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Hot Water for Plants and Trees.

1t isa fortunate circumstance that a
plant will endure scalding heat that
is fatal to most of its minute enemies.
Water heated to the boiling point, poured
copiously over the stem of an enfeebled
peach tree, and allowed to stand about
its collar, will often have the happiest
restorative effects. Trees showing every
symptom of the yellows have often been
rendered luxurisntly green and thrifty
again by this simple means. The heat
is presumably too much for the fungus
which had infested the vital layers of the
tree, Immediately under the outer bark.
The London florists recommend hot
water, up to 1876 Fahrenheit, as a rene.
dy when plants are sickly owing to the
soil souring-tbe acid absorbed by the
roots acting as q poison. The usual
resort is to the troublesome job of repott.
ing. When this is not necessary for any
other reason, it is much simpler to pour
hot water freely through the stirred soil
it will presently come through tinged
with brown. After this thorough wash.
ing, if the plants are kept warm, new root
points and new growth will soon follow
A lady friend had fine Gala in Q
three gallon pot, which showed signs Of
ill health. On examination the outer
portion of the filing was found moldy
it being in large part fresh horse manure
As repotting was inconvenient, the plant
being in flower, hot water was freely
used. 1t killed the mold, and the plant
began to revive and was soon all right.
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Caught Them Foul.

Some years ago the pastor of church
in a rural district of Missouri shepherded
q flock, some members of which were in
the habit of leaving the house while he
was yet in the middle of discourse.
This was an eyesore to the reverend
Incumbent, and when, one day, visiting
brother volunteered to preach for him,
he felt called upon to speak of the
annoyance.
"Oh, I'll stop thatp was the reply.
"I'll warrant you that no one leaves until
I'm done. Accordingly, when be arose
to speak he introduced his sermon with
the following:
"My friends, before I begin my sermon
I wish to make a few not irrelevant
remarks. You all know that vessel
when full is full, and to continue to pour
into it is folly. Some vessels are capable
of holding a great deal while others,
again are easily filled. So it is with
mems heads, and it is possible that some
of yours may become full before Pm
through. Ifso, I want you to feel at
perfect liberty to leave"
The sermon lasted an hour and
quarter, but not mortal stirred!
"Do you know" said a young man
afterwards, II had a team of restless
young horses outside, but l wouldn't
have gone out to look after them fol
Sl00p'-Derot Free Press.
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The Centre of Population.

For one hundred years the point which
represents the centre of the republic has
been steadily moving due Westward along
the thirty.ninth parallel of North lati.
tude. It's average rate of progress has
been about FIVE miles per year. In 1900
its location was eighteen miles West OF
Baltimore; in 1920 it was we'll on the
Western side of the Shenandoah Valley j;
in 1880 it had reached the highest ridge
of the Appalachians; in 1850 it had
passed the mountain barriers anc. was
following the course of the Little Kama.
wha through West Virginia; within the
next ten years it had, by rapid march
of more than eighty miles, reached
point over half way across the State
of Ohio; in 1870 it was within fifty miles
of Cincinnati; in 1880 it had entered the
valley of the Miami in 1890 it will
probably be. found we'll within the boun-
daries of Indiana. That sooner or later
this central point which represents the
Westward "course of empire" in the
United States will cease to advance, or
otherwise will reach turning place, is
absolutely certain. Should it's progress
continue for another century as during
the past hundred years, it would OF the
end of that time be more than half way
across the State of Missouri. But this is
not likely to be the case. Each succeed
ing census for several coming decades
will doubtless show Stacking up in the
rate of advancement Westward, and
finally the direct forward movement must
cease. Bearing in mind the narrow
vision and the mistaken forecasts of our
early legislators, it seems hazardous to
conjecture with regard to future proba.
bilities. Yet there is good reason to
believe that not for many years will
the nucleus of the country's population
pass beyond or even reach the Mississip.
nj River
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-14
Money Value Of a Wife.

Let man become widower and he
soon learns what the financial worth OF a
wife was to him. When he is compelled
to hire the food cooked, the garments
made or mended, the washing and iron
ing done, he finds that about one.half OF
his income is required to meet these
outgoes. Who saved this expense before
Let the cold fingers and the silent lips
in the graveyard bear testimony. The
family purse should be as accessible to a
faithful wife as to the husband. What
man would consent to become partner
in company in which his brother partner
should alone have control of the compa'
ny's funds? There is no one thing more
degrading and depressing to q hard work
ing wife, than to feel that she must beg
like tramp for every cent she spends
beyond her food, which as truly belongs
to her as though she earned it as 8
domestic or shop girl.
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schooS not q short institute; they meet
for work. The doctrine We set out with
ten years ago, We parade to-day, only
saying, aIt requires more to be a teacher
to-day, than it did then"
Let the teacher look at the matter very
seriously indeed. If he is tempted to
say, "I cannot spend my time in further
preparation" let him pause. Consider
the children; think how much enjoy
ment there is in being taught by really
able man or woman. And remember
that the able teacher gets hundred fold
more pleasure from teaching, than the
poorly equipped teacher gets. The latter
complains of the "thick.headed" boys
and girls; but the former does not. The
able men and women remain in the
school.room, the poorly equipped leave
Institute.
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= According to law recently passed
by the Legislature of Ohio, the inaiction
of the death sentence has been transferr-
ed from the county, where the deed is
committed or trial conducted, to the
penitentiary of the State. In the State
penitentiary all the hangings in the
State are to be made hereafter. The
hangings in the penitentiary are to be
private and the time usually unpublish.
ed. The hour generally fixed upon is to
be in the night.
--sleepless nights, made miserable by
that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the
remedy for you. For sale by Hill Bros.
That hacking cough can be so
quickly cured by shiloh's Cure. We
guarantee it. For sale by Hill Bros.
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Greek Met Greek.

1t is not safe in an intelligent gathering
to make remarks under cover of a foreign
language, which we do not wish to have
understood by persons present. Especial
ly they had better be left unsaid.
A Russian lady had bean invited to
dine with M. de Talleyrand at the time
when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs
but was unfortunately detained an hour
beyond her time. The famished guests
we're in the sulks, and kept looking al
their watches.
When she arrived at last one Of the
company said in Greek to his neighbor
"When a woman is neither young mol
beautiful she ought to be punctual."
Whereupon the lady turned SHARP
round and replied in the same language
"When q woman has the misfortune tc
dine with barbarians she always comes
soon enough"
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Underground Dlstillery.

ATLANTA, Ga, May 2S.-Last Friday,
in the lower part of Dawson County, one
Of the most unique distilleries ever run
was captured, and with it an aged colored
man named Abe Strickland. Deputy
Marshal Buice had wind of the fact that
an illicit di.tillery was in operation
in that county, and on Friday set out to
locate it. But 80 ipgeniously was it
conducted that it was with the greatest
difficulty the establishment was found.
A1out dark be came across an open field
in cultivation, and to his surprise small
stream of smoke was issuing from the
ground. Approaching the place where
the smoke was belching up be found q
small stovepipe protruding about two
feet from the surface, and near by q
small hole in the earth from which q
we'll constructed pair of steps conducted
below. The deputy marshal on reaching
the bottom discovered that be was in q
pit about twelve feet in depth and about
thirty feet square. The bottom was
neatly Aoored, while the top was covered
with fence rails and red clay. In one
corner was pipe which caught the water
oozing out of the earth. In the rear of
the pit was tunnel which extended
twenty feet into the earth, and the pipe
fan into this.
The deputy marshal went into the
tunnel and distillery was found in full
operation, but no one was to be found
on the inside. On leaving the pit the
deputy marshal, satisfied that some one
must be in the vicinity who was running
the corn.juice mandatory, began to
look around for the person. Near by
was small hickory tree in which 9
peculiaroblect was spied, which resembled
a buzzard. Approaching the tree and
striking match he discovered negro
sitting on one Of the limbs. he was
taken in charge and brought to Atlanta,
where he gave bond for appearance.
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Big Business In Bees.

Ellison the Bee Man from Stateberg
was in town yesterday with load of
honey. He says that he has been quite
busy lately in filling orders for bees and
queens. He had an order a short time
ago from man in Pennsylvania for 400
pounds of working bees and 400 queen
bees. He could only undertake to fill
one-fourth the order in Che time speci-
fed, and he just finished that few days
ago. The same party has indicated that
he may want 1000 pounds of bees next
season, and a proportionate number Of
queens.
Many of our readers may be curious to
know what man would do with 80 many
bees, and will state for their information,
that bee keeping is big business in the
North, and that many apiaries have as
many as 1000 hives. Owing to the
extreme cold weather, however, the bees
are housed in cellars during the winter,
and they do not commence raising brood
as early as in our climate. 1t is impor'
tant when spring begins to have stock
of old workers ready to take in the har-
vest money, and it has been foura that
it pays to ship them from the South, and
thereby save several weeks time.
The bees are put up in wire cloth
crates, holding several pounds each, and
with sticks across for the bees to support
themselves upon, and are shipped by
express. The queens are shipped by
mail in small cages made of a piece OF
board about two inches square with a
hole bored into it and covered with wire
cloth, and they 5eldom fail to reach their
destination all right after several days
confinement. On account of the timidity
of expressmen, and careless handling, Mr..
Ellison suffered more loss than he
expected in the transportation of the 100
pounds of worker bees; but he thinks he
can remedy that hereafter by making the
packages smaller, which will obviate the
danger of sufocation, when the bees are
thrown from their support into pile by
careless handling.
BE says that our section is we'll suited
for bee keeping, and is much encouraged
by his success.-W Watchm,an and South
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Running Into Debt.

|. So common is the habit of borrowing
or getting things on credit that the
average young man thinks no more con.
cernedly of doing it than if it was q
recognized and honorable business privi-
lege. Rev. Robt. Collyer, D. D., in his
admirable "Talks to young Men," makes
the following wholesome remarks on this
subject.
+ sI know of few things in our life 30
full Of peril to q young man as running
into debt. It has done more damage to
our finest manhood than any other thing
I can think Of, except drinking whisky;
and to a good many men thete is no
danger from that, even so long as they
stand free from the curse Of debt. But a
man: is driven into the second evil often
by trying to forget the first, or to abate
its burden. \ It is not true,
as we might imagine, that only those of
poor and shiftless sort drift into debt.
The worst of the course is that
it SO often takes our choicest young men
captive, and drags them down to this
shame young men Of genuine honesty.
SO far as good intentions co.. when they
set out in life. - It is like q
thread golden wire SO fine they do not
see it at first or feel it; but day by day
other threads are bound about them, and
these twist themselves at last into cable
from which they find it very hard and
bitter work to get free. \ Do
not spend money you cannot we'll spare.
IF you buy Bible, even, you cannot
afford to buy just then, you wander to
where the wires are set, and may do more
harm to yourself than the Bible will ever
do You good, Nay, I will say more than
this. Ifyou SO misread your Bible as to
trust God will take care Of you when you
ought to take care of yourself in this
most sacred business of paying as you go,
you had better sell your Bible at the first
old bookstore, and buy Poor Richards
Almanac or The Autobiography Of
Benjamin franklin like that word
of q sound divine who says that next to
the grace Of God, paying our debts right
along is the means Of grace in the world
to deliver us from a thousand snares.
X Do not run into debt, then. Save,
that you may spend. Do what true
man may do to provide things honest in
the sight of all men. Owe no man any.
thing, in this noble way, and then you
will make all men your debtors for the
sterling and noble example you set to
the world about you"
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blind horse, and is pricing himself by the
front foot, which is number twelve.

Dllnd horse, anu ls pricing HluisoAi Wy 'ne
front foot, which is number twelve.
Sam Jones is a boomer, too. he made
rollicking talk the other night and
drew six thousand dollars of stock out of
the boys in few minutes. One fellow
got behind post and hid, but Sam got
him and nailed him for FIVE hundred.
he got two men to quarreling as to
which had taken the most stock accord
ing to means, and he sicked 'em at one
another until be made them both double.
never saw such man to loosen up the
people and open their pocketbooks. He
ran over here from Rome that evening
and ran back next morning to work on
the Romans.
Tom Miller made talk. He began
soft and sweet and low, like the gentle
rumbling of far distant thunder. Nearer
and nearer the storm came and finally
was precipitated upon US with a.terrifc
outbarst of "Give me liberty or give me
DEATH" and then the furnace was con-
sidered built. 1t was good, old.fash.
ioned town meeting, and Mr.. Quincy
made the best speech of anybody, for he
had the money in his hand instead of his
pocket. Hprrah for Chicago. When
yank is clever he is the cleverest man in
the world, but when he is mean he is the
smeanest: was powerful mad the other
day when I learned that contemplate
cuss Higgins or Virgins or Piggins or
whatever his name is, had written and
published history of the war in which
he had Jefferson Davis caught in
woman's clothes, and that the book was
actually used in the Ward seminary at
Nashville. I was mad enough to fight
and let them whip us again. The same
old lie that has been nailed to the wall
hundred times and now reissued and
being crammed down the throats of our
children: Hurrsh for those girls who
refused to recite it. Higgins or Virgins
or Piggins is knave or a fool, and I
don't care which. That is one thing our
Northern brethren had just as we'll to
know and never forget-that the South
is just as jealous of the honor and good
name of Jefferson Davis as the North is
of Abraham Lincoln. We reverence
Mr.. Lincoln, and never fail to do honor
to his memory, and if he disguised him
self in Scotch cap and cloak on his way
to Washington, it makes no difference
with US. Inever believed that story and
am glad that our folks didn't start it. 1
reckon that all these lies and ISLANDERS
will wear out after while and the next
generation will get at the bottom of facts
about all this business and pay Mrs. Arp
or her heirs for that barrel of soap. I
shbpe SO.
Yesterday was the maternal birthday.
won't say how old she is, but / know she
was trotting around when the stars fell.
Igave her FIVE dollars to buy summer
coat for me, and another FIVE to buy a
parasol. I stuck hollyhock in her
raven hair and kissed her on her alabas>
ter forehead. She wiped the kiss off but
let the flowers stay. BILL ARP.
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Saving Small Grain Seed.

The wheat and oats harvest is at hand
and the saving of seed for fall sowing is q
matter that deserves careful attention
One of the principal drawbacks to the
production of good crops is the use of
seed of poor quality. 1t is bad habit
with some farmers to lay aside seed indis'
criminately from the threshings of the
general crop, acting upon the assumption
that all that is necessary in seed is mere.
ly its power to sprout and grow. Such is
not the case, however. Reason, observa.
tion and the experience of the best far
mers, the country over, prove that grain
intended for seed should be fully deyel-
oped and we'll ripened, and that
after it is gathered it should be carefully
handled. Accordingly, it should not be
cut until the grains are good ripe. Ac-
cordingly, it should not be stacked with
the common mass intended for feeding,
and allowed to heat. The heating and
sweating through which stack or harmful
of unthreshed grain will pass is injurious
to the gerroinating power and vigor of
the grains. It is often the cause of unac-
countable bad stands, and of feeble
growth. Even where the germ has
sufficient strength left to make, a start, it
has that of a stunted pig, and never
acquires the vigor that it should have,
and which no amount of manure and
good culture can supply. The proper
things to do in the matter are, first, to
select seed from the best portions of,the
crop; second, to see that it is we'll ripen-
ed before it is harvested; third. TO Gre.
fully air and sun it rather than sack it !;
fourth, to thresh and winnow it as soon
as possible after it is cut; fifth, to sun it
we'll Immediately after it is threshed, and
lastly, to put it away from moisture and
rats by storing in boxes, barrels or bags,
giving it occasional attention until time
to SOW it in fall. If properly cared for,
weavils are notapt to attack it between
harvest and seeding time. If they do,
which is possible in some climates, a
good summing is the best remedy.
Good seed is the best beginning in
good farming, and the most perfect de-
yelopment and good care are the impor-
taut considerations. Many farmera> cut
their wheat and oats before they are good
ripe, the object being to prevent loss by
shattering out in the field and in hand
ling, and to avoid storm and rain which
may come in few days. This is right
enough so far as it concerns the bread
for the table and the feed for the horse ;
but when it comes to seed for sowing the
too early harvesting will not do so well.
The grains will be shriveled, and of
course the germ is not perfectly develo-
ped; neither is the nutriment of the
surrounding parts of the grain which
constitute its supportin the beginning OF
growth.-Tae Cotton Plant.
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The life-giving properties of Ayers
Sarsaparilla have established its we'll
earned reputation, and made it the most
effectual and popular blood purifier Of
the day. For all diseases of the stomach,
liver and kidneys, this remedy has no
equal, Price Isl.
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Its Dellcacy of Flavor

And the efficacy of its action hava'
rendered the famous liquid fruit remedy
Syrup of Figs, immensely popular. u
cleanses and tones up the clogged an6
feveriah system, dispels headaches, cold
and fevers, cures Habitual Constipation
Dyspepsia, and the many ills depending.
on weak or inactive condition Of thg
Kidneys, Liver, and Bowels. Mannfa
tured only by the California Fig Syrd
Company, San Francisco, Gal. For ssld
by.simpson, Reid & Co. 80 IS IS
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Does the teacher sufficiently value his
calling9 Isthere any that is more noble
than hisY The great spirits that have
lived on this earth, have they not been
fsaehersf { Make a list Of the moving
forces Of the world, and it will be found
: that they have been teachers. True, they
hare not always been over a school, not
always heard recitations. They have,
however, attempted to turn people to
correct thinking j; to develop their
powers, and make them more capable of
understanding the world and its Maker.
The teacher is q man who is interested
I'm the welfare Of mankind, but who
limits his efforts to a certain number of
; young people : one of this sort was walk
ing through 8 shop, and saw q young
man who was very pale. He stopped
and spoke to the stranger, and made
some valuable hygienic suggestions.
Years aftor he was met by tall, well
developed man, who took him by the
hand and said, Ycu saved my life."
But ne have many teachers who do
not seem to leay et the least impression on
their community. This should not be
so. Teacher, bestir yourself. Ifyou are
of little account, it is your own fault.
Determine to be of muc1 account. One
day the writer was in railroad car, and
coming to a station vas surprised to see
many people gathered, evidently to see q
Young woman safely on board. Deep
feeling was evident in the crowd. "What
3 Ii the cause Of this gatheripg?" was
asked. aThe teacher of our school is
leaving us, was the answer.
She came into the car (; she was plain,
but bright looking young lady, and it
was SOON evident there was a reason for
3 the love that had been exhibited on the
platform. 81 have tried to do them all
the good I could, the parents as we'll as
The children" she said. 1t was an
interesting history that Was detailed on
that ride, and stands clear in memory to.
dsys
The impression that was left there, was
that she possessed dbizity; it was not
simply sympathy. Teachers do you
possess ability7 II sosycur work will
live after you. If so, your calling will
be honored in that community. It is not
the calling then, but the men of ability
who are turned to that calling, that has
made the roll Of teachers such an hon
sored one.
So Impressed have we been that the
teacher must develop his powers, aud
grow in skill, that we made that the key
mote Of this paper at its founding. See
what has come from preaching this truth.
Iu i letter just read, the writer says {:
are to have summer school of
over 500 members" !" Ten years. ago that
would have been impossible. It is q
~
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= Will you suffer with dyspepsia and
Liver Complaint? shiloh's Vitalizer is
guaranteed to cure you. For sale by
Hill Bros.
"A debt of gratitude is too often COM
promised at about ten cents on dollar.
Catarrh cured, health and sweet
breath secured, by shiloh's Catarrh rem.
edy, Price so cents. Nasal Injector
free. For sale by Hill Bros. l
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Do not take quinine for malarial dis.
orders. Ayers Ague Cure contains none,
nor any other injurious ingredient This
preparation, if taken strictly in accord
auce with directions, is warranted to cure
all malarial diseases.