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ousefffcld B^paTtm^nt. ■&ear llouhi:fioLi>, Wm\ wifii t )j:nake my first bow to “Topsy morning by way of cordial welcome. I tbink it a good augury that on the eve of marriod life she should become inter ested in the;Household,and! hi*.. she will* need much advice on the manage ment of a husband. To you “Trustful” I have only this to say: You wrote in haste and without due consideration of the facts in my last. I said you were not practical in the advice you gave, not in your life.’Of course I knew nothing f that. If, as you say, you climb Pine mountains every day with a heavy bur den aid in all kinds of weather, I con fess that sounds as if your life was very practical, if difficult. You have your • ‘minds eye’ ’ on the wrong woman when you place me surrounded by ease and el egance and making rick-rack. Truth compels me to say I have never known easy elegance in all my life, not even in girl-hood when my responsibilities were not so numerous a3 now. While I am not forced to the severe labor of which you com plain,raylifiiiis a busy one,asthere are several whose comfort depends up on my exertions. I have never made a yard of “rick-rack” and never even knew what the word meant until I saw it in these columns, fc>o much for your imagination- As to your charges a gaind- nr T am surprised that one who endeavors to cloth herself with **a ineek and lowly spirit” should be so ready to accuse me of such ugly designs as “misleading young wives and ‘repuls ing”you and another sister.'lt was my understanding that the advice was offer ed to “Ddtermined.” If so how could it be “repulsed\ by another? Like your aelf I only took the liberty of expressing my opinions and of criticising those ex pressed by others, You and others crit icised me; did I resent it as “repulsion! As for “Sympathizer” when she brings the charge against me herself shall reply to it I consider her fully able from what she has written, to fight hee own battles, You accused me first of ‘•ridiculing’’ her, then of -‘repulsing’’ you both, when according to my under standing of the Webster you invoke. 1 have done neither. As to the question of /misleading young wives” I amwill ing to leave it to the most expaptoced and wisest wives of our band to say if the words of advice, I have in these columns will'•in any at any period of married life'do in jury of them or take a ght Outlie con can choose of or mine and apply her she wants tothoroughly convince h™elf of their practicability. Will she apply the test in imagination to any dozen of her acquaintances and acknowledge the re- suit ? And this is all I to say on tl/e subject of that “moping husband.” As “Determined” seems to have prop ped the subject I think I will too, arid with relief, for as I said before the successful management of one hus. band is beyond me. But my sisters theia| is one question that is of far more intß to me just now, and that iflßl training of children. of this question BBBr could not fail to be of inter est to every mother at these columns. If who has successfully reared a family of children who are now good men and wo men I trust that father or mother may give us some light on the subject, and if can give us the key to their suc cess. “Lover of Light” I knowjLj| years of experience have passed your head or you give Itter anc to so much wis^^ r Can give your experience? And will not some other parent take upsttie subject! I have been very much disappointed on opening) the Gazette week after week to find still silent and no appear ance of the promised series of articles on the vexed question m fclie’management of our girls. My d<pr sister you surely will not gi\ eup the ' under taking? The problems of training Mo be good modest, helpful our boys to become noble strong the I believe should engage the vei% best powers of our minds and be the bliief study of every mother in our midst. “Winnie Winn” opens up the way of anew industry for women, I shall take much interest in perusing the letter referred to by her and promised by ouf editor. I for one will hail*with)gratti tude anything promises relief to our women who are compelled to labor and who at present realize so little fit from their er of Light” I can rat thank your kind word". It is my sire to be a “reflecting household. “The Great Center” of individual household is ever it is the ambition of my life to overate every adverse influence in my lunar car oer. Your words of wisdom have giv en me much valuable aid iu|my struggle I am only sorry that you appear so sel dom. ‘‘Talker' ’ I most heartily join you in yourladvccacy of temperance. I only one reason for hesitating in promi ipg to labor with you in trying to sus tain a temperance department in our Household. That is because my feel -*gs are so strong upon the subject, and I have so great a horror of intemper ance that I hesitate to express myself Otherwise I should have attempted some words of sympathy for “Only A Woman.” To me herletter was most touching, but what for her, w r onld words avail? W my sisters can only give her wHSk our prayers. ;Mr?. H. S. SOUTHERN SILK CULTURE. An Enthusiastic Letter from the Leader of the Movement. Mobile, Ala., August.—to the Editor —Dear Sir: I api obliged to you for your kindness in publishing my circular-let ter, and am glad to have your letter of the 12th inst. It has the right “ring’’ to it. Would that more editors took such a lively interest in silk culture! It is the best thing in sight for womei chi!, dren and the superannuated of both sex es. I tbink it will do more to make la bor (if such light work can be so term ed), profitable and facinaMng than any other avocation ever preSented to the consideration of the south. 1 am glad you intend to make it “go. ” Nothing is easier, The ladies and girls rallv to it most heartilv, and almost all public spirited and far-sighted men give it not only countenance and cordial ap probation, but will# give it more sub stantial indorsement. Rely mainly up on the mduß, however. Start Plant nothing but the most approved mulberry trees. Raise nothing but the best breed of silk worms. Urge combination and co-opeimtion. Start a silk society. If but thrfl per sons, start. Soon you will have \ doz en members. Then 20; then 50—ip). It spreads like “w r ild fire,” among the la dies. As soon can get a dozen to gether, go in^erman ent organization. ►Elect officers. Charge a membership fee of a few dollars and monthly dues— wbawyou will. Give piclics, concerts, tableaux, lectures, etc., the benefit of the society. Send our ju half or more of your prettiest, brightest, most charming and most persuasive la , dies or girls, to solicit subscription for the good cause. Their bright eyes and I bewitching talk will procure many a V or an#£, where public spirit would not prompt the contraction. Many of your public-spirited give from $5 to SSO each. VeipPbon, let the buy land town, of from 20 to 50 acres, for yj|Pr society. Sometimes, a large man will give this, and, generally any one wiM sell it very cheap and on easy terms. A This fall, set out several thousand flr \jxe most approved mulberry trees*- Moretti, Moms Rosea and Lhou or •torus Japonica. All these are needed ■o produce Jiighest -results—and you wghtto aippat that* Xext spring, or Wte in February, let*lie company erect their cocoonery—a simply constructed and cheap affair. Buy silk worm .eggs now" those who design going into silk* culture on their own account buy their this fall, and plant them. WhyMWlse their trees will have an unobstjMced year’s growth (a much needeaßcnditidn) and they will then Imye learned silk culture at the public at the public expense, with trouble or risk of a prime ven next y ear - G'ey kitdFsilk cul -IHHPMI can start with and ■Pidy trees. ~ A public ora is a great educator. Its will our weightheevil effects of fifty private HHBBBBttLone need fail privateljß at any and everything, have five, ten, twenty ures and no couspieious success, sill? raising will have a “set back,” in your community and may be indefinitely post poned. Htikau have a public cocoonery, few will BJprivately, as they desire to learn under more favorable auspices and if any, or many try it privately, a public cocoonery tends to pre vent private failures; co. ought to be so maßged as te eik'e absolute certainly of success. How so? Why. a public cocoonery can, hire an expert at silk culture for the necessary five weeks; and the expense comes very light to numerous lAn- A cocoonery is a great sociability—as society raft ings will be—and be a place of popular resort. of atten dance and work will be very light, too, when dividetteimong the members. In deed, the whOTfwlabor is nothing more than a diversion. If you are overrun with sight-seers, you can charge ten cents admission to all but the p#or, the schools and The members; and raise a good little sißp Xo inconsiderable good, is the com mendation its success gives, of com bination. to southern people—the charms, uses, values, facilities of co-op eration. You will appreciate % this. The Yankees efiect so much by well organized combination. Five hundred ffmtoiv girls put in the earning of two oimiree years and build a cotton facto ry.mtfcl furnish themselves employment ancrget profits on the investmeidjk that ■tent toij|U'mer employers. A lai*own nrgphs, c or ■ c h ant. i re Pmercham combine and tehe dozen, without a. penny. of Bi3h being put up. So on ad “infinitum. jKut. you know, we don't combine south. Xow. a public cocoonery, (a silk socie ty. )|as cheap and char ming the direction of co-operation. Wl^^n'ill: a cocoonery do? Well, suppose^^Jki^ a cost of 65 each, it has tought two handfed meaollers silk culture. Is not that cheap? Rut. the children of many of th*' tciiibershave Earned also. P what an advantage to start the year, knowing how, and with your uses ready—l mean your private trees. But is this all? l>y no means. Your society has raised enough eggs from the cocoonery to supply every member with all he or she needs,to go into the busi ness of silk culture on private account. And this will lie worth moretovou than all your investment in the society. Rut, there is your farm vet and the mulberry trees af the future. If vou have set out 5 ;000 to 8,000 trees, you are going to sell a great many from cut ings, in two or three years, for more than enough to pay for your farm and all your investruents- Then, you will buy a filature and. set unreeling your own silk, buying your cocoons. Then maybe you will have a silk manufactory. It takes far less than you would think. You have been so well paid; the community has been so much delighted and inspirited, that you find your aspirations for pro gress wonderfully quickened, I advise no individual to buy over four or five acres of mulberry trees—en ough to plant that many acres; say 1200 to 1500. The secret of success is not in a few large ventures, but in many small ones* Because, yhu can't well command the labor to r pick the leaves and have the cleanliness necessary, where a large venture is f undertaken. Of course, it is easy in a society-cocoon ery; but few families are large enough of and in themselves, to handle over 5 acres; and I advise no more jin private families. Don’t try'the osage orange and expect money results, nor the morns niultjcaulis. You can raise good “sesd’ or egfs from the osage orange or the morus multicaulis- But I warn every one against shoping for any success, in a business point-of view in the the osage orange. The difficulty sufficient, lea ves, by reason yßßiorns; the dangeAif the succulent leaf, an the late staglf of silk worm aside from any mooted points of this food, ought to prevent] anyone us ing the osage orange, except to learn on. The food answers for a year, as food while youleailk culture, and un til your can be used, but I think the great antligfcs will agree that ettcept as a diverHß, silk culture on osage orange will prove a failure. Having a newspaper you can soon contract an organization; and as news papers are the best pioneers of progress and the conventional vehicAto promul gate new tilings they araabffut the best exponents thoi%hts and best methods. You *can mold public sentiment. Therefor® call a public meeting next issue, jfart; its a great tftingto begin; and yon will soon l%ve AflMity members. Prejoicb at your [determination. Silk culture is The ladte embrace it as if by intuiflßi and an ungovernable impulse and some mysterious mandate, They will make it succeed, if no man ever touches it. Begin, and you'll have scores of the most cultured and beautiful ladies, for your coadjutors, in a very short time. If a cocoonery (public) be started, ex perts can be procured to be on hand at the most needed time or through the whole season. No one need infer from this that silk culture is a deep mystery .or a difficult achievment: but it is assure success in a matteaof M. B. llillyahP P. S. —No one who is in earnest, need ever hesitate to write me. My heart is in the work, and I shall be delighted to aid and encourage as mantis I can. A CHEEK GJSf. One of the most cheef the times is, that while many of our most intelligent and thoughtful women are asking for suffrage and for the privi lege of the higher education, many are also giving their time and best thoughts fc to the improvement of the so-called common tilings of life. Women of bright minds and much attainment are Mating themselves to the cause of Bfßflpking, clean houses and healthy children. are at length taking their are becom ing honorable in thesffc of all. Then, too, the old reproach thw women of lit erary taste and habit are necessarily lacking in household graces, and in good taste in dress, is heard no more. Those whose memory reaches back twenty years or less know how even at school this notion ruled. One instance at this moment I recall which gave em phasis to the fact. The girl, l remem ber, was acknowledged to be the “smar test girl in school.” There was a tra dition that she did not take time from her studies to put strings in her shoes, though we all knew that she’tied her hair with a shoe-string, for the tin on one end was always in plain sight. But some of the girk> who were really as students, and but who were not above takidßpains with their dress, who had an eyovo the effect of a blue ribbon, and the learned commit> tees before whom we cowered in spirit on anniversaries passed with admiring disapproval over the ;cellencies of the prettily dressed girls,*md when one ap peared a litjjfmoredowdy than anoth er, they saiffny their manner; —“Here is something■vorth listening to.” A schoolmate of mine who is now as emi nent as she hoped to be said with a kind of righteous indignation:—“l wish I could live to prove that one may be able to solve problemslleafn chernistrv and languages, and still be neat, taste ful in dress, and an •xcellent housekeep er: that shall be mv sign in life.” with manaAore, maybe said to have proved Dr. Antoinette Blackwell said at the Woman’s Con gress last year, that, ro far as- her ob servation extends “women with discip lined minds, and with large purposes are the housekeepers and wisest mothers.” That beauty of attire and beauty of soul are not incompatible, that concourse and hand women gave ahundmit . Notkin! RUtkcralt Mtlhtri 111 Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering; and crying vnth the excracLitlbg p of cutting teeth? If so, go at once aad get • bottle of MRS. WIHSLOW-S SOOTHING SYRC l* it will reliere the poor little sufferer in mediately— depend upon it there Is no ml* ake about It. There is not on earth he has ever used it, who wll not tell yo aeon that It win regulate the bow els, and glverae to the mother, and relief and operating like magic. It Is perfectly safe to ana In all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and la the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses In Waten. Sold everywhere. *5 cents a bottle dect-iy Bring your cotton to our Fire Proof warehouse. We are in the market all the time, wet or dry, low or high and still give the highest market price. Staf ford Blalock A Go’s. Go to Stafford Blalock A Cos., and see their beautiful line of (Jina, Glasss, Queen and Majoeica wai. Call and see the beautiful shades of Embroidery and Knitting silk at Star ford, Blalock & Co’s. I’ve looked the town over and nothing compares with Stafford, Blalock & Go’s, line of Hamburg, both in beaty and price. A Cough, Cold or Sore Throa should be stopped. Neglect frequently results In an Incurable Disease or Consump tion. BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCH ES are certain to give relief In Asthma, Bron chitis, Coughs, Catarrh, Consumptive and Throat Diseases. For thirty years the Troches have been recommended by physicians, and al ways give perfect satisfaction. They are not new or untried, hut having been tested by wide and constant use for nearly an entire generation, they have attained well merited rank among the few staple remediesof the age. Public speak ers and -singers use tham to clear and streng •hen ’he Voice. Sold at twenty-live cents a bo very where. ®c-ly The circus will cost you 75c to SI.OO blit Cochran & Son will show you throu gh free. Goods given in exchange for Horse and mules Cochran & Son. Greenwood Mills meal at Cochran & Son. 10 lbs. coffee for SI.OO, at Cochran & Son. Go to Cochran & Son for CarterslpaA cy Flower, w w %lbs, Sugar for SI.OO, at Cochran & Son. Cloaks and jjYalking Jackets from $1.50, up at Good Apple vinegar, at Cochran & Son, Fresh Mackerel, at Cochran & Son, 'Whole Suits Clothing for $4,00, at Cochran & Son. If our goods as we represent we will refund the money. Cochran & Son. Women shoes from 90c, up at Cochran & Son. All goods and giceries bought of us will be delivered free arw where in the city, CocliMi & Son. ® Come in to see us, it will do you go <sl Okhran <fc Son. bowels 10c per. Pair at, Cochran & Son, m Cigars Snuff and Tobacco, at Cochr & Son. A W Concord, Thunderbolts Bea Make and School Boy Jeans, at Cochran®Son. Kicklighter, Kicker and Sitting Mull Boots at Cochran & Son. iAride & 00. Atlanta Ga., manufacturers show ca ses and Southern agents for Seth Thom as clocks, and Lambeth’s fly fans, and own the celebrated Gate city stone wa ter filtered Carry’s steam fruit and vegetablWAyer for the world. Prices forwarded on application. 10,000 good cigars just received at T BfcLyon’s. •ulius King’s spectacles exclusively at Iliggin’s Jewelry store. Seth Thomas Clocks always on hand at Higgin’fcjgwelry Store. a specialty at O S. Iligain’s Jewelry store. Han Borne line of Lace pins just re ceivednt O, S. Higgin’s Jewelry store. Ladies Opera and Guardjtoins a O, ►S. Ujggin’s Jewelry store. W ■Hdsome line of Bracelets just re ceded at O. S. Higgins Jewelry store. Call at O. S. Higgin’s Jewelry Store and see the endless variety of necklaces in American and Roman Gold. LißFPand Gent Gold and Silver WaMies at O. S, Iliggin’s Jewelry store. Engagement Rings at BF. Jewelry store. # Gents Glove and # Seal Rings at O. S. Higgins jewelry Store. at O. £. Higgin’s Jew elry Store^F German Accordeons, Violins^ Banjos arid Harps at Higgin’s JeweMrstore. SilvePWare suitable for presents at O. S. Higgins Jewelry store. and warranted at Higgin’s^B^y^ore. Silver Tlmnbles at the Jewelry store of O. S. Higgins. A full line of mocks, Watches, Jewel ry, Musical lustrumenfc, Spectacles, Silver Ware at prices to suit thwtimes at Higgin’s Jewelry store. Merchants make lhit of crockery, glass, wood and hat you are in want of and we will freightsmid that you always get from East. Mcßride & Cos., ißvill trfgo and look at the eieg*t line of cloaks and Dolmans at StaffOfd, Blalock & Co’s. Carry all you have to sell to T. B- Lvon and get they ash or Dry Goods at Xew York cost.B * Boots at $2.50 at T. B. By on's. Beautiful Chasmers at Cost at T. B. Lyon’s, Hundyrg Laces at Lyon's^Bß | IProotioal ITreatiflAl i* —- MIDWIFE® (By Horton • WHK/BKM Giving elaborate ill that pertains to tinns and health of gans of Generation ly of Conception. 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