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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29
We want to hear from the teachers as
To their nathods of insnirinp anrinterest

to their methods Of inspiring anrinterest
|: :inss Composition. We know, from per.
Eaonal experience as q pupil and as a
teacher, that it is one of the most diff
cult things to get up an interest about,
and yet il is one Of the most important
in school work. What teacher has not
heard the pupil say "1 don't knoy
what 70 write sabout?" And just here a
great deal of art can be displayed BY the
teacher, not only in suggesting subjects,
but in indicating the line Of thought 10
be pursued, by drawing out the pupil in
conversation. Let the teacher have a
little blank book lying in the room in
which she is to jot down all the subjects
she can think Of, and then ask your pu.
pills to help you think Of subjects. This
will likely get up an interest on the part
of the pupil, aud he will be stimulated
to work, and this-i is 9 great point gained,
especially in Composition. Let the sub.
jects be simple ones, such as are on a
level with the child, as :"What I like
for breakfast" "What I saw on the
road to school," "A curious dream I
had.1y "What lives in the woods 2" and
80. on ad infnttum. Avoid abstruse aud
abstract subjects. Contrive to throw in
as much=fnn and amusement as you can,
SO that Composition Day. will be
looked forward to with pleasure And
above all things don't let it be; q funeral
occasion that the pupils will breath q
sigh Of relief over when:it is. done. e
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

ME-. EDITOR: sis. {. ..,slj
No school can rise above the level of
its teacher. Is there q possibility Of
elevation, then, with some Of our schools? !?
What are our teachers doing to elevate
themselves Are they content5Iwith the
daily round OF work without sign of
improvement or moments satisfaction
Of progress felt and realized? In obedi-
ence to the order of the State Board of
Education, our County Board recently
adopted certain books to be used in the
public schools. Does that mean that no
teacher is to have access to any text
books other than those found on the list
adopted? by no means. The books
adopted are to be read by the classes /;
the teacher, in justice to himself, to his
profession and to his pupils, ia in duty
bound, to have on his desk as many diff
ferent books on the same subject as his
means will enable him to purchase.
He who confines himself to one text
b,,k, while before his classes, is not aft
to do great deal Of teaching. let us
Isillustrate: you assign class q lesson in
Sauford's Arithmetic; when you call
that class to recite, do you have them to
work at the black. board, or on their
states, just the problems found in the
lesson and no otherse Having satisfied
yourself that the class is posted on the
lesson, familiar with all the problems,
why not give them kindred and similar
problems taken from another bookP
Select problems from Wentworth. or
Robinson, or Vensble. We have tried
that plan ard find that it works we'll.
Such exercises will relieve the recitations
of monotony and stimulate independent
thinking on the part Of the pupils.
Agaih, some Of the best teaching of
Arithmetic We have ever seen was done
outside of the direct use of any text.
book. Hundreds of practical questions
are coming up every day that demand
the application ofthe principles taught
by all the textbooks. Every teacher
should take into his school. room every
day some question, or problem, that
touches the home life of the pupil and
impresses upon him the necessity for q
knowledge oftbe principles taught in the
lessons. he studiey.erA.question as to the
value ofso many bundles of fodder at so
much per hundred, or the cost of gather
ing, ginning, and marketing cotton will
sometimes. arouse a boy to thought when
hesappears to be perfectly indifferent to
the problems found in his text book.
What has been the experience of our
teachers along this line
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29
The True Method

OF curing habitual. constipation, and 81
liver and kidney ills, is to avoid the uses
of the bitter drastic liver medicines and
cathartics, and to take only the pleasant
liquid fruit remedy, Syrup Of Figs
cleanses as we'll as strengthens the:sys.
tenn, and does H.. leave the bowels cos.s
tive, so that regular habits may be FORM
ed, and the invalid permanently ;reaat6sedS
to health. It acts promptly and effsc:
lively !: it is easily taken, and perfectlY
harmless. For sale by Simpson, Reid
I & Go. 7s5 s
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

Mrs Helen Elmer, out in Kansas, has
shown what can be done in the way of
inforcing prohibition. She went to o
saloon, smashed things With an Ak, drove
the proprietor to the woods, dragged her
husband home, tied him up aud aogged
him with a horsewhip. It will be q
century before that town gets painted
red.
= Do you suffer from Indigestion, or
loss of appetite {? Are you troubled with
liver. or kidney complaint? Take Ayers
Sarsaparilla. This preparation puri6es
aud vitalizes the blood, thus restoring
health and strengthsto the digestive and
assimilati7e organs. Try it,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29
Eczema, Itchy, soaly, Skin Tortures.

The simple application of "swaynes
Ointment without any internal medI.
cine, will cure any case of letter, Salt
Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores,
Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy Skin
Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long
standing. II is potent, effective, and cotts
buta trifle. Is
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

"A health journal says: Gan attack
of hiccough may be stopped by holding
the head under water" 1t does not say
how long the head should be held under
water, but we should think about two
hours would be plenty long enough to
stop the worst case of hiccough ever
inranled.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29
He Haden't Disobeyed.

The little boy had come in with his
clothes torn, his hair full of dust, and
his face bearing unmistakable marks of a
severe conflict.
ooh, Williel Willie!" exclaimed his
mother, deeply shocked and grieved,
"you have disobeyed NE again. How
often 1 have told you not to, play with
that wicked Stupleford boy u
Mamma" said Willie, washing the
blood from his nose, tsdo look as If 1
had been playing with anybody W-Caic.
ago Tribune?
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

asThereis no easy way, no royal road to
learning. i is obtained BY w0rk, hard,
constant, persistent work. Genius. itself,
has been said to be nothing but a capac.
ity for hard work and plenty of it.
These mssteoric fellows who grasp things
iintuitiyely sdazsles US for awhile with
tjheif btillianey, and then leave US in
Utter darkness. They do not leave
resplts behind them.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

One way in which we can make our
boys and girls better men and women is
by making Sunday day for religious
training in the home.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

Ayers Pills are always ready for
use. They. are sugar coated, easy to take,
and sure to bring relief and cure. They
are effectual in all diseases caused by dis
orders Of the stomach and digestive
organs, ~. 81.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

J. Send your children to school regularly
daysby day. We once heard father
say certain teacher taught his children
nothing. We took occasion to refer to
the register sof that teacher, and found
that his four children had attended
school just thirty.six days all told, an
average of mine days each, in q school
that slasted eight mouths: :.s No wonder
his children ilearned nothing. IL would
shaver been:asmiracle'if they had, and yet
that father, placed the blame. on the
Teacher aid refused 70 pay$his snbsctip.
stions The s;school terms u is: short, the
school funds are meager, and it is abso.
lutely necessary if anything is accom-
plished5 5that "goinge school" should.be
ther6asinsss ins6ands during Sthe~ term.
The school life itself Of the boy is short,
and before you are aware Of it, you will
shave launched educated voter upon
ssutS ssutS q lSS4AusrI. kS4IsI;.. s i "
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29
u! T'E'AgH:EI'Rs''!G!.oL!y[MN. !, ] / |

G@ All communications intended fol
this Column should be addressed to D. H.
RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander.
son, s. G.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

- The five great cont mental powers of
Europe now have 100000 men under
arms, not to mention the naval ornaments
almost double in size the whole sea
fighting force of the world twenty years
a.,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

From this time on during the winter
the:school Commissioner will be in the
country. visiting the schools, and will be
iu the Office on Saturdays, Salesdays and
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

Our visit to the Flat Rock school VAS
pleasant ID some respects. We found in
Miss Bells a. live, earnest, thoughtful
anxious to. learn whatever would
promote the cement Of her pupils.
Buewe found her in an uncomfortable
house, aud, one much stoo. small for the
purpose. This section contains fine,
moral, intelligent population, as is evil
.denceda by the comfortable houses they
slive.inSs and the substantial churches
where they worship: Good roads,
good churches and good school l:buildipgs
are indices Of a refined and enlightened
community. - J, -. -. - IS
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29

But can get along pretty we'll in San
ford's arithmetic with these children. l
believe it is the best arithmetic that ever
was made. Tt has no key and Professor
Sanford says it does not need any for it
is a stemwinder, but 1 do think that
algebra ought to have key or be abol.
ished. / don't take much stock in alge-
bra, nor comic sections, nor calculus.
They worried me and distressed me in
my youth and l haven't forgotten it. l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
ANOTHER GROW STORY.

Atlanta Journal.
Farmer Crowder had finished planting
his corn, but his heart was heavy. He
knew the crows were whetting their bills
to pull up the corn as soon as it appear
ed above the surface.
"I'll tell you how to get away with
the crows said neighbor Stokes.
"How!"
s'Get you a gallon of mean whisky
and soak some corn in it till it gets full
of the stuff, and then scatter it broad
cast in the field The black rascalS will
eat it and get drunk, and then you can
catch 'em and pull their heads off. That
beats pizen or shootin'."
In few days Farmer Crowder met
his friend Stokes.
"Well, how's crops?" querried Stokes.
"My cOrn's bodaciously ruint," re-
piled Crowder dolefully. Il tried that
'ere scheme of your'n, and it's a hum
bug. l soaked the corn and scattered
one day, and the next mornin' went
down t. the new groun' to see how il
worked.
Found 'em drunk. eh?"
Found nOthin'. | hearn a devil of a
fuss down nigh the branch an went to
see what 1t was. Thar was a dad blast
ed old crow what had gathered up all
the whisky corn an had it on stump,
an he was retailin' t out to the others,
givin' 'em one grain o that sort fur three
grains of my planted corn, an dinged eff
they hadn't clawed up that field by sec
tionS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

Women generally, as a mass, look
upon self support and labor as thing
to be avoided and, only too often. to be
ashamed of. 1t is a melancholy com
ment upon this assertion that, in the re-
cent census in one of oar large cities,
the house to house census declared that
the number of women who earned their
living or were engaged in some daily,
wage earning avocation was only about
half of that which the census of the fe-
male employees in business houses and
factories declared Can woman com
plain that she is not considered equal
with man in the wage-earning world il
she herself takes so little interest and
pride in her work that she denies it?
There are thousands of i'll paid WOm-
en-, there can be no question or a shadow
of doubt. But is not this rather because
these thousands of women only do work
which requires no skill beyond that
possessed by every other woman, which
requires no special training, and which,
if she abandons it, any other woman can
do as well?
The woman physician is as well paid
as the man. l know woman who is a
dentist who makes more than most men
in the profession. The woman who is
an author, a painter, an actress, or a
singer is as well paid as man of equal
talent and opportunity. To GO lower in
! the scale of talent, the dresSmaker, the
milliner, the skilled female worker in
our factories, is paid on the average as
well as the male.
But l would say, Let girl feel that
it is as natural and praisewOrthy for her
to earn her living as that her brother
should: that if she would be as well
paid as her brother she must be willing
| to give the same time, attention, effort,
and endeavOr to make herself a success
and valuable to her employer as her
brother does. She must be thorough.
Women do not USUALLY say it with
regret-put their hearts into their work
as men do. They look upon it as tenn
porary affair.
There is but one remedy for this. As
l have said before, let our young women
and girls be taught that it is as neces-
sary for them to know how to earn their
livings with some true business as it is
for their brothers.
Do not bring them up to believe that
marriage is the aim of a woman's life
any more than it is of mans, or that
it is more honorable and dignified than
work Let them feel that the better
they can do their work the more ac-
count they will be in the werld and the
more respected; that they should put
ther whole hearts into their employment
and make themselves valuable as work
ing factors, leaving marriage to come or
not as they and fate will; and then, and
not till then, they will become as valua-
bic working factors as men, who always
do all this. There is always room and
good pay at the top. Value will com
mand value, and a dollars worth will
generally bring dollar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Hardness ever of hardness is mother
The liar is sooner caught than tn,
cripple.
When two quarrel both are in tn,
wrong.
Every man is a volume, if you know
how to read him.
Never charge a bad motive if gooC
one is conceivable.
Learn to govern yourself, and to bt
gentle and patient.
He who throws himself under the bench
viii be left to lie there.
Never unavoidably wound the feel
ings of a human being.
People who are always talking senti
ment rarely have deep feeling.
The Devil never tempted man whom
he found judiciOusly employed.
Bad memory has more sins laid to its
charge than any other weakness.
The competitors with whom lazineSs
ambition seems to vie are dead.
Remember the Divine saying, HE
that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life
He who never gives advice, and he
who never takes it, are alike unworthy
of friendship.
Be not ashamed to ask if you doubt;
but be ashamed to be reprOved twice for
the same fault.
Love. in all shapes, implies sacrifices.
Much must be conceded, much endured,
if we would love.
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is
the life, of those who wish to be feared
rather than to be loved.
Talk to thyself and insist on reply,
yet not before the world, lest it think
nobody else will talk to thee.
Vehemence creates dislike, excessive
mildnesS contempt; be neither so severe
as to be hated, nor so tame as to be in
suited.
4 person that would secure to himself
great Difference will, perhaps, gain his
point by silence as effectually as by any
thing he can say.
Power exercised with violence has sell
dom been of long duration, but temper
and moderation generally produce per
manence in all things.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
NEWS NOTES.

THE House Committee on Fisheries is
investing the alleged outrages in Alas
ka.
EX-GOv. JACOB D. Cox has resigned
the Chancellorship of McMicken Uni
versity.
CHARLES MITCHELL has been SEN
fenced to be hanged at Kansas City, Mo-,
! February II, for the murder of waiter
in low variety theater several months
ago.
THE bringing into Ohio of children
under twelve years of age, by religious
associations, or corporations, or contracts
binding them to servile labor, will be
officially investigated.
A PHILADELPHIA paper processes to
know that President-elect Harrison has
decided to appoint John Wanamaker
Postmaster General. Mr.. Wanamaker
refuses to talk on the subject.
A DYNAMITE bomb thrown into the
cupOla of Litchfeld, Ill, car and machine
company's foundry recently, exploded,
tearing the cupola to pieces and serious
ly injuring two of the employees.
WM. WALKER and John Matthews,
| the Missouri Bald Knobbers, sentenced
to be hanged on January IS, have been
respited to February Is, at the request
of Judge Hubbard, who tried them.
Mrs. MARY JAMES has commenced
an action at Chicago for divorce from
her husband, Luther James, who was
| formerly member of the notorious
James gang of outlaws of Missouri.
Gov. WILSON, of West Virginia, de-
nies the report that he notified the mill
| tia to be in readiness for moments no.
tice. The story originated in the mouth
| ings of a Colonel" on the Governors
staff.
WHILE Mrs. Staff, colored, residing in
the outskirts of Indianapolis, was away
from her home the other day, the house
was destroyed by fire, and her two chill
dren, aged 3 and 5years, perished in the
| flames.
DIST. ATTORNEY SELLERS is cred
tied with saying to an intimate friend
that the actual cause of his resignation
was the vehemence with which the Dem
ocratic leaders pressed and indictment
of Col. Dudley.
EDWARD MEREDITH, charged with an
attempt to kill Phil DAILY at New York,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 8
years and ten months Imprisonment.
Hermann, his confederate, got six years
and eleven months.
A PROVISION of the river and harbOr
likely to provoke considerable criti-
icism and opposition, is the one looking
to the appointment of select commit
tee by Speaker Carlisle instead of the
presiding officer of the next House.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce adopted resolution, which will
be forwarded to the California delega-
ton in Congress, protesting against the
reduction in duty on sugar, raisins and
fruit, as proposed by the Senate Tariff
bill.
THE 70-ton granite monolith to mark
the grave of eX-Mayor "Long John"
Wentworth was successfully placed in
permanent position at Rose Hill Gene
ry in Chicago one day last week. The
shaft is the largest single cut stone in
America except the Egyptian obelisk at
New York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
WRITING FAMOUS POEMS.

i y L
The Library.
Gray's immortal "Elegy" occupied him
for seven years.
Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis" in the
shade of a grand old forest-a fitting
spot for such a theme.
Cowper wrote one of the drollest and
quaintest English ballads, John Gil
pins Ride" when he was under one of
these terrible fits of depression so COM
mon to him.
General Lyle wrote his beautiful COM
position, "Antony and Cleopatra y
which begins, ~ am dying, Egypt, dy-
ing" on the night before his death. He
had a premonition that he was going to
die the next day.
The noted poem, "The Falls of Mag
ara" was written by its author, J. G. C.
Brainard, the editor of a small paper in
Connecticut, in fifteen minutes. He
wrote it under pressure in response to a
call for ''mOre copy"
AFTER the Ball." the little poem which
has made the name of Nora Perry
known in the world of letters, was iot-
ted down on the back of an old letter,
with no idea of the popularity it was to
achieve in the pages of a noted maya
zine.
Thomas Moore, while writing "Lalla
Rookh," spent so many months in read
ing up Greek and Persian works that he
became an accomplished Oriental schol-
ar, and people found it difficult to be-
lieye that its scenes were not penned on
the spot instead of in a retired dwelling
in Deyonshire.
Poe first thought of "The Bells" when
walking the streets of Baltimore on a
winters night. He rang the bell of
lawyers hOuse-a stranger to him
walked into the gentleman's library,
shut himself up and the next morning
presented the lawyer with copy of his
celebrated poem.
The "Old Oaken Bucket" was first
suggested to the author, Samuel Wood
worth, in bar room. A friend with
whom he was drinking said that when
they were boys the old oaken bucket
that hung in his fathers well was good
enough for them to drink from. Wood
worth Immediately went home and
wrote the famous poem.
"Old Crimes" that familiar 'little fe-
licity in verse;" which caught the popu-
lar fancy as far back as 1923, was sud
den inspiration of the late Judge A. G.
Greene, of Providence, R. l., who found
the first verse in a collection of old Eng
lish ballads, and, enjoying its humor,
built up the remainder of the poem in
the same conceit.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

VALUABLE MEDICAL TREATISE.
The edition for 1899 of the sterling
Medical Annual, known as HOStetter's
Almanac, is now ready and may be OBJ
tanned, free of cost, of druggists and gen
eral country dealers in all parts of the
United States, Mexico, and indeed in
every civilized portion of the Western
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every year for over one-fourth of cen
tury. 1t combines. with the Soundest
practical advice for the preservation and
restoration of health, a large mount OF
interesting and amusing light reading,
and the calendar, astronomical calcula-
tions, chronological items, etc. are pre-
pared with great care, and will be found
entirely acurate. The issue of Hostel
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the largest edition of medical work ever
published in any country. The prOprie-
tors, MeSsrs. Hostetter & Co, Pittsburgh.
Pa, on receipt of two-cent stamp, will
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hood II Gin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
SONG.
yer the strings of my harp today

over the strings of my harp to-day
Floats song that is half a sigh, [bl
Like the sound of leaves when the wind SWEEP
Like the sound of breakers far away,
As they beat and sob,
As they beat and throb,
Till hear a voice in their distant roar
ON that lovely stretch Of sandy shore,
over the strings of my harp to-day
Floats song for the dying year
song that thrills with an unshed tear
Thro the winter twilight, cold and gray,
As the breakers sob,
As the breakers thrOb,
And hear that voice with its old refrain,
For the days that never come back again.
Over the strings Of my harp to-day
Floats song of my sweet, lost youth
For oh, I would give in the very truth,
Riches and fame and power away
To dream once more
Those bright dreams DER.
at is vain regret, sighs the old refrain.
For the days that never come back again
Over the strings of my harp to-day
Floats song for the dying year;
A song that thrills with an unshed tear,
Like the sound of breakers far away
How they beat and sob!
How they beat and thrOb!
And hear that voice with its old refrain,
For the days that never come back again.
Isabel HOtchkiss