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Popular Education.

1t is not so well comprehended as it
should be that, with all its boosted
free schools, several of the countries of
Europe are rapidly getting ahead of
America in the matter of popular edu-
cation. This is to be accounted for
partly on the ground of compulsory at
tendance at school and partly from the
fact that the studies are more practical.
In England, Germany, Belgium and
Switzerland education is coming to
mean way of getting a livelihood. But
this with the great body of the people
means something vastly different from
knowledge for its own sake. With them
getting living does not follow at all
from knowing how to read, write and
cipher. 1t is now putting 1,llS,000 of
their children in mills and factories,
when they ought to be at school. But
this, so far as these children are con-
cerned, is the end of their education.
They are in no condition to study after
ten or twelve hours of exhaustive toll,
as in few years they will be in no con-
dition to work Education must become
far more than it has yet done in this
country, an instrument of honest and
intelligent and skillful living. 1t must
be concerned in the use of tools, as well
as in adding up of figures and parsing
of sentences. 1t must be acquired at
certain age, and no immediate pecu-
mary needs be allowed to interfere with
it. 1t must be looked upon as child's
working capital, to deprive him of which
is sinful in the parent and perhaps
ruinous to the child.-1he Chrchmdn.
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his indignant remonstrances, that func-
tionary assured him that oysters were
not to be had at any price. AT the
height of the angry scene, which was
continued even in the presence of the
guests, Schalouchine was announced,
and in order to vent his wrath on the
unfortunate serf, the count shouted out,
/" show the slave in. What do you want,
dog? If you want your freedom tell
you | never will grant it. care not
for any offer you may make memo. not
for a million roublesl A few dozen
oysters at this moment would be worth
more to me-" Do l understand, my
lord" asked the serf, " that you would
grant my freedom if procure them for
you?" " Yes" replied the count, much
to the amusement of his guests. AS it
happened, Schalouchine had brought
barrel of oysters with him as a gift to
his master, knowing of the great dinner
party. They were brought in, the deed
offreedom was Immediately signed, and
the count, addressing his former slave
with the utmost courtesy, said: " Sir,
may l invite you to join with us?"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-21
Expenses of Business.

A well-informed merchant of Boston
recently said to representative of a
Boston newspaper that he had been
looking back over his accounts, and was
surprised to find that since the close of
the war there had been steady increase
in the ordinary expenses of carrying on
business. That this increase of bust
ness expenses extends beyond the mer-
chant and the manufacturer and most
other kinds of business, is fact patent
to most employers. Mere office work
costs a great deal more now than it did
in 1868; more clerks are needed, and, on
the whole, each of these receives higher
pay. Assistance is required in the re-
ceiving and delivering departments to
an extent and of character that would
not have been dreamed of two decades
ago. Then there are variety of Incl
dental expenses that now enter into
the computation-there are telephone
charges, printing, the expense of solicit
ors-the whole making up an amount
sufficiently large to eat up all that would
have been considered fair profits a
quarter of century ago. The tend
ency, all the time, going on to lessen
the hours of service, both in offices
and workshops, of itself makes the
cost of business proportionately higher.
Competition is sharper than it was
ten or twenty years ago, and prices
are so much reduced in most COM
modities which enter into necessities of
a household, that mechanics, clerks and
others are enabled to live much better
now than it was possible for them to do
ten or twenty years ago, when their
wages were less and the cost of living
was greater.
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The Story OF Francis Ash.

A Westfield correspondent recently
wrote to the Springfield Republican as
follows: " Among the list of soldiers
from your city who fell in defence of
their country during the late war, as
read at the dedication of the monu-
ment this week, was; Killed at Spott-
sylvania May 10, 1864, Francis Ash ,
Ninth Regiment This reference to a
man who has for many years been a
resident of this town, and to-day is
hale and hearty, with wife and family
about him, recalls his somewhat ro-
mantle tale of hardship and peril. In
April, 1861, then just entering man
hood, he was living with his widowed
mother in Springfield, and, when the
first call for troops was made, on the
fall of Fort Sumter, too impatient to
wait for the organization of regiments
in this section of the state, he hurried
to Boston, and there enlisted in the
Ninth Massachusetts. A month later
the regiment was mustered into SER
vice for three years, and during that
period participated in some of the hot
test battles of the war. In the disas-
trous seven days fight near Richmond,
Ash was twice wounded, but not so Sc
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riously that he was long absent from
active duty. He escaped the enemy's
bullets in the battles of the following
two years, until the two days fight at
Spottsylvania, in May, 1864. The
Ninth charged the rebel Notifications,
captured the first line of breastworks
and dashed on for the second. Be-
tween the two lines Ash fell, struck by
four bullets. With wounds in head,
neck, thigh and leg, his comrades, as
they were driven back, left him for
dead. The confederate surgeons, how
ever, found sufficient life in him to
warrant his being sent to the hospital,
and afterwards to Richmond. 1t was
five months, however, before he was
well enough to be exchanged, and by
that time his regiment had been mus
tered out of service four months.
His mother and friends all mourned
him for dead, and when he walked into
the acknowledgements Office at Boston
and, announcing himself as Frank Ash
of the Ninth Massachusetts,, desired to
be mustered out, because he had served
his time, he was regarded as crazy,
and told that the regiment had
for many weeks been out of SER
vice, and the man he represented him
self to be was buried on the field of
Spottsylvania. 1t was only by getting
some of the officers of the regiment to
appear and certify his identity that a
change in the state record was secured
and he was formally discharged. But
the regmental record remained un-
changed; hence Frank Ash at frequent
intervals is obliged to read his own
name among the list of killed in battle.
He has lived here since the war and
receives small pension from the gov
eminent, but the main support of his
family comes from his earnings as a
cigar-maker.
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Home Conversation.

Nothing in the hOme-life needs to be
more carefully watched and more dill
gently cultivated than the conversation.
1t should be imbued with the spirit of
love. No bitter word should ever be
spoken. The language of husband and
wife, in their intercourse together,
should always be tender. Anger in
word or tone should never be suffered.
Gliding and fault-finding should never
be permitted to mar the sacredness of
their speech. The warmth and tender
ness of their hearts should flow out in
every word that they speak to each
other. As parents, too, in their inter-
course with the children, they should
never speak save in words of Christ-like
gentleness. 1t is fatal mistake to
suppose that children's lives can grow
up into beauty in an atmosphere of
strife. Harsh, angry words are to their
sensitive souls what frosts are to the
flowers. To bring them up in the nur-
ture of the Lord is to bring them up as
Christ himself would, and surely that
would be with infinite tenderness. The
blessed influence of loving speech day
after day, and month after month, it is
impossible to estimate. 1t is like the
falling of warm spring sunshine and
rain on the garden. Beauty and sweet
ness of character are likely to come
from such home. But home conversa-
ton needs more than love to give it its
full influence. 1t ought to be enriched
by thought. The Savior's warning
against idle words should be remem-
bered. Every wise-hearted parent will
seek to train his household to converse
on subjects that will yield instruction
or tend toward refinement. The table
affords an excellent opportunity for
this kind of education. Three times
each day the family gathers there. 1t
is place for cheerfulness. Simply on
hygienic grounds meals should not be
eaten in silence. Bright, cheerful con-
versation is an excellent sauce and a
prime aid to digestion. If it prolongs
the meal, and thus appears to take too
much time out of the busy day, it will
add to the years in the end by increased
healthfulness and heightened life. In
any case, however, something is due to
refinement, and still more is due to the
culture of ones home life. The table
should be made the center of the social
life of the household. There all should
appear at their best Gloom should be
banished, conversation should be bright
and sparkling. 1t should consist OF
something besides dull, threadbare com.
mon-place. The idle gossip of the street
is not worthy theme for such hallowed
moments.-Erchonge.
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The Busy HOney.Bees.

A writer on this topic, abiding to
this years product, says: "The full
harvest has not been gathered, but
every bee-keeper is now in possession
of part of the years crop, and knows
approximately what the whole will be.
Returns are incomplete, but, as far as
heard from, the yield of honey has
been equal to that of an average year.
The season has been favorable in
greater part, although an occasional
fall of the mercury has hindered comb
building and interfered with the
'building-up process. During Au-
gust, certainly, the bee-keeper expects
to hear the mighty hum of the bees
if he be near hive. If no sound pro-
ceeds from hive in July or August, it
shows an unusual state of the weather
Last winter, when the mercury was ten
degrees below zero, thermometer was
thrust into a cluster of bees. On the
inside of the cluster the temperature
was siXty-five degrees, and on the out
side forty-five degrees Fahrenheit. If
the heat generated by the bees, when
the mercury is ten below, is sixty-five
degrees, what must it be when the out
side temperature is ninety degrees? 1t
is intense, but the bees have way of
reducing it, at least way of creating
a draught and keeping the atmosphere
pure. A number of bees-a thousand
or more, perhaps-act as ventilators or
tanners. They stand, heads down,
with bodies at an angle of forty-five de-
grees, and keep the wings in motion.
Throughout the hive, on all the combs,
up and down, the ventilators keep
their fans going. On the alighting
board, with bodies pointing from the
hive, they fan also. At the entrance
of one hive, on day in August,
two hundred eighty bees, by actual
count, were tanning. The honey gath
erers dropped down upon them, tum-
bled over them, but they kept to their
work Some writers have spoken of
the hum of the hive as though the
hum was the result of the work going
on within. Twas the hum of the fam
ners. But in August this year there
were nights when the hives were silent.
Not an echo of hum came from any,
showing that the air was cold enough
to dispense with the ventilators."
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Questions Answered.

A. W., Neutrality-suspicious.
for back pay and bounty should be for
warded to the Second Auditor, Treas
ury Department, Washington, d, G.
j. A. W., Burlington a soldier
receiving pension by special act of
congress dies, leaving a widow, the
widow would not be entitled to pension.
M. D., Richmond.-Th act of con-
gress approved March 3, 1885, provides
that all applicants for pensions shall
be presumed to have had no disability
at the time of enlistment, but such pre-
sumption may be rebutted."
II. b., BrandOn.-A soldier who has
contracted disability in the regular
army since the war of the rebellion is
entitled to the same pension as he
would be had he contracted the disa-
bility during that war. The pension
would commence from the time the APP
plication was filed in the pension office.
G.. L. B., feld-Since the
death of Judge RiXford the law clerk
of the pension office, who represented
the commissioner of pensions in cases
appealed to the secretary of the in
terror, the hearings in appeals have
been suspended. You may be required
to wait some time yet before decision
is announced in your claim.
II. c., st. Johnsbury.-Each mem
Der of an examining board receives
two dollars for the examination of
each applicant whenever five or a less
number are examined on one day, and
one dollar for the examination of each
additional applicant on such day. The
fees are paid by the government and
not by the applicant for a pension.
M. H., Sutton.-The time for making
application for pay for horse lost in
the United States military service dur
ing the rebellion, or since, has been
extended to March 3, 1887. This ex-
tension also applies to all applications
for private property belonging to Of
ficers and enlisted men lost or destroyed
without fault or negligence on the part
of the owner
G. w. g., Danville. The battle of
Winchester, Va, September 10Th, 1864,
is also known as Opequan. 1t was
fought in the town of Winchester and
appears in the war records of Vermont
as the battle of Winchester. The
Union losses were: Killed, six hundred
tifty-three; wounded, three thousand
seven hundred nineteen missing, six
hundred eighteen. Confederate losses
Killed and wounded, three thousand;
missing, two thousand five hundred.
A. j. s., Newbury. the men,
bers of the examining board are re-
quired to participate in the eXamina-
ton of every applicant for pension.
If only two man hprs nf thn hnorI
present when you was examined, and
your claim should be rejected, you
could file your affidavit in the pension
office, complaining that you was ex-
amined by only two of the surgeons,
and new examination by the same or
some other board would be given you.
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A Learned Printer.

The Springfield Republican says: ga
correspondent writes that Colonel Will
lam A. Silloway, an old soldier of two
wars, and, probably, the most learned
printer of the day-he having set up
the Bible entire in the original Greek
and the New Testament in German,
French, Spanish and Hebrews now
living in the city in destitute circum-
stances, without money and without
friends. He has family in neigh
boring town that is in great need. Also,
that it is reported that for two nights
and days he walked our streets without
a place to sleep in or food to eat, he he
ing stranger here seeking work. This
is the old hero who, in May, 1868, saved
President Lincoln from being killed or
captured when the dispatch boat was
attacked in returning from City Point
to Washington. Colonel Silloway has
an autograph letter from Lincoln in
reference to the matter"
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An Unpublished Historical LIE tier.

In connection with the recent visit of
veterans to the Shenandoah valley and
its battle-lields and the celebration of
the anniversary Of the battle of Win
chester, or Opequan, on the field itself,
we present the following letter by Gen
eral Sheridan, acknowledging informa-
ton which led to that battle. Miss
Wright was Quaker lady, thoroughly
devoted to the Union cause, and she
sent the letter, as described, while con-
federate officers were in her house at
breakfast. The colored man came os-
tensibly for eggs, and was allowed to
pass through the lines by the confed-
crates, because on his return visits he
brought small quantities of quinine.
Miss Wright is now Mrs. Bonsall, and
is in the treasury department at Wash
ington. A lady of Winchester, Vir-
ginia, a friend of Miss Wright, gave a
gentleman who accompanied the late
excursion copy of the letter. We
think it has never before been pub
lished, and as it relates to the first of
that brilliant series of victories with
which Sheridan swept the Shenandoah
valley, we think that it has special in
terest and Importance:
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THERE is no pain, no matter how Sc
we're nor what the cause, that cannot be
partly or wholly relieved by Johnson'S
AnOdyne Liniment, used internally and
externally. 1t is the most powerful
remedy known to medical men.
THERE is nothing so essential to
health and happiness as pure, rich blood.
1t prevents exhausted vitality, prema-
ture decline, nervous and physical de-
bility, besides untold other miseries.
Parsons PlWgdtire Pills purify and en-
rich the blood, and will change the
blood in the entire system in three
months.
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Select Sflistellanp.
In the Freight.

The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stiffness everywhere
Like troubled spirits, here and there
The freight shadows fiuttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep
childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from the further room
Comes :" Now lay me down to sleep"
And, somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble in my ears,
My thought goes back to distant years
And fingers with a dear one there;
And as I hear the childs amen,
My mothers faith comes back to me
Crouched at her side seem TO be,
And mother holds my hands again,
Oh, for an hour in that dear place
oh, for the peace of that dear time
oh, for that childish trust sublime
Oh, for glimpse of mothers face2
Yet, as the shadows round me creep,
do not seem to he alone
Sweet magic of that treble tone
And Now I lay me down to sleepl"
Eugene REID
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AS the season advances, the pains
and aches by which rheumatism makes
itself known are experienced after
every exposure. 1t is not claimed that
Hoods Sarsaparilla is specific for
rheumatism-we doubt if there is or
can be such remedy. But the thou
sands benefited by Hoods Sarsaparilla
warrant us in urging others who suffer
from rheumatism to take it before the
first keen twinge.
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advertisements.
BURDOCK BLOOD Buffers.


A strictly vegetable prepa-
ration, composed Of a choice
and skillful combination of
Natures best remedies. The
0iscOverep does not claim it a
cure fer all the ills, but boldly
warrants it cures every form
CT disease arising from a tor
Did liver, impure blood, dis
ordered kidneys, and where
here is a broken down condi-
lion Of the System, requiring q
prompt and permanent tonic,
: never fails to restore the
3ufferep. Such is BURDOCK
3LOOD BITTERS. Sold by all
druggists, who are authorized
by the manufacturers to re-
fund the price to any pup-
chaser who is not benefited by
Eheir use.
PRICE, D1-oo-
FOSTER, MlLBURN & CO., Props,
BUFFALO. NEW YORK.
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT
OF THE NULF,
New Orleans, January 7, 1867.

Dear Mss Wright:-You are probably not
aware of the great service you rendered the
Union cause by the information you sent
me by the colored man a few days before
the battle of the Opequan on September 10,
1864 1t was on this information the battle
was fought and probably won. The colored
man gave the note, rolled up in tinfoil, to
the scout who awaited him at Wildwood. He
had carried it in his mouth to that point,
and delivered it to the scout, who brought
it to me. By this note l became aware of
the true situation of affairs inside the
enemy's lines and gave directions for the
attack. will always remember this coura-
geous and patriotic act of yours with graft
tude, and beg of you to accept the watch
and chain, which | send you by General j.
w. Forsyth, as memento of September 10,
1864. | am, very respectfully, your obedi-
ent servant,
PHILIP III. SHERIDAN, Major-general
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Prosperity gains friends, adversely tries
Another Lady.

Mrs. Thomas Atkinson of Providence, r. l., says
" was confined to my bed. friend urged me to
try HUNTS Kidney and LIVER REMEDY. l had
taken less than three bottles when was able to
sumo my household duties"
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Without health all men are pc
Minus One Hundred Fifty-Six Pounds
of Water.

a. was tapped eight times. I had one hundred
fifty-six pounds of water taken out of me- Was
treated by seventeen different doctors. and HUNTS
tl<idney and Liyerl REMEDY has cured me:"-lhrs.
Ddrid North Ecorse Wayne county, Mich., Nay
80, 1883.
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The Weaker Sex.
my kidneys became afflicted and weak; HUNTS
Kidney and Liver REMEDY gave me the desired
benefit. | consider 1t a sure ure."-MrS Florence
L. Wood, Bridgport, Conn.
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advertisements.
LADIES, TESTIMONY.

81 suffered severely from Rheumatism in my
limbs and Neuralgia In the head; my kidneys were
not performing their proper functions reserted to
HUNTS kidney and Liver REMEDY and was com
pletely cured."-Mrs. h. q. Tanner, Providence, n.
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"Be devoted to one thing at time"
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sl.25 at Druggists. III Take no other. .-.Ea

Send for Illustrated Pamphlet of Solid Tes-
timonials Of Absolute Cures.
HUNTS REMEDY CO., Providence, RI.
G. n. CRITTENTON. Gent Agent, New York.
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CELERY COMPOUND
CELERY COMPOUND

ildu 80 years experience IN com
Its ingredients are purely vegetabl
herbs, banks, seeds and flowers, tn,
given on the label of every bottle.
cine in the world for aged people,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-22
TAX NOTICE. 1854.

TN conformity to law, my books will be open
1 for the FINAL COLLECTION of State and
County Taxes in York county, for the fiscal year
commencing November 1st, 1884, on THU Rs
DAY. THE 1ST DAY OF OCTOBER, and will
remain open until the 30th day OF November,
1885, inclusive.
The attention of taxpayers is called to A. A.
No. 576, Section I, which reads as follows: -.
'That all taxes assessed and payable under this
Act shall be paid in the following kinds OF funds
and no other: Gold and silver coin, United States
Currency, National Bank Notes, and coupons
which shall become payable during. the year
State, known as "Brown Bonds" and on the
bonds of this State known as" Deficiency Bonds;"
Provided, however, that jury certificates ana the
per diem of State witnesses in the Circuit courts
Shall be received for County Taxes. not lnclud-
ing School Taxes" III,
For the accommodation of taxpayers, will
attend at the following places, on the Gays
named: - o,,
At Blacks, Cherokee township, Thursday ed,
and Friday 23d Of October.
At Clark's Fork, McGill's Store King Noun
tain township, Saturday, oath OF October;
At Yorkville, from Monday, 18th OF OCTOBER
until Saturday, 7th of November. >.
At Coates Tavern, Catawba township, Mon
day, 9th of November.
At tRock Hill, Tuesday 10th, Wednesday llth,
Thursday 18th, Friday 18th and Saturday l4th
days of November.
At Yorkville, from Monday 10th, until Mon
day 3Oth of November, inclusive.
After which day the books will be closed and
the Is per cent. penalty will attach.
H. A. D. NEELY,
s.,,..,,,,o, ,ss5 TreasureP ss of York County