l T n «dl this month the middle stoUoL a thinkin I should 1 I hka to r«d a hm- m ^ Wor|u The rrt>|#( mrr ^ planted and cultarstopn u about to Imgm of my gradual* i 1 Im 1*1 my sel sup|*r. lily pi bench, oihj of aloft a •pluttrn gave a strong it snlq««t to this u*ar the brad of i hsr rradmg, H is a: l>y overheating on turned Haptot. a*l in the klUhen after | |hL sat in a n-w «.o a[ t..eir numts-r h-.l-lmg] >g torch of (at lane. It: Libafesu^y light; Tut was drsal ai'k: It* ing !m-U1 *lHM*K v> r haifpem .1 to than prolabU that j the I*. 1 van did itli- i »ti d -far •i 1**°* rv luan podwi- • da- of the brar g thatB was mamd. That, bosevrr, i». sswmglliat n< ..teare flwt Wi* Caill** l>-ItOale*) s'a.lit • ux P rom titn»- (•• tim< • a* immcdni. aedde i-UmUig tax I* II tqai amt n*«k* of n.y IheU all* ntion, iuii tunes to danc* up al l.vea sn. S phlloM/pt have dimly |a-roiivt*I Low laitiy , and til are dotrilmbd, on the win l* this best of all |a.*alhh< Worlds, fey cook and her seulluib, - seeing ti young tbeol.-gteha cafa-nng ami snci the pitch fivm their'ruggid flats, ; forth pcwl after ja al of tree and jo> iamghtrr, so that things avcragio pretty well, alter all. Thu was not a free arminary from it My padrotu were •laawu from among the most substantial citizens on the plan taUoa. They were able to [ay and i made them pay. No student of divinity could keep a seat on that bench without bringing me at tbrwlom of < ach month a dozou nr* laid egg*, worth, at that time, 121 cents; so that eight months' tuition cost exactly $1. 1’riq ay- ing was not instated on. \ef I cannot recall that on this account 1 waa ever the ~ loacr by even an egg. Aa 1 my sell raised chicken*, 1 waa very glad, too, when hens were dilatory in their laying, to let an account run over and receive at the doae of two w y r>,in ff pullet My wages were sweet—laugh -not ye profeaaoni pufled up with fut salaries, ye achool principals rolling in luxury! My discipline was that of those be nighted days. The tod then prevailed throughout the length and breadth of the lainl, nor do 1 believe my elan.* would have valued my instruction at an egg shell, even had I abolished it But such a thought could not have occurred to a lad who had not thought' it strange when his own teacherpiavmg asked him if he was rea<G- with his Virgil, and he replied, “notVet,” hod received three floggings. TlV tirst for not knowing the Virgil, the two following (with intervals of rest for the teacher) for not crying. So they stumbled along through their tasks, 1 kept up the circulation in their backs and shoulders. Neither they nor I would have heard without astonish ment that there w as any other way ol stimulating diligence or quickening the brain. I bupjx.i-e, however, that my thrashings could not have been very severe, for J remember that they were the occasion of great hilarity. This was especially the case whin it came to the turn of Joe Nelson to recite. Joe was a famous stutterer. He was my youngest pupil, a broad shouldered carpenter, 20 years of age. He was exceedingly con- oeited and not a little vain—conceited os to his intellectual gifts and vain of his fascinations with the plantation damsels. These qualities, however, did not pre vent him from being a thoroughly good fellow, and he and I were devoted friends us long as he lived. But my affection for him did not save his back from one single stroke of the peach tree shoot upon which I tightened my grasp aa soon as he opened Are. My way was , not to wait till the close of a session and then mete out the sum total of merited castigation. In my seminary justice did not Ump. At every trip there came a rap. Punishment trod upon the heels of error. What made it specially hard on poor Joe w as that I could nut sue my way to allowing him to stutterihrongn a read ing lesson. im uragt 4 am afnidi tory book.' “All nghtT^nd 1 U-K4& running my eyre along the shelves. Hume's, Ma caulay's Gibbon'a, Kollin'a, would they soil Joe? Just then mv ey e fell upon a large illustrati-d t*li(flSn of “ItobuiMvn t ‘rusoe. ” 1 band'd it to him with a vtoady haiwl and ubblnalting oounW-uaDce. He took It with many thanks un) de- l>*rtod. A month ur su afterward he dr>‘) |«)l in again. “M»iw»- .1 J-Jaek, ain't historiesa*knid • •f Is ok what tolls the truth.” 1 could not help Mulling at the urn- piw-tty of the •itiratmo. 1 then explained to him, aa br*t 1 could, that histories were often full uf untruths touching things which had haiqicoed, while fiction a«s often equally lull uf truths as to events that bad never occurred. KoLtn- ■m i ruaur, 1 cxuisimd, ess fletma, ImiI i to MtuaUd would have worn goat- ain trousviw, talked to lua iwnoL ur own us one of thuigs about farm life I ^^uigiit. At a recent meeting of the that they are very familiar with, aud that -''•cw Utretch Watermelon Coterie, 1’an- tlev thoroughly understand. try sndWostry, held near Farmer Ber- \ lien to bow strike, nud i chicken i>reaerve 9 eiffht of the mem- where to strike u the veni, vidi, vici of bora tmtified that they had timed the, the farmer, and in our judgment it i* the i ie by tlieir watcbfw. One of the! swnndarhu, who is asm slant organist aud I plays the chimes in the local colored church, and whose word is fully wa good as his bund, said that be waa the only ever made a dollar by their labur I do not know it. We got their latwr in ex- chuuge for their food and their clothing, the rearing of the young aud oaring, for the old. Wa get their labor for the same price now witnont having the burden of responsibility for the young and the aged and the sick. We used to pay their dootora’ bills; now they pay their owu. The difference is already scon from tlm (dlx tby a fun that many men are aeoamuiaUng tue public _ wealth through the employment of ne-1 much bound THE INTER-STATE COMMISSION. An Import, nt Letti r’UeNnlug th« Powers of th4 CommUnIon w* to Csrtsln Ci Thekuter-Btato Commission tias made pubbtfan important letter addressed to the Minnesota ic Northwestern Railroad Company, deflning the poweis of the commission as to certain cases and ex plaining why it is found impossible to secedeat-oncottrthe urgent appeal of the road for relief 'ftpm the long and short haul clause of the law. The letttr, written by Cba rman Cooley, aaya it js generally aooeided that the fourth section was designed to es tablish the general law that more must not lie charged for a shorter than for * liiuger haiii'kbd to permit exceptions in special and peculiar c^ses only. Before the j sewage of the law railroads were the sole judges ss to what circumstances or conditions justiflud such practiee and -H# Calls tt a “Nww if the preparaiiou and planting has Us*n Vly dune; the 1 mi tt*. y oanuifoi* that might fore co- wi much dia. url» I av< Lilt *1 to roast and devour him. As Um •y nor 1 » • i bft vn rij’lanaiig a brighter i xml o. » ot any 1 ..Dili Ilf Tgl itt* r light nanir into hoi.ivt J. •S • || riAj mi ixd at last Ur • irUumr*!. “\\i ] Il I , oa the k ,|/sl I kc ‘P’ Fil **ub ami Ximiin an*l i*tQ*l\iti i fttfcl l f ii ■«- lin*,'dfi j ft a * S*IJ i, oii*l at last 1 la gan t* ■ Mirt * o th) f hand*. » Ui Uat f 4 V t that mMne o’ trirm things so ra t 1*1* Ufj* ill\ • F 1 1 U' Ur. 4*ihi III! V. . at ik tmu U:«* tl aw. fl u *TM«fl AkSa. ARE « OWMON. |4H >kiug c»o iu* grit j w • Ha« • Atmmy* H»*l Ta»m suA M*» Es- thoroughly done; then'the mustUuublc •"‘Oie half of making a crop is over with. The army is in the field; the ammoni- aiUon ia all dMinimi'*), the gun* an* unhmbered, and if the < toners! handle* the troop*, advantageously victory is as- sun*l; if be dots nut. General Green will [• suhwi the land; be will come, he will see, amj he will conquer. Suppose you were to see a to-called planter gn it.g udr of lua truants a pack age of ealotu' 1, opium, 'luinine aud a lancet- the four great agents in physic tolling hun at the same time to go down and see what he Could do fur a sack ! effwl iicighL>r, if the kick man died. Would | wh*. you my the umliruie fail'd? ^ • see, year bv year, owners of the soil giving mm they call U-uaDta land, mules, ploughs, guano, tools an*l seeda, an*I saving go down into my (arm or plantation, and when 1 come again hare in v rent ready. Wlien you cunsadr-r this mat U r in ail -erumaness ami mn«lor, are you sur- loyment o( ue- groee the slave days, altliough they were owu- j ere of many slaves.’’ y— In chatting about Northern men Major bmith remarked that many North- era men had gone into the nouth to make their homes there during the slavery period who attained distinction. Among others he cited Judge Hiram Warner, a native of Vermont, who oc cupied the highest judiciul position in the Htate ot Georgia or the I *ench of the ttapremc Court for thirty-seven man in the club whuae watch wm fit for anything but a tobaceu box, aa it was the only one thst contained any inteatinre, li 11 ' 1 ). 11 Uxn * | years. “It is a curious phase of human commission of the peculiar and 1G * ,p, 7 k ^ ^ HmithTnhat ss old Uutal curumstanore^Unug it TTru ^ ^ T ", 0 , th 7 “ W , creeping on the incidents and mrj. The junftd.ctiou of yrit. aod they all got so fngbton',1 that soeo«* of bovhuod eume impremnrely to -on was uiswnt to be •i? • * ’ "m,! that be eas the mind. It was so with Judge War and it can grunt no ti r* < ** aet - I remember talking eitii him in on the apprvhenstoo II i* L r- T "r his old day*, when he told me lie was would prove harmful or upon the un ' k’ 1 •h" y** •»«»• going to \ermuut to see sgam the giero eataUished ssenstion that A has dune *<> g< 1 " ci i/« n of the King s county ( hxJU and the wooded slopes and the trout s> reams and the trees under which he beaked in his boyhood days He be came a part of the booth, but he bad not forgotten his old home m the North.” * Th# Pennsylvania ( Great Future for Vs fnnth.” Cohgremmfto Kelly, of Pennsylvania, who has just returned to Washington from an extended tour through soane of the Southern Stater, begun bet Mareh, in an interview with a Star reporter, records his observations of program ir that section of the country and predicts a great future for the New South. Mr. Kelly said: “In 1878, when I vWted Flon.la, the people there w«ed to be without hope or aspiration, but for the lost six or seven yean the State haft taken a position in the first New Sooth. The people a T ." 1 * the UfJknJ ounfident of the future.' From Kas- Iho commission is as _ . . . .... ssminie City and Bock Ledge, I vimted farms on the lands reelaimed by the I>reinage Company on native Acids and after a oarwiul am prepaied to say thx drtitinedeto a higher rank agricultural Statea of the Co ion.' neb a il ia being intelhgently ea with great profit When I laA it was for a season of real at AJa.^ ooc^of^ths^mrw^ eitica _ towns in A' ‘ ^ a month s stay at Anniston, I steps toward T* whiahm the law evidently meant to take this dis cretionary power out of the hands of the railroads and was passed in the belief that incidental injuries resulting, from its enforcement Would bo more than y the law as are the oar- xpowur of discrimination only so far as it is its duty to do. The law contemplates that there may be *ome sjxjcial cuet* in which general good require* suspension.' But such canes are obviously exceptional ouca. Special and jwculuur curcumstaucua and where only geni rol causes operate the general law shall be left to Hs general course, huw- over senuus may he the "i nsruuvnei to iwiticiilar rumla. llie law makes it eienr that any suspension granted moot be after an inv I the ehjualy rretnoft-l amply i»n*«*l that the patient—the lane uri»«*l tl nuk'd, at .miry *y*yN^*a* p^ikd and thousand* ol acres \\ ud till* falsi' rumeJ UioiiMuid' uf Southern land A man who prupused to go to a dis tant BUU to uversee s ent to Mr. Ihrk- ■on an*l asked fur a receipt to farm. He replied: “It ia hard to transfer knowt- rt Masy Mare. New V. ik TnlMiav given iFsusi U An «*lucator who has given much *tn*ly to earthquakre and volcanoes is I’xvf'vsor John K. Hces, of Columbia college. He is a otoativ Luiit ma^ 0 f | I* r!i*|a thirty-fivi', wiin a rouiKl and I chubby fare, a black tniMtaclie and more the sirjpf a buxmxwa man than a studcnL edge, and much harder to transfer art and jinlgment, my plan is to folio Ihwt gove my plan m to follow the lass Uiwt govern the universe. I’lants a .d ammai*, when aaM*U*l with art and judgment, never will (ail. Thu u the science of agriculture. Study bed nrac tier aa well aa gotd, and Icixm of the latter the errors, that you may avoid 1 them. Head t>ooka until you Isioome Taikiug with me In the Lm.-ols Najio^al, *> ^ r{ect r 1 * ***.,?* ut Beak the other 'lay, he re marked that in MHi ^, J oa wlU a long senes ol reire eaeh a. ctiun of th.* “J 1 the nerve to act and act country was visited by alwut the same I ^ oaoo “?V t lum ^ nmumg »U>ut to average uumlwr of earthquake shock*': “f* * ki, n do*1Luig “The reason any new 4ock app, iw * *o»l Nowto dojt Do not aUqw froat or ph«. menal is Becauaethc peopIeTorget^ M C * Q ** J° u the former onus,’' mid the professor. WixmI* T**/ 4 " ,rrmuJor *° cause yi ” i doubt or dally. Fortify yoonelf with I thought it my duty to eccoi him hi rimnanl this habit. 4 am ah erred, but I meant well; at any rate a Livelier theological school never adorned 'announced that Ten* •hftftftrth. ,aired had hs*« « “We l»ave kept n*cords of shocks in New England and the Middle States, and find tliat they come year in and year out with about the same regularity. The shock that anthem#-reported from the westsp|iear phenomenal to the people out there because they have no recorils back of a period of-forty or fifty years, and a ithin that period have forgotten occurrences of the same kind or have failed to record them. If some old minor -is alive whose memonr runs back of fifty years he can tell them. As to the vol canic phenomenon in Arizona I have no knowledge except from the newspapers. The evidences of old volcanic eruptions exist all along the mountain ranges in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada up to Oregon. I believe they are most numerous in Nevada.” When asked what the relative effect would be on New York city of a shock like that experienced by Charleston, i’rofesaor Roes replied in substance: “In loss of life and property I should say the disaster would be u hundred fold greater. There is so much more prop erty and so many more people in a small compass iif'tWs city tliat the results would be greater in proportion. Build ings in this city ar,e run op to enormous heights, with great sheet iron facings. .The streets, especially in the lower part of the city, duriiig the day time, are crowded with people, and the falling of these decorative parts of structures would be exceedingly disastrofls to life and limb. The fact that New York building is mostly done on rock founda tion and that nearly all the great struc- Lures are put together with lYsrtland cement instead of mortar might save the destruction of much valuable property, hut all the cheaply built structures would suffer. The use of Portland cement has made buildings so solid that they can onlyrbe tom down by the use of explo sives. Even in such structures an earth quake like that at Charleston would break the window caps aud lintels, and prove very destructive.’’ Kssource* of Ku**ia. The understanding ot people is genex- al is that Russia, head over heels in debt, finds it difficult to raise money to keep the wheels of government moving. The bihtory of the most recent attempt) *t Ht. Petersburg to raise* money dia- 1 prove* this and indicates quite a difler- ent state of facts. It was at first pro poeed that the new populai l*<an should be about $80,000,000. “ Bubadnption* * ere call for, and on the 12th ult. it wm bocks before you begin ; such books as will teach yon everything necessary to your success, and do not forget that yon can learn something from almost every profession. Rook farming moans for the farmer just what book learning does for the lawyer, merchant or phvsician. You must read and study, not only agri cultural books, but all books that will apply in any way to that .profession. You need the knowledge of a general to enable you to discipline year lalmrers to come to time, to move all at once, to know when to charge and when to re treat. You need the knowledge of a linker, when your money is made to know holr to invest it. You want the knowledge of a bookkeeper, that you may keep your accounts correctly. In this many farmers fail; they fool them selves, noTknowing how to keep debtor and creditor accounts, get in debt and become bankrupts before they are aware of it. You must have some knowledge of mechanics and machinery in order to use them. If the farmer is ignorant, how cun he instruct the laborer? You should have even a sufficient knowledge of law to know how to keep ont of the courts. Yon should have some knowl edge of commerce and trade, for you have to buy and sell. “How is all this to be acquired? By reading and hard study, and making an application of the knowledge acquired. lowledge is power in agriculture as well as other things. And Low are you to get knowledge? Only by reading, studly and application. With knowledge you can use the hand as well as the tongue more effectively. he three great essentials are: First. The theory (true plan) of farming. Second. The art of controling labor and executing all work to the best advantage with least labor. Third. Last and best, success depends on a quick perception, wise judgment that seldom or never errs, r is this to be How is this to be acquired, except by use of books in conjunction with prac tice? . only must be superior to your laborers. town* hrlarvc Uutt the present spook — not the «uue that is said to have appnar- i«l to the oldral of threu la their votitiger days. Lore Lao*-, which I ■orders Uie Gram wood fenor, has ft tefend to tills L ij*'. long ago an aged darkty, j bad bem performing as an execw tree orrhtwftra at a busking bee ia Oowa-! nun. wm returning borne during the die- ' teal hours of the morning. Ha f».i nearly reached Uat old toll gate, wbm Batan rhmbad over the fanes or through 1 it, and eompcUod the aged fiddler to play for him. The orchestra tamed pale inch by inch, and bM hair viably unkinkrd, until his hat looked m if it were built on stilts, but still ha waa oom- to acrwpu swsy for dear Ufa. Satanic majeaty had lua Mvage breast »ulTifiruUy soothed ha wound up ' the matinee by dancing a breakdown, < aud, dashing lua hoof against a near by bowlder, disappeared in a spiral aloud j of sulphurous smoke. The stone is there yet, and the hoof- print ia still an awt-iosnmng right to the children and many of the older peo ple of the towns. The wciitl and hair- rrectuig stone is shunned after dark, and there are many who will tell yea i>'»t 1 his Majesty holds picnics there at about i tiu* season eiery year. He never an-' pears in winter or summer, probably because of his aversion to extreme eol*I or diluted Imat. It is a shuddorv snot, to hay the least. Within the past few weeks the spook has rvappeared on the soane of its old- time orgies, and has been seen by auversl citizens whose words can be relied upon, although they take no stock in the super natural. A well known resident of the Eighth ward, whose place of business ia near the Fifth avenue entrance to Greenwood, saw the virion one night last week. Ho was driving past the Fort Hamilton avenue entrance to the cemetery when the spectre showed up, causing his hone to shy. The spook appeared to come directly through the fence, in which there was no opening. It passed immediately in front of the horse, which suddenly stopped and re fused to budge. The gentleman risked a shot at it. The with a hollow, chuckling laugh, and the gentleman started liis horse on s dead run toward heme. He says that the figure or whatever it might have been had a dark cloak on and wore horns. William Pye, who was formerly a stockholder under the old fashioned track sheds in the gin and tansy days of the turf, but who is now a junk numis matist through the country towns, is emphatic in his assertion that he has mKjn the spook on several occasions. He remembers the old legend of Love Lane, and says he can bring scores of citizens who have since indulged in involuntary introductions to his spookship. Numer ous other residents of the neighborhood are willing ta testify to a like encoanter. A resident of Windsor terrace in West Flatbush also saw the “thing,” and says that it was garbed in black, wore horns and had hoofs. He says that he was re turning home the other night and when near the “Devil’s Stone” the vision ap- jieared to rise up out of the ground im mediately in front of him. “I was almost scared to death,” he said, “but plucking up courage I threw & stone at it. The stone went clear through it and I could see the hole it made.” This last assertion may be something of an exaggeration due to fright as the gentleman admits he was so soared that Cfcal Wish Ht* I sJl—. Pompadour silks are recommended for dreM frocks for young girls. The safest colon for cheap portieres are ohve-gneo and brick red. Wale Directoue revsnappsar on many of the imported French trucks. Apple green and chestnut Iwoom is a color combination favored in iWis. Hhort becks end long front tabs are the dMtingmsInsg marks of new wraps. L*>og dots of ribbon give decorative cAot to black and colored lace over- ioogrem must aeomeanly ban rmlici il that some diatarbaacue and injury would be caused by the law sad 1’ isym i sli n eati be looked to for the i smady ox modUteaUons. Trie claim that trie com mwasop has power to saeptmd (tie etenn which were evil roaccqueom ere found gives the enmmtaaton general dispaorii*^ power mconsMteat with sound jailrifylis of govenimcot and of which Congress gave no Lint. If the ctsuse in its gener al operation proved generally and equal evouus on all directions^ th* of )laving greater •ouid Iw deprived of ly mud commission, ‘*‘-*--^-1 power to susp*nd. i«o* i r foi ut* no eu for Um* reawiu Un « AM W f< A&dl ItiTi I «>rt? you* oou disc ratio nary authority, of uouise pi* 1 '1-4*4 can the duty of the c> inuami what those are. This an But ouid j act upon •ithin its there are tad a m made to determine be dons by rivals of China foulards Iks sad I “In conclusion, to succeed you not HftV . y< but you must be so far aliead of that they shall know that your plans are wise, easy to put in practice ana certain of success. Then they will follow you in a charge, ss good soldiers will the best of General. The laborer must hjtYti QQn.- fidefiCe in The man who directs. How are all these qualifications secured? Through books, Lard study, observation and practice. ”, U P nilMlia, e Vitality mi Ureal ] r of my | good standing Borne a mere morals, it is lr with M Of Iris will act be had at of J00,00uhad Um Three den bam HL Frtereburg tmof $I,2Ut,- sad that the •here It has! IreaTom If s car* or born with sfiTtEc ■ la t>b»i q lost his hat aud was in such a hurry that he didn’t stop to pick it up. :l^n floris orist whose busi ness i iite rests in the cemetery will not permit of his name being used said: “There’s something strange on the other end of the cemetery, but I can't explain it. I’ve seen it myself, and so have s number of my friends. I think possibly it is somebody who is endeavor ing kfpby-a A party of us are going to solve the mat ter some night this week, and we expect some fun. If it is a spirit it Eyaaaarwua ui iMft i slants. Yes, I have heard of trie Devil’s Stud trie uivestigatioD upon which the com- i mission has entered. W here so applies will be the tion for temporary suspeiuaou is Lased us ■ongeM this web gi now principles that many (Hham Would have to follow, the oommisslon ha* notoof some children's naa'ins for declining to grant it. ick u* m uarticolarlv Tb * leM,-r u D<J * designed to give any 7 i intimation m to the permanent course of . the commission, u no potlry has been are not so much determined upon. The commission d* aoe up by itself regret that any injury te In dicted by the law and promises to give such cum j'hunts proper consideration. We have tak< toilets which s tasteful. Combination worn m usual Silk and woolens also. Thin riiks mixed with tuile and H*!* for evening wear are very popular addi tions to s summer wardrobe. The favorite color for graduation gowns are rose, bine, Nile green, and, of course, heliotrope. Indoors little girls wear frocks in the ■hape of a pelisse, loom and straight in front Ad completed at trie back by a plait in trie skirt let in between two seams. A silk cord or ribbon mah goes round trie waist. - —- . . . ' Tl.MUTIIY AND ILUVEK. 'J«*«'I<>N* A Wowt E • |M-r !•« Th*'*' Aaswored r**l CalU.ater. ft, - hay? If trie: riment can be grown, I wish to expe- and il results are aatiafac- sy cai fully, prank on the weak-minded. «hade of brown. This bo; Fine woolen tissue* are streaked with silk or a lighter shade, forming stripes or square*, and a small pattern of silk dots, clover lesvts, or small tldwerets of silk, imitating embroidery relief, is scat tered all over upon the dark ground. Extremely pretty capotes for the spring are composed of birds’ wings. Bometiines the wings are dyed of all colors; sometimes they are left of th«ir own natural tint; they cover the capote almost entirely, with the exception of a small puffing of silk or crape at the back. Borne of the new wool novelties have woolen grtuinds in light or dark shades of pure colon, ou which in high relief are lines of plush and friae flower de signs in natural colors and realistic to a degree in treatment. These goods are high priced, and intended only for parts of plain wool costumes. While combinations of plain and fancy figured goods, often in strongly con trasted colors, remain extremely popu lar, many handsome dresses are made of the same color throughout, but of two fabrics, and for these refined toilets ex quisitely fine cashmere and moire are especially favored. In the new fancy woolen materials in troduced for the spring aud summer season we remark that small white pat terns very frequently occur. In some fabrics irregular white stripes form a theii/tfer portions of our Btate. sort check pattern, in others large whitofisgrToften been trie dots are scattered over plain or striped colored grounds. „■ Costumes of imperial serge, camel’s hair, vigogne, tricot cloth and of fine canvas patterned fabrics, without limit, will be in great demand, made up in combination with velvet-striped fabrics of every description, or with skirt and bodice trimmings of fancy colored Mtin surah, figured with quaint geometric and In the Handown mantles of cloth a oorbeille check in ' tones of fieldmouse has its cape sleeves defined by a braid about five inches in width in s dark band Uxle and trie tegion eo Who uaan’t? We always have the road all to ttealf i when I wns a boy.” - Lively tomes are ahMd for I «hentJfoMparij, whien vdl he with it. 1st iris nlcriiiK is drawn over the alto alder in folds, gestive of braces, then earned in flatness over the back mentorie ia UiDusviua, CoLXjrros Co., 8. C., i April A 1887. ’ { Hon. A. P. Hi-tijw, Comm ms toner— Will yon kindly answer the following 1st. Can timothy and red clover, mien m is grown further North, be successful- ly wrown here? 2d. Should they be planted in Ml or 3d. 'What manures would you recom mend for them? 4th. Bhould they be grown together or separately to secure best results for what I these grasses and thereby from distant can see, it appears that should be cultivated here, Mve the freights on hay points. If von will kindly give me all necessa ry information on the subject, you will greatly oblige, yours truly, C. H. Moffett. Questions like the above very fre quently come up for decision. In local ities where the timothy and red clover grow successfully, they are of such great value to the farm.ng interests that only repeated failures can deter those who have known them elsewhere. Our country comprises a vast extent through many degrees of latitude and great di-' veruty of soil and climate. It cannot be reasonably expected tliat throughout three varying conditions any particular agricultural product can be successfully cultivated. The grasses and dover (what are generally known os the agricultural grasses) cannot bo profitably grown in They tried, and in garden spots and other favored localities may succeed tolerably well, but they can never be used for field culture or for large areas. Nature is very bountiful, aud leaves no region uncared for and without its equivalents. Along the Mndy belt of low country of this Btate, of Georgia and Florida, the grasses and cloven of more Northern latitudes cannot be sac ceMfally cultivated, but we have excel lent substitutes in the cow pes and vetch for hay or for soiling, also the nulieb- and sorghums for the same purpose or (or trie silo, Bermuda gram and Means paa for permanent pasturage and lot hay, and tue annual crab grass sad crow foot, both of which make the vsey best sUsi 1 ach sod twnry region ia-1 ho—tifnl 1‘rondsMeu, ami ft ia~ ot wisdoM to Maris nss of th ^mh-reb- mfopted ft» HE NO. 39. KELLY ON THEXfgja RECORDS HIS OBSEBYATUVS OF t PROGRESS IN THIS SECTION. Ths soon aarprMs iris ooua try by asteriHA- ing ilsalf m aa isilastnaTo—Ms of kaga proportions and ersat ssttvttv. JS3 proportions where § the H<> nth ia fond, pent y of trie Horn Horn peopUofjfcsold I $alds trisas is a I •livemfy now of U ’^Tfoy snatMMS crops. I am Aatdsof •JjJjjJJjJ vm of trie leropof k. ry% t to mve tristo old ttma MtrisyiaO balk for aam- •rtdrasre, they fora andew sad aid that with maanra well ted hards of saMa, -Ths great boom of the Itoalh is mam haad, sad tt will not ba s mrnstal rsgfoas of trial • of the eoaatov. bfo it but rapidly developiag i my% trie fame are i agemeot sad thrift. Ia trie af mm It owned by a native o Home, Ga., hs mw heads of dairies that would do credit to rania or New Yo.L •lostiee Ws In connection with the] of a successor to the late i, of trie United BtatM Bupreot Goort, ft ia remarked that soma of the already named will probably bo hMsdi- capj>cNi by trie faet that they are (roa * States which now haxa one or more rap- resentativm on the sauresM K—oJ. s candidate from a Btate having no sasii representative will most likely be pm* ferred. While Jastioe Woods bred Ohio had three of her sons in the Su preme Oofirt—trie Chief Justice sad Justices Matthews and Woods, though the latter nomiaally waa appointed from the Booth, where he had lived bat ft brief time before his elevation to the highest of our judicial tribunals. So Ohio ia not likely to be favored again, which will eount Judge Hoadly out. Of the other associate justices the seniax, Judge Miller, is from Iowa; the next* Jastioe Field, from Jostles Bradley, from New Jersey, Justice Hsr* lea, from Kentucky, Jnstios Gray, from Masmchusotta and Jastioe Blatehfoxd from New York. The South “Wm ot all sections of our country being entirely ’ unrepresented, many think • *** from any put of the Sooth, exoepl a representative on the Supreme bench in Judge Harlan—is moat likely to be the suooeasful one. Four of the present judges—trie Justice, Justices Miller, Field and Bradley—are now old enoufch to be eligible for retirement whencYsr tiny feel disposed to profit by the tew per mitting them to retire on full mtery. Except the four named sad Juftteu Harlan, who is now but 64 yean of agu, none of the present justice hare eerred m long m ten yearn. Chief Jafttoa Waite and Justices Miller and Field are each .1 yean old, and Justice Bradley is 74. " Tfol em