The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 26, 1883, Image 1

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WAtCHMAN, JSrtabHsned April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 1866. iaatett &*g. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1883. New Series?Vol. II. No. 46. PaMiiJwa iW7 Tuesday, Watchttian and Southron Publishing Company. STOTEK, S. C. " TBBMS: Two Bollars per annum?in advance. ADV* KTTSSMXVT8. ?, first insertion.,.$1 00 it insertion.................. 50 for three toon As, or longer will : sm^af noticed rates. ''t ce^MBunicatioDs which subserve private vmHl be charged for as advertisements, -and tributes of respect will be notices and notices of deaths pub > work or contracts for advertising rateiwn and Southron, or apply at N. G. OSTEEN, v^rv v , Business Manager. UB UTTERED. words?as on the broad expanse rthe fecmless vapors of the night *z_f- - ? - __ ^.r^Cf fifco* Star that ta the morning glance J^^flli^iABK^'Bim ^?IdiB^ -bftoeeoca, from the sight, & ? y ^Wt wdbw? til!, spaa the western height, r T^^^iwjji f ii tbeiifeveniag towers advance? I. a dreara ineffable, of the sunshine or the shade, oft upon die brink of twilight chili, Or the dawa'a pale opening portal stayed, iears* that all the qoivering eyelids fill, f^Bn socles, that on the lip of silence fade. 5 The Local Option Law. if^Wbo is BegpoiMibie for the Failure S|l|pW 'fe?rfoTCQ Liquor Laws ? ;f (From-the Tempeca&ce Worker.) It is often asserted that "prohibition 'weaibit," and to proof thereof is made to the fact that the _ the sale of liquor that ?je'a?w-.on our statute books are fre ?nentiy and flagrantly violated and ' ' ?e ?boat it. attempting at present any ?f the prohibition question ijMT^se, we simply wish to take note of the well known fact that sach laws as law," tfce law prohibiting liquor, to minors," the ting the sale of liquor on toerSabbata/' are constantly violated, . ?d *ibJale3t> with* perfect -iuipunity ; ^oes^ioh, woo is reV toTitf b it the doty of the ' temperance \-tor-see to the proper en these laws ? Some of onr Otiten? say vthat it is and saddle "^K^eiresponaibHity- If they are w ;V 4f tu this matter we are derelict, tSseitpe excuse cao be made for us, and - V The Temptrance Worker t as *b e organ the temperance organisations of the ,Statewould offer none. But let os look at it closely. There ^ are?io> South Carolina three distinct Bfctemperance organizations?the Sons |?f..of Temperance, the Good Templars :, the Woman's Christian Temperance UtUori: The mission of these organiza { ^ twos, is simply ?efermjttory. They J: work on the individual and seek to ^r rescue* him from the thraldom of an V; injarjoaa habit, and they have nothing tjgUfej? organizations with the eo * fbrceuient of laws. It is their duty to direct the attention of those in authority to these violations, and time and again they have done so, ineffectually. A^a&: tiese organizations, althoagh possessing wjtbic themselves strength snathe ^oarage of their convictions in * good cause, do not feel that they ' wonid be _ doing .themselves justice to ; ^|?^e |B}e legal battle with the liquor uses. . *?o conduct such a fight to a suc ^^KtsaM mm.** in the face of the masterly teactivity of the elected servants of the 'cr' ' people, wjios* duty it is to see that the laws are obeyed, will require an outlay of time, talent and money that we do Bot "feel peculiarly called upon to make saddle the responsibility for these failures to prosecute on the temperance organizations of the State is, we think, a-weak evasion of official responsibility. Because a man is a member of a Tem perance Lodge or Division, does it De?Ssarily follow that he must play the part of the detect-ve. the informer or l the public prosecutor ? We think not, k nnd especially do we think so when the K State pays the salaries of certain offi k cials whose duty it is to report and if ^ possible secure the conviction of all offenders against law. We charge that every State, County or municipal official resident in Charleston, Columbia, or any other city or town in the State where liquor is sold, knows of these violations of the liquor law and delib erately, winks a> them. We charge that the police of our cities will go for th>i?milf boy with his sling-shot and carry the little culprit before His Honor the Mayor; that if they catch some poor huckster trying to sell a few vege . tables-or chickens or eggs during mar ket boors they will at once arrest him, without any one pointing out to them that it is their duty to do so; and yet if they tee a poor d ran ken boy staggering T a bar-room they cannot see that Ij has violated the . law in re tbe sale of liquor to minors; ' ibey see the back door of a bar reomsaapieiously open on the Lord's deythey suddenly have important busi ness at tike other end of their beat. Tafeetbe screen law. It might not accomfftab the good that was expected of it, but it is the law ; and we charge that it i*?violated in this State?yea, in the city of Colombia?in the plain light of Vjajr ;*aud ff complaint Is made the answer comes, why don't the "temper ance people" do something about it? We ask in oar tnrn, why don't the magistrates, the police, the grand juries do something about it? Why should they shift their sworn duty on to tbe shoulders of "che "temperance people?*' We say this: Every police officer is clothed with the powers of a State Con stable, and if he sees a State law violated it is his duty to arrest the offender. He has die same right to arrest the barkeeper who violates the law of the State that be has to arrest the man who commits a breach of the peace. We fejtbis: Every ,Trial Jostice, every Constable, not only has the right, but ? charged with the. doty, of arresting ttote who, is their view, commit a felony or a misdemeanor. Do none of them view these things whereof we write ? And we say this: Every grand jnry- can present these cases oo their own information. Do none of .oar grand jurors know of such cases ? These laws onght to be enforced or else expngned from our statutes. As the matter stands, it is a disgrace and a jhame, and the officials, not the tern perance orders, are responsible. The people also are responsible, inasmuch as they do not demand of their servants a more zealous discharge of duty. An Act to provide a' Local Option Law for the Incorporated Citie$t Towns and Villages of this State. . Sec 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That .whenever a number of the citizens of any incorporated city, town or village in this State, equal to one-third of the number.of votes cast in the next pre ceding municipal election therein, shall, in writing, on or before the fifteenth day of November in any year, petition for an election upon the question of "license" or "no license" for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, the Council of such city, town or village is hereby authorized and required to sub mit such question to the qualified electors of such city, town or village, at a special election to be held therein, on or about the -first day of December following; and if a majority of said electors vote in favor of "license," then the Council of such city, town or village shall grant license, according to the laws now of force in the State, for the sale of liquors in such city, town or village for the ensuing year ; but if a majority of said electors vote in favor of "no license," then it shall be unlaw ful for the Council of such city, town or village so voting to grant any license for the sale of aoy spirituous or intox icating liquors, bitters, or fruits prepared with such liquors, for the ensuing year. Sec. 2. Hereafter all licenses for the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors in the incorporated cities, towns or villages of this State shall be granted in such manner as to end on the thirty first day of December in the year for which they shall be granted. Sec..3.. That whenever a .majority of the electors of any incorporated city, town or village vote in favor of "license," such license shall be granted from year to year until another vote shall be bad under the provisions of this Act with a different result; and whenever a ma jority of such electors vote in favor of "no license," the Council of such city, town or village shall from year to year, refuse to grant licenses until another election shall be held under tbe provis ions of this Act with a different result. Sec. 4. This Act shall not apply to any city, town or village in which the sale of ardent spirits is now or shall hereafter be prohibited by legislative enactment. Sec 5. That whenever the majority of the electors of any such incorporated city, town or village shall vote in favor of 4 no license," it shall be uulawful for any druggist therein to sell, during the time wbeu no license for tbe sale of spirituous liquors is grauted, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors, bit ters, or fruits prepared with such liquors, except upon the certificate of a regular practicing physician in actual attend ance upon a patient, such certificate to contain the name of tbe patient, and shall be filed by the druggist filling the same, and kept for the period of one year, subject to inspection at any time the Council of such city, town or village may direct. Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any physician to give a prescription for any such liquors except when actually in bona fide attendance upon a patient. Sec. 7. That any persons violating Sections 5 and 6 of this Act shall, upon < conviction, be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred dollars, or impris oned for not less than three months, or both fined and imprisoned, in the discre tion of tbe Court. Sec. 8. All elections under this Act shall be conducted according to the laws now govering the municipal elec tions of tbe city, town or village in which they are held. Sec. 9. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they may interfere with tbe provisions of this Act. Approved February 9, 1882. Johnson Hagood, Governor. A Mouse Buns Down a Child's Throat The most extraordinary and interest ing subject brought before a Vienna clinic for many years was that of a little girl living in the city, Kleinmuller by name, and eighteen months old. Tbe Vienna Neue Frie Presse reports the case with such evident fidelity that its truth must be accepted. The girl had shown for several days an utter aversion to food, and her mother finally took her to the general clioic for examination. Tbe professors, perceiving that it was no common disorder, and ascertaining from the mother that the child on the night of March 13 bad awakened sud denly with a loud scream from sleep, and continued in great pain for fourteen hours thereafter, determined to employ the gastroscope and explore her stomach with tbe aid of electricity. Not to enter into rather unpleasant details they soon found tbe cause of disturbance, and extracted a mouse, minus the tail, which was subsequently removed. The only possible conclusion is that the mouse ran into tbe open mouth of the sleeping child, and down her gullet. Her im mediate recovery was confidently ex pected. "I don't believe you have the water of the right temperature. You must get a thermometer," said an Austin mother to the new colored nurse. "What am dat?" "It is an instru ment by which you can tell if the water is too bot .or too cold." "I kin tell dat ar without aoy instrument. Ef de chile tarns blue den de water am too cold, and ef it turns red den I knows dat de water am too hot."?Texas Sifting*. Bees?Some Valuable Sugges tions and Good Advice. Tbe following interesting letter is published in the Monthly. Report of the Department of Agriculture for May, and although somewhat late now for this season, we republish it for the benefit of those who are disposed to study Bee eveo if their queen was lost. Don't allow bees to haog on a tree for an hour or two until hives can be procured, for if they do sometimes they will be missing when the operation gets ready for them Bees nearly always settle before they go off; and I don't believe that al ringing of bells and rattling of tin pans has anything to do with making bees cluster or settle. I have been keeping bees for several years and have never made any noise on such instru ments to cause them to settle, but de liberately get my hiving board, hive etc., knowing that they will settle in a few minutes. All apiaries should have small trees about it for the bees to settle on. Dwarf apples, pears, etc., are very nice. Avoid thorny trees and tall oaks Honey will flow freely this month from the poplar (known North as the linden tree) and the honey locust Each is in bloom and in prime for honey about ten or twelve days. The willow blooms in April and generally produces an abundance of honey, but this year was so wet and cold the bees got very little from it. The blackberry conies in this month, but where the locust and poplar are in bloom the bees work very little on the latter. The latter part of May and 6rst of June the persimmon blooms and it is a good honey plant; and next to it the waboo, synonymous of basswood. It, perhaps, is tbe best honey plant we have except white clover, which excels all others when it does produce honey, and it is a May bloomer. Unfortunately for we there is but little around me, but since the Stock Law has been passed I notice it springing up more freely. The honey from white clover is the nicest and whitest of all others and perhaps excels in taste. Honey dew some years comes from some source and generally comes in May or June, and is gathered by the bees early in the morniug before the heat of the sun evaporates it. I believe I have mentioned the main plants which bees work on in May and June. Now, my friends, if your colonies^ are looked after and are strong a good crop of honey may be obtained from the bee plants above mentioned, and if propc care is given to bees I am satisfied the moth-worm, of which we hear so much about, will never molest the colonies. The writer has never lost a colony of bees from that cause since he has been keeping tbem. The Italian bee properly cared for will make a moth-worm hide to parts unknown immediately. If a frame of comb in fested with moth-worms were put in a strong colony of Italian bees they would lead them all out and work tbe comb over so one would not know the comb in twenty-four hours that was put in the bive, but this applies principally to the working season of the year. . With an extractor and comb founda tion and fair knowledge of bees one ought to get 50 to 100 pounds of honey to the colony per year. Some years are un favorable, and the bees prosper exactly on tbe same principle that we farmers prosper?diligence and seasons. An excessive wet year is not good for honey, nor neither is an excessive dry year. I am satisfied that if more people in the South turned their attention to bee culture thar Jioney would soon be acknowledged a * olesocue and cheap diet. In tbe North it is an industry which is very profitable, and our Northern friends are teaching us some lessons which we should uot be slow to learn. Why let the sweets that God has so bountifully bestowed upon the South be wasted by evaporation when it can be gathered so freely by these little pets If Respectfully, J. D. Fooshe. A Story of California in For ty-Nine. Senator Jones, of Nevada, bad gone to California with thousands of others when the wonderful discovery of gold in that far-off laud thrilled every ham let aud village. He had good and bad fortune. Among those who went to seek their fortunes there was a man uatned Hayward, from Vermont. Hay ward had a claim on the mountain-side, that as yet had shown no particular promise ; still he stuck to it. One hot summer day, when tbe Red Hills were quivering with heat, Hayward came to see Jones. Said he : 'Jones, I am very near to a wonder ful vein. I know it. I fell it, but I am flat broke. I want ?2,000; with that I will make both our fortunes.' 'Now, old fellow,' said Jones, 'I have known just one thousand men who were exactly in your fix. They only needed ?1,000, and sometimes ?100, to make their eternal all.' Finally Jones said: 'I will give you this money. I have ?3,000 buried under the fire-place, and when the fire goes out I will get it out for you, but don't ask me for any more.' Hayward got the money and said: When I strike it I will give you a quarter interest.' One afternoon about a month after this happened, Jones was sitting in his cabin when Hayward suddenly burst in as white as a sheet. 'Jones,' said he, ' I have struck it V They went together-to look at it, and sure enough, Hayward had struck an immense bonanza, or 'pocket,' of almost pure gold. Jones, with his experi ence, saw it was the richest mine in California. Hayward sold it to Wells, Fargo, and some others for $5.000,000, and the day the sale was made he gave [Jones ?1,250,000. Jones afterward married Hayward's daughter. But this is the'bistory of the Amador, and of the great start in life of Jones, of Nevada. Curious Facts of Taxation. The seventeen couuties out of the thirty-four in this State, consisting of Edgefield, Barn well, Abbeville, Fair field, Orangeburg, Laurens, New berry, Darlington, Marlboro, York, Sumter, Spartauburg, Marion, Ander son, Chester, Union and Greenville, with a population of nearly 600,000 out of the 995,000, make nearly 500,000 bales of cotton out of the 600,000 total product; they produce about 8,000,000 out of 12,000,000 bushels of corn; 3,000,000 out of 3,722,000 bushels of small &gr?in; have about 88,000 out of 127,665 horses and mules, and 700,000 cattle, sheep and swine out of 1,300,000 in the State. No w, what part of the State taxes do these people pay ? Why $329,888 out of ?677,232, leaving a balance for the poorer and negroized Counties of the State to pay $347,334: or, with Charleston's State taxes deducted, tbe sixteen poorer Counties, with not one-half the property, as the facts of production and possession stated con clusively show, pay $227,452 of State taxes to tbe $329,888 of the seventeen wealthiest Counties in the State. Iu the name of justice, common honesty and public decency should this be so ? Why should Richlai I, with its 28,000 population, pay into the State Treasury $6,000 more than Edgefield \ with 46*000 people/ making 35,000 j bales of cotton a year, worth a rail- j lion and a half, and with its large , grain production besides ? Why should Berkeley even pay , $2,000 more than the first cotton ( growing County of the State ? Look t at the products of the two Counties j of Berkeley and Edgefield, and we , leave it to any man of conscience if it j is not shameful to public reproach 1? Columbia Register. \ It is generally conceded (says tbe < Columbia correspondent of the Augus- < ta Chronicle,) that the value placed i upon real estate in South Carolina by ( property owners and equalization * boards falls far short of the actual value of the land, and consequently ' these valuations have caused con- ] siderable comment and provoked an 1 endless number of plans by which - true returns may be obtained. ' Every sensible man knows that if it requires a levy of 5 mills on a valuation of ?140,000,000 to meet the current expenses of the govern- , ment that 2 1-2 mills on a valuation ] of $280,000,000 would answer the , same purpose, and so the low values are evidently not given to dodge these taxes. The same rule applies to county and special taxes and of j course there is no effort made in llirs , way to avoid the payment of these ( dues. The reason, therefore, for the ridiculously low valuation placed on j lands must be sought elsewhere, and , it may be found in. thefact that the , two mill school tax is increased or les- ( sened just in proportion to tbe in- . crease or decrease of values. It re- \ mains at the same rate all the time, j and a man who valued his laud at $10 { per acre, while his State and county j taxes would not be increased, would , pay just twice as much school tax as j he would if he valued it at $5 per j acre. I have been informed that a : member of the State Board of Equali zation gave this as a reason why a j higher value was not placed upon real } estate. Whether this is right or i wrong I do not intend to discuss, but ( it is a great misfortune that from any cause a fair, just and equitable assess ment cannot be made, for, aside from the question of taxation such assess- s ments as we now have create wrong i impressions ^regarding the progress of the Slate. If property were re- j turned at its true value it would show that it has wonderfully appieciated t in value in the past few years, and j such a showing would be of great , benefit, for capital will only go where } people are prosperous. The tax , books should be the highest authority j on these matters, but in this State . ihey are the poorest. How it Came About. ' _ < The recent decision of Judge With- ! erspoon that retail liquor dealers or bar- 1 keepers can collect bar debts seems to 1 have created some surprise, which is ' not astonishing, as the law making them collectible is of recent date. Section ' 9 of the Act of 1849 to alter and amend I the liceuse laws of the State is as fol lows : "That fi any tavern keeper shall give credit to any person or persons, for spirituous liquors, he, she or they ; so trustiug or giving credit to any per son or persons, as aforesaid, shall lose . the debt and be forever disabled from suing for or recovering the same or any . part thereof. Any note, bill, bond or 1 other security which may be given for any spirituous liquors sold or drank in ( or at his or her house shall be void; and if any tavern keeper shall sue foe any ( such debt, the person or persons sued ' shall and may plead this Act in bar thereof." The Revised Statutes which were compiled by the Corbin Commission re enacted the above portion of the license 1 laws, but the compilation of the Sim- 1 monton Commission, which took effect 1 from May, 1882, repealed it. Hence 1 any bar debt contracted since May, 8 1882, can be collected by law the same 1 as other debts. Some papers of the State speak of the decision as nothing 1 new. They knew it all along. It '< strikes us as a right not over a year old. J The Cincinnati Drummer says: i 'Drinking is the correct orthodox prac- < ticc, for if we leave off ounj't,' then do | I we make our immortality, immorality.' j Isn't that a rather thin excuse Lamp- < ton ??Cheek. j Analyses of Fertilizers. The Department of Agriculture is particularly charged with the duty of analyzing commercial fertilizers, sold or offered for sale in this State, for the protection of consumers, and every ef fort has been made to perform this duty faithfully, but it has not been pos sible, owing to former arrangements, to make as many analyses as was de sired. At the last meeting of the Board a Chemist was elected, whose whole time will be given to the work of this department, and in the future this branch of our work will be greatly en larged. The Department Laboratory will be equipped as speedily as possible, and any farmer who desires to do so can save a fair sample of any brand of fertilizer which he purchases and have it analyzed by the Chemist of the De partment if the following conditions are complied with : * 1. The sample should be taken before any of the fertilizer is removed, from sXleast ten per cent, of the quantity purchased, so that the sample will fairly represent the whole lot. 2. Then very thoroughly mix (but not grind or triturate) these small quan tities taken from different packages, and from the mixture fill a common quinine bottle, closely cork and seal it with wax. 3. Attach a label to the bottle, showing the correct name of the brand, the name of the manufacturer, the guaranteed analvsis (as taken from the packages) and the name of the dealer from whom the fertilizer was purchased. 4. Let the above be done in/the presence of the agent selling the fer tilizer and his certificate that it is a ;air sample be obtained, and the sample ae forwarded to the Commissioner of Agriculture, Columbia, S. C-, for safe seeping until wanted. Then, after the crop is made, if the 'armer has reason to believe the fertil zer was not such as it was represented ;o be, the sample will be analyzed without charge. The above precautions are considered necessary for the protection of the lealer on the one baud, and to give to the whole transaction that character of airness without which the analysis, when made, would be of little value to ;he farmer. The Commissioner is not required by aw to have samples analyzed for farm ers, aud he trusts that he will not be expected to depart from the above rules in any case where compliance with them >n the part of the person seeking an malysis had been practicable. The above rules, with some changes, lave been observed by the Georgia De Dartment for some time and have worked satisfactorily to all parties.? Monthly Report Agricv.ltand Depart nent. Phonetic Spelling. A friend has seut us a copy of the "Fonetic Ticker'' published at St. Louis. It proposes to spell according to sound. It insists that the present nethod is arbitrary, without reason or ule, and therefore unnecessarily diffi cult of learning. Prof. Thos. R. Price, L. L. D., says: "First amuug be studis that ar needed tu make a tmild correct in riting, is the practical nastery of English speling. Iu this ;he English child has a burden tu bear :bat the children ov uther sivilized na tions ar free from." Among those of listioction who are in favor of phonetic spelling, and who have united together ander the name of the "Spelling Re *orm Asoshiasbun" for carrying out -heir ideas, are the following: Prof. Price above named, formerly a profes sor in the University of Virginia, now n Columbia College, N. Y.; Prof. Vlarch, LL.D., of Pennsylvania; Prof. W. D. Whitney, LL.D., of Yale College; Prof. Child and Rev. Dr. Toy, of Harvard; President Bar nard, of Columbia College, N. Y.; Prof. Dc Vere, LL.D., of the University )f Virginia, aud Prof. R. Means Davis, )f the South Caroliua University. After a careful study of the "Fonetic Ticher" we have come to the conclu sion that English spelling according to Soah Webster is about as easy as the system advocated by the "Spelling lieform Asosbiashun." Were each per son to spell according to his conception }f the sound of words there would be a medley indeed. For instance, one would spell coffee, cofi; another koffy; mother, caughey, and so on. It is an ictual fact that a man in one of the lower counties sent an order a few years igoto bis grocer for some "Kauphphy." And to spell by sound we lose the de riviation of our words from the Greek ind Latin tongues, and ihusmiss many of their fine shades of meaning. But it is not worth while to discuss the mat ter. The subject is mentioned here only as a curiosity. The following ex tracts from the tlFonetic Ticher" will give some idea of the system of spelling proposed by the reformers : "Wi ar uncompromaizingli comited tu a complit reform ov English speling. Prof. Jas. T. Allen, ov West New ton, Mass., sendz ?10 diuz tu 1886, aud sez: "Ai fil we ar gaining constantli." Mr. E. D. Frost raits from Almond, Wis.: "Ai wish dhi fonetic sistcm cud be incorporated into our public sculz." Prof. Albert A. Wright, ov Obcrlin, [)., sez: "Dhi overwhelming riznablnes ov Ihi reform for which yu ar wurking jrozupon mi constantly.?Marion Star. -?mm- ? - A Cyclone's Destructive Point. The pendent stem, or small end of ;he funnel, is always the center of the track and the force of the storm. Where it is swept along the ground lear Hillsboro, 111., can easily be leen. The track of the stem proper s not more than four or five feet wide. There is nothing more certain than bat there is absolutely no safety for my thing in the trad: of the stem, [t will take the water out of the wells, tnd in many places actually dig trenches n the solid earth. There is no safety in j cellars or caves in its immediate track, I )ut a cellar or cave would be a safe ; )lace if only ten or fifteen feet on | cither side of the stem.?St. Louis Republican. * Thomas Jefferson. A monument to Thomas Jefferson is about to be unveiled in Virginia. It has been erected to honor tbe memory of the greatest statesman ever produced j in America, it was expected that a great rally of tbe prominent Democrats | of the whole country would signalize the occasion. The prospect now is ' there will be a very slim attendance. ' t . i i in some quarters surprise is expressed at this and the reasou is?asked. It is plaio to us. Our people Lave departed from the faith. In the race for money J they have forgotten the great services j rendered humanity by the great philos opher and politician. He enunciated 1 the great principles which made our j government the admiration of the world i and our country the home of the op-' pressed of all lands. He was the true j friend of the masses and his efforts in ! behalf of popular liberty should always j be remembered. Times have changed, I however, since his views predominated. The simplicity and economy advocated by him have given place to shoddy and ! extravagance. The rising generation j is making a struggle for richer and I neglecting the duties of citizenship. Honesty, capability and fidelity are not the qualifications for office now. Rich incorporations dictate results io elections and tbe masses are made "hewers of wood drawers of water" for tricksters." j The failure of the late war has also j had its influence. The* conquered are j falling into tbe heresies of the victors. Expediency controls the public mind and no public measure is sustained be cause it is right. So-called Democrats vote lor subsidies and are hastening into the ranks of the protectionists. All j tbe false doctrines of centralization are taking strong hold among the young people and true and genuine Democratic principles are not known: Thomas! Jefferson is not honored because his principles have been trampled into the i dust.?Abbeville Medium. A Warning to Our Farmers. We warn our farmers against the | coming cotton crop. With a probable i 8.000,000 cottou crop before us the j farmer who neglects to secure a full j home supply of food courts his own \ downfall. There is plenty of time I left to make amends for any decliue in j our small graiu area or iu the yield | this season.. Cow pea forage, cut with | the peas about three-fourths ripe, can keep work stock io fine condition with- j out a bushel of grain. Mutton and | beef is surely as good food as Western bacon, and our home cured meat is pre-1 ferable to that of the West anyway, j What is the use to make cotton when it ! costs more than it comes to? With | cotton at 8 cents, how much is there in j it for most of our cottou producers? We insist upon it, if our farmers j want to commit coUoncide that they will think of their families and their neigh bors first. The only chance on earth I of selling a large crop profitably is to j have such a supply of home raised food j as not to be compelled to rush the sta- j pie on an unwilling market. Let our I farmers look at the facts and be advised. We were making 300,901 bales of j 400 pounds weight iu 1850, and 353,412 j bales of same weight in I860. The section was making 2,469,093 bales in j 1850 and 5,387,052 in 1860. That is, South Carolina was making | about 45 hucdredths of a bale in 1850 j to each inhabitant and about a half to inhabitant in 1860; whilst the section made 42 hundredths of a bale to in habitant in 1850 and 74 hundredths in 1860. Now, in the census year of 1879 South Carolina was making 623, 437 bales of 400 pounds or 62.3 of a bale to inhabitant, and the whole cot ton section not quite 51 per cent, of a bale to inhabitant. In the present sea sou of 1883, putting South Carolina's population at 1,100.000 and that of the section at 12,600,000, with a crop of 750,000 bales for our State, and 8,000, 000 for the section, we find our cotton production will be C4 hundredths of a bale to inhabitant, whilst that of the whole section will be 63.6 hundredths of a bale to inhabitant It is plain whilst we will have gone up some 2 per cent, of a bale to inhabitant tbe I whole st?ction will have gone up over 12 per cent, from 79 to '83. This means too rapid an increase for whole some markets, and we may as well, if we would be wise, look out for a whole some home supply of food against low cotton figures next Fall. A word to the wise is sufficient; but it seems not to be so with cotton growers. We mean to push this matter on our plant ers until "the Summer is over and the harvest is euded."?Columbia Register. Pulling a Tooth With a Sneeze. Mr. Pedigree settled himself down to grin and bear his toothache stoically, j and his wife, seeing him calm once [ more, went to call on a neighbor for sympathy in her vexatious troubles Then Mr. Pedigree began to grow ! wild and fretful under the increasing j pain. He tossed and moaned, ami finally meditated a deep and lasting re- j venge upon his aching jaw. lie would j devise a plau which should bring sud- j den relief and reflect credit upon his! name forever. Aha! he had it, and I finding several pieces of string he tied them together, making a cord of twine about six feet Ion" One cud of this ! he tied securely about his tooth. Then i he walked with the courage of despair j to the parlor, and, climbing by means of a chair placed on the marble-top ! table, he fastened the other end of the : string to a picture hook on the cornice, j After a momentary hesitation he jumped 1 from the table to the floor. In that ' brief descent, the events of his life passed in review before him, and he ! thought of the horrible possibility of the tooth not yielding, and himself therefore being left suspended in mid air. What would his wife say to re turn aud find him hanging against the wall like a damp dishcloth or an old coat? lie reached the floor in safety, j however, and lay there, half stunned, I under the impression that the top of his head had been torn away. Strug gling to his feet and going to a mirror he saw a string hanging from his! o CO mouth. The pain was rushing through j his system in full blast, and the tooth ' was still there. The blasted string had broken. Nerved by his agony, be fastened a wire around the tooth, and started to repeat the experiment, when it occurred to him that, as the tooth was in the upper jaw, there might be real danger of the top of bis head fly ing off if he jumped downwards; he must invent some way of falling upwards, or having the strain come from below. Hoop la! he had it again, and he secured the wire to the lower hinge of the door, aud prepared to fall over backwards. Just as be bad started on the second fall, Mrs. Pedigree, alarmed by the racket she had heard, came in, which so disturbed her husband that he grasped the door handle, thus breaking the fall, but giving his tooth an aggravating yauk. He shouted aloud and savagely unhitched the wire from the door, but his gums were now too tender to touch, so he walked aud up down the house, trailing the wire after him, and whenever he accidentally tread on it he emitted a howl of au guish. Mrs. Pedigree meanwhile fol lowed him around, ejaculating and scolding in four keys and three lan guages. Finally the exhausted man sat down near an open window. The cool air blew up his nostrils and called up a sudden and violent sneeze, and that bob-battened old tooth just flew out of his mouth and cracked a ?15 mirror on the other side of the room. Then Mrs. Pedigree fainted, and Mr. Pedigree went to bed, and at last ac counts was still sleeping.?Boston Globe._ _ That Bad Boy PLAYING COMET. 'But, look a hear/ says the grocery man, as he gave the boy a little dried up lemon, about as big as a prune, and told him he was a terror, 'what is the matter with your eye winkers ] and your hair? they seem to be burn- i ed off.' 'Oh, thunder, didnrt pa tell you about the comet exploding and burn ing us nil ? That was the worst thing since the flood when Noah run the excursion from Kalamazoo to Mount Ararat. You see we had been reading I about the comet, which is visible j about 4 o'clock in the morning, and 11 heard pa tell the hired girl to wake j him and ma up when she got up to ; set the pancakes and go to early mass, \ lso they could see the critter. The j hired girl is a Catholic, aud she don't! make no fuss about it, but she has j got more good, square relidgin than j one dozen like pa, it makes a good deal of difference how relidgin effects different people, don't it ? Now pa's relidgin makes him wild, and he want's to kick my pants, but the hired girl's relidgin makes her want to hug me, if 1 am abused, and she puts arnachy on my bruises, and gives me pie. Pa j won't get up at four o'clock in the morning to go to early mass, unless | he could take a fish pole along ; and some angle worms. The hired girl prays when no one sees her but God, but pa wants to get a church full of sisterin', and pray loud as though he was an auctioneer selling tin razors. 'Well, when I heard pa tell the hired girl to wake him up, I told her to wake me up about half an hour before she waked pa up, and then I got my chum to stay with me, and we made a comet to play on pa. You ! see my room is right over pa's room | and I got two lengths of stove pipe and covered it with phosphorous, so they looked just as bright as a comet. Then we got two Roman candles and a big sky rocket, and we were going to touch off the Roman candles and the sky rocket just as pa and ma got to looking at the comet. 1 didn't j know that a sky rocket would kick back, did you ? Well, you'd dide to see that comet. We tied a piece of white rubber hose to the stove pipe for a tail and went to bed, and when the girl waked us up we laid for pa and ma.' 'Pretty soon we heard pa's window open and I looked out, and pa and ma had their heads aud half their bodies out the window. They had their night shirts on and looked just like pictures of the Millerites waiting for the world to come to an end. Pa looked up and seen the stove pipe, j and he said : 'Hannah, for gracious | sake look up there.' 'Just then my chum lit the two Roman candles and I touched off the i rockets and that's where my eye | winkers went. The rocket busted on j pa, but ma got her head inside before the comet struck, and wasn't hurt, but one length of the stove pipe struck pa endways on the nock and almost cut a biscuit out of him, and the fire and sparks just poured down j in his hair aud burned his night shirt, i Pa was scart. He thought the world I was coming to an end, and the win-1 dow came down on his back, and he j began to sing, 'Earth's but a desert drear, Heaven is my home.' The boy went out, scratched the place where his rye-winkers were, > and then the grocery man knew what! it was that caused the fire engine to j be around at 4 o'clock in the morning looking for fire.?Feck's Sun. - mtM mmm - A stupid-looking recruit halted be- j fore a blacksmith's shop, the proprietor of which was forging a shoe, and eyed j the performance with interest. The brawny smith, dissatisfied with the man's curiosity, held the red-hot iron suddenly under his nose, hoping to make him beat a hasty retreat. "If j you'll give me half-a-crown I will lick it." said the soldier. "Til stop | the braggart's jaw," thought the smith, ! as he took from his pocket a half-crown and held it out. The cunning son of a man quickly grabbed the coin, licked it, and walked away, whistling "The i girl I left behind me." 'I am sorry to inform you,' said ' a man to an Arkansas gentleman, 'that ' your son has been killed in a balloon j ascension.' 'How?' asked the gen- j tleman. 'Well, you sec, he went up . with the professor and the balloon drop- j ped suddenly and killed both of them.' 'So it was the desccusion that killed him ? My friend, when you come into this neighborhood with a piece of infor- j mation, give it straight.'?Arkansas i Traveller. German Millet. On land adapted to its growth there is no forage more profitable to the farmer than the German Millet. Its yield is immense, producing on an average soil , with ordinary sea sons, from three to five tons per acre. When cut at the proper stage and well cured, stock of all kinds arc fond of it, preferring it generally to any other hay. Its superior fattening qualities are chief among its recom mendations. Two crops can be grown in a single season, or a crop of millet secured after the wheat, rye, or oat harvest. Objection is some times made that it is hard crop on land, but such is not the experience of those who have given it a fair test. Three things are essential to a good crop, in addition to the requirements of a favorable soil, viz: First, the laud must be ihoroughly prepared ; second, sound seed; and third, a fa vorable season. In preparing the land it should be thoroughly plowed aud well pulverized. The seed sown should have been grown especially ior the purpose, and not gathered from a broadcast crop. The proper way to raise the seed is to sow thick ly in drill, eighteen inches to two feet apart, and work one or two times with the cultivator. On a rich soil the yield of good seed thus treated is immense. Seed, when good, present a very uniform appearance in size. The season requires a moderate amount of moisture in the beginning, followed by one or two gentle show ers. Seed should never be sown when the ground is too dry. River and creek bottoms, and low, flat places, are besjkj ^ to this crop. Seed may be s?SL? f <oy as the frost is out of the l;KKr<?: -_j late as the 1st of Augu?Mwith a favorable season it does ^IW after the wheat crop has been harvested. The time for mowing depends upon the uses for which it is intended; if for feeding the horse it should be cut when in the flower, and for mules, cattle or sheep, when in the dough state. There is no bay crop that stands the weather so well if carefully ricked or stacked, aud when harvested it leaves the land in excellent condition for any other crop. Every farmer who has land suited to its growth should raise more or less of it. With a fa vorable season a crop will mature" in forty to fifty days from the time of seeding. The amount of seed to the acre depends upon the character of the land and the uses for which it is to be applied. If for horses, a bushel of seed to the acre is best, but if for cattle, half a bushel to throe pecks is abundant. The seed should be covered very lightly, and, when con venient, followed with the roller. It will not pay to put millet on poor land.?Southern Cultivator Fifty Bales on Twenty Acres. Mr. W. P. Jowers, of Webster county, Ga., last year made fifty bales, averaging a little over 500 pounds, on twenty acres of land. The follow ing is his plan : Laid off the rcwr four feet apart with a two horse plow, following that with a scooter drawn by one horse. In this furrow he put thirty bushels of cotton seed to the acre. Bedded on this with a two-horse turning plow, following each furrow with a scooter drawn by one horse. At plant ing opened with a large scooter, and in the furrow put two hundred pounds of guano to the acre, and on this sowed his seed and covered thein. Sided this with a scooter at first plow ing, and when ready for the second plowing put in two hundred pounds more of guano to the acre in these scooter furrows and covered it up with a sweep. No hoeing was done, as the cotton grew so rapidly as not to require it. Mr. Jowers says if he lived close to a railroad depot he would use a thousand pounds of guano to the acre.?Cuthbert Enter prise. Do you see that c!d man near the frog pond on the common V Thirty-two years ago that old man came to Boston with one suspender and a sore toe. He also had a basket of apples which a farmer in Lexington had given to him. He peddled the apples on Washington street aud netted eighteen cents, the first day. How much do you suppose he's is worth now ?' 'Oh, a million and a half/ said one, 'Two millions,' cried another. 'Six milions three hundred thousand,' was the estimate of a third. 'I give it up,' remarked No. 4 'how much is he worth ?' "Not au infernal cent, aud he still owes for the basket.' - ? i i i im* During a recent trial before a Chica go justice of the peace, one of the prin cipal witnesses was a buxom negress who easily filled the generous depths of an arm chair. Upon the conclusion of the direct examination the attorney for the plaintiff turned her over to the counsel on the other side for cross ex amination with the remark, *You can have the witness.' 'Not much, he catft,' iudignautly protested the color ed damsel. Tse engaged to Sam Johnsing, I wants yer ter understan', an' I*doan't purpus ter be handed aroun' from one feller to anudder like a plug er tcrbacker.' You never see the struggle between duty and inclination more strongly marked than in the respectful attitude of a dog sitting on the sidewalk, his head bent back aud one foot aimed at the back of his car. uudecided to spring up aud answer the imperative whistle of his master or io shoot the flea he has just got the exact range and right elevation on ?Burlington Hawkeye. Down in Salem the other day, a bright little girl was sent to get some eggs, and on her way back stumbled and fell, making sad havoc with the contents of the basket. "Won't you catch it when you get h ic, though !'* exclaimed her compaui ). "No, in deed, I won't," she an rered. "I've got a grandmother." -? ! ? wm\ The Archbishop of Paris re fuses Christian burial to persons killed in a duel.