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lewis m. grist, proprietor, j Inbtpenbtnt ^familo Uttospaptr: Jfor % promotion of % |joIhital, Social, ^gricnltnral anil Commercial Interests of % Sonfji. Jterms--$2.50 a year, in advance. VOL. 29. YOEKYILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883. NO. 5. Original f aetrg. Written Tor the TorkviUe Enquirer. A SONG. I am too old to marry, But not too old to love, And while on earth I tarry, I'll praise my little dove? The cheerful, chatty, Darling little Hattie Robinson! r She's the jewel of her race, No other like her shines, At home, abroad, in any place, All latitudes and climes? . The cheerful, chatty, Darling little Hattie Robinson! There is magic in her gait, There's witchery in her eye, And loyal hearts upon her wait, And for the friendship sigh Of charming, chatty, Darling little Hattie Robinson! But why should I be bothered In heart by such an one, When I know she is tethered And her heart another's won ?? From cheerful, chatty, Darling little Hattie Robinson! Yes, I'm too old to marry? My reason tells me so, And*the truth I cannot parry So I must let her go? The cheerful, chatty, Darling little Hattie Robinson! 8fce ?fhcr. ^ettTng into socTety7 "I tell you, Jack, the farm is not your vocation. I become more and more convinced of the fact every day, and less contented with the life we are leading." Breakfast was over and we stood on the farm-house portico, arm in arm. On the sill of the door sat baby, screaming with delight, as she fed a pair of pet pigeons from her dimpled hands. Our breakfast had been a delicious onecoffee clear as amber, bread like snow, and steak done to a turn. All about us was green tangle of sweet brier and honeysuckle ; the sun was just rising above the mountain peaks, and the morning air was sweet and fresh, and filled with exouisite woodland odors, and musical with the song of birds. We could catch a glimpse of the barn and poultry yards from where we stood, and hear the plaintive lowing of the kine and dreamlike tinkle of their bells. I felt a vague sort of conviction that Jack had but little sympathy with my spirit of discontent, yet I was determined to carry my point, if possible. "You are dissatisfied with your lot?I see that plainly, Nell," said Jack, a trifle sadly. "Oh, nonsense 1" I put in. "Not with my lot, nor with you, only with the farm, Jack ; I'm tired to death with this prosy, humdrum life, and I hate to see you delving and toiling like a slave from one year's end to another. You were bom for something better, Jack? something grander and nobler. Fancy a man of your abilities growing grain and digging potatoes and raising stock to his life's end!" "But, my dear," suggested Jack, "one must live, and have bread and butter." "To be sure, Jack ; but why not earn it in a more genteel fashion V" "Honest labor is always genteel, Nell." "Oh, pshaw 1 you don't understand me, Jack. I mean that you have capacities for something better. .You only cling to the old farm to please your father, when you could do a hundred-fold better elsewhere. And besides, where is your society in this place, Jack ? What chance is there for our children jis they grow up ?" Jack laughed as he glanced down at baby, who was struggling furiously to get a pigeon's head in her mouth. "Ah, Nell, that is looking so far ahead," he said; "and, my dear, you seem to forget that I have lived here all my life." "No, no, I don't forget. And pray what have you done, Jack ?" "Led an upright life, and married yourself in the end." "But you didn't pick me up among the clo ver blossoms, Jack, don't rorget mat. i ou found me in town, and Jack, dear, I'm anxious to get back to my native element. I'm tired of all this. You can get on ever so nicely in town, Jack ; and there we can get into society." "I'm not over fond of society, Nell." "Oh! but you should be, for my sake, Jack. I'm fond of it. I hate to live like a hermit. Why, Jack, if we desired to give a little party, to-morrow, we could not for lack of guests." "Dear me, Nell, why I could muster scores." "Of a certain sort, yes : but I don't want them, Jack. I'm a little peculiar in my notions. I want no society but the best; the? the?the sort of society one gets in town." "Fashionable society, Nelk" "Well, then, why not ? You have means, Jack, and I flatter myself that we are fitted to move in any circles. Why should we bury ourselves in this wilderness ?" "Our means are not inexhaustible, Nell." "I'm aware of that, Jack ; but we've enough for a start, and Vanborough offers you a good place in the bauk." "At a limited salary, Nell." "Oh ! yes, but you can work your way up, Jack ; right to the topmost round of the ladder. Do let's go. Jack ! I've lived here to please you, ever since our marriage ; I think you can afford to please me a little now." Jack sighed as lie looked out upon his ripening grain fields, but he drew me close to his heart and kissed me. "That's true," he said ; "you can't be expected to care for the farm as I do, Nell. I promised to make you happy when you consented to be my wife, and I'll try to keep my word. You shall have it all your own way, Nell." The continuous dropping of water wears away the solid stone. 1 had conquered my husband at last, and the desire of my heart was about to be accomplished. When Jack once made up his mind to do a thing he did it with all his might. The matter was soon settled. Cherry Hill, as we called the farm, was sold at a great sacrifice, and one sunny morning we turned our backs upon the breezy mountain summits and golden grain fields, and journeyed cityward. "I'm afraid you've made a big mistake," said Jack's father, as he bade us good-by : "you'd better have stuck to the farm. You remember the old saying about rolling stones." "I don't believe in old sayings, sir," I answered loftily, "and I think I can appreciate my husband's abilities better than any cne else can." "All right; I hope you won't find yourself mistaken, my dear. Good-bye to both of you. Whatever you do, care well for the little one. I'm afraid she won't like the change. If you happen to tire of town and fashion, don't forget that a welcome always awaits you at home.' Jack's heart was too full for utterance. "Thank you, sir," said I, "but we shall not get tired." Our new home at Penryth was a stylish resi deuce in a fashionable block. We established ourselves in the principal hotel, and then set about the task of furnishing the house. "My dear child," said Mrs. Vanborough, the banker's wife, dropping in for an ear)} call, "don't dream of such a thing as an in grain carpet. Get Brussels. You'll find it much cheaper in the end, and besides it is sc much more stylish." We hearkened to our friend's advice and laid our rooms with Brussels, and the cost rai up into the hundreds. The furniture was gol to match, Mrs. Vanborough and several othei friends aiding us in our selection, and all sort: of pretty, costly bric-a-brac, and real lace cur tains, and a new cottage piano. My old in strument was too plain and clumsy for the es tablishment. There is a curious sort of excitement ii spending money, which seems to drive tin most sober and economizing people desperat* when they once get at it. Jack had alwayi been one of the most careful of men, countinj. the cost of everything as he went, and saving every stray penny. Once in the vortex of city life, his prudence was speedily changed into a sort of recklessness. After the first few days, and by the time our new home was ready to receive us, he actually seemed to take a delight in seeing hia money go. "We've got snug quarters here, Nell, by George !" he said, looking through the extravagantly furnished rooms with admiring pride. "No one in town can outshine us, not even Van bo rough himself. It has lightened our purse a great deal, I'll admit, but what does that signify ? What good comes of having money unless one enjoys it ?" "We must try and save up a little now, Jack, since we are fixed so nicely." I said, feeling somewhat terrified athisgrowing recklessness. "Pshaw, child ! Who ever heard of a banker's clerk saving anything ? If we make both ends meet, it will be more than I look for." "My dear," said Mrs. Yanborougli, when we were pleasantly settled in our handsome house and hired a couple of servants, "I suppose you want to give some sort of a party now i It is customary, you know. Suppose you let it be an informal reception, with cards and coffee for the old people, and ices and fruits and dancing for the young ones. That would do nicely. You can throw your parlors into one, and your carpets will not get much injured. I'll help you to order your refreshments, and Cecelia will write out the invitations for you. She's an excelleut judge as to whom it is expedient to invite." I mentioned the matter to Jack when he came home, and he entered into the spirit of the affair with great excitement. "To be sure, little wife, have a party by all means. When oue's in Rome one must do as . Romans do, you know. Don't spare expenses either, my dear, we must make as good a show as other people. And I shall take it upon myself to order your costume; I want you to look as grand as a little empress." "But Jack," f suggested timidly, "we are 1 spending a great deal of money." i "Oh, well, never mind. It will all go anyhow, one day or the other, and we might jis ! well enjoy it. You've always wanted to get 1 into good society, Nell, and you are fairly , in it now, and it won't do to let people see that you are cramped for money. Let's make the most of it while we've got it." My heart ached a little, and in the midst of 1 all the tlare and flutter of preparation, I was conscious of a vague feeling of regret when ever I recalled the quiet months of my early wifehood, spent at Cherry Hill. Jack had seemed such a different persrtn in those days?so strong and steady, and self-reliant, and now ' he seemed to take as much pleasure in life's ! frivolities as I did. With the foolish incon1 sistency of my sex, I sat down and cried over ' the consummation of the very hopes which I had cherished so long. But despite my tears, our reception went on, and it turned out to be a great success. The best people in town honored us with their presence, and everything, thanks to Mrs. Vanborough's foresight, carried out iu the most lavish and elegant manner. "By George," said Jack, "this sort of thing is jollier than the old farm. I see now, little wife, that you are right, always right." I would ten times rather he should have upbraided me and blamed me for what I had done. The winter that followed was exceedingly gay. We were invited everywhere, and our house was constantly filled with guests. Balls, soirees, kettle drums and the opera seemed to engross every hour. Jack and I seldom had a fTnl Bo fn flniAV l|UICt lillSUJCill/ mux ^ joi1 no oovuiou iva viijvj it all with his own heart. When spring came onr last surplus dollar had been expended, and we were solely dependent on Jack's monthly salary. The warm weather came on, and the baby soon fell ill. I hoped day by day that Jack would say something about going back to his father's for the summer, but lie did not even hint at such a thing. The days grew longer and warmer. The sun shown down with a pitiless splendor and the paved streets seemed like heated brass. Our fashionable friends fluttered off like summer swallows, and we were left alone. "Couldn't you manage to take a little trip to the seashore, my dear ?" Mrs. Vanborough had suggested, and Jack had caught at the idea with eagerness. "We might, Nell. I think we can. I'll try to borrow a few hundred somewhere." "Oh, Jack, no, 110," I sobbed out, in my remorse and despair. "I won'tgoto the seashore. You sec how ill baby is. Oh, Jack, ask your father to let us return home." "Oh, you wouldn't be satisfied, Nell, if we went back. It is dreadfully stupid down there these summer days, with the hay-making and reaping and all that sort of thing. We should never be able to endure it now." I said no more. The long, bright, burning days wore on, and our bills ran up higher and higher, and baby's little breath seemed to grow weaker and weaker, and poor Jack himself began to look dreadfully ill and worn. And.one afternoon lie was sent home in a carriage, unconscious, stricken down by a sudden fever. I put my pride aside then, and wrote a letter to Jack's father. "Jack and baby are both ill," I said, "and we are sick and tired of this life. Pray fori give us, and let us come home." The very next day the old gentleman arrived, but the bailiffs and officers of the law ! were before him. The rumor that he intended to leave town got out, and our creditors rushed in, anxious to secure the lion's share of our effects. The Brussels cai*i>et, the handsome furniture and costly bric-a-brac, all went under the hammer at a disastrously low figure. I "Never mind," said my father-in-law, not a shadow of reproach on his kind old face; "let thein squabble over it if they will. We must get our sick ones home." So we got Jack into the carriage, and with n?\/\n mtf Irnnn u?ul 1*1 YT1 \T I Hid puui ilUb IlCflU III J uuu lit i*ij | arias, I turned my back upon the scene of my short-lived triumph. "We are going back to Cherry Hill," said the old gentleman, as in the dusk of the golden day we drove through the dewy stillness of the mountain ravine. "The old home has been waiting for you all j these months. I was pretty sure you'd want to come back." I could not utter one word in answer. A great full moon was rising above the mountain peaks as we reached the house. Not the smallest thing was changed. The great red roses bloomed on the terrace, the t>ees droned in their hives, and the cattle bells tinkled in the barn yard. The doors stood wide open. We carried j Jack in and laid him down in the broad, breezy I room that had been our bridal chamber. lie opened his eyes and drew a deep, quiv1 ering breath, as the mountain breeze touched J his throbbing head. i j "Nell, where are you ?" he said. "Surely !; this must be home V" ''I am here, .Jack," 1 answered, through my : | tears; "and this is home, dear old Cherry Hill." , I "Thank God !" he murmured, and fell back i ; on the pillows, and I saw great tears trick; ling slowly from beneath his closed eyelids. ' j Beyond the open window, in the silver glory I of the rising moon, the old grandfather sat ; i with baby at his feet, half hidden in the rank, ; cool grass, and even at that late hour the - pigeons iluttered around her as of old, and she I screamed with rapture as she clutched at them t j with her tiny little hands. I rose softly and fell on my knees beside , ' Jack's low pillow. r "Oh, Jack," I sobbed, "I have been so wick ! ed. Forgive me, .lack, forgive me. I am so t' glad to be at home again." > | And then and there clasped to my husband's heart, in the safe, sweet shelter of the home I 1 he loved, I understood all the past. i i "You didn't mean it, Jack," I whispered, t j 'A'ou only pretended to enjoy it to please me." r He smiled at me with his grave, fond eyes. i j "And, oh, Jack, our money is gone, and?" -! He silenced me with a kiss. -! "No matter, little woman, the lesson we - have learned has been cheaply bought. We ! shall not care to leave the safe old mountain i ; nest in search of fashionable society again." j I I could not answer. I heard my baby coo3; ing to the pigeons in the grass, and sat there i I clasped in Jack's forgiving arms, the happiest r1 woman the round world held. IpsteHiutcous funding. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. ' An Act to Amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide a general Railroad'Law for the Management and Regulation of Railroads in this State, and for other Purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Section 28 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide a general railroad law for the management of railroads in this State, and for the appointment of a Railroad Commissioner, and to prescribe his powers and duties, the said Section being incorporated into and forming part of Chapter XL of the General Statutes of this State, 1882, and numbered therein as Section 1440," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows : Section 23, (1440.) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons engaged alone, or doing business with others in this State, in the transportation, shipment or receiving of property by railroads, and whether now organized or which may hereafter be organized, under or by virtue of any Act of incorporation or general law of this or any other State, now in force, or which may hereafter be enacted, or whether doing business without being thus organized or incorporated, to charge, collect, demand or receive more than a fair and reasonable rate of toll or comi>ensat}on for the transportation of passengers or freight of any description, or for the nun .inrl fraiiannrfutinn nf anv rslilrnn/l Par 1111 UOt> (?UU lluiiopu VUVIVU V& l*lij -|on its track cr any of the branches thereof, or upon any railroad within this State which it has the right, license or permission to use, operate or control. Sec. 2. That Section 29 of the Act aforesaid, the same being known as Section 1441 of the General Statutes of this State, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows : It shall be unlawful for any such person or persons so engaged as aforesaid to make any unjust discrimination in its rates or charges of toll or compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight of any description, or for the use and transportation of any railroad car upon its said road, or upon any of the branches thereof, or upon any of the railroads connected or working in connection therewith, or which it has the right, license or permission to ojierate, control or use; or for any person or persons so engaged as aforesaid, or any person or persons engaged solely j in the shipment or receiving of property, dij rectly or indirectly, to allow or receive any reI bate, drawback or other advantage in any form upon shipments made or services rendered or received as aforesaid by it, him or thein. Sec 3. That Section 30 of the Act aforesaid, the same being known as Section 1442 of the General Statutes of this State, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows : It shall be unlawful for any such person or persons so engaged- as aforesaid to charge, collect or receive for the transportation of any passenger or freight of any description upon its railroad for any distance within this State the same or a greater amount of toll or compensation than is at the same time charged, collected or received for the transportation of any passenger or like quantity of freight of the same class over a greater distance of the same railroad ; or to charge, collect or receive at any point upon its railroad a higher rate of toll or compensation for l :? ?? I CCCJ V ill^, llclllUllUg \Jl UCIIVCHIIJJ liCJ^iiv \JL the same class and quantity than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive at any other point upon the same railroad ; or to charge, collect or receive for the transportation of any passenger or freight of any description over its railroad a greater amount as toll or compensation than shall at the same time be charged, collected or received by it for the transportation of any passenger or like quantity of freight of the same class being transported over any portion of the same railroad of equal distance ; or to charge, collect or receive from any person or persons a higher or greater amount of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive from any other person or persons for receiving, handling or delivering freight of the same class and like quantity at the same time upon its railroad ; or to charge, collect or receive from any person or persons for the transportation of any freight upon its railroad a higher or greater rate of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive from any person or persons for the transportation of a like quantity of freight of the same class being transported from the same point over equal distances of the same railroad ; or to charge, collect or receive from any person or persons for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad for any distance the same or a greater amount of toll or compensation than is at the same time charged, collected or received from any other person or persons for the use and transportation of any railroad car of the same class or number for a like purpose being transported over a greater distance of tin; same railroad ; or to charge, collect or receive from any person or persons for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars upon its railroad a higher or greater rate of toll or compensation than it shall at the same time charge, collect or receive from any other person or persons for the use and transportation of any railroad car or cars of the same class or number for a like purpose being transported j from the same point over an equal distance of the same railroad. And all such disci imina] ting rates, charges, collections or receipts, j whether made directly or by means of any rej bate, drawback or other shift or evasion, shall j be deemed and taken against such person or i>ersons so engaged as aforesaid as prima facie | evidence of the unjust discrimination prohibited by the provisions of this Act. This Sec- . tion shall not be construed so as to exclude ! other evidence tending to show any unjust discrimination in freight and passenger rates. The provisions of this Section and the two preceding Sections shall extend and apply to any railroad, the branches thereof and any road or roads which any such person or persons so engaged as aforesaid has the right, license or permission to use, oj>erate or control, wholly or in part within this State : Provided, Iujiccccr, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent such person or persons so engaged as aforesaid from issuing commutation, excursion or thousand-mile tickets as the same are now issued by such corporations. Sec. 4. That Section 32 of the said Act, the same being known as Section 1444 of the General Statutes of this State, be and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 5. That Section 30 of the Act aforesaid, tlie same being known as Section 1451 of j the General Statutes of this State, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: There shall be three Commissioners appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to carry out the j provisions of this Act, of whom one shall be a j I resident of one of the following named Coun- j : ties, to wit: Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Ab-; : beville, Greenville,Spartanburg, York, Union, I Newberry, Laurens or Edgefield ; one other a ; resident of one of the following named Couni ties, to wit: Chester, Lancaster, Fairfield, Richland, Lexington, Aiken, llarnwell, Or- j | angeburg, Kershaw, Sumter or Clarendon ;: : and one other a resident of one of the fallow- ] ! ing named Counties, to wit, Chesterfield, Marl-1 i boro, Darlington, Marion, Ilorry, Williaius| burg, Georgetown, Charleston, Berkeley, Col-' leton, Hampton or Beaufort. After the exj piration of the term of office of the CommisI sioners first appointed, the term of office of ! their successors shall be six years ; but at the 1 first appointment one Commissioner shall be appointed for two years, one for four years j ! and one for six years. The salary of each ; I Commissioner shall be two thousand one hun-' died dollars, to be paid from the Treasury of the State in a manner provided by law for the salary of other State officers. Any Commissioner may be suspended from office by the Governor, who shall report the fact of such suspension and the reasons thereof to the next; General Assembly, and if a majority of each branch of the General Assembly shall so de- j clare, said Commissioner shall be forthwith ; removed from office and his office considered vacant. The Governor shall have the same j power to fill vacancies in the office of Com-. missioner as to fill other vacancies; and if for any reason said Commissioners are not appointed during the present session of the General Assembly, the Governor shall appoint them thereafter and report to the Senate at its next session ; but the time until then shall not be considered as a part of the term of office of said Commissioners respectively as herein provided. The first appointments for Railroad Commissioners under this Act shall be made at the session of the General Assembly next preceding the expiration of the term of the present incumbent. Said Commissioners shall take the oath of office provided by the Constitution and the oath p.gainst dueling, and, fhorafA oholl tolro unrl GIlliQPril^i Ill cUlUJIslWll tlitiviu, U4.UI1 turwv. ituu an oath that they are not either jointly or severally or in any manner, a holder of the stock or bonds or other obligations of any railroad company, or that they or either of. them are interested in any was or manner in any railroad ; and the Commissioners shall not, during their respective terms of office, either jointly or severally, or in any way be the holders of the bonds, stock or other obligations of any railroad or the agent or employee of any railroad company, or |)ave any interest in any railroad, and shall sv. continue during the entire period of said tejfvns; and in any case any Commissioner becomes disqualified in any way he shall within ten days thereafter, remove the disqualification or resign, and on failure so to do the said office shall become ijm facto vacant, and the Governor shall thereupon proceed to fill such vacancy in manner hereinbefore provided. In any case of suspension the Governor may fill the vacancy until the suspended Commissioner is restored or removed : Provided, however, That until the first appointment under this Act and the qualification of the persons appointed Railroad Commissioners, the present Railroad Commissioner shall be invested with all the authority and shall discharge all the duties of Railroad Commissioner prescribed in this Act; and this Act shall in all resects apply to the said Railroad Commissioner and to the office of Railroad Commissioner as if the said Railroad Commissioner had been appointed under the provisions of At-i- * -A- - T> -* .1 - Jt X 4 J. rpU?4- ~ ~ 1/1113 ; JTTUUllltll) J UTlfltT) JL licit 1IU UJCiiiuci of the General Assembly shall ever be eligible to an appointment as one of the Commissioners herein created during the term for which he shall have been elected to the General Assembly. Section 0. That the following additional Section be inserted in the General Statutes of this State, to be known as Section 1451 a: The Commissioners appointed, as hereinbefore provided, shall, as provided in the next Section of this Act, make reasonable and just rates of charges for freight and passenger tariffs, to be observed by all railroad companies doing business in this State 011 the railroads thereof ; shall make reasonable and just rules and regulations to be observed by all railroad companies doing business in this State as to charges at any and all points for the necessary handling and delivery of freights ; shall make such just and reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary for preventing unjust discrimination in the transportation of freight and passengers on the railroads in this State ; shall make reasonable and just rates of charges for use of railroad cars carrying any and all kinds of freight and passengers on said railroads, 110 matter by whom owned or carried ; and shall make just and reasonable rules and regulations to be observed by said railroad companies on said railroads to prevent the giving or paying of any rebate or bonus, directly or indirectly, and from misleading or deceiving the public in any manner as to the real rates charged for freight and passengers, and said Commissioners shall have full power, by rules and regulations, to designate and fix the difference in rates of charges for freight and passenger transportation to be -allowed for longer and shorter distauces on the same or different railroads, and to ascertain what shall be the limits of longer or shorter distances. Section 7. That the following additional Section be inserted in the General Statutes of this State, to be known as Section 1451 b: The said Railroad Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this Stat.p as snnn as nracticahle. a schedule of just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars on each of said railroads; and said schedule shall, in suits brought against any such railroad corporation wherein is involved the charge of such railroad corporation for transportation of any passengers or freight or cars, or unjust discrimination in relation thereto, be deemed and taken in all Courts in this State as sufficient evidence that the rates therein fixed are just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight and cars upon the railroads; and said Commissioners shall from time to time and as often as circumstances may require, change and revise said schedule. When any schedule shall have been made or revised, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to cause publication of the fact to be made once a week for three successive weeks in some newspaper published in the cities of Charleston, Columbia and Greenville in this State, and that copies thereof may be had upon application therefor to the Railroad Commissioners; and after the same shall be so published it shall be the duty of all such railroad companies to post at their respective stations, in a eonsnifuinns nlaee. a couv of said schedule for the protection of the people : Provided, That the schedule thus prepared shall not be taken as evidence, as herein provided, until such schedule shall have been prepared and published, as aforesaid, for all the railroad companies now doing business in this State, or that may be doing business at the time of said publication. All such schedules purporting to be printed and published, as aforesaid, shall be received and held in all such suits as jrrinui facie the schedule of said Commissioners without further proof than the production of the schedule desired to be used as evidence, with a certificate of the Railroad Commissioners, or the Clerk thereof, that the same is a true copy of the schedule prepared by them for the railroad company or corporation therein named, and that the same has been duly published as required by law, stating the name of the paper in which the same was published, together with the date and plaee of said publication. And copies of such schedules shall be printed in plain, large tyi>e, and shall be kept always accessible for public inspection in at least two places in every depot where freights are received and delivered. Sec. 8. That the following additional Section be inserted in the General Statutes of this State, to be known as Section 1451c: It shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to investigate the books and papers of all the railroad companies doing business in this State, to ascertain if the regulations aforesaid have been complied with, and to make personal visitations of the railroad ollices, stations and other places of business, for the purpose of examination, and to make rules and regulations concerning such examination. which rules and regulations shall be observed and obeyed as the other rules and regulations aforesaid: said Commissioners shall also have full power and authority to examine all agents and employees of said railroad companies and other persons under oath, or otherwise, (which oatli either of said Commissioners is hereby authorized to administer,) in order to procure the necessary information to make just and reasonable rates of freight and passenger tariffs, and to ascertain if such rules and regulations are observed or violated, and to make necessary and proper rules and regulations concerning such examinations, and which rules and regulations herein provided for shall be obeyed and enforced as all other rules and regulations herein provided for shall be obeyed and enforced as all other rules and regulations provided for in this Act. Sec. 1). That the following additional Section be inserted in the General Statutes of this State, to be known as Section 1451 d: All contracts and agreements between railroad companies doing business in this State, as to rates of charges, freight and passenger tariffs, shall be submitted to said Commissioners, for inspection and correction, that it may be seen whether or not they are a violation of law, or of this Act, or of the rules and regulations of said Commissioners; and all arrangements and agreements whatever as to the division of earnings of any kind by competing railroad companies doing business in this State shall be submitted to said Commissioners for inspection and approval, in so far as they affect the rules and regulations made by the said Commissioners to secure to all persons doing business with the said companies just and reasonable Kites of charges for freight and passenger tariffs. And said Commissioners may make such rules and regulations as to such contracts and agreements as may be then deemed necessary and proper ; and any such agreements not approved by such Commissioners, or by virtue of which rates shall be charged exceeding the rates of charges fixed for freights and passengers, shall be deemed, held and taken to be illegal and void. Sec. 10. That the following additional Section be inserted in the General Statutes of this State, to be known as Section 1451e: If any railroad company doing business in this State, by its agents or employees, shall be guilty of a violation of the rules and regulations provided and prescribed by said Commissioners, and if, after due notice of such violation given to the local agent or the principal officer thereat, ample and full recompense for the wrong or injury done thereby to any person or corporation, as may be directed by said Commissioners, shall not be made within 30 days from the time of such notice, such company shall incur and be liable to the penalty for each offense prescribed in Section 128 of the said Act, the same being known as Section 1539 of the General Statutes. Sec. 11. That the said Act and the said Chapter, XL of the General Statutes be, and the same are, further amended so that wherever the word "Railroad Commissioner1' or Commissioner is used in the said Act or in the said Chapter in the singular number, the same shall be held and taken as meaning and referring to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, or a majority of them, created by and under the Section 32 of this Act, the same being Section 1451 of the General Statutes; and wherever the words "he," "his" or "him" are used in the said Act or in the said Chapter in the singular number as referring to the said Railroad Commissioner, the same shall be severally held and taken as meaning "they," "their" or "them," and as referring to the said Board of Railroad Commissioners or a majority of them. Sec. 12. That Section 73 of the Act aforesaid, the same being known as Section 1484 of the General Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words "while the bell rings or the whistle sounds," so that the Section as amended shall read as follows ; Section 73. Every railroad corporation shall cause boards to be placed, well supported by posts or otherwise, and constantly maintained, across each public road or street where the same is crossed by the railroad on the same level : said board shall be elevated so as not to obstruct the travel and to be easily seen by travelers, and on each side of said board shall be printed in large letters, of at least the size of nine inches each, the words "Railroad Crossing ! Look Out for the Car !" or the words "Railroad Crossing ! Look Out for the Car while the Bell Rings or the "Whistle Sounds !" But this Section shall not apply to streets in cities, towns and villages, unless the corporation be required to put up such boards by the officers having charge of such streets. Sec. 13. That the following shall be inserted and known as Section 1516a of the General Statutes of this State : "When any passenger shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or use any obscene or grossly profane language, to the annoyance and vexation of passengers, or play any game of cards or other game of chance for money or other valuable thing, upon any railroad train, the Conductor of such train is hereby authorized to stop his train at any place where such offense has been committed and eject such passenger from the train, using only such force as may be necessary to accomplish such removal, and may command the assistance of the employees of the railroad company, or any of the passengers, to assist in such removal. Sec. 14. That the first sentence of Section 128 of the A^t aforesaid, the same being known as Section 1539 of the General Statutes of this State, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words "one hundred," where they first occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "two hundred' and fiifty"; and also by striking out the words "two hundred," where they first occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "one thousand," so that the sentence of the said Section, as amended, shall read : Section 128. Each and every act, matter or thing in this Act declared to be unlawful is hereby prohibited ; and in case any person or persons as defined in this .Act engaged as aforesaid shall do, suffer or permit to be done any act, matter or thing in this Act prohibited or forbidden, or shall omit to do any act, matter or tiling in this Act required to be done, or shall be guilty of any violation of the provisions of this Act, such person or persons shall, where no specific penalty is hereinbefore already provided for such violation, forfeit and pay to the person or persons who may sustain damage thereby a sum equal to double the amount of the damages so sustained, to be recovered by the person or persons so damaged, by suit in any Circuit Court in this State, where the person or persons causing such damage, can be found or may have an agent, office, or place of business : [Provided, however. That in any such case of recovery the damage shall not be assessed at a less sum than two hundred and fifty dollars,] and the person or persons so offending shall for each offense forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than one thousand dollars, to be recovered by the State, by action in any Circuit Court aforesaid, to be brought by the Attorney General upon the request of the lJnllrnnH Pr?rnmis?imiPvs Ajiv Mft.inn to be brought as aferesaid to recover any such penalty or damage may be considered, and if so brought shall be regarded, as a subject of equity jurisdiction and discovery, and atllrmative relief may be sought and obtained therein. In any such action so brought as a case of equitable cognizance, preliminary or final injunctions may, without allegation or proof of damage to any plaintiff or complainant, be granted upon proper application, restraining, forbidding and prohibiting the commission or continuance of any act, matter or thing within the terms of purview of this Act prohibited or forbidden. In any action aforesaid, and upon any application for any injunction above provided for, any Director, ollicer, Receiver, Trustee or person aforesaid, or any agents of any such corporation or company, Receiver, Trustee or person aforesaid, or of any of them alone or with any other person or persons, party or parties, may and shall be compelled to attend, appear and testify, and give evidence, and no claim that any such testimony or evidence might tend to criminate the person testifying or giving evidence shall be of any avail, but such evidence or testimony shall not be used as against such person in the trial of any indictment against him. The attend......7 ..muioi.niii.u nf (lliv r\f tllO npt'smis illlL'C rtllU ((['jiCdKUiuo vi uuj v?. v??v who, jus aforesaid, may be compelled to appear or testify, and tlie giying of the testimony or evidence by the same respectively, and the production of books and papers may and shall be had, taken and compelled by or before the Clerk of the Court in which such action is pending, or in any manner provided or to be provided for, as to the taking of other depositions or evidence or the attendance of witnesses or the production of other books or papers in or by the laws of this State. No action aforesaid shall be sustained unless brought within two years after the cause of action shall accrue; and any judgment under the provisions of this Act shall be rendered against the person or persons violating its provisions and against the corporation or corporations in whose service or under whose authority they performed such unlawful acts. Approved -21st December, 1882. EX I'EXSES OE ELECTIONS. An Act to provide for the payment of the expenses of Elections in this State. lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, < and by the authority of the same. That the County Commissioners of the several counties of this State be, and they are hereby authorized and required to audit and pay all ac- i counts of Supervisors of Registration for ad- i vertising, and in the county of Charleston i clerk hire and rent for registration precincts i and stationery, and all accounts for necessary expenses incurred by the Commissioners and Managers of Election for stationery, the making of election boxes, rents and similar expenses in the last past general election and in the elections hereafter to be held in this State. The commissioners of the election shall here- i after receive for their compensation, one dol- ( lar per day for their services, while actually" , employed, and live cents per mile for neces- . sary travel ; and the managers shall receive one dollar per day while actually employed, : and five cents per mile for necessary travel, and the clerks of the commissioners and the i clerks of the managers, respectively, shall receive one dollar per day while actually em- ( ployed. Provided, no commissioners of elections shall receive pay for more than three ' days, and no manager of election or clerks shall receive pay for more than three days. J Sec 2. That so much of any Act or Acts as < is inconsistent with provisions hereot, is hereby repealed. Approved 23d day of December, 1882. RELIGION IX ITS RELATION TO WOMAN. It is a custom with some when the subject of religion is mentioned, to turn it aside with the flippant remark, "Oh ! it's a very good thing for women regulating it to the weaker sex as something childish ; a pretty fable ; an airy fancy ; a dream. Well, it is a good thing for women, the best . of all things, religion in the heart. And by religion I mean the love of God in ; the soul, that system of faith which recognizes , the Supreme Head as the centre of the universe. ; This is their strength and glory ; their com- < fort and support in sorrow and desolation. Men may do without it for a lifetime ; bnsi- , ness cares may drown all other thoughts ;.con- i tact with the world deadens their sensibilities; the edge of grief or disappointment is soon 1 worn off. . But to woman, debarred by nature, habit or custom, from the more active pursuits of life, something more is necessary. Iler susceptibilities are more tender ; her eyes see matters in a clearer light; her sympathy is keener ; her capacity for suffering greater. Iler nature is ever seeking something higher and stronger than herself. This is true of even the best and the strongest of the sex, who differ from the weak only in the intensity of this longing, and the loftier character of that something which they seek. Can mere earthly affection, can fame, fashion or pleasure, satisfy this longing ? The first may for a time; but what remains when the icy lingers of death have closed the eyes of those we love, and stilled their heart beats V There is nothing left then but a memory, and memory cannot satisfy the soul. As to the inadequacy of earthly honors, we have only to look for proofs to the sad, sad wrecks which drift along at the mercy of every tide of opinion on the great sea of life. "Only God can satisfy what God created," and only when the soul turns to him who made it, with the question, "Lord, to whom shall we go V" comes the all-sullicient answer, "I am the way, the truth, the life." But aside from this, religion has given to woman every blessing of liberty and independence which she enjoys. It was the influence of religion, not mere human legislation, that raised her to the lofty position which she occupies. Of all the nations of the East, the Hebrews alone recognized the religious life of their women as something of importance. Until this strange race appeared upon the stage of the world's history, woman was a slave, occupying a position of inferiority and degradation. God's own hand raised her to that place for which she was destined, through his plan of the redemption of the world. It was meet that the women of a nation appointed to be the repository of the world's history, the cradle of the world's Redeemer, should be exalted to a loftier station than she had hitherto occupied ; that the people whose story enfolded the life of every nation, should preserve their purity and-strength in homes where mothers, not slaves, told to their prattling babes the story of the deliverance of Israel, or with the , glow of enthusiasm ringing in every word, \ spoke of the Messiah to come. In the com- , mand, "Thy daughter thou shaltnot give unto his son, nor liis daughter shalt tlrou take unto thy son" we see that even in those early days the influence of woman on the religious life of a nation was felt. The story begun under the Mosaic dispensation, was continued through ( the lives of the women of the Old Testament , into the New. The faith which sprang into j life in the hearts of the little handful of de- , vout women who ministered unto Christ, is ; the glorious heritage of the women of to-day. j From the dawning of that day when Mary , mourned at the sepulchre, and turning at the voice of the risen Saviour cried, "Rabboni!" the glorious gift has been transmitted, growing and strengthening with each succeeding generation. ' m But as to the practical effects. It may be j argued that civilization, not religion, has given 1 woman the freedom winch she enjoys to-day. j IVIioro (lrtoo rnltmnn onrl mwl nivili7;iHoil hp- ' gin ? The two are bound up together ; but as 1 to civilization alone producing these mighty ' effects, I would bid you look at Japan, China, 1 or any other eastern nation of the present day. 1 They have been nations for centuries; they 5 boast of achievements in art and science ; of J a history that reaches back into the dim cycles j of the past. What have they done for woman V ' Where does she stand to-day ? If she has ad- 1 vanced anything since this century began, it is because men and women from a more favor- j ed land have gone with the gospel of Christ in ' their hands, proclaiming that women have j souls for which Christ died. If they stand any where higher, it is only in the shadow of ' the circle of light in which their more favored < sisters move. Is it wonderful, then, that religion should 1 appeal to the mind and heart of woman ? Nay, 1 is it not more wonderful that some bearing the ] stamp of a lofty intellect on their brow, should ] lift up unholy hands against the temple which 1 has been their refuge ? Is it not more sadly 1 strange that, disclaiming in bitter scorn, the ' God who has so highly exalted them, they 1 should wander into a far country, away from ( their Father's house, and strive to feed their starving souls on empty husks V While the 1 children of the kingdom have "enough and to spare," they "perish with hunger," dying with ' the sorrowful words sounding from Heaven, ^ "They will not come unto me, that they might j have life."?Mian Julia A. Flinch, in Southern 1 Presbyterian. j Observation.?Xo line can be drawn be- 1 tween common knowledge of things and scien- ? title knowledge, not between common reason- 1 ing and scientific reasoning. In strictness all accurate knowledge is science, and all exact 1 reasoning is scientific reasoning. The method 1 of observation and experiment in which such 1 great results are obtained in science is identi- 1 cally the same as that which is employed by ( every one every day of his life, but refined and * rendered precise. If a child acquires a new 1 toy, he observes its characters and experiments < upon its properties, and we are all constantly 1 making observations and experiments upon i one thing or another. Hut those who have 1 never tried to observe accurately, will be sur- 1 prised to find how difficult a business it is. i There is not one person in a hundred who can i describe the commonest occurrence with even s an approach to accuracy. That is to say, eith- ? er he will omit something which did occur and i ?< ,..;n r... I , WHICH Ul inipui uuiur, VI lie ma nuj'ij vi v suggest the occurrence of something which he f did not actually observe, but which he uncon- 1 sciously infers must have happened. When 1 two truthful witnesses contradict one another in a court of justice, it usually turns out that i one or the other, or sometimes both, are con- c founding their inferences from what they saw t with that which they actually saw. A swears ( that II picked his pocket. It turns out that s all that A knows is that he felt a hand in his t pocket when B was close to him, and that B 1 was not the thief, but C, whom he did not ob- \ serve. Untrained observers mix up together { their inferences from what they see with that t which they actually see in the most wonderful e way, and even experienced and careful ob- 1 servers are in constant danger of falling into g the same error. .Scientific observation is such o is is at once full, precise and free from uncon- t scions inference.?I'roftsxor Ifwleij. p A QUAINT MUSICAL CRITICISM. Edouard Itemenyi, the violin contortionist, was in Austin this week. Edouard is a great artist in his line, probably the greatest violin player in the world. If he had lived in A. D. B4 he could have fiddled Rome into ashes in one third the time that Xero did. On second thought, he couldn't, for Itemenyi can't play where there is any noise or confusion in-the } audience. That is one of his peculiarties. lie is a genius or supposed to be one, which is all the same. All men of genius have eccentricities, which in them are admired, but in ordinary mortals would be called affectation, or worse. Itemenyi insists on perfect quiet when he plays. lie says that his old Stradivarius will not respond to his sjrirituoso touch, or words to that effect, unless the quiet surrounding him is so intense that you could < hear a heel tap, He opened his concert, "Wednesday night with ijonute Pathetique, by Beethoven. Everything went along smoothly at first, until he got in the crescendo part of the sonate, where the fiddle seemed to be trying to i;et the audience to understnd that, aided by the young man at the piano, it was describing \ pack of wolves pursuing a man through a boiler factory. Then Itemenyi stopped and looked puzzled. Something iiad evidently gone wrong. We felt sure that the fiddle had got a hot-box or that the rosin had given out, but were mistaken. Signor Itemenyi said he could not account for it, but there was something unsviiiDathetic somewhere in the surround ings. Then, as he looked around the building a sort of Eureka I expression stole over his face, and pointing to a stove hole in the wall under the gallery, lie asked the usher to be so kind as to stop it up, as the vacuum it caused spoiled the accoustic properties of the violin?did violins to its feelings, as it were. Then the concert proceeded until the violin J arrived at that part of the "sonate pathetique" where it tries to express the low, soft gurgle of the early cocktail rippling down a thirsty throat. Everything was so quiet that you could have heard a pickle jar. At this [joint a man in the gallery, in attempting to adjust his paper collar, dropped a pin. It fell into the parquet. Signor Remenyi stopped, laid his violin on the pi^no, folded his arms and striking a Napoleon-in-exile attitude, 3tated that such an interruption would not be tolerated, and that he would decline playing until a policeman removed the man with the paper collar, and also the pin. He said that the man could get his money back at the door. Hie man went out. (He proved to be a country editor who had got in on a complimentary ticket, but he didn't refuse the fifty cents tenlered him at the door.) The concert proceeded until the sonate was finished, without any bther interruption, except that Remenyi stopped for a moment to say that there was a bustle in the audience somewhere that must be nippressed. Several ladies blushed, but no farther notice was taken of the matter. Next we had a Violin Oblignto, or Atrocito, br something of that character. There was breathless attention in the audience. The violin seemed in the hands of the master artist ;o be a thing of life. It moaned, then it emit;ed a cry of triumph, and the next moment it boured out despairing howls, as if somedody iad stepped on its sore toe. Just then Signor Remenyi stopped. He said it was "impossijeel" to continue unless "absoleet" quiet was naintained. There was he said, a person in :he house whose corns were aching; as long as ;hose corns continued to ache and the owner refused to go out and take the obnoxious corns ivith him, he "must positively refuse to play." If the person had no respect for the player, he would certainly have some consideration for ;he ladies and gentlemen who came to hear ;he "moosic." We left the theatre after this, fearing that ;he entente eordiale between the Signor and his bid Stradivarius might be spoiled by something tve might do. in our pocicet was n note or land that a man in Houston had given us. The interest was accumulating on it very rapdly. We were afraid that Remenyi might letect the note in the act of drawing interest, uid that it might disturb him and cause him .o cease playing, so we left. Remenyi is a jreat musician, but we doubt if there is any ilace this side the dark and silent tomb, uness it be at the bottom of a deserted coal nine, where his tall and lofty genius will have -oom to shake itself out. The rude noise of ;he caved in peanut, and the stentorian eating jf cloves in a theatre are fatal to it. Remenfi, if you go further west you wont make a lollar a week fiddling in cow countries, and if fou don't put cotton in your ears, you will have four ear drums frayed at the edges by somebody dropping a remark over the edge of the jullery.?Texas Siftings. A JOURNALISTIC ESSAY. While a certain amount of brain (enough to seep out of the fire, for example) is necessary for the successful conduct of a newspaper, the mowledge of how to use what one has is far more important. A man of very ordinary intellect and acquirements, who knows his business, is economical, industrious, energetic, euterprising, painstaking and careful of leaks tvill usually succeed in journalism, while the uost brilliant intellect and profound scholar ship will inevitably go clown n tne practical working of the business is not understood :horoughly, and if the most unremitting at;ention is not given to every detail of the Comdex affairs of a newspaper. A man might write an editorial every day ?qual in beauty of thought and composition to :he finest passages of Shakspeare, and his circulation would be limited to the small proportion of people in his community who have :aste and time to appreciate such things if lie lid not keep the reading and news columns up to the proper standard. In the same place a nan who says what lie has to say briefly and dainly, without offending decency, and demotes most of his time to getting news, keeping down expenses and keeping up appearances will succeed. Fine writing and abstract brains will not make a newspaper any more than they will make a grocery business. Hard, steady work and close attention will succeed in both )r either. The anxiety to build reputations by special writing is the curse of practical journalists. Humor is the most popular thingin newspaper writing, and it has lured many a bright fellow :o his mental and financial destruction. It is is inevitable as any operation in mathematics, that the man who undertakes to be funuy every day or every week will in time lose his faculty of exciting mirth, and be thrown aside ike a sucked orange, a wreck, with all the life Irawn from him by a remorseless public appe;ite, and abandoned for a new favorite. Who ever hears of the Danbury News man, whose anecdotes set the whole country to aughing and ran up his circulation enormousy a few years ago ? Where is Spoopendyke whose chronicles recently filled the columns of jvery newspaper ? Who knoweth the tomb wen of the New York Times funny man at whose quips and quaint conceits we all roared >f late ? Where can we find William Nye whose nastiness made some people laugh so uproariously ? Even the perennial Bijah and lis police court have lost their hold on the pubic, although the Detroit Free Press is still 'resh, flourishing and popular as ever, because ts fun is not its only dependence, 'mere are >igns of weakening in the humor of the Texas Siftinys. Quotations from the Chicago Tribme romancer are becoming rare in our exchanges, and mark Twain in his last public speech gave token of incipient idiocy, while iiurdette, the Prince of them all, has taken to vriting rather sloshy sentiment. * If we were appointed to a chair of journalsm in the Pierian puddle we would have but me lecture for journalists intendant?"Don't ,ry to-be eloquent, don't try to be pathetic, lon't try to be funny ; say what you've got to say as briefly and strongly as you can to be ineligible, and work, you miserable outcasts ! Vork morning, noon and night, and everyvhere you are needed, from writing leaders to >roving galleys or wsishing rollers ; work all he time, and in all places arftl all ways and very day, and then die successful aud happy, eaving behind you the reputation of a brilliant ;enius, and have the most idiotic utterances if your work bemuddled brain held up in afer years as the inspirations of an intellectual :iant !"?Orecnrillc News.