The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, April 13, 1886, Image 2
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’i8 Ailffl RECORDER.
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B. K. DKAYTON. Brtitor.
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AIKEN. S C.. APRIL 13.
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* 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.
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A Plantation of 1000 Acres
about 10 miles fr
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!
atcr Powt
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It embraces in Us constituency the
intelligent, progressive and substan
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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.,
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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.,
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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 —-
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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.
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