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THE STEW TEACHER 'That is tbc new school-house, is it ?' inquired Miss Alice Ray, the 'new teacher,* as the farmer's plodding little team passed by a little white house standing endwise to the road, inclosed in a rather dilapidated fence. 'Yes, that's where you'll hold forth,' remarked Uucle Zeke Woodburn, 'but I'm afeered you won't hold out long, far we've got the toughest set of boys in the State, and Uncle Zeke gave a kind of chuckling little laugh as he thought of the timid, demure little dam? sel at his side controlling the boys of Bear Creek school. 'But don't the directors expel them when they are beyond the control of the teacher?' asked Alice, her heart beginning to sink at the prospect before ber. 'Expel 'em ! no, we never expel no? body ; if a teacher can't boss the school we just let it boss him ; it ain't our fight, an' the school herc generally bosses the teacher, an' thar's been some pretty good men licked in that school? house by the boys.' *I did not know the school was so unruly,' said poor Alice, wishing hear? tily that she had hired out as a washer? woman instead of trying to teach the savages of Bear Creek. 'Oh, well, m eb bo it won't be so bad thiswiuter; thar's Jim Turner, he's one of toe toughest of 'cm ; he'll bc tweoty-one in a mouth nnd you'll get rid of him ; but thar's the Brindley boys, they're mighty uigh as bad.' Poor Alice listened with a sinking heart. The cold bard duties before her were dreary enough at best ; but; to go alone and unknown into a strange neighborhood to teach her first school and to be met at the outset by such dark prophecies made her feel homeless indeed. She was naturally a timid, shrinking little thing, and if she had possessed anywhere cn the whole broad earth a roof to shelter her she would have turned back from Bear Creek schcol even then. But she had no home. Her mother had died when she was but 14, and she bad kept house for her father two years when he died, leaviug her all alone. Before he died he advised her to spend the little sum he would be able to leave uer in fitting her herself for a teacher, and Alice had fulfilled his directions so literally that when she had completed her course of study at the normal school she had barely ten dollars left, and when she paid Uncle Zeke for hauling her and ber little trunk from thc nearest rail? road town to the district where she was to teach, she had but five dollars left. On Monday morning as she started for the school-hcuse she felt as if site was going to the scaffold. Her course of pedagogics in the normal institute had included no such a problem as this school promised to be, and if it were not for very shame she would have given her single five-dollar bill to any one to take ber back lo the railroad and pay lier fare to L., the town where she had attended school. When she arrived at the school house about twenty or thirty pupils were grouped around talking, but a spell of silence fell upon them as she walked up and saluted them with a 'good morn? ing,' which was more like the chirp of j a frightened bird than anything else, i As she unlocked the door and entered I what she had already begun to regard j as a chamber of torture, two or three j slowly followed her into the room, and I depositing their books upon thc whit ] tied desks took seats and fixed their i eyes upon her with a stare that did not I help to strengthen her nerves AU the rules and regulations of her 'Theory and Practice of Opening School upon the First l)ay' seemed to vanish j and leave her brain whirring in dizzy j helplessness. She tried to think of ? some cheerful remark, but her brain rc I fused to form the thought and her j tongue clove to thc roof of her mouth, j She could see in the faces of her pupils, j most of whom were now in the school ! room, that they wore aware of her fright and enjoyed it thorougly. By a strong effort she partially recovered herself and bravely resisted the tempta? tion to lean her head on the desk and have a good cry. She felt that she must do something or faint, so she rang the bell, though it lacked fifteen min? utes to nine. She then began taking down the names and ages of her pupils, and by the time this was completed she began to feel more at ease. She then began examining the pupils in the dif? ferent branches in order to assign them io their proper classes. She had finish e^heex|a^'itioD in all the branches ina i m?i mum III mn ? wifcf ?? imiiiii iwn^'Jica grown girls and young men, amor whom was the terrible Jim Turner, whom she had been warned. Several of the members of the cia had read, and it was now the turn Moses Bradley, a huge, heavy-set fe low, with small, malicious eyes and general air of ruffianism. When 1 was called upon to read he did not ri: from his seat, but began to read in thick, indistinct voice from a book bi? den in his lap. 'Mr. Bradley, will you please star, up when you read ?' asked Alice. 'I kin read just as well settin' down replied the fellow with a dogged air. 'But it is one of the rales in a rea< iug. class to stand up and read,' sa: Alice, her heart quaking with fear \ she foresaw the incipient rebelliou. 'I reckon you will have to make new rule for me theo / impudently ai swered Mose, glancing sideways at h compaoions with a grin of triumph. 'if you do not obey me I shall I obliged to punish you/ said Alic? bravely, though she could scarcel stand up. 'I guess all the punishment yo could do wouldn't break any of m bones,' replied the ruffian, leering t her impudently. 'But I can break your bones for yo in half a minute, and I'll do it if yo don't stand up and read as thc teaehc asked you to,' said a voice at the othc end of the class, and Alice looked i that direction and saw Jim Turner ste from the class and face the astonishe Mose. Mose's insolent manner abated in a instant, his face turned pale and h muttered something about not bein 'bossed by other boys,' but he stood u as he was commanded. Alice could have kissed her youn champion for very gratitude, but sh mustered all the dignity she could com marni and said : 'Mr Turner, I cannot allow you t interfere in the management of m school ; take your seat.' . The youth obeyed without a word but kept his eye on Mose, as if watching for any delinquency. After this Iittl episode the exercises proceeded withou interruption till noon. Alice had no appetite for dinner She leaned her throbbing head upoi the desk and wondered wearily how lon? she could endure this. She was aroused by one of the littl girls running up to her, exclaiming 'Teacher, teacher, the big boys ar? fighting !' She followed the child, ex claiming. 'Oh, why did I ever com* into such a den of wild beasts?' At tin rear? of thc school-house stood Jin Turner engaged in a hand-to-hand com bat with Mose Bradley and his tw< brothers, both of whom were grown As Alice stepped around the corner Jin sent Mose reeling to the earth and thei turned like a lion upon his remaining two assailants. They rushed at biu from two sides, but Jim was as activ< as a panther, and Bill Bradley fell, ai if shot, from a left-handed blow, ant his brother Tom followed him in an in stant. By this time Mose had secure*, a ball-bat acd rushed upon Jim, bu the latter evaded thc blow, and wrench' ing the bat from his hand knockee Mose headlong with a blow of his fist. As the discomfited trio arose Jin laughed lightly, and asked them 'how they liked it as far as they had got, picked up thc bat he had taken from Mose, and called out, 'Como on, boys let's have a game of ball.' Thc combat ended so quickly thai Alice had no chance to interfere, bu she felt that it would not do to let this open violation of school rules pass un? punished, so she rang the bell. Whet the pupils were assembled she calico the culprits up to thc desk, and asked what the fight was about, and who be? gan it. Thc Bradleys stood sullen and silent, but Jim answered, 'I would rather not tell what it was about, but 1 began it by knocking Mose Bradlej down ' Alice knew thc fight was thc result of Jim's espousal cd* her cause in the reading class, and her voice falter? ed as she said : 'Then I shall have tc punish you ; hold out your hand.' Jim obeyed her instantly. She took up the ruler with a trembling hand and began the punishment. Jim's face never changed a muscle. Thc look upon it was one of quiet obedience, in which there was no trace of either bra? vado or sullenness. As Alice inflicted the blows upon the hand so quietly held out to her, the thought rushed upon her mind that she was smiting the only hand that had been raised to be? friend her in that lawless region. lier face grew pale, tho blows fell falteringly, thc tears began to run down her cheeks, thc ruler fell from her hand, she sank into ber seat, buried her face in her hands, and burst iuto a storm of sobs. Then Jim's countenance changed. His lip quivered, he dashed his hands across his eyes to clear them of unnatu? ral dimness, and the great lump in his throat seemed to choke him. A chuckle from Mose Bradley recalled his self posscssion, however, and he took a stop ur two toward the latter with eyes that fairly blazed with hut indignation. Mose rapidly retreated a step or two, j and his chuckle died an untimely death, and for a full minute silence reigned over the school-room. At last Alice raised her head and in a broken voice dismissed thc pupils to thc play? ground. As t^gj??hildrcn passed out. she heard some say : 'So you got. a whipping after all, Jim,'and Jim's reply: 'Yes, and I got. enough to pass some of it around if anybody is anxious about it.' At 1 o'clock Alice rang the bell with a feeling of utter despair ; but no school ever moved more smoothly than did lier school that afternoon. Quiet obedience, study, good lessons and respectful at? tention were universal. But Alice had determined to quit the school ; she felt as if she would rather bc thc poorest washerwoman than to bc badgered, bul? lied and tortured for months at a time by a set of brutal ruffians, whose pa? rents employed her for tho sole purpose of enduring this martyrdom. So when Alice locked thc school? house door that evening it was with a mingled feeling of relief and humilia? tion that she started to offer her resig? nation to th? ?*rectors. As she left toward home. She called his Dame, and he stopped and respectfully waited until she had overtaken him. 'Mr. Turner/ she said. 'I am going away in thc morning, and I wish to thank you for your brave defense of me at the school to-day, and to ask your forgive? ness for the punishment I so unjustly inflicted on you,'and in her earnestness Alice held out her little trembling hand, and Jim instantly grasped it. *I have nothing to forgive,' said he ; 'you could not do otherwise and neither could I ; but you are surely not intend? ing to quit the school ?' 'Yes,' answered Alice, 'I would rather die than pass through three months of such scenes as I have to? day.' 'But you will have no moro trouble ; there is no one in the school that would be at all likely to give you aDy trouble except the Bradley boys, and as long as I am there I will answer for their good behavior.' At last Jim's eloquence prevailed and Alice finally consented to teach a week longer, and at the end of that time she decided to stay, for never did a school move along more smoothly. At her request Jim was allowed to re? main during the term and as soon as it closed he weDt to college. Alice taught the Bear Creek school successfully for three years, but in the end Uncle Zeke's prediction was veri? fied, for Jim Turner came back and broke up the school. He married the teacher. The Love of Money. Money is a right gocd thing and no sensible man will turn up his nose at it. Money brings comfort aud leisures and Solomon says in leisure there is wisdom. A man who has to be digging away every day for a living don't have much time to read aud reflect and ruminate. It don't matter whether he is a merchant or mechanic or farmer or a professional man, if he works hard all day he wants to rest at night. Money promotes domestic tranquility and that is the biggest and best thing I know of. But money ought to be hard to get, so that its real value may be appreciated-money has to be earned to be prized. If it is inherited or drawn in a lottery or won at game of chance or found in thc road or obtained by lucky speculation in stock or bonds or cotton futures, it goes at a discount. It is undervalued and dont stick to a man long. A fortune gained in a year rarely sticks to anybody. Luck is a right good thiog whoo it follows along with labor and honesty, but luck by it? self is a deceiver. 'Trust to luck' is the devil's maxim. I knew a hard working man who was so anxious to get ahead that he stinted his family and in? vested part of his earnings in the Louisina lottery for five years and never drew but ten dollars Ile told me he had lost five hundred dollars that way, aud every time he saw the list publish? ed of thc lucky numbers and read about thc lucky men who drew the prizes it fired him up aud he tried it again. Sometimes I wish Uncle Jubal and General Beauregard would tote fair and publish a list of them fellows who dident draw anything. But I reckon that would be so long and occupy so many columns in the newspapers they couldent afford it. lt is just human I know to want more moue}- than we have got especially if we are hard ruD and living ou a strain. I want more myself, and if I was to find a huodred dollars in the road I couldent help hoping that the owner would never miss it, aud never call for it. Just like a boy who finds a pocket knife and feels like it is his, but that sort of money is not as solid and satis? factory as money we work for. I know an old preacher who had ten dollars and his son had ten dollars and the young man went down to Atlanta and took all the money to buy some things aod he came across a wheel of fortune and saw a fellow win ten dollars just as easy, aud so he was pursuaded to try his luck, and shore enough he won ten dollars, and it hope him up mightily and he tried it again and won some more, and he kept on until he had won fifty dollars and become a fool, for right tuen his luck changed and he lost itali and his ten dollars and his daddy's ten besides, and had to borrow a dollar and a half to get home OD, and like to have perished to death in the bargain. Well, he belonged to the church and they had him up and tried him and he made a clean breast aud told how lie was over? taken and tempted and how he went on and ou until he had made fifty dollars clean. 'Aud right there' said thc obi man 'is whar John's sin begun. If he had stopped right there it would have been all right but. like a fool he went on and on to destruction. Well, John wascnt such a dreadful sinner after all, for he wanted thc money to buy some? thing to please thc old folks. But mouey dont come that easy very often. I know a man who has been kept on a strain for five years working out. of his losses on cotton futures. Sometimes luck runs along with a man for ten years and more, and that makes him vain and he thinks his judgment is in? fallible and suddenly he collapses like Seney and Kn o and Keene. No money is safe except that made by honest men. Thc rewards of laborare mighty good and sure. Here I set in my piazza and look over my farm and sec the wheat and the oats all in a strut and waving so beautiful in tho breeze and 1 foci proud and sereno for I sowed that wheat myself aud helped to prepare thc land, and it is my wheat and my oats and come honestly and wascnt made out, of somebody else, and it does me good to cut a few choice heads and bunch 'em and take 'em to towu and show the folks what. 1 ean do. lt boats money made by luck all to pieces, and so does j walking in my garden and digging the potatoes 1 planted and working them ever so nice and bringing them in the house to show to my wife and hear her .?ay, 'they are very fine.' She never says much on that Hoe, she dont, but a I little goes a great ways with me. She ! never indulges in rapture, she never ! uses adjectives to any excess,, such as ]""a1T iYiftfli0i?lfl? T10"^'^ ancl tn0 ^e. going to get ber a mess of raspberries to-day, the first of the season, nod I'll I surprise her with 'em at dinner time. She likes that. Women like these lit? tle thoughtful attentions. They arc like oil on the axletree, and makes the machinery run smooth. But then there ought to be a little money to mix up with such things. Money is a good domestic lubricator itself. A man feels more like a gentleman with some change in his pocket, and he ought to always have a dollar or so just to feel of. It I stiffens him up and keeps him from feejiug like a vagabond.' And woman wants some too When a pedlar comes along with tin ware or a wagon load of jugs, or the Gypsies come along with lace, or the book agent comes along with pictures, and besides it is such a digni? fied comfort to have a little hid away for the children when they are just obliged to have something to wear and dont want to ask papa for the^moncy, for he is so hard ruu and talks so poor all thc time. This is thc kind of money that goes for all it is worth-money that conies hard, money that is earned. Even woman doe* not prize monev when she has oodles of it and has every want supplied. Folks must be cramped to bc happy. They must have something to stimulate them. Something to pro? voke economy and industry, and Tm thankful we've always had these stimu? lants at my house BILL A?L?. A Word to the Colored Peo? ple. Now that another election is ap? proaching, thc question naturally arises before thc colored people, What shall we do? What action shall wc take, what course shall wc pursue? To tiiose who are contemplating these questions, and wh) arc trying honestly to decide what is best to do, wc offer a few words of advice. That the day for thc color? ed man to hold office and rule.in South Carolina is passed docs not admit of a a single doubt. That intelligence and honesty must reign supreme in every land over ignorance and corruption is a fixed principle that has predominated ever since the world was. That white people will and must mle this country is a fact fixed beyond controversy. That the Democratic party, through a determined effort wrested thc govern? ment of this State from the hands of a thieving, carpet-bag crew, and arc equally determined to hold it forever against such a set, is matter of history, and could well have been embraced in the statutes of thc State. That there is not thc least shadow of a chance for the success of thc colored vote, led by a republican, independent or green backer, their futile efforts of the past eight, years is sufficient proof. What then ought thc colored people to do iu the matter ? lo view of their ignorance, io view of the fact that pol?tica! cam? paigns wherein thc diverse sentiments of th'c two races come in contact, en? gendering and fostering enmity, and teudiog to increase instead of diminish the prejudice between the races, and in view of the fact that there is no possi? ble chance for the colored people to ac? complish anything let whoever may lead them, we think that thc best thing for them to do is to romain at home, look after their work, the interest of their families and the educa? tion of their children, Wc don't sug? gest even that you stay away from the polls, go there by ail means if you de? sire to, and vote for whom you please. But wc do say you can gain nothing by leaving your work to attend thc meet? ings of a set of sore-heads who for thc past two or three years have attempted to ride into office on the backs of thc colored people of this section. These independents or greeubackcrs so called wc know carry sweet stories to thc col- j ored people of tho heavenly future, when by persistent effort, they envelop them in the delusiou that the day is not far distant when they and the colored people can agaiu hold thc reins of power. Listen to them no longer. Fate has decreed the present generation of colored people shall not rule this country, lt is probably not your fault.. Unfortunate circumstances deprived you of thc privilege of becoming good citizens, as it deprived you of intellec? tual training; wc advise you therefore to submit patiently, aud resignedly to this fate. Stay at home and provide for your families, take advantage of the opportunities now offered for thc educa? tion of your children. Try to teach them in thc ways of truth, and houesty and obedience, endeavor to thc best of your knowledge to make them good cit- j ?zens, traiuing them in that manner that when they grow up to fill your place they may bc worthy the respect J and name of citizen. Wc write this because wc feel an interest in thc wei- 1 fare of the colored people in their place. As WC have often said, they aro thc only laborers that can ever satisfy thc South. And once this political preju? dice now existing between the races is broken up, thc work of tho laborer will bo better and will command a higher price, and the colored people will have tho satisfaction of knowing that, they and their posterity will have nothing to fear from emigrant comp?tition. Just so long as you persist in following un? principled politicians and in trying to overthrow good government just so long will the white people treat you as an adversary and do as little for you as possible. Of course they make allow? ance for your ignorance, still the old feeling is there. Kud it, this year by letting politics aione. Attend to your duties. Listen not to thc oily stories of corrupt politicians. Strive to win thc confidence of those whoso interest is yours. When you do this you will see a brighter day dawn upon thc colored firmament of this country. - Marlbf/ro Democrat. Not only has oxygen been obtained in thc form of cystals, as was lately an? nounced, but l'rof. S. von Wroblowski, of Krakow, has also succeeded in causing nitrogen to fall like snow when subjected toa temperature of o<).'> degrees below zero, and in solidifying hydrogen. The extraordinary cold measured in these experiments was produced by the boiling of liquefied oxygen on freeing it from pressure, jgjgtej fe probably the lowest temperature What Our Editors Say. The Stock Gambler's Panic. Barnwell Sentinel. While the fascinating operations of Wall Street sharks have been quite liberally patronized by the people of this section of the fjuion, it is very gratifying to the South that the fewest number of her people have been silly enough to risk their all in the hands of men who find business and pleasure combined in stock gambling. It is true that in many instances of a year or so ago, where failures among busi? ness men occurred in our Southern cities, quite a large number of them j j were traceable to transactions in Wall I Street, which invariably weot against j them. Occuring in rapid succession, j these misfortunes may have been thc j means of deterring many others who ! j would no doubt have been found mourn- j fng over some very recent calam- ! tty. With all the experience that the more venturesome have dearly J bought, aud in the face of the strong- I : est advice against ventures in stock I speculation, there are numbers of peo le who are barely earning enough to j live on comfortably, always willing, at j times when there is no dancer of a j panic, to place a part of their carn- j ings in this hazardous business-in fact, | many are willing to jeopardize a business of profit to gain sad expert- j euee, hoping that they will on some j j fine morning wake up to fiod them- ! 1 selves millionaires ; they are inviara bly disappointed, just in thc same manner that five hundred out of five j hundred and ten of their predecessors j have been. Ali of this docs'nt seem to have tho tendency to check the plucky boys who talk of the hidden treasures in stock gambliug, and while their losses are generally small, it is I only because they eaunot afford to j make their placings larger. The fall j of bank cashiers, book-keepers treas- j urers, bank presidents and old veter- i ans, (who have weathered the storms for years,) in less than three weeks should prove enough to discourage the j idea that a fortune in Wall Street i awaits all who venture. These sharks ? and their business have very little bearing upon the truly legitimate ; business of thc country, as has been i shown in thc recent panic-it effects j no business except, their owu, and only j tiiosc banks whose stockholders and 1 managers placed too much con?- ; dence in the system of gambling in ? inflated stocks. Let every man who ! may have a few surplus dollars learn \ to bc afraid of Wall Street and his i own judgment, for it is generally those j who pride themselves on thc quality of ; their judgment that are wounded j deepest. ] The Ghost of Tilden. Fairfield Sieze* and Herald. The great hue and cry all over thc ; country for thc renomination of Tilden ! aud Hendricks is certainly one of thc j impenetrable mysteries of modern poli- | tics. How it is that thoughtful men i can honestly entertain she opinion for . a moment, that the renomination of the ! 'old ticket' is necessary to tho salva- J tion of the party, is also unexplainable ? upon any hypothesis, to us conceivable. I Against Mr. Tilden, personally, per- j haps no charge of a damaging charac- j ter catt bo established, and he was ? doubtless thc man for the campaign of j *7G, (?hough this is denied by many.) But the times and the surroundings j have materially changed, and the I issues before the American people dc- ! mand standard-bearers of a different ; mould and type. If Tilden were again placed in thc! field, thc great fraud of 'Tu wouid j dwarf all other questions, and ques- j tiona too of greater moment and im- >. portance. There was in 1880 a great j and grand opportunity to tight thc bat- j tie upon that issue, and perhaps it j would have been wisc then to have j placed Tilden and Hendricks iu thc lead j again, but the Convention let the ! chauec slip by, and Hancock aud Eng- | lish led thc grand old party to defeat j and crushing disaster. Tho issue before tho country is thc ; tariff, and if the Democratic party j would court victory, it must select for j its standard-bearers men who have ? been and are now prominently identi-1 fied with thecause oftariff reform. Mr. j Tilden is perhaps sound ou this ques- j tion, but he has taken no prominent j part in its agitation and discussion and ! consequently would not bc thc proper mau to lead a tariff reform party. Delegates to tho National Cor.ven- j tion. Marion Star. The Abbeville Medium has a very j timely editorial on the election of dele- J gates from South Carolina to the I National Democratic Convention. ? The editor contends that these dole- j gates should be moro thoroughly in- ; formed on political matters and free j from any entangling alliances-men ? who would go to Chicago free to vote j for thc best and must available mau i to head the Democratic ticket. Hr thinks that possibly such men could 1 be found who are not members of Con? gress, which should not disqualify them : but official positions should not j give them a right to bc delegates, j General llemphill thinks that men ! who have long been iu public life are j apt to have their favorites and feel i under some obligation to support them, ! even if in their judgement other , men would be more acceptable to thc ; people. There is truth in what Gen- i eral llemphill says, and tho dangel? lie points out is not altogether imagi? nary. All nominating coo veinions should bc composed of fresh male-rial, and office-holders should be conspicu? ous by their absence from Mich ; bodies. The people should be left free ; to select their rulers untrammeled hy the influence of men who hold public positions. I do mean to j i ti ti mate that ofiice-holders exert a i corrupt influence on conventions, they certainly do not ?II South Carolina, but j winn they are prominent in such places j charges of 'ring rule' are more apt to be \ believed, and it is much harder to disa- ; buse the public mind of the impression ! that some political wroug has been perpe? trated if nominations are made by office fore, always better to leave the | selection of officers to men in private j life, whose miuds arc entirely free from prejudice cither for or against any candidate. Tho Public School Question. Edgcficld Chronicle. A few newspapers in the State are i industriously making war on thc j public school system, and we regret, to see that these newspapers have j some following among the people. A ! large majority of thc intelligent people ! of the S:aie are in favor of support- ! ing the public schools. There can bc j no doubt about this if we are to judge ! by the utterances of the representatives in the Legislature and a majority I of the newspapers. Indeed we have I not the patience to argue with those j who arc opposed to thc public school?, ; as we believe that thc opposition is in- j spired by a deep seated prejudice that j stands in the way as a barrier against i a progressive civilization. Public j schools arc supported by all the most j enlightened nations of thc earth, j and it is painful to see any number of j people attempting to roi! back thc j wheels of progress in South Carolina ? and place thc State in linc with the j half-civilized tribes of the world. Dut as we have said we do not believe ! there is any considerable number of j intelligent people opposed to the pub- j lie schools, sind it is gratifying to seo j thc press of the State almost a unit in | support of the education of thc j people. Sliort Talks with t?ie Boys. BY M. QUAD. 'Harry up-quick V Now, my boy, you want to stop dead j still ! They call this a fast a?e, and we i arc termed a fast nation, but iu spite j ofthat wc have plenty of time Take j time to eat. Take time to dress. Take j time to do whatever ta>k you are en? gaged in to your complete satisfaction. I always feel like kicking a lazy mao, and if I set out ou a journey I can't go fast enough, but this impatience has lost me days of time aud a good many dollars. If I want to make a shelf or bench I rush for the first handy board, saw it oiT hap-hazznrd, pound in auy sort, of nails in any sort of way, and when the job is complete I have a shelf which won't fit by a jug-full, or a bench j which rests on three legs and holds up I the other one as if it had a sere foot. | I have taken the wrong street car, j lugged off other men's bats, left my ! change on ?tore counters, bought sugar ! when I was told to buy butter, spoiled j any number of boots, offended dozens of [ good mon, aud all because I wanted to j save time. j Don't rush The older I grow thc i less I believe iu the man who leaves a ! cioud of dust behiud him. He will be ? wrong half the time. Ile will botch j his work, upset the best calculation, and lose a dollar for every seventy-five cents he makes. A petulant, impatient j boy makes a man who can't keep a j friend, ile will be obstinate, unrea- I sonable, unforgiving and thoroughly ! despised. Don't argue that it is born \ ic you and you can't help it. A boy \ can help anything if he has any sand j in his nature. Ho can exercise patience or give way to fits of anger ; which ought to bc boot-jacked out of his nature to save him from thc gallows. ; Viiii you hate to bc bossed, ch 1 j Well, my boy, if wc could all do as wc I pleased this would bc a (inc country to j live iu. Our workingmen would get to their labor at 10 o'clock in the ! morning and quit iu time for 5 o'clock j supper. Our stores might open in the j morning or wait until afternoon. Our j mills and factories would bc run to suit j thc convenience r?f teamsters and engi- i neets instead of owners. Our trains j and boats would leave to suit captains j and conductors, and some days you j would get one meal and other days three. Wc must have bosses and stand ? bossing. Don't start out with tho idea I that you eau bc independent. Don't. ; think you can sit with folded arms and ! bring men to you with fat offers. Don't ! imagine that you arc doing anybody a j great, favor by calling upon them and ; hinting around that you could bc coax- j ed to take a situation. Do as your . employer directs. If he doesn't know j his business that's none of your affairs, j Make up your mind that thc boy who ; sets out to earn only three dollars per ! week will never get four. If bc is de- i terminen to bc worth four bc will soon j bc receiving five. ? eat dowu with a half dozen of you thc other day. and thc opinion of thc ' majority was that employers didn't ! make any distinction between a smart, i cuergetic boy and a drone. Don't bc . foolish, rn}' lad. Nine employers out. ; of ten had much ra liter advance a boy than to discharge him. A boy may not : bc watched as closely as a man, because ; we make allowances for'his inexperience and follies and trifling nature, but don't ! you forget that he is soon sized up. It j he is respectful and truthful and honest the employer who doesn't realize it. and reward him is no mau to work for. Now jet's talk a little further about the flash literature I referred to a few weeks ago. I went the other dav and bought a stack of the stuff in order to sec just what, it was. When one comes ; to see thc wretched stuff written and published in order to catch thc attention of the boys of America lie must wonder ! if we have any fathers among our law- \ makers. There is a fellow in New j York publishing a weekly sheet called thc Young Men ol' An.erica. IP? must think them a set cd'rascals or idiots. In i ??ne story ho has a hunter who catches in his band thc bullets fired at him by i dozen enemies, and it is no work at ill for bim to put fifty enemies to flight We want such a man on thc Detroit police force, but the Superintendent . will li uve a long hunt to lind him In another he has a boy whip seven or eight mountain outlaws. The boy has ? probably died since. If this stuff was j held out to you as pure fiction you ; would be completely disgusted. These j fiash publishers know this, and so they j have these stories founded upon well- i kuown facts aud events which are mat- ; tcrs of history / In the paper T have mentioned is a Marion and bis scouts. The injury herc consists in historic lying.. You are asked to accept everything as a fact, when not one single fact is stated^ as a specimen of what one of the scouts did when he wasn't trying his best I will mention that, being pursued by two British dragoons, he let them fire four bullets into him at close range, be? fore it occurred to him that it was a cold day. He then drew his sword and cur a right arm front the body of each. He then rode away in search of roott beer or something else to cool his tongue, but hadn't cooled over half of it before six other dragoons pitched into him. The first move he made was to draw that same terrible toad-sticker and cut o?? two heads. The other four fired at him, but his brass turned the bullets aside, and he lopped of the head of thc third. The remaining three thereupon rushed into thc woods, and, the scout was kind enough not to pursue. Having cut off three heads and two arms inside of half an hour he felt tired. Think of such bosh ! We all like a brave man, but even a boy o( 7 isn't green cuough to believe in such statements. In a detective story, in which auine ty-pound woman is the detective, she is. made to capture robbers whom three meu dared not tackle, and to change her voice twenty-four times per day and her disguise almost as often. She always entered robbers' dens by a sewer with? out, being bitten by rats or getting her feet wet, and if any one fired a revolver within a foot of her head, she could dodge the ball. Drop 'em, my lad ? There's more morai poison in one such story than you will get at, thc circus or theater in five years. Better be unable to read at all than to imbibe such stuff. You hate a boy who lies to you. Then why pay these men in money and time to deceive and poison you? If you were told thdt a boy of 15 had captured six or eight Detroit burglars you wouldn't believe it. Then why believe m ihese wretch? ed exaggerations ? Shut right down ou that class of men and their publica? tions, and in three years-they'll have to earn their dollars in an honest manner or you'll hear of 'cm behiud the bari.' Detroit Free J'ress - i- Jimgmm News and Gossip. A Presbyterian Church called Beulah bas been organised in the Waxhaws, Lancaster county. Emma Brown, colored, has been committed to jail in Greenville, charge ed with the murder of ber husband, in December, 1880. , In Georgetown, last Saturday, John Ford, a negro, was shot and instantly killed by Deputy Sheriff R. C. Davis, while resisting arrest cn a bench war? rant issued from Charleston. An exchange says that a portable oif mill has been invented that will prove very useful. Farmers can express the oi! from thc cotton seed without haul? ing them away from thc plantations. This will save much labor and valuable refuse for fertilizing purposes that oth? erwise would be lost. 31rs. Lewis, thc wife of the noted Dio Lewis, figures in thc New York newspapers as a heroine. A tramp, finding Mrs. Lewis alone in thc dwell? ing, walked into the dining room and de-, manded that he bc served with a meal like a gentleman. Mrs. Lewis ran for a revolver, levelled tuc weapon, seized the tramp by the car and propelled him into the cold, cold world. John Swinton has found out that five cents doubled thirty-five times, would pay thc National debt. Tho New Bedford Standard proposed to donate ge first double and thc Boston Globe thl second. The other thirty three doublers have not spoken out. As tho amounts increase in arithmetical progression the opinion strengthens that a national debt is a national bless? ing. The new Brighton Hotel, thc grand Summer hotel which has just been com? pleted on Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, at a cost of some ?50.000... is to be thrown open on tho eveniug of June 18, with a grand concert by thc largest and most famous military band^ in tho United States. Thc services of the band have been engaged for two weeks and the railroad? give excursion rates. Tho new hotel is fitted with every comfort and luxury. A mulatto girl with a remarkably pretty but peculiar face wascugaged by a shrewd Western showman, lie had a tooth extracted from each side of her rnou'h, and inserted a pair of long tusks, covered her cars with false ones like a beast**, bleached and tan? gled her abundant hair, and instructed her to utter an unintelligible jargon. Tims she was transformed into a valu? able curiosity, ami her wages of ?15 a' week did not satisfy her. On the ar? rival of the show in indianapolis she attempted to quit, it, nod a row resulted in an exposure of thc fraud. .Limes Coward, who was accidontly shot, by B?ggan Cash when he killed Richards, died June 2d Iiis death, from thc first was a certainty, t?nd his last days were most fearfully spent. From long confinement to his bed, owing to total paralysis ofthc lower ex? tremities, the immediate effect of the wound, iris body has been iu a terrible condition. .Vcr some time past thc flesh has sloughed away from around thc left hip joint, and exposing to view the arteries and muscles which alone connected that member with thc trunk of Iiis body. Our sister republic of Mexico is run? ning too rapid a schedule. She has ctn barked in an ambitious scheme for establishing lines of steamers to Eu? ropean ports on the subsidy plan, and concessions have been made to another company with a view to establishing a Pacific service. At a time when the Mexicali treasury is empty, and the government is moving heaven and earth to borrow a few millions abroad to en? able it to keep out of bankruptcy and meet its subventions to the new lines of railway, it is folly to recklessly I pledge its credit for the promotion of visionary speculative projects. With ! out mon economy our neighbor will.be I compelled to make an assignment, and