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ton. eff Tom would exercise his will a
little, he could break away from this fancy
easily enough"
"And how about herr"
"Well, Mr.. Bland, to be candid with you,
I don't think I need trouble myself about
her,"
eff your son should marry her, however,
your kind heart would, am sure, prompt
you to give her motherly welcome"
'Mr. Bland," said Mrs. Morton, laying
her knitting on her lap and speaking very
earnestly, 81 don't want you to think me
uncharitable or unchristian, nor, hope, am
1 so. But to tell you the truth, cannot
respect any girl who has acted like Susie
Dean. You needn't tell me she did not
marry Amos Barton for his money, because
everybody knows that she did. She work.
ed hard at home !; her father was irritable and
exacting, there were lot of spoiled children
tolook after, and Isuppose she was tired oft
all, and thought it would be fine thing to
be rich and live at her ease. Barton may
have been a good mani never heard any
thing against him-but you can never per-
suade me that she loved him. He was
great deal older than she was, and not at
all good-looking; a commonplace stupid sort
of man, in fact. And my Tom, though
do say it, is as handsome and bright young
fellow as one often sees-don't you think so
yourself Mr.. Bland?"
"There can be no doubt of that, Mrs.
Morton. You have every reason to be
proud of him."
"I know you think we'll of him, or I
shouldn't have praised him to you this
way" said the gratifed widow. Indeed,
if wasn't sure of your being his friend, l
would never have dreamed of talking 80
freely to you of his affairs. And fancied,
somehow, that perhaps he had told you
little of them himself. I know he thinks
very highly of your advice"
"He has not asked my advice-indeed, on
this matter should not feel myself compe-
tent to give it. But have gathered some
thing of the state of affairs between Mrs.
Barton and himself, from what he told me.
You are quite right in saying that you
know me to be his friend; and what is
more, though you may be surprised to hear
it, am her friend-Mrs. Barton's-also,
though she is not aware even of my eX-
istence."
"You don't say So! How do you make
that out, Mr.. Bland?"
81 knew her husband very we'll indeed
all his life in fact. And he wasn't q bad
fellow, I assure you. He was not attract
i've, as you say but he had good intentions,
and-and- loved his wife deeply"
Here Mr.. Bland coughed and jumped up
from his chair. II have been talking too
long, Mrs. Morton and must 60 to my
room."
II think you had better not repeat our
conversation to your son, perhaps. 1t could
do no good, you know. And he might
think wanted to pry into his affairs"
"No, I won't tell him." said Mrs. Nor
ton, little mystified by his sudden change
of manner. And Mr.. Bland went off to his
room.
Cno D1, f,oNrINI1En
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4 GEORGIA ROMANCE.

About two years before the war, near
pretty and substantial residence near pros
porous little town, beautiful young lady,
about fourteen, was sleeping in hammock
swung from two stately oaks in grove.
She was pretty picture of innocence and
grace, and won the admiration of the pass
ers In meadow to the rear fat, meek
eyed cow reclined in the shade, Illuminating
the food she had gathered in the cool of the
morning. Across the road from the house,
the girl, and the cow is meadow, branch
running through it, and coming up the
branch is a boy with gun. When within
one hundred yards of the girl, and about
one hundred and fifty yards from the COW, a
bird flew up and sailed in the air toward
the COW; the boy fired at the bird, which
flew on unhurt, but the cow received pref
ty strong dose of shot. She Immediately
arose in fright, dashed through the grove,
caught the girl and hammock on her horns,
and rushed with her shrieking victim about
the lot. The terrified girl became silent,
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TO BE CONTINUED.] ]

During the great labor strike on the Gould
system of railroads, no name was brought
more prominently before the public than
that of H. NJ. Hoxie, vice-president of the
Wabash system. So great is Mr. Gould's
opinion of him, that when it was determin-
ed to settle the difficulty by arbitration, the
matter was placed in his charge. II. M.
HoXie has had an interesting career. He
was a poor boy in Polk county, Iowa, at the
time when immigration was pouring into
that State. He became the hostler of a
country hotel, and thus became acquainted
with many prominent men, who stopped at
the establishment, on their western way.
At the time of the outbreak of the war he
had grown to manhood, and had entered
local politics. Somewhere in 1S64-G5 he be-
came Chairman of the Iowa State Central
Committee, and managed his State so sue
cessfully, rolling up majorities approxima-
ting $4,000, that he was made a United
States marshal, as a reward. Just after the
reconstruction he removed to Palestine,
Texas, and there became connected with the
management of the international Railroad.
He soon showed that he had in him the
qualities of a great railroad manager.
When Mr.. Gould bought up a large number
of the railroads of the Southwest, and had
consolidated them under the general name
of the Wabash system, Mr.. Hoxie was
chosen as first vice-president, and made his
headquarters at st. Louis. He is a shrewd,
quick -witted man, of few words, but prompt
in decision and in action, when he has once
made up his mind. His varied work has
brought him into contact with all kinds of
people, and his thorough knowledge Of hu-
man nature enables him to deal intelligent
ly with the questions that arise in the man.
agement of his railroad affairs.
NEATNEsS IN WOMEN.-A woman may
be handsome or remarkably attractive in
various ways, but if she is not personally
neat she cannot hope to win admiration.
Fine clothes will not conceal the slattern.
A Young woman with her hair always in
disorder and her clothes hanging about her
as if suspended from a prop, is always re-
pulsive. Slattern is written on her person
from the crown Of her head to the soles of
her feet, and if she wins husband he will
turn out, in all probability, either an idle
fool or drunken rut1ian. The bringing up
of daughters to be able to work, talk and
act like honest, sensible young women, is
the special task of all mothers, and in the
industrial ranks there is imposed also the
prime obligation of learning to respect
household work for its own sake and for the
comfort and happiness it will bring in the
future. Housework is drudgery, but it
must be done by somebody, and had better
be we'll done than i'll done.
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UNNECESSARY WORK Of WOMEN.

Elizabeth Cummings, in an exchange
SAYS: l am convinced that at least one
quarter of the work performed by women
is unnecessary, and that the world would
get on quite as we'll without it. 1t is like
the ottoman cover 1 once saw lady work.
She was all bent up, and was putting her
eyes out counting stitches. 81 don't get
any time for reading," she said, plaintive-
ly, as she picked up some beads on needle.
'You must have great deal of leisure" d"
And yet she had spent more time emorold-
ering ridiculous dog on a piece of broad
cloth than would have sufficed to read
twenty good books. 1t did not have the
DOOR merit of being economical, for the
price of the materials would have bought
enough handsome damask for two covers.
A friend of mine tells of seeing squaw seat
herself by the town pump, unroll bundle
of calico, cut out'a dress, make it, put it on,
and walk off, all in about two hours. l
have always regretted that he did not con-
tinue the story by telling that the squaw
spent her abundant leisure beautifully. l
would not have women reduce their sewing
to quite so simple] performance, but a
good deal would be gained if they thought
more about living and less about its acci-
dents.
The transcendent fact is what we are, not
what we accumulate or possess. Even
knowledge may he so used that it is merely
an ornament, which keeps up twinkling
about the mind, like bright jewels in pref
ty ears, and is only a possession, and not
part of ourselves. TO fill time, to pass it
busily, is not to use it. Labor in itself is
not worthy. The meanest work that makes
home a lovely, sacred place is consecrated,
and fit for the hands Of a queen; but deli
cate work that ministers to no human need,
even if it has artistic merit to recommend
it, if it consumes the hours woman ought
to use training her mind to think, and her
ewes to see, and making her brain some
thing more than mere filling for her skull,
is but busy idleness and waste of time. l
hope the day will come when every woman
who can read will be ashamed of the "col-
umn for ladies'" printed in some of our
papers, and which tell with more sarcastic
emphasis than any words of mine, how
some women choose to spend their leisure.
Surely, if they have time to follow intrl-
cate directions for making all sorts of trim
ming, not so good as that sold in the shops
at two cents yard, they may, if they will,
find a few moments in which to read
book.
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imitation-to learn that the longer the STU
dent remains there the more he shirks and
the poorer the quality of his work.

imitation-to learn that the longer the stu
dent remains there the more he shirks ano
the poorer the quality of his work.
That such provision is necessary to assert
the dignity of labor is mere rubbish. Will
lingness to work is part of the man-not o.
the system. Who will say that Joe Brown
of Georgia, or Jay Gould do not know how
to run railroad or system of railroads be-
cause they do not know how to grease
truck or clean up locomotive? What dc
you want, hands or brains, to direct your own
and other hands? Who will say, that two
years in the ditch, or grubbing up sassafras
roots or at the manure pile is better spent
than the same time in the lecture room and
laboratory? The principles ofscience should
be given in the lecture room and the appll'
cation enforced in the laboratory. An ex'
perimental farm, or indeed a number o.
experimental stations or farms should be
provided the University for Applied Agri'
cultural Chemistry. Here the objective
methods of teaching would make success
certain. Such teaching is necessarily ex'
pensive, but it is the only thorough way o
teaching science.
The South Carolina College has had to face
difficulties unnumbered and grevious-bit'
ter and unrelenting opposition, persistent
Misrepresentation, an impoverished and
discontented constituency, the confusion and
disorganization incident to the transition
state between the old order of things utter.
ly Inadequate to meet the demands
of them unjust and unreasonable made
upon it; and yet its authorities have from
the first labored zealously and perseveringly
to make it fulfill the purposes for which it
was established, the educational advance
ment of the youth of every class and condi-
tion of our people.
The State College is in need of an expert
mental station. Massachusetts has several
for her college.) The farmers of York
should not lose sight of the fact, that whilst
Abbeville and other counties are offering
sites and buildings for the experimental
farm, or for Capt. Tillman's Agricultural
College-if established-they have in their
own county a fine 30 acre farm with barns
and other outhouses and large brick edi'
flee constructed for educational purposes,
capable of accommodating 120 students, three
wells of delicious water, admirable for dairy
purposes, within less than mile of their
county seat, all of which they can secure on
very reasonable terms and offer as the site
of an experimental station. The vast good
done to the agricultural interest of the coun'
ty possessing such farm, directed By scien'
tifc experts cannot be easily estimated. Il
Abbeville is wide awake, let York be also
on the q,ti vire.
J.C. LYNEs, Chemist.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-22

CLEAN housekeeping the head per-
fectly clean is great aid to health. A dis
tinguished physician, who has spent much
of his time at quarantine, said that a person
whose head was thoroughly washed every
day rarely ever took contagious diseases,
but where the hair was allowed to become
dirty and matted it was hardly able to es-
cape infection. Many persons find speedy
relief for nervous headache by washing the
head thoroughly in weak soda water. We
have known cases almost wholly cured in
ten minutes by this simple remedy. A
friend finds it the greatest relief in case of
"rose cold," the cold symptoms entirely
leaving the eyes after one thorough washing
of the hair. The head should be thoroughly
dried afterward, and avoid draughts of air
for little while.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-22

aa- The largest circus in Paris accommo-
dates only 1000 people, while one in anci-
ent Rome could hold over 10000, where
from to 400 lions were let loose at time.
Augustus filled the arena with $500
wild animals, and Probus got up free
fight between 1000 wild boars, 1000 stags,
900 rams and 1000 ostriches, and the occu-
pants of the upper galleries had the right
to shoot arrows and javelins into the melee.
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M}istellaueons &eadiug.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Il FEW WORDS TO FARMERS ABOUT THE
EDUCATIONAL WANTS OF THE SOUTH
CAPT. TILLMdN'S IDEAL COLLEGE, ETC.
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as- Foolishness rushes into publicity to
draw attention, while intelligence keeps in
the background to observe.
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TIE HISTORY OF THE CROSS.-In a re-
cent sermon on the history of the cross,
Rev. Hebert Newton said: ''There is no
doubt that the cross was pre-Christian
symbol. In the British museum a colossal
tablet from Nimroud displays cross hang
ing from the breast of Tiglath Pileser. DIR.
Schilemann found this figure on terra Gotta
disks at Troy, in the fourth or lowest stratum
Of his excavations, dating, as he supposes,
from a period of about $500 years before
Christ. In the Crypriote collection Of the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art you may
look upon miniature human figures ex-
tended to form the sacred sign of the cross,
which in some cases, appears as the seal up
on their breasts. AS far as we can see the
cross appears thus to have been world old,
worldwide sacred symbol.
"The cross is a device which would nat
urally have suggested itself to primitive
man as one of the simplest and most nee
essary forms in nature. We find in the
earliest known religion the use of the cross
in initiating candidates into the higher
life. Christianity as the flower of Pagan
ism must needs have reproduced these an
cient truths in fresh and higher forms. No
other sign could have become the symbol
of the religion which takes into itself all
the richest, deepest, truest religions of the
past than the cross"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-22
POINTS AR0IIT THE EYE.

The following facts and statements are
from lecture by DIR. H. B. Grove on "Color
Blindness and Other Peculiarities of the
Eye:"
There is no cure for color blindness.
The first case of color blindness was re-
ported in 1777.
Color blindness is due to exhaustion Of
nerve fibers.
Four in every 100 males and one in every
400 females are color blind.
1t is no sign man is color blind because
he cannot name every color.
The eye of an insect contains from fifty to
10000 small eyes. It is really composed of
eyes.
We do not need light to see certain objects.
A sharp blow on the eye often causes man
to "see stars"
The cause of color blindness, aside from
natural causes, are alcohol, tobacco and dis
ease. 1t is in many cases hereditary.
I once saw man who was color blind
take $50 colors and divide them into four
groups, black, yellow, white and blue.
It is nonsense to believe that there is any
particular way to rub the eyes. 1t makes
no difference whether you rub from or to-
wards the nose, or up or down.
The cat, horse and birds have third eye.
lid, which is used to protect the eye from
too much light. Man has third eyelid in
the corner of the eye, which is undevel-
oped.
The defects of the eye are numerous, but
we are pretty we'll satisfied with it. Every
one has blind spot in his eye. This is
proven by shutting one eye and looking at
an object. We cannot see it fully.
The use of the eye cups to change the
form of the eye in hopes of bettering the
sight is ridiculous. They draw the eye out
of shape and often cause blindness. Thou
sands of these cups are sold every year.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-22
THE DJVJNING ROD IN CRIME,

OF the employment of the divining rod
for the detection of criminals there are many
cases on record, but the most famous in COM
paratively recent times is that OF jacques
Aymar, of Lyons. The full details of the
doings of this remarkable person are given
by Mr.. Barring Gould in his "Curious Myths
of the Middle Ages;" but the story as told
there is too long for us to repeat. 1t will do
to serve our purposes toquote the following
condensed version by another writer:
son July 5, 1892, Il vintner and his wife
were found dead in the cellar of their shop
at Lyons. They had been killed by blows
from hedging-knife, and their money had
been stolen. The culprits could not be dis
covered, and neighbor took upon him to
bring to Lyons q peasant out of Dauphlne
named Jacques Aymar, a man noted for his
skill with the divining rod. The lieuten-
ant-criminal and the procureur du roi took
Aimar into the cellar, furnishing him with
a rod of the first wood that came to hand.
According to the procureur du roi the rod
did not move till Aymar reached the very
SPOT where the crime had been committed.
His pulse then beat and the wand twisted
rapidly. Guided by the wand or by some
internal sensation, Aymar now pursued the
track of the assassins, entered the court of the
Archbshop's palace, left the town by the
bridge over the Rhone, and followed the
right bank of the river. He reached a
gardeners house, where he declared the men
had entered, and some children confessed
that three men-whom they described-had
come into the house one Sunday morning.
Aymar followed the track up the river,
pointed out all the places where the men
had landed, and to make a long story short,
stopped at last at the door of the prison of
Beaucaire. He was admitted, looked at the
prisoners and picked out as the murderer a
little hunchback, who had just been brought
in for small theft. The hunchback was
taken to Lyons, and he was recognized on
the way by the people at all the stages
where he had stopped. At Lyons he was
examined in the usual manner, and con-
fessed that he had been an accomplice in
the crime, and had guarded the door. Ay-
mar pursued the other culprits to the coast,
followed them by sea, landed where they
had landed and only desisted from his
search when they crossed the frontier. AS
for the hunchback, he was broken on the
wheel, being condemned on his own con-
fession."
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WITHIN A HUNDRED MILES OF THE
MooN.-The largest refracting telescope in
the world is now in process of construction
in the modest workshop of the venerable
Alvan Clark, the eminent telescope maker,
in Cambridgeport, Mass. The two disks of
glass 20 to form the lens of the great Lick
telescope, which will be placed in the OBJ
servatory on the peak of Mount Hamilton,
bequest of the California millionaire,
James Lick. These two circular glasses are
valued at s25 900 each, and if destroyed they
could not be duplicated within the next six
months for millions Of dollars. The disks
were cast in Paris, the order being given
five years ago, but the failures were so num-
erous that they were not received by the
Messrs. Clark until last September. When
finished the lens will be thirty-six inches
in diameter. When completed the two
lenses will weigh about 700 pounds. The
work of polishing the disk has now reached
that stage where the removal of few
grains more or less from the wrong place
would ruin them. The only instrument used
is the hand smeared with rouge, a polish
ing substance finer than the finest emery.
Some idea of the power of the instrument
may be gained from the statement recently
made by an astronomer that, gazing at the
moon, 24O, 900 miles away, that orb by this
telescope will be brought to within less than
one hundred miles from the eye Of the be-
holder.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-22

CHANGES IN THE WORLDS PRODUCTION.
1t is unsafe to assume because one coultry
has control of the production of any staple
that will always maintainit. Changes are
constantly occurring in ways not easy to fore
see. During the late war this country lost
control of the cotton trade, but the enormous
prices of cotton soon after the supply was cut
off showed clearly thatw had no ocompetitor
that could beat us in fair contest. A few
years ago nearly all the sugar of commerce
was made from cane in Cuba and other trop-
ical countries. Now beet sugar has become
quite as important a factor in fixing prices.
So few years ago we thought that no coun-
try could compete with US in supplying the
world with wheat. India and Russia have
done this the past two or three years. AS
nobody has made anything at it, however,
the result becomes only a question of endu-
rance. The party who can hold out longest
will win the prize. AS consumers are now
getting benefit in wheat sold at less than
it costs anybody to produce it they must
expect to make up for this by and by, when
the price is as much too high as it is now
too low. 1.-THE laborer is worthy of his
hire" and nothing is surer than that he will
get it provided he has patience to wait long
enough.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-10-27
CHURCH GOING

y clerical correspondent has an
article in the NeW York EUangeZiSt
on this subject, or rather on "Non-
Church Going" which, we think, as
signs the true reasons for the neglect
of public worship which is complained
of more or less in all parts of the coun-
try, but more especially in New Eng
land and our large cities. The writer
of this article, after referring to the
old-time habits of the New England
people in regard to the observance of
the Sabbath, and attendance at church,
proceeds to remark that "now all this
is changed" church going is no long
er the habit of the mass of the people"
What is the explanation of this? be
asks, and proceeds to give the follow
ing reasons for it:
"G) Church going has been greatly
diminished by the undue prominence
which mercantiltsm has assumed in our
land. Within the last twenty years,
the increase of the wealth of the coun.
try has been simply prodigious We
are now by far the richest people upon
the globe. With this accumulation Of
riches has grown up an inordinate love
of money. Half century ago, men
were striving fer eminence at the bar,
for skill in oratory, for excellence 10
craftsmanship, for literary distinction.
Now it is one feverish chase after
wealth. Brain 20 longer rules in our
Congress. The heavy brow has given
way to the heavy purse. The sceptre
has dropped from the hand of the logi-
clan, and has been taken up by the
millionaire.
The getting Of wealth now fills the
whole horizon Of mems thoughts The
soul and its tremendous destiny, our
people have no time to think of these.
Live in the present and Jump the life
to come So our churches are desert
ed, and our Sabbaths are turned into
days Of amusement"