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SHERIDAN & SIMS, Proprietors. SUUSCUIITION. One Year....*.<....?.^,.St.60' Bix Months...,?..>....1.00 Ministers'of the Goapek.......1100 AI/V E?VrSEtt KNTS. ?First Insterrton.:.$1.001 ?Each Subsequent Insortion.501 f>ifberal contructs nmUo luv 3 mouth Mid over. JOB OFFICE ??iasl'HEl'AnWJ TO-DO A<KT, Job 3pr|i^tiaag On tho Wing. 1<il^sv;lle, Amson County, N. C, It!/, jl July 22nd, ,1879. ; Edilo.r Orangeburg D.epiocrqt: Did you ever trayel on d slow train for fivo 1 hours /ojr .atyout stxtv miles without breakfast or the chance of getting a toieaUfasJt 4?r.ing the trip ? If so, you Qn,n appreciate some what the journey from Charlotte to wte'j poiut. A ti?ihjfing with the .words in largo letters "jEating House," painted Ahcrcon, stared us while wait ing at one of ? the stations /or about half an hour, as a tantalizer and whet ter of our appetites, ^vxpecting re lief from this place we were disap pointed by Unding tho doors closed, and in being informed that all Li e breakfast had been eaten up by the passengers on a train which had preceded us a short time before. Strange as it may appear this com pulsory control of our appetites afford ed us no little amusement, and, w6 have uo doubt, amusement to some of the fair oues occupying the small half car attached to the slow freight train on jwhi^h wo were traveling. After passing said eating house, (to which after its cold treatment of us we gave the cold shoulder,) we reached a little station and espying in the distance a lijttje store wo made for it and procur ing a few crackers an.<J a bos of sar dines, (both of which looked like they might tell of some of Urn .eyents connected with the late war,) we made as bold an attack upon them as ihey and the circumstances surround ing us would permit. We found that there was not much poultry in this region, (perhaps tbey have not got ten over the spare of Sherman's raid in 18/??,) for we enquired at several pjac.es for eggs, but could not obtain any. pon't think though Hint we were ^s-baiisted?by no meuns. Wo are how ander diiferent circum stances ; though not yet at our jour neys end, we realize.in the near future perroapppfc relief from the cravings of the Inner nmn, as well as pleasures ofJ wjiich ^^plputiohs can Torm "no realization. Bpt jLhis is rolher a strange way to write about opr tyip, commencirg with the second day's proceedings, you must allow cirpt) instance j to con trol us tins time, ai)d as we have been somewhat .turned around to gpt here, must ppt object to our commencing so near the end of our trip. Yesterday wc were led off from Or angeburg by a belle which to us was upspont ,but knowing j,hnt to yield gracefully on that occasion would be the more discrept course to pursue, wo madp no resistance, but followed the belle blindly. This is one time Mr. E/litoy, when the belle did not lead amiss. In due time we reached 1.l|? other train which was to bear us on. qur way to the Qld North Stale, and lmyjpg secured comfortable seats thereon we were soon wafted over the iron track of the Charlotte, Cojumbia & Augusta Railroad to Charlotte. On the way, there was not much of spe cial interest to note. Rain is needed all alqng the line of the railroad) cotton and corn aro both suffering for it, apd unless soon obtained as far as we cim sec tlje crops of both of these prpi]uct9 of our soil will bo.'ma terially injured. Clmrlottc seemed to be all astir, as it has a local trade, which will always afford its mcrpliants a chance to dispose of their wares, we were not surprised at the activity of its trade circle. We visited the Mecklenburg Iron Works, and were pleased with the arrangements there for manufacturing Engines, Mill Gear and Farming Implements, #c. Our next visit was to tho cngino house of tbe Pioneer Eire Engine! Company No. 2. The steamer of this company appeared ready to meet any call made upon it to control the fiery clement. Stabled within the build* ing wore two fine specimens of horse flesh which aro always near at hand to be attached upon short notice to the steamer, and away to the scene of conflagration. Above the room occupied by tho steamor and hose reel, was the company hall, well sup plied with chairs, floor carpeted and walls adorned with pictures. Every thing Arranged in nice order to assist .in the dispatch of such business as may be brought before its members. ATter strolling about for awhile we concluded it best to look after some thing to eat, and returning to our hotel wo found supper ready, which be assured we did full justice to. Hearing of a Y. M. CA. room be ing open that night we Btarted in search of the same, but.wero disap pointed jn not being nble to catch lue Joust .glimmering ray from their I rooms. Seeing the light of a Lodgo .of Odd Fellows above their place of .meeting we concluded that certain re strictions might bo placed upon the Association in tho use of its room, and gave up onr efforts to meet witli ItheY. M. 0. A. Returning to our hotel we sought rest in the arms of Moipheus ; a.id this morning at 5 :30 A. M. found us where we started this letter, onboard tho train for Wil mington. Our transportation being at hand we will bid you adieu for, awhile at least. Pi^o. A Revolting Outrage. I It falls to our lot this week to re cord one of the most diabolical out rages that was ever perpetrated in this county. Tho circumstances are then: Mr. A. Humphries and his wife, living four miles from town, near Sardis Church, on Wednesday evening left their infant daughtet, aged about 2 years and 3 monLbs, in the care of a negro boy, named Ed. Holmes, aged alout }y yo^ri, whiic tliey went to church. On their re turn the mother discovered tliat the child was very bloody and her screams brought neighbors to the house. Dr. lieaty was immediately sent for, and upon examination dis covered that the little creature had been outraged jn a most horrible manner. As the parents went into the house the negro boy passed them, going out, ami at last report wa3 at largo; but;we jtluuk lie cannot long escape the vigilant search of the ex cited citizens w))o are after him. It is supposed to be; impossible for the child to live. .Tho simple recital of this most revolting Outrage makes the bipod curdle in our veins.:?JJni qn Times. A Touching Allegory. A certain good-natured old Repub lican farmer, preserved his constant ??fiod-?atnrot-?tupiv up -what ? might. Que day one of his men came in and told him that one of his lead oxen had stampeded, it being that big blonde oil-ox, Jioscoe Conkling. "Well," responded the old farmer, *'hc always was a brcacy cuss. I'm glad he's gone." Not long afterward another messenger came in haste to announce that old lit indie Butler was dead. "You don't say. so !" re sponded the happy old granger. "He was an old ox, anyhow. Just take off Ilia hide and sell it; it will fetch more than he was worth. I took him for a bad debt in the first place." The thing went on for somo time, udt til the stalwq.it press began to repri mand Hayes, saying that all his losses weio judgments sent by the Lord for his wickedness. "Well," he responded placidly, "if the Lord will take out the judgment in that kind of rattle, it is the cheapest way 1 lean pay it." Sound Advipe. A physician writes to a young man as follows: "My profession has thrown me with women of all classes, and my experience teaches me that heaven never gave a greater proof of love to man than to, place woman here with him. My udvicc is go and propose to the most sensible girl you Know. If she accepts yon tell hor you will divide the last dollar with her and that you will lovo her with all your heart in the bargain ; and then keep your promise. l^Jy wor?t for it she will live within your in come, and to your last hour you will regret that you did not marry sooner. Stop worrying about fermnine ex travagance and feminine untruth. Just you he truo to her?love herein? cerely, and a more fond, faithful, foolish slave you will never meet any whore. You will not deserve her, 1 know, but she will never know it." A Good. Rule. A man who is very rich now, was very poor when he was a boy. When asked how he got his riches, ho re plied : l<My' father taught roe never to play till my work was finished, and never to spend my monoy until I earned it. If I had but an hour's work in a day I must do that the first thing, and in an hour. And af ter this, I was allowed to play ; and \ then could play with much more pleasure than if I had the thoughts of unfinished task heforo my mind. I early formed the habit of doing every thing in time, ami it soon became easy to do so. It is to this I owe i my prosperity." 1 Indian Corn. Editor Orangeburg Democrat: How to cultivate corn, to secure a j good crop a.ud .improve soii requires some skill aod science Every farm er thinks his mode the best. I differ with the most farmers, they practic ing shallow culture with scrapers and sweeps, I will give you my plan with its advantages. What manures pay best on worn soil? Tho analysis of .cor? shows that it contains much starch, sugar and fat. Cotton seed with carbonaceous and vegetable mat ter I find to bo the best fertiliser for coro. To cultivate corn successfully we m.UBt give it distance five and a half by four, or fivo by fivo is the proper distance on sandy land. We may plant five by three on stiff or clay lands, with equal success, but if we plant close on sandy lands it will invariably get, in farmers' parlance, the yellows, and be light and chaffy. Distance in corn secures it against the injurious effects of droughts, which are common in recent years. Man? lers should plant, arid cultivate with an eye to this. Distance in corn en ables the farmer to secure a good crop of peas when sown in proper lime among the corn. A great desid eratum. At the commencement of my letters I promised to give you my plan of improving my land and make paying crops. A discussion of this subject in our Agricultural Society gave rise to these letters. I wish your readers to remember this. Tho proposition now is, How to raise coru on ex hausted laud. We haul, in the months of January and February four or live loads of wood's earth, (an admixture of straw, leaves and rotten wood) to the acre, depositing the piles convenient to bo spattered hroadcast with a pichfork. Break down the bed with a turn plow; lay off the planting furrow with an open ing plow. Just bofore dropping the seed run iu the same furrow with a ?cootcr.as deepens the horse oar^pnH^ drop thp seed, t|iey will bury them selves ; then sow ten or filtppn bushels of cotton seed with about one hun dred pounds of hope pr.r acre ; cover wjib scooter plow two fuirows to the row ; block off two or three dnjs be fore coming up ; this will destroy the small grass, pulverize the clods and leave a smooth and even surface for your first scooter j furrow, which should be given in eight or ten days after the corn is up; in eight or ten days follow with a live inch twister, adjusting a thin board to prevent the earth from covering the corn ; in eight or ten days you may break out the middles; then in eight or ten days side with sxiteen inch sweep; and in eight or ten days more you are ready to lay .by, which should be done just before corn shows its tassels with two Fanner's frieud or Watt plow furrows and one sweep furrows. Tho peas having been dropped your corn is laid by wjth pipe or eleven furrows to the row, and will yield more than if twenty-one futruws were given, which was the custom in olden times. Mr. Editor, you have my plan, 1 claim for it a decided advantage over the Hat culture or Dixon plan, which is the plan of most of our farmers, J hope some of your correspondents will discuss this with me. J. C. ]{. Fork ok Edisto. Awful. A Madison paper gives a fearful account of woman's perfidy. A young man went to take his girl for a walk, but found that she had not done her milking, With a gallantry that does credit to tho Madisoniau young man, he volunteered to do the milking for her while she was making her toilet. After he had got her milking done, had hung the milk-tSlool on the bars and set the pail of milk in the kitch en, washed his hands at the pump with soft soap and wiped them on tho tail of his duster, he discovered that she had gope to a circus with another young man who did not Know enough to extract milk from a milk wagon. The deserted young man kicked over the m.ilk pail and went his way a sad der man* An editor got shaved in a barber shop lately, and offered the darkey a dime, which was refused, because said he, "J understand you is an editor!" "Well, what of that?" ?'Wo never charge editors nuflln 1" uBnt such liberality will ruin you." tl()h nebber mind, sah, we makes it up on gentlemen." Heavy on the ed itors. Unbsgpy. Marriages. One of the saddest characteristics of tho time is the frequency of ac counts of marital injQdeiI:.y and the wrack of household!]. ScandaJouo elopeweuls, ruinous infatuations, crime led up to by illicit passion, oc cupy a distressingly large epaoe in the news of the day. More impres sive to the feelings than even these aifairs whoso tragic details are given to the world, is the thought that if they have become of so common oc currence, how vast must be the amount of domestic unhappineas that lies concealed from the public eye, but which must tend to poison and corrupt society. Why is it that there are so many unhappy marriages? How is it that people who have been drawn together by love can fall a prey to hatred ? To understand these problems completely we should have to understand 11^5 mystery of love, and that is hid at the core of the mystery ofbeing\ If, as all meta physicians agrc"/-, our consciousness itself hi inconceivable in thought, bow shall we trace and analyze that rapport which establishes itself be tween two beings, and which wc call love. We knoa from observation that it is not unerring. Iu youth it is almost jnvnriabjy mistaken in its approhensions. The warm and inex perienced imagination of a boy has strength to rais^ a mortal to the skies. 1,1 i;3 spirit h^s established a mysterious afllnUy with some girl, it I may be of sterijip mind and ignoble I feelings. To him she is a loyely ap ! parilion, the /?lscov/ory of whose graces has enlarged his menial hori zon nud raised him to perceptions new and strongp. It jo natural to jnfer inward perfections from outer charms. In th sarpp manner will the true and loyal soul of some gen tle girl epshrino and worship the ideal her imagination bas wrought from the clay of>ome jcoromon-place ypntb, What warnings shall be Ut tered, tortbefo3 ^huaiasts?^ The for slruction of experience would doubt less be that love adheres where enjoy ment fastens, and that to know whether love will be persistent we should examine our feelings to deter mine whether our enjoyment of the loved one's society is based upon transient things or those wbicji will endure. Boy and girl love is gener ally only ? foruc of self-conceit. The complacency begotten by the adula tion of love-making is the largest in gredient in the reciprocating feeling, and attachments of this sort soon run to dissolution. JJut while it js fre quently the casp that ppople marry under the attraction of pretty faces, eyes and winning mannprs, without any real appreciation of one another s moral qualities, how common is it for such marriages to result in happy un ions. Tue yokerfcllows are in the Uexile, adaptive periods of their lives, and before the illusions disappear the}* are hound together by durable ties of aif-'Ctiou. But then, too, it must be admitted that a lire-fellow ship begun with ardent attachment loo often becomes filled with cruel and intolerable friction, and the sa cred bond of wedlock may gall like the chains of a galley slave. The man who is above all things a s??S of honor, will respect his marital ob ligation^ even should his youthful love fur hla wife wear away in the da\\y oontaot of life. Jn entering in to the lies of wedlock it is not upon ardent professions that lovers should base their expectations of happiness, but upon one another's truth and loy alty to duty, displayed when pleasure is not a motive force. Under the protection of honor love will nestle securely, and such marriages cannot provo unhappy. Paul Morpby, the onco noted chess player, in his insanity imagines him self a great lawyer, with nn abun dance of clients. The great case that absorbs nearly his whole attention is au imaginary one against parties who had charge of an cstato left him by his father. He utterly repudiates chess, and denies having ever known anything about \l. \\o lives in New Orleans. It is said that "true lave never did run Bmootli." Wc have never scou, \t attempt to run, but it does some of the smoothest kind of swinging on the front gate. Tho evening the young man hasn't money enough to take Ills girl into nn ioe-crPam saloon he sends her a note stating he is sick. Fr-oo Schools, JSditor Orangdburq Democrat: I am looking to your next to Ree something from some ono of tho fe male teachers in reference to the Hilly parenthesis by ''KseuUipius," (and 1 never heard of a woman being guilty of such a thing,) i. e., being compe tent to teach. They are well able to defend themselves, but if they do not notice such gross aspersions, you may insert this. There are many well educated wo men, who are teachers, and good teachers, too, who would scorn to tili such piaccs if they were not compe tent ; found to bo so by intelligent patrons, who have known them for years, and are sending to them still. Unt enough of this, such a sickly at tempt to lower their position and lim it their usefulness, requires no more than an exposition of its aim, to set tle tho matter. Another point. The usual vote for schools is Irom one to three mills; this gives a cheap school for two or three months. We ask how much has "Esculapius" advocated or pro poses to vote for this tax ? As to the question of fifty dollar teachers. 1 do not object to the best teachers, but there must be a line struck somewhere. Shall wo apply for one who is competent to till the presidency of a college, or take bn? who can write welt, read and spell oorrecilj', with a knowledge of arith metic and geography. Does any one preteud to say that unless our teacher is a thorough mathematician, a linguist, an astrono mer, &c.,he wont do for our piney woods' school? A carpenter may be competent a;id satisfactory for build j/ig a nice comfortable house in the country, who wouhi nojt undertake to build u five story one iu. tho city. ^Neither woujd the proprietor pixy the pr;ce for the latter. It' J3r. Cookc or the School .Com missioner will say that a good reader, writer,.cpoileT. /uid .arithmetician. U) pot competent to teach reading, writ ing, spelling and arithmetic, .thcjjj I disagree with .ihcm, and 1 11 have the millions on my side. Tixv&jee. Heavy on the Boys. Perhaps it is because of the grow ing scarcity of available men, per haps it is of the increasing independ ence of the fair sex?what ever the reason, it is a fact patent to all who frequent places of amusomeut that la dies venture abroad in '.he ovening without male escorts far more fre quently, than they did ten years ago, and it is greatly to the credit of our community that they can dp so wjth impunity. A lady would hardly go out alone of an evening, but if accom panipd by another of her sex, espe cially if one of the pair be tolerably along in years?it is not necessary to give exact figures?both feel compar tivcly aafe. The result is that young men are not so much of n necessity as they once were, and are raude to feel that they are no longer indispen sable. Time was when a ypung man, simply bcoause ho was a man, was permitted to feel that he was a very important creature, but now that a male escort can be dispensed with on occasion, he has been made to de scend from his high horse. He was wont to impose his cheap Mhorse talk" and slang ou his lady friends, and was permitted to parade his con ceit and ignorance simply because he was a necessary evil; but tiroos have changed all that, and ho now often Unds that unless he can command re spect by knowledge, his character, or gentlemanly deportment, his room is considered more desirable than his company, All of which is having an excellent effect upon tho average young man of the period. Bad luck is simply a man with his hands in his pockets, and hia pipe ;n his mouth, looking on to see how it is coming. Good luck is a man of pluck ; with his sleeves rolled up, and working to make it come out right. Giiti.9, whose opinion about such things, is always valuable, say there is too much shirt collar and too little young man in the present fashion to unit their tastes. Boys, something must he douc. The boy. who left a piece of ice in the sun, to wajw up was no more fool ish than the \\\a,\\ who opened a store and expected people to himt him out, and buy his goods. WilKamston Female College. Genend ffamcs F. Izlar: ?Dfaii Sin?fl have receivod through a friend, a .catalogue of the Williaiu ston Female College, from which I ace that you, with othors -cf m.y -old time pupils are its patrons. Do you occasionally photograph for the instant, the old log school house with its split long benches, its clay floor and chimney, and windows made, if I may make an Irish Bull, by neglecting to put in a side log. We learned to spell and read there, aud learned it well. But enough. Williamston Female College seems from its record to be the very place for our daughters, Ibat should and will be, the future queens of Southern households. I do not! see that they will bo carried there into an atmosphere so artideia'ly ele vated as not to know a garden vege table. I am pleased with what is set forth as to the elementary English Department. It says: Unusual importance is attachod to Spelling, English Composition, Pen manship and Drawing of Maps. Spelling is taught by a judicious combination of exercises, mostly in writing ; and the premium oifered for excellence in this branch is the whole of the next Session's regular tuition. Compositions are always written in tho presence uf iue teacher, who announces the subject to tho class af ter they have assembled. If a com position contains a prescribed num ber of errors (the higher the class, the smaller the number,) it must be duplicated in full with the errors cor rected ; and, if the duplicate has an unreasonable number of errors, it must be re-copied, until a respecta ble accuracy is attuiucd. I sincerely hope that others may sec tbe advantages of a so thorough tuition and All tbis College to over flowing. Yours truly, M. L. B. A Quaker Printer's Proverbs. Never send an article for publica tion without giving tbe editor thy name, for thy name oftentimes se ciir^B ^^Jtc?ti?n t?^w?flHess~nTti cles. \Vhou shoujust not rap at the door of a printing office ; for he that an swerclh the rajp sneereth in bis sleeve and lose lb time. Never do thou Ionf about, nor knock down type, or the hoys will love thee as they do t,tie ohede trees ---when thou leavest. Thou sbouldst never read J^e,copy on the printers' cases or the sharp aud hooked container thereof,,or,lje may knock thee down. Never inquire of the editor for news, for behold it is his business to give it to thee at the appointed time without asking for it. It is not right that thou shouldst ask bin) who is the author of an arti cle, for it is bis duty to keep t>uch things unto himself. When *hou dost enter his ofllce, take heed unto thyself that thou dost not look at what concerns thee not, for that is not meet in the sjgut of good breeding. Neither examine Ihou the proof sheet, for it is not ready to meet thine eye that thou uiayjit under stand.. Thou ?jipujdst ppt dpludp thyself with the thought that thou hast saved a few cents wjicn thou hast secured a dead-head popy of ))}a paper, for I whilst the printer may smjje and say I it's all right, he'll never forget thy I meanness. Marrying for Money. A lato author very truthfully aaya: "Gold cannot buy happiness and the parents who compel their daughter to marry for station or money commit a greivous sin against humanity and God. And a woman who marries a churl for his wealth will And that she has made a terrible bargain?that all the gliltcrings of heartless grandeur are phosporcscent glitteringsof heart wretchedness; that her life will be like a crag on the black side of a de sert mountain, where cold moon boama sometimes glitter, but no birds sing, hut wild storms howl and hoarse thunders roar, and through the sweep ing storms shall he heard the stern voice of the great God, saying, "Your riches are corrupted, your gar ments are inothcatcn, your gold aud silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall ho a witness against you, and eat your flesh as it were fire." A horse thief was huug at Sidney, Nebraska, the other day. He went West to go up with the country, and succeeded. Several Subjects Considered. Editor'Orangeburg Democrat; I propose to comment a little in your valuable paper if you wilt per mit, occasioally. I bave been the re cipient of a neW'oM mnu'a ipon" 'I cull it, a blunt one, and if it writes bluntly?your readers will please 'for give. I think the agricultural critic of the Times must 'have one of the same. Well, we get at the truth some tiraee, through pens that aro not too limber. Critic, you are right, keep them straight?C. If.," "J. W. S." and the old ?ogfes, and muke the way eo ?plain that a young farmer, though a fool, cannot err therein?a wide ring for Critic. O ir friend, Dr. J. H. Fao3er,*has found peipelual motion, of course. How often this has been discovered'; still we use the supcilluous steam, and drive the mdlc, instead of mak ing use of this stupendous discovery. When two bricks of precisely the same weight will lift each other al ternately, then Dr. Jno. Hunter can use them for perpetual motion. I have seen his machinery, and admire his mechanical skill,ingenuity and en thusiasm % but when he asks me to be lieve in anything except muscle as a propeller, I say, your most obedient, excuse me. I Tin history of the Edisto Rifles, by Gen. J. F. Jzlar, worries us like going over a troubled dream after awakening. It is interesting, becauso many of our friends were missed dur ing the war, and no one except the immediate comrades knew whither or how they went. But the war captain of the Rifles could only give us a sketch, a synopsis of casualties and events There is a history of the unwritted ; it1 will ever be nnwritten. It is the every day soldier life. It is> the enthusiasm, the hope, the fears, the personal joys and perils; in fact, each soldier's experience is a history by itself. I have bad opportunities to listen to recitals of personal ad ventures from soldiers of all sorts -T somi e~cspeueneo in that Btupeudaotrar corps, the old Reserves, and am sat isfied that if one single writer could command the camp literature of the war, his fortune wonld be made by the book. "Society of Friends/' by Muslin, a Utopian dream. It is to be feared that the "silvery light of intellect," that is to illumine from the Teachers' (Institute, will never make him who has stood at the bar, desk and coun ter, to say nothing of following the plow, u man without guile. J.'ic-nie /literature. Is not this get ting to have ,too /ouch of a sameness? Allow pic,to suggest a form that will cover nine out qf ;tep of these effu sions : "Wei came lq the djnncr talk, we saw the dinner .table, wo .conquer ed the dinner table." Any ,on,o wbjb can't stop ?t tins may add,t|iat Vbeaur ty was there,'' that "so and so went home without vest buttons/' ,?u. Why tjiere js mor? interest in the standing advertisement of s progres sive grocer! Let it be iinder*to.o4 that the pic-nic is not objectionable^ everybody likes to eat, frolio and cor ner beauty ; but when we have it iu a poluinn of oi)r paper, it is too much liko stale soda water which the edi tor and his readers arc obliged, tq 8we}l.oW' J? OitAH^EBUBjS, July 2{j. The Zulu Assegai. The shaft of this instrument of warfare is about fivp fleet long and about aa tlpck as roan's little Qnger. It is made of wood known to bota nists as t)ie curtissa of loginca, not unlike mahogany, brittle and clastic, the latter quality giving the spear a vibratory motion, on which its accuracy of flight depends. The head of the wpappn is generally blade sbaped, with a raised, pdgp along the centre, concave on onp sjde and con? vex on the other, being like the feath ers of an arrow. The tong of tho head is made red-hot, and so burns its way into the wood, around which a band of wet raw-hide is bound, thai* contracting as it dries holds the head as firmly as an iron ring. The Zulus fling these weapons with great accu racy, and they carry oval rawhido shields impervious to the darts to cover the'r entire bodies. Besides three or fonr missile assegais a Zulu soldier carries a shorter and. stronger stabbing assegai. How rapidly a num loses all inter est in politics qtyd, national finance when lie shuts a door pu his own thumb.