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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT -THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JA YNES. WALHALLA, SOUTH CABOLLHA, APBIL 14, 1892. VOLUME XLLTL-HO. 15. Political Poetry. BEFORE THE NOMINATION". We're waiting, waiting on you, Jim Waiting for your consent Consent' to run for us, dear Jim ; Oh, won't we shout content! Content is not "he word, dear Jim, The heavens would hear us ro'r, Three cheers for our coming man God bless our ?ames L. Orr!. Fron-, the seaboard to the mountains, Jim, .From thc rich and from the poor, We'd shout with one accord and say. Pili? th" word from shore to shore; Our .dm at last has given his word: - Shout till your throats are sor', * We've a good man for our candidate God hies our Janies L. Orr! Your State is calling you, dear Jim. To drive the stage straight through. Your trusty hands to uike the rein Who else so brave and true; . You know the rocks and gullies. Jim, The '?Winding Stairs"* so steep; But if you've got the "ribbons." .Hm. We'll safely fall asleep. But if you cannot drive us. Jim. Find us a ..simon-pure" That'll do his duty, come what will, And all this trouble cure. You'll go on lighting for us. Jim, As you have done befor". .1 when at last your work is done God save pur J?.mes L. Orr! * A stage road over a steep mountain to Flat Keck. X. C., from Greenville, S. C., via Marietta. AFTER THE NoMI.V.Y HON*. Hurrah! the strife is over now, And we have got our men. Who'll do their duty, come what will. And cure these troubles when They are in office, safe and sound. And all things regulate: Three jheers for our comir ~ men ! God bless each candidate; Hurrah for Sheppard ! he's our man He's a simon-pure and true. And he'll pul! us out of the mud And, Jim! hurrah for you! ~ee cheers for Yonmans and the rest ! urah ij?T the whole six ! y'll stand you through thick and thin i.d help us out of this lix. rr team is good and trusty, too. [ay nothing e'er betide 'em: wlien Sheppard takes the reins 'il bc up there beside him. ?AXt our shoulders to the wheel ?nd shove the stage out of the hole, Ind when our Johtt'll crack his whip. ! We'll shout, "Just let her roll!" A. M. M. Charleston, S. C. Women on the Farm. \ _ CIRCULAR TO THE WOELD'S FAIR, . AUBU'L'I.TrRAl. COMMITTEE. [Columbia Daily Register.] Mrs. Thomas Taylor, Chairman of e Committee of Agriculture of the .ntral W.orT'~ 7> " x ne letter is as follows : To the Ladks o/tAt Central CI ?a .ari!s World's Fair Committee 1 AtfUcttUure : From information ' gathered of the operations of like; organizations in other States, together ; ?with explanations from the National Board of Managers, our plan for! -^orl: may be stated as follows : To | ?pare for exhibition at Chicago as : <?/> tV>r the South Carolina Fair. rue sent, out by the! .rd embraces a great j rvuich we have nothing to i - i uo. Extracted from that, the cala- j logue which will serve for us includes crops of cereals, cotton, hay, canned, '? "irred and preserved fruits and veg- ! stables, potatoes, yams, ?nts, olives, j -^stie wines and cordials, catsups,] ;tc. Atzjar yellow and oil Wes are specialties of Yir /\ h Carolina housekeep-1 list -gives something deti o we rk on at once. 1892 > prepare for 1893. 1 reception of articles vember 1st, 1802, and /ril 10th, 1893. Articles exhuA^ at the State Fair in Novem ber will be in readiness for the Com- j mittee cn Transportat ion to take in ^harsre. One ladv in the State Ka-?' .''..".ated in front of her house three- ' ? of an .acre, hoeing and pick herown hands, 1,4)00 pounds : silk (long staple upi .nd) ..on. The bale took the ?100 | .emiuni at the Augusta Fair. The ; .gricultural Committee was drawn rom over the whole State, with the ' -dew of collecting, as early, as possi- \x . the information which wiu v Courage and give stability to the J -work, and statistics ' are j .arieties of corn, size " of j ''.re and c-^t of [ th of wheat | .^^n and ' ?\ " u.v advantage of knowing none better can be grown. This per gives what is necessary to be own at the present time. As soon ? .e matters relative to our State stries and arts can be separated i the general catalogue of the tiona! Board the Central Club will a pamphlet at a nominal cost, the local clubs will be able to ' lessen the labor of procuring '".ar work. . The Cen ses the advantage tation, having y in" the earlier '"e have placed -it j ?e courteous and T ady Manager, Columbia, her j books issued by the "National Board, j her business correspondence, as well j as her personal service and counsel. ?This enables us to direct energy .without waste. MKS. THOMAS TAYLOR, j Chairman Committee of Agriculture C. C. W. W. F. Mrs. Taylor is assisted in her work ' by a strong committee. Every Day for Forty-Two Years. -1 [New York Observer.] A remarkable instance of private : practice in the experience of a phy ?sician was brought to light a few P ' days ago by a little gathering of chil-* 1 dren, grandchildren and many loving friends of Mrs. Bella Cooke, in her little home in a small rear house on Second avenue. Mrs. Cooke has been lying on a bed of snowy white ness in one corner of that roora for j over thirty-six years. She has lran ? dreds of friends, and for some weeks they have been sending in ccntribu ! tion* for a surprise party. Forty two years ago, six years before she : W3s permanently confined to her bed, where she now is, and while she was in the hospital, Dr. Miles W. Pal mer, then a young physician, became her attendant. Ile has faithfully visited her every day since, except when temporarily out of the city but as he has often been called twice a day for weeks and often three and tour times a day, it is safe to say he has averaged at least one visit a day tor forty-two years. The doctor has never made any charge whatever, and was taken by surprise one even- j ing when he was invited to tea in] the charming cosy room where this dear mother in Israel has lain soi long, and where he was presented j with a written address and forty-two 'an-dollar gold pieces, which had been gathered by the friends of Mrs. Cooke, one for each year. Twenty one years ago a few friends made him'a present because he had been so constant for such a long time, and in pleasantry said: "Now, if-you wait on dear sister Cooke for twenty one years ion ger wc will give vou another present." For some years after this event Dr. Palmer laugh ingly alluded to it, but as time sped on he grew silent. Many who con tributed to the present for the faith ful doctor'twenty-orie years ago have been laid away to rest, and quite a few who helped towards the later the * .?h .?.o ner to be ii velars younger. She has had a severe attack of paralysis since lying there, and many other severe bodily afflictions, so that often for days her life has been despaired of, but by careful nursing and skilful treatment, her life is still spared. While having nothing, she possesses all things, and she is enabled to do ver}* much real missionary work while lying helpless on her back ?n that wonderful cor ner. Any one desiring to prove this i statement, can do so by calling there j any time, and especially on Thanks giving or Christmas Eve. Among her callers can be seen the richest and the poorest in this great city. No one can remain ten minutes in lier company without perceiving that she has received "an anointing from the Holy One." "Many times has the writer, when he first entered the Christian life from a life of drunken ness and crime, and when he was most' sorely beset by the foe, knelt at her bedside and poured out his soul to God for aid and strength, with the soft hand of this dear mother on his head, and gone away irojjx that precious place renewed in soul and body for the fight. While lying thus she has compiled and written the history of her life, "Riftf ' Clouds," a work of deepest interest that has caused comfort to thousands of homes. Many society young ladies who wished to see "dear Mother Cooke" have been led to the Saviour by her wise and loving coun sel and have blessed homes and hus bands and children as they have advanced in life. S. II. HADLEY, ?Supt. Mc A uley Water St. Mission. There are twenty well-built towns in Kansas without a single inhabit ant tc waken thc echoes of their deserted streets. Saratoga has a ?30,000 opera house, a large .brick hotel, a $20,000 school house and a .? umber of fine business houses, yet there is nobody even to claim a place to sleep. At Fargo a ?20,000 school house stands on the side of the hill, a monument to the bond-voting craze. A herder and his family constitute the sole population of what ?was once an incorporated city. This is a sad commentary on unhealthy boom*. Those Kansas towns, like Wichita, advertised themselves as phenomenal boom cities. For a while "every thing was lovely and*the goo<?c vung high," but a last dry rot wol hold on the boom towns and killed them. We are all the time making char acter, whether we are doing any- . thing else or not. Southern "Vesroes in 3iew York. A few weeks ago several colonies of Southern blacks on their way to Africa were stranded in New York city, where their suffering excited general pity and indignation. Now, we have another chapter, as bad if not worse than the first. A railroad ,now being constructed through the Adirondacks has drawn a crowd of negroes from Tennessee I to do the heavy work, and these un fortunates have been reduced toi extremities by their hardships and: the rigorous climate. The Syracuse j Journal states tfhat fully 500 negroes ! are stranded between Syracuse and j Albany. They report the most bru- j j tal outrages on the part of the con- j ! tractors in the shape of extortion, j ? robbery, cruelty and even murder, j ! The Journal says : j "At Schenectady, sixteen miles out i from Albany, was found a batch of fourteen negroes, huddled together like shivering sheep, in an old wood shed. This was the first group of 1 refugees to be found up the lino. ! To paint a pen picture of the scene . would be absolute folly on the part ; of the writer; to enter into the ! strongest details would only breed ! distrust in a reader's mind. Imag ! ine, if you can, fourteen tall negroes, j with flesh shrunken and eyes set I deep in their heads from hunger. The glassy eyes, red with famine, fatigue, sleeplessness and cruelty, i Not one is decently covered with j the vermin-infested rags, which they wear, to protect them from even the ; mildness of a soft spring. Picture, ! if you can, the terrible anguish ! which these creatures of the South I land must endure in their semi-naked I condition." The negroes are shoeless, frost bitten and hungry. * One of them, who had shot a railway guard in self-defense, told the reporter the I following story : "I am the man who shot the Eng- j lish guard, Hitchcock. I had been ill the day prior to the shooting, and j tried to be excused. Instead of be ing given a rest, the guard picked up a spade which lay beside him and whacked me several times about the head and shoulders. I bore the pain of tlie blows as well as I could at the time, but the next day, when the burly fellow tried to brain me with the butt end of his Winchester, I polled the gun from his hand and j shot him dead where he stood. Then I broke for the woods, and a crowd of men followed me. Most of them ?o-' otured and taken back to the v those you see here escap T no' Icier? "brrT 3nj ui the others escaped, but it must ha; e been through the mercy of a good God, who at last answered our prayers. "The terrible outrage of the whole | works, however, was the store sys- ! tem. For these ragged old pants! you see me wearing-and they are ! as good as when I bought them-I i was charged ?7 on the books. For ? these twenty-five-cent suspenders I ! was charged -s2. These old patched j brogans on my feet cost rae *5 at j the store. About the food, did you say? No civilized human being could call it food. For breakfast we got one piece of filthy bread,'' smeared with vile molasses, worth ; about five cents a gallon, retail price, j For dinner we were flung a small j piece of partially boiled and very fat salt pork. For supper the dose of so-called bread and molasses was re peated." The victims were entic *d from their homes, near Columbia, Tenn., by promises of' 81.50 per day and; good board at $1.50 a week.. They \ went to New York jubilant, but it is J uncertain whether they will live to I see Tennessee again. Deceived, | fleeced and persecuted, they are worse off than the Je ws in Russia, notwithstanding the fact that- they are surrounded by millions of peo ple who profess to make thc welfare of the negro race one of their most cherished objects. A BOY'S ESSAY OS BRKATH.-A little boy in the Northside Public School recently handed in to the teacher the following composition on "Our Breath "Our breath is made of air. If it were not for our breath we would die. The breath keeps going through our liver, our lights and our lungs. B,oys shut up in a room all day shpuld not breathe ; they should wait until they get out of doors. Air in a room has carbonocide in it, and carbono cide is poinoner than mad dogs. Once some men was shut up in a black hole in India, a carbonocide got into that there hole, and afore morning r early every one of them was dead. Girls wear corsets, which squeeze their diagrams too much. Girls cannot run and holler like boys, cause their diagrams are squeezed. If I was a girl I would just run and holler so my diagram would grow. That's on breath."-Minneapolis Journal. De you wish to be happy? Try - the advice of.a bright French woman, who defines happiness as a "state of > occupation,*. for. a desii )le object, with a sense of continued progress." The Red EiTer Valley. THE MOST FERTILE REGION* IN" AMERICA. j _ ' - . [Harper's Magazine.] The famous Red River Valley is by some students of such compara tive values declared to be the third agricultural region, in point of fer tility, in the world, there being one Asiatic and one African valley in the foreground beyond it. This Red River Valley takes in many counties of Minnesota and the most Easterly counties of the two Dakotas. It is prairie land of black soil that once j formed the bed or deposit of an ! ancient sea. It reaches up into Can I ada, beyond Winnipeg, and is a great deal richer at its Southern end in the United States than in Canada. This region pours its wealth of grain (or a great part of it) into Minnesota's twin cities, there to exchange it for merchandise. Other cereals and cat tle are produced beyond this valley in the new States, and the valley itself returns the S3me commodities along with its wonderful output of wheat. In the extra fruitful year just closed-wonderful for its crops and for the world-.vide demand for breadstuffs from this country-the predictions that were based upon the results of the sale of the crops seemed fabulous. For instance, it was boaste ' that the farmers of the Northwest would make sufficient profits to pay off all their mortgages this year. It is in the Red River Valley that one may hear of a fanner whose pro fits last season were close to ?30,000 ; it is there that men bought farms of great extent, expecting to pay for them in an indefinite number of years, and then paid for them out of the first crop raised upon vhe land, the wonderful yield of last year. Such is the region at the very doors of the twin cities of the Northwest. If Ceres left the Old World when the worship of her went out of fash ion, it must have been to the valley of the Red River that she came ; but if mythology is suggested at all by a study of this marvellous region, it is in the recollection of the fabled river Pactolus, wherein King Midas washed off his power to turn into goid all that he touched. That may well have been the stream that once swelled from side to side of this val- j ley, for truly its sediment retains lit tile less than Midas' power. We realize the majesty of agricul- j ture as we never did before when we leam that in Minnesota and the two j Dakotas the wheat crop alone was.i ..-th cr.c hundred ana ?wt? lions of dollars last year. / for yourself the estimated ? one hundred and fifty millions of j bushels selling at from 75 cents to 82 j cents a bushel. In what story of? fairyland is . there an account of a j literal field of gold to equal that? There are 8,832,000 acres in the ! valley, and less than a quarter of it was in crop last year. If every acre were put into wheat there would bo no market for the wheat ; it would become a drug. As it is, of the por- ? tion that is under cultivation only I about three-quarters were in wheat, and the yield of last year was esti mated at from 30,000,000 to 37,000, 000 bushels, grown at the. average proportion of 20 bushels to the acre. The wheat crop of the valley, therefore, fetched about *27,000,000. At 80 cents a bushel each acre returned ?16, at a cost of from *6 to *58. Good land has produced 31 bushels to the acre, and good land farmed scientifically has yielded as high as 47 bushels to the acre, but 20 bushels is the average product, and the farmer is entitled to a pro fit of ?10 an acre with prices as they were last year. Matured farming! will raise the yield to an average of j 25 bushels an acre. The Two Foxes. In the deptl of c> forest lived two foxes who never had a cross word with each other. One of them said one day in the politest fox language : "Let's quar rel." "Very well," said the other ; "as you please, dear friend. But how shall we set about it ?" "Oh, that cannot be difficult," said fox number one, "the two-legged people fall out, why should not we ?" So they tried all sor'i of ways, but it could not be done, because each would give way. At last number one brought two stones. "There," said hc? "you say they are yours, and I'll say they are mine, and we will quarrel and fight and scratch. Now, I'll begin: , "These stones are mine !" "Very well," answered the other gently, "you are welcome to them." "But we sbali never quarrel at this rate," cried the other, jumping up arni licking his face. "You old sim pleton, don't you know it takes two j to make a quarrel any day T* ? ~ * i One of the largest fees paid to any j medical man in our time was the sum of 250,000 marks, or ?12,000, given to the late Sir Morell Macken zie for his attendance on the late German Emperor, Farmer John's Soliloquy. 11 mout as well acknowledge, 'taint no use o' beatin' round, ! I've done a heap o' thinkin' ploughin' up this faller ground; An' snthin's been a painin' an' achin' me like sin I reckoned 'twas dyspepsy or malary creepin' in. At last I got my dander up, an' tc myself sez I: The biggest fool in natur's him that tells himself alie; I've been lettin' on 'tis malary an' my stummick, when J know It's my conscience that's a hurtin' an' worryin' me so. I've been a shirkin' this here thing for thirty year or more. An' I orto had this shakin' up an* settlin" down afore. I've been honest fur as payin' goes, not a pe?.ny do I owe. But the kind o' cheatin' tbat I done was the kind that didn't show. My mind goes back to Hanner, when I fetched her here a bride; ?So apple bloom was sweeter, an' she nusseled to my side Like she thought she had a right to, an' could trust me without fear, For the love I never hinted at for more"n thirty year. j There was churnin', bakin', bilin', there was nussin' an' the rest, j From long afore the sun riz till he slum bered in the West; An' when the rest of us was done an' lollin' round on cheers, Hanner was recuperatin' with her needle an' her shears. But when the life was ebbin' from that ; faithful, patient heart, ! I had to face the music-I hadn't done my part; ? An' I couldn't help a thinkin', watchin' out that weary life, j That there's other ways o' killin' 'xcept a pistol or a knife. j Jt sounds like sacrilegion, but I knew jist what she meant, ! As I whispered: '"Fly to meet me when my airthly life is spent" ! "Fm tired, John, so tired, but I've allus done my best, 1 An' I may fell more like flyin' when I've had a spell o' rest.*' How to Look Sice. This bit of good counsel is from ? CasselVs Family 3fagazine for I April : j Are we then to do nothing to im \ prove our appearance ? it may be asked. Must those of us who are: ' naturally plain-looking, inelegant and unattractive quietly accept the mis fortune, and take no steps to remedy: the evil? By no me?ns. On the contrary, we ought to make the best of ourselves. We have no right to \ be a spot of ugliness on the surface of the beautiful earth, when, by tak ing a little pains and exercising a lit tle care, we might so easily be, not v- " ' ' " 'at least an ; eye to rest - positive duty devolving upon both men and women, and people who neglect it add to the sum of discontent in the world, which is a most mistaken piece of ? conduct. Besides, one advantage connected with taking the right methods of trying to look our best, is that having done what we can, we can dismiss the subject of our own appearance from oar minds, and need j think no more about it, which is a great comfort. People who follow J fashion have to be always changing, they have never done, but the best | methods of preserving and attaining1 beauty are always the same ; they never become obsolete. Once hav ing become accustomed to them, we may follow them with advantage all our lives. In talking thus of aids to beauty, i we are not of course thinking of the j best sort of loveliness. When Jenny j Distaff asked her brother to tell her [ the secret of being always beautiful,1 he replied as follows: "Without hav- j ing recourse to magic, Jenny, I will give you one plain rule that will not i fail of making you always amiable to a man who is of so equal and rea- j sonable a temper as Tranqullus. j Endeavor to please, and you must please ; be always in the same dispo- j sition as you are when you ask for ; this secret, and, you may take my word, you will never want it. An inviolable fidelity, good humor, and j complacency of temper outlive all ! the charms of a fine face, and make the decay of it invisible." In the ! same spirit, Mr. Ruskin says; "Care, j anxiety, suspicion, bad temper, all leave their wrinkles, and we are doing a good deal towards making ourselves look old and ugly when we give way to worry and fretfulness." CIIAT?T.ESTON-, S. C., April 8.-At Xinety-Six last night burglars entered the store of E. M. Lipscomb & Co., broke open the safe and robbed it of ?800. Two white tramps who have been loafing about here for two or three days have disappeared and are j suspected of having committed the robbery. Citizens have been scour ing the country for miles around, but have not as yet captured the burg lars. Two hundred dollars reward is offered for the capture and proof j sufficient to convict the burglars. The way to make yourself pleas ing to others is to show that you care for them. To work our own contentment we should not labor so much to increase our substance as to moderate . our I deiiires. Overeating vs. Overwork. An abuse that tends to the injury of brain workers is excessive eating. A writer in the Medical 3lirror recalls to mind several active brain workers who suddenly broke down, and fancied that it was due to brain I fatigue, when, as .'i matter of fact, it j was due to overstuffing of their stom achs. The furnace connected with mental machinery became clogged up with ashes and carbon in various shapes and forms, and as a result dis ease came, and before the cases were fully appreciated, a demoralized con ! dition of the nervous systems was manifested, and they laid the flatter- ? ing unction to their souls that they j had indulged in mental overwork. Hard work, mental or physical, rarely ever kills. If a mild amount \ of physical exercise be taken, and a J judicious amount of food be fur nished, the bowels kept open in the proper manner, the surface protected ] with proper clothing, and the indi- ! vidual cultivates a philosophical '?? nature and absolutely resolves to permit nothing to annoy or fret him, the chances are that he can do an almost unlimited amount of work \ ' for an indefinite length of time, bear-! ' ing in mind always that when weari- j ness comes, he must rest, and not ? take stimulants and work upon false \ capital. The tired, worn-out slave ; should not be scourged to additional i labor.- Under such stimulus the j slave may do the task, but he soon becomes crippled and unfit for work. ] j The secret of successful work lies in ; j the direction of selecting good, nutr?- j 1 tious, digestible food, taken in . pro . per quantities, the adopting of regu lar methods of work, the rule of: : resting when pronounced fatigue presents itself, determining abso lutely not to permit friction, worry or fretting to enter into his life, and the cultivation of the Christian graces, charity, patience and philoso phy-_ - Life After Forty. The best half of life is in front of the man of forty, if he be anything of a man. The work he will do will be done with the hand of a master, and not of a raw apprentice. The trained intellect does not see "men as crees walking," but sees every thing clearly and in just measure. The trained temper does not rush at work like a blind bull at a haystack, but advances with the calm and orderiy pace of conscious power and deliberate determinrri/"]. To no man the ^nuwiiev,' and the future so fresh, as to him who has spent the early years of his manhood' in striving to understand the deeper problems of science and life, and ; who has made some headway toward comprehending them. To him the commonest things are rare and won derful, both in themselves and as parts of a beautiful and intelligent whole. Such a thing as staleness in life and its duties he cannot under- ] stand. Knowledge is always opening out before him in wider expanses; and more commanding heights. The pleasure of growing knowledge and increasing power makes every year of his life happier and more hopeful j than the last. Public Opinion. The Christian Intelligencer gives1 the following illustrations of the : power of public opinion : The power of public opinion in ' influencing legislation has recently been well illustrated in both the ! State and national governing bodies. : It is extremely gratifying that in j every case it has been exerted sue- ' cessfully in restraining vicious legisla tion, and in the interest of the peo ple and of honesty and morality., In our own State, the passage of the ' Sunday closing clause to the Colum- ; bian Exposition appropriation ; the '? amendment of the Excise bill in im portant particulars, making it less objectionable, though not yet alto gether satisfactory; the amendment of the Street Railway and Bridge bills in the public interest ; and the ; prospective repeal of the Speeding Driveway bill, thus preserving Cen tral Park from a race-track invasion, are a testimony to the fact that the people can, when they choose, make their wishes respected by their Rep- j resentatives. All this is an eucour- j agement for patriots and Christians to strive in every way to create a j sound public opinion, and on every question which concerns public morals, to bring to bear by petition, public meetings, and the press the really Christian sentiment of the nation. It is well to recognize that legislators do what they supple the I people demand, and good peopl ?, if : they would make their powei felt, j must be as active and aggressive as those who have personal or pernici- j cus ends to gain. NEW ?JBLEAXS, April 8.-New Orleans rice merchants have organ ized a stock company with ?500,000 j capital to fight the Rice trust: " A ??v rice mill will be erected here, as j all the present militare in the trust. It j is though i^^rice farmers, will join issues^th the.new company to fight trust. Complications of the Grip. [London Lancet] The most serious complication o the grip is acute bronchitis. Thi may appear early or late. Tb breathing becomes rapid and difficult A spasmodic cough is almost con stant. The expectorations are glair and tenacious. With all this ther is a peculiar prostration. A more common complication i pneumonia, of which there are thre varieties-croupous, congestive an< broncho pneumonia. Although tbes complications are dangerous, yet re covery is the rule under prompt an< careful treatment. A third complication of the grip i connected with the heart. I patients sit up they become faint Some die of simple failure of th heart ; others are saved from deatl only by careful attention on the par of the nurse. After the grip ba passed off, a tendency to faintnes and neuralgic pains may remain fo weeks or months. Another complication shows itsel in a diarrhoea ; still another affect the nervous system and is character ized by pains in, the head or else where, or by weakness in eerjai parts of the body, such as the hand or arras. As to treatment, the doctor mus decide in view of all the symptom But the patient should in every eas take io his bed. To 'keep about i exceedingly dangerous, especially a exposing the patient to the abov complications. That which contains the greates importance, that which incloses th most tremendous opportunities, tha which of earthly things is mos watched by other worlds, that whicl has beating against its two sides al the eternities, is the cradle. Th grave is nothing in importance cora pared with it, for that is only a gull that we step across in a second, bu the cradle has within it a new eter nity, just born and never to cease When a few years ago the Ohio rive overflowed its banks and the wil freshets swept down with then harvests and cities, one day wa found floating on the bosom of th waters a cradle with a child in it a] unhurt, wrapped up snug and warm and its blue eyes looking into th blue of the open heavens. It wa mentioned as something extraordi nar}*. But every cradle is, with it young passenger, floating on th swift currents of the centuries, -1 ? calling tc dc-C-p, Ghios and St. Law ren?es and Mississippis of influenc bearing it onward. Citizen-What do you want now My wife gave you a pie and one o my old vests just now. Aren't yoi satisfied yet ? Tramp-Sst ! Speal low ! I don:t want the lady to bea it, but I've brought back a ten-dolla bill ? found in the vest. Here it is '.You are an honest man. Wh; didn't you keep the money?' .'Well, you see, after I'd tackled th pie I got to thinkin' it all over, ac my conscience hurt me. You'll hav< to eat them pies as long as you live I won't. Besides my sympathy haint got nothing to give you bu the ten dollars, unless you want th' vest back !" A lady whose Christian name wa Jane, and whose little daughter wa named after her, engaged a house keeper who was also a Jane. Think ing that three Janes in one house hold might occasion confusion, th< lady said to the newcomer, who wa a tall angular woman, with a rigic air and an uncompromising cast o countenance, "I think, Jane, it wil be better for me to call yon by you last name, if you have no objections.' "Xo'm, I have no objections," an swered the house-keeper, st.j.Ldin? stiffly, erect, valise in hand. "Cal me 'Darling,' ma'am, if you prefer That's my name !" According to the Chicago Tribune the total of reported defalcations ii this country during the last yea*- wa: nearly twenty millions of dollars The Tribune believes that, if tb< actual total coul-.i be arrived at, il would amount to as much as twenty five millions, as, 01 course, numerou; cases are compromised" and hushec up. Of course, this means an impair ment of business confidence, whicl in turn has its effect upon busines: generally. THE PRISONER'S PLEA.-One o our young lawyers tells a good on< on himself. At the last terra o: the Court Judge Roney appointee him tb defend a negro who wa? "cuse er somet'iing concerning uv ei hog." The case was plain and the negro was soon standing before hit honor for sentence, when the usua question was asked if he had any thing to say before sentence was passed. His reply was, "Nutbin much, boss, 'ceptin' I hope yer wi! keep in mind de youngness uv ran lawyer."-Waynesboro (Ga.) Tnu Citizen. Conversation has a great influenc< on mankind. Be careful, then, tha' yours is always on the side of troth right and-jnstice. Tract or Biscuit. fTexas Siftings.] f i Just after the termination of the s J late unpleasantness 'a lady with ; e j basket on her arm walked th. iygfa ;. [ one of the wards of acertcin s< Idlers -?hospital. She stopped beside the f j bed of one of the sufferers, a German, e j and asked : j "Were you a Union man or ' "3on s j fed?rate?" / e j "Union," he replied. \ 11 "Whereupon she passed on '" "! the e j next cot and repeated the same . - j tion to the occupant. 3 ? "Confederate," was answered, and j she then handed the man a nice fresh s i biscuit. The German watched the f j proceeding not in the best of humor. :.! A few days later another lady e ! going through stopped at the Ger ti i man's cot and asked which side he ti was on. , sj "Confederate," was the prompt s j reply. r j "Poor man," she said, "here's a ; tract for you," and passed on, and f ! the unfortunate's state of mind was s not improved. .- j Again a third visitor in passing j stopped at the German's side and n j asked the same old questioa on which s side he was on. "Dot tepends on vat you got. If 11 you got piskit I tinks I might be % : Confederate, but if you got tracts I e . am a Yankee." sj STILL Ay OTU En COTTON MILL. e ; The Secretary of State yesterday j issued a commission to another new : cotton factory in this State, thus 11 adding one more industrial establish e ; ment to the number already incorpo t j rated. The new company is the t j Bamberg Cotton Mills, of which the b. j corporators are : E. R. Hays, F. M. ll j Bamberg, II. C. Folk, J. D. Cope el land, J. B. Block and C. R. Brab - j ham, of Bamberg, and W. G. Simith, y ; of Clifton. The purpose is to manu 11 facture and sell cotton and cotton - ! goods. The capital stock is $40,000, ?. j divided into shares of ?100 each, r ' with the privilege of increasing the d'capital stock to 8400,000:- The a '? State. RICHMOND, April 8.-A letter to U the Dispatch states that Isaac Bran ( j d*on, the negro who attempted an g \ assault upon a young white lady liv s \ ing in Charles City county, about ? two weeks ago, was on Wednesday night taken from the county bv s? s ^ *sL?ai io a Ifee in the Court House vard. e i LITTLE ROCK, AEK., April 8.-A j tornadlo struck the North western por ojtion of Faulkner county Tuesday j j nignt. The storm swept the county a J for several miles. The house of ?j j John Hale, near Quitman, was blown r ; to pieces, and the chimney fell upon r j and crushed Hale to death. Twenty . ; dwellings were demolished and over >. ? => ? i fifty persons were injured, some of ? ^whom will die. f I LONDON, April 8.-A dispatchfrom e ; Hamburg states that the loss of life >. ! by the sinking of the steamer Hansa 11 in collision with the steamer Falken t j burg was larger than at first reported, e ; The. dispatches of yesterday saie" i that seven of her crew had gony i down with the sinking vessel. It si " I now transpires that fourteen lives Q j l " were lost. Some of the drowned belonged to the crew, while others were passengers. il ? We never yet found pride in . a j j r^ble nature, nor humility in an ? j unworthy mind. Nothing procureth j ! love like humility ; nothing hates ' like pride, r Manners are the shadows of v.r " ' tues, the momentary diplay of these ? j qualities which our fellow-creatures ' love and respect. The knowledge of one's defects ! is all the more beautiful, inasmuch ' as it is not only the most necessary j of all sciences, Sut also the most 5 ! rare. ?! Bc honest in your convictions, S j maintain them with firmness ; but . j don't fall out with your friend because ;1 he does not agree with vou. --- Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful ? ; heart ; out of endurance, fortitude ; I out of deliverance, faith. H --:- . ? A contemporary remarks th.?t I ! "things are apt to be. made very [ j warm in tbo'great hereafter for those , ; ; who persistently read a newspaper - ; without paying for it.'* A? English syadicate, which now con trols the principal cotton compressing and handling business in the South, has secured an option on the Memphis*Com * j press at $1,500,000, on ?those or New Orleans at $20,000,000. . Mr. Knox, of Oconee, was in Vickens I la?t week, and showed us a watch "made of cold and German silver. It is cer tainly unique. It is about as thick as j I two silver dollars put together and a lit k tlelarger round , than a dollar. It is an heirloom of the Knox family and was ? evidently made more than a hundred I years s^o.-Picken-r Sentinel. . *