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emocrat ? Vol. I, A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORANGEBURG COUNTV. OliA^GEBURG, S. C> FRIDAY j SANK ART 31, 1879. 2^?* 0? "f?g ?iie??a SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. Subscription; One Year..*.. 1.50 Six Months.1.00 Ministers of the Gospel.1.00 Advertisements. First Instertton...:..7r.7.$l M Euoh Subsequent Insertion.60 Liberal contracts made fur 3 mouths and over. tit mmmmt* job oaj'Fic? IS PREPARED TO l)? AU> KINDS OK A OJJl?STlON FOR TUE FARMERS. HOW MUCH OP THE CROP FOR LAHOR. What part of Ihc crop is just com pensation to the laborer ? This is an important ques'ion, and one concern ing which rather vague ideas prevail. Let U3 look at it briefly, in the light of first principles. All capital repre sents so much labor. The value of a house 'when finished, is measured by the labor expended in getting the lumber, dressing and Utting it, &c. The labor expended in making an en gine, melting the ore, forging the iron and fashioning and putting it to gether, measures its value. Now-, suppose the gross earnings of a fami band's labor, after deducting rent of land and horse hire, cost of ploughs, &C., is invested in land, his earnings another year, after like deductions, is invested in a horse and implements. We have three equal things?the la borer's work for one year?as much land as the work can purchase?and as good a horse and as many imple ments as that amount of work can buy. Now if these three equal things are formed into a copartnership to make a crop, ought not each one to be entitled to an equal share* of it? in other words to one-third of the ciop; the laborer one-third, the laud one-third, ana the horse and imple ments one-third. But, enquires one, arc these three factors in the case equal? Let us see. Assume that a hand can culti vate 30 acres?-one-third in small grain, one-third in cotton, and one third in com. Let the land be suffi ciently good to produce 800 lbs. oats to the acre, 1-3 bale of cotton, and 8 bushels of corn. At SI.00 a hundred, 8,000 ibs. oats would bring.880 00 " 3 bales of cotton say.100 00 80 bushels corn.GO 00 Total. $210 00 From this deduct for rent of land $2.00 per acre.. SG0 00 Hire of horse.(30 00 ?Total'....i'....:^r2o oo And there is left to represent the value of labor proper...$120 00 Any one familiar with farming, will admit that the above calculation is very favorable to the laborer ; the crops are above the average without manure, and rent and horse 1dre arc placed at very low figures ; and yet the net proceeds of the year's labor proper, would not buy 30 acres of land at tho low price of $?.00 per acre, and would not more than buy a good horse and the necessary tools to work the crop. If there is any inequality in the three factors, lami, labor, stock and tools, the labor is certainly the one which is rated too high. For let it be remembered that to get 30 acres of cultivated land, tiie farmer must buy and pay taxes on at least 4 0 or more acres, to say nothing of barns and other im provements. Arrangements for labor made, the next question is, what crops to culti vate. The testimony is universal and without exception that those farmers are most prosperous who buy least?in other words who raise what is needed for home consumption. Excessive cultivation of money crops has cursed us for years past, and there is not a shadow of a doubt ihatjour true policy is to curtail them to tho very last degree. What par ticular crops to plant, must bo left to each one's discretion?soil, climate aud surroundings entering largely into the pro?lem. Let every one scan closely his past experience and see what clops have paid, and what hare not, and discard promptly all that have not paid. It is far bettet to let land rest and grow vegetable matter for its enrichment, than to ex haust it by cultivation aud at the same time lose by the operation. Sowing down largely in small grain, is another cheap method of utilizing :Jand?if profits are small expense ac counts ire small also. We know all this is trite and old, but men like wagons run in ruts?follow old hab its?and it is only by repeated urging that they can be turned out of them. ?Southern Cultivator. A Baptist preacber in North Caro lina, has read the Bible through fif teen times in the lost lifteen years by torch light. Last year, besides rais ing, with his own hands, two bales of cotton, fifty barrels of corn and two hundred bushels of potatoes, he trav eled two thousand miles, preached one hundred and twenty sermons, and received for his ministerial ser vices $120.?Exchange. Proposed to His Grandmother. Col. Thornton of the East India service, tells thus the romance of his youtli: "One clear, starlight evening in I June, Hellen and I were walking on the terrace, among dower-beds that were cut in tho soft, green turf. In spired by the stillness and ordorous influence of the night air, I told her my heart's secret, with all its hopes and fears." "She looked up at me wondering* ly, and teats glistened in her bcauti ful eyes as she said : u 'Ah, Capt. Thornton, arc you sure? Do you?do you love me? it cannot be. No, never.' " 'Why,' 1 cried, impetuously press ing my suit and her, 'you love anoth er?' ?* 'Sir,' she said, almost sharply, 'do you know who I am?' " 'The loveliest girl in England.' *? 'No, sir, I am not; >roat heavens, Captain Thornton, I am your grand mother.' "My grandmother! Talk of sud den shocks after that, wou't you ? I tried to speak, but my voice failed me. I readied out my band and touched her. Yes, she was there, real enough, and 1 was not dreaming. " 'Tell me all!' I gasped. "And standing there, by tho broad stone coping, she told me all. How her parents had died when she was little more than an infant, and Sir John, her guardian and my grand father, had watched over her with jealous care, always keeping her at school, bower, until he brought her home?a young lady. "Then, while I was in India, the poor old man fell suddenly ill, and on his dying bed persuaded his young ward to marry him, just in order to inherit his vast estate, which she bad refused to take as a legacy. " 'And believe me,' said Miss Hel len, '1 did it only to keep it for you, the rightful heir, whose wildness had temporalily piovoked the old gentle man.? Washington Capital. The Friendly Sea Gull. A pretty story is told by the Wil mington Star, which vouches for iis strict accuracy. During the preva lence of the severest storm of the 12th of September last, after the darkness of night had set in, one of the seamen on board of the lightship off Frying Pan Shoals, saw a large black bird dash through the mist and light on the railing near where he was standing. He took the bird which proved to be an ordinary sea gull, all wet aud drabbled by the storm, and warmed and dried it in his bosom, after which lie placed it in a bed im provised for the occasion, after first feeding it as if it had been a little child. The next morning, the storm having subsided, our seaman turned the bird loose, of course with no ex pectation of seeing it again. Very much to his surprise, however, on the very next night, aud about the same hour of its previous visit, the gull again put ill appearance, alighting upon the rails of tho ship as before, when it was fed, caressed and cared for as on the occasion of its iirst call, and. from that time up to the 9th of November, nearly two months, when the last information was received from the ship, the bird had continued its nightly visits and had been regu larly fed and consigned to its "little bed," where it would remain until releasod the next morning. A Feminine Mystery. Assuming that no man ever saw a woman slap her cars or wear carinulfs, it behooves tho sterner sex to respect* fully inquire why this is so. Women's ears taken as they come, look very much as men's ears. To an impar tial and fair-minded observer, they are more delicately constructed, and naturally not well fortified against cold as the average masculine auricu lar appendage. The feminine ear is not protected by whiskers or hair, and fashion declares that the hat or bonnet shall in no way contribute to its warmth or general comfort. It goes into battle against the common enemy without armor, and with no more preparation for the conflict than were this the month of Juno instead of January. That it should escape under such circumstances^ or tliat^ un wrapped and thus exposed, it should not require slapping, as either a pre ventive or protective measure, is a I mystery which the average masculine mind is not equal to.? Chicago Intert Ocean. AN UNRECORDED BIT OF HISTORY. BENEDICT ARNOLD'S NARROW ESCAPE Fi.OM DEATH AT THE HANDS OF A WO MAN. Thy recent dca'.h of Mrs. Ann Hin | mnn Kellogg, of Fail field, Conn., in the ninety-third year of her age, re calls an unrecorded incident of the | war of tho revolution. Mrs. Kellogg I f was the daughter of Captain Elishu Iliuman* ol tlie United States nav.y, and her mother was the only Ameri can who remained in New London when the town was destroyed by the traitor Benedict Arnold, in 1781. At that time Cdpft Hinman's ship was j hourly expected to arrive at New London, and it was hoped that ho might come in time to save the town. Mrs. llinman was Well acquinled with Arnold, as he had often dined at her house, and had been a friend of her husband. Induced by anxiety for her husband's safely, she remain ed after all others had lied, and saw the entry of the British from the door way of her house. As Arnold rode up he saw and saluted her, and said that if she would point out her own properly it should be spared. She pointed out the houses of several of] her neighbors as her own, and thus! saved them from destruction. Arnold remained on horseback near her house nearly all day, noting the battle that was raging at Fort Uns wold-, on the Groton side of the river-, where the tall monument commemorating the event now stands. I Three times were the British driv en down the bill by the deadly fire from the Tort. Then the ammunition of, its defenders became exhausted, and they were obliged to surrender. The British ofliccr in command of the storming party was so enraged at the desperate defense of the fortj that, as ho entered it, he asked: "Who com mands here?" Colonel Lethard re plied : "I did) but you do now," at the same time surrendering his I sword. The officer received the sword and instantly plunged it into the heart of the gallant colonel. An j American officer, standing beside his olonel, snatched his own sword from [its scabbard, and, in a moment, the cowardly Briton lay dead beside his victim. An indiscrimidate massacre of all within the furt followed, and thirty of the wounded Americans were piled into a wagon, that was rolled down a steep hillside to the bottom, where it was dashed in pieces against u tree. Then huriied prepa rations were made to evacuate their position by the British, Arnold hav ing learned of the expected arrival of Captain iliuman. Mrs. Iliuman, having witnessed these outrages from her housetop, be came so much incensed against the traitor that she hurriedly descended from the roof, took a musket from the closet, where it hail been left the day before by an American soldier, and levelled it at Arnold as he sat on his horse in front of the house. Tak ing a long, stead)- aim, she pulled the trigger, but the piece missed lire. Hearing the snap of tho lock, Arnold turned and asked her what that noise was. With great presci.ee of mind, she dropped the gun so that he did; not see it, and she answered that it w as tho. breaking of a chair. This incident formed the subject of a painting by Huntington, the artist, whose wife is a grand nitec of Mrs. Iliuman. This painting is now in the possession of Mr. Thomas Day, of Bergen Point, N. J. In it Mrs. Hinman is represented as levelling a musket at Arnold from a window in her house, and the burning town is seen in the background. The re mains of both Captain and Mrs. Iliu man now lie in the Cedar Grove cemetery at New London, where their monument is one of the finest to bo seen. Beheaded at Prayer. Hamlet refrained from killing his mother's husband while the latter was on his knees, but Mrs. John S. Cald well, of South By fiord, had no such scruples when she decapitated her husband with an axe. Mr. Caldwell was knelling at a chair offering his morning devotions, tho only other person in the house being his sister in-law* who was in the same devout, posture, when Mrs.-Caldwell stealthi ly entered the room and snatching up i an axe, which her husband had brought into the room tho night be fore, dealt him a blow on the back of his neck, which nearly severed his head from his body. Death was in stantaneous, and the soul of the sup pliant followed the half uttered pray er to the other world. True Lovo. What is love? It is not that exal-1 tation of heart ami soul that, devoted to a simple object, lifts the beloved being to its utmost, reach, attributing to her all the virtues and worth that Constitute the essential germ of the worshippers character? Is it not the first step towards the high table land of a. calm, enduring, trustful af fection that, independent of merely material considerations^ and superior to tlio judgments of the gossiping multitue, pervades uc whole beings and holds itself sacred among the most sacred things of existence? When a true woman knows that a man loves her?not merely nd mires, but truly loves?she is at once inspired with an ambition to deserve the respect which prompts the love) even if there may be potent reasons why that cannot be reciprocated. She knows that he overrates her with virtues, but determines to realize as nearly as possible his cslimato of them. It is the same with n man; the knowledge of a good woman's love makeS him nobler and belter. I And such love lasts forever; it en ' durcs tho shock of heavy trials, is I proof against the still more potent ef fect of daily petty vexations ; it suf fers no diminution from the ravages of time or absence, but grows strong er and surer as age comes on, and renders the parting that must come less bitter; for to those who truly lovo, death is but a temporary sepa ration. Irue love ekalls, purifies, sancti fies; and tine lovers are belter fitted for heaven than those whose hearts have never been warmed by it. Thus there is deep und thorough satisfac tion in the close proximity of lovers) a real happiness in the touching of palms, and a mystcrous pleasure in the exchange of tender looks, but we know also lhat there is a sacredness about these things which is utterly lost if they are made, as it were, an exhibition for spectators.'; Circumstantial Evidence, in the year 18G0 two men named Perry and their mother were hanged for the murder of a man who hud never been murdered at nil* Mr. Harrison, Lady Campden's toward, having been collecting his lcnts, sud denly disappeared. John Perry ac cused bis mother, himself, and Irs brother of having robbed Mr. Harri son in the previous year, and of hav ing again robbed him and murdered him on the night when he was missed. The mother and Richard Terry denied all knowledge of the mailer ; but at length pleaded guilty to the first in dictment under some pressure of poli cy. The other indictment was no' then proceeded with, on the ground that the body was not found. Hut John persisted in Iiis story, and at the next assize they were all tried for murder. .John then retreated his con fession, and said ho must have been mad. Nevertheless, they were all condemned. Some years after Mr. Harrison appeared alive, and thus ac counted for his mysterious absence: : After receiving his rents he had been j set upon by a gang of rulliaus, carried to the seaside, put on ship-board, and sold sr. a slave to *.lie Turks. After ins master's death he escaped, and with gicat difiieully working Ins way, first to Lisbon, and thence to Dover, lie arrived in England, as our law book coolly says ulo the surprise of all the country." A Sad Suicide. A telegram dated Nashville, Janu ary lGth, says: Miss Rosa Solomon, n beautiful Jewess, of liopkinsville, Kentucky, who had been on a visit to this city, committed suicide yes terday. It is stated that she was engaged to be? married to a gentleman of high standing of Cincinnati upon her return home. She had frequent ly heard from him since her arrival here, but yesterday evening 9he re ceived a letter from him stating that ho could not many her. She natu rally evinced great distress, and went out of the house, as her rela tions thought, to take some fresh air. Proceeding to R. E. Page's drug store, she purchased 20 grains or strychnine, saying that she wished to poison rats. She returned to the house and went to her room. About 9 o'clock some- of her relatives went in and found her unconscious and in convulsions. Several physicians were sent for and Dr. Uaxtcr arrived, but too late to do any good, for she died about 10 o^clocki A LOST HEIRESS. TTIE MYSTERIOUS inmate OK A 8AN FRANCISCO ALMS house, who Pock et3 A HALF MILLION. On the the Gth of August, 1874, a woman who gave the name of Sophia Jansen, was committed to tho alms house by the Insanity Commissioners of this city, under the impression that she was of unsound mind, but barm less. On tho Juno following her commitment she was discharged at the request of tho Swedish Consul, of which nation she was supposed to be a representative, but subseqently her insanity assumed a dangerous form, and she was sent to the Stockton In sane Asylum. I'revious to her ap-^ pearanee in this city it was known that the vornan had walked the entire distance from Omaha, scaling preci pices and mouniahis, plodding rav ines and crossing the dizzy trestles over which the railroad passes be tween here and that cityv Akhouuh destitute on her arrival here, she refused to make known the objecto! her visit and never djd vol unteer any information of her ea-ly history, except that her name was Jansen, that she was born at Smallen, Sweden, in 183G, and had been in the couutry live years, having come to Evnnslown, 111., with her brother, and joined her father, who was a Methodist minister at that place. Subsequently she stated that she had left home eleven months be ore, but she refuocd to give any reasons for doing so. Communication was had with the Mtij'or of Evanstown and oth er parties mentioned by her as resid ing there, and the result was that her story was found to be untrue. The mystery sui rounding this strange wayfarer excited considerable public interest at the time of her arrival in this city, but after she was committed to the alms house, all eflorls to fath om the occasion of her peculiar be havior having proved fruitless, she was soon forgotten. The second link in the queer change of her history ap pears in the fact that not many duys ago a young man visited the alms house, gave a description of poor So phia Jansen, correct in many particu lars, and asked Concerning her where abouts. I This young man informed Supcrin j lendent Kvating that the strange wo j man was his aunt, and that some five j years ago, w hile in a fit of insanity, she wandered from her home near St. Louis, Mo., and hail not been heard of since. In addition, he stated that the woman was the sister of John G. Kuhman, a well-known resident of j this city, who died here in December, j 1877, leaving property worth nearly half a million of dollars, and which 'yields an incomo of 83,000 per month. The unknown woman was, therefore, an heir to Kabmau's estate, ?I2 only others being a slst?r and a brother* w ho reside at St. Louis, and the children of a deceased brother, living in this city.?San Francisco Cull, 12fA. An Emphatic Opinion. That a petition should be circula ting for the pardon of Cardozo is nothing extraordinary?for th? vilest crimiuul has the right to circulate n petition?but that a number of prom inent Democrats arc signing it ie, we I must confess, a trifle startling. The one thing that has redeemed the in vestigations from degenerating into mere farces is the conviction of Car dozo. The ex-Treasurer was as in telligent, cultured, unctuous, bland, Pharisaical, unscrupulous and deeply dyed a villain as ever lived, nud con signment to the penitentiary for a few years is a ridiculously inadequate punishment. To dream of pardoning him is an insult to every outraged citizen of the State, even the negroes whom he duped and swindled. Should Cardozo bo pardoned, and should then run for any office against any of the influential Democrats who signed his petition, we think we would support Cardozo. Swails has been a sufficient example of tho ef fect of misplaced clemency without having Cardozo inflicted in addition. '? Winnsboro News and Herald. He had broken his promise to mrtr ry the girl, and her father wanted a money considration to help heal a wounded heart. Tho young man said he would consider a reasonable prop osition. "Well* then,0 said the hate father, who was seeking justice for his daughter, "Young man, how does a dollar and half strike you ?" Killed by a Meteor. Recently Leonidas Grover, who re Bided in the vicinity of Newtowr, Fountain Co., Ind., met his death in a way that is probably without parallel in this or any oilier country. Mr. Grover was a widower, living on his farm with a married daughter and her husband. One evening the married <eoupre had been absent on a visit to sonic neighbors, ami uport returning at a lalC hour entered tire House, find ing evuything to all nppe'ArnnCXi in usual order, and supposing that Mr. Grover had already retired, went to bed themselves* Next morning the daughter arose, and having prepared breakfast, went to the adjoining room to call her father', and was hor rified to find him lying upon hisshat teied bed, a mutilated corpse. Her screams brought the husband quickly to the bedroom, aud an inspection disclosed a ragged opening in the roof, directly over the breast of the unfortunate man, which was torn through us if by a cannon ball and extending downward through the bedding and floor; other holes show ed the direction taken by the deadly mlsslVe. Subsequent search revealed the fact that the awful calamity was caused by the fall of a meteoric stone, and the stone itseir, pyramidial in shape and weighing twenty pounds and a few ounces, avoirdupois^ and stained with blood, was ilhearthei} from a depth of nearly five feet, thus showing the fearful impetus with which it struck the dwelling. The position of the corpse, with other sur roundings, when found, showed that the victim was asleep when stricken aud lhat death to him was painless. A Singular Story. Jonathan R. Bass, of Cambria, Ni agara C?unty, N. Y., has not a joint in his body. He webt to bed in 1857, and has never been out of it .since. He cannot even moVe a finger. Ho van as captain of a canal boat be tween Buffalo and Rochester in 1850, and was gelling stiff then. When he could not do any work ho had to quit canaling, and then went to book- keeping. His joints kept getting stiffer and Btilter. The doctors could do him no good, and at last he had to give up, and, after twenty-one years, he has been abed at the farm homestead ';f his family, between Lockport and Lewiston. His trouble commenced with a pain shooting through the bottom of bis right foot that tumbled him to the ground. The foot commenced to swell aud got to I be almost twice its natural size. Stiffness in the joints followed. Now JJuss is literally a bone man. There is no more bend to his legs, arms and body than there is to a marble statue. His arms arc ns fast to his side ns if they were nailed there. For eight years after he went to bed he could move his arms, but the joints finally became solid bone. They have to feed him with ft spoon. His jaws arc ns immovable as his joints. There is a 'space between his teeth that is just wide enough to get food through. In I860 ho became blind. His mind is sound, but he Speaks with dillloulty. The Farmers. Agriculture, commerce and manu, fncliues are the three pursuits that unite a country?but the greatest of these is agriculture, for without its products the spindle cannot turn and the ship will not sail. Agriculture furnishes the conservative element in society, and in the end is the guid ing, restraining, Controlling force in government. Against 9torms of pop ular fury, against frenzied madness that seek collision with established order, against I he spirit ot anarchy that would sweep away the landmarks and safeguards of Chtistian society and Republican government-, the furmers of the United St?ters Will stand tin the shield aud bulwark? themselves the willing sUhJecls nhd therefore forcing all others into quiet submission. A Mississippi negro wa9 barefdoted and hoeing cotton. He saw his big toe under a clod about six feet from him, and thought it was a mold Smashing it with his hoc, he hopped around and howled for a brief space; but, finding no relief, planted the several pounds of podei extremity and battered loo upon a stump, and sagely remarked : " Well, Jes you pain and misery jes ns much as you kin. I doesn't kyar. You huvtyo'self moic'n you docs mo " A GAY OLD DECEIVER. LOVE'S 8IIOIIT DRKAM?TUE FICKLENESS OF AN ANCIENT LOVEU. On the steamer St. John's wbdc& arrived at Savannah-, Gtv, recently from Jacksonville, was a passengilr by tho name of John Hayes, whoso bo&d t$ silvered as it were with lb* frosts of Seventy winters, yet who it seems is still afflicted with tho pas sions and follies of youth, and is also something of a gay Lothario. Mn Hayes had been in the city but a 8borttime when he was approached by an elllcient constable and invited to take a walk to Magistrale Wade's office, in accordance with a warrattt which had been issued against him. The warrant VvAs based' upon the complaint of Mrs. Lillie Willington* who hud arrived the same morning from Jacksonville, by the train oA the Atlantic and Guif Railroad, and who staled that the venerable Hayes Was a gay old deceirer, and !Mr\S tefl her in the lurch and run off with heP properly. She was not going to bo trifled with, on discovering that hep ancient lover had given her the s.ipi and bad left Jacksonville by steamer for Savannah, she hastened to tho depot, took die enra and overhauled him, greatly to his disgust. Tim lady, we umieratnnd, is only ttfSttty^ eight yeAVS oT Age, and is propossesa iug in appearance, and is from Hart ford, Connecticut, where Huyca also lived. She states that the fosciua* ting Lothario had induced her to abandon her husband and hie with bim to the Land of ^Idtvero to enjoy the full fi-ulliOn ol IoVe*fe dream. She gathered up what property she eotildv and the pair fled to Jackson vi He* where they had been Hying for tho past five or six weeks. Hayes becora ing discontented and yearning tut additional conquests in Cupid's realm; sagaciously collected all the personal property of Mrs. Willington, without bidding her an affectionate adieu, or even a farewell kiss, took French leave and started instanter for Sa vannah. The fair totofev as elated \ soon discovered bis desertion and sped over the rails after him. The parties were each represented by able counsel, and ttm c&Mhinaliou was at once had before Magistrate Wade. ARer heaving the evidencd and the Argument the Magistrate or dered the defendant to surrender up the plaintiffs property-, and thus were separated fickle* treacherous 70 years, and sweet, confiding 28. The defendant elated that his con duct with the plaintiff wAs not or a, criminal nature, but Magistrate Wadd was unable to view the proceedings through the same glass aud did not give credence to the assertion. A Marrying Mail. Rev. John Mandoline, of Brooklyn^ just sentenced to five years imprison ment for bigamy, missed his calling: He should have been a humorist. In his confession to the judge he wrote: "After my first Wife died in 1873, I went to Philadelphia, where 1 became acquainted with Mary K. Rustcl, and married her. Soon af er ray wife left me on account of my religion. I then went to Newark as a preacher of the Uospch There I became at> quatnted with Ah Old widow, who pro posed marriage to me, and-, after tell ing her my eiicumstnnces as regards my first wife, who is living, got mar ried to her. She also left me. 1 then went to Bradford, Conn.* where I made tho acquaintance or a third woman, to whom I was married: She found out the circumstances res pecting my previous marriages, and ono morning upon returning from work I found that she also had iedi I then came to Tioy, where 1 formed the acquaintance of it servant girl, to whom I was married. She fled from mo. Learning thai this last person intended to have me arrested, 1 left Troy and went to Lowell, Mass. 1 came across a friend who introduced me lo a young lady, and after sonn) time keeping her company, I propoeod And was married to her. About a month after she was informed of my previous marriages* aud 1 had to leave Massachusetts. I then came to Winfield, L. I., where I was mar ried to my present wife, Miss Weidol* and for which marriage I was locked up. I therefore ask for mercy;" Uncle Solomon says he has noticed oil through his life* how ready peoj 14 are, when they have made a mistake* to'correct it?by abusing aomebo f else for it.