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tened upon flesh, and the Eden of man
became the habitat of gigantic creatures
of the sea.
When by and by the ark grounded
upon the Ararat, then the waters of the
flood retired more swiftly than they rose.
The vast congregation Of sea monsters,
detained too long upon the feeding
grounds, were at the last stranded by the
rapid exit of the water. They, too, must
needs encounter the death struggle at the
end of the catastrophe, as the creatures
of the land had at its beginning. All
their bones we're mingled together and
formed the greatest of cemeteries on the
banks of the Ashley.
1t was probably at this period ofrecon-
struction and subsidence that the high
plateau itself of Eastern Eden, the
parterre of heaven, with its groves of
glory, where Adam and Eve ale and
drank before God, now disappeared, with
the other features of that part of Eden,
Havilah, Ethiopia, the "Cedam" Assyria,
circled and watered with rivers; those
streams whose sands were gold and pearls
and gems, all, all disappeared, leaving
US only their memories and their names.
1t could no longer now be said "the
nearer the ark the nearer to Paradise"
for the ark rested on a far distant shore
where, in the Orient, the world began
anew; with new divisions of the human
race and of human language, and new
centres of animal life. To us only Wes-
tern Eden remained.
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great deal. The teacher liked them
because they seemed to make the chill.
dren happier; but unfortunately some
body else liked them, too, for they were
lifted without much ceremony, and now
perhaps hang upon another wall. But
the house is good one, how did the thief
get in? The lock on one of the doors is
broken. Did the thief break it? No,
no, it was broken a yesr ago last Christ
mas. The youg people of that commu-
nifty, we understand, had dance there
then, and at that dance it was broken.
Nobody knows who did it, but it was
broken. New, I have nothing to say
about the propriety Of the trustees allow
ing q dance in the school but I do
say this: if I were one of the young
men who participated in that dance,
whether I had any thing to do with the
breaking of the lock or not, would
have new lock put on that door. Every
young man who wss there, however, in
nocent he may be individually, is parti-
ceps criiminis, aud should feel honor
bound to replace the lock. Let the
manhood that is in the young men assert
itself by forcing them to go at once and
replace the lock, though the door has
been without one for more than twelve
months. If the young men will not
replace he lock, let the trustees do it,
and look we'll to the school. house dances
in the future.
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A Double Death.

ST.. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Jan. 2O-There
is considerable excitement in a suburb,
some five miles out, over the death of A..
D. Smith. Last Monday he died to all
appearances, after calmly bidding adieu
to his heart. broken wife. He was then pre-.
pared for the grave and Tuesday prepara.
tions were made for the burial.
In the midst of the services humping
in the coffin was heard. Its cover was
burst off and Mr.. Smith sat up, causing
great CONSERVATION and dismsy. He was
at once removed to his bed at home, and
in few hours be seemed none the worse
for.his strange experience. He says he
went to heaven aud saw many white
spirits, some of them friends whom he
had known on earth.
They shook their heads in answer to
his questions and pointed to big book
lying open. He looked at it, and saw
written there the names of his wife, him.
self and his children who were alive.
His name, he said, seemed partially
erased. He told wondrous story of his
other experience in that strange world,
and its recital drew scores of curiosity
seekers to his home.
Wednesday night he suddenly called
out, 81 see them," and fell back dead.
His wife was completely Frustrated at this
terrible ending to her hopes. Medical
aid was summoned, aud an electric bat.
terry applied, but the doctors finally de.
cided that the man was indeed dead this
time.
Last night the grief stricken wife left
for her old Georgia home near Atlanta
with the body.
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Married to his Aunt.

WASHINGTON, GA, Jan. 24.-Quite
a sensational marriage took place here
last Saturday, about - o'clock, in the
Court House. Mr.. E. B. Jones, a young
man about twenty one years old, was
married to his aunt, Miss Lula Jones,
who looks 10 be about thirty-fve years Of
age. They ran away from home in this
county and came to this place, where
they procured license, and were married
by Judge Sea, as above stated. Mr..
Curran Jones, a respectable farmer of
this county. and father of the groom,
also brother of the bride, was in WASH
ington yesterday in pursuit of the runa-
way couple. They left Immediately after
the marriage, and nothing has been heard
from them since their departure. Mr..
Jones, the father, deeply deplores the
occurrence. He says he was surprised
beyond measure, having never once
thought of such thing happening.
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TEACHERS LIBRARY.

We give below list of those teachers
who have responded to the call for con-
tributions to the Teachers Library Fund.
S. Lander, Williamson Female College
A. J.. Watt, New Prospect; Miss Leila
Brown, Ridgeway; 2. G.. Sterling, Mid.
way; J. P. Smith equality; Miss Net.
tie Hall, EnvoiceS W. R. Earle, Noun
tain Creek; Miss Lizzie Anderson, High
Shoals; Miss A. z. Major, Broadway /;
Miss Olivia Newton, Bishops Branch; |;
S. 81. johnson, Cleveland; Miss F. E..
McClain, fuckers Cross Roads; W. j.
Compton, Double SpriDgb Miss u. j..
Drake, Ebeneza; E. J. Brown, White
field; w. P. Holland, Lebanon; Mrs.
G. E. spearman, Corner. Mr.. W. E.
Brazeale, once teacher in this county
and a very active member of the Associ-
alton, the day before he left to take
charge. of the High School at Trenton
came in and handed us q dollar, saying
he approved of the plan. and, though he
could not avail himself of the advantages
it offers to the teachers of Anderson Coun.
ty, he desired to contribute his quota for
the interest he felt in the success of the
enterprise. We take the liberty of ex-
tending to Mr.. Brazeale the thanks of
the entire Association for this act of
thoughtfulness and for his good will of
which the contribution will be constant
reminder. he will take with him to his
new field of labor our best wishes.
One Of our teachers in note says, 81
am highly pleased, indeed delighted,
with the book; I have read some parts
of It two or three times and must read
them again. Surely there can not be
another book in the Library that will
give me so much help and so much food
for thought"
Remember, our books are still open for
subscriptions. This Library is for the
beneft-of those who help pay for it.
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arrested and tried right on the excite
ment, and was convicted and fined. He
was one of the best teachers the town
ever had, and it mortified him so he
moved away. I learned afterward that
the boy was in a nabor's orchard stealing
peaches the next day after he got the
whipping.
There is power of original sin and
acquired cussedness in some boys and
nothing but corporal punishment will
bring it out. 1t is like measles; if it
strikes in and stays there the boy is
ruined. Better bring it to the surface by
a little gentle irritation of the cuticle,
and thereby save the boys life. As
general rule, parents are perfectly willing
for other peoples children to De whipped.
You never hear schoolboy say that the
teacher did wrong in whipping some
other boy. Teachers and preachers are
the preservers of the public morals. 1t
takes both to keep the world out of Jail,
and I am on their side always and every
where. Take the teachers and preachers
out of Cartersville and 1 would move
away quick. I feel their good influence
over my children. But teacher should
teach something more than books. He
should teach morality, obedience to pa
rents, honesty, truth and kindness. He
can inculcate these virtues every day
without losing any time, and the children
will never forget it. My objection to
public free schools is their frigidity-
their lack of heart. They teach nothing
but books, and hence it is that crime in.
creases at the north in proportion to
education. Ten bad boys in public
school will contaminate hundred, un.
less the teacher stops it by constant pre-.
cept. About half the children in the
public schools have but little moral
training at home. They just grow up
and take their chances, and by and by
they bring the grief that has no remedy
grief that cannot be seen, or weighed,
or measured grief that is a cloud by
day and hovers around in the dark
watches of the night-grief that is
fountain of hot tears, and if they were
expanded;into steam the scalding vapor
would ill the world. Oh, the grief-the
silent, pitiless grief-that comes from
wayward, disobedience, ungrateful chill
dren. How few of the households that
have it not. 1t began with Adam and
Eve and is here yet. BILL ARP.
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and the mood may become our habitual
temper. Even in "the churches holiest
aisle," there are collisions and COMPETE
!ions, which may kindle unrighteous wrath
within US. There is righteous wrath.
1t is delicate, holy deposit, which may,
in our bosoms, easily partake of the ma
ture of the vessel containing it. Person.
al grudges, social prejudice, denomina.
tional jealousy, sentional antipathy, ma.
tional hatred-can man or woman carry
one or all of these hot Goals in the bosom
without being burned?
The American Code of Hondor does
not measure up to the New Testament
Code. Do not many protesting Chris
tians fall below that human code, which
falls distinctly below the dirine?
JV0ford ColLeoe s. c.
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Mr.. @. o. Burriss was very thoughtful
of the interests of his patrons when he
went out and got their children another
accomplished teacher. That was very
kind indeeds Hshas valuableassistance
and the pupils and patrons are happy.
Can't other teachers do likewise. We
were glad to find things moving so
smoothly at Hunters Spring. Every
thing bears an. air of neatness and bus
iness. The pupils we're prompt, polite
and attentive; the teachers, welded to
their work
MI Barfis tried to add to: bis number
of b1ack kboafds By painting the wall of
his schoolroom. He says it looked very
pretty, but he soon found out that
s.things are not what they seems" for
when he attempted to put on a second
coat Of paint he found to his surprise
and disgust that the first was ready to
peel OFF in large fakes. The. surface to
which the paint Twas applied was too
.hsrd and sleek. MI. Burriss, undaunted
by the FIRST failure, proposes to change
his tactics and blacken things up, or
know the reason why. He proposes to
have plenty blackboard surface for the
Association. Lesthe teachers go there
prepared to spread themselves.
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"A lady teacher of music out west
inserted her professional card in one of
the county newspapers. 1t was seen by
an old lover in Chicago, who at once
hunted her up, explained his absence of
a quarter ola century and married her.
1t pays to advertise.
"A physician, few weeks since,
giving US an account of the decline Of a
church in his town, said it had died Of
the "foot and mouth disease" Being
asked what he meant, said that the peo.
pie spent their time running around
talking about each other"
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Miss Netsie Hall had long been in
Session R6en:we called: She was getting
the school machinery fairly under con.
troll, however, and was expecting the
schildran.to. do good work. She has the
good fortune 20 occupy very good house
at Eaofees and Hasa ffrst-class black
board That 8aas 8 cruel wretch who
stole haE pictures away during the
sghrat oIdass. Simple pictures of
various Kinds make 8 school room more
shomss I'D appearance. Miss Hall
appreciates that fact and had provided
sherschooI. room with a number of neat,
pretty pictures, such as cost no body q
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Three million women in the United
States are working for wages. The man
who cannot marry rich may at leastsecure
o wife whose wages will make his home
happy.
= The pleasure of the world are very
deceitful. They promise more than they
give; they trouble US in seeking them ;
they do not satisfy lis when possessing
them, and they make ,ls despair when
losing them.
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Farming in Georgia.

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan, 1S.-The report
of the Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia for 1887 shows a decrease from
1886 in the amount of farm supplies pur-
chased by the farmers, as we'll as in the
Indebtedness of the farming classes, owing
to the damaging floods last July. There
is no improvement in the general condi-
ton of Middle Georgia, but North and
East Georgia have improved somewhat,
while Southwest Georgia remains at q
standstill, and the southeastern counties
have retrograded to some extent. ut is
a remarkable fact, however" says Com.
missioner Henderson, "that the farmers
in Southeast Georgia and throughout
the wire grass portion of the State gener-
ally for years past have been in better
condition than those of the remainder Of
the State" The report also shows that
farmers who have bought bacon and corn
on time have paid 30 per cent. advance on
cost prices for bacon for four months,
equivalent to 90 per cent. per annum, or
u per cent. per month, and 36 per cent.
for corn, equal to 1OS per cent per an
mum or 8 per cent. per month. The
Commissioner says these figures have
been published for ten years past and yet
thousands of farmers continue to pay the
excessive prices.
The falling off in the purchase of sup
plies indicates that the farmers are CIV
ing more attention to diversified crops.
The improvement in this respect though
small is gratifying and justifes the hope
that it will be much more marked in the
near future. The farmers will get further
and further away from the credit system
by giving more attention to the produc'
tion Of such supplies as they can produce
at home. The credit system keeps them
poor.
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Going Courting.


woman's life is found in the fact that she
doesn't have to 'go a courting." Unjust
be confessedthatin in these days the modern
belle does her share of the wooipg;;; but
she does not have,to dress up in. stiff,
collar and pair of boots size too small
for her, and walk up to the cannon's
mouth of her inamorata's family, con.
sisting of father, mother, grandmother, a
maiden aunt, and perhaps dozen
brothers and sisters, and inquire, in a
trembling voice
"Is Miss Arabella at homer.
(. Whenever a man goes "a courtiDg
everybody seems to. know all about it.
His demeanor tells the observant specta-
tor the business he is intent upon. He
might as well placard himself. "I'm
going courting." Everybody is cogniz.
ant of it, and looks knowingly, and asks
him if the Northern lights were bright
last night about one o'clock, and how
the market is for kerosene at Daddy
Brown's,!" and score of other questions
out of place.
We know man who is deeply and we
trust successfully engaged in going court.
ing, and our warmest sympathies have
been extended towards him. When Sun
day afternoon arrives, it is plain that
something is about to happen. He is
fidgety and non. communicative and can
not sit in one. place half minute at a
time, he is continually interviewing his
watch and comparing it with the old
eight day, cofin.shaped clock in the
corner. he looks in the glass frequently,
and draws his forward locks back and
then forward, and combs them up and
pats them down, and is unsatis6ed with
the effect throughout.
The smell Of bay rum and bergamot is
painfully apparent. When he shakes
his handkerchief, musk is perceptible.
His boots shine like mirrors, and there
is faint smell of cardamon aeed in bis
breath when be yawns. he smooths his
budding mustache with afectionate pats,
and bis invisible side whiskers continu-
ally to make sure they are there, a fact
which is not established to outside
observers by sense of sight. He tries on
all his Deck.ties without finding just the
thing he wants. Then he has spasms Of
brushing his coat, that commence with
violence and last until one grows nervous
for fear the broadcloth will not be able
to stand the friction.
He declines soup that day for dinner.
He says it is because he is not hungry,
but we know it is because there are
onions in it, and onions, as every one
knows, do not sweeten ones breath to
any great extent.
If spoken to suddenly he starts, and
bushes, and looks as if he was stealing
something, and directly if one does not
speak to him he goes back to the edelight-
full occupation Of staring at. nothing and
waiting for the hour.to sweep around to
seyen.-Er.
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sAt Barkers Greek ne found no black
board. The:house is above the average.
Miss Lena Campbell was moving along
quietly with her pupils. We we're forced
70 draw our own blackboard fiom
under the seat Of our buggy. The chill
.dren took to it at once. They like it.
lisa new thing to them. I.gives them
new light, new life.. How eager they
seemed to eaten every word Of instrue-
tion, and how promptly athey respond
when spoken tot We are glad to learn
that Miss Campbell has since procured q
blackboard. Now let the people con.
tinue,sto help her by teaching their
children at home-not by teaching them
necessarily the lessons assigned them,
but BY teaching them the great lesson of
obedience.
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Il is seldom our lot to- visit, a school
that gives ives such evidence Of the high.
pressure schedule as that furnished By
the school at Denver. Every spoke.
every bar, every screw, every boltsis fit
TO its place, and the machinery moves
gracefully. Miss Carrie Watkins knows
her school and they know and
love Ter. would not be- extravagant
in our remarks or give undue praise, but
must be pardoned for the assertion that
the schootis second to none in the coun.
ty in point of excellence.
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Don't trouble yourself to stretch
your mouth any WIDER" said dentist to
his patient: II intend to stand outside
to draw your tooth"
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Asswe neared Dove6eld we heard the
noise. of ap engine and the unmistakable
buzz of a saw.mill. We knew we were
near Doyefeld and at once concluded
that the unsightly old school:house
within gun shot almost of the mill had
been replaced by q new building such as
would reflect credit upon that commune
ty. Not so; the old house holds her
own, let come rain, sleet, or sunshine.
What a pity that those bright, dovelike
children are compelled to stay in such a
house! How We do sympathize with
them and feel for themI As we write
January 23) the rain, now slowly fall
i.g, is freezing as it falls. How are
those children standing it to day? Surely
the physicians in that country get plenty
Of work, or the little ones are unusually
tough. The house is disgrace to the
settlement, to say the least of it. It al.
most makes us shiver now to think of it.
We did shiver; when there, and it was
not raiiipg:either. Miss Norris is-doing
the very best she can under the circum.
stances. Our advice to her was to let
the children get as close to the fire as
possible and let them stay there if she
did not teach them one single thing.
Better teach them nothing than to ruin
their health and risk their lives. What
few facilities Miss Dora has she uses
vel. How long will she be compelled
to continue the fight before she can in
duce the people to build her decent
house? We shall advise the trustees to
take the matter in hand and build good
house there, if the people will not build
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TEA6HERs'GoLUMN.
!. .GsCLINKsCALEs, q EDITOR.
There is more truth than poetry in the
maxim, aAs is the teacher, so is the
school N

he who takes to new thing simply
because Of the novelty Of it is about as
foolish as is he who holds to old ideas
]: and customs for no other reason than
that they are old.
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Miss Jessie Smith is doing the best she
can at Long Branch. The house is not
as comfortable as it might and ought to
be. These cold windy days are bard on
the children. Ventilation is necessary,
butt is not necessary to:have the cracks
and holes about the FIRE, place too large,
or too numerous. Miss Smith fights
brayely, but must necessarily win her
victories against long odds. How easy it
would be for the patrons to fix that
house some Saturday? Aud who would
miss the time?
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Miss Nettie Miller reports that she
! now has 8 first rate blackboard, all due
TO the unremitting efforts of Mr.. John
ashley, one Of her most: deeply interest.
edpatrons. We congratulate Miss Miller
and her pupils, and thank Mr.. Ashley.
s Miss Miller can now do better work by
Smore than one hundred per cent. Why
can a. 4 not other schools be supplied in the
same way2 o, for a i've, spirited; ener-
getic, determined patron in reach OF
every school in the county !
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and with great dignity hung his hat upon
the accustomed nail. He thought he
did, hut it fell to the floor, and said
"te he," and the other boys snickered a
little. He picked up the beaver and
brushed it with his red bandana and once
more hung it upon the nail and down it
came again. He never wore spectacles
except to mend the pens or set a copy,
and without them it look ! like tho nail
was there. As the hat struck the floor
and rolled around, jim, Wilson said,
ste he, te he," and was holding my
mouth, but it exploded like squirt gun.
The teacher took out his spectacle case
and put on his specks, and as he tip toed
and gazed at the broken nail Jim and I
were choking back the cachination with
a strain. Selling his hickory be came
towering over us as he exclaimed: "You
are the very rascals that broke that mai" !"
1 thought he was going to cut us in two
and shrank up small, but he come down
jus. as light and gentle as sucking
dove. I saw a merry twinkle in his eye
as he said, "now I reckon you will let
my hat nail alone after this" And we
did, and loved him all the better for his
tenderness.
But the teachers must be sustained,
and nine times out of ten they are right.
knew a case where bad boy fought o
teacher, and in the fight the boy got
bruised up and went home aud went to
bed and doctor was sent for and a big
fuss raised. Court was in session, end
the father went to the grand jury and
got true bill, and the teacher was