The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 25, 1887, Image 1
VOL. X.
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
SOME SUOOESTIONS OK A VEKV
POKTANT StBJE'T.
A of the Argument* l'«ed Agalntt
t Oar PreMatSyRtcm of Public Education.
To the Editor of' the News and Corni
er: The question how we can best edu
cate young men in order to fit them for
U;e, and for its two-fold struggle, partly
Against the adverse forces of nature;
partly against the ever increasing intel- the farmers do not
lectual and industrial competition of
other trained communities, should most
deeply engage every thoughtful and
patriotic citizen of the State. As this 1
duty to the rising generation is one of
the gravest that can possibly arise in the
whole category of individual,'social and
civic responsibilities, it should be ap
proached seriously, gravely, earnestly,
reverently, with an entire freedom from
prejudice and passion, and an oye single
to the ascertainment of truth. Unfortu
nately the question of education ban not
heretofore been considered in this < urn
eet, patriotic spirit. „
The prt sent controversy (it can scorce-
Jy he called a dincmadou i over the l»*t
methods «i education of youth in the
v stn lies "pertaining to agriculture
the mechanic arts" bids fair to go
way of all others of ha kind, ■
annex to Cornell University, has just by
Act of tho Legislature given the appro-
riation to Cornell. The Hatch Act is
fore removed from the arena of
clolb&to . j
Mr. H. R. Thomas, of Wedgefield, in
a letter to the News and Courier, dated
April 23, 1877, said: "Now if this oouur
ty is an average, then out of the 840,000
appropriated [to the College and Citadel]
the farmers pay $30,000 a year to edu
cate lawyers, doctors, preachers and sol
diers, while nowhere in the State can a
farmer’s Ixjy get a practical agricultural
and mechanical education.”
Sumter county ia not an average.'; and
r throe-fourths of
the State taxes. I! they did no one
would grudge them the hard-earned
wealth that these taxes represent; and,
besides, it makes little difference what
class pays the most taxes so long as cash
individual bean hiTjust burden, for the
State is an aggregation of individuals,
not of classes. But when such a state
ment forms the justification of the
charge that the farmers are swindled, it
shomd not be made unless known to be
true.
The report ofvthe comptroller general
for last year (page 100) gives a statement
of the State taxes, the only source from
which cornea the appropriations for the
College and the Citadel. From this re
port is taken the following summary .
Total State funds f An
' taxation, royalty, 11- •
Censes, Ac. . $7flr,3H
Taxes paid by railroa la,
real estate in cities
and towns, personalty
in Charleston and Co
lumbia S20N,*.iuh
Phosphate ruvattaes .
■ ■. 4,1*10
\VUITE SLAVEgv lH COEOKIAETIMES.
Ue<le nipt loners or x«nn Slaves-Frce-
Wlllers and Indented Servant*.
(From the Eew Tork Poet.)
. Many persons who oonaidf.r themselves
familiar with the history of this country
are not aware that A the last century
white meif, woman and children were
held in bondage; that the colonial laws
in favor of such servitude were as ex
plicit and severe as were those in sup
port negro t lavery. Bach White persons
owing a personal service to individual
generally known as "term
New Jersey’s oolonial day, it is curioos
to note how the well-to-do —'
who brought with them
BaL frem other
and
the
and to be
decided not on iU merit* hot in aer< rd-
anoe with the wny in which it aft eU
conflicting indrridual or local interests
Now if this diaeoasion were ununjmet- Luieiim fees
ant^ao that no great hann would result
from a decadou hi any duecitoa, the
pnhlie could sifort to have s few die
putauU to light it oat Bet inewnoch
m South Carolina baa always been, and
moat probably nl*»y eill be, an sgri-
culturj 14»lab in spite of booms iml
tariffs and other allrgad "diversify mg”
intlueore-*, mi that her chief wisdth will
he derived Otrectly from the ami by the
tod and aweat of a Urge pruportt. n ol ij, ^
her peooir, itiaa mAial«ataeeis«ty that ^ ^ therefore-, paid by
. thitf jirouh m of the improvi-tnent of ker ^,^^^ ^ by foeuge
exteaeted indiutiifs be wdved with our flue statement u a
refltixss ami aolml with du{*tch. , a j |nv u
la the Brim- competition of the .lay t tA ^
the Stem baa no Uaie to tore- hut a. There are an many latbr
l lu-J* r may be w. rv tluu. aeti
uiar Step mar .,«t her
masters were gflm
dares,” though their legal status was
represented by the jprd "redemp^ot-
0Ts
Isaac Weld, Jr., in his book of travels
in America, published in the last cen
tury, asserts that itMas the custom of
shipmasters at Itottra^u and the Ha use
towns to inveigle the people on to Uigir
vessels, under promise of free passage to
America. On reaching the ooloniee an-
qpunoement of the amral of mechanics
and laborers would be made, and per
sons in want of such would flock to the
shops, and the poor Germans would be
sold to the highest bidden, the captains
pocketing the proceeds.
Redempturner* constituted in the
early part of the eighteenth century a
peculiar feature of oolonial anxiety,
rhey were recruited from among all
manner of people in the old world, and
| through this channel Europe emptied
upA America not only the virtoona poor
and oppressed of her population, but
the vagrants, felons and drags of
after arrival redemption servants,* often
lost the prestige of their affluence; being
unable in the new country to maintain
their rank and inflnenee. Their humble
servitors, however, Inured, by hardship
and labor to the stern jteoeasitiee of
oolonial existence, prospered and throve.
The bond people, after serving their
time, acquired land and homes by dili
ce and saving; it was not uncommon,
he second generation, to find them
taking precedence yf the children of the
muster Who had owned their time daring
the first years in the country. The
affluent immigrant, having been accus
tomed to ease, proved unequal to the
struggle, and his children, through
faulty and ignorant education, rapidly
datviorated.
The Cotton Meveaieat.
Tailor* Charge ter Good Clothes.
N»w York, August 18.—I have heard
a half dozen men say recently that they
found they could mve money by going
to London to buy their clothing. It ts
evident amonglees extensive purchaser*.
Herbert.Keller went to England this
sole purpose of replenishing
The New York Financial Chronicle, in
its review of the movement of the ootton
crop for the week ending on the night
of August 12, says Uiat the total receipts
have reached 7,270 bales, against 1,499
bales last week, 2,. r >81 bales the pr»
vions week, and 3,'2V6 bake three weeks
since; making the total receipts since
the 1st Beptemlier, 18H6, 5,213,448
against 5,314,557 hales for the
0118*5-4 showing a decrease anoe
bur 1, 1888, of4oi,lUb bales,
exports for the week reach a total
of 12.5S1 hake, of which 11,055 were to
her) (ireat Britaio, 41 to Fraaee, sad 1,415
communities. There waa thus esUbliab u> the rest of the cotUineat.
ed among the aettlen a society that, in Tbe t >Ul visible supply of Cotton, as
many places, was almost imbued with a made up by cable and telegraph, for the
moral pestilence. Among the redetnp week was ae follow*:
tionera, however, were a %ir proportion Total of Great Britain stock OJn.uu)
of study aorta, strong is purpose and 1 balsa, total of nnuttaiatat stocks tM,
who appraetated the great 1104 making * total of Knropeaa stocks
year I
nis wardrobe.
"One can get good elothes on this
side of the watir, undoubtedly,” he said,
'"but the trouble is they oost triple what
they do in London. A crack tailor here
charges $20 (Or a pair of trousers, and
that sum will buy three pair in Eng
land.”
Tb* tailors of New York are constant
ly growing more exborbitant in their
prices. There are of course huge em-
periums or bazars where clothes are
Millcdge I
loMe, Columbia
lying at his home
the rh-pot, bruised
.cideot while coml
morning. x
He waa on to() of
Ridgeway, and as t
approached, about 4.
put on (he brakes. ■ Sia
to the bridire and
was unconscious
•the forward brain
ledge’.” was unhea
neck was carriad f
ture, knocking him
where be became fi
ging on the
mile be was
rakeman on the Char-
Aiiguta Railroad, it
settlement tieyond
" from an sc
Charlotte this
they passed
his side whs
attempted to
his back
wheel, he
A cry from
utch out, Mil
id the back of ids
against the strffc
‘ «n two cam,
_ hla feet drag
track. For a quitter of a
carried in fblsVar, when he
^ _ y,
WSH Middenl> l-x v-nag and fed upon die
tra -k. fourtevn cars passinf ovar Mp. At
intervals he was 'irueE on tte MM and
chpped out like shoe pegs and sold like I back by tbe brake )«• am* as the ears railed
hot muffins, but it goea without aaying on, exre-iencing the meal agonizing pain
that well dressed men do not patronize I at each blow. U<£waa coMctoui enough
there. I *” t —
to know w hst was gr.lng oa, and Piffcnd
a living death in the constaM fear ofhelng
rrusli<-t to a pulp It was wooderfftthst
be i M-apid whh life. 1t ws*
to the formal ion of the track.
Darn has tssm connected ffffik the rail
road fur the last fourU-ea yert*. and has
kl . alwaya bsva a satwhle workman, t sptal
late in numerous articles that are gotUgi A ,)^, ^ ^ pUccd In the o*b
eoDCt-rniag| brought to t ofiunlda where Dl Rowe
A man to curb the distinction of being ,
pronounced well" drrtaed in New York
must exercise great care not to dreaa too
much or too highly.» He must spend
oouHidereble sums upon his attire, but !
ii<-tiling like the amonuta set down of
This bai*raw, about 4»> per cent, of the
total revl-nuev includea not only taxes
pud by fanuen, tmt all country prop- [
I erty. and all ponoualty in tuyus and
cities outasd*- of Golnibiiia, owneil by
I i.tlu-r^ban farmer*. Three would oflret
the taxes paid by tanm-rs nmbv other
• hreda Soarm ly a pound of nvrr r»«*k
opportunity
by this
of HI* nod noun try.
expiiatwo *f their (era of ser
any, by thrift and industry, tie
to wtiaelabls pu ‘
Tbe
ia
tamer* i
i ll;
ai>
,i
Ulen . re.
grtei
I
i skouhi have full
they can well affwsd
rt gvr-,
, .
’-..oat iw sore afte i# tigLl atel
ah-uL i aoreiviy mo|-,< tuat thy dia
ewassun of this question will Max/O*
gcuriai. Foil and free debait is Us
refev-ard "f a repuldie. The sow gi
people* may be thieled arlku they ULdei
stand, but a peotde mislrd ia U S
a* tysanl l fire erexlil for nuicrnty
and beoeetv of pwrpuae So all who kstr
thus far tuAanyllnng to mj npi-o the
tstq.WC A Uk** it for giuuted that they
it) Ereir# p> propugratw error ot
f!l« ir cause in any other way than
ad reasc-o bur l oat andi»i tied
fact*
h* vertueiesa tbr ptiUn' demao U ia da
own u
aterret that Uiow; who assun - to
um*t first thoraufuly uei|ii*inl
i writii ibetr sulqaot, or U at it
they fell in this, then mistakes mu-*’. In*
K ted oat by some one clea. In the
wat of truth, and ot a anrn-am oan
did, rtirpm *~ dfcuiion of luis ua
portent Eiresurv. I desire tooorreet some I colwre bc'iannol secure in a low
of the error* of fare, iTpremcr implied. mbool.T prendre for bu.
Uiat haveertpt udo the ■■■ill ■ |*afMrate J.qwrtmec.l. in which he
It has recently been seated by several 1 ^
I art of l ha
laagatu ia
viegv bur the
mat depart meat ia
u esaart ’
Vtarate* | r< aobfA-Ui. 1 -Uw-
tons” unUaa the wnUr mren- that a
gvaerwl fit* nary, scranttfin nod p iste
culture is tntaudfd for prreeiwra, dam
tun aad lavywea aloms aisd that lamwe*
nann» t or unght not denvw nay ad-
vnatagi ■ therefrom. He IMlUl Ooi OOP-
■ciou ly take any sueh poaiu. n so ua-
jnet to the farmer aad hie aoo. Krea
were- th* re no technical agncoltaral ta-
ttrart-oa ia the GoBegc, the sons of I
faruMi* would still enjoy la e^njon
uoeve that pvterwl fr*u..i g
E rtHJf of th* atmuat impurtaaoe m
its pc nwnur to enter into this
dlertaal ncuapchtoc-a now raging
tlirevugboat the eivtUaed World, the want
of Which traiaiag compels the lanuer's
■on oj anybody rise's son to take a bank
•rat or be run over.
I>rt the Bute does much morn. Not
only giving tho (aimer's son that broad
grade
urtl nret53*>a
not pey
Of 1,IIU4,1W
■apply for the world h l. llt.l'JO halea, lows
of this number 72H..M) are Amcnoan ; Twi imrk
flULltk) Font Indian, etc. Itwouwnn
The Mporto into rusitiasmtal porta
for the week hev<- bswo l\i«JU bales.
Three flgurre indioale an in r re sec ia
the cotton la Sight of 51,1(1$ bales as
compared with the same data of INM,
an incrnasi of ll,«;?2 Iwlea as c*
with the eumapuodiag dote of 1885.
Tho reeeapts at latariot towns foe the
Week trere 7,'i7\i tales Old interior
| re— deeeeagrt U^WwIWkiM
about in the daily
the cost of a weU-dreaasd New
wardrobe. Tbe i
-twenty thousand men hers
thousand dollar* a yaar on l
tag causes an aching void
ooa’a heart, rat aot M
cloihaa, bat renliie the aheareMy of that
report Muppoeeamanbuia tagWMitiof
elothea a year, which a aa <
bar, the coal wortd.be
lar Wm
(ra»- ermuig nut
Twob
Three
Thta would oall for lam than $81
the $5,000 a year, leaving tha
$2 tu
liU
Whleh Is Oaasded by 1
* OM
Bit.sr M A Foot Thick"—A Tl
Tara.
Cluttok, lad., August
Clinton, Ind., and the Illinois Hm It •
hilly bill
• little stream called Ooalsff
hills are vuhusbie coal beds,'
ally only a few feet below tha suifaoe of
the ground and eroppfng out many
places Tha fog cabins of miamo aad
poor formers with hare aad there a
stony field of eon and oats, an tha only
signs of ririhaatfoa in ths wild noigh-
borhood. Th* psopfo hare a
ble story to foil to aayi
ehanoe to prestialt
They firmly bolisve that than is a
vein of pure rent "a fool thkk" la a
certain hffl at the dda of Hk* aredh
This rich rein of metal, they my, *U-
) ureter ths bod of tha aresk aad
isloat benearta high hiU <m tha
Mo white man. aow aUre.
alU-iMted film No buom are limMRa snii
hi* injurim are not conaidtrivl (vtaL, Ills
heart IS covered with hrdam. ktaredy
Marreit. aad kts kaers swollre to
mous rise He suffer* mu- k pain sad i«
u sabir to more —CWwasise ItmMf
Ampul ft
BMB DIKII
fomred ia
I milks had
II WM
tae a*.oo" a year, leavi
*sss
tu aom*
wvatd have from
for they
re with
la
unwa trapped iuto
i by ourrupt apeata at I
afi
af tea dr r aad
aad aaaurmnoee of
it al th* cxpirstMei of i
would f
tahmh would insure a eumisrteiit pruvia-
iou for the raamtnder of thru day*. The
maigraul I often discovered oa arrival
that the adreatogM to be obtaiaed la
Amcrtaa had been pamtel by the
The reempto from the
the actual — »ru.»ai, nut —‘n ’lag I
wilaad rvev ipte aor Hoatheru eoa-
•tion, of oottoa that reached the*
at through the oat porta for the
h were t,1i5 I ales Th* total
receipts since let heplamber, iwrt, were <
foUMM krtos Tit, actual ■nvao* |
the ptaofohous waa ooiy 5,11* m '* XM **
the la lance Umg tahL* from lh* -
at tha tataeiue luwaa.
Istha-I^y
wLo
Sgncrtrtrtl c^pe
? trslly
■m-ns aud ncwsuituoi
pile a a rpuc:
oelkwa aha caucot secure 4hr beaef hiof
(ongnaapart "Hatch Act,’’ whioh
uppro|wiatre $15,tiU) a year-for a^rw-i,
turul and soieutific Mperimeuta:km.
l Wbvther this is true or aot can be seen !
by refereor* to tbe following aectiut.* of
tho Hatch Act as passed .
"Section !. JV it ensicted, Ac., That
t in ordti to aid m acquiring aud diffusing
rmong the people of the United Stab*
n*eful and practical.information on sub
jecU connected with ugrioulture, there
■hall be established under direction < >f
' the college or colleges or agiicu turai
departments of colleges in each State or
* Territoiy established, or which may
Jiereafter be established in aooonla:.ct-
*ith the provisions of an Act approved
July 2, 18412, a dcp4rtmsct to be known
« and designated as an mgricultural experi
ment station: Provided that in any Mate
or Territory In winch two such colleges
# have been or may be so established, the
f iropriation hereinafter made to snob
te or Territory shall be equally divkl-
between such colleges, unless the
i of such State or Territory
i otherrtse direct.” -—-
"Section 8. That in States having
i entitled under this section to
i benefita of this Act and having also
. Itural experiment stations estab-
led by law separate from said col-
such States shall be authorized to
S ly sooh benefits to experifhenta at
fonsso established by such States;
and in case any State shall have estab-
ny i
S ied under the provhdoas of said Aot
July 2, aforesaid, an agrii J
partment or experimtmtal sk
■‘[)n with any university,
nection with any university, colli
mdtitution not distinctly an agric
college oa school, and unch Btat
de
in con
college or
cultural-
tate shall
eetablished or shall hereafter estab
» separate agricultural college or
aehsol, which shall have connected
an experimental farm or sfo
^agi slate re of sooh State maj
rhole or" in part the appro pria
thiz Act made to such separsU
oral college or school, and no
til by contract, e:
,Legislature shall by contract, express dr
disahfoitesU from so doing.” -
0 1 directs the appropriatioa^b
to "any eoUeg# ot oollegua^r
ti departments Of colleges,*’
>n 8 adds that in case
.sbsll be a
agricultural ex;
i is autl
lib
agricultural
1 retabltahsd
tfo
to tool
•Imj UOUUJU ■q» pracbort
Stndenti who desire to bs-
iwyers are shrewd enough gen
erally to take a thorough aeadrmic
coarse and finish off in the law depart
ment, sad farmers' sons should at bast
receive the same kind of piviarmtorr
training in order to fit them to cope witn
the**) glided "enemies of their race.”
AgV. |* military trailing is one of
the fcaturr* in all separate agricultural
oolkges, the Citadel should not J>e re
viled for training "soldiers.”
As it is still a mooted question what
constitutes s practical agricultural edu
cation, it can only be argued, not
proven, whether this State gives such or
not Bat the fset is that The plan of
edkrartpn provided by South Carolina ia
in tfo^ame line as that given by twenty-
four htates in the Union, audits legality
is recognized by Congress, by Legi&la-
» ** of States, aud by a largo majority
the people of tbe Union.
Tha charge that the farmer's son -can,
not obtain a practical mechanical educa-
tiou can bo aircctly disproved. Thirty
or forty stufienfe during the oaet year
haveheen engaged in the wemshope of
the Muth Carolina College, and when
they shall have completed their course
they will-know more about ordinary
wood and iron work than many of the
carpenters and blacksmiths in the State,
besides being thoroughly trained in me
chanical drawing and in the theory of
machinery, kinematics, mechanical
technology, Ac. It is a question of taste
whether it is better for the farmer’s son,
or lawyer’s, or doctor’s, or preacher’s
son tef pay money in college te learn
how to fork manure, cut wood and chop
ootton, without knowing how to handle
tools, or to permit him to acquire the
details or unskilled labor at home, and
learn, at college how to frame buildings,
weli tiros, sharpen ploughs, rig up ma-
ohiwry and do other skilled operations
which wou^d otherwise entail a loss o:
time and mot^y.
Ihu Miasiesipi'i (Liioge pursues the
farmer course; the Bouth Carolina the
latter. Manual labor ia required in both
the only difference being that the
[btrqjtna College gives that train-
tng which cannot be riven at home,
while the Mississippi College, during iti
seven years of existence, bar taken no
stops to give instruction in tbe use ot
tools, of other skilled mechanical labor.
As already said there are
'and forty students inr the
wilier* caffi-rad
it at the hands ot
»od agonu. Titsy were tad to
thal on ail IT si in Amrnca tbrer
would >e eaguriy solicited by
1 gladly pay Uw costs of
which iMung only fi,
would soon be able to rep*;
tbe tret grants would soon be able
repay, aad thus be able to ■
htieny and all the i myjtaenl
penty that the new eouatry offkred to
ativcBtoier*. Agrementa were sntcred
into whereby these deluded oaea bound
' at h, on arrival, they did
not saoaaad with* a certain n
day* in seeunng employment
own teoas, they eoold be sold for a
of yean te drfaay the charges lor
■ Alas! the "free wiUera,"wi)
rare exceptions, had a rude awakening
on reaching the ooloniee. Under their
agreements the captain had a legal hen
on tbe persons of the emigrants until
the ship chargn were paid: consequent-
y they were not allowed to go on shore,
but were exposed te view on deck to the
oamo on
MJOUO hales at k
Tha Chrwaialo rays, ia
■peculatioB to futarea ,1
"The spaouiatiM
drbiaiy at this market t
what inset ire tor the week
aad the prfueipal feature
la options for this month.
hare beaa at work,
irayawwed, owtag te
poriaat
Crop sc
tbe tall of needed ram over a
able portion of Texas, aad a
clearing up ia Georgia aad
naa, where tbe downfall bad
rin-. Liverpool r. i-ort* rtflr, )..!
a vary unsettled market there. Tha
bureau report, made public on Wednes
day, WM rather better than was generally
ed. On (Saturday tha
■tightly dearer, but the
t was lost on Monday. In the
of Tueaday and Wednesday there
a decline of (t) points in August
options, while the next crop gwe way
only 5 to 7 points. There were unac
countably full receipts of old Ootton at
; New Orleans, whioh bad an unfavorable
effect upon values far - prompt delivery.
On Thtuaday an early decline, under
weak Liverpool advices, was fully recov
ered on a demand to cover contracts.
■ hoard in search of > To-day an early decline was followed bv
servante. Eacept in cases of extraordi- j variable unsettled values. Cotton oi
yrar.
11
Tbs younger of
tuned frera a au |
raid to iii other
"What did you
■uitr
••it
-WO),
pay fos thal white
people who
That’s the reason it pays to go
to buy your elothea.
a rnmmm
nary qualification?, vexy few of them: the spot, under freer offering* and de-
happy enough to make their own dining prioua, has been fairly active,
stipulations, and they found themselves both for export and home consumption,
for several'years of tedious labor 1 ''
is n-
i* a
and servitude.
The terms of conditions of service
differed in the different oolonies. Among
tho archives of tbe Pennsylvania His
torical Society are some original bonds,
or agreements, between ship, captains
and redemptioners. From them we
learn that the usual price paid in that
colony for three years’ service was £24
Ia and 6d. .When his time had expired
a man was entitled to receive two suits
of dothea, a grubbing hi e, a weeding
hoe and a new u;e, Children sold for
from £8 to £10, and their masters were
required to see that they were taught to
read and write, and had at least one
quarter’s schooling.
In New, rersey—according to 1 ‘Learn
ing and Spicer—no white servant, if
sold or bound after seventeen years of
age, could serve above four years. If
under that age, they were to be free on
reaching their majority. At the expira
tion of service their master were obliged
to supply them with two good spite of
clothing, suitable for a servant, one
good felling a^e, one good hoe, and
seven bushels of Indian corn. A servant
wm te be imiuodiatdy freed in case of
being so abused by master or mistress as
to result in the low of an eye or a tooth.
Tbe laws against aiding redemptionists
*0 Escape were very severe. A flqe of
£5 wm imposed for offering
in snob oases, qnd the aider and abettor
« obliged to make full satisfaction to
master or mistress for all loss, damage
or cost sustained by the absence of ov
search for the runaway. Any one who
concealed or entertained au absconding
redemptioner could be fined at the dis
oration of the court, and be made to nav
te tbe owner for pacli
(Quotations were reduced 1-lGc. on Mon
day and. io. on Wednesday. Friday, at
a further decline of 1-lGo., there was a
very large business for export, and home
spinners bought f^rly.”
Eet the Hoy* Hi Ip.
Why is it that the boys aft affoEpd to
sit around a house doing nothing, while
their overvforhed mother is
College acquiring *his practical i
ieafo training. The chazgs, tb
the farmer'* son cannot seiare ti
ing must be charitably ascribed to ahoer
ignorance, but to ignorance hardly ax-
i half hour's visit to tbr
i or fire nunc
I ttDrtd ha
of *
for thrifty Oer-
anough
d fode
straggling
against nature and fate to do the workr’
Only the other day we saw three large,
able-txxlied boys lounring about the
house, not knowing what to do with
themselves, while their mother, tired
and pale, waa trying tq do the work for
a large family and company slope. Not
a boy’s work to help about the house?
Why not? Is there anything about
_ dishes that will injure him or
which he cannot learn to do well, or
about making^beds, or sweeping, or set
ting the table, or washing, or ironing,
or cooking a plain ipeal? On the con*
trary, there is much to benefit him in
such work, 4he most important of which
is the idea that it isn’t manlytojet the
"weaker vessel" carry all
when it is possible for strong, y
hands to help.
Moat boys would
house if they w^ro
we* WhVho* ‘ ■■
ly. htaay a smart boy wants to heln
nis tired mother, but doesn’t know how
beyond bringing in the wood and tbe
water, and shoveling a path through the
snow. This done, she teHa him to go
and play while she plods wi *
Not a boy’s woik?. For rtsmel It
ia a positive hann 16 % boy'* moral ohar-
wtor ip allow him to tfortrtt right to be
idle whifo fos moths? is '
Let LUie bore
ilfora who oan’t grt help "for tef* or
lnoDej,”M they often write
While tWsteamer Flora Temple wm
craisfog near the snapper banks, yester-
da.', about fifteen tfrilos off shore, Capk
Moutcahn Broward observed an im
mense block object floating on the sur
face of the water. Upon approaching it
he discovered that it wm an immense
turtle of some sort, whioh was lazily
sleeping on the surface of the water.
The captain secured a harpoon, and
when near enough he dexterously threw
the weapon and succeeded in fixing it
firmly in the back of the monster. It
was found impossible to raise this moun
tain of flesh to the boat, so that the
captain attached a hawser to the har
poon, mid taking it in tow, brought it
up to the city, arriving at Deco tie’s wood
yard about fiv$ o’clock, when the huge
object was hauled out upon the site]
where it* great size soon attracted a
large crowd who gazed with wonder at
the strange-visitor. The weight of the
captain’s catch was variously estimated
to be from T,000 to I.fiOO pounds; it
measured acrora the anterior fully sight
feet two inches, wm seven feet two
inches- Irom the.and of the nose to the
tip of the tail, and pechaps eight feet In
circumference. The captain called his
catch a tortoise, bat the News-Herald
man identified it as a peculiarly splendid
A Boston s|*ecijtl ray*
bsmrariy Utils reora at lh* rear of No
ifqLi 1 Albany Arret, ia that city. Mss. Mar]
M TTttouth was raanm*! te th* City Hiwattel
* tfotarday urate, .Ure shs ‘
■MPftttttK» flrw
obi, ai- 1 without ifootfi lira
odly drereral rrretwso la ail
reora *re isinrebly-Jllttiy,
cfothre wot* imfo !■ iter,than
kow* t ure to t by atetagi
Mr*. HraWk ww a pre
a*>l it wre whtfo hretu
doily roaara ta •» or
do* Ural *ho was
run ore* by a tart tare butetw
a— of Roottvl and Hadraa
tuoi»-!i reBK/red Urr fo brr boras aad
aotifiod tho p-djee aa-l hod Ure takoa to
tho City Urepttel. Mho was aot badly
hart, but bar adtaared
aafootdod Soaditbu
yoan of privatioo a
tho shoA. Ifolusu
oreolliiiif about bre raoooy aad
Ural Irawyre Cbarlo* Colbota
Tho bra
poor er
raiad Tha teonuag, boworer. ward
wm sreti to tho lawrer, wbsa thsy ww*
■arpriood to bare that th* old aoraaa
baa reoreitiy mats a will aad ore worth
revere! tboiiauad ff0itan>
Tbe raihra wre* aotiAud aad aa offtore
dstailod to reareb tbs taWfly Uxlgings.
Opuorta te* door of the oal womaa’i
i foul -dor grreUd boa aad a
rate dirapprared leiaare’y info
their boiaa. Tbs officer lowuo bis aaarab
by ripptag open lira first of tbs two old
whoa, to
gold aad ail'
tbs floor. Th* re
with whish
Mfouraffout
rid* fos bed.
was a hatful of I
Franks polked over tbs ptfo and raw that
iy of Um bills were rolled * tato
‘ tied with greasy strings. H*
with his She. and
the wealth fotfhd $630. Ofl
over tbe bed hung an old
Mechanically thrusting his hand into the
pockets he drew out a hard rag. Opening
this $70 ia bills lay ia his hand. On a
pag near ny was another petticoat As
the ofitoelgrasped it to replace it on the
hook he felt a Laid bunch of something
inside the lining. Chitting the threads
with his knife, a little bag dropped oat
and $G in small silver coons rolled off on
the floor. Inside the door another
dirty article of apparel hong. It
searched, and in the lining wm found
foaodhtes ahMt Jra
aratorrek-Hi^^ 1
won fat r aarabre of rare*, htf
sari It is IhJ^bt that b* is Arari.
*y« by tha
'Ti «
*bs drad rira real »htrti IS Area la
Ati
abroad
aedwr
Mrs. Hoekst,
tbe lion
ild Siadly Mjt te
ro to do so,
1 to do the work pro]
specimen of the trunk or leathery turtle
(Sphargis Oariaoea.) This great sea
denizen inhabits the gulf stream along
the Atlantic shores and elsewhere. It
does not have a shell, tratis covered with
a leathery skin, with seven longitudinal
ridges. It i* the largest of top
trite, and is of no v^lgp as food. -
,—Jack-
Thst Wreterttal CMMer.
an
Item .concerning a
taken
ler, who bad
of a mother, ap-
, and we promised to
Some
renttrksbie tui
qpeta himself the
pearad in this paper,
Kive tbe result of bis perforuwmees. On
Saturday we met CtpUiu J. V. George,
the owner tJ rae aow famous gobbler, and
bo raid that be put him to eet on ssvao tur
key. nine guinea and aiae bed eggs, that
the turkey sgg* bvoke during
oUncubatfon, but that at tbs
be came off
lining
secreted a Urge pocket book. Sewed
into this were bills of various denomina
tions amounting to $70.
On the floor lay a mattress black with
duffNmd filth, and rolled up and tied
with a piece of elothea line. Inside this,
and wrapped carefully in a dozen news
papers, waa a package of Untied States
Government tends of the iaaoe of 1887.
tearing four per cent interest, and
amounting in value to six hundred
dollars. •
Down in the corner of tho bar were
o bank books of the Franklin Saving*
each showing a deposit of one
thousand dallan.
Continuing the search, a black drees
was found, and in various parts of tho
lining were discovered, sewed in
lately, fifteen dollars in bills aud silver.
In a bureau was found pi* bundled and
money am
sen six am
seven thousand dollars, which wm kmsd
over to the police author tie*.
Ha role Worae*
From the itoriM of eya
conduct of the women in tha railway
accident at Ghateworth wm extremely
creditable. Those who .died mat death
with heroic bravery, and those who were
fortunate <
after rend
aid pdariUtt
nJe strong
i bravery,
nought©)
did jo only
ta*
two
MS
afraid of a
out down the i
re later Mxa.
mai "likeah.
down a hill by hi
w itwMauoni
Abreriten yearn lat
her hatband, and one i
sons, while going afoni
night, heard an ani
thicket a lew fori
had time to grt te
heard the animal riasl
the young
into the 1
away. A few moM of terra I
leaps took it out of hearing,
not doubt but that it waa tha 1
The speeteal i
ing Mark ia eol
the body of a man. Thai
that the-oterm by whioh i
are held wSU become i
and never vetioa.
ine will te found,
who formerly vltitod
vssJ
otMbaikf of tteOorti