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There's never a sun that rises But we;know 'twill set at night The tints that gleam in the morning At the evening are just as bright; And the hour that is the sweetest Is between the dark and liglit. There's never a dream that's happy Bat the waking makes us sad; There's never a dream of sorrow But the waking makes us glad We shall look some lay with wondc At the troubles we have had. There's never a way so narrow But the entrance is made straight; There's always a guide to point us To the "little wicket gate;" And the angels will be nearer To a soul that is desolate. There's never a heart so haughty But will some (lay bow and kneel There's never a heart so wounded That the Savior cannot heal; There's many a lowly forehead That is bearing the hidden seal. NOW AND TIIEN1 BILL ARPS SOLILOQUISES oN TIJ PROGRESS OF INVENTION. I have seen the cotton picker Confidence is a plant of slow growth I remember that when the news papers first began to tell us abou a sewing machine that Elias Howi had invented that would do as muel work in a day as a hundred womei with their needles I was incredulout and I was indignant. I did'ent be lieve that a machine could imitatf the nimble, delicate hands, and I felt like I did'ent want it to do i nohow. My good mother had beeI sewing for me years and years, ani when she finished for her darling son, a nice pleated bosom shirt,] was proud of the shirt too. Bu time rolled on and the Grover d Baker machine got to circulatin around, and I found out that it wa! a good thing and would save a pow er of work, and so i bought one foi my wife without any premonition What a beautiful seamtress 8114 was. How nicely did she manipulati the needle and how dearly I loved to sit by and see her make stitcl after stitch on the muslin or calic< or them other garments and thing! that women and children and in fants had to wear. We have has infants at our house, various in fants, and it has been a world o work to keep 'em agoing and stoj 'em from squalling, but still ther4 has been pleasure in it. My good wife took it all naturally and liki a maternal heroine as she is. thought it was right funny for while, but the fun wore off and settled down to business. We havi raised children by the dozen and b~ the cord but we have never had on come to our house that was'ent wel come, for they always come decent ly and in good order, and they hayi grown up to be good boys and bet ter girls and gladden our heart: with their presence. But I hav< got off the track of my thoughts I have seen the cotton picker and: want to tell you about it. Now I dident believe that an; machine could take the place o human fingers in sewing and jus so I have been incredulous abou this cotton picking business. Th, truth is I made sport of it and tol< our folks that it was impossible, ul terly impossible, for no machin could see, it dident have eyes an< couldn't find the boIls and some o the bolls were half open and som two-thirds and some hung dowm and some stood up and some oper ed east and some opened west ani some one way and some aniothe and so I had no faith, not a bit. While here at Sumpter I was it vited to walk out to Mr. Mason workshop and I went. Mr. Maso is a bright, intelligent man &bot thirty years old. He loves con pany and loves to talk and will la down bis tools and tell you ever) thing he knows, I dont suppose bi has any secrets from anybody, n dors lnocked, no private rnnm, n hiding place for his wonderful work. He shows you everything and tels you what he thinks of doing that he has not done. He gave me one of the little revolving tubes that picks the cotton from the bolls. It is seven inches long and about 1 1-4 inches in diameter. This little thing is the invention. All the rest of the contrivance is to put it 'r in motion. Four dozen of them will be working at once on a cotton stock and if there is any cotton open they will find it. There are two upright cylinders three feet high that straddle a cottoa row lik a sulky plow straddles a row o - these little tubs revolve e1 au ; lyinders. They horizontally in tcte . y.. turned rounl and round r..) G The cylinders revolve on their axis and these tubes revolve on theira as they follow the cylinders round and round. They are sure to touch every boll and if the cotton has opened and swells out a fraction of an inch the little delicate points of the pickers get it and roll it all out in an instant and by a reversed motion unload it on a platform and from there it is carried up and put in a sack and packed until it is full. Horse power pults the machine along the row. The machine weighs three hundred pounds. Some of them are made for three feet cotton and some for four and some for r five, I saw the little spindles set to work on cotton holls half opened anz they left nothing, and yet they will revolve in your hand and not hurt you or prick you. There are 300 sharp points in each spindle. They are just under the surface and will catch the lint but not catch your flesh or the leaves or the stems. The imperfect machine of last year picked 300 pounds an hour. The perfect machine which he has now is expected to pick 600 pounds an hour. Mr. Masob has his own ma chinery, makes his own lathe and his dies and stamps and wheels and everything. He is backed by cap. ital unlimited and has refused a million of dollars that was offered him. He is making large machines for Texas and Arkansas and smal ler ones for the eastern states. II is plan is to charge a royalty and let the machines he made anywhere. It is a thing of life and sense and does just what you tell it to do. When the cotton is well open for the first picking it goes along and picks it and then you wait for the - next picking. It takes in no dead - leaves, nothing but cotton. Now he has a gin that operates on the same principle. These little pick. ers have expanded into a cylinder as long as the shaft and as large round as a gin saw and they catch the lint and a-i iron bar keeps the seed from following the lint and forces them back. The lint is not cut or torn. He is using a Wine ship frame, taking out the saws and and putting his cylinder in their place. It gins twice as fast as the saws and there is no danger to hands or arms, I put my open hand on the cylinder w h'le it was making 2,000 revolutions a minute. He dropped a hiandful! of single nails in the opening and! they were carried through in an instant and did no harm. Experts f om northern tac tories say the lint is worth ten per cent more than lint cut by the old method. I was ruminating over this new mode of picking cotton, and to my mind it is going to work a revolution in our farming. In the first place a poor man can't buy one. In the next place he can't afford to give fifty cents a hundred for picking when his nabor, who has got a ma. chine can pick his for ten cents a hundred or less. Then again the machine wont work well on rough or hilly land, and so that kind of land will have to be planted in something else. So I take it that poor folks and poor land will have to quit cotton and that will be a blessing. It may be, however, that some inter. prising fellers will buy a machine and go about the settlement picking for the farmer jnst like they go about now threshing their wheat. What will become of the nigger women and children in cotton time, I dont know; maybe we can hire them to cook and wash after a while when they cant get anything else to do. I hope so. Sumter is a good old town; the best shaded town I know of; elms Sand water oaks everywhere, and Slonely cottage homes set back in spacious lots andi surrounded with shade and beautiful flowers, and the sweetest girls sitting in the Sbroad piazzas, and the prettiest children playing in the grass, and the good people are so hospitable and homelike and the preachers so Sgentle and kind, and have such good Seating, and our jolly landlord of the Jervey house so merry and enter r taining. There is no chance to be blue or homesick in Sumter, I nev er passed two days more pleasant s ly and had rather make an annual pilgrimage here than anywhere I thave been. The best prospect for a coming crop that 1 have seen, is Y here. The cotton is splendid and e the dorn high and heavily eared all Stihe way to Manning, which is an rn other lovely town. thongh not so broken heart, not because tie ost the Presidency, but his son, Henry Clay, Jr., was his father's idol. lie was sent to West Point, where he graduated second in the class After four months in the army he resigned and began practicing law in Lexington, living with his father at Ashland. Not a young man in Kentucky promised better things than he did. When the Mcxican war b.oke out he was determined to go. His father make no objec tion and he went as Lieutenant Colonel of the first Kentucky regi ment. At the battle of Buena Vis ta, Santa Anna, with 3-2.0 troops, nearly overwhelmed General Tay lor, with about one eighth of that numbcr. Clay fought hard. but, as his regiment was falling back, a shot went through both legs. He was not mortally wounded and three _ m"n pickel him up to convey hin on . .. soon became cvi t.v,1:.:n.lt. ~ -- ould over ofT the l .' (lent that the Mexicans a take them. "Save yours tCe;1 boys," he said, and taking the pis tol which his father had given him, he banded it to one of the men with the words, "Take this and return it to my father. Tell him I have no further use for it.'' With that they dropped him and ran after the re treating troops. The last they saw of Clay he was lying on his back, fighting a squad of Mexicans with his sword. Next morning his body was found, hacked to pieces and mutilated by the cowards who had killed him. The pistol came to his father, then a Senator, and, though he lived several years after, I am convinced that he died from the blow. PEOPLE WHO NEVER EAT BREAD. There are civilized nations a large proportion of whose peasantry eat little or no bread. Baked loves of bread are unknown in many parts )f South Austria and of Italy md throughout the agricultural dis ricts of lRoumania. In the villages >f the Obersteiermark, not very many miles from Vienna, bread is ever seen, the staple food of the )eople being sterz, a kind .f por -idge made from grtund beech "Its, which is taken at breakfast ith fresh of curdled milk, at dinl ier with broth or with fried lard, and vith milk again for supper. This terz is also known as heiden, and akes the place of bread riot only n the Steiermark, but in Carinthia Lndi in many parts of the Tyrol. n the north of Italy the peasantry ive cbiefly on polenta, a porridge nade of boiled maize. The polen a. however, is not allowed to gran date ike Scotch porridge or like ,he Austrian sterz, but is boiled in o a solid pudding, which is cut up nd portioned out with a string. t is eaten cold as often as hot, nd is in every sense the Italian >easant's daily bread. The modern oumanians are held by many cholars to be descended from a Roman Colony, in other words to e the cousins of the Italians; and, :uriously enough, a v-ariation of the yolenta called mamaliga in the na ional dish of Rot'mania. The nanaliga is like the polenta in that t is made of boiled maze, but it is mnlike the latter in one important 'espect, as the grains are not allow d to settle into a solid mass, but ire kept distinct, after the fashion if oatmeal porridge. GE0RGIE AND TilE GEESE. "Georgie, do you want to go to ,be orchard with me while I hang up the clothes?" "Oh yes, yes, yes, Barbie," said 3eorgie, claipping his hands. He was always glad to go to the orch ird with some one; but lhe was ifraid to go alone, he was such a ittle fellow. He felt sure Barbie would take just as good care of! aim as mamma always did; but when the clothes were hung up, arbie went to the house without aying a word to Georgie. TI'e little boy very soon found hat he was alone, and set up a loud :ry This drew the attention of a lock of geese, who were nibbling rass near by, and they all came round him. No doubt they won :ered what small thing it. was that tood so still and made such a noise It couldn't be a goose, though eorgie was not much bigger than goose, and, you may think, acted inch like one. Was it something ood to eat? They quacked to cach other thesej guestions, and then begin to nib ble his fingers. Georgie's eriec grew louder and his tears fell fas-j ter, and oh, how far away the houase~ seemed, and there were no windows looking out upon the orchard! He would run, but he was afraid thme geese would knock him down with their wings. If he stood still be was afraid they would eat him up, and mamma would never know where her little boy had gone to. Oh he must get home to mamma; and giving one great, big, frighten ed yell, he started and r,an. expect ing the next moment to feel the trng white wingsbhating him to old or so large as Sumter. These people go slow but they go sure and live happy and content. They show content and leisure in their form and feature, in their walk and con versation. They are not in a hur ry. They have time to talk to you. They love their state and their town and their people. They stand up to their preachers and their statesman. Their boys are sober and diligent and manly, and their girls are modest. I wish the boys and girls were so every where, but they are not. I was in a town not long ago and a good man told me he had but one daugh ter, and there was not a young man in the town he was willing for her to marry, for they all drink on the :t.- and had no good principles to 'e were ..iThen I heard a young N a Co. C; w lie did back them.'- reunr1i:I.- .. man in another wt,< iA.,V ' ,turb not marry because lie could Ira afford to, for the best girl did noth ing but dress and visit, and he was afraid to marry one of them. Well that is bad and sad, aint it? But maybe the picture is overdrawn, I hope so. One thing I know, The hope of the nation and its sal vation in these small, unpretending towns and the good farming country that supports them. The young folks are not afraid to marry there, and they do marry and go to work and live happily and humble and do not strain to keep up with soci ety ! Fashionable, hypocritical so ciety. I know of no greater curse to any land or people. I wish every young man when he marries had the courage to say to his society friends, "Now, see here, we have started out with small capital and can't follow you. When you are sick I will nurse you, when you die I will help dig the grave and bury you, but don't you try to troll my wife off into your entravagant no tions and your society ways." BILL ARP. SEVENTY YEARS OF PRO GRE.s. 3R. BEECHER GIVES TIE BAPTIST CONFERENCES SOME MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE. At the Baptist Conference held I in New York, Henry Ward Beech er said : "During my journey from Am. herst to Boston, after graduating and while on my way to Ohio, the driver on the stage pointed out to me a bank of earth, and said: 'That's a railroad, I guess they call it.' That was the Boston and Wor. cester Railway, and it was the first I believe, with the exception o.f a small railway between Quincy and Boston, that had ever been construe ted. It took me ten days to go from New York to Cincinnati. It rode from Albany to Schenectady 'with Martan Van Buren, and as soon as it was known that we were on board we were saluted with sal vos of artillery from every place1 that we passed, and that will ac count for tbe fact that I have been making a noise ever since. "Looking at our railway system for hundreds and thousands of miles, I think t;.at this iron road I has ben, under God the means of changing the civilization of this country, both socially and politi cally, and it has had great influence aside from its other associations in war and in peace, "The most important applications of steam have been in my time, and to day the rivers are miserable democrats, looked down upon by the aristocratic steam road every. where. Then the whole telegraphic system has been in my day, and the telephone, which I don't yet believe in. Although faith is the evidence of things not seen, things heard and not seen require more faith. Then the development of the electrical machinery, which has been the post boy over land and under the sea, and is now coming to bring light everywhere. Then I was in col lege and had some love letter to write, I could write on a sheet as big as a newspaper, but if I put in a bit of paper as large as my little fnger they charged me double price. It was first 25 cents, then. 18 3-4 cents, then 12 1.2 cents, and it was a great triumph when we could send a letter for 10 cents or five cents. So I have seen the pro blem of cheap postage solved in my time. "The discoveries of Daguerre have been of,great benefit in science and art. In my own case I don't know whether, from the represen tations of my own face taken when: a boy, I am glad or not, but I would give all I am worth if the dis covery had been made in my moth er's time. Every minister should preach to his congregation that it is their duty to have the photograph of each child taken once a year un til it is twenty one, and, then the children will take care of the matter themselves-" H ENRY CLAY'S HEROIC SON. "Do you know what killed Henry Clay?" my gemial Kentucky story teller asked me the other day. '-If not, I will tell you. He died of a~ LnJe lVuut1; il av'L uw" b' - prise the geese made no objections to his going, and he was soon showing h:s bleeding fingers to mamma and telling the story of his wonderful escape. Mamma listen ed, and kissed the little finger-tips and bound thu up carefully. She rocked her little boy in her arms and sang t him. The geese in the orchard went on quietly nibbling the grass. They had forgotten all about him. THE nEN AND THE PIG. A few days ago two men, who were afterward found to be Detroi ters, arrive1 in a town about fifty miles to the west of this, lea ling a pig. It was perhaps big enough and heavy enough to be called a hog, but they termed it a pig. and as they turned' it over to the care of the landlord at whose inn they proposed to rest for the night, one of Gj n-igrr?yplained -ful with that pig a IClobncV. On t,- ist fron the mnenii:- j 027 67.10-1( "Be awful camo.ny IIe's a daisy-a new breou y Scotland. We've sold him 0t1! farmer out here for $50, and we don't want anything-to happen to him. The landlord took the pig up, and then began to think and cogitate and snspect. When the strangers had gone to bed he called in some of the boys, and said : '-I've twigged the racket. them two fel ows are sharpers, and that's a guessing pig. To-morrow they will give you a chance to guess at his weight at ten cents a guess, and you'll be cleaned out -only you won't. As the fellows sleep we will weigh the pig and beat their game." Nobody slept until the pig was taken over to the scales and weighed. lie pulled down 170 pounds to a hair, and the villagers went home and hunted up their nickels and dreamed of pigs and scales and sharphrs throug the remainder of niglt. Next morning the pig was led around in front, and, before starting off on his journey, one of the owners remarked to the assernbled crowd: "Gentlemen, I'm going to weigh this pig directly. Maybe some of you would like to guess on his weight? I'll take all guesses a, t.'n cents each, and who ever hits it gets fifty cents." This provoked a large and select ed stock of winks and smiles, but, no one walked up until the pigman said that any person could guess as many times as he cared to, pro vided a dime accompanied each guess. Then a rush set in. Three or four merchants put up fifty guesses each. A justice of the peace took thirty. A lawyer said about. twenty would do for him. Before there was any let up in the guessing about 600 had been registered and paid for. Every soul of 'em guess ed at 1'70 pounds. It was curious what unanimity there was in the guessing, but the pig men didn't seem to notice it. Whben all had been given a chance the pig was led to the scales, and 10o! his weight was exactly 174 pounds.! -'You see grentlemen," explained the spokesman, "while this animal only weighs 170 pounds along about 11 o'clock at night, we feed him about five pounds of corn meal in the morning before weighing ! You forgot to take this matter into con sideration !' Then somebody kicked the land lord, and he kicked the justice, and the justice kicked a merchant, and when the pig men looked back from a distant hill the whole town was out kicking itself and throw ing empty wallets into the river. [Detroit Free .Press. BARTLEY CAMPELL-While in conversation with a geiltieman who claims to have known BartleyCamp bell from boyhood, he told the fol lowing story of how the now fam ous dramatist came to take up jour nalism and play writing : "-Bartley and I were working to gether in a brickyard near Pittsburg both at the same bench. One or tne helpers had just bought a fresh load of clay and deposited it on the bench in front of us. Bart ey took up a handful of cold, moist earth and commenced to woik it in his hands. Presently he stopped and seemed lost in thought. All at once he dashed the clay he was working down on the heap and look ing at me, said : 'If ever I mould another handful of clay may the life be squeezed out of me,' and going to where his coat hung on a nail he took it down, pnt it on, and started down hill. '-Hold on Bart ley,' said I, 'If you're going to quit, I quit too, and I took my coat and followed him. We went to the boss and got our pay, and that afternoon started for Pittsburg, where he ob taned a position oa one of the pa pers. I need not add that he never went back to brick-making. A London scientist says that the eye of the toad cannot surpass in luster and beauty the eye of the flea. WVe are willing to take his word for it. We know nothing habnt ithea.-Philasdenpkia CalL ADVEETI ES. Advertisements inserted at the rate c f $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertiot , and 50 cents for each subsequent iuscrtio i . Double column advertisements ten per cen'. on above. Notte of meetings, obituaries and tribut s. of tespect, same rates per tquare as ordina y advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 ce t per line. Advertisements not marked with the nnm - her of insertions will be kept in till forbid .tnd charged accordingly. Special contracts made with large adver ti4ers. with liberal deductions on above rates JOB PRI.TI" DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPAT(H TERMS CASH. THE DEMOCRATIC COMMIITTEE. AN iMI'OtTANT MEETING IN ALBA NY-A REPORT ON ORGANIZA TION AD)PTED BUT KEPT SECRET. ALBANY. N. Y., July 29.-The National Democratic committee met at the )elavan House and was called to order by Secretary Prince in the absence of Chairman Bar num. John S. Barbour, of Virginia, was chosen chairman protem. The roll call showed representatives present from all the States antd Ter ritories except the States of Connec ticut, Maryland, Kentucky, Michi gan, Nevada and the Territories of Dakota, New Mexico, Utah and W oyoming, The proceedings of the meeting of July 24 were approved Capt. F. W. Dawson, of South. Carolina, on behalf of the commit tee on organization, made a report which was adopted, but the com tnittee d cided not to publish it at present, the matter being left in abeyance with the chairman and secretary who will decide what por an , shall be given to the ful perusa malley, of pto thitnkin-, New newspaers. leces, an On motion of .- Dry Vermont, Chas. J. Canda, York, was re elected treasurer. U, motion of Capt. Dan son, of South Carolina. Edward B. Dickinson, of New York, was unanimously re-ap pointed Stenographer. Mr. Thompson, of New York, on behalf of the committee on head quarters, report< d progress and ask ed permission to make his final re port to the executive committee: when it meets in New York. The following were named as the execu tive committee: Win. H. Barnum Connecticut, ex.officio; A. P. Gor man, Maryland; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina; B. F. Jones, Louis iana; Hubert 0. Thompson, New York; W. A. Wallace, Pennsylva nia; John S. Barbour, Virginia; W. F. Vilas, Wisconsin; Austin H. Brown, Indiana; M. M. H1am, Iowa; H. D. McHienry, Kentucky; P. 11. Kelley, Minnesota; Bradley B. Smaley, Vermont; A. W. Sulloway, New Hampshire; F. W.. Dawson, South Carolina; W. W. Armstrong, Ohio; Mi:es Ross, New Jersey; S. Corning Judd, Illinois; J. B. Barna by, Rhode .lsland, and John G. Prather, Missouri. The committee adjourned to meet at the Delscvan House at 3 P. M., to accompany the notification comnittee to the Executive cham ber. During the meeting an effort was made to have the report of the committee on organization given to the newspapers, but it was voted down. The execntive committee will meet in New York on Thursday of this week. SPARTANBURGC AND ASH VILLE THE FORTHCOMING COMPLETION OF THE MIsSING LINK-'AUSEs OF THE DELAY. Corre pondence otf no NLWS and Courier. NEW YORK, July 27.-Co.ning through North Carolina the other day I met President Andrews, of the Western North Carolina Rail road, the line which is now in oper ation from Salisbury to Waynesville, and Warm Springs, and to a point nearly thirty miles west of Waynes ville on the Ducktown branch. The engineering difficulties were im mense, but the worst of them have been overcome and, by September 1 more than thirty additional miles of road beyond Waynesville will have been constructed in accor dance with the agreement with the State. The obligation to build .a given number of miles of' road west of Waynesville by September 1, is, I am informed, th2 immediate cause of the hitherto unaccountable delay in building the railroad from Hen drsonvile to Asheville, which, with the exception of a few miles, is graded and ready for the ties. It is intendd to operate th,e Spartan- g bug and Ashville Railror.d as a part of the Western North Carolina Railroad, and Col. Andrews hopes to begin work upon it this fall. There would not be so much loss of time, but for the imperative ne cessity of concentrating all the available force, this summer, on the Ducktown branch. When completed, the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad will give us a short line to the West, via Mor ristown, Knoxville andI Jellico, be sides shortening considerably the distance by rail between the sum mer resorts in Western North Car olina and t he summer and winter re sorts at Charleston and on the South Atlantic coast. The failure to build the line from Ienderson to Asheville has caused much dissatisfaction, and it is pro posed to ask the Legislature of North Carolina, this winter, to re pea the charter of the road. Such measures, it is hoped, will be ren dered unnecessary by the construe tion of t.he road during next fall and ~ winter. F. W. D. A Burlington mani calls his dlog