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A Secret. 8 mil I bin' like grandmamma when I am old? Shall 1 wear hucIi n queer little bon net No feathers, no posies, but just a pin in fold With a little white e.l-.in- upon it? Shall I sit in an easy-chair all the day loug With a great ball of wool ami a stork ing? Shall I think it quito dreadful for folks to do wrong, And dirt and disordei quite shucking? Shall I wear a white cap full of dear lit tle bows, , And a row of white curls on my fore head? Shall I keep my face clean, and take care of my clothes, Ami never be snappish ami horrid? Shall I think that the Bible's the nicest of books, And remember the sermon on Sunday? And not think bow stupid the minister looks, And wish it would only he Monday? Jud wait till I tell y<> what grandma once said? I hope that you won t think me cin/.y. It happened one day when they sent me to bed For being ill-tempered and ltt'/.y. She came and sat by me, and patted my hand, And told inc, 'There's no tue in cry ing ; It's by stumbling, my pet, that we learn how to stand, Ami wo always grow bitter b} trying." "Was any one ever so wicked as nie':' I asked her between my sobbing, Then grandmamma laughed just as hard as could bo, And her little white curls went bob* _ _ bing. "Was any one ever so naughty as you? I'm sure that I know of one other.'* "Who was it.?" 1 asked. "Oh, please tell me; do." She whispered, "Your own grand mother." Now, isn't it strange? But of course it is true. I can tell you just one thing about it? She'd not toll u story, whatever she'd do, And we'd only be silly to doubt it. But of course 1 feel certain you never will tell, For how perfectly dreadful 'twould be To hnve people know, who all love her so well, That grandma was ever like mc. ?Harper'$ Young People. The Flower that Grew in Sand. Doinaris opened tbo gate and walked up the narrow path. There was a low hedge of pink aud purplo candytuft on each fiido. Inside the hodgos wore little bods of homely Mowers in the shapes of hourts, diamonds aud Mal tese crosses. Mrs. Eaton was stoopiug over a rose bush, but 6ho arose when she beard the cliek of tbo gate. She stood looking at Doinaris with her arms hanging stillly at her sides. "Oh," she said, with a grim smile, "you is't." "Yes," said tbo girl, blushing and looking embarrassed. "Ain't it a nice oveniu'?" "Come for kind I in' wood?" "No." She laughod a littlo at the wornout joke. "I como to see if you had two or three piuk roses to spure." "Why, to bo sure?a dozen if you want. Just como an' help yourself. My hands ain't tit to tech 'em after dig gin' so." She stood watching tbo girl while she carefully selectod somo bulf-opon roses. There was a look of good-na tured ourioslty on her face. "Anythlu'goin'on at tho church to night ?" "No. I'll have to toll you." She lifted a glad, shy faeo. "I'm goin*on the moonlight excursion." "Oh, now! Sure? Well, I'm real [n I. I never wanted to go any io much in my life. I've been jldin' my breath for fear ma'd -? is your ma ?M 11, she ain't very well; she nov 'ou know." at alls her?" m't know," said Demaris slowly, got homo by midnight. So 'f a spell come on, pa can sot up lor till 1 got homo, and thou I can irnin'." *u'd think you'd bo all worn out, i' up two or three nights u week ay. " aris slghod. Tho radianco had ut of her face and u look of care pen it. ell," she said, after a moment, have a good time to-night any We'ro going to have tho band They're gettin' so that they eal well. They play 'Annie Lau Rocked in tho Cradlo of tho now." gato-cllekod. A child came rim ing up the path. " Oh, sister, sister! Come home uick I? " " What for?" said Demaris. There wan a look of droad on her face. " Mil's goin' right into a spell. She wants you quick. She thinks she's took worse 'n usual." Domaris hurrlod home. Tho child ran at her side. Once sho took her hand and gave her an upward look of sympathy. She passed through tho kltehen, lay ~~ hor roses on the table. Then .he nt into her mother's room. Mrs. FergUBOif lay on a couch. A fvhito cloth was banded around her bead, coming down well over one oye. She was moaning bitterly. Demaris looked at her without speaking. "Whereon earth you b'on?" She gave the girl a look of fierce reproach. "A body might die for all tho help you'd be to 'om. Hero I've b'en a feel in' a spell a-comln' on all day, an' yet you go a-gaddin' around to tbo neigh bors, leavin' me to git along tho best way I know how. I bellovo this is my last spell. I've got that awful pain over my right eye ag'n till I'm noarly crazy. My liver's all out of order." Demane was silent. When ono has heard the cry ol wolf a hundred times one is incredulous. Her apathetic look angered her mother. ''What makes you stand there a starin' like a dunce ? Can't you help a body V Get the cam 11 re bottle an' the fi?Qtur' lobolia an' the box o' goose freeset You knows 's woll's tno what need when I git a spell. I'm so nerv ous I feel's if I c'u'd My ! I got a har rable fbolin' that this'll bo my last spell?an' yet you stand there o-starin' 's if you didn't earo a partlkle !" Demaris placed a chair at the side of the couch to hold tho bottle. " oh, take that old split bottom oheer away," exclaimed her mother. "Ev-rythfng upsets on it oo! Get one from tho kitchen?the ono that's got oherrls painted on the book of't. What makes you aot so ? You know what cheer I want- You'd tantalize tho soul of a saint'!" Tbo chair was brought. The bottles were placed upon it. Demaris stood waiting. " Now rub my head with the cam fire, or I'll go ravin1 orazey. I can't think wher't comes from I" The ohild stood twitohing luv thin fingers around a chair. She* watched her mother in a matter-of-course way. Deinarls leaned over the couch in an uncomfortable position and commenced the slow, gentle message that must continue all night. She did not lift her eyos. They wero full of tears. For a long time there was silence in the room. Mrs. Ferguson lay with closed eyes. Uer face ware a look of mingled injury ann reproach. "Oh," said Mrs. Forguson. " what a wretched creatuio I am 1 Just a suf f'rin'dayan' night, year in an' year out, an' a burden on them thet I'vo slaved fer all my life. Many's the night I'vo walked with you'n my arms till mornin', Demaris, an' never know ed what it was to git sieepy or tired. An' now you get mad the minute I go into a spell." Demaris stood upright, with a tor tured look. "Oh, 11 in !" she exclaimed. H?r voice was harsh with pain. "I ain't mad. Don't think I'm mad. I can't cry out o' pity every time you have a spoil", or J'd be cry in' all the time. An' besides, to-night I'm so?disappointed." What you disappointed 'bout?" '"Why, you know." Her lips trem bled. " Tho excursion." Mrs. Ferguson opened her eyes. , ?'Oh, I clean forgot that." She looked as if she wero thinking that sho would realiy have postponed the spell, if she had remembered. "Never you mind." Domaris leaned over suddenly, and put her arms around her mother. "Don't you think I'm mad. I'm just disappointed. Now don't cry. You'll go and make your solt' worse. An' thero comes pa; I hoar him cloanin' Iiis boots on the scraper." Mr. Ferguson stumbled as he came up the stops to the kitchon. He was very tried. Ho was more than fifty, but his thin frame had a pitiable stoop. Tho look of ono who has struggled long and fallod was on his brown and wrink led face. His hair and beard wore pre maturely gray. His dim blue eyes had a hopeless expression that was almost hidden by a deeper one of patience, lie wore a coarse Hannel shirt, moist with perspiration, and faded blue ovoralls. His boots wero wrinkled and hard ; tho soil of the Holds olubg to them. "Sick ag'in ! Mis'rablocroaturo that I am ! I've got that awful pain over my right eye ag'in. I can't think whero it comes from. I'm nearly crazy with it." "Well, I guess you'll fool a little hotter after you git some tea. I'll go an' wash, an' then rub your head while Domaris gits a bit to eat. I've plough ed ever since sun-up an'I'm tired 'n' hungry." He returned in a few moments and took Domarib's place. Ho sighed dcoply, but silently, as ho tat down. Domaris set tho tablo and placed upon it tho simple meal which sho tiad prepared. "I'll stay with ma wliilo you an' pa oat," said Nellie, with a sudden hurst of unbellishness. "Well," said Domaris, wearily. Mr. Ferguson sat down at the tablo und leaned his head on his hand. " I'm too tired to oat," he said, "hungry's I am." He looked at the untompting meal of cold boiled moat, bakod pota toes and apple sauce. "1 wish 1 was dead !"' said Domaris. Her father did uot sppak. His -silence reproached her mord than any words could have done. When sho wont into tho bedroom again, she found her mother crying childishly. "Demaris, did I hoar you say you wished you was deaa ?" "I guess so. 1 said it." "Well, God Almighty knows I wish I win ! Yon don't stop to think what u'd become o' me 'f it wa'n't for vou. Your pa o'u'dn't hire anybody, an' he's gittin too old to set up o' nights after workin' hard all day. " You'd like to sco't all come on your little sistor, I reckon !" Demaris thought of those slim, weak wrists, and shivered. Her mother commenced to sob?and that aggrava ted tho pain. Demaris stooped and put her arms around her and kissed her. " I'm sorry I said it," she whispered, '"I didn't mean it. I'm just tired and cross. You know I didn't mean it." Hor father came in heavily. " Demaris," ho said, " Frank Vick crs's comin' around to the front door. I'll take keer <>' your ma while you go in and seo him." It was a radiant faced young fellow that walked into Demaris's little par lor. Ho took her hand with a tender ness that brought tho color boating into her cheeks. " What!" he said. "Aint you roady ? Why, tho boat leaves in an hour, an' it's a good long walk to the wharf. '' You'il?havo to burry up, Domaris." " I can't gp." '? You can'* go ? Why can't you V" Sho lifted up her eyes bravely. Then tears swelled into them slowly until they wero full. Not ono fell. Sho looked at him through thorn. He folt hor hand trembling against tho palm of his own. " Why can't you, Domaris?" " My mother's sick. Just hear her moanln' ciear here." Young Vlckors's face was a study. " Why, sho was sick last time I wanted to tako you som'ors?to a dance, wa'n't it? " Yes?I know." '?An' tluio boforo that wlion I wantod you to go a to church soclahlo up'n Spring Town. " Yob." " Why, ehe must bo-sick near onto all the time, accordln' to that." "She is?pretty near." Sho with drew hor hand. There was a Htiff looklng lounge in one corner of tho room. It was coverod with Hriifsols carpet and had an uncomfortable back, hut it was doar to Demaris's heart. Sho had gathored and sold strawborrlos two whole summers to pay for it. Sho sat down on It now and laid her hands togothor on her knoes. Tho young man followed and sat down besldo her. " Why, my dear," he said, very qulotly. " You oan't stand this sort o' thing. It's wearln' you out. You never did look light and happy, like othor girls 6' your age; an' lately you're gettln' a real ninohod look. 1 fool's it's was time for mo to Intor foro." Me. took hor hand again. It was dim twilight in the room now. Domaris turned hor head aside. Tho tears brimmed over and fell fast and silonty. "Interferln' won't do any good," sho said, resolutoly. "Thore's juot two things about It. My mother's sick all tho timo, an' I have to wait on her. There'o nobody else to do't." "Well, 's long's you stay at home it'll all e.onic. on you. You ain't ablo to carry seoh a load." "I'll have to." " Demaris, you'll just have to leave." "What?" said the girl. Sho turned .o look at him in a startled way Leave homo? T couldn't think <>' doin' that." He leaned toward Lor j and put his arm around her, trembling strongly. " Not even to como to my homo, Demaris? I want you dear: an' 1 I won't let you kill yourself workin', either. I ain't rich, but I'm well j enough off to give you a comfortable home an' sorae'n' to do your work for I you." j Thore was a deep silence. Kach felt j the full beating of the other's hoart. I Thore was a rose bush under tho win dow, an old-fashioned ono. Its blooms I wero not so beautiful, but they wore very sweet. It bad Hung a slim white spray of them Into the room. Demaris I novor smelled their fragrance after | ward without a keen, exquisite thrill of j passion, as brief as it was delicious. "I can't Frank." Her tone was low 1 and uncortain. ?' I can't leave my mother. She's sick an' gittin' old. I. can't." ' " Oh, DoiuUrls ! That's rank foolish ness." " Well, I guess It's tho right kind o' foolisne8s." She, drew away and Bat looking at him. Hor hands wero press ed together In hor lap. " Why, it ain't oxpocted that a yrirl 'ad ought to stay an' tako bare o' hor mother forever, is it? It ain't expect ed that sho'd ought to turn herself into a hospital nurse, is it ?" Her faco grow storn. " Don't talk that way Frank. That ain't respectful to my mother. She's i had a hard life, an' so's my father. ! Von know I want to como, but I can't. It's my place to stay an' tako caro o' hor. I'm ijoln' to do it?hard's it is. My loaviu' em u'd just tako tho hoart out o' both of 'em. An' there's Nellie, too." " Doinaris?" ho spoko slowly : his faco was palo?'" I'm goin' to say some thin' to you I novor thought I'd say to any girl alivo. But tho fact is, 1 didn't know till right now how much I think o'you. You marry me, an' wo'll all live togother !"' tier faoo softened. She leaned a lit tle toward him with uncontrollable tenderness. But as ho made a quick movement sho drew baek. "No, Frank. I oun't?1 can't! It won't do. Such things's what breaks women's hcurts !" "What things, dear?" " Folks liviu' togothor that way ! Thoro's no good ever comes of it. I'd have to sot up with my mother just tho same, and you'd L>e worryin'all the time for fear it 'u'd make me sick, and you'd ho wantin' to sot up with her yourself." "Of course," he said stoutly. "I'd expect to. That's what 1 mean. I'd take some o' your load oil' o' you." Demaris smiled mournfully. " You don't know what it is. Frank. It's all very woll to talk about it, but when it comes to doin' 't you'd bo tired out in a month. You'd wish you hadn't mar ried me?an' that 'u'd kill mo!" "I wouldn't. Ob, Demaris, j-tst you try me. I'll bo good to all"your ' >lks? just's good's can be, dear, 1 swear it " Sho leaned toward him again with a sob. Ho took her in his arms, lie felt tho deliciojLis warmth of her body. Thoir lips trembled together. After a while sho drew away slowly and looked athim earnestly in the faint light. "If 1 thought you wouldn't change," sho faltered. I know you mean it now, but oh-" "Sistor," called a 'thin, troubled voieo from tbo hall, "can't you co'iio hero just u minuteV" Demaris went at once, closing the door behind her. The child threw her thin arms around bor sister's waist, sobbing. "Oh, sister, 1 forgot to got tho kind' l'n' wood, an' now it's so dark down the cellar. I'm afraid. Can't you go with mo ." " Walt a it w minutes, dear, an' I will. Frank won't stay long to-night." "Oh, won't ho? I'm glad." Her voieo sunk to a whisper. "1 hate to have him her, sistor. He takes you away from us so mueh an'ev'rything goes wrong when you ain't hero. Ma's olful bad to-night, an'pa looks so tired ! Don't let him stay long, sister. Ho don't need you's bad 's we do." Sho tiptoed into tho kitehen. De maris stood still in the hull. The moon was coming, large and silver, over the hill. Its soft light brought her slender figure out of tho dark, and sot a halo abovo her head bending on its fair throat. Her lips moved, but the pray er remained veicoloss in her heart. A moan camo from her mother's room. "Oh, paw, you hurt my head ! Your hand is so torrahlo rough ! Is that girl goin' to stay In there for ovor ?" Domaris lifted her head and walked stoadily into the little poor parlor. "I'll havo to ask you to go now. Frank ; my mothor needs mo." " Well, dear." Ho roaohed his strong, young arms to bor. Sho stood back, moving her head from side to side. "No, Frank. I ean't marry you. now or novor. My mothor comes tirst." "But you ain't taken timo to make up your mind, Domaris. I'll wait tor 'n answer." " It's no uso. f made up my mind out 'n tho hall. You might's well go. When I niako up my mind it's no use in tryin' to got mo to change it. I badn t mado't up beforo." Ho wont to her and took her bands, " Domaris," ho said, and all bis heart break was in bis voieo, "do you mean it? Oh, my dear. I'll go if you send mo; but I'll nevor como buck again? never!" Sho hesituted but a second. Then sho said very cooly, without emotion? " Yos, go. You'vo boon good to mo, but?it's all ovor. Good-by." Ho dropped hor hands without a word, and wont. Shu did not look after him, or listen to his footsteps. Sho went to tho cel lar with Nellie to got the kindling wood, which sho arranged in tbo stove ready for the mutch in tho morning. Thon sho wont into her mother's rooms. Sho looked pale in llio 11 loiter ing eandlo light. "I'll take care o' ma now, pa," sho said. " You got to bed and rost. I know you're all tired out?ploughln' ovor since sun-up! An'don't you got I up till t call you. I ain't a bit sleepy. 1 couldn't sloop 'f I wont to bod. Sho moistened hor lingers with cam phor and comtiioneod bathing hor mother's brow. ^ ?On Saturday night at Blaeksburg, .1. Logan Gibson shot Unfits Hardin in tho abdomen, from tbo effoetsof which lie died on the followibg duy. It seems that Hardin had boon too intimate with Gibson's wife. Gibson hud beon told by a nogio that flardJu wa? moot; ing his (Gibson's) wife, clandestinely', and told him whore ho could Und them. Uihson armed himself and wntehod a cortain house without any result, but on Saturday night ho saw Hardin and his wifo in bud togother, through u window, und immediately oponed tho door and llrod, tho result being as abovo stated. Gibson wont to York viile. and Burrondored himself to tho sheriff und is now in jail. .lapanoso Pilo Curo In tho only ono that can be guaranteed, us it is the only oui\> Sold by drp nter Urot., Greenville, S. C. TILLMAN AND ST. JOHN. THK DISI'KNHAHY \M> PROHIBI TION. Tho Champion of tho Dispensary Meets the Apostle of Prohibition In Debate. The jury appointed to deolde the merits of the dehate which Senator Hen Tillmau and Prof. Samuel Dickie, National Chairman of the Prohibition party, hold on Thursday night at Pro hibition Park, S. 1., endored the opin ion of the audience, which favored the ' Southern Senator throughout, Thero I wore sovou Prohibitionists on the jury j and fourteen anti-Prohibitionists, and ? they decided eloveu to eight in Sena | tor riMman's favor, two not voting. He carried the audience with him last night as thoroughly as he did on i the preceding evening. He was in the midst of tho Prohibition stronghold, contending against their theories, but the audienco applauded him as though he wero struggling in their behalf. Most of the audience wore Prohibition ists, but their doii^bt when Tillmau mado a point against his opponent was enthusiastic. He is a speaker of con siderable magnitude, free from most of tho platform tricks, and natural in manner. Tho methods of ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas, who was his opponent, belong to the old school, bo the audienco lis tened to Tillmun with delight, and applauded him in such a way that their favor must have boon iutocded not so much for what ho had said as the way In which he said it. But, he mude a great impression on his hear ers, aud tholr delight was unbounded when they learned that the jury was with them in giving him tho honors of the debate on Thursday. Tho question last night was, "Is Pro* I hibition tho Best Motiiotl of Temper ance Beform ? " The dobato was slow in starting, and after the audienco had sung a hymn, "Come Thou Al I mighty King," Mr. H. H. Carr, who was introduced as tho founder of tho women's Republican clubs of New York, sang " Bowing Home with Mol ly." Then tho superintendent of the building announced that no interrup tions would be allowed from tho audi ence. On Thursday tho interruptions took up too much time and inter/erred with tho speakers. So it was announc ed that tho audienco would havo no share in the dobato. Dp Leonard, who is tho secretary of tho Methodist Episcopal Mission, was made chairman, and lie was told to koep Iiis eye on his watch, and see that the speakers did not go over their time. The suppression of tho audienco deprived the dobato of some of its liveliness, but there was nothing to prevent them from applauding, and they did whenever Senator Tillmau gavo them a chance. ifix Cov. St. John opened tho discus sion. Ile said : " I don't know when 1 have enjoyed more speaking on prohibition than be fore you good people here, and under those circumstances. Thirty years ago Senator Till man and 1 represented ex tremes of political opinion, and 1 am proud to have, the honor of meeting hero one of this country's most distin guished citizens,who is known to every body that makes any altemp to keep up with the political questions of tho day. The question that parted us thirty years ago is settled now, and settled forever. We are not here to night as politicians in any sense of tho word, but as citizens of our common countryito discuss a comparatively now question that has forced itself to the front during the past twenty-live years. 1 claim for Senator Tillinan that ho is as sincere and conscientious in what ho is doing as what I claim for mvsolf. Wo are both doing what wo can in an humble way for our follow men. I am glad that the other side of this debate is upheld by such a courageous man as Senator Tillman. Wo know that ho has courage, as well as a great deal of gray matter in addition, and I would rather be whipped by him than van quish a little Western scrub like my self. " I stand hero tonight for prohibition first, lust and and tho time, hocauso my experience of tho last twenty-live years has taught mo that it is not only the best way to promote tomporauco reform, but because my conscience tolls mo that in tho sight of God and man it is right. 1 know that all tho States of tho Union are with mo, and I know that prohibition is tho rulo of the Bi blo. It says always, 'Thou shalt not,' and there is not a word in it in favor of lieonsing any wrong, nor will my friend And there a word about dispen saries. Tho law is* prohibitory all through tho Statutes Of tho States, and tho United States Supremo Court has said that the rights and liberties of nobody are interforred with when the permission to soil liquor is denied. " The Constitution says that tho fun damental object of government is to proinoto tho welfare of tho peoplo. Last night Senator Tillman road the statement of Gov. Larraboo, of Iowa, in which ho denounced tho saloon and tho liquor trallic as the breeder of pau perism, crime, and degradation. Tho Legislature of Iowa endorsed that, and so do I, and I claim that anything which breed crime, pauperism and degradation should ho prohibited, not licensed or dickered with. I found to day that the Statutes <>f South Carolina aro in perfect harmony with my opin ion. The whole criminal codo is pro hibitory, anil a man can't kick his dog without violating the law, and ho can not got a license to do it, nor deal with it according to the dispensary system. South Carolina laws strictly prohibit tho adulteration of food, and (, 'it ailow the terrapin to ho takon u. .r a certain size. You cannot get a li cense to tako I hem. "No living picture nor impure liter ature aro allowed, and you can't get a licena ? fo* a living picture, or treat ono of them, in accordance witii the disponsaiy law. Every ono of these laws is prohibitory. You canuot dis seminate infectious disease, and you wouldn't he allowod to give a man seven years' itch, oven if you had a license "The dispensary system would allow you to give a man as much seven years itch as lie wanted after ho was 21 years old. Senator Tillman, you know, regulates such matters; ho (Iocs not prohibit them. But his Statute laws in South Curolina deal oven with tho sale of liquor, and this is prohibited within certain distance of a college. Everyone Of these prohibitions is posi tive, and tho only evil not prohibited is the liquor trallic. "The State stops out hero and says that after a man is 21 years old ho can get as much liquor from the State as he wunts. But 1 havo no doubt that within the next ten yours tho Senator wfll be as much a I 'i nhibit ion ist as I am, and God bless tho day whon it comes. But I want him now to answe.r these questions: "Is prohibition morally right or wrong 'i " Why, in bis own State, do thoy ap ply proiubltlon to everything except ing the liquor trallic V "Can tno liquor trallic, undor tho United States Constitution, bo recog nized and regulated. " Havo not tho peoplo under tho Unit ! od States Constitution the right to : piobibt liquor traffic v u I want him to answer these ques tions," Gov. St. John concluded, ''aud I wonder how a man can come here and plead before God and man for giving this damnable business the re cognition of a State." There was applause for tho Governor as he ceased, out it soon lost itself in the enthusiasm which greeted Seuatot Tillman as he walked toward the front of tho stage. - Tbe spectators shouted and applauded, aud for several jniu utos the Senator was unablo to begin bis speeoh. "1 am glad tobe here." ho said, " particularly as I have been slandered aud lied on more than any man south of Mason and Dlxon's line. From what you have heard and road of me, I sup pose yon conceive me to be somothing betwooo an anarchist and -an idiot. I want you to take a look at mo and suo if 1 am as black a devil as 1 buve been painted. "Gov. St. John and I uro hero to discuss in a friendly way an abstract question of government. 1 eudorso every word that Gov. Larraboe wrote about tbe liquor ti-aflle. It oausos moreocrime, pauperism aud vice than anything else in tho world." Senator Tillman Lero read an ox tract from Gov. Larrabeo's speoch. As ho took his glasses from his pocket bo said : "I have to wore those things, you soo, because I have got only ono oyo, und I havo to carry the otbor old thing around without ' sooing anything through it. " But Gov. St. John makes a mis take," he continued, "when ho eon founds tho saloon with tbe dispensary. They are not at all the same. I do not ii iid in anything ??hut ho has said raoro than more assertions in proof of prohibition. The quustion is, is prohi oition tho bost method of promoting temperance reform . ?? What is temperance ? It is moder ation in tho use of tho pleasures of life. What is reform . O, tho sius that have been eommlttod iu the name of that word. To tbo crank it is his spoe ialism, but it is generally aeeopted to mean. a making over for tho bettor. Tbo question is, bow can wo teach men to use intoxieants temperately ? "Gov. St. John is horriliod at tbo re sults of intoxioation, but ho forgets that we are asolf-governing people, and must have tbo pormisBion of fifty por cent, of tho pooplo before it can be do oided that men havo uot the right to drink whisky when thoy want to. He says there is no licensing in tbe Bible. I fuil to lind a single instaneo in which drinking is prohibited there. Certainly it is not prohibited in Mosaic law. Men for thousands of years havo indulged in tho uso of intoxicants. Ever since they learned that alcohol could bo produced by tormontution. Thoy feel in their hearts that thoy have a right to drink, and you cannot convince them otherwise. " Until you got men to bolivo that thoy are bettor as hypocrites and liars than in their own iniquity you can never pomiado them that they havo not a right to drink. If this prohibi tion had been as great and wise a thing as its followers claim, it would have been the law of the whole land instead of tho oxcoption." Senator Tillman talked some more about his dispensary, and the chair man reminded him that his twenty minutes was drawing to an ond. " As a proof that tbe law has failed wborovor it was triod," ho concluded, "you can boo that it was necessary, even when sincere and conscientious men wore trying to onforco tho law, for tho States to go baek to licensing. Iowa puts a clauso in its Constitution forbidding tho sale of liquor except for medioinal, pharmacontioul and me chanical purposes. " What a stretch was given to the meaning of those words. I know from my own 9xporience in enforcing tbo law bow iinpo.-^ible it was to prevent >tho evasion of these laws. My expe rience has taught mo that tho law must dopend on tbo govornod for its enforce ment. "If you have not got a public opin ion with you tbo law can never bo on forced. Where can you got tho jurors, tho prosecutors and tho witnososs when tho feeling of tho public is so against them ? It is only when the fooling that the saloon must go is strong enough to support tbo spouk-oasy and drug storo that thoy will bo accepted as substitutes. "Tbo United States Govornmont de mands a tax from tho pooplo who sell whiskey, and who can deny that there is a 1 icense, to sell it. How can tho idoa of prohibition bo obtained when there is no moans of enforcing it! This is a self-governing country. " Unless a law rests in tho will of the people there is no power to onforco it. The Supreme Court Bays the power does not lie with any oitizon to sell li quor contrary to tho police power of the Stato, but this re hues to tho soil ing, and not to tbo drinking." Gov. St. John now road somo statis tics showing how Kansas had increased in wealth since prohibition became a law there, and bow much the govern ors and othor Stato otlioirs, who wore once opposed to it, had to sky in favor of tho conditions that exist now. "Why, in tho town I livo in," ho said, " there are 4,000 people, and wo have only ono policeman. Formerly wo had 2,000 pooplo with two police men before the prohibition oamo in. " We haven't had a tight on tho street in tiftoon years, and ovorybody attends to his own business. On last Grand Army day In Kansas there were 10,000 men gathered togother. Not ouo was drunk. That couldn't havo happened in any Stato except Kan sas." When Oov. St. John was told his ten minutes had expired lie took a little more to show how much richer Kansas was with prohibition than South Caro lina with its dispensary. More in sorrow than anger Sen ator Tillman said ho regretted vory much that his antagonist had alluded to tho fuot that South Carolina was not as rich as Kansas. Ho said bo did not believe that Gov. St. John intonded to wound bis foolings. "South Carolina," ho added, " is a eonquorcd country. She is struggling undor tho $2,000,000 whioh sho sends overy year to tbo Northern soldiers who conquered her. Lot tho ponsion tribute bo returned to us by Northern soldiers who will settle hero." He enumerated tho advantages of his dispensary system, and said that tho principal wore the removal of all idoa of profit and ineentlvo to Boll; tho procuring of a standard article which was sold undiluted, as it wus not opened : the fact that it was not sold at night, and only for cash. He was told to stop then by tho obalrman. Thoro was tho usual applause which accompaniod tho Governor all the ovening, ibut tho audionce made no conclusions as to who won lait night's debate* Cases of 40 years standing where operations bave failed, have been cured by Japaneso Pile Curo. Guar anteed by Carpont? t Bros., Greenville, S. C. I ?Ii: WKATHKlt ANI> CHOI'S A Considerable Improvement in Coil' ?Iii ion ailtl I'm M|H ( 1 . Tho following is the report of tho weather bureau for the week ending 13th instant: Thero is considerable improvement to note in tho condition of crops iu geueral and com in particular over the western and northern counties where the drought was partially re lieved everywhere aud iu some places entirely so, except that in Abbeville and Anderson the showers won-, par tial and at best insulllciont. Thero wero general showers on the Oth over tho upper portion of the State, the rainfall amounting to from ouo to two inches. Thero was rain in some portions of tho State every duy of tho week. The rainfall varied from .00 to .50 in Darlington, Col etou, Falrfiold, Anderson, Greenville. Clar endon, Biehland, Williamshurg. Char I- ston, Lexington and Spartauhur,g countios ; from 0.50 to 2.00 inches in liarnwoll, Berkeley, Beaufort, Hamp ton, Laurens, Sumter, Kershaw, Ches tertield, Lancaster, Chester, Abbeville; over 2.00 inches in Aikon, Newberry, Union, Edgetield, Pickons, Orangeburg and Florence ; at Couway tho week's rainfall was 5.011 inches, ami at McColl and Marllx)ro, 4.50 inches. The aver age of 38 rainfall reports was 1.3 inches, and tho normal for tho same period i. approximately 1.47. Tue temperature was very oven, having boon slightly but steadily above tho usual the entire week, tho excess averaging 2 degrees per day. The highest touiporature reported was S>8 at Columbia on the 12th ; tho lowest 03 at Santuc ou the 8th. The avorago temperature of the week, for tho State, deduced fi 'oin thirty-one station* ovonly distributed through out, was 81 degroes, and the normal for tho same period is approximately 70 degrees. The sunshine ranged from 57 to 02 j per cent, of the possible, with an average of about 74 per cent, for the State, which is considerably in excess of tho usual ; and iu places was damag ing, whore thero was aisO excessive rain, causing a steam, like vapor to riBe, which was injurious to . rops. Thero wore high local winds on the 0th in Fickous and Union counties, and a severe cyclouie storm in the vicinity of Santuc, Union county, on tho 10th (Saturday) that broke down a great deal of corn, tore some up by tho roots, unroofed houses, destroyed fruit, etc. Tho reports on cotton show that while in the main it has slightly im proved during the week, yet In places its condition has retarded. Abbeville county reports rust, lice and shedding of forms and the plant turning yellow. .Many other places also report shedding. Comparing its present condition with the same dates last year, the plant is from in days to 3 weeks later, lacks uniformity of condition, and tho acreage greatly reduced. A few sections only report 1? line u crop as last year. Tho regular and some specia re ports on corn confirm the reports by counties of last week, except there is considerable Improvement in t he north ern and western counties where the drought was greatly relieved, which put latest planting iu a promising con dition. In Anderson and Abbeville but little Improvemons noted ; in Ches terfield, Chester, Lancaster and Laur ens the improvement is most marked on bottom lands, of late planting. Corn in those counties that was planted late in May and early iu June is a failure'. Tho average lino condition and large acreage promises a very large corn crop, much of which ifc already made. Fodder pulling will be quite general this week; a great deai has already boon gathered In line condition. Excessive rainfall is affecting corn injuriously in Uorry county ; too little rain in the Piedmont section gener ally. Tobacco curing continues, and the reports all agree as to the line quality ol this year's crop, due to both the lit ness of tho soil for tobacco and skill used in curing. Peas aro ripening and tho crop is aline one in most sections, especially so whore tho rains have been abun dant. Turnip sowing continues as the con dition of the ground permits, anil thero will ho a largo crop planted. Sugar eano and sorghum aro not doing very woll. Molasses boiling has begun in tho lower part of the State. The general condition of sweet po tatoes show gains, but the crop is late, and comparatively a small one, owing to scarcity of seed at first and afterwards poor condition of the grounds for planting slips until quite recently. Lato poaches and fruit generally of inferior quality, except apples in Anderson county, which promise a full crop. Tho condition of rico is reported to bo uniformly oxcollent. ?Hector B. Lane, coinmmissioner of agriculture of Alabama and president of tho Southern Cotton Growers As sociation has returned from Texas. Ho says a thorough investigation of the subject has confirmed his belief that Statistician Noal's recent cotton report Is a rank fake. Bo says the re duct ion in tho Texas crop will amount to fully 25 per cent, instead of 2 per cent. Mr. Lane urges tho cotton growers to hold their cotton Oil the market as long as possible, and says that Noil and his bosses, the hears, arc trying to encourage thorn by false, pretense to maket their crop early In the season. ?Leander, J. MoCormiok, tho well known inventor of harvesting machin ery, lies critically ill at Chicago. Ho was horn in Virginiain IM7, and mov ed to Chicago in the forties, and atonee became a successful manufacturer of agricultural machinery. A groat plant was established. It was burned iu 1871 and an enormous loss entailed, but tho new business growing on the ashes of the old was greater still. M r. McCorraiek ceased active business in 1870. lie is a patron of education and prosonted to toe University of Virginia tho largest refracting telescope exist ing at that time. ?At Nogales, Ariz., an enterprising Yankee has a general store, the mer chandising d. parlinont of which is in the United htatOJ, while his cigar stand is on the on'.side just across tho boundary lire. A customer can buy his cigars in tho Tjultod States, and reach over Into Mexico, where the ol? gar caso stands, and select his weed. Thus-aro the duties evaded. ?A curious custom obtains in some portions of Spain in regard to bothro thals. A young man who looks with favor upon a haudsomo sonorita, and wishes to gain her hand, calls on the puronts for throo successive days at the same hour of tho day. At tho last call bo leaves his walking stick, and If ho is to win tho dosired brido, tho oano is handed to him when ho call a again. SWIFT 1 ? 11X IS 11 >l F.N T Ol?' < KIMI. IN MISSISSIPPI. Che p ??' i, except Throe Murderers Plead Utility and are Sentenced lor Lift*. On Woduesduy, August 7, Hon. Dab* my Marshal!, I)emoeraiie nominee for State Senator and a member of tbe Stale Legislature! aeeompanieil by H. lt. Coloman, VV. .1. Voller and li. T. Fox, all prominent oitizens of Yicks burg, arrived lu .lueksou and proceed ed to search for lt. T. Dink ins. a gen tleman highly connected in this State ami a cousin of Bishop C. B. Galloway, who, it was charged, bad circulated very sensational stories about Marshall. At Dinkiu's boarding house it was learned that he was in Hrundon, a email station fifteen miles east of .lack son. Karly Tuesday morning, Mm snail and his companions hired a livery team and proceeded to Urandon. where they found Dinkins standing on the depot platform, waiting for u train. Marshall, without warning, opened Iii?.- on Dinkins, and a struggled eu sued. When it was found that Mar s tall was getting tho worst of tbo en counter; his friends went to his assit> t nice and sent a fusilade of shots at Dinkins, who was unarmed. Dinkius foil dead, pierced by half a dozen bul lets. Marshall and his companions Immediately surrendered to the sheriff. Circuit Court met at Brandon on Monday, August 12, and tho grand jury Immediately proceeded to work on tho enso, and the next evening brought a true bill against Marshall. Coloman and Fox, and discharged Vol ler, who it appeared had taken no part in the shooting, but was present mere ly as an attorney. The prisoners were arraigned in the court next morning and by agreement pleaded guilty of murder in the first degree and were sentenced to life imprisonment in the State penitentiary. The verdict is regarded as a triumph of law over vio lence, find is quick justice, even for Mississippi, there being an interval of exactly one week between tbe nhoot iug and the sentence. The Jackson correspondent of tl\e Atlanta Constitution says : ??Tbe pie of the capital of M ississippi the Immediate relatives of tho d ceased, were startled by the irtthcHMA announcement of the sudden judicial | conclusion of the atrocious tragedy tvt Brandon, on Friday la?t. These words spread like wild lire throughout the | city : ? Marshall, Fox and Colo man plead guilty and will be sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary.' " It is stated that the defense being entirely without legal or moral grounds on which to rest their case, in the courts, made tbe proposition to the prosecution asking that the slayers of Dinkins be allowed to plead guilty of murder and accept a life sentence. While assured that the conviction and execution of the accused would neces sarily follow a fair trial, tbe State mercifully ugrcod to allow the crimi nals to sulfer lifo imprisonment. This proposition was submitted to the brother of tin- deceased, who was pres ent representing the family, and who came to Jackson last night in company with Hon. U. N. Miller, chief counsel fortbe prosecution, to consult Kb.hop Gallo.vay, cousin of tho deceased. The Bishop, while assured of a conviction to bo followed by the death sentence, advised acceptance, lie stated that if ho wore discharging tho solemn func tions of a juror, with a solemn oath to deoido the case according to the law and tbe evidence, lie would be com pelled to vote for a death sentence. As a man and a citizen he could not ask for tho life of another, and ex pressed tho hone that this punishment will subserve the great ends of justice and bel)> to some higher appreciation of human life in the State of Mississip pi. "The criticism of Hon. A. J, Mi Lnwrin, chief counsel for the defense, who is the Democratic nominee for Governor, is very liot'CO." The prisoners were taken to Jackson at OUCO, and their inarch to the poui tcntlary is thus described : Tbe line of march to the penitenti ary was U d by tiie marshal, who having lived in Jaekson a fow years ago knew the way. Hundreds of people stood close up to every corner anil lined the streets along which the profession moved. The rear was brought up by a mob Of hundreds of men and boys, white and black, all scullling for tbe vantage ground nearest the prisoners, pushing and jostling each other in their elVort to get a good look at the prisoners. Old solid citizens, one seventy-live years of age, were seen to run a block or two to catch up with or head ofi the procession, they might get a glimpse of tho distinguished ar rivals. Offensive epithets, jibes and jeers were heard on all sides, most of them being uttered for Marshall's express benefit, but be walked rapidly on to his destination, giving no intimation that lie beard them. Buggies and carriages joined in the wild rush for the penitentiary and by the time tho prisoners arrived there tho streets were crowded witli wheeled vehicles, as weil as a thousand more curious pooplo. The crowd did not step at tbe gates, but rushed on with the prisoners up tho broad paved walks and info the hall leading to the ponderous iron doors which swung open at the ap proach of the sergeant who motioned Marshall, Coloman aud Fox to enter. The heavy holts clanged back in [ place and the prisoners were hidden from the world and the eyes of the curious. ?Two pieces of cannon which the British Jluu mounted at tbe fort near Cambridge, S. C, in 17^1. are on ox- : dilution at Durst ?V Co s in Creenwood. These guns are east iron, twenty-six inches long, and one and t hfOC-quar ters inches bore. Mr. .1. |\, Durst obtained them from Mrs. N. A. Martin and will send them to the Atlanta Bx position.. British camion us id as and irons for a hundred years now go to the great exposition of the South to bo seen and wondered at by curious eyes front every nation of the earth, What changes a century h(IH wrought even in the Instruments of war. While Mr. Hammctt Giving and Miss Maggie Gallhnoi'0 were out driv ing in Davidson county, N. ('., the horse shied and ran tho buggy oil' a bridge. The young turn jumped out, but the young lady, with the horse, and buggy, went into the creek. (Jiv ing went to the rescue of Miss Gal* 11 more, and in bis efforts to save her life was himself dfDWnod, Justus the girl was sinking for the last time a young man who happened to be passing pimped into the creek and pulled her out. - ?... *v?-. ? In Paris the other day a barber shaved a man in a cage with a lion (0 win a wagor, A cruel story runs on wbeols, and every hand oils tbo whoolsastbey run. Swallows are sometimes seon at sea over I,not) miles from land. I ?Ho Id a fool who cannot bo angry 5 . hut he is WiBt^^Wwill not. a lool who M WINTHROP NORMAL COl flow Applicants Muni l'iooectl line Admission to ill*- Normal i in i n 11. 11College, President I). 15. .iVuiion. of Iba Wl throp Norimii and 1 nuustruTl TJol is rapidly getting things into shuj for tile opening of the college in Out bor. He is now .-ending to the sever county school commissioners; in tt State tho following circular lett' which every young lady w ho expect attend shouid rend carefully und tx\ her immediate atieiiiion by eoiuu'iui outing with the School < oinniisslonot in her own county. Dear Sir: We shall have room the dormitory of the Winthrop Not mal mul Inuiistrial College for tt< more than seven students on an age from each county. It is Bire to admit the most earnei-vul serving. We tool that you cat service to us iu determining bestand most deserving students^ your county, and we uesire youf^ operation. Applicants must be less than fifteen y ears of age and have a good knowledge of tho comti?tl school branches. We admit, free of all tuition chad worthy young ladies who are unable| pay. You may know of some such your county. Ii so, send her a pre pectus and put her in communion with me. This iiistil.utio.i-' olYors a great opportunity to tl e young wo-1 men of the State lor a thorough cduoa-J tion, and want only those who will properly appreciate the great outlti made by the State for their bonefil It is our purpose to continue 0111? wot' for tho common schools by citiphusi/1 ing the training of teachers for them] as we have done heretofore As the dormitory accommodation^ are limited this llrst year, well for you to suggest to JuT teiiiling to appl.V for admission that a prompt application is uoo< to insure admission. I doslro1 each county shall have its proporjj ate ropresontatii n in your, body, hut we are i'l coining applications daily and i cannot] too umg iu ?fff appoint] Whenever i j^flBp rvr you, coifuutin] ^^yours, I). 13. JOIINo* >.V. Prossdent Johnson is also supplying application bl'tnks on which the applf oants are required to stato their name] postotlicc county, date er birth,? whether intending to become a toaon>1 er: if not so intend ing, the object oil attending the college: whether will-J lug to board in a private family, if not assigned to a room in tue dormitory whether wishing to enter as a pay Ptij dent or not, etc. President Johnson also gives this in formation : "There will bo l">i> places reserved in the dormitory for those who do not pay tuition and IM) or more places for those who do pay tuition. Pjtrt of the. 150 will he retained by those who had appointments last year in the Win throp College at Columbia. "The tuition-paying pluces will bo given as thostud ints aro received. " The expense!: ol tho non-tuitjbn paylng students in i'n- dormitory will be $81150; tho oxponsoo >f iiou-tuitlom paying students hoarding" in private families will vary from $100 to $115*' lly adding $10, which is the tuition the year, to the above amounts, it wil be oasy lo sue what would be tin ponses Ol any one w ho pay.- ttlltlOj When places are assigned in mitory, they uro for the (\ norths and not for a portion year. "The dormitory nccommb aro limited for tin- present, aud is no place at tho college tor th or frivolous. Ouly tlios? are v 'or will, he allowed to remain w willing to do oarnost, cousciontlour, hard work, and will comply faithfully and cheerfully with tin, rules of the college. Thero are so mai.y good Bttl donts who waut tho places thore that we do not wish thei I to ho ciowdcd^jj out by tho." w i o regard their oppo/^B tunitfos lightly. "The Winthrop Nomal and Indus trial College will he open to girls who are not less than lift ion years of ago, of gootl moral character and sound physical health. No pupil will be ad mitted who has not already an ? lemon*, tary knowledge of the ordinary" branches of an English oducatlon, v:.--> arlthmetic, /gram mat.', geography and history.*' SllKlMWKD RKM;ASI:I). -Chief Jus tice Mclver ha-oril retl th>' release of Win. Shoppard, who was sent to tho penitentiary by Judge Townsend under contempt proceeding a provided in the dispensary law. A certificate copy of Judge Molver's decree was served on Superintendent Ncal, who i'oloased Sheppard atonco. Sin ppard's brother went down to tho penitentiary in a wagonette, aud as soon us William was released tho two brothers went, cut to a barbecue. Shoppard was In a good humor over his reloaso, and for the present has nothing to say about what lie intends doing. The Attorney (iciieral WHS not sur prised at the decision, although both sides were considerably put out that tho Chief .fustic* ovadoil the constitu tionality of the suction under which Shoppard was put in prison. IJotli sides argued that point and apparently paid littlo attention to tile one upon which the Chief Justice lot Sheppard out. The Attorney General said: "I regret that the Chief Justice did not pass on the merits ol the case. Wo havo taken un appeal to the ful bench l of tho Supreme Court, and i? certified 1 copyof the grounds ol appeal lias boon veil on tho attorney i<h Shoppard. This matter is important to us, because we want the vitally important question settled." it was pointed out by an attorney that the Cniol Justice did oxactly what he censured.m the two associate justices in the n gistl'Ution decision, in which they considered tho question of jurisdiction and not tin- merits of the case. The Chief Justice Uses identically the same argument in the Sheppard e ise as I In s did ill tllO TOg Istratlon case, which i- another evi dence that law of some sort can ho found on almost any sido of a (|U0H tion. it is staled that there are several injunction.-, issued in Charleston ami Columbia iu the same manner. 'Hid until some filial dccish li is reached nothing will likely be done about them. It is reported that Sheppard lnt< nds to bring suit against those whom lo can legally sue for damages for Im prisoning him III the state pen I ton tlary and subjecting hin to "indignl ties." When Shoppard went lo tho penitentiary ho won- a raven h aek sot of whiskers, lie had boon culti/at ing them for year.-, and the los* of thesis whiskers may bo in tllO promised suit. Besides, ho did not like the idea of having to WcaV prison garb, but as to his treatment ho has no oattso to complain. ?An ordinary piano i out Uns n mllo of wire string.