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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRITE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JATL1TES. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MARCH IO, 1892. VOLUME XLIII. -NO. IO. ? Leap Year Fishing Party. [For ihe KEO-.VEE COURIER.] Now, girls, this is leap year; Suppose we all go ar fishing. And not keep talking the matter over, And keep the boys a-wishing. I am ? little behind the times, For I have had the la grippe, Which knocked me out of a sight of fun And one good fishing trip. Our lines we can make of ribbon, Our hook of a chicken bone; Now, all that don't want to be catched Had better let us alone. We will not bait with whiskey, Tobacco, nor a cigarette, ' For if we did;s*s? would eat our fish With sorrow and regret. We wilL?ot bait with bugs and worms, i?ifboys do when they fish ; But we will fry our bait up brown And place it on a dish. As to the bait-well, that must vary, As there are fishes of many sorts; For some it will take the finest of flour, While other we may catch with the, shorts. Now, girls, if we are not successful, We will tniuk it terribly bad, But it wou* e much worse if we catch a minnow When we aimed to catch a shad. My chance is not as good as other girls, And this is the reason why: I am not as fat as they Xor more than half iigh. My line is a little weaker, My hook a little less, I am not quite as handsome as they, Xor quite as neat in dress. But I am going to stand upon the bank, And .this is what I wish, That I may have half as much fun As the girls that catch the fish. If some girl should bring her prize to shore, And he* was not large enough to fry, I think I should laugh myself to death, And that is the way I would die. Xow, girls, if this leap year ends And we are still around our mother's door, With courage vre will wind up our hook and line And save, them four years more. x. I.. T. Senator M. C. Butler. THE DIVISION OF THE DEMOCRACY CAN ONLY BE HEALED AND ITS REAL OPINIONS SETTLED AT A PRI MARY FOR STATE OFFICERS. To the Editor of the News and] Courier: ' Some'days ago I received the fol lowing letter : HON.. M. C. BUTLER, United States Senator, Washington-My Dear Sir : The political situation inSoutb-Garor fT is'/very seriousT I desire to otain from ' you an expression of your views upon what course the ^-?servative people of the State -?uld take to bring about the unity and harmony of the party, which was so rudely broken by the unnatural course of events in this S&te two years ago. I shall "be very much obliged if you frill cover the subject as fully as, in your judgment, the importance of the issues to be discussed may require, and wish that you would express your views without reserve. 1 have addressed a similar request to -quite a number-of prominent and intelli gent gentlemen in different parts of the State, and hope that will favor me with a reply al your earli est convenience. . I Yours very truly, J. Qi HWiYfPHTTiL, Editor the News and Courier. Charleston, S. C., February 16? . Sharing with you tnc opinion, that "the political situation >n South Caro lina is very serious," and realizing thai it is my duty, with other citi zens of the State, to do what I can to heal vibe breaches made in the Democratic _ party and" restore har mony and good feeling, I shaH reply 4o your letter frankly and without r?serv?e ?n order to suggest a remedy it is first necessary to ascertain, if possi ble, the-cause qr causes of the trou ble. "We ?ud the' Democrats of South Carolina divided/ into three *parts or factions-those who sup port the present State administrationj J those who oppose it and express a purpose to test their strength within yjarty lines* and those who oppose it, bus do not commit themselves to action within party lises, " Xow, to^, begin with, there is not room An. South Carolina for three factions of the Democratic party roos* for a united, solid ?jy confronted as it is by the com-, n enemy, the -Republican psrty. . If the hreaeh " e^ntrsues one or ure of the factions will be absorbed by &e i?e^abUe&? . party^ or will: absorb it, r;JPh& has been the experi- j ence in almost every similar : condi of . ]^^C?^:|^|r6es,-,aBd. there is. ressoMtS' question I would like Jo put ery p??s?otia..JL>^rorat 5n;' the is uWo\?? you be. will . ?ee' *^e^ Bep?Micsi2 party is { ^mih ?&T?m^jt^0^% say aoos?ct:-as - itls-otjasen divide. It will not do to say th is no danger of Republican supr< acy in that State. Political chan in this country are sometimes sudd often insidious, and frequently it tho unexpected that happens, an ..ow utter the warning-we are great dangsr of the overthrow white supremacy and the rehabili tion of the Republican party, if : in name, in form and substance, a political party, whatever its nai is controlled and its policies det mined by its -constituency. Oi destroy the Democratic party South Carolina and you have ai ther dominated by the negro vc We know what that means. Would it not be wise and patrio in this view of the situation to bi past differences among ourseiv and if need be agree to disagree that we may get together? It safe lo assume in controversies sn as are now going on in South Ca: lina that errors and mistakes ha been committed on ll sides. If tl is admitted, and I am sure no m having knowledge of the frailties our nature and the fallibility human judgment will undertake deny it, the door will be open i neutral concessions and forbearan? During the last canvass Govern Tillman and his friends assailed wi unusual vigor and pertinacity n only the political methods and po cies of his predecessors, but attack their personal characters and motiv as well. Charges were made whic I believe, were afterwards admits to be without foundation. All thougl ful, conservative people deprecate these things at the time and foreto evil consequences. The evil cons quences have come. The seen were shifted, and the precedent ha ing been established, now that t] present administration is on tri; similar methods are being pursu< towards it. The friends of the administrate certainly ought not to complain this, and I do not know that they d I call attention to it to state the sit ation fairly and frankly, so that may be looked squarely in the fae I call attention to it to emphasi: the remark that the habit of indul< ing in personal vituperation, abu! and misrepresentation is "a custoi better honored in the breath than 3 the observance," and to express ti pope that in the future it will I abandoned. I do not wish to t understood -tis saying that all th ?ouse and vilification of the last cai vass was confined to Governor Til man and his friends. His opponenl -some of *,hem-played a very livel part in the performance, but this doe not and cannot justify it. Of cours< if a man is assailed personally, th temptation to retort in kind is almos irresistible- I plead guilty to th habit, at times, myself, but this doe not justify or make it right.* And the newspapers-why .shoal their editors and reporters b denounced for publishing public fact and expressing their, opinion oi them? Newspapers are the vehicle through and by which news is com municated to the public, which th public waists. The editors an< reporters, men like the balance of ns express their opinions in their edito rials, and why should they not ? I does not make them public enemies What they say may be entitled to n< more weight than what other mor tais say,*but they have a right, na^ more, a duty, to give?their opinions "and they are accepted or rejected a ?ney^are irise or otherwise. Why should patriotic citizens o tiie State, who do not approve of al the methods and policies and acts o the present administration, bi denounced as "Bourbons," ?aristo crate," "ringsters," etc? And wh] should those who approve of th< methods, poEciee and acts of th< present administration be denounced as "enemies to the State," "rolitica tricksters," etc., etc? There is n< sense in all this. -Ne good, bm untold harm must result from it. It would be un candid in me to saj that the present administration is nol amenable to diticisr>. A good imanj things have been '?one and left undone which^do not mest my a ppro yal, but it is entitled to fair jeat ment. ' Newspapers publish seven criticisms of the administration and they have a right to publish them. Other newspapers publish vigorous vindications of the administration: and they, too?*?ave a right to pub lish them ; bat abuse and vitupera tion neve? settled a controversy, and never wiH. -Political issues m a free country are settled by facts **nd argu ments intelligently and fairly pre sented to the people. .' In enlight ened communities such facts and arg?jnente only are ejective. Governor Tillman himself said in the beginning of his admmistratibn he we?lci be environed by many diffi culties: that he woald encounter fier?e opposition, critical judgment, ?sa-, and h??asnet;been disappointed. JES o^ veonrse-- 'th?:^nb?l?:':^mde^ stands. As one; bf... those wno voted ^or hm ;| ^ onee;e he would ;?iopt,'\f; coEssrvj?tive,.?wsffl&p?f. had it in his power to'have done so, and I sincerely regret he did . not, but he is the best judge of his own actions and conduct, and I presume is prepared to stand or fall by them. This much by way of preface (a very long preface, I admit) brings me to the point of suggesting a plan upon which I think we all ought to agree. Each faction, no doubt, honestly thinks lt has? a majority of the Demo cratic voters behind it. Majorities shift with such astonishing rapidity in this country that few things are more uncertain and deceptive. A faction or party in a majority this year may be in a hopeless minority next year. How, then, are we to ascertain who represents a majority of the Demo cratic voters ? I answer, by a pri mary election. ? >mit the claims of every candidate to the people and let them decide at the polls who they want. Having decided in this way every Democrat in the State should and will rally to those receiving a majority of the votes and close up our divided ranks. Surely nobody wishing to carry out the will of the majority can object to that. Governor Tillman, desirous of vindicating his adminis tration, would, doubtless, want a fair contest in an open field, and this method would give it to him. Other gentlemen becoming candi dates would want an equal opportu nity to criticise him and present their claims. They, too, would be con tent to submit themselves to the peo ple in this way. The people them selves certainly would not object. The newspapers could not object, for it would "furnish grist for their mill" and give them a chance to vin dicate their judgment. Why, then, should not the State Execi *ive Com mittee provide for a primary elec tion for all State officers, as is now provided for members of Congress and Solicitors, and let the candidates have it out before the people ? Meantime each candidate can organize his forces, and the better organized the more intelligent will be the discussion and more satisfac tory the result. A call has been made for a meet ing of those opposed to the present administration in Columbia the lat ter part of March, to nominate a can ? dilate for Gov^or. This is rather "an inm. - $ Democratic usage, but 1% %o law against it. The e|?. e set two years ago, and I-ar? Spy man or set of men hi o nominate candi dates. - lt is reassuring that the movers of this March Convention, all leading, reputable,* influential, patri ! otic citizens, propose to make their fight within the Democ^Ttic party and abide the result. It is to be supposed they will organize their forces thoroughly and systematically in every county, and that Governor Tillman,-who is.understood to bea candidate to succeed himself, . is .''looking after his fences" and will also abide the result of the canvass. ? primary election will compose "our. difficulties, and, in my judgment, nothing else will. Apologizing for the length of this letter, Tam truly yours, M. C. BUTLER. Washington, D. C., February 27. A Salted Undershirt for the Grip. [Cor. of NewJSLork Times.] Five years ago I was suffering with a severe throat trouble, so much so that I did not expect to live. An acquaintance told me that he could give me a remedy that would cure it, and as I had tried all of +he doc tors in my town without receiving any benefit, I decided to try the rem edy suggested. I tried it, was per manently cured of my cough, and besides I discovered that I was not subject to colds. I served a palace car company for two years in that time. I was con ductor, running in the States ?f Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama.. I was, of course, sub jected to very hot cars in winter, and of necessity had constantly to get out in the cold at all hours of the night. In all that time I have never had a cold or the grip. You will be astonished at the remedy. It is simply to wear a salted undershirt. Take a summer ?n'^rshirt and soak it in brine" made with, say a half pint of ordinary salt to about a quart of water, and put out to dry. Wear this shirt next to the body. It is not unpleasant to wear and will, I am sure, keep off -grip and bad colds, and I firmly believe consumption. If I were to live to be 80 years old, I have so much faith in the salted- shirts that I would never cease to wear them. My reason for preferring tho. thin gi?ze shirts is because the salt makes j a . ?c-avy shirt too stiff and: hard; ! Wear-?o heavy shirt over the salter; j r ?im?s? dentists ^are said to nave a:pc^??^;wh"c?iiM rabbed on the g^ms of%a:a aS^'sd tooth. After as ir-.tem? oj! five minutes the patien t .ld-to: sneeze; and the tootlv falls Fan at the Kass Meeting. [Columbia State, March 3.j There were a great many of the business men and prominent citizens of Columbia who went away from the opera house last night rather suddenly, all indulged in roar after roar of laughter. They were about as badly "sold" a set of individuals as one ever sees, but for all that the joke was too good to produce any thing but hilarity, pure and simple. Of course it was all about that mass meeting called by certain citi zens for the purpose of nominating tlsome better man" for Mayor than had yet appeared in the. race. As a mass meeting it was a glorious suc cess ; as to the purpose-well that was forgotten. Listen how it hap pened. There was a "full house" of all classes of citizens when the hour appointed for the meeting -rrived. In fact there had not boen such a fine mass meeting since the canal matter was discussed and Mr. Gunn's suit condemned. Most of those present came out of curiosity and had a pleasant surprise. There were only-a few who knew of the "job" that had been put up and they were discreetly quiet. The majority were in a state of expect ancy-they did not know exactly what the "bill of fare" was to be. Finally, after several attempts to get a presiding officer, Col. J. Q. Marshall, who came as a spectator, consented to act as Chairman in all j earnestness. Mr. W. H. Gibbes, Jr., lon the nomination of Mr. W. T. Martin, was chosen Secretary. Col. Marshall stated that unfortu nately he did not know the object of the meeting, having come only to look on, and he would request some of those who had issued the call to explain the object to the assemblage. Silence reigned supreme for a few moments, none of the callers volun teering to answer. T..en, in a most earnest manner, Mr. Winthrop Williams rose and said that it appeared to him that such a meeting was not in accord with the usual Democratic methods, ', and certainly had not the spirit of the primaries. In conclusion he cried very forcibly, "I movie that this body do now adjourn." -Prolonged ap- ! plause greeted ihis,^ showing the | popular sentiment, b}it it did not i prevent the fun that fiST to follow. Before the motion c*>uld be put to the house, Mr..,W- ^Hartin was on his feet asking Mr. Williams to with draw it for the moment, that Col. Tilman Watson had a letter he wished to read. [Cheers]. Col. Watson then stepped out on; the stage, and, stating by way of introduction that it was understood that the meeting was called for the purpose of nominating a certain widely known citizen, and that gen tleman had handed him the following ?ard to read to the meeting, a duty he should have discha.ged himself : COLUMBIA, S. C., March 2,1892. To the Public: Many of my friends have informed me that "the mass ?meeting" to be held to-night was called with a view to force me to run for Mayor of the city. I must respectfully decline the honor, as I have higher aspirations. Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill are both looking to me to accept a high Cabinet. position. Possibly one or the other may be left oy The Constitution onlyJ allows one President, but . by political chicanery, as in. the case of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Blaine, both may act in that capacity. In the event of Mr. Hill being elected Mr. Cleveland may be Secre tary of, State and he dictate and the other sign. ? Thanking my friends for the great honor done me, I am, very trespect fnlly, your fellow-citizen, COL. J. MADISON ROACH. When CoL Watson had reached the portion referring to : Hill and develar? there was laughter through the house, and that was the first intimation tl the joke. When the name was read there was pandemo nium, cheers and yells filling the house. Simultaneously, too, every man jumpedfrom his seat and started for the door, convulsed with laugh ter sad feeling very much like he had made a -- of himself/ See ? Out on the streets the crowd gathered and it was discussed as the joke of the season. Only one thing remains to be told. Tl c crowd be lieved the who'i? matter was * "put up job." On the, contrary several well known gentlemen had gotten up the meeting, as already stated, in all earnestness, for the purpose stated, bututhey could not turn the popular tide. That was ali. They were not seen in the crowd t*s>und the door afterward. For the benefit of the outside pub lic it should be known that "Coi." J. Madison Roach is the "character" politician of the city who loves a good joke better than his dinner. DIDN'T KNOW COL?MBBB.-"What Hppened tour hundred years ago. t his year ?" asked- Freddie's teacher. "Don't know," answered Freddie ^ When the Day is Gone. [Robert J. Burdelfce.] How quiet the house is at mid night. The people who talk and laugh and sing in it every day are asleep, and the people who fell asleep in it long ago come back into it. Every house has these two classes of tenants. Do we love best those with whom we can talk and laugh and sing, or the dear silent ones who come so noiselessly to our side, and whisper to us in faint, sweet, far away whispers that have no sound, so that we only hear their very still ness? I am not tired, but my pen is weary. It falls from my fingers, and I raise my head. I start to leave the table, and my 'eyes fall upon a little book lying on the floor. It is a little "First Reader." He left it there this afternoon. I remember just how I was impatient because he could not read the simple little les son, such an easy lesson, and I told him it was a waste of my time to teach him, and pushed him away from me. I remember now. I see the flush come into the little tired face, the brave, cheerful look in his eyes-his mother's brave, patient, cheerfulness-struggling with his disappointment and pain. I see him lie down on the floor, and the little face bent over the troublesome les son, such a simple, easy lesson, any baby might read it. Then, after ? little struggle alone, it has to bt given up, and the baffled little sol dier, with one more appealing look to me for re-enforcements, sighs and goes away from the lesson he cannot read to the play that comforts him. And there lies the little book just as he left it. Ah, me, I could kneel down and kiss it now, as though it ? were living and loving. Why, -what was my time worth to j me to-day? What was there in the book I wanted to read one-half so I precious to me as one cooing word j from the prattling lips that quivered j when I turned away? I hate the book I read. I will, never look at it again. Were it the last book in the T7orld, I think I would burn it. All its gracious words are lies. I say to you, though ail men praise the book, and though an hour ago I thought it excell?t, I say to you there is poi son in its hateful pages. Why, what can I learn from books that baby lips cannot teach me ? Do you know I wanjt to go to the door of his room auflisten? The house is so still, nu?ybe he is not breathing. Why, if between my book and my boy I choose my book, why should net Go J leave me with my books ? My hate ful books. But I was not harsh ; I was only a little impatient, because his lesson was so easy, so simple. Ah, me, there were two of us trying to read this afternoon. Th^ce were two easy, simple lessons. Mine was such a very simple, easy, pleasant one to learn. Just a line, just a throb of patience, of gentleness, of love, that would have made my own heart glow and laugh and sing. The letters were so large and plain, the words so easy and the sentences so short. And I ? O pity me, I missed every word. I did not read one line aright. See, here is my copy now, all blurred and blistered with tears s nd heart ache, all marred, and misspelled, and blotted. I am ashamed to show it to the Master, and yet I know that he will be patient with me ; I know how loving and gentle he will be. Why, how patiently and loving all these years he has been teaching me this simple lesson I fr.iied to learn to-day. But when my little pupil stumbled on a single word-is my time, then, so much more precious than the Master's that I cannot teach the little lesson more than once ? Ah, friends, we do not waste time when we plait scourges for ourselves. These hurrying days,, these busy, anxious, shrewd, ambitious times of ours are wasted when they take our hearts away from patient gentleness and give us fame and goid for kisses. Some day} then, when our hungry souls will seek' for bread, our selfish god will give us a stone. Life is not a. deep, profound, perplexing prob lem ; it is a simple, easy lesson, such, as any child "may read. You cannot find its solution in . the ponderous tomes of the old fathers, the philoso phers, the investigators, the theorists. It is not' on your book-shelves ; but in the warmest, corner of the mop* unlettered heart it glows in letters that the blindest may read-a sweet, plain, simple, easy, loving lesson; and when you have learned it, bro ther of mine, the world will - be. bet ter and happier. ? resolution has been favorably reported in the United States Sen ate to restore to Mexico twenty-one battle Hags, now"in the Museum K>f West Point Mi?t?ry ^Academy, and which were taken from Mexico drov ing the war with that country. ?iftyjtank steamers are "now carry ing o? in bulk irom this couniry to i Eu?-op?. A --J'"-- :. * Time? heals all things except ! woxmd?f ; pr?de and old rubber shoes; How People Sleep. [The Youth's Companion.] . Though it is true, as the author of a school composition once asserted, that "sleeping is a universal practice among all nations," it is also true that there is a great diversity in the methods of sleeping among people of different nations and different ways of life. The things which one person needs to make him sleep are precisely the things which would keep another awake all night. Even the sedative medicines which put one person immediately into a heavy | slumber excite another into a condi-1 tion of nervous restlessness. The European or American, in order to sleep well, ordinarily requires a downy pillow under the head ; but the Japanese, stretching himselt upon a rush mat on the floor, puts a hard, square block of wood under his head, and does not sleep well if he does not have it. The Chinese makes great account of his bed, which is very low indee d -scarcely rising from the floor-but is often carved exquisitely of wood ; but it never occurs to him to make it any softer than rush mats will render it. While the people of Northern. countries cannot sleep unless they j have plenty of room to stretch out ; their legs, the inhabitants of the tropics often curl themselves up like monkeys at the lower angle of a sus- ! uended hammock, and sleep soundly ; in that position. The robust American often covers j himself with a pair of blanket?, and j throws his window wide open to the ! air, even in the winter time, and he does?not complain if he finds a little j drift of snow across the top of his ! bed in the m?rning. The Russian, on the contrary, likes ! no sleeping-place so well as the top j of the big soapstone stove ^in his domicile. Crawling out of this blis tering bed in the morning, he likes I to take a plunge in a cold stream, ; even if he has to break through the I ice to get into it. The Laplander crawls, head and ! all, into a bag made of reindeer skin, and sleeps warm and comfortable within it. The East Indian, at the other end of the world, also has a sleeping bag, but it is more porous j than the Laplander's. Its purpose | is to keep out mosquitoes more than ! to keep the sleeper warm. While the American still clings to i his feather pillow, he is steadily dis- | j carding his old-fashioned feather bed ; j in favor of the hair or straw mat- j tress. The feather bed is relegated j ; to the country, and many people who ! i slept upon it ali through their child- j ; hood find themselves uncomfortable ! upon it in their maturity. The Germans not only sleep upon ; a feather bed, but underneath one. i The feather covering used in Ger many, however, is not as large or thick as the one which is used as a j mattress, and the foreigner who ; undertakes to sleep beneath it often j finds his feet suffering from cold while his shoulders are suffering from heat. ? West Point Terminal. NEW YORK, March 5.-The name j of the reorganized Richmond Termi nal Company has been changed again and the new company will be called the Southern Railway Company. A Wall street paper to-day pub lishes the following information about the plan of reorganization : "Richm?nd Terminal first mort gage 4s have been increased from ?212,500,000 to '?220,000,000 and the common stock decreased from ?150, 000,000 to $140,000,000. The new income bonds have been increased ?2,500,000 to ?65,000,000 with the new preferred stock at ?75,000,000 as at first. "The total issue of securities, how ever, on the whole system is un changed-4500,000,000. Of the first mortgage 4s, about ?159,000,000 of them will be issued in exchange for underlying securities that stand out in paying off the floating debts, etc. This will leave in the treasury of the reorganized system, which will be called the Southern Railway Com pany $19,000,000 of the first 4s for .improvements, new- equipments, etc. About $12,000,000 of the common stock will also be held in the trea -iry." It will be observed therefore that after the various systems shall be consolidated into one of 8,800 miles and all the floating indebtedness is liquidated, and from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 cash turned over to the new company by the bankers' syndi cate (as it is* estimated will be the case), the Southern Railway Com pany will Jbegin its career with from three to five millions cash, $19,000, 000 fixst mortgage 4s and about $12,000,000 common stock in its trea sury. A prominent member of the reorganization committee says that the effort to form a bankers' syndi cate was not begun until Saturday last and that six-sevenths of the ?rhole amount has been secured. . Tobacco culture still grows in favottwith South Carolina fanners. someming ui a tuse. They went to see the family law yer yesterday-Mary Ann and her mother. Mary Ann was a little embarrassed, bat the old lady was calmness itself. When they spoke about a breach of promise, the law yer said : "What evidence have you ?" "Mary Ann, produce the letters," commanded the mother, and the girl took off the cover of a clothes bas ket and remarked that she thought nine hundred and seven letters would do to begin with ; the other six hun dred and fifty-one would be produceu as soon as the case was fairly before the court. "And besides these letters?" que ried the lawyer. "Mary Ann, produce your diary," said the mother. "Now turn to the heading of 'promise' and tell him how many times this marriage busi ness was talked over." "The sum total is two hundred and fourteen times," answered the girl. . . "Now, turn-to the heading cf 'dar ling' and give us the number;of times he has applied that term to you." "If J have calculated rightly, the number :? nine thousand two hun dred and fifty-four times." "I fancy yo? > counted pretty cor rectly, for your are good at arithme tic. Kow, turn td. the heading of 'Newport Cottage' and teil us low many times he has talkVd ot stich a home for you after marriage" "One thousand three hur.'dred and ninety-five times." "Very well. This gentleman wan^s to be sure that we've a case. How I many times has Charles Henry said j that he would die for you ?" "Three hundred and fifty," the girl answered. "How many times has he called you an angel?" "Over eleven thousand, mamma." "How about squeezing hands?'' "Over three hundred and eighty four thousand squeezes." "And kisses?" "Nearly four hundred and seven- j teen thousand." "And about reading poetry, sing- ? ing duets and taking moonlight walks together ?" "The numbers are on this paper," | said the girl, handing the slip to the j lawyer. "That's our case," said the mother, j as she deposited basket and diary on j the lawyer's table. "Look over the documents, and if you want anything further I can bring a dozen neigh bors to swear to facts. We sue for ?10,000 damages, and we'll call again next week. Good day, sir." Things I Hate to See. - [Kain's Horn.] I hate to see a mari always talking :ibout what a happy place heaven is, and doing nothing to make his home resemble it. I hate to see a man with a suspi cious breath boast of temperance principles. I hate to see a man continually talking about how much he loves everybody, and never doing anything j to help anybody. I hate to see a prominent church member slipping into a butcher-shop to buy something for breakfast on Sunday morning. I hate to see people overbj par ticular about their clothes and ! U'.derly particular about the morals. I I hate to see a man remember everything the clown said twenty years agc, and forget every word the preacher said last Sunday morning. I hate to see people give all their sweet to the world and kevp all their , sour for the fireside. I hate to see a man chewing i tobacco while he is whipping his boy i for smoking. Ax IRISH STORY.-A farmer was put on trial at the Clonmel assizes, at the beginning of the present cen tury, before Lord Norbury, then known as the "hanging judge," for having killed a man in a faction fight at the fair of Nenagh by smashing his skull. In the course of the trial surgical evidence was given that the skull of the deceased was no thicker than an eggshell. '.However, the accused was found guilty, and when asked by the judge what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him, he replied that "he had nothing to say, only he thought that a man with a skull no thicker than an eggshell had no business at the fair of Nenagh." This answer so tickled the humorous side of the judge that he ordered his discharge, observing that the man's death, according to the doctor's, evi dence, was purely the result of a natural accident. At the same time he warned the prisoner that, should he ever again engage in a faction fight, to make sure thai, the man he encountered had a skn?l thicker than an eggshell. Kow York has the largest Grand Lodge of Masons; It has over 80,000 members. Illinois comes nest with a membership of about 48,000. [Ladies' Home Journal.] No, your manners in church aro very bad. And shall I tell you to whom you ar rude ? To God him self. You have no right to saunter lazily up the aisle in the house dedicated to him. You have no right to move around, arranging, stroking and straightcn ing your gown ; your manner should be quiet and in good order. You have no right -'-ad your prayer book \n<*> because you do not fiim-y the sermon. You are then insulting two persons. God and, Iii? representative. You have no righi during the time the hymn is sung to carefully observe the bonnets and wraps of the congre gation. This is always in bad taste, but reserve it for week-day delecta tion. You have no righi to discuss thc sermon as you walk down the aisle. The preacher has done his best, and in the name ot God, and you have no right to criticise him. ! You wonder if yon have com ;mitt ed all these sins; you do not believe you have. My dear, think it ! over, and you will find one or two ; may be laid at your door. Only Jit ! tie faults-only little rudeness to the : King of kings. A demeanor beoom ing a gentlewoman, a reverence be coming a worshiper, is the way I want ali my girls to look and act ai church. The picture of one wno i - prayed and who lived a beautiful life, ! and who, it always seemed to me, must have been the typical beauti ful, is etched by England's crown poet - and she seems the woman who woulcf -jmake home the place in which she dweii' the better for her. These are the lin^s which describe her: Eyes not dow u-dropt ncr over bright, But fed with t'^10 clear-pointed flame ol chastity. . Crowned Isabel? through all her married life. The uueen of carriage, a most perfect wife. ^ -H..* A Tower M Porcelain. In 1430 A. !>., a.*ter nineteen years of ceaseless labor aiS|an expenditure of about ?4,000,000, ~I#E "/^T"!!* Government finished the wonderiui Porcelain Tower at Nankin, which, stood for nearly four and .1 quarter centuries - until 1856 - the most marvelous building ever erected Ly human hands. It was of octagon form, 260 feet ir. height, with niue stories, each having a cornice and gallery without. The name of Por celain lower was applied to this unique structure on account of thc fact that the whole of the outside work was covered with porcelain slabs of various sizes and colors, but principally of red, white, yellow and green. Ar. every one of its nine, stories the projecting roof of the gallery was covered with green tiles, : each corner being provided nth a : bell varying in weight fruin 300 to 1,000 pounds. There were 152 bells in ali,each as nicely balanced as LO rock back and forth as they were swayed by the breezes, giving .?ul a continuous' I strain of beautiful bal wier? mi ?i Hanged iii rows between the bi , were 128 bras.?-, bronze, and silv lamps, which we--c lighted every : night in the year. The apes of thc -tower, starting from its base al uhe ? "2?0 toot level, and extending upward I for a height of 10 feet, was a mon i ster gilded pineapple, surmounted by j a copper ball aboul 2 feet i?; dhu i ter. A spiral stairway of over SOO step-led from the base to the sum mit. The building was co nstructed i as a gift to an empress, .ind was always kept in repair the Gov ernment. Lightning Struck it in i 1801, and tore down tile three top stories. The injury was repaired as i soon as possible. It would probably have been standing to this day had i not the Taiping rebels imagined its ! lights and bells disastrous to their ! cause. Perpetual Motton. [Lexington Dispatch.] I The happiest man that we have I ? , I seen for years is Reeves Gantt, Esq., who, having solved the problem of perpetual motion, has abandoned the practice' of law, and engaged in or ganizing a company with live million dollars capital for the purpose of building his perpetual motion ma chine. Ile cli?ms that, it runs so easily and perfectly that with small buckshot as weights, he can run machinerj requiring a 100 horse power engine, and informs us that he is going to substitute his invention for the turbine now running: Red Bank Factory. We have no doubt that this invention possesses merits which will entitle him to be called the "Keely ;Motor Man" of Lexing ton. The working of rebuilding Con verse College,- Spartanburg's beauti ful institution of learning, is pro gressing rapidly. The density of population is greatest in Europe, where it averages ninety-seven to the square mile.