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(Duv JTatuihj Stovn. Wanted, a Hundred Dollars. When Saturday wus over, and Mr. and Mrs. Vranklin wore alono by themselves in tho cloan kitchen, witting bo aido tho stove, Mrs. Vranklin rose wont into her bod room, and brought out a buadlo of clothes. " I want you to look at these things Jeremiah," sho said, mildly. " What are they ?" said lie. Sho spread them out on tho tloor. "That is my l>ost dress, sho said "Those are bv best shoes. That is tin only bonnet I've got in tho world bu my calico sun-bonnet, and that is in; Sunday shawl." Sho uttered tho words quietly, am waited. "Well?" said Mr. Vranklin, ?til smoking. " Well," she answered. He said nothing. Sho gathered u tho garments with a look of disdain uud piled them ou a chair. " You're a rich man," she said ' Rich for a farmer. You are sixty and I am fifty years old. Our boys ar married. I haven't had any money t spend for live years. I'm a sight t behold. If 1 were a servant 1 shouli got wages, and not have to bog. No, don't beg, Jeremiah. Since you don' oiler it yourself, I'm going to toll yoi that 1 want money. 1 want a hundrei dollars to buy me some new clothes t feel decent and comfortable in. l'n really destitute. Why, I'm out of llaii Del ! My calico gowns are patched a the elbow. My shoe heels are twisted 1 can't go to church any more, for l'v turned my black yilk twice, and th back breadths upside down. I've wash ed my bonnet-ribbons, I've done all could rather than ask for what yo didn't otTor; and there's no need You're well-to-do. 1 want to be do cent, and take a little comfort while can. 1 must. There, now! It's in right!" She had spoken her mind, and Mr Yranklin felt that a climax had ar rived. He had " laid by '' a large sum He was growing old. and had no uoei to pinch, but the awful demand for hundred dollars all in a lump was to much for him. lie hud become usei to Eva Maria's quiet way of luendin; her old clothes and asking' for 11 money, and it had never occurred t him that she would sonic time com down upon him like this. He stared silently, and pulled acros the stove the smoke of the cheap U baeeo ho burnt in a common eorn-eo nipe. The old rag carpet was cloun Tlie old chairs were mended with eat pet bottoms. It was all tidy, but notli ingwasuew; nothing pretty but th scarlet geraniums in their big pots 01 the window-sill. He had given hi wife very little in their thirty years o married life; for all the furniture wa his mother's. She had helped hi 11 make his fortune, selling butter am eggs and pot-cheese and Hower-roots feeding the hands cheaply and well weeding vegetables, ami even rid in; the mowing machine, now and thenthough not very lately. Conscionc told him that lie ought to pull from hi vest pocket the crisp hundred dolla note lie had received that morning, fo some hay at the landing, and say Here, Eva Maria, why didn't yo speak before?" Hut when greed take possession of the heart of man, it hold 011 liko a leech. All lie said, after th silence liad remained unbroken fo some minutes, was: "Well, Eva Maria, I'll think it over. To some women, there is 110 agon like asking a husband for money. They want a love-gift, not almt Generally they have to ask at last. Eva Maria had nerved herself at las in the misery of her shabhiuess, t make the speech abovo recorded, bu it seemed u fearful thing to do. Sh little guessed that she had nearl frightened Jeremiah out of his sunset " A hundred dollars !" he said to him self. " She must know what I've go about me. Shu must mean to have it Fifty, now, I'd give. Hut a hundred I'll eel the inonev ehani/ed. ami t?iv her fifty." lie opened the door of tho passage crossed it and went into tho parlor. 1 was a cold, neat place, kept sacred fo great occasions. It had a grate in it but it was doubtful if a lire would h lighted there that winter. It had beei inconvenient to take it down, thutsum mor, so fringed pink paper had beei arranged between the polished ban and tho rug drawn across the hearth ^holographs of several members of tin family hung by red cords from tin wall, dotted muslin curtains with urat ly 11 uted rallies covered the green pa per blinds. A dish of wax fruit, cov ered by a glass shade, ornamented tin eentro-table. and the horsehair furni turo had been so little used in tw< generations that it looked almost new The vases on the mantel were old fashioned blue waro, for which a chinaworshipper would have paid a groal price. Eva Maria should have fifty dollars, but she had said she had a right to u hundred. If he gave her the bill in his pocket she would spend it. It was Saturday evening; ho could not get it changed that night?no, not until Monday. If he locked it up. she would know, and take it out, perhaps, and dc ' as she pleased with it. She had do elared her "right" to it. Eva Maria humblest of tho humble, meekest o tho meek, had spoken so I Could ii be? " This comes of these hero strong minded meetin's,"'said Mr. Vranklin This was not logical, for Mrs. Vrank lin had not attended one of thom. " Women used to bo biddable. The; are kicking over the traces now. No body ?" soliloquized Mr. Vranklin growing more and more ungruininati cal witn his wrath ?" nobody ain' goin' to rido over me, 'specially a wifi of mine. 1 must hide the money unti 1 can change it. She might look int my pockets. She said she had a i igh to it, and she looked determined." At this moment ho hoard a move mon*< in the kitchen. He believed it t ha his wife about to come in search o him, and ho tried to think faster. The vases! Should ho hido the not there? No; there wero still so'uio us tera in the garden, and Eva Marii * might 1111 the vases with bouquets, a she sometimes did on Sunday after noons, sotting thorn for the nonce oi the kitchen mantel. No, the vase would not do. The ingrain carpet wa tacked down dight, too surely ther was a step in the passago ! The grate There, under the fringed paper, i might lio safely all night. He drew his pocket'book from hi bosom and stuffed it between two loos bricks at the back of the grate. Th fringti of tho paper concealed it. Al was safe. Ho creakod across tho pa? ?, a into 4 V\/? ??? i 4 K ?? ?- ?' I- . iiiia/ iv i i/V/11 * ? i j nitll it tUllnCHflH nog? of grout meannoHH in hi* houri Mrs. Vrunklin, having executed he terrible intention, had taken flight t her bod-room, where she gut in th cold with u little shawl over he hhoulderg, trdtnbling. Ho tmid sonx thing aloud about seeing J ouch aboi tho?? pig#, and fled the house, and th Rr m ' fe# EL u ' rr 1 * two held no more convolution until breakfast time. Then Mr. Vrunklln, with unusual piety, \yent to church, while his wife stayed at home to cook , dinner, no one else being at hand to do it. .Inst as the hoof was so far done that . she could open the oven doors, there . came a knock upon the door, and, opening it. she saw upon the norch her CouI, sin ltrown and the minister. Church was out, and Cousin Brown had brought the reverend gentleman to his friends', to dine. Mrs. Vranklin received both hospitably, und hastened to usher them into the parlor. The yellow urtcmisius shone bravely in the big blue vases, j Mr. Vranklin had been wise not to hide t his money there; but it was cold?very y. cold. ' I'll light a lire," said the good wo j man. " it won't take a minute. It'* the l>rst fire of tho season, or I'd havt 1 the grate fixed." "She tucked tho paper down int< the grate, the easiest way to be rid o! it nil ml .... wnnii mwl nlnnnrl t.ha aniit. |, .V, ,...VU .... ..WW*., ...... .. V..W OW... i tie ready. A,* she struck the mated she nave a little cry. but repressed il [_ instantly. The Humes blazed up liter . rily, and roared behind the blower, o When Mr. Vranklin returned, tin 0 blower was down, and the two mor 0 were warming their foot at a eompact mass of red coal. 1 He looked at his Eva Maria. Hot t cold, composed New England face, with u its high nose, and close-cut mouth, be Lj trayed 110 emotion. 0 "She don't know wlfcit she lias done! n he said to himself: but she did ! h The ghost of that hundred dollart I, stared at him from the embers, lit l_ could not talk, he could not compost 0 himself. Cousin Brown opined he win 0 not well. The minister remarked thai 1 _ " in the midst of life wo are in death,' I und seemed to prophesy his funeral, ll l, was not a gay dinner, but then it wn.v I. Sunday. ,1 That night, Mrs. Vranklin missed 1 her spouse from his bed. She went tt v look for him, and found hint poking it the ashes of the dead lire with the tongs. Ho looked up with a very red .. face. lt " I don't think these here coals kin (l bo good," he said, confusedly. lt " Did you get up in the night to looli ,, at them ?M she asked. J He made no answer and returned tc jr bed. I*, Next morning, his wife again attack 0 ?d him. 0 "Have you thought that mattei over V she asked. s Indeed he hud, and it had occurred to him that l'rovidenco had prepared I, a special judgment for him in destroy L | ing that monwy. Ho foil that his wift .. I 1)ltd spoken the truth. Sho had ?i . j right to decent clothes?sho who had u served hint so well for so many yours ,, I " I've thought it over, Kvu Marin,' s ! ho said, and arose and went to his desk ,f a queer, old-fashioned one huilt in the s house wall. When ho returned, Ik u brought with hint a blank chock. "(Jet what you like, my dear," he , said, " aud get it nice. Fill the check ' up just as ye>u please." ir Ho had not called her " my dear,' _ for years. She smiled up at him verj 0 gently : tears were near his eyes. s However, she used tho chosk to dress ,. herself comfortably. It was the llrsi ,. time for many years that she had in . dulged in the luxury of shopping free u 'ys At night, ho met her at tho depot 8 loaded with parcels, tired, hut smiling ? lie had not seen her so bright for munj ,. a day. After tea that night they sat togoth " or beside the stove as before, and slit ? looked at him in a peculiar way. "You didn't seem to feel cheerful , Sunday afternoon, .Jeremiah." sho remarked. " What ailed you?" ^ " I don't want to tell you," ho an c) swored. ^ "Hut I'll tell you," she said. "Yoi 0 thought 1 burned the pocket-book yoi y hid in tho grate. 1 didn't." ; Sho put her hand into her work basket and drew it out intact, with the lt money in it. " I was just in time." she said. " Bui 1 I understood at once when I saw ii 0 sticking between tho bricks. If yoi hadn't given me the check, I shouli have spent the money. There's a con ' e ... i ?i? k 117SKUJU iur )l)H, (lUI't'IlllUII . llo looked at her half-angry, half astonished. Site arose and came t< L', him, and put her hands on his should 3 01*8; " But 1 should never have enjoycc , wearing them,1' she said. " I should s have hated them, I think. Those thai I I bought to-day, with your free gift, I I shall love while there's a rug of them 3 loft,.'' I The man looked at her with a feeling . that a strange revolution of feminine . human nature had boon made to him, , but all ho said was : ' Why, Eva Maria, I want to know !' , And he drew her uown upon his knee and kissod her. The Snowball op Scandal.?It i, began at the top of tho hill in a very small way. Somebody said, "I think." It rolled along, collecting bits us it i, went, until somebody said, "I believe." i It went further and further, until i somebody said, " I know." And then , it rolled and rolled until it was a great big ball that hit straight at somebody's 1 heart because somebody else said, " 1 ? saw." And though the snowball look ed fair and white, though thcro scorn, ed nothing wrong about it, it was a f great, horrible lio. It began with I idle gossip, it grow with silly chatter until it readied its full size, fed by - scandal. There is only ono way to . fight a snowball; that is to wait. Wait - j and live out your lifo honestly and truly, and tho sunshine of good deeds y will glare down upon tho snowball of >- | scandal until it melts away, and even , | its existence is forgotten. It is true, - it is hard to live things down somet times, but it is working two ways, as u by your goodness you are living down 1 the wrong-doing of others, so by the it minio ir<w wIikiju \'i\it .? ?<? H ?*?? ?<* ik\ *? ~ h'""""" J ,"l' WJ t Unit higher life which ends in the golden world where scandal-mongers - can never enter.?Ladies' Homo Jour0 na'" ^ ?It is understood that Secretary u (Jronham, who has been con 11 nod to his i-1 apartments witli a bad cold for several a days, contemplates spending several s days at the Chicatnaugu battlefield bw - fore the end of this month. As soon a as the Bering Sea and the Mosquito ? matters are settled, it is possible that s Mr. (Jresham will make quite a Southe ern tour, lasting about two weeks, lie i! will probably visit Atlanta before his t return. ?No century can begin en a Wednoss day, Friday or Saturday. The 1st of e October always falls on the same day o of the week as the 1st. of January ; the U 1st of April the samo day of the week i- as the 1st of July ; December the same i~ as September; February, March and t. November begin on the same day of r j tiie week, while May, Juno and Ano . gust commence on Uilieiont duyjj. Of e course, thoto rules do not apply to leap ir J vear. Too ordinary ywar always he) gins and enus on tin; same day of the it wiok, while every twenty-eighth year o the calendar or the year is the same, FOOD FAOT8 FOR FARMERS. ?1 ?* * INFORMATION l\ HIXJAHl) TO ? IKIS1I POTATO K8. o One Hundred Dollars Prodi Per Acre |< Can Ho Made ? F.very Farmor In t ho u i Stale Should Care I idly Head This Article. ! Hampton (Immlian. The Irish potato was introduced into Kuropo by Sir Walter Kaloigh. It > came from South America, whore it is still found in Chili, it is also found ;! in Arizona and Mexico. Thus we see (l it originated in u warm country. It ^ ' is planted in higher latitudes than perhaps any vegetables. Nova Scotia i 1 is said to suit it best and produces the j linest tubers. Of ull vegetables ex* ' cept rice it is most largely used. I ll ' want to see its use extended to the ^ South and have the South muUe all it ' consumes and ship a surplus. * To plant theio are various ways? perhaps tiio best is, break land deep, 1 1 lav olT three feet rows and dron the | pieces twelve inches apart, cut potato \ as small as possible for it has a big 1 hold 011 life; in the North they even ! ' divide the eyes. As to manure, you , ' cannot make the laud too rich. Com- . " post and commercial manures are t good. The more manure the better s 1110 crop. 1 have never made more l ^ 1 than at the rate of 30 barrels to 1 lie . acre, but know that with proper . manuring the crop can be indelin'toly increased. Now as to cultivation, * as it is planted early grass does not * worry. Side once closo, then hoe well. . | After that run a large sweep in rows . and only chop weeds : don't disturb t he * plants after they are up any size for ' !; ! each stirring only makes a new 1 growth and produces more small potatoes. Harvest when bushes die, J ' and if in summer keep in a eool place, , dry and dark if possible. llut 1 want to say bow to get the c' ' seed. Well, at lirst from the North h 1 as usual. Tlio North is now the homo | of thrift and wo mustgothe.ro. l'lunt ,v and harvest as directed and then to bo free of the North, select the . 1 small potatoes and put them away until July or August, and when a wet V1 1 season comes or you see the eyes get white and ready to grov plant, (plant ' whole potatoes as they are usually . small. They come up slowly according v to season. Soo that tho land is drained ' or they will rot at that time much [ more readily than in tho spring. Harvest crop beforo frost. Now how to keep them. Collars ' are uncertain, but the old way of banking the sweet potatoes keeps the ' Irish potatoes with more certainty , i than even the swoot potatoes. Smooth ' 1 a place, spread straw thick, put ' ; 1 potatoes on the straw, cover with corn stalks or better yet hoards in a conical ' ? form ; then put straw over all and 5 dirt and not one will rot If tho mois- ' 1 tare does not reach them. Our seed does not germinate or mature fruit as . 5 rupidiy us tho Northern. Wo get it . [ from tho North at lirst and it is liko 4lw? ........ 4 1, ..I....4 !..l I -1 * , iiiu i;ui ii iin_> 111111 - tv 2111(1 UUl'ii I not accommodate itself to our season ; , 7 so wo must plant a little earlier thun ( with Northern seed. I planted this 4 season on tho 25th of December. L think we could plant any time in tho , fall after the havost, as seed left in ( the ground keep Unely and does not ?. germinato until it feels the fructifying J in Hue noes f5T spring. If the seed ' comes up too soon the cutting down of * 7 tho crop does not injure home raised seed as it does the Northern. The Northern seed, never mind how 1 small out, makes a plant with several f stems each from tho potato eye. Tho Southern seed makes as a usual thin# ( only one stem. Tho trouble that comes | from the cold culling plant is that it " puts out fresh aud makes very small j ones, but in the Southern seed with 1 only one stem there is less danger t 1 from this cause. My experience is that home raised seed gives brighter, : larger and smoother potatoes. They ^ ' keep bettor and tho longer wo keep t them the more they accommodate j ' themselves to our land and season. I ^ think that with careful culture it will (1 1 become as the sweet potuto, a grower ' for the whole season and will mature. ^ " Wo know that the quick Northern ^ corn has to bo renewed every year or " it acquires Southern habits and aecom- *v } modatos itself to our long seasons, and ' so with the potato, our own sued would ho just as much better than t I v.m.??..... ...... !. ? ? 1 WIIV-I II (1.1 will wnil UM II 19 unttl'l ' tliuu thoso quick varieties which do ?. not wait for our Ion#, slow seasons but iuisten to maturity whether the seasons v 1 suit or not. I know men will disagree j and say the North suits the Irish t potato, hut it was not horn thoru. It ( ' is an exotic in tlio North and if it t seems to suit there it is because of , superior attention. ( Now, if i can get the ear of any man who wants to make $100 to tho acre, with tho possibility of doing more, follow this plan. Save four or five j barrels of small potatoes and plant an ( acre in July or August, not later than tho 15th of August, and harvest as directed. Keep us I suggest and in the spring you will get $3 per barrel > and have a large demand. 1 think some of our Southern raised seed has ' sold as high as $10 per barrel. I would . i always select what wo call black land, . but any close land will do; low land is best if ditched, but tho potato can not stand where water does not go oil' I , quickly. Hull A Peoples bought 100 I , barrels of potatoes to soil for seed and t they went in less than three weeks. Hampton county could supply all the j i seod needed in Charleston and j Savannah and it's better than cotton. As liue potatoes as I over saw were <. grown by Mr. John Lawton last fall and planted this spring. The stand J was poor because tho placo was too V low, but that was no fault of tho potato. Mr. T. O. Lawton tried to ^ ! make his seod, but he too planted in low land and made a failure. Mr. T. O. Lawton has H acres of Irish [ i potatoes, tho seed cost him $73. and s he could have made every one himself. * I commenced to think about thoso I liillt/u n ntii/imr Uuici f/?%? o?wwl O I-?*J *, "'V H--V .va ^ enough to plant one aero. Mi'. John I jaw ton and Mr. T. O. Law ton have made as lino potatoes as ever were | grown, and whilo these spring erops { may not bo as renuine-rativo on ae- j, count of the largo crops planted, they will both try for tho fall crops, and .j they are assured of at least $3.f)0, and ( perhaps will sell seed at $5 per barrel. They will have to pay tho last figure if they go in tho market for Southern j seed. ^ Any questions addressed to Tho ' Hampton Guardian will bo answered on tliin subject. 1 only want to boo my ,. people prosperous and happy. If you have not planted Irish potatoes yet 's' buy seed, save and plant for tho spring M demand for seed. Tho potato is so easily raised and such a healthy artielo of diet that wo should have *' them on hand all the time. When at leisure I want to write how 11 i,f,...,., ?iw, i.. t- ... ' w \uiiwiio m win wiiw nv i u. i|| 1 <11* I . ( I will try and show how wo can raise 1 all of our seed and ?aV0 thousands. I! ? my dlroction us to potatoes aro follow- ^ od it will savo much and add many 01 comforts. Soino one snooringly said, I' null wo leave politics alone and taik pumpkins?" Well, people under lortgugo. and having to buy or borrow verything except cotton, had better J ilk pumpkins l>ofore politics and urn the school of the farmer beforo i hey play the roll of the politician. 1 I'AUMKlt. I ??? - WHAT TUB SOUTH HAS DONK. ] iothin^ to Fear From Comparison W- h our Norl hern llrct lirrn. Mr. Abraiu S. Hewitt, raised the uostion about the inferiority of the louth and its degenorueip fi orn former lays, and the discussion lias led to un nvostigation of tho record made in he past. Mrs. Felix O. DePountuino, i native of Charleston, S. (J., lias been carolling into history, and tho result urnishos an a* ray of facts at once apprising and grutifying. Some of ho facts gathered hy this invdstigaioa arc uh follows: Tho South, although in u numerical uiiiority, controllod tho general gov- , ; rumcnt for tho first eighty yours of [ ts existence. Light out of tho thiroen Presidents were from tho South, our of thorn serving two terms. Of wolvo Vico Presidents, four wore 1 rom slave States. Of thlrty-oiio Ipoakors of tho House, twenty-two vero Southerners. Of 11 vo Chief Iusl ices, two of tho most eminent were rom tho South. Of twenty-nino Asoeiato .Justices, seventeen were from ho South. "Tho first resolutions," says 11. F. .Vardo, of Mississippi, "declaring he rights of tho colonies to be free md independent were introduced into l Southern Legislature by a Southern nan. The first resolutions to the same tTect were presented in tho Colonial Congress hy another man. and took orm in the Declaration of innenenlonco, under tho matchless genius of till another Southern man. A Southern man led tho patriot armies to 'ictory and estahlishcd tho possi billies of tho proudest, nation on earth. \ Southern man was prime mover of ho Convention that framed tho eontitution. When tho government hud icon created its organic law was still in unexplained book, a ponderous oar n unskilled hands. It was loft for he greatest legal mind of tho ago, a Southern Chief Justice, to analyze and damp upon it tho construction which i vill bo accepted as long1 us the contitntion is respected. A Southern nan framed the ordinance for the irgani/.ution and government of the front Northwestern thorritory, an intrument second only in importance 0 tho constitution of the United itates. A Southern man was tho j nithor of tho Republican theory of lopular Government which prevailed i luring sixty years of our greatest irospority, in peace and happiness." It was during the administration of 1 Southern 1 'resident that tho war of Kill was inaugurated and brought toa riinuphant conclusion. Tho master pints of th? great struggle were such m n as Clay, Calhoun, Monroe, Jrundy, Lowndes and Crawford, while miy lire Senators north of the Delaware voted to sustain it. Florida was icquired from Spain und Louisiana roui Franco hy a Soutlx rn 1'resident., hrough the skill and courage of a southern diplomatist. The pluck and latriotism of a Southern I'resident gained the indepennenco of Texas and idded New Mexico to the national lomain. thus extending tho boundary ine to the I'acitie, and opening to the vorld tho "golden gates" of Culiorniu. The medical records show that two if the greatest surgeons that the world ias over known were .1. .Marion Sims, j f South Carolina and Fphraiin Mc)owt II, of Kentucky. Tho enlighten- j id world recogni/.os them as leaders in ho reuhn of surgery. Another Southerner, .Tudah i'. Bonamin, went to Fnglaiul after the 1 ueridiun of life, and becumo ono of lie (jnoon's counsellors and tho leadng jurist in that laud of great lawyers, laving on his docket at one time half f tho appeal cases in the kingdom. The first steamship sent across tho Atlantic, May lit), 1810, was the Savanlah, equipped and s nt over by a few mblic-spirited ami practical men of Savannah. The first railroad in America was a hurt truck in Broad street, Charloson, simply to demonstrate the idea. The first canal in America was the >untco, in South Carolina. The first patent for a steam plough vas granted to a Mr. Bellinger, of larnwell, S. C. The first lire alarm olograph, patented by Mr. Gamewell, >t rtovitu Carolina, was erected and est.cd in tho City of Churlc&ton. It is a well established fact that i )gdcn Holmes, of South Carolina, iml not Eli YVhitnoy, was tho invoniOr of tho cotton gin. Indigo, rioo and cotton woro lirst utroducud and cultivated in tho State >f South Carolina. South Carolina was tho pioneer in ilk culture. In the year 17oo .Mrs. Mnckney, tho same lady who ten years , >eforo had introduced tho indigo ilant, "took with htr to England a piuntity of excellent silk, which she ! nid raised and spun in the vicinity of Charleston, sulllcient to make three i omplote dresses. One of these was 1 iroaented to the i'rincoss Dowager ol Vales and another to Lord Chester- , lold. They wore allowed to bo equal o any over imported." Tho lirst use of tidewater to run 1 icavy machinery was in South Caroma in lKiiit. In 17S.*?, tho State Agricultural j locioty of South (Carolina was giving iremiums for the best cotton seed oils , reduced in tho State. Yet Mr. ' id ward Atkinson, of Boston, stated j eeently that "a smart Yankee went i loath after the war and taught the looplo the Use of a hitherto useless i iroduet cotton seed." Years before i he war South Carolina had been hipping cotton seed oil to Italy by ho thousand tons for the purpose of nuking the very salad oil that Mr. Atkinson probably used on his table. The Sonth revolutionized the navies f tho world by building in the bartor of Charleston the first ironclad, ho " floating battery." Tho " Stevens nittery" lirst demonstrated the suecssful use of iron in land batteries, 'orpodo.'s were also lirst used in 'harleston harbor. Tho lirst magazine gun, tho Win- j 1**4 !.<.*! I 1 V1MIU SlWontoil iVtun ! pom Chester, S, and offered to tho I it.ito in |st <). Aftoi wiud it was j dopted by tho United States arruy nd called tho M Winchester riflo. ' Th's gun revolutionized tho armies f tho world, and tho vory art and mcnco of war." 1 ?Tho ciIv council of Darlington ' avo had printed a art of resolutions, ' xpressing tho th inks of tho pooplo to ( ioso who aided and symphatnize 1 ith thorn in their recent troqh cu< [ hey say -im'i sympathy will novel' ! i? forgott-'Mi. ('opi'-.s have boon s nt ?tho newspaper correspond.Oil and , tiu rs who aidod and assisted l a juih I lo in their troubles. 1 THK STATU BANK TAX. I lie DciuocratH arc Practically Unanl- I IIIOUH III Flivor of ItCpOtll. The Democratic caucus on the 10th. inst. closed the fact that a majority Id < the House of Representatives favored 1 ii repeal of the prohibitory tax on i State banks, and the following resolu- 1 Lions were adopted without a dissenting vote: ] "Resolved, 'i'hut it is the senso of \ this caucus that the prohibitory tax of j 10 per cent, on Statu bank Issue bo re- \ pealed." " lteso ved. That when the bill ( known as the Rruwloy and Springer , bill, which the committee on flunking and curroucy has ordered reported to j the House, is called up for action, an amendment bo offered repealing the prohibitory tax on State banks, that ' ample time bu ulTorded for discussion, ] and if necessary to secure Ibis, the committee on rules by requested to take J proper action." Exactly I Oil Democratic members of the House were present. The uttendaueo from the South and West was 1 vurv iHiivj-, inn oniy ti lew r,astern 1 moil appeared, among them being Messrs. Strauss, Cumiuings, Dunphy and Warner (Now York), Pigott of ! Connecticut, O'Neill of Massachusetts and Sibley of PomMylvanla. < The discussion of the repeal of tho < State bank tax proceeded in a dot>ul- ' torv way for a time and took wide range. Mr. Culberson of Texas chair- < mail of the judiciary committee, made j a strong speech in favor of it. lie reviewed at some length tho political situation in which tho Southern members found themselves. Tho Sherman 'law had been repealed, and all hope of silver legislation must necessarily bo abandoned for the present since Mr. , Cleveland had set the seal on his dis- i approval upon the liluud seigniorage bill. In the Senate the tariIT bill was proceeding slowly, in fact, said Mr. | Culberson, the Deiuccratic members i from the South and West liad.no record of pledges redeemed to carry hack to their people. Tho only thing left to meet the urgent demand from their sections for a greater volume of currcuoy was tho repeal of the tax on State banks' circulation. After some further talk, the above resolutions wore offered, tho lirst by Mr. Cox of Tennesse, and the second by Mr. Culberson. Tboro was but little diversity of opinion in tho caucus on tho question of the advisability of taking up for consideration the question of the repeal, but there was some opposition to unconditional repeal. The only outspoken opposition to any measure looking to tho repeal of tho State bank tax, came from liryun of Nebraska. and Lane and Williams of lllionis. Messrs. Gresbam of Texas, Swansou of Virginia, Catch i tigs of Mississippi, Cooper of Indiana and others, ardently favored tho liroilik*i l.inn (liiniiniiuru III _ - J - I ...... ^ V' ? Now York, inudo a ringing speech at tho end in favor of llio repeal. Ilo ileclarod tho people of Now York had cast thoir voto for the Democratic candidates with a full knowledge of wliat j tho Chicago platform contained, and > ho, for one was ready aud anxious to! redeem every plunk in that platform. At tho conclusion of his speech tho resolutions were adopted and tho caucus adjourned. The result of the caucus only means , that the hill to repeal the Stato bank tax shall ho considered as a rider to tho Hrawloy hill, which is now on tho calendar and that a vote shall be had upoty it. It was generally admitted in thocau- . ens that this repeal could not be uo- ( eomplishod unconditionally. Mr. Swan- , son gave as tho result of his canvass, ! 121) votes for unconditional repeal ; and I Mr. Williams declared as a result of his investigation that a majority of the House favored tho repeal, although; not unconditionally. A l'AHAlil.K.? Some yoars ago a ^ number of gentlemen visited thomoun- \ tains of Colorado for the purpose of | llshiug. Among the party was a bishop 1 of the lOpiscopal church. Fishing was | tho sole occupation and amusement of the visitors : so when Sunday came, us there was nothing else to do, tho lay-1 men got out their rods, preparatory to casting a line, lint they were in a niiiiiwliipv tin ti.Kn '1'^"" 'li'l ' *1 J vv# H1\. ' o i i v ' | X UUJ lilll not want to hurt his Toolings by leaving liiin behind, nor did they want to offend his religious principles by inviting him to go iishing on Sunday. Finally one of them plucked up courage and told him of their dilemma, whereupon the good man said ho would toll them of u happening in his earlier lifts which ho thought rather apropos. " Some years ago,'' ho said, " when I had charge of the a Hairs of a parish,'!, was awakened about two o'clock 0110 morning, und upon inquiring who whs thoro, hoard a man's voico reply that ho was there with Miss Blank, and that they wanted to get married. I reasoned with him about the untimely hour, but to no avail ; ho meant to got married right then and there. So I put on my clothes and gown, and went down stairs and began the marriage service. Everything went along as dictated in the service till I asked the man, Wilt thou tako this woman to he thy wedded wife?" to which ho replied, 'What'in hero fur?1'' They waited for the bishop. A Bui Railroad Scheme.- The proposed railway from tin? United States through Mexico, Central America and South America, will pcrhups bo something inure than a probability. The chief engineer, in his report to the commission, says the survey lias been made all the way to Buenos Ay res and found to ho feasible. Much of the tropical region in South America >vi 11 bo traversed at great altitudes for railway travel, tho survey including sect ions that rise to heights of 7,tVK) to 1 ll,ou0 feet above sea level. Thesurvey makes the length of tho proposed lino 4,:M) miles from tho Mexican , starting place to Buenos Ayros, and the eost of tho completed road is put at $ob,U0l> per mile, including some ; formldablo grading and bridging, or 1 about WOU,000,000 in all, for wiiieii tho I funds uro to' bo paid proportionately | by tlio countries interested. Tbo | beginning of the lino will bo a point in Mexico, whlcli will make tho now 1 lino continuous with tho existing system in that country and United | States, Thus tho completion of tho | road will onabio a passenger to go by ( rail all tho way from Canada almost to tho very borders ?of tho vast and bare South American region known as ' Patagonia* j The State railroad commission has ' up to date received the statements of ( their onrninga from all the railroada ( in the Stato for tho month of January'' < jxcopt I ho South Bound. Tho not do- i >roatiA in Hit) total earnlngn for ihe j Mouth a.s coin pared wit-h tho name ' uouth of tho m ncoodlQg yonr, oxolus- i vu of tho South Bound, in $8,284.30. | ? A memorial window to "Stone.vail''Jttokson lb to ho placed in tho t're&byterian Church at Loxington, ^u., of which ho was u member. < 8ATM NEWS IX 111UKK Inti'iTsilii^ NoU'h from Various Sour* WK. ? All the constables in the State, oxjept those iuvolved in tho Darlington .ragedy. urn on duty at some point ^ ind arc trying to discover illicit whiscey. ?Judge Friisor has decided that the hawkers, and peddlers' act pulsed by Lho Legislature las' winter is constitutional. An appeal will be taken from the decision. ?A mooting of tho executive com- , mittoo of the Hirl's Industrial School will bo held in ltock Hill on tho 19th >f this month to determine upon plans for heating and lighting the building. ?The annual address before th<i State Medical Association, which holds its next meeting in Kock Ilill on April 25, is to bo delivered bj Dr. Howard Kelly, the dist inguish!, u specialist of Baltimore, Md. ?Mr. J. Y. Bar ling to u of this State, | formerly a student of the South I'aro-j Una College, has just boon elected cdi- j wr-in-cntoi ot tno sowaneo fPonn.) Times, a weekly paper published by tho students of tbo University of the South. ?1'resident Cleveland lias appointed D. 11. J. Taylor, colored, register of loeds for the District of Co umbia. This is the position for which .1. Henry Poole, the colored barber of Itock Hill, | was an applicant. The ollioo is worth from $10,000 to $1U,000 a year. ?Tho guns which have been collect- ! ed throughout the State will be used in arming now companies. So far nothing has been done about the proposed reorganization of tho militia of the State, but it will bo undertaken us soon as General Farley and Governor Tillman get time to confer over the ! question. ? Dr. H. II. l'uyne. who killed 1 lonry Green, colored, at Darlington recently, was taken before Judge Aldrich at Marlon last week under habeas corpus to apply for an order for bail. An order was signed admitting him to bail in tho sum of $.">,000. The prisoner was accompanied by Sheriff Scarborough and Mr. C. S. Nettles of the Darlington bar. ?Commissioner Traxlor has received u report of the damage committed by the depredations on tbo dtsponsaries at Tiinmonsvillo and Florence, following tho trouble at Darlington. Tho stock of goods at Floreueo is not so badly damaged as1 was thought. The value of the goods missing Irom the Toinmonsville dispensary is $!!(! >, about one-fifth of tho total amount of the stock which was on hand. A Railway in China.?1Tlio completion of a railway to tho foot of the Groat Wall of China, is a romurUublc inciilont in tho progress of the world and a striking example of tho irony of history. Tho wall which has been always a world's wonder, and which had its origin far hack in tho centuries, was built to resist tho onward march of tho " uncivilized " hords from tho northwest. Now, not only have tin* barbarians gone from tho four winds and made their influence felt in China, hut bit bit by the country is being w> never t < > tho greatest triumphs of the modern world. Tho railway which connects Tientsin with Shnn-hai-Ivwnn in not only completed, hut us, we learn from a Standard telegram, tho new Chinese Minister to London was able last week to travel by it to tho sea in a voty short time and got a st amer to Shanghai, 41 instead of having to remain the Winter in Tientsin, or lie carried down i by chair nearly a thousand miles over-1 land." Tho 44 iron horso" has had i many triumphs, but few have boon ! more marvellous than this.?Westminster Gazetteo. . ma i? ? An Ancient People. The Armenians are one of tho oldest races in tho world. Their country is mentioned by Xonophon and Kzekol and in tho cuneiform iuoriptions of Babylon and Assyria. All tho nations that surrounded them have passed away, but they remain, though their country lias been harried with lire and sword for conturit s. Tho pennunonco of tho Armenian raco bus boon ascribed to tho virturo of their women and tho exceptional purity and stability of their family life. Kvon in their heathen d<cys polygamy was unknown to thorn. They have been a Christian nation for more than l.f>00 years, and liavo undergone perpetual persecution for their faith from the surrroundiug Oriental people. ??? ? A rem rkablo spectacle was presented in i'atorson, N. where inoro than f>,U;H) dyers indulged in a strike, attended by scenes of violence in a city whero a public relief station had been feeding 1,500 families for some time. The dyers' strike was settled by granting eonctsd? n to the men, after a disorderly demonstration. One of tho dop'.orablo clTects of tho strike which may survive is the discouragement of public benovolenoo. CAST OUT, ^ ^ - ? ^ (^ l80r^er8* plj| weaknesses pe i i RV'.wii f-, - j " ljy 11IU \l f\"prompt otion F Dl' 1>i9r?0,i r*T \^r> Bcription. A yk ' k woman's beau* ^A\ . fy depends on \\T her Health ? V ^ beauty in thia / caao oan be I purchased. 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His death \vas not uncxpectol as ho had hceu in ill health for gomo timo. General Kcrslutw ivus postmaster at Camden and was also engaged in completing the records of the South Carolina soldier in the into war. Judge Kershaw's family has been identified with South Carolina since the your IToO. His grandfather, Col. Joseph Kershaw, revolutionary soldier, gave his name to the county of Keislmw. His lather wtpt John Kershaw, a man of brilliant mind, who served in Congress in 1812 lb. His mother was Harriett Dullosc, daughter of Isaac 1 )ti Hose un aide de camp to General Francis Marion. Joseph I). Kershaw was horn in Camden January Ath, 1822. Adopting the profession ?>f law ho wa.-> admitted to the bar in 1SJ3. After serving in the Mexican war as first lieutenant of company Palmetto regiment, Col. P. M. Hit tier commanding, ho resumed bis profession, serving moanwhile in the State legislature and the secession convention of 1st 10. The war between the Stales opened the way to General Kershaw's brilliant military career II is soldii rly imtiucts carried him, promptly to the field of arms. Ho was .puuio colonel, in February, Ittfit ..f n.A i o .i -. ' 4WUIj ,11 11iv? ouuuKiu ouutu Carolina volunteer regiment. I To entered the service with hi-command on Sullivan's Island. Subsequently he ropnirod to Virginia and us colonel organized a regiment. lie engaged in the first battle of Manas.-as. In February, 1S02, ho was appointed brigadier general, succeeding General JJonhain. Kershaw's brigade was soon to become a house-hold word in this State as it made its noble record in the grand army of Northern Virginia and General Kershaw was to make his own fame as a gallant loader of gallant men. lie was engaged in tho battles around Richmond, culminating at Malvern if ill. lie was tngngod on Maryland Heights in the capture of Harper's Kerry, participated in tho battles of Slmrpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chuneollorsvillo, Gettysburg and Chickamnugu and was in the Knoxviilc campaign. He commanded Mel,awV division at tho buttle of tho Wilderness. Ho was at Spottsylvauia and tho engagements that ended with the fight at Gold Harbor, lie was appointed major general in June ami was assigned to M s division, aftorward called ICor aw's division. As major general ho won additional laurels. After serving at I'etersburg, Kershaw's division was ordered to join I.- .-1 - --- " <n iMuriy in ino valley of Virginia whore it was ongugod until a few days jP before the battle of Winchester whou it was ordered to rejoin General Leo. In the retreat that ended at Appomattox, Kershaw'a division was eapturod at Sailor's (.'rook with tho remainder of General Lwell's eorps. General Kershaw was carried as a prisoner of war to Fort Wavn n, in Boston bar*bor. He reached homo after his roleaso iu August lddo. Thus ran General Kershaw's adiuirublo career as a soldier. Not only did he win tho stars of major general by Irs skill and courage, but ho won the confidence of his military superiors and drew to himself the love of his men. Nor lias his civil career boon less honorable and eminent. To tho gallantry of the man in arms ho has added rare civic virtues. Fleeted in 1H19 to tho bench of tho fifth circuit, ho served as judge with fidelity until when he retired. ? 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