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/ ’i8 Ailffl RECORDER. OiCARL.&4 B. K. DKAYTON. Brtitor. rwr , — ■- AIKEN. S C.. APRIL 13. SatMcriptioB RatM.—One year. X); * : t m»nfhs. Sl.W. If pnul (n advance, one j . ear, $1.50; six mouth*. 75 cents. AtlvcrtiMinu; Hate*. -Cue square, first iM'Wjrtion, fl 00: each suhsefjuent insertion, •5 cents. Ql^ituariS at regular rates of a<i- . TW t'orreenomJeots —Ali eommunira- iMn# m list be docompumed by the true 'Baaie atul address of the writcr in order to r.-ooive attention. Rejected coinmunica- f /n» will not la; returned unless stamps for ■return postage are enclosed. * la the Segrro a Failure? ))n our first page will be found n forcible and exhaustive answer to the question from the pen of the Hon. \V. C. Beuet, of Abbeville. Mr. Benet’s Views, we are sure, embody those of a '▼xst majority of thoughtful men at 3-\he South. The initiative totlie discus sion was made by Professor White, of Georgia, Who ij cf opinion that ns a laborer, th^ negro is a failure, and thnt *the great need of the Smith is to ob tain a better class' of peasantry and more skilled laborers. This question must bo treated prac tically. We must look at matters as • they are, and not as they might have been or what wc would desire. The negro is hefe witli us in the order of providential dispensation, and here will'stay, both from necessity and firom choice. He could not get away Hf he would and would not if he *conld. He is a joint occupant with us of the country, and has no desire to give up the only hope of im proving his condition and working out his destiny fn contact with u 'Superior race He is unfortunate in paving been brought too prominant- *iy before the eyes of the nation as the pet of philaritropi'^ts, and the tool of demagogues and in the ■ upheaval of social order following tho war, elevated to positions of trust and responsibility, far beyond his abilities and his moral strength. That w’as not his fault, but in that was his/ai7are, and no one knows it better than himself. The negro as a class must be content to remain a laborer, whether in the fields b't'in the workshops, until by eduCutibn,'accumulation of property, a more providential habit, and the bzahipie of the white man, he can 1 j (who will say not to his benefi:.?), lie j , now, with this ruisrgence from savagery, left free to carry' ou the ; work of his own progress. Ali } indications show that It is his ! choice ami hi* intention to work i' : out in his own way. He wants his ! own schools, his own churches, his ' own benevolont, co-operative and j other organizations. There lias j been too much outride sentimentalism j too much petting and attempted iu- j terferenco for his own good. His race traits must l*e recoginixcd and sl owed to have full scope. We cannot expect him to work altogether in the line *>f the white man’s progress. But With the advantages of a superior civilization before him, under the protection of the laws of the country (which lie has,) restriction from crimes against society, and such good exampjes as the white race may offer for his guidance, he must work out his own destiny. We have full faith in the Providen tial designs for ultimate good. What these purposes are and how they will be attained, it is not for us to know, but we believe it will ultimate ly come right. WASHINGTON n Wash! Cor ling "J hi for it. Yet agai difference. TiiCi.occj ryiMce sought a farmer,no fuers want ail the offices. Th' Fre satisfied, now we cro misera- Honso Editor, that a new deal at the Chaplain ami his House will not bring the relit f Frijjht abon< - -at i .u menr—See: Resu to be nienee E.ilwrcceinent —The Hlimi Prayer*. Fr«m our Regular fonrspondent. Washixqton-. April 9,1880. The popple of the Capital have 1 a,>out t,ie " and bacon raised and less bought. » n H r ui mo j’, sp: ’ oa ' This and this alone will raise the fur- like wildlire tiial the iioiile structure 1 I respectfully, sutgest, Mr. State w want ed. That is not tiie remedy. The i remedy is in a new deal at | home, ess expense and more profitless ! acreage and larger yield, leas (angry or jealous) competition and m »ro (friendly co-operation, mere corn The Kail road Strikes. The railroad strikes in the West continue with unabated bitterness and intensity. A terrible condition of things exists in East St. Louis, Illi nois. On Friday last a crowd of strik ers were fired upon, and seven killed by the deputy sheriffs, and since then a perfect pandemonium has prevailed. Incendiary’ fires have raged and thousands upon thousands of railroad property has been ruthlessly destroy’- ed. The State troops have been or dered out, and are now at the scat of this terrible contest between labor and capital, what the end will be no man can say- A Sanitary Convention, the object of which will be to afford an oppor tunity for an expression of opinion on matters relating'to the public health and the discussion of methods looking towards an advancement in the sani tary condition of the Commonwealth tire prevention of sickness and avoid able death, and the improvement of the conditions ot living, will be held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Pennsylvania ^tate Board of Health, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 12, 13 and 14, 1880. The address of welcome will be delivered Work out his own elevation. Treat him kindly', give him all his just I by His Excellency, Hon. Robert E. rights and'help him when he wants | pattison, Governor of Pennsylvania. help', but let him work out his own pfivilizalion on the plan he prefers and which he knows will be best for him. ’* If then, we consider him an un avoidable fixture here, is his presence disastrous to tiie 8*outh, a hindrance to agricultural progress? Those who have lived in the South ern States, who understand the traits of the negro, his docility of character. His peculiar imitative faculties, his adaptation to the climate, his free dom from malarial influences which are fatal to the wdiite man, will be Jready to agree with us, that there is no other race which can so well take the place of a peasantry as the negro. But he needs supervision and direc tion. He needs the controlling intel ligence of the white race to produce the best results. As a simple laborer, lie has no superior, hut he is unable to Atand alone, lie cannot plan for the future, nor use bis labor to the best Advantage without intelligent aid. ■ What we do need, is a yeomanry of small fanners: We want our large un profitable areas of land broken up into smalj farms which may be purchased for a moderate sum. Then owner ship, home and all the advantages and comforts of a home will attract thrif ty settlers, who with their churches and their schooUmpscs around them, find a personal interest in the good order and prosperity of their region, Will furnish the best population a country can have. The present system of leasing planting lands for short periods, gen erally by the y’ear, ia most disastrous to the prosperity of tiie country, and stands as an impediment in the way of progress. The hired land like the hired horse, must pay for its present use without regard to future conse quences. Iri the hands of unthrifty laborers, who have no interest in its Improvement, and are mostly unable to expend anything in improvements, it is worn to the last point of produc tive energy and becomes worthless. But with ownership and a home, all this is changed, and tiie goose is not tilled for tho golden egg. The system of small farms will also be beneficial to the negroes, inasmuch as they will be more scattered. Every Southerner who knows the ne gro, understands this. When thrown together in large numbers and left alone they make no progress in civil ization, but often retrograde. When Scattered on small farms, under the directing intelligence of the white race'they are in every way more effi cient. ' Their imitative' faculties are brought intc play, thej become more intelligent, are' better laborers, and are on the road of progress. With respect to tfie plan ofelersding the’ n^gi’O face, by intermarriage with the whites, it is scarcely necessary to allude to such a chimercia! absurdity. It has been tried by the I.;,tin races on this continent, who seem to have neither the abilty to colonize success fully, nor repugnance to social inter course. The mongral populations of llexico and the South American r States, in which there has been degradation on one side without elevation on the other is a timely warning. In our Anglo-Sax on race, (or perhaps more properly) our American stock, race itislinci even without the enactment of penal Jaws, Will savo us from such an evil. Thera Will always be cianks and pseudo-martyrs, who will be ready to recommend this solution but never'to test it in their own exner- ft * ience. As we said in tiie beginning We are compelled to treat this question practically. It is a fact that the negro is here, and that be mean* to stay, and that Ids mission must be that of a laborer. We must work but the problem on this basis. By a train <of Circumstances he has been brought from his native laud in a state of savagery in large numbers, and after a few centuries of servitude Twenty subjects have been for discussion. arranged Thu Abbeville Press and Banner lias celebrated its twenty-seventh an niversary and continues to maintain its high rank as one of the best papers in the State. Its Editor Mr. Hugh Wilson is one of the most industrious and enterprising members of the weekly press, and gives so good aj paper that we sometimes wonder | where the money comes from on so moderate an advertising patronage. While we have often had occasion to disagree with the utterances of tlds journal, nevertheless we know an honest conscientious worker when we see one, and therefore we take pleas ure in wishing the Press and Banner a long life of continued prosperity and usefulness. Mrs. John C. Hasickui,, wife of Major John C. Haskell and daughter of Senator Wade Hampton, was buried on Friday last at Trinity ( Church, Columbia. Barnwell in u Blaze. Barnweta,, C. II., April 8—5.30 a. m. The embers are smoking over the most destructive fire that has occurr ed in Barnwell since Sherman visited it in 1805. It originated in a corner of MikeBrown’s store about 2.30 a m. and was not discovered until the whole corner of the building was in flames. Ali tiie buildings in this sec tion of the town being ot wood and built close together the tlames spread from building to building until they destroyed Mike Brown’s main store building, his fur niture store, stables, grain store and tho mess hall for his clerks, Gen. J C. Davant’s law office, and the uptown telegraph office. Charles Carroll Simms and W. A. Holman had a law- office over Browns, furniture store, and only the books and papers of Mr. Simms were saved ; his office furni ture and everything that was in Mr. Holman’s office was destroyed. The furniture in Brown’s furniture store, and the books and furniture of Gen. Davants were saved. It was with great difficulty that the store of Ha- good Bros., the law office of C<>1. W. £1. Duncan, the store ami billiard saloon of Johnson Tobin the bakery of G. K. Byan, and the frame of the Methodist' Church, which is being built, were saved. Every one of (best buildings caught on lire, but, were saved by tiie timely exertion of the C tizens. Charlie Csliff, one of ii:own's clerks, had to jump out of a second story window to escape, but fortunately the story was not high and he escaped uninjured. Thb principal loss falls upon Miki Brown, bcingestimated at $21,000 anu insured for $11,000; no other insurance The total loss, including tiie insur ance, is about $22,000. It is thought by Mr. Brown’s clerks that tiie fire was the work of an incendiary, as m fire had been used in that part of the store where it originated, if being the place where the Hour was stored. This is the third time this section of tin. town has been sw’ept out by tire—in IS3G, then by Sherman in 1805, and this which has just occurred. was cracking and was d'-omed. It stands between the Potomac river and Babcock lake, and tiie recent heavy rains which have saturated its foun dations and raised the surrounding waters naturally gave credence to the report. At different points in the city crowds of people are scrutinizing the Monument through opera glasses. What appears to be the largest fissure ora gaping crack, was about fifteen feet below the 50J foot level. The sen sation soon subsided, however. The dark streaks on the white marble were not cracks at all. They were only stains at certain vertical and horizontal joints caused by neglect of the cleaning process, on "the part of tiie workmen in their haste to com plete the structure. Tiie interior of the monument is now practically completed. The iron stairway leading to the summit is to have ten elevator stages, each of which will run out to tiie elevator shaft at every fifty feet of tiie ascent. Upon the completion of this stair way it was intended to afford the pub lic every facility for seeing the monu ment by issuing passes, and pro viding those wlio w ished to climb t - the top with a lantern. Bqt as there are no provisions for keeping a" watch man on hand, every opportunity would be given to vandals and relic hunters to deface the structure, either by tampering with the memorial stoi e - ■ r by writing their names upon the walls. Whenever Cengrts* pr > vides custody for the Monument, and makes an appropriation for running the elevators, it w ill be open to tin public and visitors may roam up and down it at will. All the gossip about a new Secreta ry of the Treasury will have to sub side for a time. The President holds to the belief that his favorite ad vise! wull fully recover despite the doctor’*- opinion that Mr. Manning will never be able to assist again at the Cabinet council.-!. The President dees not ex pect the sick Secretary will again be able to devote himself s > exclusively to business as he has been in ti e past,but lie thinks the burden oi Mr. Manning’s work can bo lightened by .shifting it on others. At any rate the President will not even consider the sijbject of a new Secretary until Mr,'Manning indi cates to him what he would like to have done, and the later may name his own successor. The Library bill appropriates $500,00, to commence tiie construction of a building for the library of Congress, on p site directly east of the Capital. It creates a commission consisting oi the Secretary of the Interior, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Li brarian of Congress, who shall he authorized to make the contracts and it further appropriates a sum of not more than $550,000 for the pur chase of the land- The bill to enlarge the White House has been reported favorably to the Senate, and is expected to pa><s that body by a unanimous vote. The pop ularity of the measure is explained by tiie fact'that nearly every Senator has an eye of faitii on the old mansion ms a future place of iesidcuce tor him self. The Chaplain of the Hoase whose morningprayers were creating sornuch sensation a fortnight ago and who has been praying quite conservative ly since, has made another invocation in which lie gave a deplorable picture of the times. Hestated that the mas ses of men were drifting farther and farther aw’ay from the churches, edu cated men were asking “is life worth living?” And men in the market places were teaching the do -trines ol despair, pessimism, agnosticism and atheism; scarcely a day passed but brought to light some new evil to crimson the face of the patriot. After itemizing a long list of the worst trails gressions, lie closed by saying Uiiat di vine charity took ilie' form of a ma chine and was administed by proxy audthalour boasted civilization was stained with blots as black as death. Apropos of the subject, although it is believed throughout the country that this is the most demoralized city in the land, there is a great deal of Christian work done here in Wash ington. It goes on silently' in many homes but it goes on constantly and it dlls tiie churches on Sunday' with audiences of such size as are found in few places in the world. Palmetto. mer to his proper place in the social and commercial world, 124 farmers in the House of Representatives and 32 in the Senate will do very little to wards the I.uprovebient of the agri cultural interests of the country so long as this suicidal polity is kept up on the farm. We had a gentle rain almost all day last Monday, and on Tuesday night we had heavy rain for half the night. The many friends of Rev. Jas. A. Woodward, formerly of this com munity, but late of Barnwell C. H., will regret to learn that he fell an i broke his thigh bone la-t week, from which he died on Sunday la^t. His remains were brought to his family burial ground, on the farm o: Mr. W. T. Scotland buried. Tiie series of meetings inaugurated by evangelist Tillman sometime ago. were kept up until last night with what results your corre pbudent i.- uliable to say. We had quite a frost yesterday morning, little damage if any w'a* done by it, ns the wind lins dried th- eni-th considerably, having blown stoihiily for two days. • Witm: Pond. Tom Hamilton. Palmetto Pont. A Icdtar from Beaufort announces the death at that place of Tom Hamil ton, who wiil be remembered as a member of the General Assembly. Hamilton, w ho w asthiriy-cight years oi age, died of pneumonia, of which he had been sick for several days. He was elected to the House of Rep resentatives in If.Td, and was one of the first colored members to give i allegiance to the Hampton govern ment by joining the Wallace House, and thereby securing a quorum. H< war, not an educated man, bpt possess ed an abundance of shrewdness aae plenty of common sense. Although iu- had oeen a memuer of the Legis!utui\ under the scott-Moses regime he wa- thoronghly incorruptible, and neve; permitted himself to be the tnnl ni Whipper and Smalls, who ruled all the members from Bonnf-jrt. Per haps it may be said of him that a distinguishing trait wf his charaetei wast! a his loyalty to the native white people ol the never was betray ed even during his career as a iican noiliician, which, by_fj4^wey is not an unusual feature among tin older members of Ids rgco. He w as a man of perfectly temperate habits and kept himself aloof from the temp tations of drink that has been the ruin of so many of Ids race. He had been engaged in rice planting for several years, and had the entire confidenct of all w ho knew’ him. aTT-r," The Abbeville ?.!>sseuger. in speak ing of the wonderful magnetic force o! Mrs. G. Henry Moire, of Abbeville, says: “Mrs. Moore performs all th tests given by Lula Hurst and other, that the latter never tried. For in stance by simply laying hands upm the top of a table she could make i" move so that three strong men couh not hold it still. The table was brok en in the effort to hold it. This is onh one of the tests she gave. Mr. Dibble has introduced a bill h increase the salary of the LTiitec States District Judge of South Caroli na to $5,0{)0 per annum. Judge Kershaw ha* appointed W. H. MeFeat, of Columbia, to he steno grapher of the 5Ui judicial District. Another gas company is about to he organized in Charleston, and the old company has announced a reduction in price on tiie 1st of July—from $2 25 to $2. Sparrow fighting is the excitin'? amusement among the Chinese in New York at present, The bills c; the little birds are sharpened will, sand paper, ami tho battles appear to interest the Chinamen immensely. An Caul to Bone Scraping. Edward Shepard, of Harrisburg, 111., says: “Having received so nun-h White Fond I.etter. From Our Regular Correspondent. White Bond, S. C., While I am on the subject I had as >vell express my opinion of tiie reasons for the “impoverishment’’ of that class of citizens known as farmers in our country. It is the old story that has been told over and over, until it is nearly worn oul, tint the'-eis norther cause for our poverty. When the war 'dosed, we all started off on a race m make cotton to rebuild our shattered fortunes. Cotton was then from 20 to 10 cents, and everything else propor tionately high, Unit the farmer had to buy. Labor was high and not very efficient, ami the competition among farmers made it very unreliable.' Planters b night stock* at fabulous . prices and liened their crops for sup plies and raised cotton, increasing the yield every year and lowering the price every year and getting poorer every year, uniii, at length, they hud to mortgage their real estate to run thcirbusincss and te-day there are hud- dretls ol'fu? merswiio were innd-owne.r 'on years ago, paying from $2 to .*5 per u-re rent. Mean while labor lias be- Joine less efficient and less reliable every year, until to-day no man can vith any degree of certainly plan for The reason for this probiem, may be benefit from Electric Bitters, 1 feel it my duty to let suffering humanity know it. Have had a running sore on my leg for eight years; my doebuy told me I would have to have the bone scraped or leg amputated. I used, instead, three bottles of Electrh Bitters and seven boxes of Buekh n’s Arniea Halve, and my leg is sound and well.” , <, ,, Electric Bitters are sold at fifty a D -’i n iJ!,* f cents a bottle,'and Buckler’s Arnica April 9, italve at 25c. per box by H. II. Hall. Good Results in Every Case. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn., write- :h >t he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that sett led on his kings; had tried many remedies without benefft. Being induced to try Dr. A Dishonor Spurned by Hampton Ejffoto Express. It is said that Senator Wade Ilamp- fon of South Carolina was once offer ed the position of commissioner of the Louisiana State Lottery at a salary of $10,000 a year, but he declined (iatly in pretty vigorous t-rms. Thos- other Confederate heroes, Early and Beauregard, were not scrupulous. Their present positions as figure-heads for the great lottery swindle have tempted a Southern paper to claim | that bii.jd Belisaritts begging bis bread in the streets of Constantinople w’as a nobler spectacle than their lat ter ends afford. to-morrow’s woi -tate of the labor tr iced directly to the farmers them selves. There is an idea prevailing imong farmers that, “Our farm must b- kept up.” ami the thought oi even a portion of their plantation ! lying idle for a year or two is appall ing. Immediately after tiie c >~e ot die war when commercial :er iiizers were to be bought at $85 per ton/ we used 200 pounds per acre, or $8.50 per acre for manure; how when it is not iiitrinsiealiv worth more than one- fourth what it was at Hist time we pay $30 per ton and use from 100 to 150 ius. per acre, (mostly the former,) or fnffn 11.50 to $1.75 per acre. Then w’e raised perhaps four millions of bales, now we raise seven millions, and the grower gets from 7 to 8 cents per pound for cotton that costs him twelve cents. In ante-bellum times, thirty ; cres to the plow was considered a good crop, now from forty to sixty aeres. Before the war w e plowed, now we sweep. When we began this ter rible rush, we raised a bale of cotton on three acres, now we raise it on four. New’ Discovery for Consump- al so and was entirely cured o_ don. di use of a few bottles. Since wnieli time he has used it in his family for di coughs ami colds W’ith best resuli-. This is the experience of thousacd- whose lives have been saved. by this wonderful discoverv. Trial Bottles free* at H. II. Hall’s Drug Store. Buildings of Pnmlel Stone and Pave ments of Lava—Mountains of Mnd— Pictnresquenoss of a Strange Land—In habitants and Tiy»ir Ways. As round as a soup plate, raised just a little iu tbe middle like all well-regulated •soup plates, with just a little suggestion of soup stiff in the plate out around the deepest places, and that is the valley of Mexico. The city is on that highest part, the center, where Cortez found the chil dren of die sun, iu their gorgeous flower garden. As wc descend the high wall to the level valley before us wa can easily trace the format tons of these great black mountains of half-hidden lands. We can easily see that there was once a volcano so terrific as to almost tear the earth asunder. You can see how the mountains were piled back and up one after the other, till, like some gran 1 edifice under the hand of a skillful builder, the site was complete. The buildings at tho little stations, very frequent, as we descend into the val ley, are all made of a cemented pumice stone, light as a cork almost, and these cemented particles seem to be precisely such little bits of pumice stone as you see lying in great drifts like snow about the edge of the bay of Naples any morning after Vesuvius has had a little “blow out.” But this pumice stone has laid so long on rhe ground, as said before, that it is cemented together and now forms a tolera bly substantial wall if put up under shelter. I can see from some of tho old buildings in the city that rams and storms wash it away in time. All the pavements, all the fences, all the more solid buildings along the approach to the city are made of a very poor sort of black lava; and this is very enduring. It reminds one of the brow r n tuffa of which the coliseum at Rome was built, only this lava in Mexico is black, and also it is more porus. Yes, we are surely descending into the mouth olla mighty volcano. THE WOXDEKS Of A ST.'IAXGE LAND. To the right as we* descend is a deep and ugly cut. Mountains of mud; an unsatis- faotory piece <*i engineering surely. This is the drain. Jt was tilled up once. And the city lay for years under water. It looks to be hundreds of feet deep. It must be many leagues in length. It seems as if a tunnel would be the only eifective means of secure operation here. Y'et it was an attempt to tunnel through this slippery mud that filled this “cloaca max- imo” and drowned the city. As we came down into the green levels, among the dikes, and drains and gardens, among the people, among the donkeys and cows and pigs and turkeys, the chickens the cackle and crow perpetually, the thou sands of bi«a*Tds. we sec more color, more picturescfrteness —Tf I may use the word - ii^HPfmur than a whole week’s ! ravel in states) or in Europe either, for that atter. For Mexico, I find, is more strange than all the strange lands I have yet seen. Tiie very atmosphere has a languor, a i.izy dignity about it that puts you at once it your ease and prepares you to rest. Tiie intge brown hills are resting in their man .les of imperial purple this early morning. A soft and dreamy haze hangs about the hollows, and clefts, and canyons, so that every outline is softened and toned to a sense of rest. There is never a sign of storm in heaven. Bluest of all blue skies; purple, as the sun wheels up, not a bar or scar, or sign of cloud. But away beyond the city, at the other side of the ancient volcano, the two still mountains stand ‘’acing each 'other; holding the purple world on their snowy shoulders; wearing the imperial purple of unrecorded em pires, and of kings that have no name or place in history. What a land for the painter! PEOPLE STANDING ON THE HOUSETOPS. We pass little square-built stone houses close up to the railroad; so close that yon may almost clasp hands with the -trangely-clad and most curious little peo ple standing on the housetops. They stand knee-deep amidst muskmelous, watermel ons, corn, peppers, tomatoes, and many other things taken from their gardens and placed here on the housetops to ripen in the sun. Y'ou see a thousand tilings here on every house that bring up Bible pictures, and tell you in your heart that all the stories of the Bible are truepiecause, in some sort you see their counterpart here among these simple people away out here on the north of Mexico City, where, until very lately, little lias been done to break up the natural tenor of their lives for centuries. The ’’t wo women grinding at a mill” you see here on the housetops in the sun at al most every mile-post. Why there should be two 1 do not ksow. But there are al ways two grinding at the little hand-mill. As to whether ‘‘one is taken and the other left,’’ in this Aztec land, as in the land of old, I do not know. But they are here, and as said before, a thousand things that are constantly bringing up Bible pictures familiar in yotir youth, when your father read the Bible by the fireside. They rise early and are on tiie housetop with tiie sun, these people here in the vast, rich valley. Away up yonder on the purple mountains' side I saw fires that mingled with the stars as the morning came. These are the camp fires of Indians that still prefer the tent, the camp, the open air. They come down at times in the valleys for hire, are good yoriters, entirely honest. But they love the sun as their ancestors loved it, and are up there to sa lute him in the morning. With the hills behind us, the picturesque people on the housetop on either side of us, as we glide on through the lanes of trees, the gardens, the donkeys,'the crowing cocks, the yelp ing <logs, the thousands of hairless and { hideously ugly dogs too lazy to yelp—in j tho midst of and through all these, under | the full burst of the soft morning sun we enter the gate! of Mexico City.— Joaquin *r in Chicago Times. El. Pasteur’s Intellectual Activity. “Did you find M. Pasteur an interesting model?’’ I asked M. Bounat. “Not very interesting lie replied. “He talks very little. He seems very gentle and simple. I imagine he adores las fam ily and his grandchildren. 1 think he is a Christian, and even that lie practices tiie observances of the church. But lie ap parently thinks of little except virus and rabbies, his intellectual activity, J should say, is limited to his chemical studies, whatever they may lie for the moment, whether inoculation or tiie manufacture of vinegar. He is not a talker. Indeed, iie is. perhaps, the least talkative of all the illustrious models I have had the The Famous Wines of St. Emilion. The wines of St. Emilion. which have enjoyed favor on royal tables for 1,500 years, are made from grapes raised on a succession of slopes or downs parallel to the Dordogne, at a distance of about two miles from the river. These downs run east and west for five miles and covet’ a breadth of about two, making some ten square miles, which before the advent of the phylloxera, produced 250,000 gallons of first-class, and double that quantity of oecond-class wines. The soil consists of clayey and gravelly sand, resting on clay or rock; and the slopes facing tho south and east give the best wmes. St. Emilion is a warm, generous wine, with a per fume of its 'own and plenty of body. on ripe it ought t-o have a fine color, which, though dark, ia brilliant and vel vety, and a suspicion of roughness which fust rouses tiie palate.—Bcpton Tram script;. was !o 'The Figaro, lips of one of tho feers ordered to perform the service; My Hew acquaintance seemed suddenly to have fallen into a reflective mood, a mood I attributed to too much cham pagne. “And do these torpedoes interest you very much,” he inquired, after a short si lence. “They are a mysterious and terrible weapon, and must interest everybody who -The Kiddle m Simple In modern times, n^agkians have made much use of mirrors. The celebrated •Sphinx” trick, or “Talking Head,” Which caused such a profound sensation when it was first bronght out a few years ago, owed its astonishing effect entirely to the aid of mirrors. Not even tbe marvel ous automatic chess player of Maezel is at all to be compared to the “Spihx,” which may justly be regarded as the most re markable illusion ever invented for the bewilderment of mankind. But while he possibility of hiding the person of a knows anything of naval affairs,” said I. ! dwarf within the box upon which tjiC “Well, I can tell you more about them ‘chess pla^r was seated might have oE than anybody eDe.” And without waiting for my answer he continued: “Y'ou have heard of the use that was made of tor- petloes during tiie Turco-Russian war? I was the oiTk-sr who blew up the Turkish monitor,” nc the same tinv? fixing his deep- blue eyes upon me, as if to read my thought at this confession. “The Turkish monitors were anchored iu the bend of tiie Danube early in May. Our fleet^ had been stationed below to watch It. We were hiddeu from each other, but on the 25th it was discovered curred to any one as a solution o* the mys tery. it was difficult for 1 the spectator to imagine how ap agency other than super natural could be connected with a head Which lay in a dish on a plain four-legged table in the middle of the stage, and talked and smoked a pipe with as much sang froid as if it hail belonged to a reasonable human being. As has been said, the table was placed in the stage, in full view. The bead lay in a dish on the table: It was evidently inde pendent of human agency, for the audi- that the Hisezi Rahman waa getting up ; ence could see under the table, and there steam preparatory to leaving her position, after which we kept a more careful watch upon her. Maneuvering was difficult there, with sandbanks on every side, and we were afraid of being taken by surprise. We expected an attack from the Turks, they being in mnelvstronger force nn4 bet ter armed than we, but did not .receive it, whereupon we resolved to test our torpe does upon their monitor. I was ordered to take command of tiie boat that was to undertake the expedition. At that time •torpedoes were not the arm which you know to-day. It was much more simple, but a great deal mox-e uncomfortable to handle. We had to place it under the ship .and light it. I started out in the darkness an hour after midnight, sur rounded by vast plains and in the silence of sleeping nature. My men I could rely upon; they were brave, resolute and full of hope. The enterprise, however, was to be a most difficult one, and as our com mander shook my hand at parting he com mended me to the grace of God. We must succeed, or die in the attempt. Should the Turks discover us there was no escape. “It was to be a trial which, if successful, would revolutionize the navy. I loved my profession and I would do my duty. The oars were enveloped iu felt; we made no noise, advancing with exceeding caution. At last the Turkish squadron appeared to view. The admiral’s ship, the monitor, lay in the front lino. Her enormous forni was Shadowed in the calm water before us. I chose her for my trial. We approached her without the noise of a rippling wave. The lights were few; that was careless in them! My men rowed silently on. Now Now we were within twenty yards and had not been observed. We gained the side of the vessel. As I placed the torpedo under her I was filled with delirious joy. I fell like shouting ‘Take care!’ The peril ous task had been performed! The sailors bent to their oars; with a few vigorous strokes we were out of harm’s way. But soon a sudden cry from the ship pierced the midnight air. The guards were madly running up and down £he decks shouting in Turkish ‘Torpedoes! torpedoes!” “The Turks had but a vague idea of what this fearful engine of death could do, but so paralyzed with alarm had the ofli cers become that our boat, not a ship’s cable distant, was allowed to glide out of range without a shot. When far enough away to avoid the danger of being en gulfed, I applied the electric current. An instant more and a volcanic explosion rent the air; an inhuman, despairing cry rose to heaven; the vessel parted, and ship, officers, and crew were swallowed up in the bellowing abyss! That, sir, was the first experiment made with the torpedo,” said the officer, passing his hand abstract edly across his brow. “It must have been a terrible scene to witness,” said I. “Were there many on board?” “How can I know that,” said he, rather impatiently, “Destruction and death are- inevitable in war; but not such destruc tion and death as that, you say? I say the same, sir. Good-night.—Exchange. “ Little Phil ” and HI* Family. On these snnny afternoons one sees the lieutenant general of the armv walking down Pennsylvania avenue with his four little girls. “Little Phil’s” hair is quite gray and his mustache is almost white, but his heart is young and he wears a red necktie. He also wears a sack-coat and a tall silk hat, but this combination, un pardonable in any one else, is pardoned like anything else he may do or may not do. “Little Phil” is as popular in Wash ington as lie was in Chicago, and as much liked in society as he was in the army. lie is not at the front so often in society, but he does not neglect his social duties, which are quite as pressing and responsible as his military duties His devotion to his family keeps him at home, though, whenever itis not abso lutely necessary that he should be abroad. Tins winter he has been at home more than ever because of his wife’s illness. But she is getting well now, and he is seen in public more frequently. It is a charming sight to see him walking out with his bright little girls, three of them in white caps, and one in a crimson cap, and all in bright colored gowns. He car ries his cane iu his coat pocket with a jaunty, military air, and looks like the brave bon sabre lie is.—Wash’ngton Cor. Philadelphia Record. inting. In sittings to finish to know the course of which gener- a portrait I my model, al- honor of pa tiie fifteen ally "suffice usually get most as intimately as if I were of the family. Pasteur is an exception. He loves his chemistry; he loves his family, and that is about all I have discxAcred from his talk.”—Paris Letter. To Bring a Horse to a Halt. It is a difficult tiling to suddenly stop a horse going at full speed. If you pull him up suddenly, yon are liable to throw him down, and perhaps break his neck. I find it best, and most practicable, particularly for my business, where horses arc at times run for nearly all they are worth, to train animals to move or step by command of mouth. I break my horses in from three to six months, and tiie animal T am driv ing now understands every word I say in this regard. It will walk, trot or gallop at my direction, and by simply calling to it, when running fall speed, I can stop in side of forty feet on tiie smoothest pave ment in the city. Y'ou would hear of fewer collisions if horses were trained in this manner, as they can bring themselves to a halt far easier than a driver can bring them by pulling on the lines.—Assistant Fire Chief Hester. King Tlieebaw as an Abstinent. Ex-King Theebaw of Burmah’s drink ing propensities seem to have been some what exaggerated. According to Tiie Times of India, an officer who accompa nied tho dethroned monarch to his place of exile declares that Theebaw never touches liquor, and that the officers on bo.ard tried to tempt him with every kind of drink, from gin to champagne, without effect.—Netv Orleans Times-Democrat. Virginia is still in trouble about her debt. Governor Lee asks m >ney, not coupons,io payment of the State taxes. In a proclamation issued Monday he j Before tiie uar there was no difference says; “Ifwesuppose that all pay with i between cash and credit prices for coupons, it is certain that for several ! farm supplies, now there is fifty per years to come coupons will absorb tiie cent. Then men were content to entire revenue of the State. Tin* I farm according to their ability. Now treasury will hi come bankrupt, the j they transcend their ability to keep courts will be closed, public schools ’ pace with the—tiie—the—weil with and all charitable institutions of Vir-i everybody else. There is one more ginia suspended and opt-,-::? ji»:;s of i he difference be; ween Then and now inai government cease for the war! of {’. e > I will mention as a lesuU ofUit pre-a ns means of subs; s* a nee. T-icre are 1 system. Then (bf-re the war) men 1 j$2tW,812of past due coupons o'listand-' had some mej.ey all through the year. 11ng and more tlmn $9:)9,bc7 worth an > now ti:ev never- have any. Yhev incontaot with a more civilized race ' nually maturing.” 1 ga* her their cotton, haul it .« nurke; Tho Perquisite of Cast-Off Clothes. Another perquisite is the cast-off clothes. The valets and the ladies’ maids arc en titled to these, and ai*e outraged if you make any contrary disposition of them. I once gtive a child about my house some old pocket handkerchiefs, at which my valet protested; and I heard the little one retort: “You get the shirts.” They often look smarter than those they serve, wear ing their wardrobes sometimes on finer figures. I have heard of holies who sold their satins to their maids, thongh never | of a gentleman who bargained in old riothes with his man. When lovely woman really stoops to anything unworthy, she : can descend to a point that leaves our sex j ! far behind.—Gen. Badeau’s Letter. I A Bird a* an Omen of Good. A bird known as the “silk-tailed ciiat- ter*'r” has lately reappeared in middle, f Germany after an absence of thirty years*. The peasants consider the arrival of the »<‘”-'s!er as an omen of good, portending fc.crehssd happiness and prosperity to the people.—Chicago Herald. An Interview with Walt Wliitnmn. But I soon found there was not so much to gather from tho aftermath of Walt Whitman. He, too, seemed going slowly the way 7 of the old apple tree. His brain went very leisurely, with only an occa sional Hash. He gave us one more image, I I thought a powerful one. I was alluding to the unknown, immeasurable public which seems to ingulf immense cheap edi tions of books. “Who buys, who ruads these tracts, tales, poems, sermons, which circulate in millions, and which we should never care to open?” “You forget,” said Walt, “there is a sea below the sea We are but on the surface.” It would have been difficult to hit upon a more graphic image or one more nicely to the point.— Rev. H. K. Haweis in Pall Mall Gazette. No Blundering: Executions in France. They have no blundering executions in The executioner is neither a hero nor an outcast, as ia other countries. The system of executions has been simplified as much as possible. The instrument is erected the night before ami tried on a dummy to see that it works well. Formerly the con demned was often tortured and torn and hacked, and he was always encouraged by having a good look at the gleaming knife as he approached the ghastly instrument. Now the knife is hidden, the victim is ia position in two or three seconds, a noise less touch of the kutum, and all is over.— Detroit Free Press. Telling the Truth in School. Elward Everett Hale, in a recent ad dress, made an interesting statement con cerning the Boston Latin school when he was one of its pupils, some fifty years ago. “I am quite sure,” he said, “that even cow ardly boys of the school would have been more afraid to tell a lie than of any conse quences of telling the truth.” He attributed this high tone not to ths discipline of the school, nor to the exam ple of the teachers, but to the right feel ing of the boys themselves. “It was a tone given by the scholars,” he remarks. “It was a tiling understood among them that a boy who would lie was a cowardly and mean fellow, and as such was to be po litely cut by his fellow pupils until he had learned better.” Boys are so susceptible to the public opinion of their school, Chat it requires rn#re courage than human nature ordin- Sftly possesses for a boy to do either wrong or right against it. Hcnra. the anxious solicitude of good teachers to get. the public opinion of th«ir schools eozmd and rational—Yctitn’j Companion. A New Banger to Pedestrians. Tf Edison has arranged matters so that telegraph, messages are able to jump through the air from point to point, the unwary pedestrian is placed in a precari ous position. What with slippery side walks. banana and orange peel, and the ; liability of getting knocked down by a tel egraphic message that is in a hurry get somewhere, ont-door life will be a bur- don.—Exchange. was nothing there. Beneath the table were visible the curtains at. the back of the stage, which was hung all around with dark cloth reaching to the floor. It is not surprising that this marvelous “talking head” should have excited the astonish ment of Europe, or that it should leave puzzled the most eminent scientific men to account for the mysterious phenomenon; and, yet, as it is the case with all really ef-. fective tricks, the riddle of the sphinx waa an exceedingly simple one. A man was actually under the table, with his head through a hole in the top, but his hotly was concealed by mirrors so adroitly disposed that they reflected the curtains at the sides of the stage, thus pro ducing an optical illusion by which the spectator was led to believe that he was Looking under the table and seeing the hanging at the back. Tiie deception is so perfect that it is almost impossible, even with a person who is acquainted with the nature of the illusion to realize that it is such. An effect somewhat similar is produced by a large plain mirror inclined away from the audience at an angle of 45 de grees. In tbe middle of the glass is a hole through which the performer passes his head, which seems to float in the air, the body of the man being concealed behind the mirror. Another famous trick is the “box” trick. A large box is raised from the floor in the middle of the stage, so that the spectators can see around under it. The performer gets into the box and closes it. When it is opened again he has disappeared, or a skeleton is found in its place. The man is concealed by mirrors swinging on hinges, which reflect the sides of the box, so that the audience think it is empty.—Ex change. DE?) op Comp.-I Co*’Aim A, S. C., April ] I CERTIFY that MR- A. of Aiken, 8. C., HIBERNIA and FAC TRADERS Insurance Coinj corporated by tbe State of has complied with the reqt._ the Act trf the General Asset titled “An Act to regulate lh„ cies of Insurance Companies, corporated in the State of Soi olina;” and I hereby license 1 MR. A. £. FORD. Agent afot take risks and transact all bt Insurance iu this State, iu the of Aiken, lor and iu behalf' Companies. ?! W. E. STONI Comptroller*G« April 6th, 1886-lt. Georgia Home Insurance Ooi Always Prompt, Liberal and Ho ble iu Their Adjustment of f and Payments. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Office ofComp.-Generai Columbia, S. C., April 1st, I CERTIFY that SIBERIA* Aiken, Agent xxf-the GJSOl HOMEXXKTRANCE CO., inc rated^hy the State of Geor_ complied with the requisitions o’ Act of the General Assembly, tied “An Act to regulate the." _ of Insurance Companies not inc rated iff the State of South Carol! and I hereby license the said Su Ott, Agent aforesaid, to take and transact all business of Insai in tills State, in the County of A1 for and in behalf of said Compati W. E. STONEY,] Com pt roller-Genei Expires March 31st,1887-lt. The Home Insuran^i£Q. of N. With Her 7,618,110 Dollars Assets,| Always at the Front for Squai and Honorable Dealing and Promptness in Paying Losses. Grave* Bug and Tombstone* Erected. Some citizens of New Haven, with worthy forethought, have had their graves dug and tombstones erected. Tiie graves are stoned up and sealed over, to protect them from the w eat Ivor, and the stories are all lettered except the date of death.— Chicago Journal. Citric Acid from the Cranberry. Large quantities of citric acid have been extracted from tiie fruit 6f cranberry, bu{ it is not probable that it will bp able to compete commercially with the lemon, which now furnishes the bulk of the sup ply.—Frank Leslie’s. First Advocate of'Woman SufJVajre. Hon. William D. Kelley, of PennsyL vania, thinks he was the first public man in America to make a speech for woman suffrage. It was forty-live years ago, and he has firmly believed in the cause ever since. k’fitioii for Charter. THIRTY DAY'8 afterdate the un dersigned will apply to W. M. Jordan, Clerk of the Court for Aiken County, for a Charter of Incorpora tion for themselves and successors, mder the name and style of “Soho-( field Normal and Industrial School,” >f Aiken, S. C., in accordance with the requirements of.the Statutes of South Carolina. William McGeoroe, Jas. N. Hayne, Wm. Loyd Garrison, Martha Schofield, I. a. Givens, Jno. G. Phillips. March 16th, 1880-4t. the SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR —AND DIXIE FAEMEK. 44th YEAH- EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT^ Office of Comp.-Genki Columbia, S. C., April lj I CERTIFY that 8IBJ Aiken, Agent of tl INSURANCE CO., H the State of New YorkJI with the requisitions of' General Assembly, enti! to regulate the A^ench Companies not ineorpol Slate of South Carolina,”' by license tbe said SibeI Agent aforesaid, to taka risks ati< transact all business of Insurance, this State, in the Countv of Aiken, and in behalf of said Company. u W. E. STONEY, Comptroller-General. Expires March 31st. 1887-11. ASSIGNEE’S SALE! | O N SATURDAY next, the 101b ol April, at eleven A. M., at tM store next to W. J. Platt & Co.’s Drw^ Store.I will commence to sell at pubjB auction tiie accounts,stock andftxtuifl of Mrs. Charles Betts, said stock con* sisting of Dry Goods, Notions, Mill! uery. Show Cases, 1 Sewing Machine, 1 Heating Stove, &e., r| 'hu -salq will contihiH from day t» day com mencing at eieyen A. M., until the en-’ tire stock is sold. HENRY BUSCH, April 6th, 1386-lt Assignee. The Great Farm, Industrial anti Stock Periodical of the South. A BARGAIN IN LAND A Plantation of 1000 Acres about 10 miles fr One-hundred Acres of tom Land, ’ excellent-' ! atcr Powt On newl It embraces in Us constituency the intelligent, progressive and substan tially successful farmers of this sec tion, and ns an advertising medium for Merchant, Manufacturer, Stock Raiser and Professional Man, is ab- solutely unequalled. Space judiciously employed in its •olunms is al ways remunerative. Advertisements, per line 30 Subscription, per annum $1.50 Address, CULTIVATOR HUB. CO., P. O. Drawer 8. ATLANTA, GA. The Franklin Publishing House Is the Leading Book and Job Printing, Blank Book and Electrotyping House in the South’. CONSULT US BEFORE PLACING ORPEBS JAS. P. HARRISON & CO., 32 S' 34 Alabama St., ATLANTA, GA.. Geo. W. Harrison, Sec’y & Treas’r. forrfea from, Aiken' jdmerlov B "Watci for manufacturing purposes, projected line of railroad. Terms liberal—For further paticu- lara apply at store of J. D. TAYLOR, Curve Street, Aiken, S. C.- Feb. 23,1886.—6m. FINE TENNESSEE BEEP A HPECIALTY- A S I have deterniine4 lo make tf XY. Finest Tennessee Beef a Spe cialty of my business; persons desir ing tiie best of Beef will do well to re member me. I will also keep con stantly on hand Sausages of my own manufacture, whose excellent quality will be their best recommendation. B. S. SOMMER, Laurens Street, - - Aiken, S. C. Dec. 1, 1885. NOTICE. I will fu: that I have my old stand on Curve Wtr of Croft’s block. I will be ha eetein n will announce to the public at large resumed business at rear . re ” ceive my old customers and the pa tronage of tbe public at large. I am well known to the public of Aiken, Barnwell and Edgefield counties. The cleaning and trimming of ladies hair and Misses a specialty. Shampooing is guaranteed without cold. Hair oil and tonic for sale. Very respectfully, JOHN R. BOYCE. For Kale. c HEAP FOR CASH, A FIRST rate Milch Cow. Ai»i*ly at this Office. March 30, 1886-tf SPHATE COMPANY — manufacturers of —- EDI8TO AMMOXIATED FERTILIZER. (2J£ per cent. Ammonia.) EDLSTO AMMOXIATED DISSOLVED BONE. (2 per cent. Ammoniated.) EDISTO AMMOXIATED ACID PHOSPHATE. 1„G per cent. Ammonia.) • * t EDISTO ACID PHOSPHATE. EDISTO ACIDULATED ROCK OR DISSOLVED BONE. •CT. 33. IE. SXjOJ^IfcT, * Treasurer and General Agent, CHARLESTON, S. C. T. V. RHODES ^S^ccesaor to RHODES & SCOTT.) Wholesale and Retail Groper, 546 Broad 8'reef, - - - Augnsta, Ga. I have just received a large and well selected Stock of Choice FimUy Gro- •ern-H ,which I am offering at the very lowest figures. ’ • <; My Specialty is Fancy Melon Seed. I have been particular Ip sorting from the finest Richmond County Melons a large lot of Choice Seed and offer ameat a Low Figure. I also handle in large quantities Garden Seeds from 'lirani Sibley Co. :>> d D M. Ferry & Co. My stock of Seed Potatoes are the finest ever brought South. To the trade l sell close. Xoi parci* Flour. High Patent Guaranteed to Satisfy the most Fastidious. 1 keep tile Best Selected Stock of Fishing Tackles in Augusta. T V RHODES. m * Smt&<