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THE WEEKLY LEDGER, ri’BLlHIlKD KVERY FRIDAY BY The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co. Incorporated. $1.50 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. FRIDAY. MARCH 9. 1894. HON. WM. E. GLADSTONE. KnglnmrH great statesman is no longer at the helm of the State. Ru mors were afloat that (ihulstone was going to resign the I’riemrship of the English Cohinent, but it was hardly believed. The grand old man retires to private life, hut he cannot ret in' from the gaze of a world that admires him for his devotion to duty, (jj oW in thesmta^if M?<^try he f I labor by doing with his light what his hands found to*do. Ever on the side of virtue, he was and is the champion of the down trodden, the oppressed. With the force of his mighty will, energized by love for his fellow man, he would bear down all opposition, and ride into power on the crest of the incoming wave that bis great mental force bad stir red to activity. Strength of body and strength of mind and strength of character he takes with him in his retire ment . The pet scheme of his declining years, “Home Rule for Ireland,” has fallen short of realization but the seeds sown and diligently watered, in this the winter of their discontentment will yet ripen in the glorious summer of a higher civilization. How often have I stood on the sea shore and noticed the tide as it com menced to rise. First a tiny wave that ripples at your feet, and breaks and dies with the feeble effort. It is but the herald of another ami still an other which ends only when the on ward sweep of waters one fultilled their mission. So is it with all great revolutions. Eighty live years old, yet how young. ELECTION OF TOWN OFFICERS. It came off Tuesday without flour ish of trumpets or firing of cannon. Theree weeks ago a meeting of the vo ters of the town was called for the purpose of nominating Intcndunt and Wardens to serve for two years. The meeting was well attended and was a representive body of citizens. The following ticket was nominated: X. If. Littlejohn, Intcndant; H. I>. Wheat, F. (». Stacy, T. <». Mct’raw, J. X. Lipscomb, Wardens. All good men and true. They will look well to the interests of the town. Although there was another ticket brought out at the last moment, it met with but feeble support, and the regular nominees were elected almost unaminously. This speaks well for our town. Practically we are united on what concerns her prosperity, and for that we should work with unswerving pur pose. Let us support the officers of our town whom we have called from our number. At l>est, the work they have to do is unthankful, and can meet its reward only in the conscious ness of duty performed. THERE IS DIGNITY IN LABOR. Rev. (.’. V. Brown recently deliver ed from his pulpit in Sumter a ser mon on “The Problem of the Labor ing Man.” It is a thoughtful discourse and touches a knotty question. The The sermon is printed in full in The Baptist Courier of the 1st inst. “In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread” is a Divine decree given, not n anger, but in love. The nearer we obeying these laws of our being, made ki?s>vn for our good, the Tearer do we approach that perfec tion of which we are here capable. True usefulness, true enjoyment, trne success is found along the lines plainly marked out fonts. The foot steps of the greatest of Earth’s heroes point all in the same direction, digni fying labor. FORTUNATE WILKINSVILLE. Wilkinsville is fortunaic in many ways. One thing is, she has a good teacher located in her midst. And he is not imported either, but a pro duct grown at home and appreciated. Mr. Davis Jefferies is a graduate of the (iaffney Seminary. We know well his worth and thank him for the good work he is doing in school room and out of it, in his church and Sun day-School and elsewhere. It is some thing to gather and hold and train and govern a school of seventy-five of your neighbor’s children. It is a re- sonpsihility that few cun meet, but we believe Davis will, Wilkinsville is on the right road. BRUNSWICK, GA. This seaport of Georgia, so recent ly and so severely stricken, is again on her feet and pushing her way. The first frost hud scarcely been felt, when her citi zens, every where scattered by the fev er, commenced to return. At once she goes to work improving her sanir tary condition, establishing, at great cost cost the most improved system of sewerage ami drainage. Her gate way from tin* ocean has been deepen; ed so as to accommodiito vessel) er draught. Brunswick is ONE OF OUR NEEDS. Every one come to town, but not to l^^^pWc delight to see Gaffney improving; her population increasing; new industries inaugur ated; other residences erected; older ones improved ami enlarged; her churches filled at every service, but this must not be done at the expense of the country places. Each neigh borhood, five or six miles apart,should have its own post office, school-house, church and store ns a nucleus around which to gather individual interests. Yes, we wish Gaffney built up, but not by every one leaving his country home. Rather would we improve .your hoiJIiia^TiTL.rn.llv tlienexternally, then your sur roundings. Render everything ulsnit you attractive to wife and husband, children and neighbors. By wise forethought, honest, perserving in dustry, frugil living, economy in pro duction, cheerfulness will l>e culti vated, contentment will reign and childrenjwill delight to call it home and make it home. There is no doubt that we have as fine climate as is found anywhere. Our soil is good and is capable of in finite improvement. Easily can it be made to support twenty times our present population. What we need then, first of all, is faith in an over- ruleing Providence, faith in our selves, faith in our neighlsirs. This will beget contentment, and content ment will make the “wilderness to blossom as the rose.” This is no ideal picture, not an impossible one, nor even one improbable Neighbor hood settlements six miles apart; church, school house, store, |M>st office, with a few comfortable cottages for pastor and teacher and merchant. Will give 20,00!) acres of land, easily supporting 200 families of six |>ersons each. How readily could such a community sup|M>rt a pastor ami a teacher without any outside help. And how happy would Gaffney he in being tbe center of them all. • • PLANTINGSHADE TREES. Xow is the time to improve our streets and tin* appearance of our premises, ami to make more comfor table our surroundings, by planting shade trees. Do not wait for the town t’ouneil to do this for you. You and your children are more interested in this.than any representatives of the town can 1m». Most of our streels are t{*o bare of trees. Good shade trees are an orna ment they are a comfort, they are attractive. Plant them yourself, water them yourself, train, and prune them youpself, and there will come to you added comfort, and be all the more attractive. OUR CORRESPONDENTS. We are endeavoring to secure cor respondents from every’neighborhood of our immediate section! that in which Gaffney is intimately concer ned. And we do not mean by this Spartanburg alone. We are not more than three miles from the line,divid ing Spartanburg and I’ninn Counties. That portion of i’nion County which is like a wedge between Broad River and the Spartanburg line is directly concerned in the prosperity of our town. Wt are neighbors, ex change neighborly courtesies, and are mutual l^uyr, have yoy-^-ffron as \ V ,.|] ns Spartanburg we wish to secure correspondents. In every way we wish to edify our people. And this isone of the ways that we are now following. Other ways will l»e developed in time, y Be on the alert, friends. Bestir yourselves; give us the news from your immediate neighborhood; te^ us your wants: acquaint us with your successes. Let each help the other to rise, to broaden his horizon, to deepen his sympathies and so feel and act as if we are brethern. —• REV J. M. BOYD- When on Monday last we heard of the sudden death of Rev J. M. Boyd, Presiding Elder of the Methodist church for this “District,” our first thought was, is it not the way that he would have chosen togoto his reward. Asa presiding officer, he was quick to decide, always alert, and ever cour teous. As a preacher well, it was a pleasure to listen to his expositions, to his direct ness of appeal, <0 his log. ieal analysis. We left his presence feeling that he loved God and his fellow man. Man’s Littleness and Greatness. ATLANTA’S EXPOSITION SITE, Atlanta is very much exercised just now alsmt a site for her grand, com ing, exposition. The Exposition is a eertainity, but Mayor and Aldermen can’t agree on the place. Atlanta is large, she has so many suitable places, on her frontiers, for holding the Pied mont Exposition tha^ it is not easy for her to decide on one. The joint Committee can’t agree. A stormy session ends in theappoint- mont of a new Committee of two. Mayor Goodwin and Ex Mayor Hemp hill, to select a site and report. At lanta never gives up what she under takes. A GOOD REPORT. W With pleasure we hear of Miss An nie Wood’s high standing in the Xash- ville Female College, one of the l»est institutions in the South. In a large class in Rhetoric, she takes the honor for writing the best exercise in reproduction. Miss Annie stood well in our Seminary from a child, and in original composition manifested a decided talent by the time she was twelve. We are not surprised to hear of her good report. AN ALARM CLOCK, We have one at our house. It runs without winding, and strikes without setting. It is not nickel plated, nor is it a parlor ornament, yet its face and its hands are fair to look upon. Some day or other some one will be looking info its face, and it may Ik* with alarm. She was a present to Rev B. J*. Rob ertson and wife on Saturday morn ing. May her life Ik* gentle, helpful, inspiring, doing good wit hout alarm ! OUR RETIRING COUNCIL. Gentlemen, you deserve our thanks for having served us so long and so faithfully. You are not retired among officers on half pay; nor will you even receive a pension as a re ward for your services. Some, and perhaps all of you, will Ik* called on again to fill the position of Mayor mid Alderman when our |>opuhition is a little larger, and our interests a little more varied. OUR ^CORRESPONDENTS. We have already secured several ('<>rrcs|)^^^m^^^ittt trussed ions of tl A PRETTY PICTURE. A little girl four years old, just re covering from a severe spell of sick ness, ami unable to walk across the room, except with tottering steps, now sitting by the cradle where lies her younger sister sick, very sick, and with hands, trembling through weak ness. rocking to sleep the little play mate no longer able to play. She was doing what she could. OBITUARY. My dear Alice was such a bright loving daughter, and so much loved by all who knew her; but, alas! God loved her most, so after eight months of incomparable suffering He took her purified spirit to His everlasting, sunlit home, and now her sweet, ten der voice is closed in the dreamless, heavenly rest. Oh! how sari to see those we love sink with pain-Every smothered sound falls on our hearts as the death dews gather, and we so pow erless to help them. Home is silent and sad without my brave, Christian, dear one. She will not come to me again, but by tin* grace of God, I will go to her. Dear Saviour, thou hast my child, give me a place too, in thy loving bosom. Over tbe river the boatman pale Carried another, our household pet ; Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale. Darling Alice I see you vet. She bosom her dour. ;rew st range- crossed on her dear hands, And fearlessly entered the phantom bark. We watched it glide from the silver sands, Ami all our sunshine ly dark. “We know she is safe on the farther side Where all the ransomed and angels he Over the river, the beautiful river. My darling Alice is waiting for me.” S. E. Maxkss. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS From Almost Everywhere and About Almost Everything. Gen. Jubal A. Early died last Fri day at Lynchburg, Yu, He was buried Monday. The immediate cause of his death were injuries reeived from a fall a short time ago. The extra session of tin* Colorado Legislature has adjourned after a ses sion of .V2 days and costing ^ro.lHM). Life was not given to one ot Governor Waites’ pet schemes. Chemicals in Lewis Buitie’s drug store, Shreveport. La., exploded Satur day night with terrible force. The building was shattered,. Fire resul ting destroyed $7.**,tKM) worth of prop erty. In a light between laborers on a ranch fifteen miles from Torrens, Mex ico last Satudoy, it is reported that three wen* killed and fifteen wound ed. One sale demanded higher wages and the other stood by their employ ers. At Koscosko, Miss., last Saturday, Samuel A. Jackson, a politician, and W. I*. Rat liffc, a newspaper editor, en gaged in a street duel, the result of which was that Jackson was killed outright and SH'uuel Russell and Will Sanders, two innocent bystanders, were shot. Russell was killed and Sanders fatally wounded. The affair grew out of a newspaper publication In Kratlife’s paper. Jackson was a rcpcscntativc in the legislature undone of the most poplar men in the State. The Rev. DeWitt Tolninge has again changed his mind in regard to resigning the pastorate of the Brook lyn Tabernacle. A few minutes before Dr. Talmage began his sermon at tbe morning sendee, Sunday, In* told the -eougoregatlon that he bad a few words to say to t hem. He then reads a letter, which was In reply to one he had re- jiolved from the booed of trustees, In rlijeh he announced his purpose of iwing his resignation and re- a with his old charge. After mile h(»*| finished muling the was loudly applauded for [Xew York Herald.] What is man,.that thou shouldest sot thine heart upon him?-Jobvil: 17. The most thrilling, discouraging and appalling thought to the mind of a stud« it is the thought of his own insignificance in the universe. He comes, he goes. To-day lie is a part of the world, his pulse heating with healthy life ;to morrow he will not be here, and neither eye nor tele scope can penetrate the shadows into which he will disappear. The time allotted to him is so short that he no sooner becomes conscious of the oppor tunities by which he is surrounded and of his own ability to use them than the>rumpet 1rhT*t stHUlWons Wm-JUtd- he bids the world farewell. The world swings on its orbit without as well as with him, and is quite un concerned whether he is here or else wheje or nowhere. The sun blazes for some one else if he is absent. The sky is blue, the clouds float overhead, the rivers run. the ocean roars, the dawn comes, the twilight gathers without any reference to him whatever He may stay or depart—it is matter of small conequence to the changing seasons, which as willingly revolve over his grave as over his cradle. If we comparo the life of a man to the life of our solar system, with an esti mated duration of twenty million years since it broke its fiery mass into planets, and a prophesied duration of ten million years more before it will he shat tered i n some eelest ial eat ast rophe we are amazed at the point of space which we occupy and the com paratively few minutes we are allow ed to occupy it . A human life, we are told, is a thread in the great fab ric, but a thousand such threads may Ik* wafted from the loom of G«k1 without injury to the fabric itself. If ours is one of those threads we must needs walk in tho valley of humilia tion. for apparently we count for no thing, or something less than noth ing. And yet there is another side to the picture. This mysterious atom call ed man, so microscopic in proportions, is the greatest marvel and puzzle of the age. Science tells us that he is the last and best product of natural law. Religion adds that since he can not accomplish his mission here, but always leaves his task unfinished, the law which produced him must pro vide a place where his mission can Ik? completed. Else the universe has a seam of lead in its bulk of gold; else the plan which prevails everywhere has been invaded by unwisdom; else a cruel injustic is done in that we are created to perform a giv n work and then robbed of tin* opportunity to fin ish it. Every arrangement has been made for our continuous development and every experience, if rightly used, will contribute to our education. Xoth- ing can happen, from the most vola tile joy to the profoundcst grief, which a man may not appropriate to his advantage, His seventy years are God's University, in which toil and pain, laughter and tears, success and defeat, poverty and wealth, are the text hooks which he cannot dili gently study without exceeding pro fit. Life is given that we may learn how to live. Adversities accost us as knights of old rode against each other in the tournament, and we an* either unhorsed because we have not steeled our muscles to meet the fw, or are victors because we can trust our swords and our gom! right arms. We can grow so strong and hold, if we have lieen rightly trained, that no calamity can hear us down, and he alone has reached the highest type of manhood who can force the loss of fort une or a great bereavement to add to the beauty, the serenity and sym metry of his character. Do we graduate fnnn this G«h1s University to make no use of what we have learned? Do we go through a long course of preparation for some thing, only to be told that then* is nothing to do? Do we painfully and wearily and with great labor and sac rifice get ready only to discover that there is nothing to get ready for? Tnen is our period of suffering a de lusion, a hallucination, and we have developed all the finer qualities of our characters for no purpose what ever. We have not been permitted to enjoy this life, because we have been sternly at work in the struggle to make everything that has happened fit us for a life which our own interior natures have led us to expect and an ticipate. What a strange disapjKnnt- ment to he informed that all our dis ciplining and labor have Ikh*ii for naught. On the other hand, what a zest, what martyr like enthusiasm we get from the promise that every hour of wretchedness and misery, every em battled year, every victorious contest will) passion, every period of quiet endurance and calm resignation is a stepping stone in that spiral stair case that leads to the realms of the invisible, that upper world into which we are ushered when we graduate with honor from tills Univerisity, where griefs are the professors and sorrows the tutors. If religion were only a dream it would still he a dream worth dream ing, for of such a dream comes true jiobility, while those who elmuu no dreams, hut have what thc>y cull the truth, live in license and die in weari ness. But if it is not a dream, if it is u truth, backed by the plan and the laws of the universe, if there is a Gml and a Cross behind it, then are we cheered in our toil, because the set ting of the sun on today is the ris ing of the sun on the morrow, and the twilight of this life is the rosy dawn of t he life t hat is to he. —-• •- • Advice to Gaffney Business Men. Here is what Peter Cooper, whodied worth many millions, said of a news paper : “In all the towns where u newspa per published every man should adver tise in it, if nothing more than his curd stating his name and the busi ness he is engaged in. It not only pays the advertiser, but lets people at a distance koi.w that the to.vn In which you reside is a prosperous com munity of business men. As the seed is sown, so tin* seed recompenses. N\ver pull down your you expect to do hush The Yoong People’s Bureau. The Snow Storm. Arctic weather has truly visited our Sunny South Land to our hearts, content. How sorry were we for our physicians who had to brave the raging storm, though hands suffered the freezing point,their kind, sympa thetic hearts were burning all aglow with love for humanity—forgetfulness of self! “With hearts affected, hut with looks serene, intent they wade through every tragic scene.” And again were we so sorry for iiouse- tinniest ies failed to make their appearance when ftiost needed, for in spite of the pelting snow and excessive cold, hungry mouths had to Ik* fed, all eager for a warm breakfast. Culinary departments were graced by the thrifty g<KKl natured dame,who were cheery in perplexity, smiling in discharge of duty. Indeed we were solicitous and full of tenderness for all mankind, yea, even for the dumb cattle who “suffefed and were strong.” The “snow man” was lavish with his feathery down fall, and “old inhabi tant” thinks it measured seven or eight inches in sm<H>th even places. Why, it came to us as it d«H*s in far off Canada, only then* when the first visit is made you an* prepared for long and continued storms, so heavy and dark that off? cannot distinguish objects aen*xs the streets. The driftsnssum- ing mimit tin* mountains afford merry school children places for “hide and seek.” They, like little Esquimaux, go into their snow lints and then ap- |K*ar slinking the snow fnmi their qlothes only to bury themselves in deeper mounds. And then our Arctic ncighlKirs employ snow plows that clean off (he side walks, leaving them dry for pedestrians. Our airy style of houses invited the snow to steal into every crevice and old Boreas to |K*netrate Into tiny mouse holes while Xorthcrn houses are sealed and well protected against rigorous winters. Double diKirs and double sashes with every cranny and niKik, every tiny crack all tightly sealed, and with huge heaters like grim sentinels here and there, one would never imagine that the mercu ry was 40 degrees below zero, and that there was any possibility to the long exposed to have their ears and noses so frozen as to beeome brittle as pi|K* stem and break us easily. A friend often meets and hastily rubs your^uee and appears rough in the application of snow, hut it is a great and timely aid. the harsh treatment saves you from being frost-bitten and losing a valuable metnlier. While writing, our dear old Southern sun is shining with resplendent brightness and genial warmth, the sky is azure blue without one fleck, and the winds have ceased making funeral dirges or warlike sounds. The snow, as a rieli umljwarm blanket.is fast disappearing, and witli magic wand, snow drops, forget-me-nots, and pretty spring flowers will suddenly greet us with ’’howdy do” to our longing hearts. Give us (iaffney after all. Snow Shadows. are paid .the In-st prices, which is sufficient proof that the course is thorough. Those wishing to study book-keeping and, at the same time to pursue other studies, should write to I’rof. Sams, as the most excellent opportunities are offered for taking such a course. M hat are we coming to sch«K)I for? Is it to Idle our time away? Or, is it for the fun that there is in it? Doubtless, then* arc some of us who have no higher conception of school life than these trivial things. They do not consider for one time that the future depends upon what the school boys and school girls of to-day will make it. We should not waste one momeni of our time al school, for we can live but once and if our lives arc failures, we alone will Ik* to blame. It should be the ambition of every student t > accomplish something noble in life, and if this is our aim,our failures will be honest ones. STATE NEWS. Did you ever see snow-shadows? Walking in the snow tisluy, the sun came out brightly before it ceased falling, and under the broad flukes, dark sjKits were moving, like Kind swept by the'Vind. Looking closely, I saw that they were, Him* ilia; linea*: Even the snow-flake lets a shadow fall, As to the earth it softly sinks to rest; So may the whitest, sweetest souls Seem sometimes, wrong to those who know them lK*st. —Letter from the North. Seminary Points. R. (’. McMillan and U. B. Martin, former students of this school, an* at t'lemson. We wish them success. (’. L. Hammett, once a student in this scIukiI, is now teaching near Uannon’s Gump Ground. The Isiys have lK*en talkiugof base ball and we may not In* surprised to see them playing at anytime. Our music teacher, Miss Florence L. Tucker, after many days illness, is again at her |Kist of duty. Co-education Is at last receiving much attention in the south. Wof ford’s trustees an* thinking Of OJKMl- ing the d(K>rs of that institution to the fairer sex. Why not? We cannot refrain from praising the Gaffney Seminary when praise seems so justly due. A student of this Seminary made the highest mark ever made in this county, at the county teacher’s examination, last April. Also the same one sGkkI the best examination, made in the shatc, in English and Mathematics, at a competitive examination fora sclwd- nrshipin the College of Charleston. This s|K*aks well for our school. Our boys and girls have been en joying the sport of snow-balling for the past week, hut the Spring sun has asserted its power, and now the snow is banished from our hills uud vales. We admire the beautiful snow, hut at this season, wo had rather see the buds bursting their prison eells. The iKiok-keeping department of our school Is a very prominent fca- ure. Bo; b truinod by 1,‘tof. SaUt't*. Items ot Interest Gleaned from Our Ex- Changes. On Wednesday night, Holland Cen ter, who is a prominent man in Glassy Mountain township was going home, and when near Ids own house lie was assaulted by unknown par ties and cut and gashed in twenty- seven place.-. Saturday night, news reached Grcenvilie from the Moun tain that he was dead. No one can give a reason for the assault, and tin* party who made the attack is un known. Col. W. B. Wilson, a prominent member of York county bar, and well known in the legislative halls of this State, died Saturday, evening at 7 :20 o’clock at his home in Yorkvilh*. The immediate cause of his death was pneumonia. The teaehcrs’association is to gath er in Spartanburg in annual session in July. Miss Ada Darwin, of Blackhurg, and W. A. Berry, to F irt Mill, wen* united in marriage at Bluckhurg last week. Rev. J,. A. Johnson, of the Methodist church, officiated. Mrs. W. Cham. Allen, an aged lady, died near I’awlet Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Allen was a Wilkins Indore marriage. W. L. McGee, the new professor of agriculture at Clcmsnn, has assumed tlie duties of the professorship. W. S, Grady, of Greenville, lost his residence by lire on Sunday night. All the household effects were de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $1500; insurance $500. PLAYED TO AN AUDIENCE OF ONE. Forreat, J uh*i W. Forney and Daniel Dougherty In a Caat of “Jullua Cieanr.” While in the zenith of his superb powers and at the very height of his fame Edwin Forrest, the greatest actor of his day, once played on a Christmas night one of his most suc cessful characters to an audience of but one person. The play was ‘‘Julius Crosar,” the place of its presentation the inner sanctum of the chief editors office in The Press building, at Seventh and Chestnut streets, and the cast of char acters: Julius Cmsar, Daniel Dough erty; Cassius, Edwin Forrest; Marc Antony, Edwin 8. Conner; Brutus, John W. Forney. What manager of today or of any other day would not lie proud to produce a Shakespearean drama with such a combination of players — Dougherty, the silver tongued; Forney, the journalist and statesman; Conner, the veteran of the stage, and Forrest, the towering giant of the dramatic profession f Is it any wonder that that audience of one should feel that he was at once lucky and a highly honored citizen 1 It was only a few years before Forrest’s death that on this Christ mas Sunday night ho strolled into The Press office to have a chat with his old friend Forney. A few mo ments later Dougherty came and was soon followed by Conner, who was a frequent visitor to the editor. The meeting was purely accidental, but they were all close friends, and the surprise was a pleasurable one. Dougherty, as is well known, had in his early days a predilection for the drama and narrowly escaped being an actor himself. Indeed he was a good deal of an actor in his famous lectures, especially in that celebrated discourse on “The Stage.” Forney, too, was an ardent admirer of the players’ art and once had a strong desire to figure behind the footlights. It was not strange, then, that the talk of this npted quartet soon shifted toward plays and players, and this waa soon followed by recitations. Dougherty gave his “Shamus O'Bri en,” which alone had made him fa mous. Forney rendered several pas sages from Boucica ult’s “Long Strike,” which the editor greatly ad mired, and then the four, being wanned up, instnicted the audience —which was William H. Brady, Colo nel Forney's stenographer—to “lock the door, Billy, and don’t let another soul in tonight,” and proceeded to give the notable performance of Shakespeare’s play. The minor roles were merely re cited “by cues," while Brady, when the occasion was urgent in its de mands for supernumerary assistance, acted as the “Roman populace,” sol diers and retainers of all sorts where presence was necessary to give the proper emphasis t) points in the drama. Brady, who is an old theater goer, and considers himself a cntic, says to this day that “Julius Cnaar” was never played before or it was played that Cly All these noted from the stage next Forney, thj Dougherty—at said in the, over The Possibilities of a Variety of Crops Farther Discussed—Experi ence Elsewhere—-Try It, Farmers. In continuing t hi* .subject of diver sified industries, attention is called to the Jerusalem artichoke. I’crimps another plant will produce such avast amount of animal feed. It is valu able for both horses and cattle. \- a feed for hogs, it has m quid, acre for acre. The writer has sei a two thousand bushels raised on .an aere of Missouri laud. Let each farmer seleet a quarter or half of an aere of his best land, if this can have a a quantity of compost, so much the hotter. But lidd peas should he sown on it and then plnwc l under. The ground should he marked off as if for Irish potatoes. The artichokes should Ik* rut to one eye and one put in each hill hill. The hills should he a few inches, say, from eighteen to twenty- four. apart. The seed should he drop ped iu the furrows and covered under with hoe or plow. The ground should then he harrowed until level. If properly cultivated, the roots will permeate almost the entire ground. This is especially true where the ground is rich and mellow. One bar rel of seed is suffieent for an acre, and ought not cost more than two or t hree dollars, even if bought from a distant scedman. The usual price of seed in the west is from forty to sixty cents per bushel. Farther attention is called to prick ly pear—:: species of cactus, fn wes tern Texas, near dd Mexico, when* no corn is grown, the writer has seen thousands of cal t le that were fatten* od on prickly pear ground with cot ton seed. The big. fleshy leaves afford a rich, juicy pulp that combines, splendidly with cotton seed when ground. I’oor, sandy, waste hinds, such as usually grow up to tiilil pirns, are adapted to cactus. When once set, the cactus is perennial i, e, it peed Ik* planted hut once. It is true that it will take some trouble and expense to “get a set” of cactus, hut the plant is well worth a trial in the South. It can probably he propagated from the seeds found in the pear part of the plant. The fruit and leaves may both Ik* utilized for fi<*d. Cropping these from the plant docs not mate rially injure it. No fertilizers are re-' qulred. In fact, it delights in such land as usually brings no returns to the land owner. The trials should he made on land that contains much sand. It is possihl.) Ilia* waxy, clay hind is not y ’ to it. Alfalfa and alfaiea clovers should lie tried In South Carolina. Both are good as a forage plant. The latter is better for dairy stock, it is geting to he quite common in Southern C>i)j* fornia. The w riter has seen much of it in tin* Los Angels valley, i’erhups, any scedman in the cities ol Los An- gclrles or San Francisco California could supply tlie seeds of either of these plants. Twenty years ago, tin* i.iiU and low mountains of Southern California were hare and brown throughout the year. Now alfarea grows to the very top of many of these >«mu> hills and mountains. This it does in a country where rain never fn I Isjor that portion of tin* year between May and November. The leaf of this plain siig ;e*lK flint of the carrot, except that il i smaller, The plant yields from three to five crops of hay per unuuain in California. If it will yield one good one each year in South Carolina and afford pasturage during the winter months, it will Ik* worth millions. It is certainty worth a trial and a thorough one. It delights in a sandy soil, hut can possibly he successfully grown in clayey soils. Seedmen can give directions as to the quauity of seed required for an aere of land. Who will Is* the first to try it? THE LONELINESS OF DEATH. The silent chariot stamlrfh nl lliciloorj The hosse is hushed and still f rom r's«f to floor. None heard the sound of its niyr.leilous wheels. Tet each Its presence feel*. Nochnnipinic hit. no tramp of ooed; AH dark and silent up and down the Mivet. And yet thou mayst not Weep it wailhiK there For one last kiss or praj er. Thy words, with sorao strange other Inter- chanced. Strike cold across ns like loved eyes estranged With things that are not fraught, or things that are rads like a sun struck star. And thou, too weak and agonized to lift The cup to quench thy dying thirst or rhift Thy pillows, now without our help must rtso Nor wait our ministries. Thou, loved and cherished, mnst go forth 1 Nous seethes fondly to thodoor, not one. No head ts turned to see thee go; wo stay Where thou art not and pray. . » No panel bars tbv white, reststli'** feet: Our walls are mist to thee; out on I he 1 It waits, it waits for thee, for 1 hoe alons. 1 Arise, 1st us begone! ' ' Alone, atone upon thine awful way! Do any show thee kindness, any stay Thv nr d-av the silent charioteer