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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. .
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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
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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
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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. "
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em