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VOL. III, MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 1889. NO, 32 TALMAGE IN OHIO. '3e Preaches at the Lakeside A9' sembly Grounds. c ie Ma::yrs of Every-day Life. the Heroes and'Heroines of Heaven-A Scroll of Hercer the World Ha . Never Recognised. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached to an immense throng at Lakeside, 0., last Sun day. The subject of his sermon was: "The Martyrs of Every-Day Life," and he chose ashis text-II. Timothy, ii., 3-"Thou, there 'fore. endure hardness.". Dr. Talmage said: Historians are not slow to acknowledge the merits of great military chieftains. We have the full-length portraits of the Crom-. wells, the Washingtons, the Napoleons, and the Wellingtons of the world. History Is , uman load. The gods of ambition do not drink from'bowls made oct of silver, or gold, orprecigus stones, but out of the bleached skulls of the fallen. ButI am now to unroll before you a scroll of heroes that the world has never aeknowledged-those who faced no guns, blew no bugle blast, conquered no cities, chained no captives to their chariot wheels-and yet, in the great day of eiernity, will stand higher than those whose names startled the nations; and seraph, and rapt spirit, and archangel will tell their deeds to a listening universe. I mean the heroes of common, every-day life. In this roll, In the first place, I find all the heroes of the sick room. When Satan had failed to overcome Job he said to God: "Put forth thy hand and touch- his bones and his lesh, and he will curse Thee to Thy face." Satan had found out what we have all found out,-that sickness is the greatest test 'of one's character. A man who can stand that can stand any thing. To be shut in a room as though it were a bastile. To be so nerv ous you can not endure the tap of a child's foot. To have hixuriant fruit, which tempts the appetite of the robust and healthy, excite our loathing and disgust when it first ap pears on the platter. To have the rapier of pain strike through the side, or across the temples,like a razor, or to put the foot into avise, or throw the whole body into a blaze of fever. Yet there have been men and women, but more women than men, who have cheerfully endured this hardness. Through years of exhausting rheumatism and excruciating neuralgiasthey havs gone, and through bodily distressess that rasped thenerves, and tore the muscles, and paled the cheeks and stooped the shoulders. By the dim light of the sickroomtaperthey saw on their wall the picture of that land where 'the inhabitants are never sick. Through the dead ilence of the night they heard the chorus of the angels. The cancer ate away her life from week to.week and day to day, and she became weaker and weaker, and :every "good night" was feebler than the "good night" before-yet never sad. The children looked up Into her face and saw snuering transformed into a heavenly :mila- Tae who- .userd on the battle 'eld, amid shot and shell, were not so much heroes and heroines as those 'who, in the field hospital and in the asylum, 'bad fevers which no ice could cool and no ,surgery cure. No shout of a comrade to cheer them, but numbness, and aching, and homasaeas-yet willing to suffer, conii dentin God, hopeful-of Heaven. Heroes of Vheumatism. Heroes of neuralgia. Heroes ef.spinal complaint. Heroes of sick head ache. Heroes of life-long invalidism. He Wes and heroines. They shall reign for per and ever. - Hark! I catch just one note of the eternal anthem: "There shall t,- ne more pain." 3less God for that. In their roll I also find the heroes of toil who do their work uncomplainingly. It is comparatively easy to lead a regiment into battle when you know that the whole nation willapplaud the victory; It is comparatively easy to doctor the sick when you know that your skill will be appreciated by a large oompany of friends and relatives;- it is com --paratively easy to addresan audience when nate gleaming eyes and the flushed cheeks you know tat youresentlmentsarcadopted; but to de sewing where you expect that the employer will come and thrust his thumb throughthe werktoshowhowimperfectitis, ortohavethe whole garment thrown back on yeaobe doneiovei- again; to build a wall ad'knthere will be~no one to say you did it *ell, but only.a swearing employer howling across the seaffold; to work until your eyes are dim and your back aches, and your heart faint,..and to know that if you -stop before night your children will starve. M~hthe sword has not slain so many as the neadle The great battle-fields of our last 'war were not Gettysburg and Shiloh and goth Mountain. The great battle-fields of te last war werein the arsenals, and in the' shops and In the attics, where women made armuyjackets for asxpence. They toiled on untll they died. They had no funeral enlo gium, but, in the name of my God, this day, I enron their names among those-of whom te world is not worthy. Heroes of the needle. Heroes of the sewing machine: Heroes of the attic. Heroes of the cellar. Selroes and heroines. Bless God for them. Indhis roll I also find-the heroes who have unomplainingly endured domestic injus -Moes There are men who for their toil and nmo,3 -- --+ a +ir homes Exhausting application to business gens them a livelihood, butian unfrugal wife scat ters it, He is fretted at from the moment he enters the door until he comes out of It. Theezasperation of businesslifeaugmented by the exasperations of domestic life. Such men are laughed at, but they have a heart. breaking trouble, and they would have long ago gone into appalling dissipations but for the grace of God.. Society to-day is strewn wlithe wrecks of men, who, undei- the neraeast storm of domestic infelicity have been driven en the rocks. There are tens - ef thousands of drunkards In this country to-day, made such by their wives. That is not poetry. That is prose. But the wrong is generally In the opposite direction. You would not have to go far to find a wife whose life is a perpetual martyrdom. Something heavier than a stroke of the fist; unkind words, staggerings home at midnight, and constant maltreatment which have left her only a wreck of what she was on that day wheni in the midst of a brilliant assemblage the vows were taken; and full organ played the wed -dIng march, and the carriage rolled away *with the benediction of the people. What *was the burning of Latimei- and Ridley at the stake compared to this? Those men soon became unconscious in the fire, but :here is a fifty years' martyrdom, a fifty years' putting to deat%, yet uncomplaining. No bitter words when the rollicking coin :panions at two o'clock in the morning pitch ;the husband dead drunk into the front entry. IN. bitter words when wiping from the :swollen brow the blood struck out in a mid :night carousal. Bendi'ng over the battered and bruised form of him, who when he took her fi-om her father's home. -promised love, and kindness, and protection. yet nothing but sympatby, and prayers, and forgiveness beforethey are asked for. No bitter words when the family Bible goes for rum, and'the pawnbroker's shop gets the last decent dress. Some day desiring to evoke the story of her sorrows, you say: "Well, how are you getting along now?" -.ns~e tremblinnice. and aI ing her qmvermgap. she s t "PreZt well, I thank you, pretty well." She never will tell you. In the deliriun' of her last sickness she may tell all the terets of her lifetime, but she will not tell that. Not until the books of eternity are opened on the thrones of judgment will ever be known what she has suf fered. 0, ye who are twisting a gariand _or the victor, put it on that pale. brow! When she is dead the neighb rs will beg linen to make her a shroud, and she will be carried out in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her years, for she had lived a thousand years of trial and anguish. The gamblers and swind'ers who destroyed her husband will not come to her funeral. One carriage to carry the orphans and the two Christian women who presided over the obsequies. But there is a flash, and the opening of a celestial door, arid a shout: "Lift up your head, ye everlasting gate. and let her come in!" And Christ will step forth andi say: "Come in! me in Heaven." What is the highest throne in Heavent You say: "The throne of the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb." No doubt about it. What is the next highest throne in Heaven? While I speak, it seems to me that it will, be the throne of the drunkard's wife, if she with cheerful pa tience endured all her earthly torture. He roes and heroines. I find also in this roll the heroes of Chris tian charity. We all admire the George Peabodys and the James Lenoxes of the earth who give tens and hundreds of thou sands of dollars to good objects. But I am speaking this morning of those who, out of their pinched poverty, help others-of sach men as those Christian' missionaries at. the West, who are living on 50 a year that they may proclaim Christ to the people, one of them. writing to the secretary in New York, saying: "I thank you for that S5. Until yesterday we have had no meat in our house for three months. We have suffered terribly. My children have no shoes this winter." And of those people who have only a half loaf of bread, but give a piece of it to others who are hun grier; and of those who have only a scut tle of coal, but help others to fuel; and r. those who have only a dollar in their pockets, and give twenty-five cents to some body else; and of'that father who wehrs a shabby coat, and of that mother who wears a faded dress, that t'heir children may be well appareled. You call them paupers, or ragamuffins, or emigrants. I call them heroes and heroines. You and I may not know where they live, or what their name is. God knows, and they have more angels hovering over them than you t..d I have, and they will have a higher seat in Heaven. They may have only a cup of cold water to give a poor traveler, or may have only picked a splinter frc,- under the nail of a child's finger, or ha- : put only two mites into the treasury, but the Lord knows them. Considering what they had, they did more than we had ever done, and their faded dress will become a white robe, and tue small room will be an eternal mansion. and the old hat will be a coronet of victory, and all the applause of earth, and all the shouting of heaven will be drowned out ?vhen God rises up to give His reward to those humble workers in His kingdom, and to say to them: "Well done,' good and faithful servant." You have all seen or heard of the ruin of Melrose Abbey. I sup pose in some respects it is the most exquisite ruin on earth. And yet, looking at it I was not so impressed-you may set it down to bad taste-but I was not so. deeply stirred as I was at a tombstone at the foot of that abbey-the tombstone placed by Walter Scott over the grave of an old man who had served him for a good many years in his house-the inscription most significant. and I defy any man to stand there and read it without tears coming into his eyes-the ep itaph: "Well done. good and faithful serv ant." Oh! when car work is over, will it be found that because of any thing we have done for God, or the church, or suffering humanity, that such an inscription is appro. priate for us? God grant it. Who are those who were bravest and de served the grestest monument-Lord Clay erhouse and his burly soldiers, or John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, and his wife? Mr. Atkins, the persecuted minister of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was secreted by ohn Brown and his wife, and Claverhouse rode up one day with his armed men, and shouted in front of the house. John Brown's little girl came out. He said to her: "Well, miss, is Mr. Atkins here?" She made nd answer, for she could not betray the minis ter of the gospel. "Ha!" Claverhouse said, "then you are- a chip of the old block, are you? I have something in - my pocket for ypu. It is a nosegay. Some people call it a thumbscrew, but I call it a nosegay." And he got off his horse, and he put it on the little girl's hand, and began to turn it until the bones cracked, and she cried. He said: "Don't cry, don't cry; this isn't a thumb screw; this is a nosegay." And they heard the cbild's cry, and the father and the mother came out and Claverhoue said, "Ha! It seems that you three have laid your holy heads together, determined to die like all the rest of your hypocritical, canting, sniveling crew; rather than give. -up good Mr. Atkins, you would die. I have a tele soope with me that will improve your vion" and he pulled out a pistol. "New," he said, "you old pragmatical, lest you should ad for the honor and safety ofthe king, to say nothing of the glory of God and the goodef our souls, I will proced sirnply and in the neatest and most expeditic s style p)os sible to blow your brains out." John Brown fellupon his knees a?nd began togray. "Ah !" said Claverhouse, "look out, if you are going to pray; steer clear of the king, the council, and Richard Cameron." "OQ Lord," said John Brown, "since it seems to he Thy will that I should leave this world for a world where I can love Thee better and serve Thee more, I put this poor, widow woman and these helpless, fatherless, chil dren into Thy hang. We have been to gether in peace a goou while, but now we must look forth to a better meeting in Heaven, and as for these poor creatures, blindfolded and infatuated, that stand be fore me, convert them before it be too late, and may they who have sat in -judgment in this lonely place on this blessed morning upon me, a poor, defenseless fellow creat ure-may they, in the last judgment find that mercy which they have refused me, Thy most unworthy but faithful servant. Amen." He rose up and said. "Isabel, the hour has come of which I spoke to you on the morning whten I piroposed hand and heart to you; and are you willing now, for the love of God, to let me die?" She put her arms around him and said: "The Lord gave, and the Lord bath tsken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord!" "Stop sniveling," said Claverlhouse. "I have had enough of it. Soldiers, do your work. .Take aim! Fire I" and the head of John Brown was scattered on t'.e ground. While the wife was gathering up in -her apron the fragments of her husband's head-gather ing them up for burial-Claverhouse loofred into her face and said: "Now, my good woman, how do you feel now about your bonnie man?" "0," .she said. "I always thought weel of him; he has been very good to me; I had no reason for thinking any thing but weel of him, and I think better of him now." Oh, what a grand thing itI n asa th tqtot sa God piak~ In is heroes and heroines. Who are those paupers of etcrnity trudging off from the gates of leaven? Who are they The Lord Claverhuses and the Herods and those who had scepters, and crowns, and thrones, but they lived for their own agrandize ient, and they broke the heart of nations. Heroes of earth, but paupers in eternity. I beat the drums of thoir eternal despair. Woe! woel woe' But there is a great excitement in heaven. Why those long processions? Why the booming of that great bell in the tower? It is coronation day in heaven. Who are those rising on the thrones, with crowns of eterual royahy l They must have been gre :t people on the earth. world renowned people. No. They taught in a ragged schv l. Taurht in a ragged school! Is that all, That is all. Who are those souls w y m'.trs of eternal dominion? Why, they ; tie children who waited on invalid mothers. That all? That is all. She was called "Little Mary" on earth. She is an em res n hea great multitude on te lighest :rones of l:ec:en Who are they' Why they fed the hungry, they clothed the naked, t':ey healed the sick, they com forted the heartbroken. They never found any rest until they put their head down on the pillow of the aFpulcher. God watched them. God laughed defiance at the enemies who put their heels hard down on t'hese, His dear children; and one dayt The Lord struck His hand so hard on His thigh that the omnipo tent sword rattled in the buckler, as Ho said: "I am their God, and no weapon formed against them shall prosper." What harm can the world do you when the Lord Almighty, with unsheathed sword, fights foryou. -I preach this sermon for comfort. Go home to the place just where God has put you, to play the hero or the heroine. Do not envy any man his money, or his applause, or his social position. Do not envy any woman her wardrobe, or her exquisite ap pearance. Be the hero or the heroine. If there be no flour in the-house, and you do not know where your children are to get bread, listen, and you will hear some thing tapping against the window pane. Go to the window and you will find it is the beak of a raven, and open the win dow and there will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah. Do you think that the God who grows the cotton in the South will let you freeze for lack of clothes? Do you think that God who allowed the disciples on Sun day morning to go into the grain-field, and then take thie grain and rub it in their hands and eat-do you think God will let you starve? Did you ever' hear the experience of that old man: "I have been young, and now I am old, yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread?" Get up out of your discouragement. 01 troubled soul, O! sewing woman, .0.! man kicked and cuffed by unjust employers, 0! ye who are hard beset in the battle of life and know not which way to turn, 0! you bereft one, 0! you sick one with complaints you have told to no one, come and get the comfort of this subject. Listen to our great Captain's cheer: "To him that overcometh will I give to eat o2 the fruit of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of WESTERN GROWTH. Some Lively Towns In What Was Once the Great a.merlcan Desert. There are so many of these in the desert that it is almost a pity to single out a few for mention: but out of many of perhaps equal merit let us glance at Hastings, Neb., a town fifteen years old, with a population of ifteen thousand intelligent, enterprising and prosperous people, possessed of all of the cohveniences of city life, such as gas and electric light, water-works, street cars and a free mail delivery; its streets lined with blocks of handsome brick structures; a center of heavy financial and industrial interests; its homes representing all that is modern and progressive in. architecture. How surprised one would be, who has not seen this country for five years,' at the towns numbered by the score in Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska Which rival in every respect the most , prosperous towns in New York an'd New England! Among the younger cities there is Mitohel, ). T., less than seven years old (four thousand inhabitants), containing everal churches, fine schools, refined soci ety, substantial banks, large packing inter ests-enough, in a word, to make life pleas -.t socially and prosperous financially.: 'Or look at McCook, Neb., one of the newest and farthest west of all desert towns--au infant of five years. for there was nothing but a sod house five years ago where the town of three thousand peeplc is now; nearly five hundred miles wvest of the 3iissouri river, in the midst of a fertile farming country, pos sessing every thing necessaryv in the line of churches, schools and social advantages to make any one content with a habitation in the desert, and whose founders had conif dence enough in its future to supply it with a system of water-works equal in extent to that of Lincoln. These are merely types; there are dozens of such towns, not of the mushroom order of mining towns or centers of speculative activity.. They are the. legitimate product of a rich agricultural region, and are in no sense ephemeral. They are here to stay: and in looking at them, and considering what they represent, the conviction forces itself irresistably ou one that the best advice ever offered to a young American was con taed in the words-which have been bn died about in many a joke, but are as full of wisdom to-lay as when Horace Greeley utored t hem --" o West. youn n man-go HOW TO COOK WATER. The Secrets of Hard and soft Water and Their Aid to Cooking.' "Water is one of the secrets of cooking." sententiously said a well-known chef up town to a repiorter. "I suppo e you mean that all food in its raw state should be washed!" "Nothing of the kind,'' replied the art ist. "A few cooks understand the many effects produced by hard and soft wvater in cooking vegetables and meat. if pens and beans, for instance, are cooked in hard water, centaning lime and gypsum, they will not boi! tender, because these sub stances have a tendency: to harden vege table caseine. Now. many vegetables, as onions, boil nearly tasteless in soft water, because all the flavor is boiled out. The addition of salt often checks this, us in the case of onions. eauising the vegetables to retain their peculiair fiavoring principles, besides such nutritious matter as might be lost in the soft water. Scftne of the finest dishes in the world are ruined by the use of hard water when soft is re quired. It. is:a scien ce thnat can besst be learned by actual experience in the capacityv of assistant chef. It requires a long ap prenteship and a natural aptitude to be come a great cook and to understand water. Now to extract the juice of meat to make a a broth or soup, soft water, unsalted and cold at first, is the best., for it much more readily penetrates the tissue, But for boil ing, wihere the juices should be retained, ard water or soft water salted is prefera ble, and the meat should be put in while the water is boiling, so as to close up the pores at once. I have two assistants, and once a week I lecture themi on the proper use of hard and soft wvater in cooking certain dishes. In answer to your facetious ques tion above I will state that not only raw food should be clean, but that water goes a long way in keeping a first-class cuisine in a healthy sanitary condition."-~. . Xsul A LIST OF THE NEW LAWS. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE AP PROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. The Net Result of the Becent Session of the General Assembly set Forth in Suc cinct Form. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend Sections 2,236 and 2,237 of the General Statutesin relation to juries," approved 24th December, 1886. Act to amend the charter of the Pied mont Manufacturing Company by in creasing the capital stock thereof and ex tending the term of saidcharter. Act to repeal an Act entitled "Au Act to regulate traffic in seed cotton in the counties of Abbeville, Aiken, Sumter, York, Edgefield, Berkeley, Kershaw, Richland).Orang-burg, Chleston, Ches ter and Marion," so far as the same re lates to Aiken, Charleston and Berkeley counties. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Mount Pleasant and Seaview City Railroad Company," ap proved December 24, 1885. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to charter the Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad Company, approved December 24, 1887. . Act to ratify and confirm the name of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company. Act to make affidavits and proofs of claims made before notaries public in other States as effectual as if made be fore commissioners of deeds. Act in relation to drawing empaneling and term of service of jurors in Chester County. Act to provide for the ascertainment and payment of the valid past school in debtedness of the county of Georgetown and to authorize the levy and colection of a special tax therefor. Act to amend Section 1,923 of the General Statutes relating to the oaths to be taken by appraisers. Act to abolish the office of superin tendent of highways. Act to amend an Act entitled'"An Act to provide for transporting persons con victed to the. Penitentiary by the Peni tentiary guard," approved December 22, 1b86. Act to amend Section 5 of an Act en titled "An Act to incorporate the Berke ley County Land and Stock Company." Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to charter the town of Clover," approved December 24, 18b7. Act to provide for the establishment of a new school district in Chesterfield County, and to authorize the levy and collection of local tax therein. Act to change the name of the town of Black's, in York County, to that of Blacksburg, and to amend the charter of Black's by striking out Section 10 there of and inserting another section in lieu thereof. Joint resoinltion autiahing and re quiring the county.commissions of Wil lamsburg County to reined to County Treasurer John M. Cooper funds over paid by him. Act to refund to the taxpayers moneys pard by them under the levy of 1; mills w DeKaib township, Karshaw County, for railroad purposes. Act to make appropriations for the per diem, mileage and stationary certifi cates of the members of the General Assembly, the salariesof the subordinate otticers and employees thereof and for other purposes herein named. . Act to amend paragraph 1 of Section 997 of the General btatutes, so as to change the time of meeting of the Slate board of examiners. Act to amend the law in reference to anexpended school funds remaining on hand at the end of any tiscal year. Act to incorporate she town of Ker shaw. Act to punish malicdous interference with the police alarm and signal service of any city or other manicipal corpora tion. Act to amend Section 1 of an Act en titled "'An Act to incorporate the town of Midway, mn the county of Barnwell," approved December 26, 1885. Act to incorporate the Fairfield Say ings and Loan Association, and to ratify and validate all the Acts of an association known by that name heretofore chartered by the Secretary of Svite. Act to charter the Winsboro Cotton Mils Act to create the school district of Yorkville. in York County, and enable it to organize a system of free schools, and to levy a tax in support of the same, and to purchase and hold property. Act to appropriate the funds received rom the Um nted States Governmentfr rent of and damage to the South Caroli na Military Academy to certamn uses. Joint resolution to authorize and re quire the cty commissioners of Abbx wies County to drsa.w .their warrants mn lavor of J. M. Mattison, Joel W. Lites, and William D. Mann, and to anthorize and require the county treasurer of said county to pay the same., otoso Act to exempt certami orn nso Georgetown County from the provisions of chapter 57, of. the General Statutes, relating to the general stock law and fencing stock. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend Section 1,694 of the General Statutes re iatlng to game bir ds," approved Decem er 24, 1887. - Act to proteci primary elections and conventions of political parties and to punish frauds connected therewith. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act tamend a!I Act entitled an Act to pro vide a general railroad law for the man agement and regulation of railroads in this State, and for the appointment of raroad commissioner, and to prescribe iis yo wers and duties," approved Febru ary 9, 18b2, said Act being incorporated wih and known as Chapter 40 of the General Statutes of this State, 1882, and therein entitled "Of railroad corpora tions general railroad law." Act to establish a new judicial and de tion county irom portiousof Darlington,~ Marion, Wiliamsburg and Clarendon edunies, to be known as Florence County, and to adjust the representation of said counties in the General Assem bly. Act to provide for the payment of township bondsaissued in aid of roilroads in this State. Act to amend the charter of Fort Mill. Act incorporate the Orangeburg County Land Army Association. Act to p~rvid +m-tho issning of li. tenses to sell spirituous liquors, ale, malt and wine ig the County of Colle ton. Act to provide for the protection of fields and crops in those counties and parts of counties where the stock law is not of force. Act to provide for salaries to be paid to the Probate Judge, coroner and clerk of Court of Georgetown County. Act to amend Section 3 of an Act en titled "An Act to fix the compensation of the clerk of the board of county com misioners of Barnwell County." Act to regulate the liability of and for the protection of keepers of hotels. inns and boarding houses. Act to amend Section 1,181 of the General Statutes relating to drainage in certain counties, by adding thereto a section to be known as Section 1,181. A. Act to provide a more efficient system of working the public roads in Laurens, Anderson, Edgefield Lexington, Marl boro, Richland, Abbeville and Newberry counties. Act to incorporate the town of Mary ville, in Berkeley County. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 1,183 of the General Statutes relating to the drainage of cer tain counties in this State," approved December 21, 1882. Act to provide for a Master in Beaufort County, and to authorize the commssion ers to furnish him an office, books and furniture, and to provide for an office, books and furniture for the Master of Colleton County. Act to provide for more efficient drain age in Laurens County. Act for the establishment of- a new school district in the county of Edge field, to be known as the Centennial school district, and authorize the ,levy and collection of a local tax therein. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to recharter the town of Sumter," ap proved December 24, 1883. Joint resolution to authorize and re quire the schoolcommissioners of Hamp ton county to pay to Mrs. M. S. Geothe $60 for services as a teacher. Act to amend Section 1,709, of Chap ter. LII., Title XIII., of the General Statutes, relating to the protection of fish, game, sheep and other animals. Act to amend Section 2,258, General Statutes, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 2,258 of the General Statutes, relating to term of service of jurors," to as to exclude the county of Hampton .from the operation thereof, and to includit the counties of Richland, Orangeburg and York in the provisions of said Section, approved De cember 22, 1883. Act to incorporate the town of B-shop ville, in Sumter County. Act for the relief of taxpayers from payment of taxes levied to pay interest on township bonds, issued in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail road Company, by the townships of Ca tawba, York, Ebernezer, Cherokee and Broad River, in the county ci York, and Mower's township, in Newberry County. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment cf a new school district in York county, and to authorize the levy and collection of a local tax therein," approved December 23, 1887. Act to authorize the county commis sioners of Greenville, Pickens, Kershaw, Berkeley, Anderson, York, Sumter and Georgetown counties to borrow money to pay. ordinary county expenses, jurors' and witnesses' certificates and teachers' claims and past due claims against said counties, including interest on railroad bonds in Kershaw county. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to renew and amend the charter of the town of Blackville," approved February 24, 1874. Act to amend an Act to cede to Fergu' s n H. Barber and others all the right, title and interest of Stite in certamn parts of the- Rocky Mount Canal, in Chester county, approved December 24, 1887. Act to create a school district of the portion of Barnwell county lying within th'a corporation limits of the town of. Wiliston. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to alter and amend the charter of the town of Laurens," approved December 24, 1886, as to the corporate limits of the same. Act to incorporate the Rock Hill Real Estate and Loan Company. Joint resolution to require the school trustees of Diatrict No. 5, in Chester county, to issue a pay certificate to 83. N. Tidwell for $10, and the counry school commissioner to approve the same, and the county treasurer to pay the same out of the fund apportioned to the districtfor the fiscal year commenc ing November 1, 1888.. Act to incorporate the Winnsboro and Fish Dam Railroad Company. Act to authorize the town council of Beaufort to mortgage, pledg or encum ber any real estate held and owned by them.. Act to incorporate the town of St. Matthew's, in Orangeburg county. Act to amend the chartsr of the town of Blackstock.* Act to authorize the town council of Baruwell to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing public buildings and boring an Artesian well in said town and to provide for the interest accruing thereon. Joint resolution to authorize and di rect the Comptroller General to draw his warrant on he State Treasurer in favor of Ann D). Leitner, widow of W. Z. Leit nr, late Secretary of State, for $t07.29), a~d to authorize and direct the State Treasurer to pay the same. Act to-incorporate the town of Tirzah, in York County. Act to create a new school district in Edgefield county, to be known~ as h Hlley echool district, !~ t authorize the levy and collection :. 10loca ta:z therein. Act to incorporate the People's Build ing and Loan Association of Samter.. -A-.t to define the law of notice e~s toi strumente not recoi-ded acoording to law. Act to provide for the paymentl of the past indebtedness of -the county of Georgetown. Act to incorporate the Sumter Insti tute. Act to amend paragraph 1 of S ction 997, of the General Statu:es, so as to change the time of meeting of the State board of examiners. Act to make appriations to meet the oriay expenses of the State govern ment for the fiscal year commencing Noember-1. 1888. Act to prohibit non-residents from hunting, ducking, fishing and gathering oysters and terrapins within the limits of the counties of Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, Colleton and Berkeley, except upon certain conditions. Act to incorporate the Chester Street Railway Company. Act to amend an Act entled."An Act to provide for relief of certain soldiers, sailors and widows of soldiers or sailors of the late war between 'the States," ap proved December.24, 1887. Act regulating and reducing costs in certain cases. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit non-residents from hunting, ducking and fishing and gathering oys ters and terrapins within the limits of the counties of Georgetown, Charleston and Ierkeley, except upon certain con ditions." Act t> amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend the charter of the 'town of Summeiville," approved December 22, 1885. Act to raise supplies and make appro priat'ons for the fiscal year commencing November 1, 1888. Aact tc pro vide for a new school district in Darlingtoa county and to authorize the is-ue of bonds by the said school dis trict and the levy of a local tax thereon. Aut to renew the charter of the Beau fort Library Society. Act to prov de for the establishment of a separate school district in the city o2 Sumter. Act to amend Sections 1,353 and 1,357, Chapter 37, General Statutes, in refer ence to granting licenses to take risks or transact any business of insurance in the State of South Carolina. Act to incorporate the boaid of visitors of the Thornwell Orphanage, and to au thorize the Clinton Pres ycerian Church to transfer certain property t> the same. Act to amend sub-division 4 of Se :tion 5 of an Act entitled "An Act relating to time of holding Circuit Courts in the 2d, 3d and 5th circuits,"approved December 26, 1884. Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in the town of Chester," approvea 9th February, 1882, and to authorize the town council of Chester to grant licenses to sell liquors under certain restrictions and modifications. Act to regulate the traffic of seed cot ton in the county of Barnwell. Act to amend Sections 5, 8, 14 and 34 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the foundation of certain corporations runder general laws," approved Decem ber 23, 1886. Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act in relation to forfeited lands, delinquent lands aud the collection of taxes." Act to incorporate the Orangeburg Club. Act to authorize and require the coun ty com isri,ners of York county annu ally to let out to the beat bidder contracts for public ad;ertisements of said county. Act to provide ser the establishment of sepsrate school districts in the several citie', incorporated towns and villages in this State, and to authorize the levy and collection of special taxes therein, and to authorize the levy and collection of special taxes in the several school dis tricts now formed or hereafter to be formed outside of cities or incorporated towns and villages. Act for the establishment of a new school district in the county of Bdgefield, to be known as the Butler eciool district. Act to provide for the establishment of a new school district in Edgefield county, and to authorize the levy and collection of a special school tartherein. Act to incorporate the town of Hick ory Grove in York county. Act to provide a more efficient system of working the public roads in Kershaw and Lancaster counties. Act to authorize the Manchester and Augusta Railroad Company to build a branch of its road to the town of Cam den. Act to incorporate the town of Eutaw ville. Act to amend sub-divisions 4 and 5 of Section 919, General Stttes, relating to physicians, and to repeal sub'division 6 of said Section. - He Will Do the Typewriting. O the typewriter girl, 0 the typewriter girl, with her debonair smile, and her hair all in curl: and her fingers trip-tripping all oer the mnachine-the slenderest fingers that ever were seen-while my heart, like the alphabet, jumps up and down, depend lng, of course, on her smile or her frown. And I pze on the maiden so fresh and so pretty, and say to my~self it is really a pity that she shiuld be sitting there thumping! for money, when I am just dlying to e dl her my honey. Thben I slowly draw up near the maiden so fair, and tremblingly gaze on her shimmering hair. Then, never once thinking -it may be misplaced, I put my arm suddenly right roundi her waist, and beg her to be my typewriter through life-implore her to be my own dear little wife She blushes and struggles and ceases her letter, and says. very sternly, "You ought to know bettr!'' But stoutly I hold her, the dear little miss, and double my guilt by the theft of a kiss, and implore her again to be my dear wife-to be my typewriter the rest of her life.. And then, with a smile her whole countenance light' ing. she says. "I'll be your wife, but you'll do the typewriting." Ex-Speaker In Congrese. The next House will con tail three Ex Speakers-Messrs. Na-haniel P. 13.?ks, of Massachusetts- Samuel J. P on dail. of Pem-n sylvania. and John G. Carlisle, of Keu. tucky, not counting Suuset C'x, whro w ts elcted Syeake~r pro temn, ;t the tirst .s s on of the44th Congress durring~ the illnes of Spr aker Kerr. Tihe othe'r surviving Ex-pekers are: Robert C. Winthrop, of \Llsachusetns, 30th C ngress; GaLlulsha A. Gn~w of Pennsylvania, 37th1 Cong~res :i~e G. Blaine, of Maine, 41st, 41d andO .:;Cmresse:s, all1 J1. W'arren Keifer . *ho -it ongros. It wil thus b sen that surviving .Ex Speakers are mo-re plentiful that surviviona Ex Presidents, ouiy R~utherfordl B. Ilig es being left, the de facto ii not she i:jure possessor o6f that honor. Thle lhCgi surlvil finds counter part in th~e eae of Vice Presidents, since Haniatl Hamlin is the only living Ex Vce President, and in his case the latebt news is that he is bright and chipper and' can cut a pigeon wing as deftly as ever, ail though in his 80th year, Ex-Speaker Ga lusha A. Grow was in the city a few days since, looking well and hearty at the age of 66. Hie was 37 years of age when chosen Speaker and Gen Banks' was 40.-Kansas City Times. A high old time-The clock in the stee le. A LOOK AT THE CANAL. What is Being Accomplished and How It in Being Done--The Convict Camp. (From the Columbia Record.) As one goes up the C. & G. Railroad :rack, about a mile beyond the negro ceme :cry, he comes to a turnout from the main :rack, which, if he will follow abort fifty ards, will bring you to MeMaster's quarry. Here eighteen convicts, watched by three ,uards, work ten hours a day getting out . atone to be used on the canal. The quarry is owned by Col. MtcMasier tad Dr. Miller, but contractors Rice and Coleman have a lease to work it, and com menced to quarry the stone on the 22nd of November last, but as the railroad track, leading there to, has not yet been put in a condition for a train to run upon, none of the rock has been removed and two large piles of it show the amount quarried since then. All of the convicts at woik here are sen tenced for life and have thoroughly learned to cut stone at the Penitentiary. The State is paid one-dollar per day apiece for them. About half way between this point and the Broad River Bridge is where the steam sh vel is at work. The dirt is-taken up by the shovel and dumped in a flat car, which when tilled is pulled by a railroad ebgine up a track, laid in the bad of the canal, to the places where it is needed. Much work has been accomplished by this means in the last few months. It is an interesting sight to see the huge box-like shovel take up about a cubic yard of earth and then swing round on a crane and empty itself into the ldat car. Leaving this, and passing under the bridge, and going three quarters of a mile farther up, the head of the canal is reached At the point known as Bull's Sluice the d'am reaching across the river is to begin and the water to flow into the canal. T4is is the point where the bank of the canal next to the river is to begin. Of this bank here beginning as at the apex of a V, with the apex pointing up the river, two rock walls are being constructed, one to protect the river bank of the canal from the water is the river and the other from the water in the canal. The rock work is to be about fifteen feet high and there will be riprap work above this, making the whole height of the wall about thirty feet. From near the apax of the rcck work a crib dam will be built and extended to a small isiand in the river .and from the island to the other side of the river. This dam will be seven feet high and is to turn the riyer water into the canal. (A crib dani is one made of upright posts set close to ether.) Parallel with the rock wall spoken of, on the inside of the canal about fif.ty feet dis tant, another rock-wall will be built, and between the two will be a lock to allow '.oats oening down the river to pass into the c4dal. From this latter wall to the land bank of the canal there will be a dam through which there will be a dozen flood gatts, by which the flaw of water into the caual will be regulated. Above this dam there will be a back water, affording room for a large number of boats to await their turn to go through the lock, when a great number come down the river at one time. The wiath of the canal at this point is to be 250 feet but will narrow until five or six - hundred feet down,.it will be only 110 feet wide. Rice & Coleman have the contract of doing the rock work here and also a large amount of earth work. They employ only free labor here and have about one hun dred hands at work, In. the woods near by they have put up numerous cabins, which they allow their laborers to use free of charge. They also have a commissary depart ment, in which will be found a line of goods, somewhat better than is usually to be had in a country grocery store. Tnese tbey sell at market prices to their employ ees. They get their whole stock of goods fromn the'merchants In the city feeling that such is due to the nearest town or city to which they may be located. Contractor Hardin takes up the earth work where Rice & Coleman leave off. Hie hs seventy-three convicts at work, and they are watched by seven guards. W'ork is commenced here at abodt seven o'clock in the morning and .stopped at five in the afternoon. The convicts are well housed and well fed.' They sleep in a strong stockade, which is kept clean and comfortable. Each convict eats about five eighths of a pound of nieat and a quart of m'eal a day, besides turnips, greens, etc. On national holidays they are given coffee and a few .other lux uries. Trheir treatmont is kind and they. have nothingtto complain of. Don't. Don't throw scraps of meat away. Don't let dried fruits become wormy. Don't leave soap to dissolve in water. Don't leave potatoes to sour and spoil. Don't scrape kettles with silver spoons. Don't fail to hang up brooms and mops. Don't leave gas burning when not in use. Don't scrub kitchen floors wi:h new brooms. Don't spill sugar, rice, etc.. In the han ding. Don't leave apples to decay for want of sorting. Don't leave vinegar and sauces standing in tin: Don't leave the tea canister and sugar box open. Don't leave wooden ware unscalded, so that it will warp and crack. A Drunken Bow. SArTLC, Union County, Dec. 26.-Yes terday a difficulty occurred between two negroes, Blant Jeter and Ike Dillard, in which Ike wvas struck on the back of the herd with a large ,rock and stunned for awhile. It was thought for some time that he would never return to life. Both men were under the influence of whisky, but lke pt etended to be much drunker than he realiy was, and fully deserved the blame. Amost every negro that came to this ittie town go)t dlrunk, both male and fe oasle, and indulged very freely in swearing n1.1iusing vulgar and profane language. TeL women were a shade worse than the ne.-Charleston World special. To Pat Out Ffre. Whether a lamp explodes or Is over urned, the only rational attempt to ex-in :uish the fire is by sihothering. Water ny spreads the oil, and thus increases the :vil. Last winter, sys a correspondent ot .he Elbany Cultivator, my sister knocked large lamp nearly full of oil off the table. [n a moment the blaze reached the ceiling. 'ortunately a large, heavy rug was near t hand, which I threw over the oil, and his and my broad feet soon had the tire ~mothered out. The only damage wais a e iu the carpet, a scorched secretary