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VOL. X. LAURENS, S. C.,' TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1895 _ . ___ NO. 49. Man and HlnSlioea. "How much in a man like his ?hoen! ? For instance, both a sole may lose; both have been tanned ; both are made tight lly cobblers; both gel left and right ; Both need a mate to be complete, And both are made logo on feet. They both need heeling, oft are sold, Ann both in time will turn to mold. With shoes the last is llrst-, with men The llrst shall be last ; wlien The shoes wear out they're mended new. When men wear out they're men dead, too! They both are trod upon, and both Will tread on others, nothing loath. Both have their ties, and both incline. When |olished,ln the world to shine; A nd both peg out. Now would you choose To be a man or be his shoes?" Sam's Prayer Meeting. BY HAKK1K1' CAKYL COX. It had been a pretty had wreck, to ho sure, and the morning edition \>f the Kastern papers would tell of the foar ful collision that had occurred just as the train entered Lead Valley. But now the excitement, in the place of the disaster, hod begun to quiet down; for the rough minors of the little settlement wero too used to perils of all kinds to be long stirred by this wreck, withaits half-do/.ou fives lost. It was all over now, they reasoned, and they had helped oheorfully as long as help was needed; but now the wrecking crew was at work, and only an occasional straggler sauntered up to look at the derailed cars and pile of debris on either side of the truck. The rest ol the settlement wero in the oftlce of the one hotel the place afforded ; and the room was blue with smoke as they'sat about the sputtering lire and related anecdotes, or vied with each other in tales of danger and heroism. Souae of tbu stories woro old ones, as knowing gluucob betwoen the men showed ; but the crowd was good natured, and new and old alike wore received with approbation. I'M L>p,bes, the funny man of the placo, had just finished tolling u new and vory taking utory. Ed hud just returned from a neighboring settle ment, and had, doubtless, brought the story with him. As the shouts of laughter that had greeted him died uway, one of the men shouted : " Swearing Sam's goln' tor sleep. Wake him up, and make him tell us u 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 1 want ter tell it;" and ho replaced his pipe and relapsed into si lenoe. "Oh, come off!" they cried. "Yer ' .'?>u'<, sneak out or it that way. Guess yer eau 'stanM'o Hjf/o don't swaller it whole; it can't bo no woriif.f.ban some what's been told tor-night; so go ahead, old feller." They looked inquiringly at him. He drew his pipe out, rubbed its smooth stein against his high boots as if iu thought; then, tucking it into his hoot leg, ho glanced abjut the dingy room. ?' It ain't exactly like any of yer stor ies," he bogau ; hut the smash-up-tor night made mo think of It same's 'twas yesterday. "'Twos fifteen years back, when I woe a-logglng up in Michigan, and things was so dull and hard we was mighty glad whou anything interest ing came up. So when one of the loggers brought nows up from town that there hud been u torriblo smash up, we was rather glad than other wise. Course we was sorry for them who had folks killed, but it didn't matterj'much to the folks what got killed. "So a whole crowd of us quit camp and went inter town. There was fifteen folks dead, and some pretty bad shook up. There was one woman who hadn't known n thing ever since she landed on 'or head. And sho had a little girl, so Ben who kept the house told us, and he was dreadfully upset 'bout that child. 'Cause, you see, there wu'n't any women folks in town tor look aftor it. Ben's wife had took a sudden notion tor go East a wook before, and she was the only one, except the station agent's wife, who had died a month ago. " 'h, docs seem kind er tough that there ain't no woman ter kind or mother her,' Ben said, as he set about tho stove a-talking same's we be now. ' And she's mostoried herself sick, too. Wish the train hadn't seen tit tor smash up bore'; and he scowled an awful scowl. " 'Yer wouldn't have sold so much beer, ??> yer needn't be blaming your good luck,' one of the men told him; ut he seemed a bit troubled all even ing and kept a-going^ up ter listen close ter her door and see if sho'd stopped crying. Blme by, he came back considerably relieved. " 'She sounds quiet,' he said ; 'and now I guess we can rest easy.' " So we wore having a rousing good time, when all <>' a sudden the follor next ter mo gave me an awful .start and said kind or low : 'Sam, I see a ghost.' "'Ghost, nothing,* I replied; but I looked where he pointed, and sure enough there was something white a coming down the dark hallway. "By this time some o' the others taw we wasa-lookin' at something, and they looked too. And 'fore we began tor realize what it was a little bit of voice piped up: *yfhy don't Susan come up to hoar me say my prayers V" " If it had been a real live ghost it couldn't have struck us so sudden. " 'Better go back ter bed,' Ben said, trying to speak soft like. 'Susan's busy now, and can't como; ' so run along." " But Bhc know he was a-foolin' her, and she was a spunky little thing. " 'I will have Susan," she cried, a stamplng her little bare foot. Tell her to come right now,' and she looked roal proud like. " 'Susau ain't here ; she's gone,' Ben said, kinder shamed. Guess you oan say your prayers ter yerself this once, can't yer r he asked. '? 'Course not,' she said, her eyes big. 'Thore wouldn't be anyone to i-ay ; "God bloss you, darling, and keep you;" ' and that little under lip <>' hers bo gnu ter tremble. I" I tell yer, boys thore come a lump in my throat so big, if it had been uold I'd V been a rluh man ; and all of us was a-wishing wo were back in camp, 'twas so mighty uncomfortablo o-hearing that kid asking for some one ter hear her prayers. "Sudden, she uume further into the room and looked all round ter us men, and yer never seen such a pretty sight in all vor lifo as she made there. Her big blue eyos were tilled with tears and her cheeks wore pretty and pink, and her golden hair wan all f row/.led, and her little pink feet peeped out holow her white gown, like May flowers when they shine through a snowdrift on a warm day. Everything was bo black around she looked like a little white flower growing all alone in a cluinj) or black ?tumpu: and some how I wished all o' a sudden that I wa'n't such a rough old chap. Thought It must have been nice ter bad a kid like that real friendly with me when I come home nights. "Seemeri as if she must have known what I was thinking about, 'cause she came up ter mo, real confiding like, and put ner little hand onter my knee, and said: "'You'll hoar me say my prayers won't you V "I teil you that room was awful still, and I didn't dare look rouud ter see the fellers a-gr!nning at the thought of me a-hearlng her say her prayers. Hadn't said myowu for nigh onter twenty years. " But she stood expectant like, and I tell yer, boys, I just couldn't say no. I'd 'a' rutber had 'em all a-laughing at me forever than 'a' hurt that poor kid. Strange what fools men aro sometimes, ain't it ? " 'Well,' says I, 'go ahead; I'll listen.' "Thenoshe dropped down onter her knees, and clasped her little hands, and I waited fer her tor begin. " You must fold your hands, too,' she said, 'and get down on your knees side o' me.' "'Oh, this'll do.' I said. 'I can hear you just as well this way, and I ain't very much used ter praying !' "But she insisted, and so just cause 1 didn't know what else ter do, 1 got down on the floor, too. " I cant' seem ter remember very much w it she said, only I know it ended : 'od bless everybody'; and then wh< sho said amen, she didn't get up, but kinder waited. " I looked round ter soo what was up, and, if you'll beliove me, three of them men were down on their kneed, too, and one of 'em was crying like a baby. " 'Yer must say what shtj told yor to,' whispered Bon. "Then I kinder recollected what she had said, and managed, with his helping, to say: 'God bless you, darl ing, and keep you,' and as I said it 1 meant it, too. "She seemed satisfied thon, and got up and shook hands with me; then when BUI hold out his, sho shook all round, and went otT a-smilln' aa happy as could be. "That's all there is ter it," and Sam glanced defiantly ut his audience. " But it's true, every word, and I'm roud or it, too. 'Taint' very often we ind er folks get a chance ter see angels, and yer don't never want tor miss it if yor do." There was a silenco for a moment, then Sam got up and pushed back his stool and shufhed from the room. "That was a good yarn of his," said one, as the door closed ; and the others prepared to take their depar ture also. " But yer never would or thought it of him, would yer, now ?" queried an other. One by one thoy tiled out, and the landlord, barring the door boh ind thorn, stood looking vacantly at the empty chairs. " That was a good varn," he mused. ?Now Yoik Independent. THK Alii ion IRRKGUIjAKITIKS. Statement of t he Comptroller-General ?His Investigation ltcvealed No < Yi mi mi I Wron/v uu (lie Part of Officials. Columbia Register. Comptroller General James Norton has returned from Alken, whoro ho went to look into the affairs of that couuty which seemed to be very un satisfactory from tho report made by the grand jury. Genorul Norton, aftor a close and thorough investigation of the situation, finds that no State funds are involved In tho reported crookedness. He finds that while the grand jury wore honest and sincere in their presentment, still thoy were laboring under wrong impressions. Genorol Norton in speaking about tho results of his trip, said that he found there wore irregularities in tho couuty commissioners office in the letting of contracts for roads and bridges. " I don't think" he said, " that any personal benefit has accrued to the members of the board by the action they took. "It is also true, as the grand jury reported, that the expenses of the county have boon increased seven or eight thousand dollars, but for this the county commissioners are not en tirely reBonsible. A comparison of the expenses for this year ami tho years previous, shows that the county commissioners had spent practically nothing in improvement of roads and bridges. This matter had been neglected and the public necessities required that larger amounts should be expended in this line. In these two sources, alone, a large part of the incroascd expenditures are explain able." Gonoral Norton said that tho court' expenses were heavy. Ho learned that there were ten or twelve murder cases on hand, besides an unusual number of other cases of a serious nature. This caused an incroascd amount of expend it urcs on the part of tho shoriff and clerk, which had to be paid, but these were matters which wero beyond tho control of tho county commissioners. Those things could not beholped. Tho grand Jury also reported Super visor Sawyer as using public funds to pay private debts. General Norton says on the face of it, it looks that way, but that Mr. Sawyer, -with the consent of the commissioners, drew a warrant in his own favor, which he presented to a creditor. This was not strictly legal. It was also charged that Supervisor Sawyor was guilty of forgery. Gon oral Norton explains this by the fact that Major Champion was clerk of the board; he was sick and ncodod tho money and Mr. Sawyor drew a warrant and signed Mr. Champion's name to it, in tho presence of the board. This ho did to servo a friend, and while technically the oharge was true, still tue circumstances were suoh as to relieve Mr. Sawyor of any criminal intent. Genorol Norton concluded by saying that from conversation with members of the grand jury ho was confident that the report was not raado for political effect. The members of the juvy were, iu his opinion, honest in their wishes to do the best in tholr power for their county. The jury was composed of twelvo Reformers and five Conservatives, and the special committee, which investigated mat ters, consisted of throe Reformers and two Conservatives. Goi.oral Norton while admitting that there were great Irregularities, does not think that any intentional wrong was done. So far as money is concernod, neither tho county or Stales loses anything. ?Tho latest private residence com Rioted In New York Is heated and ghted by electricity. Electrlolty will likewise do tho cooking in the kitchen, and there are olectrio bells, elooti'io dumb-waiters, an electric pas senger elevator and electric ventilat ing funs. Electricity also operates a refrigerating system which is arranged to keep the temperature in summer as cool as it is la winter. BILL ARP ON B?BIP8. HIS KXI'KKIKNCB AS A NUKSrO. He in Glad that Womon hove Them ?Great Men and Their Children. That was a pretty Persian rhyme which said : " A new-born child lay crying While all around were amiling; An aged man wasUying And peacefully was smiling While all around were crying . Sir William Jones put it in better verse : "On parent kneeB, a naked new-born child Lay weeping, while all around it smiled. Ho live that, sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee weep." What is more wonderful or beautiful thau the maternal instinct?what an attraction does a birth in the family have for all the sex?the women and children, girl children I mean?the men and the boys show no great con corn. The babes would have a hard and perilous time if entrusted to them. Babes are born every day, every hour, by the thousand. It is the most com mon and universal event that concerns our humanity. It is more common than death, for more come into the world than go out of It every year, aud yet the excitement of a birth goes on and is a big thing with matrons and with maids. For a few days I have sat In my veranda and ruminated, for tho women come and go and the neigh bors send flowers and kind messages and the girl ohlldren come to see the baby, and tho tiniest ono wants to hold It In her arms. Verily, it looks liko this was the first and the last ono that ever was born. Tho three great events of our life, our birth and marriage and death, aro ministered, too, by woman. What a sad afTair would either be without her prosonce, her euro aud sympathy. Tho wonder is that she can go through the ordeal that provi dence has assigned her, and be so con tented, so calm and serene. What mother over harbors gloomy fears or forebodings about her infant child ? How hopefully they look upon tho fu ture?how happy in the love of her offspring. Tho poot says : " A mother is a mother still The holiest thing ulive." And she is. I wish that I was as good, as true aud as loving us tho average mother in this land. I wish that I was as sure of heaven. Most of thorn havo a child up there, and they still treasure every smile, every dimple, evory song, and in their waking dreams realize what tho poet so beau tifully said: " 0, when a mother meets on high The habe she lost in infancy, ilnth she not then for pains und fears, The day of woe. the watchful night, Kur all her sorrows, nil her tears An overpayment of delight?" Tho matOnal instinct! Tho never fading love of childron. My wife is serenely happy now, for there is an other child to look after, and she moves around with her old alacrity. I usod to help her with her own, but my time is out. As old man Calder said after the first battle of Manassas, " 1 have Ut enough," I usod to toto tho little chap around the room sometimes half tho night and sing my little song until I wore it out, und ut times I felt like the tired parent who hugged his little hoy to his bosom and said : "I wouldn't tako a million dollars for you ?no l wouldn't?but l wouldn't glvo a nlcklc for another." It Is a weary busi ness?nursing and caring for a little child. But it is a part of the bargain, and has to be dono, and it has its rewards. The more tho father helps with tho children the butter ho loves them and the more thoy love hjm. Tho country people, as a rule, have no nurses for their children oxcopt the members of tho family, and thoir devotion to tho little holploss ones is beautiful. The baby in a country homo is common property. All nurso It and tho father does his share when he comes from tho field. Go to a country church on Sunday and seo how many fathers are not ashamod to " tote the child " and keep It while, preaching is going on. Why shouldn't ho V It shows his lovo to the child and his loyalty to his wlfo. The average farmer ha& not a very wide field for his ambition. He is not seeking fame or office or riches. Ho has no longings forgoing to New York or Washington or crossing the ocean. His hope and desire is limited to his family aud his farm and ho looks to God for rain and sunshine. Thoro Is nothing that weans him from his wifo and children or that guts between him aud them. Sometimes he takes the family to town In the big wagon, and sometimes the children go with him to the mill, and on Sundays all go to mooting, and so the weeks and months roll on?proving the truth of the poet's lines? "Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres hound." It is given to but few men in this world to do any great thing, but all can be happy If thoy will bo content with their humble lot. 1 used to envy the rich and grout, but do not now. As a general rule grief and sorrow uro tho porqulsitios of riches and of fame. Groat men arc rarely blessed with loving children. Not long ago ono of our noblest men found himself face to faco at Dolmonico's with a drunken son. His mortification was intenso and tho lines of trouble, still linger or. his face. The pressure of public affairs and tho constant struggle to keop up socially and politically con sumed tho time that should have been devoted to his children. In such coVos the mothor is their only safeguard. She may do all she can, but she can- 1 not watch her boys when thoy got in thoir teens. She can lovo and pray and chide, but still they will stray away. It is pitiful to see tho breaking Of a mother's heart over a son who is on trial for his life. How closely does sho cling to him when all the world is against him. I remember once a wid ow who sold hor cow and her little, furniture and then went from storo to store bogging for a little more mono) to take her to Arkansas to sen her son who was in jail for murder. Hor devo tion saved hts lifo, but not his liberty, and she was thankful for she found some work near by and could visit him in his prison and comfort him with her lovo and blessing. What an aw- | 1 ful thing it must be to have no one to lovo you, and yet there are thousands of suob in the prisons of the land. Noth ing was so touching in Governor At kinson's uftllotlon than his respito of a man who was to be hung?his tendor thought while on tho brink of the grave of a poor wretoh who was beg J[lng for his life. Dan Voorhees once lurried to a distant State to defend a young man accused of murder, and he 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 and respect It and admire It all the more. Bill Arp. ?Ill-gotten wealth cannot build any kind of a house upon the rook.?Rams Horn. AN NNOOURAU1NO PROSPI50T. The Weal tier Generally Favorable aud Narked Improvement in All Crops. The following is tho report of the weather bureau for the week ending 2nd of July : The pant week opened with crops needing rain over a considerable por tion of the Stato, but partioulurly in Spartanburg. Greeuvllle, Plokens, Union, Laurent*, Newberrv. Ander '?on, Abbevillo and Alken' countieB. There were also dry districts in other portions of the State where the need of rain was not quite so urgent. During the week showevs were numerous but very partial ; some farms, or even fields, having all the rain needed, while adjoiuing farms or fields had little or uouo. Beginning with the 29th (Saturday) and continu ing through to July 1st (Monday) the rains were more evenly distributed, and no portion of the State but that received some rain in that period. During the week there were wash ing rains in Kershaw county, where Heids are becoming grassy, being too wet to work. There was also an excess of raius in portions of Florence and Barnwell counties hindering cultiva tion. There were local high winds doing damage, over limited areas, to trees, to cotton, and corn, in Chesterlield, Kershaw and Williamsburg counties. The sunshine during the week was less than the normal, averaging only about 58 per cent, for the entire State, and ranging from 49 at Statesburg, Sumter county, to 92 at McColl, Marl boro county, but it was generally suf ficient for the needs of the crops. On the 25th there was a hail stem in Marlboro county, but it did little or ? no damage ; on the 20th there was a hall Btorm in Chesterfield cuunty that did some damage to crops. Tho temperature was quite oven during the whole week, und on no day did tho departure from tho nor mal exceed .'1 degrees. It was slightly above on four days aud bolow, o.* nor mal, on throe, making the average for the weok as nearly seasonable as is possible to dotermiue. Tho highest temporaturo reportod was 100 on the 2.1th at Blackville, and on the 20th and 27th at Loopors ; tho lowest reported was <>2 on the 20th at Batesburg. The moan temperature of tho wook for the State was about 80, and the normal for tho same poriod is approxi mately 80. Tho only existing unfavorable con dition is the continued deficiency in rainfall in portions of tho State. There wero showers evory day during the past week in some section or other, but they wore geucrully light, with marked exceptions. The rains of the latter portion of tho week foil after many correspondents had mailed their roports, aud so do not appear in this wook's summary, but will appear in tho figures of tho next bulletin. Tho heaviest rainfall for the week is re ported from Charleston, with a fall of 2.84 inches; there wore ten ot her places with amounts of from l to 2 inches. The average of 40 rainfall reports is 0.1H), and the normal for the same period is approximately 1.28. I As a result of the generally favor able conditions, as shown by the above weather review, there continues to he a markud improvement in all crops, aud farmers are woll up with their work, the fields being, with a few ex ceptions, clean and well cultivated. The staple crops, cotton and corn, arc small but growing well. The formor being noted as tbo smallest, for many yoars at this season. It is vigorous and has a good color, and is putting on squares froely ; llrst blooms were generally reported dur ing tho last wook of Juno, which is considerably later than usual. In Anderson and some other of tho Wes tern group of counties its growth has hitherto boon greatly retarded by tho dry weather, hut now looks promising. Sea Island cotton growing fairly weil. Old corn is being laid by all over tho State, as tho weather permits. It is in the silk and tassel, and although its stalk is short, yet its color is good and promising generally. liottom lund corn is said tobe In excellent condition every where and making rapid growth. Some cora being planted on oats stub bles,- but pods are receiving tho pre ference in many places for planting stubble. Wheat thrashing is ncaring comple tion with generally satisfactory yields, but nothing extraordinary. Late oats are a good crop in Sumter, Kairliold and 1 lorry Counties, and possibly gen erally so. The tobacco crop was j. oatly im proved by tho rains of the past week. In Williamsburg County sorao has already been cut, and it will soon be lit to cut in portions of Florence and Darlington Counties. Peas are growing woll latoly, and a large crop Is being planted on oats stubbie. The showers have enabled peas to germinato quickly. Melons have maue decided improve mont aud are promising a largo crop, hut are so late that it is feared that thoy will not ripen in time to llud a remunerative market. Advantage was taken of the showery weather to plant swcot potato si ps, and the crop now promises better than at any time this year. Gardens sutTored most from tho dry weat her, and in portions of tho State aro practically ruined. However, it is said they can he replanted, and with favorable weather, yield largo crops of fall vegetables. Peaches are scarce and of poor quality in B?rry county, hut peaches, as well as many other varieties of fruits and berries, are generally quite plentiful. The quality of the fruit varies in UilTot'unt sections, hut is generally very fair. Apples aro plenti ful, und though small are of excellent flavor. ?t/rhu Stato is remarkably freo from Iqsoct posts, none having boon re ported the past week ; the weather conditions aro generally favorable, and with the crops in a satisfactory condition, tlio mid-summer outlook is most encouraging for farmers. THUS WKATHKR BURKAU. A (lliange in Ihn Management oi'llic Weather by Wa .l>iuuiuu Author! ties. Prof. Murk W. Harrington, cliief of tho weather hurcuu, has boon rolioved from duty, owing to u disagrc i iont w'.th Secretary Morton. His na tion was called for on Juno l?ib, but he declined to resign aud subse quently was removed by tho President to take effect July 1st. The rotations botwoen Secretary Morton and Prof. Harrington, who was appointed from Michigan, have .been strained for months and correspondence between them has been carried <on only in the most formal language. Soon after the change of administration Seoretary Morton instituted an investigation of tho business affairs of the bureau. The result ineroased tho strained re lation between the Sooretary and him self/ The trouble came to a cllmux on June tilth with a call for tho profes sors resignation. The successor of Mr. Harrington will be Prof. William L. Moore, of Chicago, who has been recommended by Secretary Morton a? the new chief of tho bureau, and who is regarded as one of the best forecasters in the ser vice with a reputation for accuracy second to none in the department. He lirdt came to the notice oi Secre tary Morton about a year ago, when the Secretary began a thorough in vestigation of tho work being done by the weather bureau, with the eud in view of materially improving tho sor vioo and causing it to issue practical information for tho farmer, meruhan and sailor and every other lino of bus iness in whleh tho condition of the weather and tho approaeh of storms had anything to do. Circulars wore issued to the better class of forecasters asking for essays on the practical fore casting of tbo weather bureau. About thirty of the men replied. These es says, numbered, but with thoir au thors' names unknown, wore turned over to a board consisting of Chief Harrington, Prof. Mendenhull and Major Dunwoody. This board se lected tho best of these essays, less than ton, and the authors wore order ed to Washington to make roports. This'was done for a month und Moore reoolving tho highest poreontago, almost 100, was given tho position of 5>rofessor of tuoteorology at a salary of 12,500. Ho was, prior to this, local forecaster at Milwaukee, but after his promotion was transferred to Chicago. I luring last winter be matin a won derful record considering the charac ter of the weather. There wero nu merous cold waves that season, some of them of unusual severity, and it was his marvelous accuracy in predicting their coming that again attracted the attention of Secretary Morton. One thing that pleased tue Secretary was Moore's fashion of making statements about which there could be no doubt, lie avoided all ambiguous predictions and risked a positive statement or frankly said in his report that it was impossible to judge the forthcoming conditions, following this witli the best judgment ho could commund. Ho rarely missed the. mark aud his re ports wore tho best made in that very trying kind of weather. In politics Mr. Moore is said to be a Republican. Ho is a man of about forty years of ago and has grown up in' tho service. NOT A HI :i> UF KOSIO*. The TriuiN and Perplex 11 loa of llic Office Seeker. The Augusta Ohrontole says that SOlUOtilUCB just after till election, wllCU the victory lias ? 066II won, tlio band BOienudcs, and fl'i?ddri eon;; rat u la I e, many people go homo envying the lucky man. Rut this is only the bright Bide of the picture. Tho trials that are yet to come are not so pleas ing. Tho men who are ready to lull how hard they worked for htm and how much they need his assistance will be along bright and early the next morning, and they will keep it up. Ho finds the pleasures largely out weighed by tho sacrifice of Ids inde pendence und loss Of his person:) I free dom. Ho cau no longer havo quiet when he wunts it, and control his own time. Ho is the servant of the public and the ottico seeking portion of the public is a tircloss task master. Tho Knoxvillo Tribune congi atulating (Jov. Taylor, of Tennessee, upon his abandonment of politics for tho lecturo platform draws the following picture of tho politicians: "Tho path of the political oillee seoker Is rough and stony, aud in the crown of the ollico-holdor there are about as many thorns as roses. He gocth to his labors with anxiety bal ancing hope, and he lieth down upon a bed of willows instead of poppies, with worry for a pillow and disgust for a blanket. Ho risoth in tho morning with that tired feeling which tho pleasure of place and the pomp and power of position cannot dissipate. Ho makoth transient friends und per manent enemies, aud when ho sighs for tho music of pruiso his weary oars aro harshly greeted with tho discord ant voico of tho merciless critic and self-appointed censor. Siva follows him with relentless pursuit, while Vishnu regards him with cold indif ference and informs him that he must lookout for himself. His friom levy tribute upon him and his substunco moltoth like ice in the summer sun and vanishcth like a shadow at the break of day. Ho gouth to his gravo in sorrow and disappointment and the alabaster boxes of praise and kind words that wore denied him while liv ing are opened upon his coffin, too lato to heal or soothe. They fall only on tho " dull cold oar of death." CHUItCII STATISTICS. Twenty Million of Church Members in I he United Stales. Tho census report of the United states covering the statistics of ohuruhts, which has just come from the prcts, contains some int.-resting facts. It is an elaborate work of more than 8(0 pages, with colored maps showing ti c oxtentof tho various organized religi ous bodies in the various States. There arc 143 distinct denominations in tho United States, besides indeptu dont churches and miscellaneous con gregations. Tho total communicants of all denominations is 20,012,800, who belong to 105,177 organizations or con gregations. These congregations havo 112,521 edilices, which have sitting for 42,504, 803 persons. Tho value of all church property, | usod exclusively for purposes of wor ship, is 1670,630,139. There uro 11, 030 regular ministers, not including lay prcachors. Tiiere arc five bodies which havo more than 1,000:000 communicuuts-und uinutoon inoro than ?UO,??U. The cants in round numbers are us follows : Itomi n Catholic, 0,250,000; Mctlio dist, 4,000,000; Baptist, 3,726,000 i I'ros bytorian, 1,280,332; Lutheran, 1,230, 000 ; Protestant Episcopal, 540,000. jt A study of the tletuils of tho statis tics devolop some apparently strarge results. Out of a total of 130,000 Jew ish communicants, tho reformed ex ceed tho orthodox by lf>,000. There aro 13,500 Kussian orthodox, 100 Greek orthodox and I0,8f>0 Greek Cothollcs. The Salvation Army has 8,742 mem bers enrolled, and tho Christian Scientists just 18 loss thun that num ber. Tho denomination of Ethical Cul ture has a membership of 1,004, while the Altruist is able to show but 26 followers. The members of tho Theosonhlcal Society aggregate 696. In number of communicants and value of church property Now York leads and Pennsylvania follows, but in tho number of organizations mid church edifices Pennsylvania is Hist and Ohio second. The lncroaeo In tho vuluu of churoh property sinco 1870 hau botn $'M>8,140, i).')8, or noarly 02 per cent, wnilo tho number of churchos huB increased 42 por rent. Tho increase in number of organization* is 120 per tent. I ONK JIUNDHUI) YKAHB AGO. (flow the Declaration of Imlepon deuce Wus CelcbrnOnl by our An cefttora. N. Y. Shipping List, July <i. 1805. Tho week which hat) just hud its centennial anniversary was remark able in this country, und especially in this city, for its popular aud joyful oelebration of the nineteenth birthday of the Declaration of Independence. Prior to that an important State and political ueremony was gone through on July 1. On that day, John Jay, tho recent returned Ambassador to Great Britain whoso treaty was then the uppermost subject In all mou's minds, was duly| sworu iu as Gover nor of tho Stato of Now York, to which otlice ho had boon elected dur ing his absence. Tho simplicity of the ceremony was democratic in the extreme. Mr. Jay remained quiotly at his residence on Broadway, and here about noon tho Secrotury of State waited upon him. In tho presence of a few geutlemon the oath of ofllco was tbcu administered in the prescribed form to Mr. Jay as Governor, aud ulso to Lieut.-Gov.-elect Van Konssolaer. This function was followod by a re ception, attoudod by all tho prominent citizens of the town, when tho Gover nor received cungratuiutlons on his accession to oOlce. The uext event was tho Fourth of July, aud preparations were made for the greatest celebration Now York had known. Notices wcro published in tho papers, calling upon all patriotic citizens.to refrain from business of any kind, aud the morning of a glorious day was ushered in by Deals of hell? from every steeple hi the city, and 11 Federal salute of cannon tired in But tery Bark. This salute was repealed at midday and again in the evening. Following tho morning salute every body in tho city started for tho But tery, where tho procession of the Jay waste form. Promptly at 11 o'clock Col. Uutgors, commander of the Legion, took up with Itis brigade the line of march up Broadway. Following were the Mechanic, Tammauy und Demo cratic societies, Capt. Montaigne's company of Light Rangers, a guard of militia ollicors aud others, nearly a thousand men being in the Hue. The procession marched to tho New Presbyterian Church, where tho serv ices of tho day wcro held. They were opened with tho reading of that im mortal document, the Declaration of Independence, by Mr. Kdward Living ston. After this came tho oration, delivered by Mr. Miller, and charac terized in the public prints of that time as an "elegant and patriotic dis course." The procession then reformed and returned to Battery Bark, where those troops who were under arms dis charged a fou do joio, amid great enthusiasm, and the parade was dis missed. Fach company thou repaired to its particular chosen spot for dinner, und the jovial und social celebration proper to the spirit of the times was begun. At the famous old Tontine Coffee House tho merchants of tho city gave a groat banquet, at which were pres ent as guests such distinguished men as His ICxccllcncy (]ov. John Jay, Major-Gen. Morris, Judge Iredell. Senator Reed of South Carolina, Mayor King, Judge llohart, Col. Hamilton, Judgo Lawrence. Secretary of State Dr. Johnson and others. The toast list was a long one and patriotic to the last word. Another big dinner was that given in the rooms of the Friary, at which tho entire Third Company of the Artillery Regiment were the guests. At the conclusion of tho dinners the various societies seated about their boards sent and received deputations with congratulatory and patriotic messages. Among the organizations thus exchanging courtesies wore the Corporation, the Society of tho Cin cinnati, tho Militia Olliers. tho Me chanic, Tammany, Democratic. New York Rangers aud others. In the evening tho day's festivities were con cluded with uu elaborate display of fireworks by Col. Raumau and the Regiment of Artillery, which was a great treat for that time. Celebrations also took place in other cities, Huston, in particular, having a groat parade and accompanying ser vices anu orations. In Philadelphia only was the day marred by any dis turoanco. Hero early in the morning a crowd of disaffected ones, whose op position to tho recent treaty was still strong, attempted to burn in effigy John Jay. Tho magistrates, learning of the plot in time, wore prepared, and tho attempt frustrated, six or eight of the ringleaders being arrest ed. Toward evening another mob, no tube ring; porhups 300, which had formed OUt In the Northern Liberties, marched into the. city and repeated tho attempt. A troop of tho city cavalry wore at once called out and charged the mob with drawn swords. After a brief struggle, in which sev eral wore slightly injured, the rioters broke and run, and the trouble was suppressed. Abroad tho wcok was scarcely more eventful. The Kronch Republic was contending with the expedition of the Royalist emigrants lauded by Great Britain at the Ray ofQulbei'OO, and the j Chouans and Vcndeans were Increas ing their hostile activity. At Paris, tho American minister, .lames Monroe, celebrated tho Fourth of July by a royal fete. The President of tho National Assembly wav present and proposed the toast, "Congress and President Washington,'' which was grooted with tremendous enthusiasm. Nearly three hundred guests were presont, including nearly all the foreign Ministers, many Deputies of the con ventiOn. und public um) prominent inon. A guest whose brilliancy orna mented ihr occasion and did credit to his native country was Thomas Palno. the author of the famous " Age of Reason*" One other event, and this a deed of magnanimity aud mercy, marked the celebration of the American Independ ence Day abroad. At Bruno, the year before, a Dr. Bellman had at tempted by force to oarry off the nobln Marquis de Lafayette. His attempt had lulled,|and he himself was caught and imprisoned in the military prison at that place. A year later, on the anniversary of the day his attempt had been mnde, he was liberated and warned to leave French territory for ever. _^__ ?The meeting of the State Teachers' Association ju?t closed ut Converse College wu8 well attended, and the papers and discussions were of an inter esting and profitable nature. The South Carolina College, Wof? ford, Ciomson, Due West, Columbia College, in fact nearly all the princi pal colleges, city schools, high schools, etc., wore represented. ' mm I .?iii -> Ladies, if want a pure, delicate, soap for the complexion, Carpenter BrOP., Greenville, S. C, Druggists, will al ways rocominond Johnson's Oriental Medicinal Toilet Soap. Jobnson s Magnetic Oil cures cri.mp and colic and internal i.enralgia; lU and 7.'i cents. Sold ntCarpontor Uro?., Greenville, S. C. m n,i)i\<; COTTON mii,i,s. How Iii?? Co-Onoruilvo I*lun Works In Houili Caroline Augusta Chronicle. Building cottou mills on th - co operative plan is a scheme tuat Is proving most successful in North und South Carolina und that is doing much to put these two States in the lead in the cottou manufacturing industry. Formerly Georgia hold the undis puted luud in the consumption of cot ton by factories, but in recent years South Carolina has outstripped hor and to-day manufucturos moru cotton goods than any other Southern State. North Carolina, however, has pro fgrossed more rapidly in'cotton manu acturing in recent years than all her other sister States and South Carolina and Coorgia will have ail Jdiey can do to keep in tho lead. In ull three states the progress in manufacturing is remarkable and the next census will show u wonderful inorcuso in tho uumbor of sp'ndlos in these three States. Uuo of tho features in mill building in tho Carolinas bus boon tho co operative pi mi und it has done as much us anything else to build up tho in dustry. This has boon the scheme particularly in North Carolina and is now being worked very successfully across tho river. Tho most notable and most ret out iustuuco of this is reported from Columbia, and it gives promise of such gooil results that it might prove of in terest to Augustaus since cotton man ufacturing is such a successful Indus try bore and the enlargement ol pluuts in and around this city is being pushed with such enterprise. The capital stuck *>f the new ?? Caro lina Mills,'' it is announced, will he $100,000 at the outset, with provision for uu increase to a million doll irs, and it is to be paid in at the low rate of one dollar per share per month, ou tho plan of building; and loan and other Instalment companies. It Is do* signed to make the undertaking a popular one, and one in which even the smallest capitalist can take part, and the rate adopted is low enough to insure that end. " Small subscrip tions." it is added, are to ho encour aged, with a view to interesting "every man, woman and child in Co lumbia," in the mill, and it should in clude practically tho whole popula tion of the city in its ownership and in the benefits of its work. Such a mill should he of great value to the com munity, as a kind of savings bunk with the wheels in it, and should prove pro fitable if any mill can, win ther hard times or sofi time.-:. The Charleston News and Courier in discussing this new mill says : Its success at so conspicuous a point would lead to the establishment of more mills like it throughout tho State and its promoters, therefore, and for every reason, have the host wishes of all good citizens of the State. The time will come, sooner Of later, when i In- small mills will have to compote with some of the big mills foe business, or for faboi', or for public support in times of strikes, panics anil other trials. The OO-oporutlvo mills, repre senting the communities in which they work, will he at no disadvantage with the corporative mills in such condi tions, and should he among the. safest mill properties. It was mildly suggested last \ear that there was danger of our building too many cotton mills, the fear being that South Carolina would crowd tho cotton manufacturing Held if it kept or. building at the rate of the post few yeai'8. Twenty-live now mills have been added to our list since the first of the year, however, ami there is no sign yet of the business being over done. North Carolina has added twenty-nine new mills to its plant in thi! same time, ami capitalists and manufacturers in New Kngland ai c building several big mills, any Oi.o of which will represent a half dozen or more of our smaller ones. There is plenty of room in the South. The co-operative mill at Columbia should have its duplicate in every town in the South before this time next yoar. ?it may not he known generally that the Dowager lOtnpi'OSS of China has had a very romantic history. She was a child of poor parents in the suburbs of Canton, ami icmurkuhh- for her beauty. At a time when her parents did not know whoilCO their daily bread was to conn- she suggested that they sell her as a slave. This course was followed and she became the property of a famous general. Ho was so enchanted with her beauty that he adopted her. When the general next went to I'eking, so says a corres pondent, the general olTcrered his beautiful daughter to the Idmporor, and thoroby won great favor. The young girl so charmed his Majesty by her looks and intelligence that he soon made her his wife. When the Kmperor died tho former slave became regent of the empire, and administer ed the national alTairs better than almost any of her predecessors. Shi is justly considered one of the groatOS women of her time. A I'KoMKi.Nc liny. A boy in tho Wiohlta, Kansas, schools bus been suspended fur r cud log the following essay on "rants,'' says the Guthrie State Capital; "I'ants are made for men and not men for pants. Women are made for men and not for pants. When a man pants for a woman and a women pants for a man they are a pair of pants. Such pants don", last, i'ants are li?o molasses : they are thinner in hot weather ami thicket' in cold. The man in the moon changes his pants during the eclipse, Don't you goto the pantry lor pants, you might he mistaken Men are often mistaken in pants. Such mistakes makes breeches of promise'. There has been much dis cussion as to whether pants Is singular or plural. Seems to US when men wear pants they are plural, and when thoy don't weal' pants it is singular. Men I go on a tear in their panto, and it is alI right, hut when the pants go oil a tear it is all wrong." ? A proposition has reached I he management of tin: Cotton Stales lir.d International Exposition from llorhcrt Saunders ?V Co.. of London, offering to build on the lake a fae simile of the trans-Atlantic stoamship St. Louis, to bo of the same si/.e as the original am) elegantly lilted out. The Interior ol the ship will he used as a restaurant and the vessel will he reached from the shore by gangways. This is a ilu plieate of an exhibition now being given at the Antwerp Exposition. ?Practical astronomy should hem lit greatly by the construction ol the largest lens in the world, which lias just been linished by the Clai'Us. ol Cambridge, Mass. This great lens. which is a gift to the Chicago Univor* sity. is 144 inches Indiamotor and 500 pounds in weight It is four Inohofl greater indinimtu' than the lens ol t he Lick tolcscoi o in California) which has hitherto held the first place among the groat lenses of tho world. Kll.l.tOl) ?> 1 1 llIk r.VMii,v. Tlx- l'i tght ful \ui ofu Madman?>Ite' Suffocates Himself and Family With n Flood of Gaa. Frederlok llcbmuun, u well-to-do mason conti actor in Chicago on the 4th inst. murdered Iiis wile and four chil dren and ilien killed himself. It was at first supposed that ilellnunin and his wife and children met death by accident, hut it devolopoijVt Abe OOri onor's inquost that ?ho wlioltFale mmv der was calmly 'planned, und that the man intended to kill himself and end ", tho existence of all the members of his family. The (lead man and his victims are: Frederick Uellmann, aged .'IT: Mis. Ida Heitmann, aged 32.} Prod. Uellmann, Jr., aged ll; Ida Bellinauu, aged It); William Hell man, aged 7; Headwig Bellman, a three year-old duugh tor. The tragedy to<)k place In a little briok cottage at tho corner of Cornelia aud Wood streets. The motive for the crime may never he known, but it Is supposed the act was that of a mad man, as Bellmauu ten years ago had a sunstroke, from which he never re covered completely. Suspicion WUB first ai'OUSCd the next morning hy the fact that tho house In which tiio Bollmauns lived was tight ly closed long after the usual hour for the family to bo astir. The mother ami married Bister of Bellmau, who lived next door, attempted to break into the house, but were unable to do so. They finally managed to force an entrance through a window that had been left unfastened und made their way te one of the bed room where tho dead bodies of all the family wore found. Th? house was so full of gas t tint tho I two women wore nearly overcome ami i it was only after it had in on opened Up that it was found possible to turn oil the gas, which was streaming from an open jet. The relatives ami all tho neighbors at once concluded that the deaths hail been the "scull of tin ac cident, and the poir.ee when ti.. ,v OUIUO adhered to tllO same opinion. Tho open gas j.'t was just above the bed in which the mother ami one of tljts. children lay ami it was supposed that one of them had. during the night, accidental iy hit the stopcock and knocked it open. At tho imiiicst.-t.JWrT^"" ever, an entirely different complexion was given the alVair hy Charles, a brother of Ilellmuntl/'Who produced a letter wrlltcn"T)"y the murderer ami suicide late on the previous evening, in which he clearly stated his purpose of killing himself, although he gave no intimation of tue fact that ho was meditating the deaths of the members of his family. lit Rpoku of the window through which the woman had crawled as the one through his brother could gain admission to the house ami said that he had li ft it open for that purpose. < M hor circumstances also went to show the deliberate intention of the man. The gas piper, were only placed ill tllO house two weeks ago. It is now the belief that they were put, there for the purpose of carrying < ut the deed so success! UI ly nccoin pi is lied. Charles llellmausaid that he could see no reason for his brother's action save insanity. He was devoted to his family and his business was in a nourishing condition, he not owing a dollar. A V'Ol'dict of murder and sui cide was rendered 1>\ the jury. WOMION US ICD TO VOTK Female SulIVaK'cNnl a Novell) in South Cnrolinu. Woman's I'M it inn nl lliu Cotton IMnnt. Tho (jmstiou of fonialo mi IT rage Is not a novel cm' in South Carol Inn, fo.i it: was here that I ho 11 rat experiment in the history of tho world was tried. In 17(58, the now parish <>f St. David having been formeil by the not of tho Genoral Assembly (Colonial) <?ut of tho parish ol St. Mark's. Prince Frederick and Prince Gcorgo forming the Choraw District, ami which parish of St. David is now ohiolly the county of Darlington, writs of election came down for a new mctnhorof the General; Assembly. \V>' have now tho old poll list, ami it contains the name, of oj huud.'cd and llty-scvcn electors, Of theso, six were women, as follows: Uehecca Lido Francis Den ton, Gather* ine Little, Kli/.ahoth Cornwoll, FraivtH Oillospiu und Sarah Hooth. * *^S| At this election Col. Coorgo Gabriol | Powoll received one hundred ami llfty? four votes, ami wasch - od. lie was a' distinguished man. an I ivns afterwards, appointed one of the justico of 11 Majesty's Court of i?mmcn I 'load ami General Sessions. Sec Crogff'p 11 istor.v of ?>hl (Ihei'aw. Tho names of those female voters I were among the most distinguished of^ their day, ami ere familiar fuuxi-tg names today in Darlington county ,3 where they lias. !< Ii honori ds of do4 scondnnts. It will he remembered that at thJJB time, although we were a llritish ]?>s?j session, we were living under a com! Rtilution made h\ oursolves and which, j had been graciously allowed and ap?; proved by His Majesty. The history.: I of that constitution is one of the most ! rcinurkuh.c Incidents in the chronicles'! of civil liberty. It will bo rennm-I bored tliut wo wore tin- favored amll pot colony of (Jrent llrttuih. si.ohndH oxlinustod tbo ir.a! lonrniug and in?l gonuity of tbo ugc to concoct u tnodolH Constitution for US. It was composcilK and drawn up by tbo renow ned i.u. ,-:e.H the greatest ni< laphysical pniio.-opheiM that has ever written in the KngllsiH tongue, assisted bj inj Lord Salisbury! ono oi the llncst practical stntotone'iH of tbo age ; hut that em, .t itul i< Hi '<nl not at last contain enough of tin: prinH olploa of civil Iii' rtj for liboi a! KoolH Carolina, and it lived only a months and wit* overt hrov.u 1?y~~fM general uprising ol toe people nguimH it. They then went to work quicllH and systematic illv ami made a coestH tution for thoinsolv? s. winch the ? ?Jm found It convenient to . ??? ? n HB owing to his own domestic tinuhlos^H that I line. BB This popular constitution was tH pioneer, i! tin: model, of all KS publican constitution* and forms popular government in Ann , lived mill, r it ni ar j half a cent Jj before tie Declaration of I mlepeudei^l ami tlie formal ion of tlie Unit? d 1 :< jflj Iiis not claimed that that constfl tlon established female suffrage] I it did not forhul it. and we see ihiH wa.- allowed Ifcfl parish. A. S'lohA NiatfJieB CJn eh\ I 1 11 ?. S. (.'. , yU III e^^^| Carolina, I uited States Nun ?? J| Mexico, is now i- Washington :uul presses mi intention to return |(H post if his health COOl IllUCS to : mpfl (Jon. Hansom's recent sovere iiinoH Mexico unused bis return to rfl Carolina, ami it was generally^! posed that he would lender Ills iH nation on the expiration of his of absence. Ills health is now itfl| a fair way t<> restoration that h<H resume bis diplomatic fui.ctioiiH I City Of Mexico if there is ?0.3 grosslon. <ilmm\\\\\\\\\\\\\\m