The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 10, 1888, Image 1

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r*1' ' =. VOL. XLY. WINNSBORO, S. C , WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1888. NO, 11. y ?????Mjgggg THE RAIN IN THE SPOUT. Th* cabin's still thar by Sycamore Click, fa' da ares' spot on th' yearth, Bat* th* roof's fell In, V the lalchstring's gone, *Nsilence is roun* th' berth; YiS many a night naaf 'at roof I've I. "When on'y a leetle chap, K. *K heerd th' rain in th' old eave-spot Goin': Drop, drip, drop. In Drip, droppity, drap. Oh, how I loved th' drizzily nights (Thongh th' drizzily days was bes\ Fori couldn't plow erhoe in the flel'), When I climed to roos' 'a to res', Up thar with th' shingles olus to my head. Through -which th' rain 'nd slip. Bnt what was that to the ole eave-spout Goin': Drap, drippity, drap, Drop, drappity, drip? *N 'en when I growed to a great big boy 'N fell inter love bed firs', *N got yanked out by a rival o' mine, 'N my heart was thumpin' to burs', ^ X thortl never 'ud sleep agin, 'N 'spected all night to flop, My grief caved in when the ole eave-spout Went: Drlppity, drap, drip, Drop, drippity, drop *N arter I merried 'n tuck th' place, !'N got to signin' notes Which I thort receipts fur li'tenia' rod* Ersome new-fangled oats, * rd clime up into th' garret thar *N lis' to th' thunder's clap, *N fergit lt all when th' ole eave-spou Went: Drippity, droppity, drip, Drappity, drippity, drap. rm bal*headed now ez a threadbar* coat. *N a citizen o' th* town, Isold th' farm fer sake o' th' trals. i , But when I come to lay down ( ra like to dream o' that cabin, roc 1 *N the rain a-fallln* on top sink asleep with th' ole eava-8i>out Goto4: Drop, drip, dr&p, Dr&p, drip, drop. ?A. W. Bdtew, in Time. THE WAY OF LIFE. ^ ^.Various Causes Contributing to B Premature Dissolution. The Bible speaks of three score years and f ten as the age to which znan may reasonably look forward. It seems as if, at least, seventy equable, contented and happy yearsfoil of aoch comfort and gratification as the members of each class in the oommunity have severally a right to expect?should and might be within the reach of every man and woman. In some countries, however, we find this to be much more nearly the case ma BA?0 7T*>+frtft. K HMU OOJO HU? *4VI vm?. ???..iv*~ P.. leans, as a role, live too fast to live lon*r. [ V Svery person is originally endowed -with about so large a stock of vitality out of which to fashion his life. It (mounts to [/' oothingmore nor lees than the simplest of problems in arithmetic to show that if he Qraws upon this stock twice as heavily as he should, the duration of his existence will only be one-half of what It was originally Intended to be. Indeed, the matter stands much worse than this; his life is likely to l>e at any moment suddenly cut off short long before reaching even the half. A steam-? Engine may nse up its fuel in two weeks or one, aooording to the rate at which it is driven; If it is sufficiently overworked the result may be a general " smash," or such en Injury as will necessitate a long and tedious 'stopping for repairs," if, indeed, it ever becomes "as good as new." Wehard^ iy seem ready to recognize the bounds established by nature, but when we have {Cached them, in our greed and ambition. We summon our will, and, as the expression Sttza, "live upon our nerve," ccngratulatifig-' Iaflteea OH1 ottfprfg^.vm.lh'.y display of perican goaheadativeness." TJnfortuply nature has not yet become sufficientirogTessive in her ideas to manufacture stitutlons expressly for the American rket, and, In the midst of our triumphant r deforce, click, something snaps, and vanish from the stage, or break down years, perhaps for life. rhat are the causes of sudden death?as a stroke of lightning? They are not iy when only the so-called natural acciits are considered. Death on the instant P result from apoplexy, or bursting of ineurism within the chest or abdomen; mnxliilkj uo vuubcu uj tug uuxolui# ul au air jfegss within the chest. Great mental BRxoCk?zz -.trom extreme anger or grief or Krto joy?sometimes kills instantly through H {ptai paralysis of the chief nerve centers. B Capes Of sudden death from hemorrhages E g$ the longs are on record, but they are few to number. Diseases of the heart rendor Sue subject liable to instant death, and they the most frequent caused. (Something may be said descriptive of fhese accidents and diseases which will interest the general reader. A correct underI afcding of thorn might possibly render us ? toss liable to them, fyxplexy, or, as it is I Mmetimes called, branvstroke, is usually p ?ee to the rupture of a blood-vessel within L wbwia. Instant death is not the common I QtJhSs injury, and yet, ar. already ..-feated. it sometime^ ogenra. Mo:ce pften n-the ?fctJm of a severe attack passes into a condition of sthpor, called coma, inwhioh holies for hours, of even days, *nd then $os or slowly recovers There aie maav J&Saence^which are oapable of giving rise }o this asddest, which in a general way we toay attribute to one of two causes: namely, ^nttther the walls qithe biaod-vessel in quesHsba are weakened to d$gesfljatfre changes, Mpa 90 rupture or they ere while jfis&tfty subjected to on anusual and too a pressure trom a rush of bioodinto BflV-n and give way hi oonsequea?. The B-Qe??aeraw grows old the liability of their ier sudde? inareasoof bloQCixjdes grater. A?e is not the i tfiese weakeniug$bang??we (hem in $1* oases where the syaSlSjienyy enfesbled. In an at>l?xy occurring in a person who the age of sixty, we should tsame that the bursting of the was due to degeneration of its in on? younger, who haden, good health, we should expect fo'ftad thai the direct cause of the rupture tfras too great a blood-pressure. We may Mtard degeneration, although wo cannot ilock the Wheels of time. Some men at ninety aft far less liable to apoplexy -th$n others of fifty. In a great degree the QafeStty i* & question of general health. ! Eeace the fear o? apoplexy should lead us |o endeavor to heep strong .and well As W? grow old we should avoid those influ40068 which are likely to induce sudden and |*e?t rash of hloda to the head, such a3 infg&se mental excitement ? as in public speaking or in a fit of anger?violent musl >nia* orffVnttnnv and drunkenness, etc. ^ fotfleone&nes at popular cafcs he has but ^^t&Jook about bim and hq Is quite sure to see '"Eabits indulged proTocattre of apoplexy. A familiar sight is tbe man about sixty years 0ifl whose highest pleasure is in tickling his ablate. Be is over-weight by folly fifty Kund^'t Ms face ig red ana sinning; be is ralro bursting. ai$ Jooto as though erery ? Important button on bis Clothing was threat<med On? on a wafm day gives such a * 5&n as "Wide a berth1' as he would a cooljBsfel be is altogether too hot to sit near, go commences bis dinner with an appetizer iijnrh^nT^T n ?irTrtfii'l Th?n ho deliberately &&& up, on meat and other d ffSprty foods, all of which are washed &MR> teitb one at least* and generally two. 1 bottles of lager beer. As ae ears ana ghek; !* with one hand, he fans himself vigorously vrith the other, all the time growing redder and redder, and, finally, when he hoists .himself ont of his chair, his face takes a i purplish hue in oonsequence of even that J slight effort. He Is like a violin when in j tone; every part of his system is keyed up, j ?ad something is sure to break if the unusjnai happens. Let snch a man, soon after ! dinner, become violently enraged or shocked I by some unexpected calamity, and the fchances are an attack of apoplexy is the consequence. Too much importance has, it 11 ! is true, been attributed to the so-called ap> "* foplectio constitution, consisting of short! sesa of the neck, with considerable embonrpoint, and what is known as full habit |These characteristics do not mean that there ||a a decided tendency to apoplexy, and yet a [ man so formed ought to live much differently than he who is "lank and lean." An aneurism is a tumor formed by the dilation of an artery, as the result of the bursting of its inner and middle coats. It is more liable to occur in persons in whom degenerative changes in the arteries are taking place. It may be directly caused by great mental excitement, violent exertion, lifting, etc., or local injury. The larger the artery in which the aneurism forms the more serious it is. If within the chest or abdomen, there is little chancc of recovery. The progress of aneurism is slow; death is sudden in a proportion of cases from rupture. Large abscesses in tho chest have been known to burst and cause immediate suffocation. Such accidents are rare, and so, also, as we have already said, is sudden death from hemorrhage of the lungs. In those cases death, doubtless, is also caused by suffocation. Strong impressions on the mmaww ever renect tneir innuence on the vital functions, and strengthen or prostrate their energies. "Joy seldom kills," it is true, and yet if the subject be of a delicate and sensitive constitution, and more especially if be labors under any complaint of the heart, the consequences on the nervous system of sudden ana immediate joy will always be attended with hazard. Many instances of fatal effects from that passion are recorded, and the assertion has been made by some able writers on mental hygiene that sudden joy is even more hazardous to life than sudden grief. "When extravagant joy follows unexpectedly terror or grief, the danger from the shock to the nervous system is heightened. That fact has been illustrated by tho sudden death of criminals who have been pardoned at the point of execution. That .terror, grief and anger are sometimes instantly fatal? at one? paralyzing the nervous system and stopping the action of the heart?are well known, for the instances have been many. In disease of the heart these powerful emotions are potent agencies of eviL If death does not occur from a sudden, intense shock, the organ is enfeebled by every such experience. In all forms of heart disease death is liable to take placo suddenly, and in a large proportion of cases the evil comes after violent over-exertion. "Heart trouble" I may exist in % person for a long time?even I years?without its presence being sus- j ! pected. Such a one enjoying comparatively ! good health, and not being conscious of the | need of unusual care, is quite sure, sooner or later, to make some violent eiTort?"run to catch the train or the like"?and "life's thread is snapped." Rupture of the heart sometimes takes place when that organ has suffered from what is known as fatty degeneration, and its walls have been weakened thereby. Such an action rarely occurs in persons under the age of forty. M Is it a quick death, a painless death?" is a question which is frequently asked of physicians. We believe that in the majority of cases where death comes on the instant?as by a stroke of lightning?it is painless. As has been said, pain is the product of time. 'To experience pain the impression producing it must be transmit; ted from the injured part of the living body to the conscious center, must be received at the conscious center, and be recognized by the mind as a reception; the last act being .in truth the conscious act In the majority of deaths from natural accidents there is" not sufficient time for the accomplishment ot these progressive steps by which, the consciousness of existence is the first and last fact inflicted upon the stricken organism, the destruction is so mighty, the seise of ft is not revealed. / MATERNAL ANXIETY. Bow a Boston Doctor Believed a Fash* ionable Woman of a Great Care. Arlo Bates, In one of Ms gossipy letters to the Providence Journal, writes: There dwells in a semi-genteel quarter a widow who is worth a quarter of a million; and whose family oonsists of a pet dog, herself sad a small son, the importance of the three coming In about this order; in any case the boy oomes last. * * * About a month ago the pet, who was at the seashore with his mistress, was taken I1L Mrs. Blank sent for her physician, who was staying in Boston, to corns down to Mount Desert to see the dog. He refused to leave his human patients for a brute one, and so, although she was very angry, she was forced to come to Qoston with the invalid, because, Qs she explained to an acquaintance, she "oould not run the risk of exposing Filomel to the chanoe of being treated by a do?tor who did not understand his constitution." Arrived in town the dog improved, but the widow's child, had been brought along, began to sicken. The doctor ordered the boy out of town, and as the widow was too anxious about her spaniel to leave it, the son was confided to the care of hi3 imrse. who t aok him to the seashore, at a | place not bo lar removed from Boston as to be out pf the range of the doctor's care. The ohild, neglected by the nurse, who fell ! Into a, violent flirtation with the head waiter of the hotel where they were stay ing, grew worse. One afternoon the doctor took the train down to see the child, and found the poor little fellow ill in bed, and left wholly alone, while the nurse was out walking with her friend, the head waiter. The doctor, who is a man of some determination, took the invalid in a carriage and drove across the country half a dozen miles to the cottage of his sister, into whose care he gave the small sufferer. When he returned to town and told the mother of what he had done, she said, effusively: M Oh, doctor, you have taken such a load from my mind. Now I know Georgia is safe and I can give all my mind to poor FilomeL" Artificial Emeralds. The method by which Messrs. Hautefeuille and Perry have succeeded in producing very beautiful crystals of emerald has been described to the French Academy of Sciences. Silica, alumina and glucina (with Avina Af XKw\m?nTr?\ fnco/1 VI V-XAVIW VA VUAVUUUAM/ ? WAV *uww with acid molybdate of lithia, a temperature of from COO to 700 degrees being maintained for fifteen daj9. Crystals about one twentyfifth of an inch in diameter, with the mineralogical and physical characteristics of the natural emerald, were obtained. Knocked Him Oat. .to. pastor sometime since sought financial help for an important charity. Among those whom he asked to give something was a lady who unfortunately bore a vinegary faca She declined to give money, but promised to " lend her countenance " to the causa. Be retired in dismay. ^ ... A Sample Kentucky Snake Story. A resident of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in passing through a tobacco field several days ago, happened to run across two snakes, one a copperhead and the other a chikcen snake, rapped around each other in a deadly embrace, and fighting with all the strength and venom they possessed. Taking a long stick he carried them to an open field, where they continued to battle until the copperhead was killed. Sliming over, the chicken snake proceeded to swallow it whole, after which it was allowed to escape. The chicken snake was seven feet bng, and the copperhead five. Al.alne. The drift in Maine is all in ihc Democratic direction. It. must be remembered that all the Democrats need to do is to hold what voles they had in 1SS4. Such a current as that in Maine would give them New ! York, New Jersey. Connecticut and Indiana by largely increased majorities, would overcome the slight Republican plurality in Michigan and would make Rhode ISiana anai\ew nampsmre exceedingly doubtfal. When we reflect that Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa are much more strongly impregnated with tariff reform doctrines than any of the Eastern States, the outlook for a vast break in the Republican column is remarkably promising.? San Francisco Examiner. ONLY AFTER THE SPOILS. DR. TALMAGE'S OPINION* OF WHAT POLITICAL PARTIES WANT. He Says They Don't Care Whether It Is High Tariff, Low Tariff or Mo Tariff at All?Offices Are What They Want?The Clergyman's Sermon on Clouds. Rev Dr. Talmage preached on Sunday ' in the Brooklyn Tabenacle to a largely increased congregation. His sermon was on the "Chariots of God," and for he first time since he returned from his j vacation Dr. Talmage introduced a little I of politics. His text was from Psalm ci., , 3: "Who maketh the clouds his chariot." j "We go into raptures," he said, "over flowers in the soil, but have little or no j appreciation of the 'morning glories' that bloom on the wall oi the sky at ; sunrise, or the dahlias in the clouds at 1 sunset. We are in ecstasies over a gobelin tapestry or a bridal veil of rare fabric, or a snowbank of exquisite curve, but see not at all, or see without emotion, the bridal veils of mist that cover the 1 face of the Catskills, or the swaying upholstery around the couch of the dying day, or the snowbanks of vapor piled up in the heavens. "My text bids us lift our chin three : or four inches and open the two telescopes, which under tfce for'-head are I put on swivel easily turned upward, and ! see that the clouds are not merely uninteresting signs of wet or dry weather, but that they are embroidered canopies 1 ! of shade, that they are the conservatories j of the sky, that they are thrones of pomp, j that they are ctjstaline bowers, that they are paintings in water color, that ] they are the angels of the mist, that j they are great cathedrals of light with i broad aisles for angelic feet to walk i through and bow at alters of amber and | alabaster, that they are the mothers of ] the dew, that they are ladders for ascend- < A ActAAyi/NyktfV C\nf/^TVQ.Y\fi nf t <UXU U&OWiiUUlg glVAAVWj v? v belching flame, Niagaras of color, that they are the masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. When I read my text it suggests to me that the clouds are the Creator's equipage, and their whirling masses are the wheels, and the tongue, of the cloud is the pole of the celestrial vehicle, and the winds are the harnessed steeds, and God is the royal occupant and driver 'who maketh the clouds His chariot.' Having pictured in language of burning eloquence the beauties of nature, of the clouds and the beauteous appearance both at morning and evening when the sun rises and sets, Dr. Talmage continued: "A chariot made out of evening cloud! Have you hung over the eaffrail on tba ocean and seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the pavements of a calm summer sea, the wheels dripping with the magnilicence? Have you from the top of Ben Lomond, or the Coruilleras, or the Berkshire hills, seen the day pillowed for the night, and yet had no aspiration of praise and homage? Oh, vrhat a rich God we have that He can put on one evening sky pictures that excel Michael Angdo's 'Last Judgement' and Ghirlandjo's 'Adoration oi the Magi,' and whole galleries of Madonnas, and for only an hour, and then throw them away, and < the next evening put on the same^ sky, ( something that excels ail that the iiapnaels and the Titans and the Rembrandts and the Corregios and the Leonado da Vincis ever executed, and then draw a curtain of mist over them never again to be exhibited! How rich God must be to have a new chariot of clouds every evening! "But the Bible tells us that our King also has a black chariot. 'Ciouds and darkness,' we were told, 'are round about him.' That chariot is cloven out of night, and that night is trouble. When He rides forth in that black chariot pestilence and earthquake, and famine and hurricane and woe attend Him. Then let the earth tremble. Then let nations pray. Again and again He has ridden forth in that chariot of black clouds, across England and France, and Italy and Knssia and America, and over all nations. That which men took for the sound of cannonading at Sebaatopol, at Sedan, at Gettysburg, as Tel-ei-Kebir, at Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings of the black chariot of the Almighty. * ?~ ofArm.olnTvl , it XO IUU u w? V&VMV* 2 armed with thunderbolts, and neither man nor angel nor devil, nor earth nor heaven, can resist Him. On those boulevards of blue this chariot never turns out for anything. Under one wheel of that chariot Babylon was crushed and Baalbeck fell dead, and the Roman Empire was prostrated, and Atlantis, a whole coLtinent that once connected Europe with America, sank clear out of sight so that the longest anchor of ocoan steamer can not touch the top of its highest mountains. The throne of the Cnaaars was less than a pebble under the right 1 wheel of this chariot, and the Austrian despotism less than a snowflake under the left wheel. And over destroyed worlds on worlds that chariot has rolled ] without a jar or jolt. 1 "This black chariot of war cloud rolled i up to the northeast of Europe in 1812, t and 400,000 men marched to take Mos- < cow, but that chariot of clouds rolled < back, and only 25,000 out of the 400,000 t troops lived to return. No great snow 5 storm like that had ever before or has 1 ever since visited Russia. Aye, the i chariot of the Lord is irresistible. There is onlv one thing that can halt or turn < - * - i-- -3 4 any ox his cnanoie, auu tuttt ?a pxa^ci.. i Again and again it lias stopped it, wheeled it arotmd, a&d the chariot of black clouds under that sanctified human breath has blossomed into such brightness and color that men and angels had to veil their faces from its lustre. "On that pillow of consolation I put down my head to sleep at night. On the solid foundation I build when I see this nation in political paroxysm every four years, not because they care two cents about whether it is high tariff or low tariff or no tariff at all, but only whether the Democrats or the Republicans shall ^ have the salaried offices. Yea, when \ European nations are holding their ] breath, wondering whether Russia or } pTftrmanv will launch a war that will in- : carnadine a continent, I fall back on the J faith that my Father drives. Yea, I cast this as an anchor, and plant this as a column of strength, and lift this as a telescope, and build this as a fortress, and propose without any perturbation to launch upon an unknown fnture triumphant in the fact that my Father drive? Yes, He drives very near. I know that many of the clouds that you see in summer are far off, the bases of some of them five miles above the earth. High on the highest peaks of the Andes travelers have seen clouds far higher than where they were standing. Gay Lussac, after he had risen in- "a balloon 23,000 feet, still saw clouds 'above him. "But there are clouds which touch the earth and discharge their rain, and. though the clouds out of which God's chariot is made may sometimes be far s * away, often they are close by, and they touch our shoulders, and they touch our homes, and they touch us all over. * * * Next Dr. Talmage brought his hearers to the time when, at the end of the world, the chariot of God would again be seen. "By that time," ho said, "how changed this world will be! Its deserts all flowers, its rocks all mossed and lichened, its poorhouses all palaces, its sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues, and in the same pasture-field lion and calf, and on the same perch hawk and dove. Now the chariots of clouds strike the earth, filling ail the valleys, and covering all the mountain sides, and halting in all the cemefcnos and graveyards and over tne waters deep where the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus. A loud blast of the resurrection trumpet is given and the bodies of the dead rise and join the spirits from which they have long been separated. Then Christ our King, rising in the center chariot of cloud, with His scarred hands waves the signal, and the chariots wheel and come into line for glorious ascent. Drive on! Drive up! Chariots of cloud ahead of the King, chariots of cloud on either side of the King, chariots of cloud following the King. Upward and apast starry hosts, and through immensities, and across infinitudes, higher, higher, higher unto the gates, the shining gates! Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, for Him who maketh the clouds His chariot, and who through condescending and uplifts ing grace invites us to mount .aadnde with Him! ' a* * THE COUN?K"6N JUTE BAGGING. tVIjotfhe Master of the State Grange Has to Say About It. To the Patrons of Husbandry of South Carolina.?I have watched with a great deal of interest the discussions as to the best means to defeat the speculators in their corner in jute nagging, by which all cotton producers are forced to pay nearly double this season, J or bagging, what the same article brought last season, and am induced to suggest a few thoughts to the members of the Grange throughout the State. I ccrtainly would be glad to see the Grange oppose by avery available means this im qui tons combination, and adopt every and all substitutes for covering cotton that can be used, and while this is Grange principle?, to co-operate and solidly tight igainst everything that is calculated to ae detrimental to the fanner's interest .t is equally our duty to direct these efforts intelligently, so that we may accomplish our purpose and not be the sufferers thereby. It seems to me that there is very little relief for the farmers for this season, rhe manufactories have sold all their sagging to the speculators, and they lave sold and made their profits out of :ho merchants, and unfortunately as a general thing the merchants have already such a hold upon the farmer that 10 can force him to sell his cotton as joon as it is gathered from the field. For the faimer to refuse to buy bagging it present prices and hold back his cot;on seems to me to be unwise, for he ;hereby withholds from Jais creditor for i time at least what ia justlv due him, md this will not reduce the prioe of jagging, but certainly will como a great oss to the farmer. His cotton will lose n weight, his interest iccount will be ncreased, and most probably get a less price l'or his cotton. Then again for the "armers to cover their cotton with any substitute that will not be merchantable jovering, such as is prescribed by the lifferent cotton exchanges, or that will njure the staple will entail a loss on the armor, for all reclamations will most jertainly be paid by none except the producer. If we can u<e any closely-woven, light, strong material, well covered with extra jands. r.t a cheaoer cost than bacr^np:, >r when Patrons live adjacent to factories where their cotton will be accepted packed otherwise than in jute bagging, ;hen I would advise such covering. If are can induce our Southern mills to ncnufacture some strong cotton material, suitable for covering cotton cheaper than jute bagging, and then the nembers of the Grange and all cotton producers unite and give such mill or nills their entire patronage, upon conlition that such mills will never enter nto an unjust combination, nor allow speculators to do so, against the farmers, then it seems to me we will have gained that relief that is now out of our reach. I think the cheaper grades of ;otton could be utilized in this way to idvantage both to the mills and the jonsumers. The present state of things ;ertainly convinces us how utterly in he power of speculators the farmers ire, and we should now make every iffort to p- ace ourselves in such a condi;ion as to be able to resist similar combination in the future. Fraternally yours, W. X. Thompson*, Master State Grange of S. C. SI? K DIKD OF JOY. Pretty Seraph Ine Koth Expires Two Honrs After BeiD? Proposed To. (N Y. Star, October 4.) Only two days ago pretty Seraphine Roth was bright and chipper and full of ife and hope. Now she lies ciead at her lunt's apartments at No. 306 Eist Fiftysecond street. The physicians say she lied of heart disease, but the real cause jf her death is thought to have been sudden joy, brought on by finding herself engaged to be married to an estimable young man who had been courtug her for many months. The story of Seraphine's life is a sad )ne. She was born in New Orleans ;wenty-three years ago and lived there an til eight months ago, when her nother died. Then she came to this Jity to live with fier aunt, one soon iormed the acquaintance of a young nan, who became very attentive to her ind frequently visited her at her aunt's house. Their friendship ripened into a more tender feeling, and on Tuesday afternoon her sweetheart called on her md proposed marriage. She blushingly accepted his offer, and ae promised to call later to make arrangements for the ceremony. After he had gone her heart began to flutter, and tor a short time she seemed to be treading on air. Then she became ill and lay down, thinking it would pass away. But the illness never left her, for two hours later she was dead. Her sudden icy at her sweetheart's proposal had killed her. The coroner was notified, and yesterla Dr. Jenkins held an autopsy and pxon^anced her death due to heart iisease. The young lady's father has been notified, and the funeral will be lelajed until he arrives here. The roses from the wild rose trees Upon the grass are falling, And geese in happy argosies Fly southward, wildly calling. Upon the top rail of the fence The squirrels madly chatter, And in the forest, deep and dense, The chestnuts gayiy patter; And Mary Jane will soon commence To make the buckwhcat batter. The first boy-cot?Cain's little bed, A VERT GOOD ANSWER. Governor Richardson'* Reply to a Remarkable Request from tho Republican Remnant. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 27, 1SS8. To His Excellency John P. Richardson, Governor .of South Carolina. Sir: At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Republican party of South Carolfca, held in the city of Columbia on the alpve date, this committee was appointed totyrait on you in person and present for your consideration and action the following preamble nud resolution: Whereas a general election will be held on the Gth of next jKorveinl)er, at which time candidates for electors and Congressmen will be voted for by the people; and whereas the whole election machinery? Commissioners of Election, managers, clerks, etc.?with the exception of George-1 town county, being entirely in the hands of the dominant party in South Carolina, has been produAive of the suppression of a free vote a^Ronest count. Aud wljJHs by virtue of a vastly prepondorin^^kaber, we think it would be but an aJ|Mtagple justice, and is the interest ^^^Btlll auu'Lonest election that rep^HPrTion be granted to the Repnbh^^pirty; therefore, Be it rS^ed, That it is the sense of this committee that His Excellency, John P. Eichardson, Governor of South Carolina, tw waited 011 and requested to appoint at least one Republican Commissioner of Election in each couuty, and, through them, one Republican manager at each of the voting precincts for electors and Congressmen through out the State; and whereas in the Seventh Congressional District of South Carolina, (known as the "Black District")-which was set apart by Democratic legislators for the Republicans, but which has been invaded by the Democrats, and an almost solemnly implied pledge broken and the free will of its electors stifled by the partisan actions of boards of election officers composed entirely of Democrats; Therefore, we respectfully and earnestly appeal to your Excellency, in the , interest of fair play and an honest elecion, and in the name of 150,000 people, ; o accord us representation in the man- : agement of the approaching election. j Resolved, That we ask this as Ameri- ; can citizens and rej)resentatives of one of the great parties of tins republic, be- : lieving that we are entitled to it as an act of simple justice. E. M. Bbayton, j Thos. E. Miller, Stephen A. Swails, 1 Thos. A. Saxon, G. E. Hekriott. govebnob biohabpson's beply. State of Sooth Carolina, ( Executive Chambeb, Columbia. S. C., Sept. 28, '38. ; To E. M. Brayton, Thos. E. Miller, i Stephen A. Swails, Thos. A. Saxon, ( G. E. Herriott, Committee oa the < Part of the Executive Committee of the Bepublican Party: i GENTLEiiEN: I have carefully consid- j ered the preamble and resolutions which J in behalf, ?s you claim, of ihe Bepubli- 1 can party'of 0 relink, ; ou yes- 1 terday presented for mj v.-onsiUeratit?n : and action, as v. lias the remarks made J by Mr. ivliiier, a member of 1 your committee, in advocacy of the : same. In announcing to you the conclusion at which I have arrived, it would answer 1 no good purpose that I can perceive to : expose what must be so evident to those ' thoroughly acquainted with the condition of parties in this State?the fallaci- ; ous statements of the one and the mi- ] fconad reasoning of the other. It will be * sufficient simply to say that in my judgment a departure from the wisely established methods and principles upon * which these appointments are made 1 would endanger the perfectly free, fair and peaceful elections?the professed ' object of your desire?that are the proud 1 boast and the highest achievement of 1 Democratic rule in this State. It may, with great truth, be said that ( honest elections are the true tests of ( pure government, and constitute the 1 only faithful expression of the popular 1 will, which it is their sole mission to ' elicit. No machineiy, however perfect, : can accomplish a reguit so essential to 1 representative government without the j instrumentality of agents, both intelli- ' gent enough to thoroughly understand 1 the law and to carry out its provisions, IU1U UJL tuati ?>x%juiuj VI vyj-iai u. wjl that will command the confidence of the 1 elector and be a sure guarantee against ( the evil and corrupt practices once so 1 dominant in this State. Those dis- ' graceful scenes and unscrupulous manip- ] ulations of elections so confessedly \ prevalent dnring the days of Republican rule, are now, happily, thiDgs of the J past, and can never return under the benignant sway of Democratic principles, to curse and blast with horrors the < peaceful, prosperous course of all the 1 people of South Carolina. ' To the eternal honor of our State and 1 the Democratic party, it can now be ! said that our elections are the freest and fairest in the world, and that not a sin- 1 gle citizen of hers, no matter what his 1 rank, color or condition, can, under her 1 just and equal laws, impartially administered as they are, be by any perversion or intimidation debarred at the polls irom toe iree ana inu exercise 01 ms suffrage?\ There is not only perfcct freedom^n voting, but the amplest pro- j tsction afforded the voter. I shall, therefore, with a deep sense of ! the responsibility resting upon me to pre- ' serve, to the best of my ability, the purity 1 of the ballot so happily restored in this ! State, appoint to the important position of . Commissioners of Election iu tiie several counties, men of such known intelligence, ! high character and unquestioned patriot- < ism as will give all the people of South ' Carolina the confident assurance of having ! in the coming elections the fullest, freest : and fairest expression of their will. To these boards will be entrusted the , designation of precinct managers, a duty I am suie that they will not only discharge , faithfully, but the responsibilities of which . they will justly appreciate. I have thus frankly and succinctly stated the main considerations that will ' guide my action in the appointment of : these election boards, but I cannot refrain from bringing to your attention, in this connection, the fact that your committee ^n scarcely be said to represent an organized party, as the comatose condition of the remnant of the Republicans in this State for many years past would surely justify the non-recognition of alleged rights and consequences so urgently demanded and stroDgly asserted by you. I will only add that the whole people of South Carolina?every voter within her border?can safely rest in the absolute assurance of havincr at the comine elections the fullest opportunity of expressing their will through the constitutional and American method of a perfectly free ballot and fair count. Respectfully, J. P. Riciiardsox, Governor. A liking for candy when it is satisfied by an unlimited supply is found to last just one week. A new girl at a candy store, who has received permission to eat as much as she likes, does not eat half so much the second day as shf "does the first; on the third she devo-Js even less, and at the end of l of a weekriitr appetite for candy is exhasted. I ^ ANSWER TO FRED DOUGLA8S. Republicans are Not the Owners of the Colored Vote. (From the New York Star ) The letter addressed to the voters of the country, signed Frederick Douglass of the District of Columbia, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, John R. Lynch of Mississippi and other prominent colored men, has excited much indignation among many of their race. While the letter is addressed to the people of the country at large, it is wholly an appeal to the colored men, and contains many gross misrepresentations which are uttered for the purpose of misleading the members of that race and stealing their votes from Cleveland and Thurman. Among others who have expressed much displeasure at seeing in print such rr*off/V?HS QO TQ 1T? f.hft address referred to is Hon. Charles H. J. Taylor, ex-Minister to Liberia, and one of the three negroes who are members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Taylor is one of the few represenative men of his race who object to the misnomer "colored men." He holds that the term carries with it no distinction of race, and believes that it should be obliterated from our anthropological vocabulary. Mr. Taylor is a Democrat from conviction, and has possibly given more attention to the welfare of his race than either Fredrick Douglass or Blanche K. Bruce. He is certainly a man of rare intellect and well capable of speaking on the topics touched in the misleading screed signed by Mr. Douglass and the eleven others. Mr. Taylor ia in the city at the present time, and was seen by the StaT reporter yesterday. "When ashed his opinion of the letter, he said: "I regard it as most unfortunate for the Republicans at this time. While it is intended to whip the negroes into line, it falls short of its purpose and goes to show that the Democratic negroes are not only giving the Republicans much concern now, but have done so for some time past. It proves that the negroes are no longer uoited. Negro Democrats are everywhere congratulating themselves on being able to bring all the negroes of Republican prominence to their knees and f orcing them to recognize the division they represent. '?kf%A o {axtxt Aurra fr\ nnKIiflh a JL lUI^JJU AU M ?vn vwjw KV ? full and complete reply to all of the arguments contained in Mr. Douglass' Letter as to why the negroes should vote the Republican ticket. I candidly believe that any intelligent negro who has heretofore been in doubt as to how to vote will conclude, after reading this Republican screed, to voto the Democratic ticket. "[ shall not deny that there are outrages in the South; I shall not deny the unpleasant sta.e of things reported as existing between the races, by Republican politicians, but I shall charge that party which removed the political disabilities of the front men in the Rebellion with each and every outrage. If negroes have been killed on account of politics, the murderers are Republicans. The party heretofore posing as the especial friend of the negro ought to have known, and I believe did know, that to invest men- entirely poor and cx'-ro^ely, ignorant with the "right of sujrage, to contend with men of wealth and intelligence waa to make targets of the former for the guns of the latter. Poverty and !(win?r/>a mnof aWfttrs fall rmrtar in ftnv iguviauvv ?* >' *~j ~ y contest with wealth and intelligence. "The question of color and race has nothing at all to do with it. Let the negroes and the white men of the South change position, not in color, but in wealth and intelligence, and the negro would dominate just as the white man does to-day. I have an idea that if reports were coming North that the negroes were killing the white people, instead of vice versa, old Yankees who havn't seen their muskets since the-war would polish them up and rush to the rescue. "If Mr. Douglass and the other signers of this letter tell the negroes that in this Ejection the election of Harrison is of no less importance than the necessity at one time for the election or Lincoln, consciously or unconsciously they send forth a falsehood. I fail to see what more power Mr. Harrison will possess to right the wrongs of the negroes of the South than did Mr. Hayes, Mr. Garfield or Mr. Arthur." William E. Gross, president, and Greorge W. Broome, secretary of the nUnz-ion^ T.00mifl ?n nsn/v?io.f.trm rvf UACVCJOUU juvw^uv) MM v. jolored campaign clubs, have addressed i letter to Rev. William B. Derrick, inciting him to a public discussion on the political questions of the day with a man they will select of their own race. Mr. Derrick is the recognized leader and orator of the Republican voters of New fork. Tiie gentlemen who send him the challenge express the opinion that it would be well to have the colored voters af New York understand the real questions they are to vote upon in the coming election, and express the hope that Mr. Derrick will agree to submit the issues to the colored men of New York, that they may be able to judge of them intelligently. Hygienic View of Baldness. A physician recently expressed himself on the subject of bald heads, stating as his opinion that baldheaded people lie sooner than those who have a good - * j.^1 Head oi nair. jui many cases uiey j sold easily, and go off with pnoumonia or contract consumption or chronic bronchitis. The doctor urges all baldheaded men to wear a skull-cap at all times, as wigs are unfashionable, contending that if the hair were not intended as a protection to man he would iiave been created without any. He has noted many cases- of pneumonia, and, where the patient is a maie over forty years old, the proportion is over one-half ia favor of being baldheaded. Bald heads are one of the signs of a state of civilization including ease, luxury and high living, but also point to physical degeneration of the race. Those who are bald should 4.1-m Ar ntViAr rvrr?t,<??fciftn auvjuu vuu oau** w*j? w* ? ?w. ?-?-? for the liead. Questions for Workers. If high tariffs make high wages, why have the workingmea of thiS^country? those in the "protected" industries most of all?been compelled to strike for better wages thousands of times during the last fifteen years? Why, if the tariff protects, has labor found it necessary to organize for sclf-protection? Why are wages lower in the so-called protected industries?mining, mills, manufactories, etc.?than in other forms of skilled labor?carpenters, masons, printers, etc.? Why are wages the lowest in the most periuui ly piuic^L^u. wuumw vi buw world?China, Russia and Spain?and higher in free-trade England than in any protected country of Europe? What section of the tariff law constrains protected manufacturers to add the tariff to the wages of their operatives? Do they in fact do this? Let workingtnen think of these things.? N. T. World. INTERESTING TO POTATO GUOWEKS. A Man Who Started Out to Make Seven Hundred Bushels to the Acre?How he Went to Work. (From the New York Sun ) Mr. E. S. Carman, editor of the Rural New Yorker, conducts an experimental farm in the interest of his paper at River Edge, N. J. Here he has grown and tested all manner of farm crops and garden plants, and conducted many experiments in the way of different methods of cultivation. Of recent years he has obtained unusually large yields of potatoes by c. method of culture now known as the French system, and all of these large crops have been grown on a special plot of land which has been cropped with potatoes every year for the pa?t twelve years. Last winter Mr. Carman wagered $100 that he would raise potatoes this season, on a part of this special plot of ground, at the rate of mcutt than 700 bushels to the acre, let the seSon be favorable or unfavorable. This was done tc show the possibilities of profitable potato culture by the French system, and its superiority over the ordinary method now practiced by farmers. Mr. Wilmer Atkinson, editor of the Farm Journal of Philedelphia, accepted the wager for $50, the loser to pay the money to some charity to be named by the judges. The contest plot of land is level and the soil loamy, inclined to clayey, very good, apparently, and well drained. During the past twelve years it has received occasional dressings oi barnyard manue, averaging about four tons a year per acre: also liberal supplies of "potato fertilizer," say at the rate of l,20o pounds per acre a year. Now and again lime, kainit, raw-bone flour, and wood ashes in limited quanity have also been applied. In the French svstem the drills are opened in the form of treches 15 inches wide, and not in the way of simple farrows, as we usually prepare ground for potato planting. In this case the trenches are opened 15 inches wide and 0 inches deep and 3 feet apart, measuring from middle to middle. Potato fertilizer at the rate of 880 pounds to the acre, was then strewn in the bottom of the trenches, about two inches deep of loose soil drawn in over this, and all mixed'together by u awing a Hexaminer hoe albng in the trench. The potato sets were then planted a foot apart. Two inches of soil was drawn in over the sets, and potato fertilizer, at the rate of 8(J pounds to the acre, strewn over this and mixed as before. Also 'powdered sulphur, at the rate cf 440 lbs. to the acre, was sown in the trenches, which were then filled up level. The sulphur was used as a prevention against wire worm, wh 'cb, Mr,?Carman asserts, is the ciuae of scrab j j.1. L.J. rnu* I OH Lilt) puutbuca Ul LLLS OUJJL. Aug otuo were mostly medium-sized potatoes cut in halves, each half having two or three good eyes. Summer care consisted in keeping the ground clean. The drills were not hilled up, but kept level. Shallow cultivation was practised. Paris green and plaster were used against the potato beetle. Mr. Carman's theory about these trenches is that they conserve moisture and supply a yielding medium in which the tubes form and grow with little resistance, while the roots may penetrate at will tii? moze compact soil between the trenches. Again, the rain penetrates the trenches readily, and is not shed to either side as in the old system of hilling up. The water goes at once to where it it is most needed. The contest plot was planted on April 20. Three kinds of seedlings raised by Mr. Carman himself, and numbered respectively 2, 3 and 4 were grown. These were set out in rows 33 feet long. Oi No. 2 only one row was planted, and of Nos. 3 and 4 two rows of each were planted, the five rows in all making one eighty-eighth part of an acre, or one row the four hundred and fortieth part of an acre, and so the crop was comunted. The Dotatoes were dug yester day in the presence of a committee of responsible gentlemen and expert judges, who measured the land and weighed the tubers as they were dug, allowing sixty pounds to the bushel. The row of No. 2 yielded at the enormous rate of 1,076 bushels per acre, one row of the No. 3 at the rate of 298, and the other row at the rate of 243 bushels per acre, and one row of No. i produced at the rate of 6S3, and the otlier at the rate of 605 bushels per acre, or all five rows combined at the rate of 533 bushels of potatoes per acre. So Mr. Carman lost his wager. Tins shortcoming, however, is partiy attributed to the lateness of the spring, caused by the long continuance of tue snow of the blizzard on the ground, the cold, wet May, and an unprecedented severe attack of cucumber Ilea beetles upon ttie potato vines in July atxi August, tho vines of No. 3 having been completely killed by this insect pest as early as tiie first of August. Mr. Carman has used Paris green extended with plaster, hellebore and water, buchach * x__ 3 <_ powder ana water, ana vriauurat compound as insecticides in the case of these cucumber-flea beetles, but without the least apparent benefit. Specific Education. Mr. Yanderbilt pays his cook ten thouand dollars a year, my boy, which is a great deal more than you and I earn?or at leaat it is a great deal more than we get?because he can cook. That is all. Presumably because he can cook better than any other man in America. That is all. If Monsieur Sauceangravi could cook tolerably well, and shoot a little, and speak three languages tolerably well, and keep books fairly, and sing some, and could preach a fair sort of a sermon, and knew something about horses. and could telegraph a little, and could do light porter's work, and could read proof tolerably, could do plain house and sign painting, and could help on a threshing machine, and knew enough about law to practice in the justices' courts of the Kicapoo Township, and had once run for the Legislature, and knew how to weigh hay, he wouldn't get ten thousand dollars a year for it. He gets that just because he knows how to cook, and it wouldn't make a cent'e difference in his salary if he thought the world was flat, and that it went around its orbit on wheels. There's nothing like knowing jour business clear through, my boy, from withers to hock, whether you know anything else or not. What's the good of knowing everything? Only the sophomores are omniscient.? Bnrdetre. Out of the Race. Poor Brother Blaine. This is an off year for him, and, unless signs fail, this is the last of him as a political power. The Republicans are tired of him and the Democrats wouldn't have him. His race is about run, and while it is true that he was neck and neck for a long time, he has dropped behind at last, and has now fallen back of the distance pole. Like Fraud/ Hayes, he should take himself into a hennery, where he can brood over his downfall.?Atlanta Constitution. The price of patent leather is going up. This may take the shine off some men. FINDING A CHEST OF GOLD. Remarkable Story by an English Miner? He Finds in a Cave an Iron-Bonnd Chest Holding Nearly a Million of Dollars. A man named Alexander Stanhope, who has returned to Galena (Illinois) after an absence of thirty-one years spent in travel, tells the following story of how he found a fortune: "I came to Galena in 1847, having emigrated in that year from Truro, England, after the death of both of my parents and all my near relatives. I became a miner and began the exploration of & natural draft at the foot of the precipous bluff now known as New California. After working industriously for two weeks, I suddenly broke ill to a jarge cave, tue vamieu. rooi Ol which was decorated with stalactite and spar, the latter glistening in the light of my lamp like a million diamonds, ''While standing, spellbound, at the mouth of the cave, I noticed, a short distance to the right, inside the cavern, a shelving of rock, jutting out probably ,-cthree feet from the wall and about breast- high from the floor, upon the top of ; : which rested what proved to ba, on examination, a large iron-bound chest of oak, the lid of which was secured by a carioualy-shaped padlock of brass. With the aid of my pick and gad I broke open the chest, and to my amazement I found it to be filled to the top with with Spanish doubloons bearing the date of 1526. Overjoyed at the discovery, I fell to speculating upon how to remove the gold, and gave but little thonght as to the phenomenal circumstances of its being there. On leaving Galena for . New California I had purchased a goodsized, strongly-built skiff in whicn-4to transport my tools, provisions and other mining outfit to that place, which is accessible all the way by water. tiWifViAnl* 1/471 ry+K -rr T TV 1UUUUV 1U1C UUU X decided to transfer the treasure to my .*+***..? boat, and, as soon as that was accomplished, to set out for New Orleans, where I / could advantageously dispose of it. began, accordingly, "with great expedi-'v? tioosness, lest I should be disturbed by inquisitive newcomers, to carry the plan into execution, and succeeded that night in conveying the gold to my skiff, where I deposited it safely in two strong lockers which formed the seats in the forward and stern ends of the boat. On the following morning, after effectually banking up the mouth of the draft, I set out upon my voyage, which I accomplished in exactly three weeks, with bat few unpleasant adventures during the trip. At New Orleans I sold my doubloons, receiving in exchange an equivalent in American gold amounting in the aggregate to $390,000. Purchasing English, French, and German exchange witn my money, I took passage for Liverpool on the first European-bound vessel, and after sojourning a while in mv native tovtrn nf 'From. T dfit/?rminAd on spending the rest of my days in wandering about: the world, tnus gratifying an ambition which had been my iondes dream from my early boyhood." The draft in which Stanhope found the Spanish treasure was not discovered (the St. Louis Globe Democrat tells us) until 1876, when two Irish proprietors?one of them, Tom Shannon?broke into the cave, after several years of fruitless search for an "opening," and took out of it a large fortune in mineral. The chest which contained the doubloons secured - - by Stachope was found by ShannoD, and occasioned unbound-id surprise and no little speculation as to how it got there. Tne mystery has, of course, never been solved; but it is believed by Stanhope that the chest of treasure was stolen by some of De Soto's soldiers at the time he discovered and explored the Mississippi, and was secreted in the cave, the entrance to which had been blocked up by the alluvial deposits and changts of upward of 300 years. The Changing Vote. The novel election inquiry which the Times recently instituted through its country correspondents calls for a second installment to-day, bringing the published answers up to a total of about 120 from 107 counties of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. These answers have been accompanied by others to a number almost if not quite as great, which could not be published because, not complying with the conditions of the circular letter of instructions. The names were wanted of voters who are this year known to be changing their politics, with personal reasons for the change, and where this information was not given no mere estimate of changes in bulk could be accepted iu place of it. The 788 printed names constitute a record that is something more than a mere "straw." Their votes iu 1884 and their promised votes this year appear to contrast as follows: HOW THEY VOTED. Cleveland 292 Blaine 455 St. John 21 Butler 20 HOW THEY WILL VOTE. Cleveland 404 Harrison 288 I'isk 90 Labor. 6 In the shifting of the places that in* volves each one of these Mr. Cleveland loses all he had (292) and recruits a new follnwincr of 404: Mr. Harrison has now not one of Blaine's 455 votes, and even the St. John and Bntler lines of four years ago are dispersed. It is a curious showing and so wholly unlike what men are familiar with in the construction of" the usual election returns that the figures may seem confusing. For in this comparison there are no "gains" or "losses" as those terms are accepted in politics. Every vote has been a "loss" and every vote becomes a "gain." It would be almost impossible to estimate what percentage of relation these 788 changing voters bear to the whole vote in the communities where they reside, but if the returns of correspondents which could not be published in the Times mean anything, they indicate that these changing voters are bat a fraction of the whole number in process of change and whose name is legion. It would be a surprise amounting almost to a relief if we might sometime have election returns, if only for once, from a part of the United States, or even from one State, that passed out of the reach or range of ordinary effect, and if one such is now in process of preparation anywhere in these Northwestern States the Times will be glad to contribute to its general effectiveness.?Chicago Times. Wages. There are about twenty millions of working people in this country, and only about one in every thirteen of them find employment in highly protected industries, and they get lower sverage wages than those who are at work in the unprotected industries. Does high protection protect, then? Yes, it protects?but not lator or wages. It protects the capitalists, like Carnegie, and makes their exorbitant profits solid.?Boston Globe. Why are cats the poets of the lower animals? Because they cultivate the mews.