Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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** DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIE GENERAL INTEREsT OF THE 00UNTRY. By D. F. BRADLY & (0 PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1881. VOL UNFINISHED BUSINESS. BY aNNMI JONES. All went well in our lodge that even ing, untilit wasannounced, "We will now take up the order of unfinished busi ness." Then there was a notable lack .of interest, and every one seemed busy in whispering to his neighbor, and what. ever was the subject of his conversation it was very evident tnat it did not per. tain to the "unfinished business" before the house. No one seemed to know just where the lodge had left off, or where it designed to begin; the circum stances had changed, and that which had once given interest to the subject was past, and in a measure forgotten. And I am quite certain that a great deal of the unfinished business will remain unfinished still, to the end of the chap * ter. In every turn in life it is the same. How much is begun but never finished I And it is not that which is begun but that which is completed that constitutes our success. No matter how brilliant the beginning, only the thing in its completeness will be accepted by the - world. Sometimes an unfinished poem or sketch, or a partially completed drawing, contains touches of genius not found elsewhere, but they never live and are loved like those which are rounded and complete. When we see a person who is full of brilliant beginnings but of little perse verance, we see one that will, in all probability, pass through life a disap pointed and unsuccessful man or wom an. Another, beginning in a smaller vay and apparently with less prospects, by steady perseverance, will eventually accomplish that in which the other has failed. It is not genius, hardly is it toil; it is not luck, but a persistent "stick-to-a tiveness" that Is the surest to win suc coms in this life. TALK OVER WHAT YOU READ. Nearly forty years' experience as a teacher has shown me how little I truly know of a subject until I began to ex plain it or teach it. Let any young per son try the experiment of giving in con versation, briefly and connectedly, and in the simplest language, the chief points of any book or aricle he has read, and he will at once see what I mean. The gaps that are likely to ap pear i:n the knowledge that. he felt was his own will no doubt be very surpris ing. I know of no training superior to this in utilizing one's reading, in strengthening the memory, rimd in form Ing habits of clear, connected statement. lIt will doubtless teach other things than those I have mentioned, which the. per inous who honestly make the experiment wvill find out for themselves. Children wvho read can be encouraged to give, in a fimily way, the interesting parts of the - books they have read, with great advan tage to all concerned. More than one youth I know has laid the foundation of intellectual tastes in a Now England family, where hearty encouragement was given to children and adults in their attempts to sketch the lectures they have heard the evening previous. The same thing was done with books. Chr'istian Union. BRAINS AND BUSINESS. Men of practical talent are now sought for in country and city. They are wantedl everywhere and will be called for hereafter more than ever. Where are these men to come from, these thousands of Major Generals in commerce. Now is the time to train young men for business pursuits, for the great avenues to wealth, and dis tinction and power which wealth con fers. We are preparing young men for the army at West Point, for the navy at Newport, for the learned professions at various universities. This is well. But where one is wanted as a graduate. ot these institutions a thousand are wanted in the great army of ' busi ness. Parents, as you value the happi ness of your sons, give this matter a careful consideration, a thorough busi ness education will ever be a blessing to your children. -Burintiton H~awk-Eye~. A YOUNG man in Georgia has taught* the public a lesson in respect to the danger of hasty generalization. When Tanner triumphantly fasted for forty slays the conclusion was jumped to that the limit of life under priva tion has been very much understated. Acting upon this assumption, the Georgia man. Tuck Jackson by name, .'efused food, expecting, no doubt, he would live forty days, at least. But alas ! for the force of Tanner's ex-j ample. He died on the seventeenth aI OUR fU VENILES. rie Luulab,. Ltle BO-Peep has lost her sheep " A mother is singing her baby to sk ep, But the tiny fingers tipped with pearl Round one another vexatiously twirl, And feet so cunning, so rosy and quick, Are tossing the crib-quilt with punch and kick, And wide-awake eyes just as bluo as the sky * Are saying to mamma, "1'll sleep by-and-by I And you can't hurt me one wee bit, Though, trying your sweetest, you patiently sit And sing by the hour beside meI" "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep I" "Hurry up, darling I Do go to sleep! Maybe you'll find in the Land of Dreams Little Do-Peep by the shady streams Waiting for you, with her to go After her lambios as white as snow, H1unling through meadow and glen and dell To find the dear creatures all safe and well Out wher the lovely harebolls grow, Bleating and feeding to and fro, A-swingin' their tails behind 'em! 1" Lower and lower the shadow dips Over the foreheall, the cheek, the lips; Lovelit oyos are closed at last; Lullaby, hush-a-by song is past; Baby has gone to the land of dreams, Hunting Bo-Peep by the shady streams. Mother, unwearied, her vigil keeps, Dreamuing awake, while her baby sleeps Dreams which the future, perchance, may bring To her winsome darling and leave no sting No waking grief behind them. Silently, tenderly enter there; ood has answered a mother's prayer; Baby, our baby, to-day has gone Into a country to us unknown, There to find, by the shady streams Which border the city where no one dreams, Gifts as costly, as rich and rare, As ever were dreamed in a mother's prayer I Oh Jesus, who sung her last, sweet lullaby; Jesus, the little ones' friend, be nigh To comfort us. left behind her I n1e Mangoateen. During their stay upon the island of yava, Dr. Bronson and his young i:av eling companions took a trip on a rail way from Batavia to Buitenzorg, in or der that they might learn something of the interior of the island. While on this trip the boys observed, among other things, that the trees in some instances grew quite close to the track. Dr. Bron son oxplained to them that in the trop ics it was no small matter to keep a rail way line clear of trees and vines, and sometimes the vines would grow over bhe track in a single night. It was nec assary to keep men at work along the track to cut away the vegetation wbere It threatened to interfere with the trains, md in the rainy season the force was sometimes doubled. "There is one Yood effect," said he, '" f this luxuriant rowth. The roots of the vines and rees become interlaced in the embank nent on which the road is built, and revent its being washed away b~y heavy ains. So you see there is, after all, a iaving in keeping the railway in repair." At several of the stations the natives >flered fruits of different kinds, and near y all new to our young friends.. They mnd been toui that they would probably ind the mangosteen for sale along the oad ; .They had inquired for it in Singa oro, but it was not in season there, and 1ow their thoughts were bent upon dis sovering it between Batavia and Buiten sorg. Two or three times they were lisappointed when they asked for it ; but ilnally, at one of the stations, when Fred pronounced the word "Imangosteen," a aative held up a bunch of fruit and modded. The doctor looked at thme. aunch and nodded likewise, and Fred speedily paid for the prize. Perhaps we had better let Fred tell the story of the mangosteen, which he did ii his first letter from Buitenzorg : " We have found the prince of fruits, mnd its name is mangosteen. It is about thie sizo of a pippin apple, and of a pur pie color-a very dark purple, too. The busk, or rind, is about half an inch thick, and contains a bitter juice, which is used in the preparation of dye ; it stains the fingers like aniline ink, and is not easy to wash off. Nature has wisely provided this protection for the fruit ; if it had no more covering than the ordi nary skin of an apple the birds would eat it all up as soon as it was ripe. If I were a bird, and had a bill that would open the mangosteen, I would eat noth. Ing else as long as I could get at it. " You cut this husk with a sharp knife right across the center, -end then you open it in two parts. Out comes a lump or pulp as white as snow, about the size of a small peach. It is divided into sec tions, like the interior of an orange, and there is a sort of star on the outside that tells you, before you cut the husk, exactly how many of these sections there are. Having got to the pulp, you proceed to take tho lump into your mouth and eat it ; and you will be too busy for the next quarter of a minute to say anything. "fHip!i hip!i hurrah ! Tt mxelts away in your mouth like anm overripe peach or strawberry ; it has a taste that is slightly acid-very slightly, too-but you can no inmore describe all thn flavor of it than you can describe how a canary sings, or a violet smells. There is no other fruit I ever tasted that begins to compare with it, though I hesitate to admit that there is anything to surpass our 'Ameri can strawberry in its perfection, or the American peach. If you could get all the flavors of our best fruits in one, and then give that one the 'meltinguess' of the mangosteen, perhaps you mWght equal it; but, till you can do so, there is no use denying that the tropics have the prince of fruits.".-" The Boy Travel er8 in the Iar East." Patty's Scare. When Patty was a very, very little girl, she one day took it into her curly head to run away. Her mother was busy at work and did not miss her until she had been gone some minutes. Then she looked out and saw Patty's pink dress, like a little flow er, moving along slowly away down the dusty road. There was no one to send for the run away, so the tired mother had to leave the bread burning in the oven, and the baby crying in the cradle, and start out herself in the hot sun. There was an old man coming along the road toward Patty, an old man that she knew very well, but was really afraid of him. She need not have been, for he was kind and pleasant; but he was a queer, simple old man, and everybody called him old Daddy Morse. Patty was so afraid that she turned out of the road and went along close by the fence to get by him. He saw the little girl was running away, however, and, in the kindness of his heart, he went and picked Patty up to carry ner back, and save her mother the long, warm walk. How frightened and angry little Patty was! How she did kick and scream I The old man held on all the same, and tried to soothe her by gentle words; but ie might as well have talked to a thunder-show'er. She screamed as loud as she could till she met her mother and found herself safe in her arms, and even then she sobbed and cried for a long time. Her mother talked to her about run ning away, told her it was naughty, and that Daddy Morse was very kind to bring her back, but Patty still sobbed and sighed, and could not get over her fright. She shut the outside door, and stood .y the window watching in fear that the old ftian would come again. Pretty soon her brother Allie came whistling across the yard. Patty opened the door a little crack. "M'in, Allie," she saidl, in a trembling voice. " Man bite 'ce 1" Then her little kitty came around the corner. "M'in, kitty," she called. "Man bite 'eel"- Youth's Co ain BIG FARMING. A correspondent of the St. Louis Re publican tells of the wonderful farming op~erations of Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, of Colusa county, Cal. The farm consists of 65,000 acres, 45,000 of which are in wheat, and has 175 miles of fence. The acreage yield is 25 bushels in favorable seasons, and this is considered a favora ble one. Of this year's crop Dr. Glenn says, although he has on hand 350,000 sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he thinks they will not hold his wheat Hie has his own machine and blacksmith shops) ; boring, turning and planing machines ; buzz saws, etc. He manu factures his own wagons, separators, headers, harrows and nearly all the ma chinery and implements used. He has employed 50 men in seeding and 150 in harvest, 200 head of horses and nylies, 55 grain-headers and other wagons, 150 sets of harness, 12 twelve-foot headers, 5 sulky hay-rakes, 12 eight-mule culti vators, 4 Gem seed-sowers, 8 Buckeye drills, 8 mowers, 1 forty-eight-inch sep arator, 86 feet long and 18j high, with a capacity of 10 bushels per minute ; 1 forty-inch separator, 86 feet long ; 2 forty-feet elevators for self-feeder, 1 steam barley or feed mill, 2 twenty horse-power engines. The working force to run the separator is 66 men, 8 headers, 22 header-wagons, 100 horses and mules. The average run of the machine is 1,800 sacks, containing 2* bushels each, per day. The utmost ca pacity of the machine is 8,000 sacks or 7,000 bushels per day. The harvesting force cut and thrash simultaneously, and in fifteen minutes from the time the header begins in the grain the wheat is in the sacks. ___ __ TnB Pennsylvania Railway Company is adding the artificial decoration to the grandeur of nature by beautifying the famous Horse-shoe curve, near Altoona, with flowers and foliagn plants. SOUTHERN NEWS, In North Carolina there are 267 tobacco factories. Fine specimens of pure plumbago have been found in Cherokee county, Ga. Key West yields about $21,500 per month to the internal revenue fund. Real estate in Lafayette, Ala., is as sessed $114,175 and personal property $112,175. The revival at the Baptist church at Durham, N. C., resulted in forty-seven conversions. -It i3 proposed to scale the city debt of New Orleans to the extent of fifty cents on the dollar. Lands in Montgomery county, Ala., have more than doubled in price within five or six years. The building of the Library Associa tion, at Thomasville, Ga., cost $3,000. It has 2,000 volumes. It is against the law in Fort Smith, Ark., to carry a pistol in any other way except in the hand. In Perry county, Miss., John A. Syl vester planted a poplar tree near an ap ple tree, and the poplar bore apples. In some instances in Grayson county, Va., five and six persons of a family died of diphtheria, and in one instance an en tire family. Some thirty families from Michigan, New Jersey and Florida, are locating in North Georgia. en the line of the Atlan ta and Charlotte road. William Lockridge, of Highland coun ty, Va., says that he has killed in his .time as many as 1,500 deer. The old man's step is still firm. The receipts of the State of North Car olina from all sources during the year ended September 30, were $546,796.04, and the disbursementi were $462,72A.34. The Supreme Court of Mississippi de clares that eighteen mills-on the dollar, including three mills for State tax, is the utmoAt limit to which taxes can be laid. About sixty Swiss colonists, the men being 1 enerally possessed of means, ar rived at Mount Airy, Ga., Saturday. A colony of Armenians are expected in the spring. The entire amount collected by way of taxation in North Caoolina is $2,082,7r0, of which the counties spend two-thirds, the schools one-sixth, and the State the remainder. Walnut furniture has been" received romn Chicago andl put in place in the new post-office at Atlanta, Ga. The old furniture will be used to furnish the post-office at Macon, Ga. The dueling bill has been passed by the South Carolina Senate, with an addi tional section providling that it shall not effect indictments now pending or offenses committed before its passage. Three men sit in the Uinitedl States Sen ate who were Governors of Southern States when the war broke out, and re mainedl in office by re-election at its close Harris, of Tennessee ; Vance, of North Carolina, and Browvn, of Georgia. The flat lands on th'e Escambia river in Santa Rosa county, Fla., are alluvial deposits from the rich lime lands of Ala hamna, and it is thought that they will make the largest possible crops of rice for hundreds of yea s without any ma nure. Two bells found b~y a (liver between Fort Sumter andl Fort Mou ltrie, taken fromi the wreck of a vessel of about 350 tons burden, bear the daite 1374, and muthv been cast nearly two centu ries hefere the discovery of America. There is an extensive deposit of kaolin, or porcelain clay, in South Carolina, near the Georgia city of Augusta, of the finest quality, equal to the (demands of a hundred years. It is said to have been used to adulterate flour, being soft, white and tree from gravel. O1(1 Poldo Lamar, in alabamai, is (lead. Hie was positively known to be 110 years 01(d. But according to his statement of his age when he came to this country from Africa and his recollection of wvar times long ago, lie must have been 125 years 01(1. He was able to go about where he wished until about a month ago, wvhen he fell in the fire, since which time he has been confined to his bed. The South Louisiana Canal and Navi gation Company in less than t welve years, beginning about :'ix miles west of Fort Livingston, near the Southern entrance to Barataria hay, has cut a fine canal, westwardl, nine miles long, forty feet wide, and six feet deep at lowv tide, cut ting into Bayou Lafouirche ablout twenty miles above its mouth, and extendingr Inearly three miles farther west, into the back waters of Tinibolier bay. This gives safe and easy inland navigat ion to Bayou Terrebonne at a point about, tweii ty miles from the gulf. T HE EAST r 'vR BRIDGE. The first consignment of stoel-27,460 pounds-for the superstructure of the East River bridge has been received, and rapid deliveries are expected from this time on, the Edgemoor Iron Com pany having put its full forc upon this contract. The guys of the superstruct ure, manufactured by the Rooblings, at Trenton, of Bessemer steel, have also ar rived. The Cambria Steel Company, which furinishes the steel, has about 1,000 tons ahead of the Edgemoor Com pany. Col. Paine reports that the steel has all been tested and is of superior quality, the strength of the steel trusses being six times greater than is likely to be required. The last structure to be razed to make room for the New York approaeh will soon be cleared away. Thus far thc bridge bascost $14,000,000-of which sum $3,000,000 went under water and $4, 000,000 went for real estate, to be cov cred by a mile of costly masonry. In the profile drawing of the completod structure the lofty towers sink to con parative insignificance. The projection carries in the observer's mind a sense of .length rather than of height. The su perb arches at Vandowater and Rose and William and North William streets, the massive anchorages at Franklin squaire. in New York and Main street in Brook lyn, and the airy bridge over Pearl street become, says a' critical observer, more conspicuous in the picture than are the towers, which are so imposing as seen at midstream on the East river. It is calculated that with the greatest possible weight on the bridge and in the hottest of August days, with the tide di its highest, there will be 135 feet 6 inches in the clear between the lowest point in the bridge, midstream, and the surface of the East river.--Scicnti/lo American. FARM SCENES IN NEW RNGLAND. The cider mill challenged the boy's attention in the fall, when apples were brought by the cart-load and dumped in huge piles on the ground, then carried in large baskets to the hopper, to be con verted into p~omace. The steady 01(1 horse turned the creaking mill. When the pomace was p~ut into form and pressed the sweet juice ran out into tubs that invite sampling. Cups and glasses were a barbarism ; the only proper instrument for tasting and test ing was the long, bright straw. No cherry cobbler was ever so delicious as that new cider. It was good sport to hunt liens' eggs, in obscure manger cor ners, or high hay-mowvs, or in the tall, standing grass ; to see the swarming bees settle on 'a limb of the ne ar peach tree, and watch the process of hiving them ; to ride on high loads of fragrant hay ; to trap the sly woodchuck, and see his grit as a prisoner ; to follow the harvesters afield, and stack the clean oat-sheaves in " shocks," andl to see the same oats fly from under the alternating flails. About the best fun of all was in the huskings on the great barn floor. Here were at once activity and repose, indi vidual excellence and social enjoyment. Every man has his stories to tell. The gray-hairedl grandfather recounted his early exploits, and told how his nimble feet used to trip those of heavier and stronger wrestlers. " Stand up a min ute," lhe would say to. his best hired man ; and, taking him by the collar and elbow, he would illustrate his youthful "science," and send his man tottering across the floor. Hardly less was the sport of shearing time, when the boys were allowed to hold the big shears and1 trim the sheep's fleecy legs. The shear ing was preceded by a general sheep washing, at the bridge on the nearest cross-road. It was "high jinks " for the boys to stand waist-deop in the water, pass along the swimming sheep, and give the larger lambs a useless bath by them selves.-Martin Kellogy, in Sptemrnlc Californian. CANADA has definitely offered herself up to the capitalists. She has dlefinitely agreed to turn over to a syndicate the new Canada Pacific Company, in p)er petuity, that portion of thme line which has already been built and all informna tion in its possession, and will grant sub sidies in the form of $200,000,000 of Canadian Government bonds and several million acres of land along the line of road for thme sake of its comfpletio n to the Pacific coast. CURRENT ITEMS. Humons of tho day-Small-pox, sait. rheum, etc. DAMirr is a postoffice name in Sevier county, Tenn. A NEWLY-WEDDED husband vays it should be called " matrimoney." Soin Philadelphians named their Colorado silver mine tho " Scooper," and the namo proved prophotic. They have been scooped. No WONDER the miser desires to take is gold with him beyond the gravn. wven even l" death loves a shining marec. "--Turncrs Falls Rcportcr. Tuxus are in Philadelphia 434 churcIies; in New York city, 354, and in Brooklyn, 210. In no other Ameri. (-.in (ity are thero more than 200. FAnnus in Dallas county, Texas, se clre artesian wells, flowing six foe# above the ground, by boring to a deptb of between sixty and seventy foot. A CArIrFORNIA woman, seven feet tal. and weighing 200 pounds, broko hor heart for love of a little runt of a mav wearing No. 4 boots and leading a poo die by a chain.-Dctroit Frcc Prcss. INSANH- by over-study of the Bible, a young ian naned Pierce, of Theresa, Jefftrson countyv, N. Y., imagining that his left hand had offended, deliberately cu.t. off every finger. SMALL boy (rushing in front of young lady wearing large poko bonnet, and staring her full in the face)-" You've lost yonr bet, Charlie ; I told yer it warn't an old woman." Doos chased the murderer of their master, at Navasota, Tex., but only held him fast when they caught him. The hiuman pursuers were less merciful, for they hanged him to a tree. TnE medical student of Maine must dissect before lhe eau become an M. D., but the law provides that no bodies shall b (lissected except those of executemi criminals, and another law abolishes capital punishment. AT Exetcr, England, a young farmer has been sent to jail for a month for shooting a rabbit on a farm of his own occupation, while a man brought before the same loench for brutally ill-treating his wife was fined 5 shillings. TiE Philadelphia lerald says that the women of that city are busily en gaged in getting ip political clubs, They are aboult twvo feet lonmg, and only appear Onl parade when tile hulsbands of the women camne home late at nlighlt. AN old English miser namedl Rhodles, whlo began making money as a rubb1 ill gatherer, and lived and~ dIied i! s(inialor, hats bequeathled $300,000 between the Ro)yal Free HFospital, London, and the National Lifeboat Institutlion, leaving his relations p~enniiess. SoME philosophical paragrap)her has been struck withl wonder at tile persist once of mothlers in teaching their chiil dr.'n to talk, and the equal persistence with which they enldeavor, a few years later, to keep them from exercising their talents ini that line. Tumr word "' welcome " on the dloor mat, or worke'd ini silk floss and framed to, hang oil tile wall, does niot always mean that the relatives, even unto the thjird or foulrthI genteration, maly come in at all times'1 andio make themselves per fectly at home. -Boston (Glolc. Tuir tradhition that C~oogne Cathedral would never 1he finishled took its rise as follows :A young architect in dlesp~air at the refusal of his plans1 bly Archbishop Conrad went to thet bank of the Rinoil peared't tile devil himsel~f, who offere(d him, in exchange for his soul, the planh of the cathedral as it stands to-day. Thie yoiung man demanded twenty-four hours for reflection, and submitted thme matter to his confessor, who suggested that on the morrow, when Satan showed him again the design, he should seize it withl his left hand, and, drawing rapidly a relic of St. Ursula from under his robe with the righlt, strike thle evil slpirit with it 01) the brow. This wais done. Sat an said : " That's a ounning I rick of the chph, but the design which you seize sh0hiever be finished, and your name shall retain unknown.' - As he spoke he snatched away the upper part of tihe design. The young archi teet diedl of mortification without recon structing the plan. For years events reemed to bear out tile old legend. WVASnTNoTrON has had a building boom this year. So far 625 newv buildings have been erected, against 511 for the same period last year. A large number of publicw men are building handsome resi dences at thle capitalh.