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E I s VOL. 5.--NO. 26. PICKENS, S. C., .THURSDAY, JULY , 895- ONE DOLLARA YEAR. Man and His Shoes. "How iuch is a ian like his shoes ! For histance, both a sole may lose; Both have been tanned ; both are made . tight. By cobblers; both get lbft and right Both need a mate to be complete, A nd both are made to go on feet. They both need heeling, oft are sold, And both i' time will turn to mold. With'shoes the last is first; with men The firstshall be last ; when The shoes wear out they're mended new, When menl wear out they're men dead, too! They both are trod upon and both Will tread oh others, notuing loath. Both have their ties, and both incline, When 1 olished, in the world to shine; Atid both peg out. Now would you choose To- be a man or be his shoes ?" Sam's Prayer Meeting. *BY ffARRIlS CARY1. COX. ft had been a pretty bad wreck, to be sure, and the morning edition of the XEastoin yapers would toll of the fear ful collision that had occurred just as the train entered Lead Valley. Hut now the excitement, in the place of the disaster, had begun to quiet down; for the rough miners of the little settlement were too used to perils of all kinds to be long stirred by this wreck, withuits half-dozen lives lost. It was all over now, they reasoned, and they had helped cheerfully as long as help was needed ; but now the wrecking crew was at work, and only an occasional straggler sauntered u) to look at the derailed cars and pile of debris on either side of the track. The rest of the settlement were in the offlee of the one hotel the place altforded ; and the rooi was blue with smoke as they'sat about the sputtering lire and related anecdotes, or vied with each other in titles of danger and heroism. Some of the stories were old ones, as knowing glances between the mon showed ; bit tie crowd was good natut ed, and new and old alike were received with approbation. Ed La'aes, the funny man of the place, had just finished telling a now and very taking story. Id had just returned from a neighboring settle- t ment, and had, doubtless, brought the story with him. As the shouts of laughter that had greeted him died away, one of the men shouted : " Swearing Sam's goin' ter sleep. Wake him up, and make him tell us a good one. Come, Sam :" and they gave him a hearty slap. " I could tell yer a story," he said, slowly, after a moment's hesitation; "but yer wouldn't believe it, and I dunno as I want ter tell it ;" and he replaced his pipe and r'elaped into si lence. " Oh, come ofY !" they cried. " Yer don't sneak out er it that way. Guess yer can stan' it if we don't swaller it whole; it can't be no worse than some what's been told ter-night; so go ahead, old feller." They looked inquiringly at him. He drew his pipe out, rubbed its smooth stein against' is high boots as if in thought; then, tucking it into his hoot leg, lie glanced abJut time dingy room. "It aiig't exactly IlikC any of yer sto' leas," he began: but the smash-up-ter night made me think of it same's 'twas yesterday. "'Twas lifteen years back, when I was a-logging up in Michigan, and things was so dull and hard we was mighty glad when anything interest ing came up. So when one of the loggers brought news ti) from town that theme had been a terrible smash up, we was rather glad than other wise. Course we was sorry for them who had folks killed, but it didn't matter much to the folks what got killed. ''So a whole ci'owd of us quit camp and went inter town. T1here was fifteen folks dead, andl seime pretty bad shook up. There wams one woman who hadn't known a thing over since she landed on 'er head. And she had a little girl, so Ben who kept the house told us, and he was dread fully upset 'bout that child. 'Cause, you see, there wa'n't any women folks In town porm look after it. Ben's wife had took p audden notion ter go East a week before, and shte was the onmly one, eixcept the station agent's wife, who had died~ a month ago. " 'It does seem kind or tough that there ain't no woman ter' kind or mother her,' lion said, as he set about thme stove a-talking'same's we be now. ' And she's most cried heself sick, too. Wish the train hadn't seen it totr smash up hero'; and lhe scowled an awful scowl. "''Yer. wouldn't have sold so much beer, so yet' tneedn't be blaming your goo dc,' one of the inen told him; but he seemed a bit troubled all even ing and kept a-going up ter listen close totr her door' and see if she'd stoppedO~ cryitng. Blimo- by, he caime back considerably relieved. " 'She sounds quiet,' he said ; 'amnd now I guiess we can rest easy.' "So) we wvere having a rousing good timne, when all o' a sudden the follor' ntext tot' sie gave mne an awful stat andl said kind erl low :'Samn, I see aL ghost.' '"'Ghost, nothing,' I reOplied ; biut I looked whore lhe pointed, and sur~e enough there was something wvhite a 'om ing down the (lark halliway. " Bly this time somec o' the others sawv we wvas a-lookini' at something, and they Aookod too. And 'fore we began toe' realize wvhat it was a little bit of " "Why do? Susan come upi to hear' me say iny priayer's ?' " If it had boon a real live ghost It couldn't have struck us so sudden. "'Better go back tot' bed,' Hen 5!tid, trying to speak soft ike. 'Siusan's busy no~w, and can't come :so r'un along." .' " ut site know lhe was ia- foolit' her, and she was a spunky little thing. '' '1 will have iSu,' site cried, a stampinmg hotr little buare foot. 'Tell hot' to come ight now,' and site looked real proud like. " 'Susan ain't here ; she's gone,' lBen said, klndei' shamttd. 'Guess you can say your pr'ayo's ter yorsel f this once, can't yet'?' he asked. ''Course not,' shte said, lieu' eyes bi1g. ' There wouldtn't he tanyono to say ; '' God bless you, darl Ing and1( keep you ;" 'and that little under lip o' hot's began ter' tremble. "I teil yer, boys there come a mpI in my throat so big, if it had boen gold r'd 'a' been a r'cinant : and all of us was a-wishing we were back 11 camp, 'twas so mighty uncomfortabl i-hearing that kid asking for some on ter hear her prayers. "Sudden, she came further into th room and looked all round ter us men and yer never seen such a pretty sigh in all yer life as she made there. big blue eyes were tilled with tear and her cheeks were pretty and pink and her golden hair was all frowzled and her little pink feet peeved ou below her white gown, like May flowers when they shine through i snowdrift on a warm day. Everything was so black around she looked like , little. whit' flower growing all alon in a clump r black stumps: and some, how I W ished all o' a sudden that I wa'n't such a rough old chap. Though1 it muet have boon nice toer had akid like that real friendly with me when I come home nights. "Scemed as if she must have known what I was thinking about, 'cause she came up tert me, real confiding like, and put her little nand onter my knee, and saild : "'You'll I hear me say y13' layers won't you ?' "I tell you that room was awful still, and I didn't dare look round ter see the fellers a-grinling at the thou0ht, of tme a-hearing her say hert prayers. Hadn't said my own for nigh onter' twenty years. " 13tit she stood expectant like, and I tell yer, boys, I jost couldn't say no. I'd 'a' ruthier had 'emii all a-laughing at tue forever thau 'a' hurt that poor- kid. itrange what fools 11011 are sometimes, 1iU'r it ? " 'Well,' says f, 'go aheau; I'll listen.' " Thenoshe dropped down outer her <necs, and clasped lier little hands. md I waited for her ter begin. " You must fold your hands, too,' the said, 'and get down otn your knees lide o' mie.' "'Oh, this'li do,' I said. 'I can tear you just as well this way, and I litn't very much used ter praying " "' 131ut she insisted, and so just cause didn't know what else ter do, I got [own on the floor, too. " 1 cant,' seem ter retnetmber very nitich what site said, culy I know it ided : 'God bless everybody'; and hen when she said amen, she didn't et up, but kinder waited. " I looked round ter see what was ip, and, if you'll believe me, three of itn mnen were down on their knees, oo, and one of 'em was crying like a iaby. "'Yet' must say what she told yet' 0,' whispered Bet). "Then I kinder recollected what he had said, and managed, with his ielping, to say: 'God bless you, darl ng, and keep you,' and as I said it I neant it, too. "She seemed satislied then, and got i) and shook hands with me ; then ,vhen Bill hold out his, she shook all 'otiund, and went olT a-smilin' a, happy is could be. " That's all there is ter it." and 4am glanced deliantly at his audience. ' But it's true, every word, and I'm rotud or it, too. 'Taint' very often we cid er folks get a chance tot see tngels, and yer don't never want ter niss it if yer do." There wits a silence for a moment, ,hen Sam got tip and pushed back his itool and shitiled from the room. "That was a good yarn of h is, aid one, as the door closed ; and the >theirs prepar-ed to take their dopar ,urIe also. " But yet never would er thought it >f him, would yer, now ?" tiue'ied an tler. One by one they filed out, and the andlord. barring the doot behind hiem, stood looking vacantly at the ipty chairs. " That was a good yarn," lie mused. -New Yoik independlent. NOT' A BIIID OF ROSICS. 1ite Tr'ials andt Perpllexltieos oh' the Ollice Seeker. 'lThe Augusta Chm'oniclo says that sotmetimes just after' an election, when the victor'y has 'been won, the baud serenades, and friedds congratulate, many people go hotme envying the lucky man. But this is only the brightt side of the picturte. The trials bhat ar'e yet to come ar'e not so leas-t Ing. The muen wilo ai'e ready to tell how hard they workked tot' him and how much they need his assistamnce will be along bright and early the text mot'ning, and they will heep it up. H~e inds the pleaisurt'es largely out weighed by the sacr~iifice of hits itnde pendence and loss or ht is p~ersonatll free diom. Hie can no longer' have quiti when he wanits it, antd control his own time. lie is the ser'vtant tof Lbe pubtlic and the ofileeo seekinog portion of the public is a tir'eless tttkI malstr. Thei Knox viille 'LTribuan. congt atulati n G~ov. T1aylotr, of TJ'ntnesseeupo httt tis abandonment of pl1i ties tot' the lehcture p~latformti draws thet f ollowying picture' of the politiciants : "'1The p~atht of the political o111lc seeker is rough t umd stony, and int the uitown of the ohilce-holder' there arc about as tmany Llhornis ats r'ose. lit goeth to his labor's with anxiety bal oing hope, and lie Ilieth down uiipon a betd of willows inistead of poppies, with worr'ty tot' a 1)il1ow and disgust tor a blanket. lHe riseth int the mor'nin~ with that tired feeling whlich the pleasure of place antd the piompi atnd power' tof position catnot dissipate. Hie makoth transient fr'iends and p)er manent enemies, and when hin sighs tot' the mutsic of praise hiis wear'y cart at'e harsh y gt'eoted wviith thte discord ant voice of the merciless critic antd self-appointed censor. Si va tol lows him witht relentless pursuit1, while Vishnut regards him w ith cold indif forence and1 Informs him that lhe muist lookout fot'Ir hmuself. HIis fr'ionds levy tribute upoti him anti htis substance mteltetht like ice in the sutnmert sut attt van isheth like a shuadowv at thn break t'f dat. lie gtoeth to his gr'avt in sorr~ow atnd ( diappoitntet anti tht alabaster boxes ofI praise anti kinm words that were denk'd him while liv ing are op~ened utpott his cotlin, too lat' to beal or soothe. Tlhtey fall only om thte " tdull cold oar of (leath." -MrIin. lter, thte father of Mrs George Curesotn, stattdt fromtl the bot toml rung of the social latdder as window cleaner in a Chicago dry good house, where lie had applied rot' en ploymett. Hoe Is now a merchantc that city wvith a fotuneitit estimiated $n nuOOn.OO a BILL ARP ON BABI&S. HIS 1XPEtIUENCE &S A NURS He lis Glad that Women Love The -Great Men and Their Childlren, r That was a pretty Persiani rlyni 1 which said A new-born child lay (rying While all around were smilhng; I An aged man % as dying . And peaceftilly was sm ilig While all arotinl were crying. Sir William Jones put it In buttl L verse : " On parent knees, a nked new-hoi child Lay weeping, while all around it smiled. So live that, sinking in thy last long slet Calim thou iavst smile while all arout thee weep." What is more wond'erful or beautifi than the maternal instinct-what a attraction does a birth In the fami) have for all the sex-the women an children, girl children I mean-ti men and the boys show no great coi cern. The babes would have a har and perilous time if entrusted to then Babes are born every day, every houi by the thousand. It is the most con mon and universal event that concert our humanity. It is more commo than death, for more come into th world than go out of it every year, an yet the excitement of a birth goes o and is a big thing with matrons ani with maids. l'or a few days I hav sat inl my veranda and ruminated, fo the women come and go and the neigi bors send flowers and kind messag and the girl children come to see th baby, and the tiniest one wants to hol it in her .arme. Verily, it looks lilk this was the first and the last one the ever was born. The three great event of our life, oar birth and marriage an death, are ministered, too, by womar What a sad alfair would either b without her presence, her care an sympathy. The wonder is that sh van go through the ordeal that prov dence has assigned her, and he so cor tented, so calm and serene. Wit mother ever harbors gloomy fears c forebodings about Ier infant child I-low hopefially they look upon the ft ture-how happy in the love of liC offsprinig-. The poet says : A mother is a miother still The holiest thing allive." And site is. I wish that I was as goo< as true and as loving as the a-erag mother in this land. I wish that was as sure of heaven. Most of thei have a child up there, and they sti treasure every smile, every dimph every song, and in their wakin dreams realize what the poet so beat tifully said : " 0, when a mother meets on high The hahe site lost itn infanwy. II ath she not. thein for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watelful night, Por allher sorrows, all her tears An noverpaytnent of delight?' The maternal instinct! The nev, fading love of children. My wife serenely happy now, for there is a other child to look after, and sl moves around with her old alacrity. used to help her with her own, but m time is out. As old man Calder sal after the first battle of Manassas, have lit enough." I used to tote tl little chap around the room sometim half the night and sing my little son until I wore it out, and at times I fe like the tired parent who hugged li little boy to his bosom and said : " wouldn't take a million dollars for yo --no I wouldn't--but I wouldn't give nickle for another." It is a weary bus ness-nursing and caring for a littl child. But it is a part of tite bargain, an has to be done, and it has its reward: The more the father helps with th children the better he loves them an the mor'e they love him. Tihe counta people, as a rule, have no nturses ft their children except the memtbers< the family, and their devotion to th lIttle helpless ones Is beautiful. TI baby In a country homte is cornmm property. All nurse it and the fathc does his share wvhen he comes froi thte field. Go to a country churcht a Sunday and see how many fathore at not ashamed to " tote the child " an keel) It while preaching is going or Why shtouldtn't he ? I t showvs his lov to the child aind his loyalty to hIs wvIf TJhe average farmer has not a vet wide field for his ambllitlon. He is ni seeking fame or ofice or rilches. H has tnc longings for going to New Yor or Washing ton or crossIng the oceal H-Iis htope atnd dleslre is limited to h fatmily andu his fatrmt and ho looks God ror' raini and sunsh ine. T'hero ntothting that wveans himu from hiis wvi and children or that gets between hii anmd thtetm. Sometimes lie takes tI1 family to town in the big wagon, an someitimes the children go with hii to thes mill, and on Sutndays all go meeting, antd so the weeks and mnontl r'oll on--provig the truth of the pboet lines "I lappy thie mani whose w ishi and ienre A few piaterttal acres hound." It Is gi von to but few men in th wotrld to do any great thing, butt a can be happy if they will be c'onttel with their humble lot. I used to emi the rilch and great, biut do not niow. 1 a general trule grieuf and sorrow al the poerquitsities of riches anid ol famt Great meon ar'e rarely blessed wit loving ch ildren. Not long ago ontto our noblest men found htimself face face at D~elmuonico's with a dIrunki son. His morttlifcatio~n was inttetm and the lineis of trouble still 1linger Is face. The p~ressumre of pumbl atf'airs andtt the constant str~ugmrle keep up roclally atnd politically co suimed the time that should have bet dievotedl to lis chi ldrten. in such cas the mother Is thteir otily saleguar She may do all she can, but she cat not watch her boys when they get their teens. She can love and pr'i atnd chide, but, stIll they wIll str. away. It i l Itil to see thte break it of a ntother s heart over a son who on trial for, his life. How closely do she cling to him when all the world against htin. I tremember' c a wi ow who sold her' cow and her litt furniture and then went from store store begging for a little tmore mont to take her to Arkansas to see her s< .who was In jail for' murder. Her' dev tion saved his life, but not his libert i and she was thankful for she foui a some work near by and could visit hi -in his prison and comfort him wI if her love and blessing. What an a t -ful thing it must be to have no one love, vou, and yat there ar'e thouam of such in thie prisons of the land. Noth- ful, Ing was so touching in Governor At- flav< kinson's ailliction than his respite of a Tl man who was to be hung-his tender insoe m thought while on the brink of the port grave of a poor wretch who was beg- cond ging for his life. Dan Voorhees once and hurried to a distant State to defend a cond young man accused of murder, andl he mos1 saved him for his widowed mother's sake, because her father had been good to him when he was young and poor. If we men do not have love in our hearts like a mother's, we honor It A Cl ,r and respect It and admire it all the more. Blii, AmP. te AN ENCOUIRAGING PROSPECT. fr-on: A The WeatherGenerally Favorable anti MarkedInprovementin All Crops. le Tie following is the report of the quel weather bureau for the week ending to tu -y 2nd of July : betw% d The past week opened with crops Hari 0 noeding rain over a considerable por. I MIc I- tion of the State, but particularly in mon d Spartanburg. (reenvile, Pickens, then . Union, Laurens, Newberry, Ander- 11101 son, Abbeville and Aiken counties. chat S''here were also dry districts in other Mori s po'rtions of the State where the need the n of rain was not quite so urgent. The e During the week showers were latio d numerous but very partial : some self. 11 farms, or even fields, having all the .1 une d rain needed, while adjoining farms 80n's e or fields had little or none. leginning TI r with the 29th (Saturday) and continu- will - ing through to July 1st (Monday) the Chic s rains were more evenly distributed, by S e and no portion of the State but that of th d received sonic rain in that period. one < e During the week there were wvash- vice t ing rains in Kershaw county, where secol ,s fields are becoming grassy, being too He i d wet to work. There was also an excess tar3y L of rains in portions of Florence and the ,e Barnwell counties hindering cultiva- VOsW d tion. the 0 There were local high winds doing view - damage, over limited areas, to trees, vice - to cotton, and corn, in Chesterfield, infom Lt Kershaw and Williamsburg counties. 'n1d 1 Qr The sunshine during the week was ? less than the normal, averaging only wea I about 58 per cent. for the entire State, and ranging from 49 at Statesburg, issu Sumter county, to 92 at McColl, Marl- akt boro county, but it was generally suf- ca ti licient for the needs of the crops. tirt On the 25th there WatsI a hail sto"mn tho. e in Marlboro county, but it did little or over I no damage : on the 2(ith therc was a Chic n hail storm in Chesterfield county that and i did some damage to crops. lecte T, rhe temlerature was quite oven than g during the whole week, and on no ed t, - day did the departure from the nor- This mnal exceed 3 degrees. It was slightly rcei above on four days and below, o.- nor- a hno mal, on three, making the average for proft the week as nearly seasonable as is $2, 0 possible to determine. foret The highest temperature reqporte( pr0Zi was 100 on the 25th at Bilackville, Dt L31r and on the 2(6th and 27th at Loopers the lowest reporteil wis 62 on the 29th ei, n- at Batesburg. ter l The mean temporaLure of the week mer I for- thle State was about , and the normal for the same period is apploxi- hi d mately 80. te I The only existing unfavorable eon- atte e dition is the continuod deficiency In Mn rainfall in Portions of the State. 'llhere were showers every day during the abou It past week in somec section or other, I but they were generally light, with and marked exceptions. The rains of the an latter portion of the week fell after I inp many correspondents had mailed their Condi reports, and 3o do not appear in this best 0 week's suininary, but will appear in art d the figures of the next bu"lle tin. '1he )oiti heaviest rainfall for the week is re- tfryln I ported froi Charleston, with a fall of i 2.841 inches ; there were ten other la.1cs with amounts of from to forty inches. The average of -10 rainfall te s ,freports is 0.90, and the normal for the same period is applroximnately I .2X. eAs a result of the generally favor nable conditions, as shown by the above i'wei weather review, there continues to be na marked Improvement in all crops, Trh nand 'farmers arc well up with their coe d1 cegtlons, clean and well cultivated, cent, ar'e stpl crop, ctto and corn, an c formier being noted ats the smallest for' exto many years at this season. It is ou 1 ,vigorous andl has a goodl color', and T eis putting on squares fr'eely ; first ~1t kblooms were generally reported dlur Ing the laut week of .June, which is (ent consmuferably later than usual. In ge Anderson and some other of the Wes torn g roup of counties its growth has 100 hitherto been greatly retarded by the greg n dry weather, but now looks promnising. ' eSea island cotton growing fairly well. edlit d Old corn is being laid by all over the 8(1: 1 SState, as the weather plermits. It is TI: ini the silk and tassel, and although its used stalkc is short, yet its color is good and ship ,, promisinig generally. Blottom land o036 corn is s:aid to be in excellent condItion lay I everywhecre and miak ing rapid growth. TI' Some c'ra beIng plantedi on oats stub- mor bles, hut ipeas arc receiving the pro- nin is ference in many places for planting can1It 1I stubble.I it Wheat, thrashing is nearing comiple- (it ,tiont with generally satisfactory yields, b yt is but authin g ex traordI iary, Ilaate oats00 se arc a good crop) ini Snumter, lFairIfield~ e. andl Horry Counties, and possibly gen- A ,h orally s(o. tics if T1'Ie tobalcco) c.ropl was greatly in- I'(i5L Lo proved b~y the rains of thme past, week. ishi m in Williamsburg County seome has coed se already boeen cut, and( it, wVill soon beoare O tr. fit toi cut, in portions (of I''lorence andI orth Ic lDar-lington Counities. TI to, Peas arte growing well lately, and hlers n- a large crop) is boeig pllanted on oats Sc on stubb)ie1. T1he showers have enabled ber. us pens to germinate quickly. tuire (. Melons have made decided improve- the w ent and are prom isi ng a large eroip, follit in but are so late that, it, is feared that fhel ry they will not rIpe 111in th nc to 11ind a in ni my remunerative miarket. of c ag Advantage W as taken of the shiower~y antd is weather to pllant sweet potato sI pms, num es and the crop no0w promiises better than cdi fi is at any time this year. sc ci- ...Gardens suffered most from the dry I le weather, and in portions of the State Prol to are practieally ruined. I lowever, it4 e Is salid they can be repllanted, andl with nun an favorable weathber, yield large crops per~ o- of fall vegetables. orgc y Peachies are scarce and of poor' 1d qfuality in llor'ry counity, but peachles, - m as well as many other .varieties of Ken th fruits amid berries, are generally quite D~en w- plentiful. TIhe quality (If the fruit It to varies In dlitfereit, sectionis, but Is was ds enerally very fair'. A pules are Ilenti- to %nd though small are of excel W1. ie State Is remarkably free I .t posts, none having been ed the past week ; the wea Itions are generally favorti with the crops In a satisfac Ition, the mid-summor outkx encouraging for farmers. 'liHIC WEATHiEl BUItEAU. lange in the Managnie mn of ather Iv Waisington Aut] N. ,of. Mark W. Harrington, chic Aveather bureau, has been relic I duty, owing to a disagreen Secretary Morton. ils resig was Called for on June 19th, declined to resign and su itly was removed by the Presk ko effect July 1st. The relat Con Secretary Morton and P -ington, who was appointed fi igan, have been strained Lhs and correspondence betw has been carried 0Oi only in formal language. Soon after go of administration Secre ,on instituted an investigatiol basiness alfairs of the burt result increased the strained n between the Secretary and I The trouble came to a clima: 19th with a cal I for the pr resignation. o successor of Mr. llarrin be Prof. Williamn I.. Moore ago, who has been recommnel L3cretary Morton as the new 0 e bureau, and who is regarde f the best forecasters in the with a reputation for aceu id to none in the departm rat came to the Uotice of So Morton about a year ago, w Secretary bogan a thorough gation of the work being done weather bureau, with the on Ofr-materially impro%'insg the and causing it to issuue pract ination for the farmer, merel ailor and every other line of I in which the condition of her and the approach of sto anything to t). Circulars w d to the better class of foretasi ig for essays on the practical fi ng of the weather bureau. Al. y of the 111m) replied. These numbered, but with their i names lai It nown, wore tulr to a board consisting f ilarrington, Prof. Mendeni Qlajor Dunwoody. This board dI the best of these essays, ten, and the authors were ort W Washingtoni to make repo Wats don)o for t mouth and Nh ving thIe highest percent at 100, was given the positiol )asor of meteorology at a salat, 0. ie was, prior to this, 14 aster at Milwaukee, but after lotion was transferred to Chic iring last winter he made a % u1 record considering the cha >f the weather. There were Jus cold waves that season, . lemt of unusual severity, and it narvelous accuracy in predic r coming that again attracted ation of Secretary Morton. c that pleased the Secretary 's fashion of making stateni t which there could be no do voide0l all anbiguous predicti risked a positive statement Ely said in his report that it saible to judge the fortheom itions, following this with judgment he could command. y missed tile mark and his were the best made in that v g kind of weather. p)olitics Mr. Moore is said to I blican. i1e is a man of at] years of age aid has grown i crv Ice. CHUILCII ST'AT1iSTl(CS. ity Million of' Chzurchm Menmi In thme IUited States. census rep~ort of the U nited St 'ing the statistics of chure hi has just come from the pm lins some Interesting facts. laborate wvork of lmre than s, with colored maps showing ut of the various organized r'e >odies in tile various States. tore are 1.13 distinct denominat e United States, beCsides inde chuarches and1 mniscellaneous 'at ions. The total comttmuiLtlc I domlil inalions is 20,012,801. ig to 165i, 177 organ tizaltions or ations. hose congregations have 142 fles, which) h ave si tting for 14, 'orson a. le value of all cshurchi prope exclusively for' pu1rposes of is $6i79,0:10, I:10. T1here are rogualar miniisters, not Includ1( wenctchiers. ere( are five bodiaes whlich hb than I ,000:4i00m commuan nicants ben more than 50I0,000,O i in round numbihers are usa folkc man11 Catholic, I;.250,000:1 Mo rin, 1.280,332: lautheran, I.: i'rotestmant I'pliscopal, 540,000. 4tudy of the details of the ati (develop some) aplparently stra its. Ouit of a total of 1310,000. 5)11mmun11icanta, the reformed the orthodox by l5,000. TI 3,500 liussian orthodox, 10)0 Gi :)dox and 10,850 (Greek Cotholic an Salvation Armiy has 8,742 u enrol led, and the Chi n ntists just 18 less thun thatt The denoiination of i'thial has a memberlmi p of 1,0,14, w AltruIst is able to show but woris. VTe mnemtbers of :ssoph I al Soncety aagg regatle Llllumbe of commnicants and1( v humrch Itproperty New York h I 'enntsylva'nla follows, but In ber' of organizaflions anid chi ces P ennsylvna aia is first and ( uid. ho incmrease in the valuie of cha aerty since 1870) has been $368, or nearly 92 1per cent. wile I beor of cbuhucs has incr'ease jent. Tihie increase in nmbmi 6nizations is 1211 per cent. Ilon. WV. C. P'. lireckinrlidg tueky. was not visible at the r' iocratic Convention of that S vas the first, in which his not heard since lhe wats old en ONE' IIUNDtII) YVICAtS AGO. .a How Ile Declaratnio or Indepen. vo, dence Was Celebarated by otr An of, emtors. N. Y. Shipopinig 1.iiiluly j;,p j. The week which has just had its centennial anniversary was remark lit able in this country, and especially in at thiis city, for its popular and joyful n_ celebration or the ntinetoonth birthday V of the Declaration of independence. Prior to that an important State o and political ceremony was one id through on July . On that day, John Jay, the recent returned Ambassador 'o -oG at Britain whose toeaty was then the uppermostsubject in all men's minds, was dulylsworn in as Gover it hc of the State of New York, to 0 which olico he had been elected dur 3 ing hior absence. The simplicity of Stie ceremony was democratic in the (Ieoxtrme.r. Jay remained quietly it Ils residenc on Broadway, and here about noon the Secrotary o Stato 0 waite upon l him. In the presence of a fow gotlomen the oath of office wus then administerel in the prescribed e form to Mr. .ay as Governor, and also rl to laiout.-Gov.-Olet Va Rusoler Is This function was followed by a re - coption, attended by all the prominont e etizons of the town, when the Govor c nor received. conigratulatiotns on his accession to otlice. y The next ovent was the iourth of d1July, anld prue parationls were made for mite greatest celebiation New York had known. Notices were published id in the papers, calling uitom all patriotic se citizenis to trfrain fronm business of ally le kiid, tind the mrnwiing of a glorious n- day was ushered in by peals of blls fromit overy steeple in tihe aity, and a rt edieral sa lute of cainiton lived in Bat !d tory Park. This saluiito was repoated or at llidday .1and again in the evening. [Li Pollowing the morning salute overy w body in the city started for the Bat (I tory. whero the procession of the day -t was to forum. Promptly at It o'olock d Col. it t.gors, commiiander of the i ,oglon, S~ook up with his brigado the Iine of If mtiarhel ull Broadway. lPollowing- woro e the Machanie, T'ianunany and lelno er-atic societies, Capt. Montaigne's - oipany of Light antigers, a guard of s militia ollicers anl others, nearly a n thousLnd men belig inl the line. ,1- The pr2ocession mclhed to the New e P'resbIl)yt-i an Church, wier the s.rv at ices of the daiy were hold. They were V opeeild with the reading of that lit 5 mortal dockaumeit. the i)eclaration of Independonco. by Mr. ld ward lAiving . stonl. After this efmnme the oration, I- delivered by MI r. NIllIr, anl charac t terized itn the pitblic prints of that time If ats an "eleganit and patriotie dis d coulrse." Te procession then reforenod a and returated to Battery Park, where i thboso troops )who worc under arus dis U --hAlrged a fei d joi1, amnild great 1, enthu'siatstm, ani the parade was dis ts tilissed. 3t Eich CoiitpIany then reptLir-Od to its I parttiiltr chiosenl spot.for dinner, and the jovial antd social colchration jnupcr to the spirit of the times was begIn-17\ s At the fauous old Toutine Cooee Hoase the merchatits of the city gave a gaeait baian inet, at which were pres O ant as guosts such ldistinguished mont a s Ills M'xcelloncy Gov. Johin .Jay, , Major-Gen. Morris, Judge frodell, T Sonator Reod of South Carolina, Mayor Sin , .1tdge Hobart, Col. HLamilton, tludgo Lawrence, Secretary of Stato r)a. Johnson and otlhors. The toast list was a long one atnl patriotic to tihe last wotrd. Anotlier big dinner was that Sgiventil in t.he rooms of the Flriary, at which the entire Third Company of the Artillery Iogiment wore the guests. At the conclusion of the dinners Hod variois sociOties Heated iut)LT their boards sent and reccived'doputations Ly wi th conigratulaitory andI~ paitriotic, a metssatges. A among the organizationsb e tihus exuhtmanginag comartesies wvere the eC CorpIoratmion, the Society of the Cin ar. cintnati, the Militia O0liers, the Me 3r e hanic, Tammauny, Demaocratie. New ir' York liangurs and others. ini the 3d evenintg the day's festivities were con 1is cluded with atn elatborato display of ne fireworks b~y Col. Ilaumtan and the Ic Itegimnat of Artillery, wvhich was a ait groat troat, foa that timo. al Colebrationts also took plae in other' is- ,cities, H OstonJ, in p~articutlair, hav'ing a. is great paratd o atad accomaapany ing ser' r,* viceIs andl ortiions.. in P'hilatdelphia ec onaly wvas the day mnarred by any dis )y tuirbaanee. [Hore earaly in the morning 11 a crowd of d isailfected ones, whose ep ic positiont to the receont treaty wats btili IC strong, attempted to .burnif in efhigy r- .Johan .Jay. VTo magistrates, learmningf nI of the plot in thnto, were prepared tO andI thle atttempt frustrated, six' or st cighat of the ringleaders being arrest ed. Toward evening another mobh, numbering perhalps 300, which had formed out in the Northern i berties, Cmatrchted into the city atnd repeated1 the attemptjt. A troopi of the. city o(caval ry were at once cal led out and or chartged the mtob with dr'awn swordls. on A tra brief struggle, in which. sev eral were slighatly injured, tihe rioters broke anid man, ando the tr'oub~le was de suhpressedl. t.s A b~road the week< was scarcely mote in evenutfuil. 'lThe lerenchl Itoepublic was he conatemndintg with the e3xped(l1itin of the its lioyalist cmi grants lauded by Great to Brmitaini a~t the Hay3 of Qutiberon, and the be Choans and Veatdeanas were incereas in, lug thelir hostile activity. At Paris, ea the A meamricam n mister, .Jamnes Monroe, Is- colobarated the ieoutrthl of .1 uly by a rr royal fete. Th'le President of the air Nationmal Assemly wats present and. 3y prIop)osed thte toatst, "' Congress and - a m 'iesidnt Washington," which was N til greeted with tremendous enthtusiasm. amr Nearly thtree htundmred guests were present, inch td ingm near'ly all the foreign Ministers, mnany Deputies of the eon vention, mind public and prominent iet-mn A guest whose brilliancy orna 11( montted the occasion and did credit to .~3 his nautivo cotuntry was Thomas Paine, dO the autthort of the famuts " Ago of Iitoasoni." is- One other event, and tis a deed of mt nagnanimity and mercy, marked the iacehebratiomn of tile Amer ican Independ ed ence D~ay abroad. At Brunn, the as year before, a Dr'. Bellman had at temp~ted by fomrce to carr'y off the nolo Marquis deILafayette. H-is attemtpt an had failed,3and he himself was catught let- and imprisoned in the military prison it at that place. A year later, on the t, to anniversary of the day 'is attemplt go- had been made, he was liberated and hat warned to leave French territory for ever.. roin Stat ement of1the Collnpi roller Gentes 110. -liin Inlvestigationl Revealedt I or Urininal Wroig 4ons ile part. be Ofllelaus. 'oliihia Register. k is Comptroller General .lames Nort has returned from Alkei. where went to look into the alfalrs of ti county which setned to he very u satisfactory from the report made the grand jury. General Norton, aft the a Close ind thorough Investigation ior' the situation, inds that 110 Sts funds are involved in the report< f of Crookedness. He finds that while ti ved rand jury were honest and sincoi lent in their presentment, still they wei ,na- laboring under wrong impressions. but Generol Norton in speaking abot bso- the results or his trip, said that 1 ent found there wore irregularities in th one county commissioners olice in ti ro. letting of contracts for roads ai -om bridges. " I don't think " he sat for " that any personal benetit h as aerne eon to the members of the board by th the action they took. the " It Ns also true, as the grand jul airy reported, that the expenses of ti 1 of county have been increased seven t au. eight thousaand dollars, but for tih re- the county eonmmisbioners are not v ii- tirely resonsible. A couparison on the expenses for this year and LI (us- yoars previous, shows that tile coun coi iissionlers had spent practical rton nothing inl imIiprovellelt of rois a of bridges. This maatter had het ded neglected and the publie necessiti tief required that larger allounts shou I as be expended in this line. In the sel.- t,wo iources, alott, at largo part of L] acy Ituereased expenditures arn' explai L3nt. able."' e.: General Norton said that the cou hon ) 0xpen0ses were heavy. le learm4 jn- that there were tell or twelvo murdli by Cases on hand. beside, al unuisu1 i in number of other cases of a serio W1r- attur. This caused an increase ical amlounlt o f expendituries onl tihe pal an. of the sher-i f and clet-k, wlih li 11s- to b pa'.d, but theso were mattei the which wiere beyond the ot'i rol ( -ms the coun i'ty ('o11unllissionirs. Thio. ert.t Lhings could not he ieI ped. ,'S .The grand jury iilso reported Supei . 10v r Sawyer as usilg liulic fund o01 t to pay privatO debt.s. Genealtl Norto us. says ()3n tit. face of it, it looks Lilt au- wa) , but that l Mr. Sawyer., w i th th mLed cone8it of the commit1issiolers. drow of WIaI111nt i his Own faVor, whic 11 iall pr-oselited to a Creditor. This wa BC- not strictly legal. es1 I t was also cliarged that Supervist ler- Sawyer was guilty of forgery. Gie ets. ral Norton -xplains this by th fat ore ithait Major Chamipion was clerk < go, tile board ; ws .,13k and icede If tile mlione.y anld Mr. Sany- ' drew of wair , anlld signed Mr. C hait..'on cal nallic to it. ill the presliulc of L1 his board. This he did to serve a frienw Lgo. uld while technik.ally the charge w1 ito true, still the ciircullstalces wetre slit VL- as to relieve N'. Sawyer of a rae- criminal intent. Generl Nortmon concluded by say i 1110 that fromii conv'ersationi witlh 11101nmb wbits of tilt grandl~ jutile wi V'ts 3onfideit L"ng tIatlt tite 'e30't wILS not m1ad0 1 t political eflect. The imumbers of t was jury were, i1 In is opilnion, hoiiest Was theit' wishes to do th best in ith 31 poweri for their county. The jul I wbt. aits composeI of twelvo IReformlle 0 1 n mld live Conservativtes, and the spec Or Committee, which inve-tigated 114 vas tors, consisted of ti'ee iteformlers il Ing l.wo Conserbvattivos. 1,1f erj.oral Norton while adiittir lIe that th-ere were great irr'egularite re- does not think that any intentionm rywrong wits done. So fair Its mont is concerned, ielther the county < iL States loses atlythinug. > inl - --it maiy nott lbt. knownl genera'lt 1has had aL ver'y romanl~ltie hsistory. SI wats a child of poor1 parenclts in ti ,, subuirbs of (Canton, and inmarkable f her' heauty. AL a tinie wheni hi partients dlid not know whence the ites daily breaid waIs to como sh10 suggest lte5, that they sell her aLs a slave. TI' 'ess, COurise was followed and she becan [t is the pr'operty3 of a famous general.1 800 waIs Ro onichated)( wvith hcr helity thi tihe lhe atdopted( herl. When thle genes Li'i next went to il'ekinlg, SO satys ai corr<i pondenlt, tile genierail lerered 1: ions hoauiii tiu ldaughster' to the l'll0mpor pies) and thereby wonI gr'eat favor. TI LonJ- younig giril so ellrme h'lt3liis Majest~yI 3ints her' looks and1( intellIigenice that who soon1 madet. herm is wvife. Whlen ti on- i10mpjeror' d ied~ tihe former' slavet. becanl r'egenlt of the emp1 lire hand admiinlistCe di.1,. almost any13 of iher predces~t3Qsors5. 51 is justly considered one1 of tile greate rty wOmion oif hei' time11. vor- - --" * ----- 1ing \Vlilhita, Kansas, schools has be susplended tor r'ead~ing tilt foilowi av essay Onl " I 'ants," says the~ Guithi and State Capital: "P ants are mladi l'ho men. and not men for pants. Womn ws: are made for' mten and not for' panf ~ho- When a m~an pants tor Ia womnll aii res- wVomenil panits or' it man they ar'e a pi .of panits. Such paints don't l ast. Part ' ae like mlai~sses :thley ar'e thilnneri hot wether atndl thici.ker' in cold. T1 is-man in the m310oonlcanlges hiis piar eo duri ng the cclip. Don~ lul't you go o w- the pantry.~ forl pant51 , youi miiighit 30ro pants. Such mnisLakes mtak es breec: 'cek of p~romiise). Thee has~)0 benmuchi d .)ussioni at to whllttlEri pants is sinig il (on-ii 1)r1 plral. Settmis to us whemen we(11it tlti" don't wear' pants it is inigiular3. i Ui-I go on a tear' in thei r pants, and It is : bile right,, but whsen thet pani~ts go on a te -'' it is ll wi1rng." thue -h aetpiaersdne intda plted) in New!. Yor'k Is ihatedl a tihe I ligh Ltd by electricity. l'lectrici rehl will li kew iso dot the coiok ing inl t )i o kitchen, anid therie are electric bel e)lectIric. duImbi-watters, an1 electric p arch senger elevator' andt electr'ic ventil i46, ig tans. i'lectr'icity also( oerac'Ite tihe r'e figerating systemt whiaich is arrang .1 42 to koop1 tile teimperaturo' in summier 1' of (co(l as it is in w inter'. -Iong l'oo Ping a (Chinasman oif 5 3, (of l31ifranisco is an1 enthusiastic and ef1 cent ent member' (If tile Salvation Army. tate. 3s runmored that hie will soon be sen voice China to oi'ganize and lead an ovat: ou~gh listie mlovement (if the armny irn I