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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06

Those agriculturalists of New Jersey
and Long Island who. fancy their farms
are large may bs interested to know the
size of y really big farm. The following is
q description of the Grandin farm of Da.
ikota, which is the largest in America.
The big Grandin wheat farm, in D.,
lkota comprises about 10000 acres, of
which $4,000 are under cultivation,
II 900 being sown to wheat. There are
used on the farm forty five gang plows,
two plows in gang, each cutting four.
teen to fifteen inches There are forty
five gang barr0ws; these are sig feet
square, but are arranged together side by
side to work twenty four feet wide. One
long evener draws the four, with pair
of mules near each end. One man drives
both teams. The advantage of this sys:
TEN iS worthy ofnotice by other farmers.
It reduces the number of men usually
required By one half. There are forty.
four broadcast sewers, sowing eight feet
each, but two Of these are attached end
to end with span OF mules before each,
and one man drives both spans, another
saving of half the man force. There are
sixty.five self binding harvesters employ
ed on the place. Modern improvements
have so perfected these that only one
expert is required for the whole, espe.
ciallY since the experienced w0rkmen on
the machines are kept from year to year,
and they ere able to attend to any little
repairs. The harvesters are drawn by
three mules and one and one half to two
men are required to shock the bundles
from each machiue. The thrashers, Of
which there are six, are quite extensive
affairs compared with those of fofinet
times or with those of the fail of the
animals on the threshipg floor of our
boyhood. Each one of these machines,
driven by steam power, tbrashes out
from 1000 to 1000 bushels day. They
are set down in the center of hum
dred acres of shocks, and when these are
thrashed are moved to the center of
another hundred acres. The working
force on a single threshsr forms quite
little army. Thus there -is: First, the
general superintendent, eight bundle
teams to haul the shocks, with eight
drivers and eight other men, part in the
field and part at the machine as pitchers
and unloaders. At the machine two
men are simply required to cut the band.
There are three feeders, two at work and
an alternate. Then there is the engin.
eer, the fireman, the waterman, the
"straw bucker," who with two mules and
pole removes the straw .accumulating
before the machine, q barn man to take
care of the animals and the cook and his
assistant. The wheat is received into
wooden tanks, holding 100 bushels each,
wagon drawn by four mules each, one
tank wagon at the machine and three on
the road, take the wheat to the elevators.
This saves bags and bagging. 1t will
thus be seen that there are thirty men
employed to run q single machine
From the Mail and Egpress.
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Do parents realize that they may be


Do parents realize that they may be,
iu many ways, great hindrance or q
great help to the.xucccess and usefulness
of the teachers2 How can help OF hin.
der either, says some astonished parent
By speaking kindly of the teacher and
his work. By encouraging him in all
his laudab!e efforts. By manifeating an
interest in the studies Of the children.
By providing them with the necessary
facilities to do their work. By not find:
ing fault with him 10 the presence of
your children. You would not send your
boy TO- hoe GOTTEN without giving him q
hoe--no more should you send him to
school without books and slates.
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The annual loss to productive in.s
dustries in the United States caused by
insects is estimated at S150, ,000, 000.Heses
is fair battle between man and another
sort of earth occupiers. They are smalle
er, but if they can whip US, have un.s
doubtedly as good right to the world las
we have. AS civilization advances, new
insects make their appearance, marching
sometimes eastward, but generally west
ward. There are few, if any, forns.cfs
vegetation that have no parasites that de-
YOUR either foliage or fruit. The loss to-
the cotton crop is estimated at $4,000, ,000;s5
year, while that to the apple crop is not
much less, and that to the potato crop at
least one half as much. But the estimate
is not fair one until into the loss llss
counted the time spent in fighting tsa
secure the proportion that is saved.
- James Bray, the eight.year.old son;
of Patrick Bray, of Mentclair, N. j., met
with q horrible death from an overdose
of whisky. The boy had been left in
charge of two young children. his mother:
being confined to her bed. In foragingl
through the closets he discovered a bottle,
containing half a pint of whisky. Hes
drank nearly all the whisky and then
went on the streets to play with the other.
children. His strange actions attracted
the attention ofthe neighbors, but nothing
vas thought of them until he rolled into
the gutter in a stupor. A younger broth-s
er tried to rouse him by kicking him, butt:
as this failed, he was carried to his home,s
and placed on cot. He lay unconscious:
until about midnight, when he was seized
with convulsions. Drs. Leone and
Brown were called, and applied all known
remedies, but without success, for the boy:
died in great agony. -!
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are inspiring days. An army
numbering millions in its.ranks is being
mustered all over our land for mighty
conflict; conflict none the less real,
though not inaugurated with the rattle
of musketry and the roar of ARTILLERY; a
conflict that has been going on for ages,
and will go on' until time shall be no
more; q conflict upon one side of which
are arrayed all the forces of vice and
ignorance, and upon the other all the
educational forces Of an enlightened civ.
ilization. About fonr thousand Ander.
son County boys and girls constitute q
small division of this mighty army that:
is tripping along to the school houses Of
the land on these crisp, winter mornings
under the lead of more than one hum
dred and twenty teachers. IT is grand
aud inspiring, and yet the fearful
responsibility is enough to make us
quake and tremble. "What shall the
harvest be?" depends, i'm q large measure,
upon what the teachers are; Under the
leadership Of the teachers are marching
gaily along the future Governors, Legis.
latort, Judges and Ministers of the gos.
pei, and it ibehooves the teachers to rise
to the full measure of the height of their
opportunities and responsibilities. They
control, in large degree, the future des.
tinies of their country. The teachers are
moulders Of character, and what the
teachers are, is: just about what the
pupils will be. A great deal is said ia
the papers about the conflicts going on
between political parties, but very little
is ever said about this conflict that is all
about us aud around us-very little said
about this mighty army that cheerfully
rallies day BY day to the assault. Some
verses from Mrs. Sangster are very
appropriate in this connection,
They gather, this Wonderful army,
In field and In grove and in street;
..Ther voices are music to charm me,
So. ringing and eager and sweet.
Their; cheeks are red as cherry,
8 Their eyes are as pure as the day,
And the sound of their marching is MERRY
q Wherever they pass on their way.
There are people forever signing,
And saying the world is all wrong;
But somehow their doubts take to flying,
at eight of this wonderful throng.
The world may be clouded and weary,
Oftrouble and toll may be full;
Bpt at least there is hope where the CHEEKY
Dear children are going to school.
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The horse is unknown in tropit

The horse is unknown in tropical
Africa. and traveller who recently went
on horseback from Landans, on the coast,
10 Bona, on the Congo, excited universal
wonder. At first the people were nearly
dazed by the sight Of the horse, and were
afraid of the animal, but when convinced
that be was harmless yentured near.
They bad no eyes for anything but the
horse. AS the party passed throug b the
villages many of the inhabitants followed.
The men turned back after mile or 80,
but many of the women, who showed the
greatest interest and curiosity, followed
for three miles. They kept pointing the
animal out to the babies that were fas.
tened on their backs. From some of the
villages deputations came asking them to
stop while in their towns, that they
might have time to admire the prodigy.
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EDITOR TEACHERS COLUMN: If

L
were permitted to say word in regard
to the adoption of the new school books
recently prescribed by the County Board
of Education for Anderson County, /
would urge upon teachers who have
charge of country schools within the
limits of Anderson County, and have not
already adopted for exclusive use 10 their
respective schools the new books on
spelling, Grammar and History, that
they do 80 at once. The reasons that I
advance for their adoption are the fol-
lowing:
l.: They insure more thorough work in
the preparation Of lessons on the part of
tue pupil than did the old books:
2. They awaken in pupils liyelier
interest in the pursuit of knowledge than
did the old books
8. They enable the pupil to get more
accurate mental grasp of the matter con-
tained 10 them than did the old books.
4. They stir the pupil up to more orig.
inal thought, and enable him to express
that thought better than did the old
books.
5. Matter learned from them ia more
likely to be stamped indelibly upon the
mind than similar matter contained in
the old books.
6. One of the prime objects of knowl-
edge is to make its possessor q practical
man or woman. This is insured by these
books in a higher degree than by the
books they are to succeed.
7. Hyde's Practical Lessons in the
use of English, lin two books) which are
included in the list of new books pre-.
scribed by the County Board of Educa.
ton, are models in excellence. In them
technicalities lose their responsiveness to
the average pupil, aud Grammar, as a
study, ismade exceedingly delightful and
entertaining. as we'll as useful.
8. They enable the teacher more easily
to gain and retain the, undivided atten.
tion of the class. during the, time devoted
to recitation, and, on this account, are
preferable to the text books on the same
subject that have immediately preceded
- : .
them. r5 -
elf the books on Spelling; Grammar
and History, prescribed BY the State
Board of Education In 1883, are coutig.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06
Habitual Constipation

Any kidney and liver ills, depending Ia:
weak or inactive condition ofine kidneys
liver, or bowels, are successfully and per-
manently cured only by the use of the.
gentle yet effective laxative and sdiuretic,
Syrup of Figs. It's advantages are eyii.1
dent; It is easily taken, pleasing to tho
taste, acceptable to the stomach, harms..
less to the most delicate system, and
truly beneficial in effect. For saleSby'
Simpson, Reid & Co. 3.sssssIsssss
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New York SUI,

1t is wise to provide against emer.
gencies which are liable to arise in every
family. In sudden attacks of cold,
Group, asthma, etc, bottle of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral will prove q never fail.
ing remedy.
- The Florida orange crop is estimated
at 100000 boxes, which is more than
double the product of the previous year.
Each box holds, on an average, $50
oranges, which will be ten for every per-
son ia the United States. But these 450,-
100000 Floridas will not be one half the
oranges sold in our markets.
|. = There is no doubt about the honest
worth or Ayers Sarsaparilla as q blood
purifier. Thousands, who have been
benefited by its use, will attest its yir.
tues. This remedy cures liver and kid.
n,ey complaint, and eradicates every
trace of disease from the system,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06

Miss Leila Browne, after an absence
Of two years, returns to her first love,
and is again enrolled among the teachers
Of the County. She has taken charge of
the school four miles below; town atthe
historic /" "Haynie's Old Field" where We
we're wont 10 boyhood days to put our
eyes on gold lace ard gilt buttons, as our
country's defenders arraysd themselves
in all tie "pomipp and circumstance of
Muster Day. We extendto ler a cor
dial welcome.
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We call attention to the timely article
from the psh Of Mr. nj. N. Mitchell.
He is one Of ouf thoughtful teachers. and
is we'll equipped fof his work. The
teachers Of the County @odld do well to
give his article d careful reading. Mr.
Mitchell succeeds Mr.. Sterling at the
Midway School; and will, without doubt,
leave bis impFess on the papilu of that
community.
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Eczema, Itchy, soaiy, Skin Torturcs.

The simple application Of "swayne,s
Ointmenf,'f without any internal medi-
cine. will cure any case of letter, Salt
Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores,
Pimples. Eczema, ali Scaly, Itchy Skin
Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long
standing. tits potent, effective, and costs
hvt a triAe Is
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06
7 TE'A6HEBS'Go1u.M

@- All commsn snications intended foI
this Column shouldNSs addressed to D. H.
RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander.
son, s. C.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06

Typhoid fever is spreading to an
degree in New York and
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-06
"A 100000 Acre Farm.

November 26, 1883
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-14
Hints for August.
From Harper's Weekly.


Don't hurry. The man who died in a hurry
died in August. There is no more poisonous
mixture than hurry diluted with humidity.
Beware of your funny friend during the dog
days, unless you delight In hearing that the sun
Is striking for fewer hours, that the wayfarers
in the city are fast becoming heather because
they are Hotentottering. or that this is the
kind of weather in which peace and goodwill TO
man is less desirable than a universal GOODNESS.
II you can afford it. stay at home in the sum
mer, where your mosquito bar is so arranged as
10 let in but one songstress at time, and
where prohibitory tariff is not placed upon
the bathtub
DO not demonstrate with the man who pre-
fers wearing n white collar in summer to ap-
pearing in a flannel shirt, which may be more
unbecoming to his style of beauty than a horse
collar would be. Dress is more or less q matter
of habit, and IL men had been brought up to
wear sealskin overcoats In August and duck
trousers in winter, those that liked that sort Of
thing would be quite as well satisfied as under
the prevailing fashion.
When you meet mad dog In the street re-
member that discretion is the better part of
valor, and give the telegraph company the
thanks due them for not removing their poles
in the hour of your need.
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THE MORNING NEWS ANNUAL REVIEW
OF THE
BUSINESS OF SAVANNAH
WILL BE ISSUED THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1888.

The usual complete and comprehensive expo
sttiop of the business of Savannah, known as
the Annual Trade Review, will be issued from the
office OF the MoRN1SG NEWS, on Thursday, Sept
q This edition has been for many years one OF
the features of the opening Of the busy season
I'm this city and is looked forward to by the bus
mess men Of Savannah as one of the chief
means of calling the attention OF the public to
Sayannah's business and her prospects for the
coming year.
The annual review will give not only the sta
tisticts of cotton, naval stores rice lumber and
other products, and the data concerning the
wholesale business of the city, and its manu-
features and other industries, but it will con
tain an interesting account Of what has been
done in the city during the past year, and tell
what its enterprisng citizens have in hand for
the next The closing year has been very
prosperous one, but that upon which we are
entering promises to be even more prosperous.
A matter that is OF the greatest Importance,
and one that deserves especial notice, is that
Savannah is no longer place that strangers
fear TO visit in the summer. In fact, with our
accessible seaside resorts the city has become
sanitarium for people who come to enjoy the
sea breezes.
And the coming year; what OF it, ls IT not
"flIed to the brim" with the highest anticipa
tionsi There is to be magnificent hotel the
finest in the south, a new county court house
and a new public building. There are TO be
more railroads more homes and more public
improvements.
No year in tho history Of Savannah has been
brighter than that which has just closed. The
city's growth in population and wealth. the
pubic improvements which have been and are
still being made, the erection OF immense bust
ness houses, the Inauguration of new industries,
the extensions made by the two great railroads
which transport the products OF Georgia and
cdioining states to our wharves, all prove that
savannah is not only growing, but very
prosperous city.
The business men Of Savannah cannot make
a better investment than by sending copies Of
the MORNING NEWS Annual Special Edition
TO their friends and correspondents. A
newspaper like this Trade Review, contain
ing an accurate account of the business
of this city, is the best advertisement of the
energy and activity OF the people of Savannah.
Every citizen, whether he is a capital
list, merchant, manufacturer, mechanic, or a
man Of leisure, should feel a.pride in the city
The Trade Review will be sent to all sub
ncribers of the DAILY and WEEKLY NEWS, and a
large number of extra copies will be mailed
thoroughly covering the territory tributary TO
Savannah. Advertisers will find 1t of great
value Space in it's columns can be obtained
upon application to the Business Office.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-14
Evening Dress.


From the NeD York World.
There is good deal of talk floating around
among fashionable young men at all times
about possible changes in the fashion of even
ing dress Every now and then paragraph
goes the round of the papers announcing that
the swallow-tail will have to go. At the same
time it is limited or stated that the Prince of
Wales has ordered a dress suit made out of vel
vet cut in an entirely new style. Then word
comes from Lenox that bowling swell up there
has appeared at a dinner party in a dress suit
made of embroidered linen and from some
other fashionable quarter arrives a message
about movement in the direction of knicker-
bockers instead of long doeSkin pants. But the
swallow tail survives it all. One point to be no.
ticed is that the reckless young men who, in a
spirit of laudable 0gress catch to these tips
run certain risks which it is just as we'll for them
to understand. The invisible spirit of fashion
among the leafing swells declared not long ago
that short black coat with a sash was to be
accepted hereafter as evening dress for men.
Last Saturday evening a very handsome young
gentleman thus attired, appeared at the door Of
the ballroom of the Grand Union hotel, and was
peremptorily refused admission by the attend
ant, who declared that no one could go on the
floor unless in evening dress. The young man
was rather staggered, but tried to explain. His
explanations were received in rude and un-
feeling spirit, and he quickly hied himself to
John NJ Otter, the manager of the hostelry.
Mr.. Otto explained that the attendant acted
under Instructions and that evening dress was
Indispensable Again the young man strove to
expound the situation. but his efforts we're again
of no avail, and in disgust he turned his back
on the ballroom and spent the rest of the even
ing playing roulette at the club house. Next
day one of the morning papers described the
latest full dress for young men, which was a
description of the banished young mans COS
tune, and the victim carefully clipped out the
paragraph and addressed it to Mr.. Otter
Whether or not Mr.. Otter is now convinced is
not known,
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PERSONAL.

ENGLISH gossips still claim that Joseph Cham
berlain and Miss Endicott are to be married in
the fall
CARDINAL MANNING says that London is
desolation beyond that of any city in the civil
lied world"
UNTIL week before last no son had been born
to a Prussian king since 1909, when Prince AL
bert, the late Emperor Williams younger
brother, was born.
GEN. ALFRED H. TERRY is rapidly regaining
his health at his home in New Haven, Conn
He has an old army tent on his lawn, in which
he spends most of mis- time.
Representative GRANGE of the Canaan
Comm Congressional district will not return to
Washington. His physicians tell him that the
climate of that city is dangerous to his life.
MRs. WHITNEY is described by those who have
met her at Bar Harbor as lovely and unassumiug
in manner, and in referring to the navy speaks
of it as she does of her children, as my navy
PRINCE ROLAND BoNAPARTE, who has returned
to Paris, writes 20 a Washington friend that he
was delighted with his visit to this country, and
that he will long remember "the courtesy of
Mr.. G.. Cleveland"
MRS AND MISS WAITE, widow and daughter
of the late chief Justice, would like to 20 back
TO Washington to live, but have not sufficient
means to maintain the style required by their
former position in society.
CARDINAL HOWARD who a fortnight ago was
thought to be in extremis, and who received
tne ltiSJ SucFolnentS OF tne CnurCn Is now inuCn
better and was able to take carriage exercise
more than once last week.
THE Marquis Tseng, formerly Chinese minis
ter TO England and the United States, has just
celebrated the marriage of his daughter Lady
Blossom. after asking her consent TO "A husband.
This is n reversal of Chinese custom. The mar
quis kept up other customs as. for example,
heading the procession carrying 100 tables of
presents about the streets of Pelcin.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE makes public, for the first
time, he says, a letter of the duke of Wellington
about the battle Of Waterloo, in reference TO
certain stories about that worlds earth
quake" II can refer you says the iron war
nor, 'only to my dispatches published in the
London Gazette. Gen. Alvas report is the
nearest to the truth of the other official reports
publishcd but even that report contains some
statements not exactly correct The others
that have seen cannot be relied upon. To
some Of them may be attributed the source of
the falsehoods since circulated through the
medium of the unofficial publications with
which the press has abounded OF this re-
markable instance is found in the report of a
meeting between Marshal Butcher and me at
La Belle Alliance; aud some have gone so far as
TO have seen the chair on which sat down at
that farm house. IL happens that the meeting
took place after 10 o'clock at night in the village
of Gemappe-and anybody who attempts to de-
scribe with truth the operations of the different
armies will see that IL could not he otherwise
The other point is not so material; but in truth,
was not off my horse till returned to Water.
loo, between II and 12 O'Clock at night