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Tbe Last Hymn.
vitlAMB TAEIIHOHAII.
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The Sebbeth dajr wee e*diag la a rillegt
by the eea.
The uttered benediction touched the peo-
A«4?jeyro*» lJ lo fcoe the enneet in the
gtowing lighted weal,
And the* hMtened t0 their dweniage for
Oo4fi bleeeed been ef reel.
ii.
But they leokpd ecroee the waters, and a
atom wadragWg there;
A Aeree spirit Based about them—the
. wild spirit of the air—
And it ieshed and shook and tore them—
till they thdndered, groaned and
And alas! Ibr any ressel in their yawning
gulib entombed.
in.
Very anxious were the people on that rooky
coast of Valeo,
Lost the dawns of eoming morrows should
be telling awfhl tales.
When the sea had spent its passion and
should east upon the shore
Bite of wreek, and swollen victims, as it
had done heretofore.
IV.
With the rough winds blowing round her,
a brave woman strainod her eyes.
And she saw along the billows a large ves
sel fall and rise.
Oh I it did not need a prophet to tell what
. the end aost be.
For no ship could ride in safety near I hat
shore on such a sea.
Then the pitying people hurried from their
homea and thronged the beach;
Oh i for power to oross the waters and the
perishing to reach !
Helpleao heads were wrung for sorrow,
tender hearts grew cold with dread,
And the ship urged by the tempest, to the
fatal reek shore sped.
VI-
*-She has parted in the middle! Oh! the
half of her goes down!
God have mercy 1 is Heaven far to seek
for those who drown ?"
So when noXt the white, shocked faces
looked with tsrror on the sea.
Only one last clinging figure on the spar
who seen to be.
VII.
Nearer the trembling watchers came the
wreck tossed by the wave.
And the man still clung and floated though
no power on earth could save.
Could we send him a short message? Here’s
a trumpet; shoot a wav!
'Twas the preacher'* bend thst took it,
nud ka wondered whet to soy.
VIII.
Any memory of bio sermon! Firstly ?
Secondly f Ah, no!
There was but one thing to utter in that
awlui hour sf wo*;
So he shouted through the trumpet, “Look
to Jesus! Can you hear?”
And M Ay, a/, air!" rang the answer o’er
tbs water lend and dear.
IX.
Tbea they listen, “He is singing! Jesus
lever of my soul;
And the winds brought back the echo,
“while the raging billows roll,”
Strange 1 indeed, it was to hear him, “till
the storm of life is past,”
Singing bravsly from the waters, “Ob. re
ceive my soul at last.”
Heeeuklhave no other refuge; “Hangs
my heavy soul oa thee ;
Leave, ah, leare me not"—The singer
dropped at last into the sea,
A ad the watchers, looking homeward,
through their eye* with tears made
dim,
Shid, “He paesed to be with Jesus in the
singing of that hymn.”
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ATTENTION I BUSINESS MEN OF
DARLINGTON.
The Darlington News has laid
in • supply of new job type, ink of
all oolont, bill, letter and note beads,
marking tags, Ac., Ac. Id fact, we
now have oo band snob a stock as
is ordioarily fouud io a first class
job office, sod am prepared to do
work in as good style as it can be
done in Charleston, and for the
name money. If yon want anything
in this line, give na a chance; by so
doing yon will save freight, and, at
the same time, will be encouraging
a borne enterprise.
The Sonth Carolina College.
(B. Moons Devis, in Columbie Register.)
Mjemrs. Editors : As a good
many misstatements bare been re
cently made rtgardinfftbeagrieoltur
a! department ot the Sooth Carolina
College, leak permission to give
some idea of its scope aad its work
Myreaaoa fordoing so is the ab
sence front the State of others bet
ter qaalified then myself for tbe
task. 1 shall speak of what has
been done, since the work <f tbe
past baa been alleged sa proof of
failure in the fatnie.
Since 1882 there have been the
following ncientifie chairs In tbe
College:
1. Agriculture and Botany, na*
derpresident IfcBryde, whose work
«s a aeieauAo experimentalist has
' ‘ ad attendee in Earepe as
tin America.
.Physiology. Zoolo-
’rofagsor Woodrow,
as a scientist io
[applied,
dieting-
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ir BurDoyTa 7 Ph.D.
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of Heidelberg, onder Bunsen, a
student of Paris, under Wortz, sod
a fellow of Johns Hopkins. These
gentlemen are oompetent to give
instruction of the moat thorough
kind. (Hereafter there will be two
more professors, Dr. Looghbridge
in agricultare, and Engineer McEI-
roy, of the United States Navy, who
haa equipped a school of practical
mechanics, including lathe-work,
planing, word-work, iron work, eto.)
There are in tbe entire College
five fonr year courses and as maay
two-year courses. In each of these
chemistry, botany, physics, and
Physiology have been taught, while
geology and astronomy also enter
into the longer oonrses. In three
long oonrses and three short cour
ses the stndy of agriculture is com
pulsory for one year, while in tbe
technical agricultural course it is
oompalsory for two years, and ag-
ricnftural chemistry for one more.
In moat of the Agricnltaral Colle
ges agriculture is taught one year;
in tbe Mississippi College one year
and a third. The Sonth Carolina
College therefore is more complete
In this respect than many others.
Since the reorganization of the
College in 1882 an average of forty-
three stndents a year have pursued
tbeyear’s course in agriculture.
What does the study of agricul
tare proper include! Daring tbe
first year the following topics are
discussed: Soils, organic and inor
ganic maunres, grasses and ciovers,
meadows and pH stares, crops, rota
tion of crops, weeds noxions and
innocuous, improvement of soils,
farm implements and machinery,
tarm roads and buildings, domestic
animals, etc. Second year—the stu
dents having been drilled in theo
retical chemistry are put into tbe
laboratory for work. Lectures are
given on the chemical constituents
of manures, theory of the action of
manures and best methods of appli
es tiou, classification and improve-
men? of soils, principles of breeding
stock and feeding, laws of plant
life and growth, analysis of soils,
fertilizers, etc.
Tbe following are specimens of
the kinds of practice problems that
have been given out to the class
from time to time:
1. “At the present cost per ton of
dried blood, cotton seed meal, sta
ble manure nitrate ef soda, etc,
find which is cheapest in propor
tion to the amount of nitrogen sup
plied n
2 “Given tbe market value of ni
trogen, phosphoric acid, etc., ana
lyse —— fertilizer, and determine
its market price per ton ”
3. Two years ago when Forman’s
formula was published the class
was required to calculate tbo mar
ket value of a ton of bis compost-
4. A company having offered to
exchange 1,000 pounds of cotton
be<-d meal for one ton of seed, tbe
class made a comparison of values
and found that the offer was advan
tageous.
5 Another published offer was to
give 3 tons of acid pbospate, 2 tons
of cotton seed meal and 1 ton of
kainit for 12 tons ot cotton seed.
Calculations showed that under the
first table of values used in South
Carolina the offer was not advan
tageous, but that under tbe table
oow ruling in this State tbe farmer
would gain by tbe exchange.
6. “In what proportion mast cot
ton seed meal, peavines and oats
straw be fed together to a fattening
ox to Secure most economical re
sults!”
Snob problems as the last are
based on tables tested for thirty
years in Germany, showing the rel
ative amounts of albuminoids, fats
and carbohydrates required to keep
live stock at rest, or at work, or fat
tening.
The full course of chemis ry lasts
four years, and includes quantita
tive analysis of soils, fertilizers, etc.
A student has stepped from tbe la
boratory right into a good position
io tbe office of a leading cheini|t in
Charleston. Others have made an
alyses for fertilizer companies and
received pay for them. This is an
evidence of good work.
Botany is much neglected is tbe
Booth, buth in tbe College it is
made practical. During tbe latter
part ot the coarse, the student is
required to analyse and name an
kupvn plants and weeds. Some
students have made several ban
dred analyses each, and are good
practical botanists.
The analysis of seeds is also re
quired. So many seeds are ada Iter
ated nowadays that It is very im-
portaat to test tbe purity of the
sample in order to know how much
to plant to tbe acre! Bat 1 cannot
elaborate farther.
Besides class room work Presi
dent McBryde has conducted on an
average one hundred and fifty ex
periments a year In cotton, grains,
grasses, to. Much material baa
been accumulated, but in order to
secure accuracy, be has preferred
to wait for the results of three years
con tinned experiments in dapHoate,
changing the plots each year to get
rider any eflbcE from difference in
nod, An.
In cotton, for instance, every plot
is measured mathematically—I wo
plots are given to e*ch kind of seed.
The number of plants are eonuted,
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allowance is made for missing bills,
the average is then corrected and
compared for several yean, and the
general average is thus secured.
I will merely mention thst a three
years’ series of experiments in cot
ton shows that one well-known
brand bae uniformly showed a su
perior yield of lint, averaging shoot
forty pounds of lint for every fifteen
hundred pounds of seed. Ou n crop
of six hundred thousand bales in
this State this wonld make a gain
of forty-eight thousand bales over
the yield of other seed, which, at
nine cents, would give an increased
value of two million dollars a year
to the cotton product of the State.
The above is some of tbe work
President McBryde has been doing,
although not a cent has been given
to him for experimentation. He
has to eke out a small sum by re
ducing other expenses. He haa
been making bricks and supplying
his own straw.
Last year, despite the drought,
the farm averaged nearly a bale to
to tbe acre.
The Legislature, last year, refus
ed to give 92,000 to equip tbe ex
S rimcutal farm. Give President
cBryde a few thousand dollars
and be will accomplish results that
will attract wide spread attention,
and greatly improve farming.
Some of tbe most captious critics
of tbe agricultural department of
the College are those who have per
sistently neglected or refused to ac
cept invitations to inspect its work.
When the Farmers’ Convention
met io Colambiain April tbe presi
dent of the College extended an in
vitation to the members to visit tbe
institution and farm and see the
work. Tbe plats were all labelled.
Peraons were on band te answer all
questions Yet, so far as can learn
no one who denounced the College
took tbe trouble to walk half a mile
to satisfy himself that his charge
whs just.
I say it not io spirit of boasting,
bat as merely a fact, that 1 know
of no opoueut of the College who
speaks from personal observation,
nor do 1 know any one who, having
made an examination, has failed to
mention it in terms of commenda
tion.
In a tew weeks tbe College will
l>e open, I know that President Mo-
Bryde will be most happy towel
come every visitor from Fairfield,
and more especially a committee of
inspection, oppointed by tbe Farm
ers’ Association of Fairfield county.
I hope sneb a committee will
come and see whether the trustees
have so used tbe “farmers’ ” money
as to defeat its objects. Certainly
candid and jnst men will not cen
sure without knowledge.
and, when the new uniform was
donned, n disenssion arose between
the boyt and the Chief ns to how
the sbirts should be worn. Tbe
boys insisted that the tails should
be worn outside and Col. Butler
that tbsy’aboald be concealed. A
vote was taken and the tails were
left exposed by a large majority.
Every man had a belt around bis
waist from which was suspendeded
two or more army pistols. One of
the most striking features of this
novel procession was a banner made
of an enormous bloody shirt, sur
mounted by two black masks.
Across tbe shirt was painted in
glaring letters, “None but tbe guil
ty need fear.” This flag was car
ried by Mr. Milledge Horn, of Edge-
field, a gallant gentleman and a
man of splendid physique, moautod
ou a large white horse.
When this terrible looking com
pany rode into Aiken that night,
under the glare of a thousand torch
ligbta, and illnmiuated by numer
ous bonfires, they strnok terror to
tbe hearts of their political enemies.
Full accounts of the meeting, with
graphic descriptions of the new
Democratic uniform, were publish
ed in tbe papers next day, and after
that the rod shirt became the regu
lation Democratic uniform. After
wards they were made of rod flan
nel, which served the same purpose
aa tbe originals, ami were much
handsomer. To Hon. G. D. Till
man is due the credit for the idea,
and to the Hamburg rioters and the
ladies of Aiken is due tbe honor of
introducing this famous garment
into the political campaign of this
Bute.
If Anderson can prove to tbe con
trary, let her proceed to bring for
ward the evidence.
JOB DWIWT.
Ourjeb depertaieat i*»uppli«-d with every
facility Decenary to oeable ae in covf-’t*
both M to price sod qaeliiy of work, with •««e
thee* of the oitioe, aad we gusreDtee satis,
fhetios ia every particularor ebargr aothing
for ear work. We are always preparsd it
All orders at short aoties for BUnks, Xi|
Hssds, Lettsr Hsadr. Cards, Hsad Liils
Posters. Circulars, PantphlelR, Ae.
AUjsh work Bust br paid fpr
Oash on Delivery.
Orme’a experience dearly demon
strates, you will finally succeed.
His laud is now no more liable to
wash than the most gently inclined
f danes. The manure put upon it is
n no danger of being carried into
tbe sea. He holds both soil and
manure firmly in his grasp. Point
ing to the soil which has been held
by the terrace border, and which,
in some oases, had aocnmulated to
the depth of two and a half or three
feet, Mr Ortue very pertinently
asked : What would have become
of that soil if only hillside ditches
bad been present f
Would it not all have been wash
ed into and carried away by those
ditches f We could not answer
no. Oor faith in terraces has been
greatly strengthened by inspecting
ibis farm. They have been tested
—tested by prolonged time (fifteen
years), tested on deep declivities
and on gentle inclines, and tested
on a variety ot soils| in each and
every case the verdict is, suooens-
fnl,
Charolina’s Red Shirts.
(‘■Richland’’ in the Auguvta Chronicle.)
I notice that an Anderson ooun-
tv correspondent of tbe tfetet mud
Courier claims that bis county is
the “mother of red-shirts.” This
claim was made in 1877, and it was
then my pleasure to challenge its
correctness, aad to prove that it
was an error, in tbe Charleston
Journal of Commerce. As it has
now been renewed I may be par
doned for correcting it again and
giving tbe facte concerning tbe ori
gin of tbe Bed Shirts in Sooth Car
olina. Everybody will remember
that in 1876 a serious dispute aroee
between the white aud colored cit
izens around Hamburg. Following
the disagreement came tbe Sheriff
who arrested every white men sap-
posed to have participated io tbe
difficulty. A crowd of perhaps 300
people, including priaoners and
their friends, went to Aiken, un
der escort ot tbe sheriff, to apply
for bail before Judge Maher. On
the wav, between Graoiteville and
Aikeu, the eavalcade rested ander
a large tree, near a convenient
spring. Daring tbe stop, tbe con
versation tamed on political mat
ters throughout the Unioa, and
some one alluded to the waving of
the bloody shirt in Indiana by tbe
distinguished Senator Morton. Hon.
G. D. Tillman, who was present,
suggested, jocularly, that it weald
be a good plan tor the Sooth Caro
lina Democrats to wear a red shirt
aa a burlesque on tbe Indiana earn-
paign. The boys “cangh on" quick
as thought and applaaded tbe sag-
geetios. Alter bail had been giv
en tbe prisoners moved a few miles
from town and went into camp. A
grand Democratic gathering and
torchlight procession was to occur
that night, and all eoncarrod that
no better occasion coaid be found
for introducing tbe eosangaioed
gat meat tbso at this time, when it
could be worn by the Hamburg rio
ters with apleuUd effect. A com
mittee was appointed to ge» op the
garments A quantity ofoommoa
white homespun was parebasad aad
tbe patriotie ladiea of Aikea woat
to work on it, and by five o’clock
that after soon about oae hundred
and fifty shirts were completed.
The same committee, obtained a lot
of red paint nod thoroughly splash-
eo the shiita, giving them n bloody
appearance.
They were taken to camp and the
boy* received them with maay
cheers aad yells. Col. A. P. But
ler commanded the
The Value of Terracing-
(From the Atlanta Conotitution.)
In replying to inqaiiies elsewhere
mention is made of a recent visit to
the farm of Mr. Orme, near West
Point, Georgia. It is an historic
farm, tbe first terracing of land in
the manner now so generally prao
tioed having been done tbsre. A
former owner observing that an old
hillside ditch run nearly on a level,
and which bad become obstructed,
filled up and overgrown with w eeds
aud grass, had cadgbt tbe wash
ings from above aud saved the soil,
conceived tbe idea that a narrow
bed or dam run on a lev.-l would do
the same thing. He prooeeded to
coustruct some of these, aud think
ing that tbe edge of a terrace more
than three feet high would let very
inconvenient in a field, located them
at such distances apart that tbe
difference io level between two suc
cessive ones should be Just that
amount. Subsequent experience
has shown that be bit upon the very
best distance. When Orme sub-
seqnently purchased the farm, he
qaioklj perceived the value of the
discovery, and terraced all bis land
as rapidly as it was brought into
cultivation. Tbe resalt is simply
marvelous. Without a hillside ditch
ou the place, and entirely
through tbe agency of terracing,
steep hillsides, which were former
ly defaced by great gnllies, have
enanged into smooth, leval terraces,
susceptible of highest cultivation.
Where the iinee of level bad been
correctly ran, the results wore per
feot; in a few instanees, incorrect
ronuing bad caused slight washes.
We saw terraces which were eatab
lished some fifteen years ago. The
soil bad aecumalated on their up
per sides until the irterveuing sur
face bed become almost or quite
level, just ae it appears in yards
and gardens where tbe work is done
with spade nud shovel.
A little bed along tbe line of lev
el is thrown up by two farrows of n
large plow, the eentre of the bed
not being distarbed and remaining
firm. This atrip a boot a foot wide
under tbe bed, is very important, as
it prevents the bed from being cut
through by heavy rains before tbe
growth ef grass aad weeds hare
strengthened it. To facilitate this
strengthening, grass seed are sows
oa tbe beds as eooo as they are
throw a ap—blse grass perhaps the
best for the purpose Nothing more
is required bat to repair any point
through which water may bsva cut
before tbe bed was well estebiiabed,
to mow down every year tbe weeds,
bushes or briars that may have
sprang up, and to plow well down
to the npperedge at the terrace
border to keep it from widening too
mneb. Tbe lower edge of tbe bor
der should be kept nicely trimmed
by runeing tbe plow near It, bat
jare should he tokeo sever to aa
dermiae it If those raise are ob
served, the unoaltivated terrace
border will not exceed a foot nod n
hall ia horizontal width, though
its vertical height may reach three
feet. ,
Bach la tbe presses by which n
broken, hilly farm hna been hold
firm against the ravages of water,
end which, by jadieioas colUvetlou
nod mnaaring, has been made one
of the most benatifal nod valuable
ia tha country. If the terrace bor
der or bed sen only be held until it
becomm firm and filled with roots,
the battle is won. If H in brokee,
promptly repair it, and an Mr.
Confederate Cavalry Lift.
(Col. J. 8. Mooby in New York Mercury )
While tbe cavalry did not have
an op))ortunity to do much fighting
daring the first year of the war,
they learned to perform the dntiea
and endure the privations ot a sol
diet’s life. My experience in this
school was of great advantage to
me in the after years when 1 be-
came a commander Tbete was a
thirst for ad venture among the men
io tbe cavalry, and a imsltive pleas
ure to get an aocasionai shot “from
a rifleman in a thicket ” There
were often false alarms, and some,
times real ones, from scouting par
ties of infantry who would come op
at night tc surprise our pickets. A
vivid Imagination united with a
nervous tem|>erauie.itcan see in tbe
dark sbaiarn of many things that
have no real existence. A rabbit
making ita nocturnal rounds, a cow
grazing, a hog rooting for acorns,
an owl booting or tbe zoreeob of a
night hawk oonld often arouse and
sometimes stampede an outpost, or
draw the fire ol a whole line of pick
ets. At the first shot the reserve
would inonlit and soon the videttes
would come tunning in at full
speed.
There was an old gray horse ro»m-
ing abollt the fiH.lt> at Fairfax Court
House during the first winter of the
war that must have been fired at
100 times af night by our videttea
and yet waa never touched. I have
never heard whether congress has
voted him s pension. The laat time
that I was ever on picket was in
February, 1862. Tbe snow was
deep aud bard frozen. My post was
on tbe outskirts ot Fairfax Court
House, at the junction of the Wash
iugton road and tnrupike I wore a
woolen hood to keep my ears from
freezing and a blanket thrown
a round me as a protection against
the oold wind. Tbe night was dear
and all that’s best of dark and
bright. I sat on my horse under
the shadow of a tree, both aa a pro
tection Irom tbe piercing blast and
ss a screen from the aignt of an
enemy. 1 bad gone ou duty at mid
night to remain antil daybreak.
The deep silence waa occasionally
broken by the cry of “Halt” from
some distant sentinel ag be chal
lenged the patrol or relief. Tbe
swaying branches of the trees in tbe
moon'ight oast all sorts of fantastic
shapes ou the frozen snow. In this
deep solitude I was watching for
danger and communing with the
•pirit of tbe past. At this very
spot,a few nights before, the videtto
had been flre-l ou by a scouting
party of infantry that bad come up
from McClellan’s camps below. But
tbe old gray horse bad several times
got up a picnic there which raised a
laugh on tbe soldiers.
Now I confess that I was aboat
as much afraid of ridicule as of be
ing shot, and so. unless I got killed
or captured, I resolved to spend the
night there. Horatio Cocles waa
not more determined to hold bis po
sition on the bridge of the Tiber
tbauffi was to stay at my post, but
perhaps bis motives ware less mixed
tbao mine. 1 had been long pon
dering aud remombering, and in my
reverie bad visited the fields that I
bad traversed “in life’s morning
march when my bosom was young.
1 was suddenly aroused by tbe crash
of footsteps breakiog tbe orast ot
tbe bard soow. The sound appear
ed to proceed from something ap
proanhing me with tbe measured
tread of a file of soldiers. It was
screened from my view by some
bouses near the roadside. I waa
anro that it was ao enemy creeping
np to get a shot at me, tor I
thought that oven the old horse
would not have ventured oat oa
such a night, unless nnder orders.
My hnart began to sicken within me
pretty much an Hector's did whan
he had to fore tbe wrath of Achillea.
My horse shivering with cold, with
tbe iasriuot of danger, pricked np
bis earn aad listened ns esgerly ss
1 did to tha footsteps as they got
aear. I draw my pistol, cooked it,
and took aim at tbe corner aroand
which this object mast come. 1
wasted to gat the advantage of the
first shot. Just tbea tha hero of a
hundred panics appeared—the ok)
gray horse. I returned my pistol
to my belt and relapsed Into reverie.
1 was happy, my credit as a soldier
bad been raved.
Young Rhett’s Revenge,
Years before the war, while sec
tional feeling was boilirg toward
fever heat, one of the younx Bhelta
of South Carolina, say* a Washing
ton correspondent, was sent to Har
vard University. At thst time the
students were sharply divided by
Mason aud Dixon's line. The
Northern boys were led by a big
bnlly from a New Hampshire farm,
who thrashed everybody io both
parties, bat displayijl Ida partiality
by thrashing tbe Boatbsrn Imys
twice to tbe Northern boys once.
The university has changed won
derfully since then, of ooorse, bat
at that time it was more like a great
English pub jo school in some re-
sj»ects than like a great English
university. Young Mr. Bbett bad
not been there lung before be was
knocketl down by joung Mr. New
Hampshire. It was a novel ex
perience for the Caruliulso, and be
could only think of one remedy 5
be promptly sent the bully a chal
lenge. New Hampshire made no
immediate reply. Tula ns orally
increaaed the curiosity of the other
fellow as tr what the outcome
would be. One morning New
Hampshire waited at cba|>el door
lor Bhett, and qaite s crowd gath
ered when he arrived.
“Did you write that f” Vked tbe
New Hamiwhire boy savagely,
holding tbe challenge before Bhett’a
face.
“Yes, I di«l,” said Rb tt, pale ot
face but defiant of heart.
New Hampshire said nothing
more, but deliberately tore tne
chalietige into snips aud bite and
threw them in Khett’e face, when
be aud the other boys went into the
chap-1, leaving the dazed Bbett
alone. Mechanically be stooped
ami picked up the pieoes of paper
lying at bis test, than be went over
to Bostoo, playing with tha bite of
paper iu his pooket as be walked.
In the afternoon be reappeared, but.
siiduothii'g to his neatest friend
about his visit to Boatou, nor did
lie disclose his plans for getting
even with his enemy. Every day
for weeks he visited Boston, ami
when not a wav ou these trips oc
cupied himself with his text books.
One day, when a humls-r ol bia fel-
lows were sUtiding on the campus,
among them the bully, young libett
made bia appearance l»r the flint
lime iu many days.
“Come here,” be said, calling tbe
bully by aame,
“Come here yourself,” was tbe re-
ply.
“Meet me half way,” said Bbett,
aud the bally ooneented.
As soon as New Hsmsbire got
within striking distance Bbett
quickly knocked him down. Sur
prised and maddened, tbe bully
rushed at Bhett, when be was again
felled, aud every tims be got ap
Bhett skillfully defended himself
aud offended the other. At length
tbo bully, badly used up, fell help
less at Bhett’s feet, wbo put bis
toot 00 bis breast.
“Let me up,” mosnsd tbe bully.
“Not just yet,” said Bhett. “You
got a challenge Irom me once V
“Yes,” groaned tbe bu ly
“Instead of replying to it like e
gentleman, you tore it up and flaug
the pieces in my face,” went ou
Bhett.
“Yes,” waa the reply, with no ef
fort
“Well, I saved the pieoes aad
you’ve get to eat them before you
get up,” was (be cool reply.
Thereupoo be slowly foil the fal
len bully tbe carefully jircaerved
bits of imper, and they were all
eaten. Bhett bad untilized his Bos
ton trips to tbe best advantage with
the most scientific sloggers of bis
day. It was not nntil be bad sue
ceeded in knocking down one of
bis instructor* that he nailer took
tbs bally.
Courtship Iu Georgia.
When a Georgia former found
oot thftt bia son Join) waa aimrkiiiff
a certain farmer’s daughter for a
year or more without settling any
question, he cal ed him out behind
tbs stark and said to him 1 “John,
do yon lore Sosan Tucker)’ “l
gneas I do, dad.” “And doca she
love von r “That’s what I danno,
and I’m ’fraid to ask her.” “Well,
you'd better throw out a few hints
to night and find oat It’s no mm
wearing out boot leather unless you
are going to marry her.” tfha*
night at 10 o’clock, John camo
homea wreck Hia face w.ia all
scratched op bia ear waa bleeding,
his hat gone, and his imek was
covered with mud “J»hn | John (
what ou earth ie the matter f’ ex
claimed the o'd man, lat lug down
bis paper. “Biu over to Tucker’s,"
was the reply. “And—aml-and I
threw out a few hints to Susan ”
“What kind o’bints T" Why, I
told her I’d been hoofing it two
miles four nights of a week fir the
last two years to *ct up with her
while she unewed gum ami snug
through her nose, nud now 1 reck
wood U wsa time tor her to bru»u
her teeth aud darn her stockings,
cure the bile 00 her chin and tell
the folks we’re engaged.” “And
her father bounced your “N •,
dad, no; there’s where I'm consoled,
It took the whole family, including
Busan, two hired men and tbrea
dogs, and then 1 wasn’t moi’u half
licked, 1 gneas we moved on ’em too
soon, dad—I guess it wasn’t quite
tuna to throw oat biota.”
The S. C, College.
The Columbia eorres|M>udeiit of
the yewt and Courier Hats; “Judge
Cothran and Congreasinan Dibhlu
set an excellent example to tbe |>e.>.
pie of tbe State, Judge Cothran's
sou haa entered tbe South Carolina
College to take the oourseot me
chanical engineering, aud Mr. Dili.
Ide has pla.tal a ion iu the same
institution in the departin'-nr. of
agriculture and chemistry. The
number of students already entered
in tbe agricultural and uieohaiiiCAl
departmsnts ot the Col lags exceeds
1 he total number in attendance last
year. • e * The class in wood
work io the meohiinical d< part men t
has commenced work, and might be
well fur Mr. Tillman and others, be
fore again asserting that tha ten
emiy of rdtuntiou at tbe South
Carolina College ia to make I he
>oung wen look down upon manual
labor, to pay this department a
visit nud see tbe sons of Judges and
well-to do men, with their coats off.
naing saw.sxe and other carpenters’
tools.” This department is being
wail patronised. One hundred and
seventy students were enrolled iu
tha College ou tbo opening day.
Mr. Darts 8hows up Sherman.
Hon Jefferson Davis’s article in
the Baltimore Nun, in reply io the
slanders of Geu. W. T. Bbermao, ia
a scathing exposure of the latter's
babltnal disregard ot truth aud a
wall deserved rebuke to the United
Sutee Senate for making Gen,
Sherman's “personal tirade” an of
ficial document, Tbe great incen
diary baa bean convicted of Sunder
ing not only Mr. Davis and Gen,
Hampton bat Gena. Grant aud A,
S. Johnson also. Nothing belter can
be axpeated of a soldier wbo would
bombard a aity foil ot women and
children and then barn tbeir booset
over their beads in mid winter.
Whan partisan bias baa disappear
ed and impartial history cornea to
be written Geo. Gherman will be
universally regarded as one of the
moat cruet and contemptible of
cravtures —Columbia Record.
package
labelled
An Important Fact.
Tbe Edgefield Monitor says;—
When the chronic grumbler tall*
yon that “taxes are as high as they
ware nnder Radical rule,” just re
mind him that ia addition to tha
taxes paid then a State debt waa
being saddled upon us at the rate
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
yearly This very fact is over look-
ed by the aforesaid ebronie grumb
ler. Another point; This Immense
sum of debt money was brought
into tha State and spent freely,
making what some people now
look back to aad n-me tuber as flush
times, without onee considering tha
coat to tha Btatau Suppose those
flash times, from the same causa,
had continued np to this day, what
would be the finaneial
Sooth OaroHoa I The
would oot be sufficient to pay on*
ball tbe interest on tbe State debt.
All those things should be oeueid
ered in comparing the present with
the past, the Democratie with Rd
publican adminiatration. <
President McGee, of tha New
York Produce Exchange, received
laat week a mysterious
from Wilmington, N. C.,
“Here is the worm that is ruining
tbe corn crop." Kx-Mayor Edaou
bel|ied Mr. McGee open tbe pm-ket
but week The kernel was a bottle
of whiskey.
Doctors Praise It,
Physicians don’t hesitate to oae,
prescribe or endorse West more
laud’s Galiaaya Tonie,. will hw
seen by reading the following;
Columbia, 8. r. t Jay, 1884.
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