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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUIiSCKIlTlON. Ono Year.....81.50 Six Months.1.00 Ministers of tho Gospel.1.00 A OY E KT IS EM EN TS. First Instertlon.81.00 Each Subsequent Insertion.60 and over JOB OFJFICE IB J'HEl'AREO TO DO ALL KIKDSOF ?Xol:> [Printing Ammonia. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: Last winter you requested me to write you on this subject something practical. At this late day I comply. Nitrogen, ammonia and nitric acid, for practical purposes, wo. will con sider tho same thing. Nitrogen or ammonia is originally received from the air. In the decomposition of all vegetable anil animal matter ammo nia is formed, ammonia makes flesh audblood. All plants re ceive nitrogen from lue air, ??yen the lowest order of plants, and when de composed forms ammonia. Soux plants contain much mote nitrogen than others. The excrement of sheep contaiu nearly twice as much as the horse, because we imagine that the sheep feeds on nitrogenous plants.' In fact stable manure contains ammo nia in proportion to the quality and quantity of feed. We need not go to chemist for proof that ammonia makes flesh and blood. Just turn a parcel of poor cows on rich and sue ulent grass for several weeks and they will furnish abundant proof. Ammonia i3 admitted by both the scientific and practical farmer to be the most important plant food. It is the principal factor in the growth ol our crops. It must be sustained by phosphate of lime and potash or rust in wheat, rust in cotton, and yellow in corn will result. Mr. Editor, you remember I had a tilt with one of your St. Matthews' correspondents on this subject last year, and he fought well, but became short winded. I reserved some oi my strongest ar guments, thinking he would continue for I know he is able. Ammonia not only furnishes food for plants but is a slimulous and sol vent. Ammonia is volatile ami liable to escape from our soil in the form ol amrnoniacal g- s. 'Jo prevent this, laud plaster should be used. Humus .should be restored to our worn out soil to prevent the escape of ammonia. It attracts and holds it. I have written enough, I will givei you my plan of using ammonia. I use all the cotton seed 1 can gut, for cotton seed contain considerable am monia. I divide the number of bush els by the number of acres, ami give to each acre his quota even if the quantity is but 5 bushels 10 tlie acre. 1 use much straw and leaves to at tract and hold ammonia from the ni-i mosphere. I let my stubble land re main unploughed until July so tbui ? weeds and grass can collect nitrogen from the air. I make much stable and lot manure as possible, about ten two horse loads to the eow or horse. I obtain the greatest quantity of am monia from the common cow pea. 1 Bow peas on all stubble land, on corn, cotton, rice nnd and all waste places it seed is suflieient. Peas furnish not only nitrogen but phosphate of lime, and potash are very essential ele ments of plant for remunerative crops. I have written a number of letters on this subject last year. If the brother farmer who asked for this letter wishes more light lei him pro pound questions, and 1 will ry to an swer. Very respectfully, J. C. II. Go Up Head. Monday proved a field day with the alligators. They came out in large numbers to bask in the warm sunlight after the rain. Fatal recrea tion ! Everybody on board went to shooting them. Even the scullion would leave the dish and take a shot, and it seemed hard to miss them. The champion slayer was an old hunt er from the Granite. Whenever he raised his rille death was in the air, and its sharp report was the crack of doom for some cnusion of the croco dile. The 'gator-slayer expended his lost cartridge in the evening, but not until he had sco'ed his sixty fifth al ligator. We have killed upwards of 200 altogether. Their vitality is re markable. I chopped oil the head ol one a few minutes after it had been shot. Several minutes after the head was severed completely from the head I thrust an oar at it. The jaws opened and snapped to again, likv a huge steel trap, driving the teeth three-fourths of an inch into the hard wood and splitting Ilm oar handle. Even twenty minutes later tho 'gulor head would not. have been safe for children.? Orlando lieportcr. Crops in Abbeville. The stands of cotton in Abbeville County are better than was ever known at this seuson of the year. Tho out crop is as good as the lund will produce, and there is a large area covered with it. The wheat crop in some sections will be very ncuily a failure. There are a few fields of this crop in tho county which will yield a satisfactory return. Liberal provis ions have been made for a corn crop. Tho farmers are acting sensibly in abandoning, to a great extent, the I cultivation of this crop on high, thirs I ty lands, but have cleared nnd ditched thousands of acres of bottom or wet lands for the cultivation of this grain. Tho barley and lye crops of the coun ty are, as usual, so small us to be of littie consequence. Of these crops we have heard no reports. As evi dence of progress in producing the small grains wo would mention that several of our planters aro buying Im proved machinery for cutting the crops.?Prt$$ tf' Banner, The Presidential Outlook. A Washington special of Friday, to the Baltimore Gazette, says: "The ! interest manifested in the Chicago Convention is becoming absorbing. Grant's success in Illinois and Ala bama bus been received hero as an assurance of his nomination. Btuine said this morning that he had never in any of Iris calculations thought of doing anything clso with the Illinois delegation but to put them down for Grant, and he talks cheerily about the situation and thinks that he will be nominated, but tbe almost universal opinion outside of the adherents of the different candidates is that Grant's nomination is now certain. Tbe Sherman delegates in the South will go over to Grant when he devel ops strength such at he must do at once, and Cameron now claims that Grant will get 470 votes on tho first ballot and will be nominated before! Pcnsylvauia is called. Tbe state ment that Edmunds lias pronounced for Grant is uow fully confirmed, nnd all of bis delegates who are influenced by him will vote for the ex-President It is upon that assurance from Ed munds that Cameron makes up bis latest ligurcs, and the sharp turn ol the lbird-term people in pu ting up Wiudom clients Blaino out of tbe votes of that State. Everything now [joiuti exclusively to a Grant victory at Chicago, although Secretary Sherman said this morning that Grant would lack a good many votes of a majority on the li st ballot. Sherman claims 273 votes and is, or pretends to be, remarkably sanguine as to the result." The Presidential Contest. The Winnsboro News and ILrald commenting on tbe approaching Pres idential contest, has this to say : ''After all, the Independent vote of the North must decide tho coming Presidential contest. Partisans on both sides will hurrah until they are lionise for their respective candidates but the lloating veto is like the wind that bljweth where it bstelh, and no man can tell where it will full. In 1870 it went for Tilden ami 'elected him. Grant has ninny sttong points and very many weak ones, and bis weakness lies just with the Independ ent voter. We believe the Democrats can beat Grant just as easily as they could beat Edmunds or Wnshhurne or Pish or Sherman. The ditlicully they have to contend with is that the Grant mon wi|l tt'y to sieze tbe gover mcnt by force if defeati d at the polls. It remains to bo seen whether the Republicans will be allowed to steal another term of ollice for Grant or any one else." A Good Bill. Mr. Bayard did a good piece ol work on Wednesday when be inlro duced a bill designed to secure tbe objects of the "rider" attached to the deputy marshal's deficiency bill which was recently vetoed by Mr. Hayes. Hid bill provides that tbe deputy matsbas shall be chosen Ironi the dif ferent parties instead of froir one party, as now, and that they shall be appointed by the Uutted States courts. Mr. Bayard's object, ol course, is to present the bill to the President as a piece of independent legislation, so that the objection ol Mr. Haves to the "rider" will be over come, and he will be given an oppor tunity to approve or veto the measure upon its merits. TUe issue will then be squarely made between the Rcpub licaus and Democrats as to whether the elections shall continue to be held under partisan control or not.? Balti more. Gazette. Glass Clolh. Glass Cloth is being made in Ger muny. AtGaudenfrci, the artist and glass-spinner, A. Prengel, of Vienna, has established his glass business, oflci ing carpets, cutis, collars, veils, etc., of glass. Ho not only spins but also woaves glass before tbe eyes of the people. The otherwise brittle] glass he changes into pliable threads, and uses them for making good, warm clothing by introducing certain ingre dients which ate his secret, ami thete by changinii tho entire nature < f the glass. He makes white curly glass moths; also ladies' hats ofginss with, glass leathers, which are lighter than real leathers. Wool, made of gluss, it is said, cannot be distinguished from the genuine article. Glass is a non-conductor, anil the time may not I e distant when it will cause a revolt! tion in dress materials. Prudent Democrats. Republicans nro ftee to admit that the Democratic mnjority in Congress has managed most discreetly in refus ing to be drawn into political debate. One of them said InBt night that the extiu session camo a year too soon. At that Bcssion the Democrats blun dered, and went home condemned and humiliated. The Republicans, Hushed with victory, re-enacted tho role of their Democratic brethren and weie anxious to renew a light lrom which they had plucked such honors. But they forgot that in the light of this ecBsion they had changed places with the Democracy and themselves bo came the nggressors and peace de stroyers. Tbe same wisdom which has characterized the mann ement of the Democracy in Congress has mark [ed its proceedings elsewhere. Starting a Paper. One more unfortunate, Reelles? of evil. Rashly importunate, Gone to the devil. Why any man, sane or insane, \vith a sound hody und n chance to culti vate his neighbor's watermelon patch and smokehouse after night, should ever want to be an editor, is more than we can tell. It is a conundrum tl.nl stumps us as plumb as a sumac grub does a sore toe, or as a common sense question docs an average Amer ican statesman. As for 08, give us liberty, or give us a respectable death with an undistorted corpse and a good looking girl to kiss us for our mother. An editor ! Everybody's pecking block, scapegoat and sway-backed packed mule. Ten thousand times one millionth rather let us be a boot black, chimney-sweep, penitentiary bird or Congressman ; be mod clerk on a coal-barge, deck hand in a tripe factory, engineer of a one donjtey pewei canal-boat, dairy maid with an aged ox and two he goals as our stock in trade, or servant gal - in a poor house or an orphan asylum ; be a stock-gambler, railroad director, pres ident of a sausage machine, rag ven der, charcoal bawler, governor or daikey preacher; anything, every thing but an editor. And yet there arc victims, self doomed, ever ready to sacrifice them selves on the ink-smeared altar of endless and thankless drudgery. '?Alan's a vapor Full of woes; Starts a paper. Up he goes." The Difference. The secret of woman's power and I success in regard to the relief of trou ble among the alllicted poor lies, not where most other.secrets of force and etlic tcy have their stronghold?in the intellect?but in the simple authority of virtue. The sweet and even oper ation of a tender and steadfast spirit of charity necessarily carries all be fore it. Woman wins her way also by showing, what she cannot help, that her solo object is to assuage and succor, leaving upon the threshold all that is not pure and simple good-will. With men to do so is dillleult. Men go by statute; they'are upholder of the law, which demands obedience to the letter, enforces the application ol it. and insists a'vlys upon technical justice. Contrn:\?isc women prefer equity. The justice which follows the dielates of nature is always more Christian in essence, more liberal and magnanimous, therefore better adapted for achieving noble ends. When men in this department ol work are exceptionally successful, it is because, as individuals, they have feminine dispositions. Equity, what ever may be claimed on behalf of jus tice as u rule of life, is the substratum of all the noblest natures,w hether male or i.male. Ratoon Cotton. Last winter was so mild that many of the cotton stalks were not killed below the surface of the ground. As a consequence, in many sections throughout the State fields of ratoon cotton have sprung up this year. The Cuinden Journal says : *.*Wheth er or not these shoots from an old root will produce as much cotton as j a new plant, we cannot say ; but, so far as the growth goes now, it is de cidedly in favor of the "ratoon." The Columbia Register, writling upon the same subject, urges the importance of giving the subject more attention. From a series of experiments made by tho editor of the Register, he reached the conclusion4*thai the plant ing was pti' ahead by ralooning not less than four weeks," and that the actual yield on the third ye r's shoot Irom planting was at least 'ivc fold of tho yield of plants raised directly I from the seed." Tho subject is per-1 hups, one deserving of some invest!- j gallon, und as the article in question | is an interesting one, wo will give iti an iscrtiuii in our next issue. The Party of tho North. Ae the Republicsns claim that their party is the party of the Northern i people, it should be remembered that I out of 4,740,GOT volc3 cast in the twenty Northern States at the elec tions of 1878, 2,252,310 of them were Republ cans and 2,488,341 were op position, giving the opposition to the Republican patty a majority of 2HG, 031. Tho Republican party was, therefore, a minority party in the Northern Slates two years ago. Even at tho election of 1876 the Republi cans bad a mojority in the Northern States of barely ono per cent. With Bayard as the Democratic nominee in 1880. even that per cent, will be carried >o the miuority column. Significant. One of the most significant signs of tho times was the refusal, by an overwhelming vote, on the part of the Methodist General Conference, to elect a bloody shirt, social equality Bishop, to fill the placo of the late Bishop Gilbert Haven. The Bishop selected is neither a politician nor a firebrand socially. Theio has been a eimilur change in the editorship of the New York Christian Advocate. This I is a prodigious change for the better, I The world moves. Only. "She is nobody I Only n post-trad er's wife," said the pretty Mrs. Bel knap, with a toss of the head. It was only a sentence, but it hurled the speaker and those dear to her from a position long held and highly prized, and brought to light transactions that made Americans for.a time almost lose faith in public men. Only one Marshal failed to obey commands at Waterloo on that mem orable lSlh'of June, but it broke the proud heart of Napoleon, caused de feat to be written on the French ban ner, which heretofore had only victo ry inscribed thereon, and brought un told glory to Wellington, and joy to the allied Engl sh and German troops. Of this defeat Theirs wrote : As lor this battle, no one can deny that the plan und execution were all that could be expected of a comman der." It was ouiy Grouchy who was to blame, and he only a little loo late, but Napoleon died in exile because of it. Only a child left within a burning house. Who would enter at the risk of life and save him? He was saved und after years proved that it was a life worth saving to the church and the world. It was the immortal Wes ley. Only one risk more. "Stock must go up; all will be retrieved. Hun dreds of mortgaged homes and penni less widows in Calilbuia to-day can tell the rest. Only a fallen girl. Years ago she was pure and happy. It was only one false step at first, but years of misery have followed. May God show mercy to the fallen one. Only one glass more. The thirst cannot be quenched. Down, tlown the victim goes, saying: "Only one giasa more." Hundreds of ruined families and broken-hearted mothers the world over can tell the rest of that sad story. Chemists tell us that only one grain of iodine imparts color to seven thou sand times it weight in water. So ?n our lives things that Beeru only trif ling at the lime?a mis-spent Sab bath, a broken promise, a little he, a careless word even, oftentimes gives color to events of infinite importance. God grant us grace to comprehend the vastness of that brief word only, ere it be too late. Another Story AboutdVIr. Tildon. Tho story of" Tilden's love is the saddest page in all tbe long histor) of bis cveutful liie. Let him tell the people how in the first bloom ol early manhood he was betrothed to a beau tiful lady of one of tbe old families of; New York ; how her parents decreed that on account of her youth she should spend two years in Europe bu fore her marriage ; how they pledged eternal fidelity to each other, and registered their vows at parting that no mailer how many years might in- j tcrvene, each heart should' heat\ sacredly for the other till a kindlier fate should reunite llietn; how tbe loved one sailed away in the famous but ill-fated steamship President, from which no tidings have ever yet been brought back ; how annually oil the day that farewells were spoken, he rapairs to the seashore, ami listen ing to the sad murmur of the waves, renews his vow, and how, through all the temptations that have come with a long life of influence, wealth and power, tbe pledge of his youth bus been faithfully kept, and his heart remains sacredly true to bis first love while the years glide by.?Leaven worth Times. Phases of Crime. In a lecture in New York on "Phases of Crime," District Attorney Phelps called attention to two or turee features of it which are apt to be over looked by the public. One is the idea that tin innocent man will not show signs of guilt: So far from be ing the case ho is apt lo sho.--- them, while ihe guilty man shows none. Another mistake is trusting to a criminal's professed stuhlen reforma tion. As no one becomes suddenly base, ho the base do not suddenly be Iconic reformed. He said, too, that I the great mistake made in the treat ment of criminals is to look upon them as ditlerejilly constituted from other people. Onf. of the daughters of Brigham Young, who was lately expelled from the Mormon Church for sueing some of tho rascally brethren who attempt* ed to rob her, when entreated to re turn lo tho fold, replied : "My father, prophet though you call him. broke many a woman's heart. If it was re quired of mc to break as many hearts and ruin as many women as my fath er did I should go to perdition before I would go back into the church. A religion which break women's hearts and ruins them is of the devil. That is what Mortnonism does. Don't talk to me of my father!" The ant is industrious; tho beo is skillful and useful to man ; the llca has been taught amusing tricks ; spi ders have been made pels and ieliov ed the tedium of solitary prisoners ; but the infernal mosquito was never known to perform a meritorious act ; ull his energies are devoted to mak ing an unmitigated nuisance of him self, and ho Ins been eminently sue cessful. i he Confederate Army. For Englishmen especially, the story of the American civil wur must always possess the most powerful at tractions. On both sides the principles involved were those which must deep ly affect our national feeling ; the lan guage, the ruce, the ideas of the com batants were our own. The army of Northern Virginia in particular, froip 'he nature of the defence it had to maintain, and the character it earned and sustained, onlisted, and will for generations continue to enlist, the strongest English sympathies. It fought with English tenacity. English indifference to odds, what was from the first a very doubtful and soon be came an evidently losing battle. Once only was it fairly beaten in open Held ; over and over again, both on the of fensive and on he defensive, it prov ed itself mote than a match for ap parently overwhelming odds. Its composition resembled very closely thai of our volunteer regiments. Its chiefs were men whose personal char ac'.er and public conduct displayed all the virtues on wh eh Englishmen most pride themselves ; as the people of Virginia are perhaps the most thor oughly English of ull the many oh" sets which the mother race has plant ed in every part of the world. Gen crnl Lee was as perfect a type of the English Soldier and gentleman as history can show. ''Stonewall" Jack son reproduced, with many of its ec centricities, but scarcely one of its worse and meauer features, the his toric character of the Parilau leaders. Stuart, Filz1* ugh Lee and Wade Hampton reminded those who closely followed their career of the finest ex amples of English Cavalier lovally and simplicity.?London Saturday Review. Jennie Fyall. A petition is being gotten up, to be sent to Governor Simpson, request ing him to commute the sentence of ?Jennie Fyall, the colored woman who was convicted at the last term of the court, of infanticide, and sentenced to be hung on the 18lh of next month, from that of death to imprisonment for life in the Slate Penitentiary. This petition is signed by some of the most respectable and inlluentiul citi zens of tho town, both white and nlack, and wc sincerely hope that it will meet with favor at the hands of the Governor. Tho unfortunate wo man, from wlrat we can ldnrn, is not at present, and has not been for months past, in her right senses, and she seems to be a decidedly more suitable subject for the Lunatic Asy lum than the gallows, Under these circumstances we think it would be little less than inhuman lo execute tho sentence of the law, which pre sumed, at the time w hen sentence ol death was pronounced upon the un fortunate creature, that she was sane. ?Georgetown Times & Cornet. Death Stalks Abroad. For ten years or more he had been a faithful friend and companion of the compositors and employees of the old Phoenix ottlce. At all hours of the day and night he welcomed all friends with a wag of the tail, und all ene mies with a hark. Old "Cricket" is dead. He wus a black and tan of pure breed, no mongrel like the fel lows who lorded it over this land in ibe days of his youth and his prime, between 'G8 and '79, but a simon-pure "ratter" of the black ami tan tribe. Just before he died Monday he drag ged himself up to the feet of his mas ter, the old pressman of the Phoznix antl afterwards of the Register, and extended his paw for a lust shake and then laid himself down to peaceful slumber. Alas! poor Cricket, we knew him well; he was a dog of infin ite jest and as fond of a Norwegian rat as any canine of our acqainlance. ! ? Columbia Register. Christian Philanthropy. The American Missionary Associa tion, at its annual meeting recently, reported that it was just entering on its nineteenth year of work in the. South, during which time it has ex I pended 84,800,000, of which 83,000, 000 was employed in the education of j the colored race. During the same ' perio.l it sent into the Souih more than 5,300 missionaries and teachers. It has 10 educational institutes In 1*8 jurisdiction, and 05 chinches have gone up under its auspices. More than 10,000 pupils were taught by graduates from its institutions during the past year. Mr. Thos. Bicknell, in describing a recent tour in the" South, said there were no better schools in the country to-day than those in that section, and that the ruling sentiment was in favor of pop ular education. Beautiful lives have grown up from dark places, as pure white lilies full of fragrance have blossomed on slimy stagnant waters. Wo bear within us the seeds of greatness ; but sin O'er them to spring up, und they overshadow both our sense and our happiness. Can there be any greater dotage in tho world thnu for one to guiJe and direct his courses by the sound of a bell and not his own judg ment and discretioni Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circum stances, no opportunities, will make n two-legged animal a man without it. The Radicals Object to a Colored Vice-President. There seems to be some objection on the part of the Radical third-term leaders and organs to placing a color ored brother on tho ticket with Grant for tho Vice-Presidency. There is something extremely inconsistent in this objection. On vdiat ground can the Radicals object to putting such a colored politician as Fred Douglas, Senator Bruce or Hou. Milton J. Tur ner in the second place on their Pres idential ticket? Either of the men named, as Radical politicans, are the peers of the white leaders of the pur ty, who profess to bo the especial friends of the negro race, and who so strenuously insist upon negro social and political equality and their Qtness to hold the ofllces of the government. And as for Grant, surely be can make no objection to tbe placing of a respectable colored Radical on the ticket with him ; fordid he not during his receut visit to Florida, when tbe question was raised about admitting negroes to one of his receptions, utter these memorable and significant words?"Wherever I am they can come." Without the colored vote no Radi cal can bo elected President. In view of this fact, tbo negroes have a right to demand the second place on the ticket; they can fore? the conces sion if they will, win 1? tbe granting of it by the Radicals, however dis tasteful lo them, would be but a just recognition of their obligations to, and dependence on the negro vote. ?Savannah News. An Inter-State Hatchery. Professor McDouald, United States Fish Commissioner, has written to Col. Butler, staling that the Georgia ;ur horilins are anxious to establish a hatchery on the Savannah river, and had made some appropriation, and that Ike city of Augusta would con tribute to its establishment. He sug gested that the Commissioner of Agricul urc of South Carolina should conti ibute one hundred dollars to wards the same object and make the hatchery an iutcr-Stute one. Colonel Buller consented, and has written to the Mayor of Augusta to that effect. It is pioposed to establish lire hatch dry ubovc tbe canal down on the Sa vannah river about three miles above Augusta.?Columbia Register. Hampton and Hill. Senator Hill woke up the wrong passengers when he intimated in his recent speech in the Kellogg-SpofTord case that South Carolina's honor was in doubtful keeping in the hands of Senators Hamplun and Butler. Hamilton's reply to that portiou of Hill's remarks was one of the finest pieces of sarcasm wo ever read, and Butler's retort was worthy of tbe source from which it emanated. The man whom Mackcy describes during the war as "studying ihe question of personal safety in connection with the theory of projeciiles so successfully" must, surely, have forgotten all tho lessons of prudence he learned in those four trying years.?People. Kulbs von Stcdt.?1. Take a deep interest in what you study. 2. Give you entire attention to the subject. 3. Read carefully once, but Ihink ofleu. 4. Master each step as yon go. 5. Think vigorously, clearly, and connectedly. 0. Let study, recreation, and rest be duly mixed. 7. Study systematically, both as to lime ami method. 8. Apply what you learn.?Prof. Baldwin. Some men will go ami lug a pole and a basket and a box of innocent worms ulong a brook all day, catch nothing, and come home and brag about getting fifty trout, which they did from a farmer's boy. Other men will sit in the farmer's barn and play poker and drink whisky while the boy is catching the flsli and will be able to toll just as big a story. The latter is the true way to go Ashing. Tub old records of tbe city of Char lotte, N. C, huvo been accidentally discovered, and now the people there arc busy studying their pas', history. Among the old city ordinances is one that provides for tbe purchase of a city bull, and that this bovine cham pion shall be allowed to roam the streets unmolested. An exchange gathers from one of its local planters in Ibis Slate that the whole cost of planling, cultivat ing, ginning, and delivering at the depot an acre of cotton, is $11. As the average yield per acre in the South is 191 pounds per acre, the cost of raising, by the above figures, would be 5 3-4 cents per pound. An editor never knows of what value his paper is unlil he prints an error or says something which dis pleases some onn,and in less than an hear niter his paper is on the strcot he hears of it. Let him speak good of a man or his business, and he sel dom gets even a thank you for it. The cotton mills of Columbus, Gr.., have used during ttt? last eight months 15,462 bales of cotton. Educational Column. Philosophic Teaching.?Correct babits of mental action are as essen tial to clear thinking iu moral acts as 1 in the purely abstract. The pupU must be taught to be true to bis own memory, to reproduce bis own thoughts in the precise language be has once formulated them that be may acquire the habit of repeating to others the precise words, if he attempt it, that he may have heard or read. To this end he must not only be faith ful to his own thoughts and imagi nings in giving them expression, but most cultivate the habit of giving an earnest, exhausting attention to what ever he may be called upon to repro duce that he may learn to do expet justice to others as uellss to himself. Teach him to form correct estimates of his own merits, and he will not be eager to under-estimate the merits of others. Teach him to state clearly and fearlessly his own motives of others. So that tho moral discip line to external and internal honesty inevitably accompanies every school exercise, and the moral traiuing of the child should no longer be dissociated from his intellectual training, as though it could be, iu any efllciept degree accomplished as a separate object of pursuit by simply repeating nursery tales, or glibly rehearsing graver moral precepts. These have their appropriate place and inflence, but are no substitute for the over powering influence of example, sup plemented by earnest, devoted teach ing by philosophic methods. Machine Schools.?Superintend ent Stone, of San Francisco, has come to the conclusion that the greatest ob stacle in the way of efficiency in the schools is the excess of examinations, lie also thinks that the great need just now is not of more faithful and industrious teachers, but teachers of more available knowledge in all di rections. We nre glad to hear his regrets that there is so much corporal punishment in the schools. Mr. Stone is right in his ideas concerning too frequent examination, and the exist ence of the mere appliances of educa tion without soul and magnetism in instructors. What is wanted more than anything else, is not less knowl edge, but more real intellectual en thusiasm and magnetism. Nothing kills the spirit more than a dread of examination. It reduces the school to a mere machine of routine, work ing for figures and rapid promotions. Just here lies the greatest evil in our. graded schools. They have becomo vast factories of excellent machinery and magnificent system. With'the regularity of clockwork they turu out inlellectural material, certified to be well educated. We need a more gen? eral knowledge of what'Vs meant by a good cducatiou.?2i rnus' Education al Monthly. No work calls for more patience, in no calling should she be more allow ed to have her perfect work, and no where will her wotk bring a more abundant reward than in teaching. The most common repulsive feeling towards leaching is, "In requires too much patience for me." There is much relief for trials of patience iu bringing down expectations to just what, in the nature of things, can bo I accomplished and observed by pupils. It is more a falling below what was expected, than what should have been expected, that worries. Like every other grace, the power of palionce U increased by exercise, aud by its exercise in small things v>o are prepared for greater. The school is a school of patience, and he who fails in it to lind the cultivation of & high degree ofthat spirit, fails of one of the highest piivileges of his call ing. Are you becoming patieut? and are you increasing iu your po?? er by it? There is a power iu the repotc which a patient spirit gives, not at tained any other way. If you have attained it, you have the promise of many a bright conquest; if you are without it, you must consent to many harrowing feelings of dissatisfaction with yourself and j'our work.-* Southern Educational Monthly, Theke nev<.r were two leaves, two pebbles, or two skies, just alike, and we believe there should be no two days in succession in the schoolroom in which there is not a special effort on the part of the teacher to awaken new interest and new enthusiasm by some interesting experiment, story, or conversation, which, fur a few minutes, shall attract the attention of all, and iu which all can engage. There ia nothing, in our opinion, th?t will sooner make school-life irksome, and school a dreary place, than same ness of exercise, routine, or machine* ry ; accordingly, the effort to malte school the opposite of this?in fact, to convert it into a veritable little home in which a joyous group have gathered to pass a few pleasa-1 hours?should be fust, last, always uppermost in the teacher's mind. It is far be' ter to have the respect of the community, without Ita special favor, than to have all tho world pleased with us to-day for some other reason than that we are worthy the confidence of all. Leave popularity to the politicians, Let ua strive:to deserve respcol for our real charac ters, and we shall doubtless have all that we deserve.