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The PHILADELPHIA Ledqer

- The Philadelphia Ledger :, respon:
sible for the following statement: "Geor.
gia negroes are focking to the Ocala
Swamp and daubing themselves with ils
mud, in the hope that it will turn them
white. This movement had its origin in
the fact that negro who had wounded
his leg and bandaged it with the mud Of
the swamp found, when his leg healed,
that it had turned almost white"
"A citizen of Greenville, S. G., found
an old edition of Shakespeare at
Charleston bookstall few months ago.
He bought it for So, day or two after
wards sold it to a book dealer for $3.50,
and the dealer has just sold lin London
for $500.
- Rumors are among the best things
in the world to let alone.
- When by reason ofa cold or from
any other cause, the secretory organs
become disordered, they may be stimula.
ted to healthy action by the use of Ayers
Cathartic Pills. Sold by all dealers in
medicine.
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EzgH.EIl'Rs'GoLU LU'MN,
+ a cLINKseALEs. EDITOR.
;HoIIArp's, March 16. 1883.

HOLLANDS, Marcn 10. 1000.
MR. EeSDGroR Perhaps some of yonr
readers would like TO hear from our
section. Our teacher, Miss Betty Earle,
Dsinsd GI,s GnIr,sslscehool Antioch, for Antioch
Church which Mr. s. q. Earle and few
others established. II first stood where
Ms Claude Dean now lives; but after 9
ssf6sw years sass removed TO Lucas Greek,
snears Evergreen, on the Dooley's Ferry
lsrosd oa Our school Is a.so:on this road
henca Ishe name. & Itwas the first Chris.
stian Church, commonly called Campbell
I 5Iitel IN this State. The first Sabbath
school ever known in this neighborhood
5 1 Yas there about the year 1882 The The
school met every Sunday and read 9
schapter inE tie Bible. and the superin-
A sAteadent, Mi. IS. g. Earle. asked questions
!sti on ii E !; they also memorized Scripture
and hymns. They did not have helps to
s. SSsstady the lesson, as ne have now, and
Sunday School hymns. Messrs. 2. j., J.
IN. and Rey. ]. b. Earle we're all s.pupl.s
in that school After MI. 8. g. Earle
! died M the school and Church went down.
I OLAS ia c 3ARpIN, III s MINNIE BURRIss,
q sIsENHs iWHrrAKER, FANNIE McGUK1N,
) SEssIE OARDIN, ADA FLEMING,
( FEEDA SULLIVAN.
ne are grateful tothe 5oung ladies OF
I Mis- Bette Earle's school for the bit OF
I B local & history they send We;are glad to
know that they took the pains to collect
/ TO ffom the older persons IL the neighbor;;;
hood the facts they send us. The exer.
ciss d very profitable. Will not other
! teachers i 81 { courage their pupils TO do DO
s;IikaWise9 ss.s ~
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Acute Rheumatism Of The Joints.

For external applications in acute
articular rheumatism, Journal of Health
regards mustard poultices as the most
eficscious. The use of these should be
commenced at once, as soon as the joints
become painful. If only small number
are affected, poultices can be applied to
each simultaneously, or in succession
until all are treated. When new joints
become involved, renewed applications
are demanded; in fact, the diseas should
be "chased" from one affected portion
to another. The poultices may be ap-
piled twice daily, and after their use the
inAamed joints should be wrapped in
dry cotton wool, and then bandaged
neatly and lightly with flannel. Some
authors claim that these coverings are
useless, but all who have suffered from
the disease can testify that exposure Of
the joints, even to the warm air Of the
sick room, sggravates the pain.
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An Incident of the War.
From Spartanburg Spartan.

from SpdTtdn0hTg spartan.
Never be too positive of anything,
unless you are wide.a wake and duly
sober.
Just after the fall of Savannah, Ga,
in 1864, this thing occurred. was a
courier at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.
O., on Sullivan's Island. There was q
vessel to sail into the port of Charleston,
S. c., and had dispatch to take to the
different commanders of the different
batteries on the Island and have the
officer Of the battery to sign not to fire
on vessel that was to run the blockade
laden with 300 women and children COM
ing into Charleston under flag of truce.
The vessel was expected about sunrise.
At one of the batteries, Bee, I gave the
order to an orderly for the officer in COM
mand to sign and I waited impatiently
for the return of the order, having it to
carry to battery Marshall to have signed.
And the officer in command at battery
Bee was in bed and about half asleep,
or drunk, I don't know which, and did
not return the order to me. I went into
his room and asked for the order. BE
said he had signed itand given it to me.
said to him, "you are mistaken sir"
He said, "I'll swear I did," 1 said,
"I'll swear on stack of Bibles as high
as the heavens that you did not" Seeing
my positiveness he began to hunt for the
order and found it between his bed and
the wall of the house signed. Being
half asleep, or half drunk, 1 don't know
which, he had signed the order and
thrown it back of his bed on the floor
next to the wall, and if the order had
not been found he would have sworn that
he had signed it and given it to me, a
poor private soldier, and I would have
had to bear the blame of vessel sunk
by our batteries and the lives of 300
women and children sunk in watery
crave.
So I would say, do not be too positive
of anything unless you are wide. awake
and duly sober. CoNFED.
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= One of the youngest graudmothers
in the country is Mrs. Clarissa Jackson,
of Delaware township, Ohio. She is q
buxom negro woman and but twenty-five
years old. When she was eleven years
old she married, and a year later gave
birth to daughter. The daughter,
nearly as precocious as her mother, mar
ried at twelve years of age, and has re-
Gently, at the age Of thirteen, borne
daughter. Whether Mrs. Jackson will
be a great.grandmother at the age oi
forty remains to be seen.
= Whatpart ofthe turkey might sum
mon the guests to dinner? The drum.
sticks.
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capital man, but be loved good cigar,
not wisely but we'll. Returning to his
home, he would make the tobacco turn

capital man, but be loved good cigar,
not wisely but well. Returning to his
home, he would make the tobacco turn
into smoke faster than any other fellow l
ever knew. Blowing the smokein grace
falrings to the ceiling, he would pass
away hour after hour. He got stupid,
sleepy, and went to bed. The next day
he was late in rising, his head was not
clear, until he had another cigar. That
smoked, he set out for school. Thus the
days and nights passed. John -
does not know as much now as when he
graduated from college.
Iknew very dry sort of teacher,
who got married to q bright sort of a girl,
and he began to improve at once; she
was indeed good angel to him. I have
heard him say very often, "she is great
help; i'll am lazy she takes the pen and
says, dictate to me, or if I undertake the
work Of looking up authorities, she hands
down the cyclopedias.o The effect has
been marvellous; still as all cannot afford.
to get married, and as all would not get
50, good wife, cannot recommend this
plan. Ihave seen many who have be-
come much dryer since they married,
because of household cares.
i urge all to remember that to teach
we'll they must think about their business
when away from it. Take the case OF a
clergyman; when be is walking, sitting
OF standing, he thinks about the truth he
is to expound. The teachers work is
exactly like, the clergyman's. He too
must think about the work he is to do.
Nor is there any end to their thinking.
The difference between the new educa.
ton and the old, is that the disciples OF
the former, believe there is no limit to
in the art of teaching. The
disciples Of the latter think it is a small
and easy business to teach Teachers
.7,astitakfe =. 49, -
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The Delightful Liquid Laxative.

Syrup of Figs is most ,eTyeeable and
valuable family remedy, as Easily
taken by old and yonng, and is prompt
and effective in curing Habitual Consti
patton and the many ills depending or
q weak or inactive condition of the Kid
neys, Liver, and Bowels. 1t acts gently
strengthens the organs on which it acts
aud awakens them to q healthy activity,
For sale by Simpson, Reid & Co.
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= 9 J. 3. 2 z 80 ,. . -
DRY TEACHERS.

TIE superintendent, Of has been
noted for getting rid Of all his female
teachers over certain age. He gives
them no reason, but incidentally he re.
marked, he wanted no "dry teachers" in
his schools. Cne Of his teachers, a
widow, resigned, expecting to get place
in smother city; failing in that, she
applied to be reinstated; our superin-
stendent refused when urged, he eaid:
sArs. b is very good woman,
sbut her mind is in just the same position
# Was when she first came here. She
goea home from school, and does not read
OF study on education at all; she comes
sto lectures, but considers them q bore
and perfectly useless, and a waste Of time.
She can drill the children in the subjects
that are assigned to her; but they get no
inspiration. notice the listlessness Of
her pupils. Lsee that the teacher above
her has hard time to get her pupils
started. All these things lead me to
conclude she had better step down and
5out. It is not that she is old; it is that
she is unfit, and won't fit herself"
j. have thought this over q good deal,
and wonder ifsthere are not good many
dry teachers' in our schools. Up in a
village in New York State, the teacher
I kept small store when school vas out.
sIhaye seen the children stop and pur-
chase some peanuts Of her. There she
patiently Sat sewing, darning, or crochet
Sing, until customer came. I could not
see how she could be good teacher.
The next year, I have since learned, she
was dropped. for the reason that "the
children could not learn anything from
her
, Frederick the Great used to put his
one legged soldiers into the school.room !;
he WAS q peuurious old fellow, and did
mol: follow our plan of pensioning them.
They were dry" teachers, undoubtedly.
They finally died off and the children
once more had q chance.
Dryness Id teaching comes from a
variety at causes. Laziness is one Of the
chief canses. There Was John ------, q
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twas al, Owing to the Sun Spot.

The great storm which has blocked
railways and caused immense damage by
the stoppage Of business over large
section of country along the Atlantic
seaboard and in Eastern New York and
New England resembles the severe visi.
tations of the winter of 1886. During
that winter two great disturbances on
the sun, which were about one fifth Of
the SUMS circumference, or five days
apart, produced pair Of storms once in
twenty five or twenty.six days. The
storms forming the pair we're just FIVE
days apart. During one of the mid.
winter visitations there was a phenome-
nal rainfall at Boston, completely food
ing a large section Of that city. About
nine inches of rain fell in a very short
space of time. The storm, which began
in the East on Sunday, was fairly we'll
proportioned to the energy of the dis
turbances on the sun which preceded it.
That disturbance was frat observed last
Friday morning and described in the
Democrat of Saturday, On Saturday in.
dications of great commotiou were OBJ
served ia the spot region, spots forming
rapidly and a rose colored flame being
observed. The terrific storm of Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday followed. Europe
appears to have suffered also, as great
floods are reported from Austria-Hun.
gary. The heavy snowfall in the East is
likely to produce very high water as soon
as warm weather sets in. At some
places along the Hudson the snowfall
was four feet. As stated on Sunday, the
solar disturbance which appeared just
before the destructive tornado at Mount
Vernon, ILL.,, will re appear by solar rota.
tion to day if it has not disappeared
Considerable magnetic disturbance was
observed Tuesday morning, and it is pos
sible the advanced portion of the group
of solar spots had appeared at that time
If this disturbance should renew the
atmospheric commotion the storm period
would be prolonged in very unpleasant
way.-Rochester Democrat.
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and make life happy; but does it? In
most cases wa fear not. WhY9 Because.

auo make Ii1e AaPPyL; uu1 uoeo Az IL
most cases we fear not. Why? Because
in the first place, ne are so constituted
that there is in this life no such thing al
actual content; and next, because from
our nature, however? situated, we are
pone to look for something more and bet
ter than we have. These characteristics
are not Objectionable, as, properly direct
ed, they are incentives to exertion
Under them the best course for every
man starting in life is to settle clearly
and irrevocably in his mind his place ol
location. Once settled do not trouble to
look for better or Micawber like, be
ever on the lookout for ching to
turn up with view to change. In the
next place, settle your vocation and
think of no other. Then set to work in il
with will. Read, think, act, put your
whole energies in it and both success and
such satisfaction as. is allotted to man
will surely follow. &. Nine out of ten far.
mers will say farming don't pay, thai
merchandising, law, medicine, pay better
The merchants, the lawyers, etc., say the
same about their vocations. In the
words of Horace, they all praise those
following different pursuits. This com.
planning, this dissatisfaction distracts the
mind and impairs the energy of each in
his calling aud is the main cause Of fail.
ure. Select your location, then your
business, then pursue it steadily and
whether in South Carolina or Texas o,
Montana you will succeed. Don't think
then of going West. The billiards. and
freezes of the past winter have. turned
the thoughts of settlers Southwark
Hundreds of lives and millions of pro.
perty have perished in those icy regions.
One year of good, healthy life here is
worth five of life there, subject to death
from cold, from billiards, from cyclones
and other climatic disturbances. We
have good country and good climate
and let us enjoy it.
To this we append the following re.
sumo as to the financial condition of far.
mers in the great West, which ought to
satisfy our people that all is not gold that
glitters, and that on the average our
section is on a sounder financial basis
than the famed West:
"While it has been we'll known fact
that Western farmers are loaded down
with mortgages, the extent Of their obi.
cations was not understood until an in
vestigation was initiated by the depart
ment of agriculture. The mortgages
resting on the farmers of ten Western
States aggregate, it appears, s3,422,0Oo,'
600, Ohio leading the list with an
aggregate of SOL, 100000. In Michigan
one.halfof the farms are mortgaged, the
aggregate debt secured by mortgages
being s35O,0OO,OOO. A striking fact Of
the situation is that the annual net earn
ings on the capital invested in farms in
the United States is but to per cent
while the mortgages in question com.
mand 7 to per cent. The insurance
companies of Hartford, Conn, own $70,.
100000 of Western farm mortgages aud
the loan companies Of Boston hold them
to the amount ofs76,00O,0O0."
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= Ayers sarsaparilla was the first
successful blood medicine ever offered to
the public. This preparation is still held
in the highest public estimation both at
home and abroad. Its miraculous cures
and immense sales show this. Ask your
druggist for it.
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A Bonanza in Beans.

The popular idea of q bean crop ls
few rows of the plants in garden intend.
ed to supply the family table for the veg.
etable season, and field of beans would
only be looked for in an immense truck
farm. But B. F. Perry has been expert
menting on his Sans Souci farm near the
city with new variety of fbean, which he
believes is calculated to revolutionize az:
riculture in this country by furnishing
wonderfully prolific, valuable and cheap
food and feed crop that can be adapted to
any soil.
The new vegetable is called the "Scja
Bean" 1t came from China, whence
civilized Europe has captured so many of
its most valuable discoveries, and was
introduced in Europe at the Vienna Ex-
position. The cultivation of the bean
spread rapidly in Europe, whence it ma.
turally spread to this country. Mr.. Per.
ry saw accounts of its remarkable growth
and great food value, and along with Col.
Wash Shell, of Laurens, be ordered last
fall peck of the "soja's" from T. W.
Wood & Son, of Richmond, Va, paying
S1.5O a peck. he planted an acre and
last fall gathered 80 bushels exclusive of
eleven bushels wasted, which he sold for
81 q peck or 81 bushel, making $156 as
return for the acre.
Mr.. Perry is delighted with the. new
crop and has great faith in its possibili-
ties. The bean will grow in any soil, he
says. 1t does well in low ground too wet for
anything else and yet it is hard enough
to stand the seyerest drought. 1t requires
less cultivation than cotton, being plant.
ed in rows three feet apart and two feet
apart in the drill with three stalks in a
hill. The beans are about the size of COW
peas, yellow when dried, and with very
thin she'll. They come three in pod
and the pods grow thickly on stalk
about like an ordinary cotton stalk. The
plant sheds its leaves, furnishing fertiliz.
ing material for the ground equal to COW
pea vines, and the crop is harvested by
pulling the stalk, up by the roots and
storing them in barn until they are cured.
Then the beans easily she'll out, and the
stalks can be fed to cattle,- making feed
which experts, Mr.. Perry says, consider
equal to Timothy hay.
The great value o. the Soja bean, how.
ever, comes in the bean itself. 1t pro.
duces proli6cally, making on rich ground
with good cultivation, 100 bushels an acre.
The fruit, according to analysis, contains
twice as much nutritive matter as either
corn or COW peas. As feed for cattle, it is
far better, Mr.. Perry says, than COW peas
and it makes splendid table dish. The
beans are so rich that they can be cooked
in water alone, not requiring any butter
Mr.. Perry expects to plant several acres
of the beans this season. He has had
demands for more than his last years
crop for seed, sending some shipments to
Arkansas and to Alabama. He has fur
nished President McBryde, of the State
College, with supplies ofseed for the State
Experimental Stations, and has shipped
in the State. He believes the SOFA bean
sample lots to many prominent farmers
is the coming crop for this country for
farmers who have stock -GreenviNe News
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:. The start is already made; if we
have gone wrong so much has been lost
and can never be recovered. The wasted
hour or moment is forever beyond our
recall.
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The Brayest, the Tenderest.

No soldier whom ssw in the Army OF
Northern Virginia impressed me more
with his chiyalric bearing than Gen.
Maxey Gregg, of South Carolina, and io-
cidents of his heroic ourage-such as
the message he sent a. 2. Hill at
Second Manassas: Our ammunition Is
entirely exhausted, but rocks are plentiful
and We will hold our position with
themp-were numerous.
Ihaye just found the following which
I do not rememberto have seen before,
and send it to the Nssos and Courier in
the hope that it may be Of as much in.
terest to the many old Confederates and
other lovers Of true :heroism as it has
been TO me-, Gull the incident from
DR.. Bennett's Great Revival in the
Southern Armies" q i Alluding to Gen.
Gregg and his lamented death on. the
field of splendid victory at Fredericks-
burg, DR.. Bennett says:
aThe following incident is related OF
this heroic officer. During the retreat Of
the Confederate army from Maryland,
after. the battle of sharpsburg; Gen.
Gregg commanded the rear.guard, Gen.
T. P. Munford, of Virginia, command.
ing the cavalry covering the rear.guard.
"When Gen. Munford reached the ford
Gen. Gregg and his men were just,enter-
ing the water TO cross to the Virginia
side Of the Potomac. Nearby was an
ambulance filled with gallant Confeder-
ates, (many Of them terribly wounded
.aud torn in the battle Of the previous
day. entreating their comrades to carry
them back to old Virginia. Gen. Nun,
ford, seeing that the frightened driver
had abandoned them, taking his harness
and team with him, and that they were
unable to ride behind his men, called
Gen. Gregg's attention to the fact, where.
upon, the generous old Roman, uncover
ing his head, said to his men: "Boys,
see yonder your comrades who have been
abandoned BY a cowardly driver! They
appeal to us for helpl You who have
escaped unhurt will not leave these poor
fellows to their fatein sight of old Vir-
ginia.' In an instant they were trans.
ferring their arms and knapsacks. One
generous lad, supposed to belong to the
18th South Carolina volunteers, catching
hold of the singletrees of the ambulance,
exclaimed, 'We will carry them back to
old Virginia. In less time than it takes
to tell it, thirty of South Carolina'a
bravest sons were up to their waists in
water, bearing their comrades safely over
the river, ambulance and ell--the sad
and gloomy countenances; of the unfor.
tunates seeming almost to forget their
wounds as they caught up the strain
'Oh, carry me back to old Virginia, to
old Virginia Shore Those who were
too weak to sing waived their hats and
handkerchiefs, and all were safely placed
out of harms way. AS soon as this /
been accomplished, Gen. Gregg replac--
his hat and rode away to see that they
were cared for"
This is but another illustration Of what
Bayard Taylor wrote SO sweetly iu Iii
"song of the Camps" -
'sThe bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring" I.
I should like to see from some compe
tent hand full biographical sketch o
South Carolina's noble son, Gen. Make,
Gregg, who was IS tender as he was brave
]. VIM. JONES.
Atlanta, Ca, March 7, 1888.
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AT the close of the last fiscal year
there were 4o6,o ,o07 pensioners on ths;
pension roll fthe government. 8 8