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THE COUNTY RECROD. Published Every Thursday AT KIXGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. LOUIS J. BKISTOW, Kditoi* and Proprietor. It has beeu recently suggested that advantage shonl 1 be takeu of this international brush to attempt a practical solution of the tramp question, says the Washington Star. The proposition is that these wandering ne'erdo-wells 1)0 drafted into the service of 41 ilot mi'lurnieil drillpil t>UC V an' \4 knaiv . armed, and seat to Cuba to form part, at least,of the first army ^>f invasion. It is urged that those tramps who seek to shirk this unpleasant duty will naturally "take t'? the woods" thus completely ridding the communities that they have iale-ted of a serious nuisance. The military demands of the government, h >wever. are too * serious to jennitthe assembling of a epips of untrained, unuiilitarv, nnMhitioas, and possibiv unpatriotic nren to be relied upon tor ?ia igerons ~K dfeties. The he'd fighters are those taken by their country from the ranks of the producers, the men with a conscientious desire to serve the nation, who are energetic both in times of peace and war. The greatest1 economy in wa d ire lies m producing a mhyiinnui of resn't.s with a minimum of men. The mere aggregation of people into ranks is not generalship. The tramp problem lies deeper than this. It is not to be solved by a gen eral conscription, unless it be intended to enter upon a virtual scheme of extermination, which is so utterly foreign to American doctrine, and so antagonistic to the principles upon which the war of intervention is being waged against Spaiu. If the solution lies in the line of employment let the tramps ? be drafted to work 011 the roads. <rood roads are needed. Labor must be had to build them. While the war is iu progress the stay-at-home tourists of the highways might profit, bly be set at work putting their favorite tines of travel in tine modern condition. In Japan's new Cabinet arc several * yo,uug men who have imbibed much of the commercial spirit of the age. They are aggressive young fellows who are committed to the developing of t!?e material resources of the Empire. Prime Minister Ito, who for the third time is at the head of the Cabinet, is disposed to give his young colleagues wide latitude in which to carry out their policy of building up the industries of the oouutry. Last year over live hundred miles of new railway were constructed in Ja~au, and this year it is proposed to build even a greater mileage. All told, there are two thousand miles of railyjf?r in Japan, and in order to make ' them pay they must be fed with the traffic that springs out of commercial activity. These railways 1k^1? :i^r tx>t;i to the government ami private corpora'tious.* aixl connect the principal cities of the Empire." In order to stimulate manufactures, the new Cabinet dejsiiles to negotiate a commercial treaty. Germany has keen selected as one of the countries which will l>e inviteil to enter such a treaty. The Japanese .argue that Genaany manufactures machinery which they need, and consumes the products which they maun^Ucture. Therefore a commercial treaty with Germany is looked ui>on as a desirable acquisition. This eagerness, oa the part of the Japs, to secure a commercial treaty, under which the products of the two countries thereto may be advantageously exchanged, ought to attract the attention of our government. Germany produces no machinery that we do not produce and she consumes no Jajxanese prouucis :*hat we do not consume. We can secure the trade of Japan if we so after It on terms that will' l>e acceptable to tUe new Cabinet, but we cannot pet 1t if we remain Inactive and silent while Germany is pursuing fhc prize. We ought to furnish the Japanese tlie greater part of their railway iron, and their rolling stock, but we furnish them only a small fraction of what they use. We ought to furnish them the machinery they use in their cotton and silk "tirflVs. but wo do not furnish any to apeak of. We ought to have a market there for our machinery, agricultural implements, etc.. but the foreigners on the other side of the Atlantic enjoy a uionoi>oly of what we ought to share, i The Japanese like us. They are trying to make their system of government analogous to ours, so far as it is possible to make a monarchy resemble a republic. In view 01' this we ought to compete with Germany for the trade of Che Japanese, and if necessary make such concessions as would secure for us a continuing market for our staples, and Mw products of our mills and factories, which now glut the channels of 110121? VUUSUIiH^a/Jl. 'IUIH.II IVI trade with the outside world; why not luxve her trade with this country A Boston girl who has l>eon trying to find out why her bicycle often runs into objects she tries to avoid thinks she lias solved the problem at last.-* She says: "It is hypnotic influence of concentrated attention, rendering the movements incoordinate, so that the rider becomes the victim of perverted reflexes of purposeless effort and the abject subject of an optical delusion." And perhaps she Is right THE FOURTH-OF.JULY BOY. t "They've got ? new boy ui- at Brown's," I rend in the paper to"A baby was born there I suppose that is what they would saw I object to their calling him new; For if he's not legless ; yW '> \y or blind ,/ Vcu may wager a bun% ff&b&Z A __ dred cigars I '{'/ / ^ He is always mo vorv YjfrjfflWW samo kind? bO& / . ThebiiT-in-the-eye bov, the out-on-the-fiy bov, the eunningarul-slv boy you most always lind. lie inherit s the knowledge of years. But begins where his father began; Ilis pathway is moistened with tears In climbing his way up to man. With the string an I the club aud bent pin He invents just the same kind of paiu That the boys in the dark ages knew. Or that Abel complained of in Cain? The fourth-of-July boy. the last-one-tocry boy, the never-say-die bov who drives you insane. And in fact we don't want any change; He's a very good sort of a boy. I He lias a long way yet to range \ Through a country that yields little joy. And we wouldn't give much for the man Who never had risked a sharp pang i For the pleasure that all through bim ran ! Wlieu he set something off with a bang The pepper-box-high boy, the dirt-iu-hiseye boy?in fa-t, your or my boy who loves a loud bang. ?A. T Worden, iu I'uek. >n\7r.- v^\/i\/iV'^S/isA/.\/ v \ iviva/iv wiv.v/ \zi\znVrV' rj> 1 FIRING THE SHIP. I >< A Fourth of July Celebration in ?> ffi i ne.. II \< i-: At the very time, late on July 4, 177t?, the continental congress at Philadelphia was struggling witu the i Declaration of Independence, another assembly at Elizabetlitown Point was also struggling with the men who had planned to invade their homes. The action of the former is well-known to- j day, but the deeds of the others are j forgotten, although the early records i inform us that theirs was the first celebration of the new uatiou. On July 2d Howe began to land his forces on Staten Island. This already was a refuge of the tories and when Howe's men began to arrive from Halifax, whither they hat" gone when they evacuated Boston, the alarm had : read along the Jersey shore, for all feared an invasion. I Men and boys had answered the call, anil now on the evening of this famous Fourtli were stationed behind | the cover, which hastily had been | thrown up near the Point, and were engaged in a tierce contest with one of the enemy's sloops of fourteen guns, which had come to anchor there with the tvident intention of destroying the defense and scattering the minute men. Nor did the task appear to be a difficult one, for the rude earth works fcere weak and the men were raw and inexperienced. A small body of Captain Neil's artillery with two twelve-pound cannon, however, were present, and on these the 500 men placed their main reliance. The contest had been going on for a half hour now, and so skillfully had the cannon been handled that the mast and rigging of the sloop had been shot away, and she was unable to withdraw. Many of her men had fallen, while but few of the continentals had been harmed. But Captain Neil fully realized how desperate the conditions were, however, for at any moment some of Howe's war vessels, hearing the sounds of the engagement, might come around from the other side of the island and if they i did the contest would soon be brought 1 to a close. "Captain Neil wants to see you," said an orderly to John Shotwell and Joseph Swan, two boys of seventeen, who had taken their places with the men. "What does he want?" inquired John. "I don't know. Come and he'll tell you himself." The boys took their guns and following the orderly soon stood before Captaiu Xeil, \\ hose grimy appearance resembled their own. "Are you the boys who went over to Stnten Island yesterday and tired at the regulars?" asked the captain. "Yes," replied Joseph. "We were out in our skiff and tired just to let them know all the Jerseymen were not asleep. But when a lot of regulars came running out of the woods we made off in a hurry." " 'Twas a foolish piece of work. Don't try it again. And yet it showed you had some qualities I want to use right away. I want to set lire to this sloop. If .ve don't help will coine to them from the island." The hoys were silent, waiting for him to explain. It certainly would be I THE BLAZING SHIP. o desperate venture. Even while lie was speaking a cannon belched and (he i-eports of many muskets followed, tlow could they set fire to the sloop in Ihe face of such dangers? John's heart was beating rapidly and Joseph ?Vas trembling in his excitement. "I want to fill a skiff with stuff that ivill bum and come up to the sloop with it on the other siile. Make the skift'fast, set tire to the skiff ami then swim off. Yon can both swim, can't you?" said the captain. "Yes," replied John. But the prospect was frightful. How could they approach the sloop without being seen? And if they were, it would weau the death of both. "I know it looks desperate," said the captain, reading their thoughts, "but we'll hold their attention 011 this side and I don't think they'll be 011 the lookout for danger from the sound. Somebody must try it, and will you be the ones?" "My mother told me not to bo shot in the back," said Joseph with a strange choking iu his throat. "If it 1 \a 1I/1110 wa mutr ?? Ti'tdl trv it ftS any one. What do you say, John?" "We'll try it," said John, quietly. "But I was wondering whether the raft the boys usefor crabbing wouldn't be better than a skiff. Its right up the shore here, and we could stay in the water and push it. That would be some protection." /. 1 r ~ ( r USUI NO "The very thing," said the captain, quickly. "Show us where it is.", Jehu led the way and the raft was soou equipped for the perilous attempt. A mass of combustible material was piled upon it, and several short planks placed across the stern I to serve as a protection to the boys who were to swim out with it. Throw ing aside their clothing, they at once pushed out into the water, wading as far as possible, and then they began | to swim. ; "It's a desperate chance," said the orderly when the boys disappeared. "I know it," replied the captain, ' "but it had to be done. I'm glad it's 1 so dark, ami now we'll Lave to work to bold the attention of the sloop to this side," and be hastened back to bis men. Meanwhile the boys were swimming ! and quickly pushed the strange craft before Ihem. They had started at i quite a distance above the sloop and I the outgoing tide was of great service. "They're warming up on store," , whispered Joseph a little later, as ; the noise of the guns increased, j "?es, and there's the sloop right ' ahead," replied John, as the rour and J flash of a cannon came over the water. ! "She's facing us and pulling at her : anchor." Slowly and with increased care now they guided the raft toward the bow. ! It was the time of greatest danger and the boys were almost breathless. Would they be seen by the men on the sloop? John thought, of his mother, ' and a picture of his home rose before ! him. Would he ever see it again? There was no time for sucl thoughts, however, as they were righl under the bow now. John climber : ou board the raft and grasped the heavy cable. The rushing tide made i the raft swing around until uei* sterr was against the side of the sloop. I' | was the very position he desired, am thus far thev had not beeu discov ered. He made the raft fast to the cabh and then took his flint and tinder His hands trembled so that he scarce i ly could use them. Again and agaii He struck the flint, but no spark ! came ?r else fell harmless. Wha ! could be the trouble? Could he bi heard? Summoning all his courage i; agaiu he made the trial and this tiui< The T>on had his will with ttie "Maine," Ho sot off his mine with a roar. He quaffed to our dead his champagne. And laughed till his sides they were sore; And now he must settle his score, And pay for his sport, as is right, Our navy is brave as of yore. And Yankee blue-jackets cau light. Perhaps wo are not in the vein? We pigs, as he's called us before? To laugh at our sailor-boys slain. | And so his brave joko we deplore. But flashing a bolt from the shore And sinking a ship in tho night Was murder, our blue-jackets swore? And Yankee blue-iackets cau light. Our guns at Manila spoke plain. Ami sharp was the message they bore, As swift through the squadron of Spain Our death-dealing hurricane tore; As, riddled and rent to thn core. Each cruiser plunged down out of sight, "One more for our sailors! one more!" * Aud Yankee blue-jackets can light. ( ~ " the spark fell and caught. Quickly then the hoys slid from the raft aud with strong, yet quick strokes, swam off. As soon as the cover of the darkness had been gained they paused and waited for the blaze. But the flash of the guns was the only light that ! J A i.1 .* i ? 1 appeared. auuiuci mmuic ptisceu, ami another, and still no blaze was seen. Was something wrong? "You wait. I'm going back," whis! pered John, and before his friend could remonstrate he was gone. Joseph i waited in a fever of excitement, not I knowing what to do. Meanwhile John had safely regained the raft and found, as he had feared, that the lire was out. Again he took the flint and tinder and was rejoiced when the first spark fell he saw a little tongue of flame appear. 1 Satisfied that this time there would ; be no failure, he hurriedly slid into the water and started toward his companion. He had gone but a few yards when he turned to look at the sloop. I What was that he saw? The face of a man peering over the rail. He had I been discovered. He quickly sank THE RAFT. ami swam under the water as long as his breath would permit, and when he arose again to the surface the face had disappeared. "It'll go this time," he said, as he rejoined his friend, and they started I for the shor'e. Quickly putting on their clothing as soon as they arrived they ran toward their cover, and just as they arrived, a shout went up that , sounded above the noise ot the guns. They turned and looked toI ward the sloop. A long tongue of I flame was shooting up over the bow. J It ran along the bowsprit, it spread j over the rigging and climbed the i broken mast. Again a shout arose j from the men on shore. The crew of I the sloop were taking their wounded | and dead, and in their yawls were l starting for Staten Island. Not a gun was firing now, for none . would harm the wounded, but scarcely ! had they disappeared before, with a ! report like thunder, the blazing sloop was blown into a thousand fragments, ! and then an unbroken stillness came 1 j over the sound. "That's the best bonfire we ever , had," said Joseph, as he and John i were walking up the quaint old street toward their homes, but his friend | made no reply. ' Just before the time when the sloop was set on tire the conpress at Phila. delpliia was a new nation in the world, j Bells were ringing, guns were tired , and bonfires lighted throughout the city. News traveled slowly in those 1 days, but on the 8th the report reached Trenton. There the provincial con, press, the committee and the people ^ j assembled, and guns again were beam [ and bonfires rekindled. On the {Jth > I the tidings reached Elizabetktown, ; and the same scenes were enacted, t On the 10th New York was all ablaze, t and parades and Donnrcs were im 1 order of the duv. I i "I've looked the matter up," saiil Joseph Swau to his friend, "and from j all I can learn, our celebration at the . point when we fired the British sloop - } was just thirty minutes ahead of the 1 I celebration at Philadelphia. We didn'l s ' know it, but we had the first one ir t ! America?hurrah for the Fourth o e 1 July and the United Colonies o , ' America! Likewise, hurrah for the e j boys that had the first celebration ii 1 nil the land!"?Everett T. Toinlinson, i in Atlanta Constitution. ; j Ono Iteneiith Old Glory. Don't you bear the tramp of soldiers? Don't you hear the bugles play? Don't you see the muskets Hashing In the sunlight far away? Don't you feel tho ground all trembling 'Neath the tread of many feet? They are coming, tens of thousands, To the army and the fleet. They are Yankees, they are Johnnies. They're for North and South no more; They are one, and glad to follow When Old Glory goes before. From Atlantic to Paeillc, From the l'lne Tree to Lone Star, They are gath'ring round Old Glory,1 And they're marching to the war. Don't you sop tlio harbors guarded I B.v those bristling dogs of war? Don't you hear them prowling, barking, At the fleet beyond the bar? 1 Don't you hear the Jack Tars cheering, I Bravo as sailor lads can be? Don't you see the water boiling j Where the squadron put to sea? They are Yankees, they are Johnnies, 1 ( They're for North and South no inure; They are one. and glad to follow When Old Glory goes before. From Atlantic to Pacific, ] From the Pine Tree to Lone Star, They have gathered round Old Glory, And they're sailing to the war. Don't you hear the horses prancing? Don't you hear the sabres clash? i Don't you hear the cannon roaring? i Don't you hear the muskets crash? Don't you smell the smoke of buttle? Oh, you'll wish that you had gone, j When you hear the shouts and cheering I For the boys who whipped the Don! I There'll be Yankees, there'll bo Johnnies, i There'll be North an 1 South no more, i When the hovs come marching homeward , With Old Glory borne before. From Atlantic to Pacific, From the l'ine Tree to Lone Star, \ They'll be one beneath Old Glory After coming from the war. ?Boston Journal. j . First FIhk Ilero?Sergeant .Jasper. When the British attacked Charleston in 177G, thej met with a reception ! no less bloody than that given them | by Jackson at New Orleans in 1815. The advance guard of the harbor and the hope of the city was Fort Sullivan, i i (Tf SERGEANT JASPER RESCUES THE FLAG. j a low structure, with ramparts made | of palmetto logs and sand. Behind ' the fragile walls were thirty-ono eaul non and behind them 450 stanch ! American patriots. A fleet of eight British ships drew up before the fort, j with the muzzles of 300 guns showing at the portholes. The battle opened and raged all day. Over 1200 shots were fired at the fort. On the flagstaff Colonel Moultrie had nailed the first Revolutionary banner ....< ..-1^.1 rnMi;no rt defiantly until a shot cut the staff, then iell outward upon the beach. Jt was the first fall taken out of the Stars and Stripes, and that first crisis of the flag had its hero. Sergeant William Jasper, of Marion's South Carolina regiment, acting on his own hook, leaped the wall and ran along the beach, under fire, the whole length of | the fort. i Cutting the tlag free from the fallen staff, the gallant sergeant fastened it to the long haudle of a cannon sponge that was handed out to him through an embrasure. A steady rain of shots swept over the beach and plunged into the sand banks which auswered for walls. In the face of this fire Jasper : carried the tlag to the front slope of a i Unction tvliioS Innlrpil illlt. on t.llft llOS ; tile fleet ami was in fnll view from all points in the harbor. There he mounted to the crest of the rampart and fixed the staff firmly in the sand. I The flag waved on until the battle closed in an American victory. Our Flag. 1 On the 14th of June, 1777, the Con- , gress of the United States made the 1 following provision: The flag of the Thirteen States should have thirteen | stripes alternately?red and white. 1 The Union thirteen white stars in a ' i blue field, representing a new constellation. On January 111, 1794, the form was altered by act of Cougress, , ' which provided that after May 1, 17!).;, , j the flag should consist of fifteen stripes , and stars arranged as before. By an ' act of April 4, 181S, the design was re1 ' established as thirteen horizontal ! j stripes. In the Union were placed < ' twenty stars, with one star to be added I for every State admitted to the Union. | 5 1 This aet went into effect on July 4, j I 1818. The new star is added on the . Fourth of July next after the adtnis- ( i sion of the new State. Before the ( ; JiUOptlOLl UI ILltJ stupes) auu oiuio, i various devices were employed. One Tlilpg He iioen. , I "Benny," said Mr. Bloonuinper, "if ] George Washington is the first in the < 5 hearts of bis countrymen, who comes < > , second?" 1 j I "I don't know about that," replied * k Benuy, "but Independence day is the t Fourth." Harper's Bazar. f f Sigsbee avenue will soon take its ] 3 i place among the streets of ' llegheny, , l i j Penn. |1 IIEIEJIIT SLEEP Dsar to the Hearts of South Carolinians is the Old WAXHAW BURYING GROUND. Brave Soldiers of Revolutionary Fame and Gallant Confederate Troopers Sleep Side by Side. There are many little spots in South Carolina which are known and lovod by interested ones, but which are practically unknown to many. Somo of these may be neglected and overgrown with weeds, but even these will have their own remembrance in the shrine of the human heart, where weeds and lui ^oiiuiuuan uu>c uw |'iuv-u. Among the neglected 6pots which hold historic memories because of their associations and honored dead very few places are more important to South Carolinians than is the old Waxhaw burying ground, in Lancaster county, about eight miles from the North Carolina State line. Here are the graves of Revolutionary patriots, officers aud privates; here rest the young aud the fair side by side with tho old und weary, aud here sleeps the Confederate soldier in the land he fought and died for surrounded by the ancestors who lived and died even as he had done. "The mossy marbles rest" on kith and kin of generation after generation, and there bo many names here which would recall Southern valor and patriotism were they mentioned. It would be unsatisfactory, however, not to emphasize tho fact that Andrew .Tackson, seventh President of these United States, was born in this Waxbaw settlement on the 10th of March, 1767. It has been claimod by some that President Jackson was born on the North Carolina side of the border line, but many facts are against this claim. Then Jackson's testimony is worth something. In a letter, (December 24, 1880,) in the proclamation addressed to the "Nullifiers, in 1882, and again, ia his will, Jackson spoko of himself as being a South Carolinian. The most striking detail was that after the death of Andrew Jccksou, Sr., the funerM procession started over the mountainous road for the Waxbaw "burviug ground." With snow and ice, rum and whiskey, the procession started over hill and daie bearing the body of the dead Irishman on a sleigh. When the cortege arrived at their destination thore was no corpse, and the soberer members of ttie party retraced their steps and found the body a mile and a half from the "burying: ground," where it had rolled off of the sleigh. Some of the old stones, very many of them, bear dates going back to the early part of the ISth century. A new building has been erected very near the site of the old chnrch, which was burned daring the Revolutionary wa and religious exercises are held regularly. Huge oaken sills and very large stones still mark the foundation of the old historic church building. The ancient "burying ground" has not been changed nor remodelled. The samk carious old "piled" stone fence, the old sharp-pointed iron gates, the same weird old, tobstones, looking more strange and uncouth than ever, are all there. South Carolina Gets Three Places. Adjutant General Corbin has made public the names of the 195 young men who have been solected for appointment as second lieutenants in the regular army to till vacancies created by the act of Congress adopting the three battalion organization for the infantry arm of the service and the addition of one second lieutenant to all batteries when liiled to war strength. Each of tha 1 'l.l man splncted will be nhliced to undergo an examination that will be a thorough test of his mental and physical qualifications for the army service. Those who pass the examination will be nominated by the President to the Senate. The following young men of South Carolina have been selected: James 11. Allison, Jr., graduate South Carolina Military academy; Edward Croft, graduate South Carolina Military academy; Benjamin J. Tillman, honor crraduate South Carolina Mili tary academy. ??> .Magnolia Cemetery. At the twenty-first annnal meeting of the stockholders of Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston hold at the Carolina Savings Bank, President Geo, W. Williams submitted the following report: Since Magnolia Cemetery was organized, nearly half a century ago, 2,700 lots have been sold, also 1,205 lots in the strangers' section. The first interment in Magnolia was in 1848. The number of interments to June 1, 1898, is 10,150. The sale of lots amounts to ?181,115. By an agreement with the lotholders20 percent of the gross sales of lots bavo beon paid to a board t of the lotholders. This fun 17,S74. Perhaps in the m ..?y years all the lots in the cemetery will have been sold. The interest derived from the trust fund will doubtless be large enough to keep the grounds in order even after the sale of all the lots. New Itoller Mill Burned. Tho new roller mill of T. F. Hunt Sc Co., at Spartanburg, wa3 burned to the ground. It had been in operation only 3 few days and was doing very fine work. The building, machinery, 150 bushels ol wheat ana a carioau 01 corn was eutiroly consumed. How the tire originated is a mystery. The loss is about $4,000, with St'.oOO insurauce. ? A Railroad for Sale, A decree for the salo of the Ohio Rivjr and Charleston Railway 'has been lauded down in the United States Circuit Court. The decree was tiled in the clerk's office at Charlotte, X.C., and an luxiliary bill wa3 received and filed at Jharleston. The bill, which is for foreclosure and sale, is brought bv the Finance Company, of Pennsylvania, igainst the Ohio River and Charleston ines. Mr. George D. White was appointed special Master to advertise the property and make the sale. No bids vill bs allowed under SoO.OOO. I