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This valuable book wilt be presented free to all aew subscribers to the Watchman and Sovtkren who pay for one year in advance, asd also to old subscribers who pay all arrears -sad ? year io advance. HANG IT? KARIA ? Why don't you buy my shirts ready-made ? What's the use of wearing your eyes out over fine needle work, and breaking your back trying to save a few cents ! I don't see the savin* of it Why, you can buy shirts now-a-days for very little more than the cost of material. Look at this " DIA? MOND" I've just bought I say, Maria, I am going to buy a dozen more right away. If your dealer <Jo? not karp lt, send hy^dress to DMudMiUex & Co., lole manufacture ^Balti THRESHING. BRONSON & EPPERSON. WE ARE PREPARED, with a Portable Engine and the latest and most ap? proved machinery for Threshing and Cleaning Small Grain, and are now ready to make contracts with Farmers who desire to have their Oats thresh? ed. Terms reasonable, and satisfaction guar? anteed. Early application will secure prompt attention, as our rule will be "First come, fi ret served." Post Office address, Sumter, S. C. BRONSON & EPPERSON. April 15. I WHITE ft SON, Insurance Agents -AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. ESTABLISHED 1866. FIEE AND TORNADO INSURANCE. taken io best Northern, Southern sod English Companies. Policies issued from ooe to six years <Ml ss favorable terras as can be asd airy where. ASSETS REPRESENTED OVER THE STORY OF A LIFE. Say; what is life ? 'Tis to be born A helpless babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the moro Foretell a cloudy noon aod night To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sonny smiles between-aod then? . And then apace the infant grows To be a langhing, sprightly boy, Happy despite his Tittle woes, Were he bm conscious of bis joy ! To be, io short, from two to ten, A merry, moody child-and then ? And then, in coat and trousers clad, To learn to say the decalogue, And break it, an unthinking lad, With mirth and mischief all agog ; A truant oft by field and fen, And captare butterflies-and then? And then increased in strength and size, To be anon a youth full grown ; A hero in his mother's eyes A young Apollo io bis own ; To institute the ways of-men In fashionable sin-and then? And then, at last, to be a man, To fall in love, to woo and wed 1 With seethiog brain to scheme and plan To gather gold or toil for bread ; To sue for fame, with tongue and pen, And gain or lose the prise-and then ? And then in gray and wrinkled eld To mourn the speed of life's decline; To praise the scenes our yon th beheld, And dwell in memory of lang syce; To dream awhile with darkened ken, To drop into the grave-and then? Short Talks with the Boys* BY M. QUAD. My son, I heard you speak of your father the other day as 'the old man,' and of your mother as 'ber highness.' What's the matter that yon can't re? fer to them as yonr father or mother ? Suppose your parents should refer to yon as "the kid,' or ?the fly Y You'd soon be begin to think you had been born into the wrong family. The son who is ashamed of his parents ought to be ashamed of himself. Suppose their ways are old fashioned, and their grammar a little off, aod they don't feel like keeping up with the fashions of the day ? Not one father or mother io ten had the advantages you enjoy. Forty or fifty years ago they walked three or four miles to a country school to pick up a little learning, while DOW you are talking of going to college. They began poor and have toiled and labored and saved for their children. You jost remember that thiogs have greatly chaged in this co?Utry. Years ago a calico dress was seen at church far oftener than a silk. Men went to meeting clad in home span. The rule in most houses was for the children to stand up to eat. The biggest pieces.of pie went to father and mother, and children were not allowed to sit up until 10 o'clock at night or to argue a question after the head of the family had decided it. My boy, don't get any foolish notions into your head. If your father is old and gray and bent-if your mother is trembling aod weak and has no cares for the frivolities of this day, it is toil which has brought these, days of bard work and nights full of aoxiety that their childreu might be spared the same slavish life. Where they wore blue-jeans you have broadcloth. Where they ate johnnycake you have sweet cake and* pie. Where their mode of life and forced economy prevented them from enjoying society, amusements or books, just think how you make the sbiiliags fly,.and what is offered to interest and amuse you ! Now let's have a word to say about economy. Tve been right among you, and I know that you want this, that- i and the other, and 'want it bad.* Up I to the time of the war if oue of the boys of that day had a dime to spend for Fourth of July, he thought himself well fixed. The boys want about five dollars apiece nowadays and that's all gone before noon. If we got a new book it was consid? ered a great piece of extravagance. The lad who bad cash enough to walk into a panoramic exhibition, buy a pair of skates, or treat himself to sweet? meats was looked upon by the rest of us as a Jay Gould. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have money and use it, but right there is a vital point. Be sure that you really need what you buy. Ask yourself if it will pay ? Money is the wheels on which the world moves. Acquire the habit of throwing it after every uovelty brought out and you'll by and by have a second-hand museum and no cash to run it. I dislike a stingy boy, but when I see a lad planking his nickels down at the desk of a savings bauk I know that he is one of the future men who is going to build our railroads and do our wholesale business. There's a big dif? ference between b'-tween being stingy and being economical. The richest men of America are liberal in giving to churches, asylums and to the unfortu? nate, but they never waste. They don't indulge io th:J or that simply be? cause they have money enough to pay for it. Now, if you are about 15 years old you've got a sneakiug idea into your head that it's a big thing to use an oath occasionally. You never made a great? er mistake ? It is true many men use more or less oaths, but I would like to have you find me one who isn't ashamed of it ! Ifs a mean habit, for it is a habit. I know you can point to the greatest men in the land and prove that they spit out oaths, but that's no reason why you should follow suit. There isn't a swearer in this country who doesn't feel a quiet satisfation in sitting down to converse with a man whose language is clean and pure. There's nothiog manly in using an oath. Swearing is about thc first thing you hear from the lips of a fool or drunkard. Even a heathen can swear. Now, don't get the idea that I want you to bc too good. The too good boy is a nuisance. He was born to be an angel, but they forgot to spike ou the wings. Go to the circus? Certainly! I know there are people io this world who look upon a circus as the next thing to a visit from old Satan himself, but they ought to have lived forty years ago. If you were roy boy Pd walk you in, show you every animal and curiosi? ty, and then we'd take a reserved seat and see the circus. When a mao has trained a hone or mole or dog to obey bim with almost haman intelligence he aa* proved to voa the practical value of shade of roen will stop on the street to see a roan lift, or to watch a jumping match. Then why deprive you of the sight of the performance of an athlete, who has spent years to bring his strength and agility to perfection ? Would I take you to thc theater ? To a good play-yes ; to a Buffalo Bill barn-storming hurrah-no. Five plays out of seven are healthy in sentiment, and point a moral so plainly that even a child can catch on. I want my boy to rub against every day life a little while he is a boy. If he has the idea that a hunters life is full of juicy buffalo steaks and victories over grizzlies I'm going to send him into the woods for a week to live on woodchuck meat, carry a cold in his head and be jumped out of bis boots the first time au owl hoots. If he asks for money Fm going to give to him, but I want bim to sit down of a Saturday night and see how be spent it, and show up some*of his foolish bargains. If he wants to sail the bounding billow I know of a lake captain who will take him on a trip from Detroit to Saginaw, and if he can't cure bim in just one voyage nobody else need try. Sit down and talk "to your boy as you would to your brother. Don't bulldoze because you happen to be his father and have the bulge on him Argue and reason. Don't expect to make as sertions and have him swallow them as gospel truths unless you have backing Teach him what to aviod and what to cultivate and turn him loose for a while If he seeks the good he has the right instincts ; if he runs after the bad, don't walk him into the woodshed for a pounding until you have asked yourself if he doesn't come naturally by that failing. [From the Carolina Spartan.J For the Girls. Last Sunday it was rather sultry aud especially in church. Pure, odorless air was much needed. Breathing the air necessarily heated by thc bodies of persons in a crowded house is bad enough, but add to this a dozen or more j different perfumes and hair oils, and the odor becomes intolerable. I do not believe that our ladies young or old, know how to use perfumery and hair oils. To plaster the bair with oil until it is sticky and of a warm day to have a greasy streak running down the temple is barbarous. I would like to talk to the girls of the present day about their toilette arrangements. Many of the mothers have little taste and dis? crimination But to get back to the question of perfumery. This bas been used by women, and especially civilized women, in all ages. The main idea is that the person should be sweet and at? tractive. I advise girls to use soap and the sponge, or an old fashioned wash rag, much more liberally than perfu? mery. The latter article and dirt do not go together When I sec a girl pull a handkerchief from her bag that has been sati r?.?ed with perfumery of a poor quality and flourish it around so as to scatter the scent and then look down aud find her skirts and stockings very dirty, or her finger nails long and filthy, or her ears and neck ti aged with mother earth-well such a sight does not please me. In the first place, the body and clothes should be perfectly clean. This is a prime necessity io dress. No amount of Lubin or German Cologne will atone for dirt. When the person and clothing arc sweet and clean, perfumery is not needed Used in large quantities it is decidely vulgar. Wheu used at all it should be kept in the drawer with your clothes so that when they are put on, there is the barest suspicion of some delicate perfume in the neighborhood. Those around are uncertain as to its origin. Let it come as the odor from a distant Sower garden brought ou the evening air. Let it be as insubstantial as dreams. Now this is a plain talk and it is meant for the girls of Spartanburg. If any ene think? it too plain or personal, let such remem? ber that this is written with kindest feeling aod that they are the words of an OLD WOMAN. Destructive Hailstorm. A destructive wind and hallstrom visited the upper portion of this Coun? ty, on the Kooree side, about 4 o'clock on last Monday afternoon, destroying wheat, oats and cotton. Mr. J. E. Patterson, of the section visited by the storm, informs us that the hail was eighteen inches deep, in some places, at his place on Tuesday morning, and that his wheat, oat and corn crops arc almost totally destroyed ; that a field of thirty acres of wheat, which, previous to thc storm was as fine as he ever saw, and promised an abundant yield, he docs uot believe will make three bush? els. His oat crop suffered similarly. His cotton, which was up and a good stand, was totally ruined, aud he will be compelled to replant. His barn was blown down, and three horses were considerably injured, though none kill I ed. His neighbors, J. W. and H. R. Prior and W. P. Harris, also suffered severely from the storm. The storm, it seems, was equally severe on the eppo I site side of the river, in Spartanburg ! County, though at th\g writing we have heard no particulars. One span of j Kilgore's bridge was blown down, but as to whether any other damage was done in that neighborhood we arc not informed. Thc sufferers have our sin? cerest sympathy. Disasters to the crops concern us all.-Laurcmoilh Herald. ..-w- - We learned while in Beech Island that there is in two or three miles of Page & Kankinsou's store, a strip of land bordering on the Savannah river on the South Carolina side that is claimed by Georgia and on which Aiken County receives no taxes, and what is more to the point, the liquor laws of South Carolina are being violated by its open sale on this strip of laud. Thc party selling liquors on this strip does so under a license from the County of Richmond, Ga. The matter should be looked into by the Legislature, and if possible corrected. We believe if the strip really belongs to Georgia, and proper representations arc made to that State it can be easily arraigned for its cession to our State-as the matter now stands, it is demoralizing to the labor of the community and should be Bill Tucker. f Raleigh Register.] It was the custom during the war for all the gentlemen who from age or other disabilities were not in the army to visit any soldiers who came to their neighborhood wounded, or in distress of any kind, and to minister to their wants as far as possible. Old Coi. It. of one of our Eastern counties was one of the most attentive men in his county to calls of this nature. We can see the venerable old gentleman now driving his old gray horse Dan with one hand and thought? fully stroking his long white beard with the other, with a basket filled with ? something good, a small bundle of sugar, and a little 'real coffee,' or 8omethiDg of the sort, for some poor fellow who was at home sick or wound? ed ; or maybe to comfort some soldier's wife who was in trouble and her hus? band away. Mr Bill Tucker lived irr the piney woods not far from Col. L's plantation. He was wounded in the arm at Fredricksburg, Virginia, and came home on a furlough ; as usual Col. L. no sooDer heard that Bill was at home and wounded than old Dan was hitched to the buggy and a bisket of 'something good' prepared by Mrs. L. Bill was not not much hurt and intensely flattered at Col. L.'s visit. It happened to be Sunday aud several of the neighbors had dropped in, so Mr. Bill Tucker laid himself out to entertain his company. For some time the conversation con? sisted of inquiries after the absent boys. Finally, during a lull io the couversation Col. L. said, 'Well, Wil? liam, tell us how you got hurt,' 'We-e-ell, Colonel III tell you,' said Bill. 'You see our brigade (those who have never heard the North Caro? lina muffin pronounce the word brigade can form no idea of the accent, and those who have must apply it for them? selves, ink and paper won't do it) was on them big rollin' hills I was teilio' you about, and just before day in the morn iu' Gineral Lee he come up, he aid, aud said where is Gineral Hoke ; here I is, Gineral, says he, and Gineral Lee he says, Gineral Hoke, who is the bravest man you have got in your brigade, and Gineral Hoke, he says, says he, Gineral, Mr. Bill Tuck? er is the bravest man I ever see, and he says call him here ; and Gineral Hoke says, come here, Mr. Tucker, if you please, audlcome, I did, and I tuck off my cap polite-like and said, good morniu' GineralLee; good mornin,' Gineral Hoke; and they both say good mornin' Mr. Tucker, and Gineral Lee, he says, says he Mr. Tucker, them yaukces is comin' after me agin, and I said, Gi?eral, [ am powerful sorry, for somebody's bound to git hurt, and he says, mc too, Mr. Tucker. Then he says, says he, Mr. Tucker, they tell me you is a brave man ; here is a brand new Belgium rifle and a box of explo sbum-balls, and I want you to get out yonder behind that thar wall and don't you let 'em come on me, Mr. Tucker. I said Gineral it is a hard task, but I will do my best ; but Gir.eral don't you j let 'cm flauk me. The Gineral, he says j Mr. Tucker. I will do my best, and I'll tell Stonewall Jackson to look out for you. Well, I went out and I laid behind that thar stone wall, and I tuck out my exploshum-balls and I laid 'em handy in the cracks of the wall, and bimeby, about sun-rise General Hoke he hollowed out, and he says, look out, Bill, they's a-comin' ! and here they come ! and I laid there all day and I I shot 'em with that Belgium rifle and them sploshuui-ballsa-goio' an' a-comin' I tell you; and bimeby, way long yon? der jest afore night, ooe great long high yankee got up and he tuck off his hat and he said, 'Great Goddlemighty, Mr. Tucker, is you gwine kill us all ? and while I was a foolin' talk ia* with him they crope up ou mc and shot me iu the arm, and theu I war boro from the field and somebody's rigiment tuck my place. IS Tin: WILDERNESS. Mr. Tucker returned to, his com? mand, and was again placed upon the skirmish linc iu the Wilderness. Ile was ordered to ascend a large poplar tree as a lookout, where he was amus? ing himself picking off officers. But let him tell his tale for himself 'Aud Gineral Early, (old Jubal, you know,) he says, 'Bill, by granny stay with 'em like you did at Fredericksburg ;' so I swarmed tiie tree, I did, and sot thar on a big limb a bavin' of a fine time all by myself, and fust thing I know I see a whole yankee corps a-comin', aud next thing thar they was with their guns all a-pintin' up the tree, and some big officer he say, 'come out of thar, dad-rat your hide ! you cussed rebel I' aud I thought I better do like he said, so I come down just like ho said, aud when I got down bc tuck bis siggar out of his mouth and he says, 'Who is you? I says '1 am Mr. Bill Tucker, who is you? and he never said nothiu', but jes looked at mc a while and says, 'Is you the mau who fought so at Frcd ericksburg? and I said, 'Ise thc man ; who is you ?' and he says, 'Mr. Tuck? er, I am Gineral Grant; what you doin' up tree, anyhow ?' aud I said, 'Gineral, i'm a shootin' everything I sec' aud he says, 'Mr. Tucker, you is too brave a man to starve io prisou ; go home to your folks and don't you shoot at my folks no more. But afore you j go, won't you take a drink ? So I drunk with him, and told him and all his crowd good-bye.' We are glad to bc able to say that Mr Tucker escaped the dangers of war and came home to retail many more ad? ventures; if thc spirit moves wc may give the readers of thc Register more of them. While Mr. Tucker's narra? tives lack thc weighty style of thc his? torian, he is a living man, and gives us an amusing side in thc character of a North Carolina muffin. There is a large water tank OD the top of the Philadelphia Record build? ing, and in cleauing it out the other day thc engineer found a number of full grown eels and catfish in it. -~-*m?* - ? ? tm* Samuel J. Randall has adopted a dress coat ns- a diouer party costume only with the greatest reluctancer while Mr. Holman's auperiof title to the Presidential The New Orleans Exposition. j Interest ID the New Orleaus Expo? sition is steadily increasing. Words of encouragement are received from all parts of the world by the managers. The work of preparing the grounds and the buildings for the reception of thc exhibits is progressing steadily and satisfactorily, and there is no doubt that everything will be ready for the opening on Bec. 1st. It is probable that the Exposition will be the grand? est the world has ever seen. The structure of the World's Fair in Lon? don in 1862 contained 1,400,000 square feet of space. The total exhibits at the Centennial, Philadelphia, covered 1,200,000 square feet of space. The main building at New Orleans will cover 1,600,000 square feet of space, and besides this, there will be another building, to be called horticultural hall, which will cover 54,000 square feet. From this statement of the size of the buildings it will be readily understood that the New Orleans Exposition will exceed anything of the kind ever be? fore attempted. There is no occasion to fear that there will be lack of ex? hibits. Already more space bas been applied for than the original plans contemplated, and the advisability of erect'mg another fatructure has been considered. Fourteen foreign govern? ments have announced their purpose to take part in the Exposition, and about all the States and territories have applied for space. A question has been raised us to the probable financial success of the undertaking. It is true that New Orleans is a long way from thfi centre of population of the United States, but there are hundreds of thousands of people from the North and West who will seize upon this oppor tu H i ty to spend the winter in the South. Over one hundred and sixty railroads have announced their purpose to carry passengers to and from the Exposition at the low rate of one cent per mile. To visit the Exhibition, therefore, will not be very expensive, even for people who live in the extreme northern part of the Union and in Canada. There will be many more features than were at thc Centennial Exposition. New Orleans itself will be an attraction to thousands of people, since it is totally different from any other city in the country. Of course South Carolina must not occupy an inferior position in this great World's Fair. She will probably never again have so fine an opportunity to advertise her resources and advantages. A splen? did exhibit will be invaluable to her, and we are pleased to know that our Commissioner of Agriculture, Col. .Butler, is making herculean efforts, as? sisted by citizens of the various coun? ties of the State to make a creditable display of all her resources. Every County in the State should move for? ward promptly, persistently and ener? getically in the preparation of exhibits. The work should be well advanced now. It wilt-not do to delay. There is a great deal to be done and the time is limited. -Lexington Dispatch. The Normal Institute. Every teacher who can possibly spare the time and money ?hould attend the Institute in Spartauburg. Board may bc obtained in private families at four dollars a week for the session. It will bc a little higher at the hotels. The railroads generally give reduced rates to teachers. The Institute will begin thc 15th of July, and coutinue four weeks. A Secretary will be appointed, who will make all arrangements as to the securing of board. Thc following are some of the reasons why teachers should attend. 1st. Teachers who are not perfect can learn something. 2d. They will be the better pre? pared to work after old plaus or to make new ones. 3d. The teacher's work tends to isolate him from his fellows and the community. One session at thc Insti? tute will draw him out and bring him ?uto sympathy and harmony with others { engaged in the same work. 4th. They will have more exalted opinions of their profession and work. ( 5th. Spartauburg is a delightful place to spend a month or two iu tho summer. Good water, mineral springs, fine drives, pleasant nights and a braciug air make the place attractive Cth. An excursion to the mountains will be made during the session. This is a revelation of wonderful scenery, 1 especially to persons who have never , been in the mountains. Special rates are given to those who wish to run up on the Asheville road on Saturdays and j return Mondays. 7th. In a few words, it may be , said that the teachers' meeting in Spar? tauburg this year, will be furnished , with ample means for improvement, recreation and social enjoyment. Thc , daily lectures by the regular faculty, ! the special lectures by distinguished educators, aud the teachers' meetings will furnish an amount of valuable in? formation that will compensate one for the time and money spent in coming to Spartauburg. Let there bc a grand rallying of the teachers of the State lt will do them good.-Carolina Spar? tan. Better be a Lawyer. 'Is it true that thc case of Zabr'uskie agaiust Van Ripe is settled Y asked a reported of Lawyer L. M. Ward, of Patterson, N. J. This ca>e has Leen in thc courts for a long time. 'Yes,' replied Mr. Ward, 'the case is settled.' 'And it is said, Mr. Ward, that you have come into possession of thc farm.' 'That's so,' replied Mr. Ward, laugh? ing. 'I've got the farm, and Garry Ackerson, of Hackensack, thc lawyer on the other side, has got all the mon? ey. I got a mortgage on tho farm and then I paid the balance and became the owner. The money I paid went to Ackerson !' 'And what have the two farmers got, Ward?' we began the case were two well-off farmers and awyers. Now t here *are two ? and two well-off lawyers.' ? What Our Editors Say. Kersliaxo Gazette. Ifiten Butler won't be sat dowa on. lie heads the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic national convention, and will participate in the nomination of a Democratic candidate for the pres? idency. This serves to remiod one of the time when this same Ben Butler, as a delegate to the Charleston conven? tion of the national Democracy in 1860, voted for Jeff Davis as long as he was before the convention, although things have undergone some surprising changes since be was there last. Pickenr, Sentinel. Col. D. Wyat. Aiken, after thc de? feat of the Morrison bill, in an inter? view with a newspaper man, said that he was io favor of the Southern Democratic Congressmen withdraw? ing from the Northern Democrats and forming a party of their own to hold the balance of power, votiug for such measures, as might be to the interest of the South without regard to the party that might favor the measure. This," in our opinion, would be considered sectional, and work injury to the South 2rn people. It is true, the Northern ind Southern Democrats do not always work in harmony, but if we should cut )urselves entirely loose from the National Democracy, we would have no political friends North of Mason and Dixon's Hue, and could never expect to iee a National party in power that would have any regard for the rights ind interest of the Southern people. We bad better stick to the National Democracy whether we get what we vant or not. A Threatened Revolution. Greenville News. While the Southern people of both !olors watch the proceedings of Con? gress and the bewildering operations of )olitics with the most careful attention iud the keenest interest, they forget hat haifa dozen mechanics in a small ?bop in the small town of Sumter are loiug work which may cause a tremcn ious revolution in the commercial, ?ocial and political affairs of the South, md effect changes beyond those possi? ble to any legislative executive or udical action. If the Mason Cotton Harvester, now ieiug prepared for a decisive test on he next crop, is successful, it will :ause results more far-reaching and im Dortant than the introduction of the ?otton gin did. When one 'hand* and i pair of horses can pick as much cot? ton in a day as fifty hands pick now, or n other words, when the cotton it now josts ?30 to pick can be picked for $2 50, the cost of production will bc iecreased by about ?6 a bale, or a cent ind half a pound. All of these calcu? lations are rough ones based on the claims of the new machine, but they ?ive an approximate idea of some of the results to be expected if that machine is successful. The cost of production will not only be decreased, but thc power of production will be increased beyond calculation. With every process of cotton cultivation from the first plowing to the packing done by machinery and horse power, and with constantly improving methods of fertilizing and planting, there will be no limit to the couutry for producing the fabric except the quantity of land obtainable, and that is unlimited. People in thc South who look ahead of them will watch Mason's machine sinp much more anxiously and serious? ly than they do Congress or the election returns. If Mr. Mason succeeds he is a far bigger man than old Grant, and will effect the South much more than Appomattox did. Organizo and Work. Camden Journal. The political campaign throughout the State and the Union has fairly beguu. The issues involved are al? ready foreshadowed and mappe.! out, aud thirsty, hungry aspirants arc stand? ing watching and waiting with the fond hope of political reward. Lt now be? comes our duty to see that wc arc. ready and equipped for the great battle of 1884 ; whether we are prepared to keep our fair and glorious old State from the foul hands of the despoiler, or whether by over-confidence, lethargy and in? difference we be again remanded to the frightful coils of that terrible rule which cursed us once, and brought labor, travail and penury upou our good people. We are fully satisfied that thc true sons of Souh Carolina will not agaiu chafe under the galling chains of ten years ^ago, and that under no circum? stances can imported vampires aud theives wear fine linen and purple again at our expense. But, in order to be safe and free from any danger of this kind, wc should orgauize, wc should work, we should arouse our people, awaken them to their weighty responsibilities, to the dangers which stealthily lurk io the hearts of many who are yet among us, and keep burn? ing brightly before them th ?J great preciousness and value of vigilance. Dur County Convention will soon as? semble. It should bc a representative body. Every club should feel tho importance of moving aud acting, and with harmony, with fidelity, with the great reward of a good govern? ment, in sight, we should press forward until our victory is safe and assured. We are willing and frank enough to confess that in the National electiou our ardor is greatly cooled, but our State affairs aro as clear to us as our own hearts, and to them wc will always cliug. But so often have wc becu blindly lead to the butebers's pen by the Northern Democracy only to be slaughtered, that now our interest waivers. Our doubts as to the poliey of hanging ou to them grow stronger, [ind our faith iu them almost vanishes. But future time will answer to discuss this, it is our State's welfare that we ire looking after and caring for. Lot us bc up and doing. The time is pro? pitious, and outlook good. Somebody's Fault. Newberry Herald. Last week a number of negroes were 1 banged in our State, having been duly j ?entenced acccordiug to law. They j were distinguished for nothing ; but were raised above the heads of their fellow negroes by a notoriety that sprang from the commission of crime aud eudcd at the gallows. Yet the newspaper press has recorded their most common place speeches, and has sent flashing through the country full accounts of the scenes and circum? stances of their 'taking off.' These accounts descend to the dirt, and give in each case as something worthy to be written down in books, the sickening details of the banging and a minute ac? count of the horrible crime that led to it ; what the prisoner said and did, how he looked and acted, and the success? ful manner in which the execution was managed by the sheriff, go forth to gratify the people. Some of the editors find no pleasure in publishing these things. They say that the reading public demands them, and the reading public must be satisfied. But somebody is accountable for the existence of a morbid public appetite where we should find a public taste, and this morbid appetite will not be? come healthy as long as the newspapers pander to it, by furnishing sickening, matter. The very appetite that takes in with avidity the sickening details of common hangings, is what makes such papers as the Police Gazette possible, and in such papers it finds its highest Jelight. And the press will never im? prove the public taste by furnishing sensations for the public appetite. "THE BAD BOY. 'Here, here,' said the groceryman to the bad boy, as he came in the back Joor hurriedly and bolted it, and hid behind a barrel, 'what you coming in the back door for in that manner, like a pirate of the Spanish main ? My other customers don't sneak in through the back door and hide behind things. What ails you !' . 'Shh! If a man comes from the street car in about two minutes with one coat tail torn off, and pieces of umbrel? la frame sticking out of hisselflike porcupine quills, his hat gone, and a scared complexion on his face, and asks if you have seen a chubby faced little boy, you drive him out doors, 'cause he isn't responsible,' and the boy pulled a coffee sack down off a barrel to cover himself up. 'Who is the wild man you are ex? pecting, and what have you done Y isked the groceryman. 'Sh s sh ! Its pa. And if he got out of the jar without coming through the wiuJow, he is liable to show up here pretty quick. You see pa has beeu trying to make us believe he could see just as well as he ever could, and be has quit wearing spectacles, and gets mad every time anybody suggests that he can't see very well. Ma says he is ashamed to have folks think be is get tiug old. Sometimes I come in thc room and pa snaps his fingers and says 'Hello, Bruuo, good dog/ thinking I am the dog, when he finds oat his mis? take he laughs^ and says it was only a joke, and he says he can sec as well as any roan in this towo. t told him some day some person would play a jok on him and convince him that he was near sighted, and he said they might try all the jokes they wanted to on him. Well, pa is awful polite to ladies, and for fear he will pass some lady that he knows and not speak to ber, he speaks to all of 'em. Some of 'em get cross to have a stranger speak to them, but pa has such a innocent benevolent, vacant sort of a look wnen he smiles, that they go on thinking bc has escaped from some asylum Well, we was in a street car, and on the other side of the car was an old maid, with a pug dog in her lap, curled up like a baby, I see pa was getting his eyes sot on ?he woman and the dog, but I knew he couldn't make out whether it was a baby she had or not, so I whispered to pa that it was too bad to carry babies on the street cars, poor little things. That was enough for pa. He bit like a bass. He began to look benevolent, and smil? ed at the lady jost as though he lived next door to her and she looked sort of cross, but pa could not see that, and bc smiled again and leaned over toward her and pointed to thc dog and asked. .How old is the little thing ?' Well, I thought I should jest melt and run right through the perforated seat of thc car. The woman said it was only eleven months old, but she looked as though she didn't know as it was any of his busiuess anyway. I tried to get pa to change the subject and talk with mc, but when he gets to talking with a woman that settles it, and bc told mc to hush up aud look out of the window at the scenery. Then pa smiled again and got one eye on the lady aud one on thc supposed baby, which she had wrapped a shawl arouud, and said, ? 'Little one always been healthy I sup? pose V The woman snapped out that it had always been healthy enough, ex? cept wheo it was cutting teeth it had a sort of distemper. The other passen? gers began to look at pa and smile, and the lady was beginning to blush, and 1 could sec distant mutterins of a cyclone, and 1 pulled pa's sleeve and told him I wouldn't talk to strangers that way if I was hint, but pa he punched me in tho rib with his elbow, aud told me to miud my own business, and I went to the end of lite car near the door so as to get out quick in case of un alarm of tire. Pa/ctunied to the assault, and it made mc perspire. 'Is it a boy or a girl Y said pa. and the lady's face colored up aud she pulled the strap to stop thc car. Just as the car stopped pa got up, aud in his politest manner he said, as he held out his hands, 'Let mc help you with the baby.' Well, you'd a dide. You would have just laid right down in the straw iu tito car and blatted. Wheu tho driver opened thc door I flew out and just then I looked in and the dog had got mad at pa when he put out his hands, and had grabbed pa's hand, and was chewing his mitten and growling, and thc lady called pa an old wretch aud said he ought to bc arrested for goiug around insulting unprotected females, and I saw her umbrella go up in thc air and conic down on pa's head, and pa yelled to somebody to take the dog off. Thc woraau came out of the car in a gallop, holding thc dog by thc log and the dog had one of pa's^buck skin mittens in its mouth cheong for all that was out. Wheo she btrrick the .street she told me to call a policeman and have the old tramp arrested, and I said 'yessura,' and she went off with the dog under her ann. I asked pa if I should follow his lady friend and get his mitten away from her little baby, that he was using to cut teeth on, and pa look so mad. that I got off the car and came here, and left him picking pieces of umbrella from out of his neck? tie, and explained to the other passen? gers that he kne*w that dog wasn't a baby all the time.'-Peck's Sun. Debt and Credit Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mulcahy lived on a farm. They were shrewd and thrifty, and had the reputation of being 'close.* Finally, Mrs. Mulcahy sickened, and was about to die. Finding herself nearing the end, she expressed a desire to put things in order before that event occurred ; and old Tom prepared to listen. 'Tom,* says Mrs. Mulcahy, 'there's Mrs. Smith, np at the crossing, she owes me ?1.80 for butter. See that ye get it.' 'Sinsible to the last, my dear ? stnsi ble to the last !' said Tom. ?I'll get it.' 'Then there's Mrs. Jones, up at the creek, she owes me ?1.50 for chick? ens.' 'Ah ! look at that, now, for a moind ? She forgets nothing.' And Mrs. Brown, in thc village, she owes mc ?2 30 for milk.' .Do you hear that? Sinsible to the last! Go on. my dear.' 'And-and-' 'Yes?' 'And Mrs. Roberts, at the toll-gate, I owe her-' 4 Ah ! poor dear I poor dear !' broke in old Tom, hastily. 'How her raoind does be wandering ! Sure we've allow? ed her to talk too much entirely, so we have !' Home at Last. Lewis R. Redmond, the famous "moonshiner," arrived here on the Columbia and Greenville train at 8 P. M. on Saturday, and then went to the Mansion House. Ile had to be assisted from the street cars to the hotel, as he is unable to walk without assistance, lie stated that he had just received the papers for his pardon by the President the day before. When he left Colum? bia, where he has been incarcerated a short time since his transfer from the North, Gov. Thompson, Senator Hamp? ton and a number of ladies and gentle? men accompanied him to the train and provided him with comforts and refresh? ments for his journey homeward He was very tired upon his arrival, and said he was suffering from bis lungs, but not. so much with the pain in his leg. He left here in thc afternoon of Monday, going to Central, where he intended staying all night. His family live on the Sassafras Gap Road in Pickens County, sixteen miles from Central. Before leaving he said he felt much better than he bad felt for some time. Courtesies alt along the line were showered upon lirra.-Green? ville Mountaineer. A Receipt for a Duel. In the little town of Rosenberg, West Russia, lived a young and hot-headed lieutenant, who one day had a dispute with a clerk in the government service', and suddenly exclaimed : 'You know well enough how to han? dle your pen ; but I have at home a pair of sharp swords with which I can write better.' The other answered : 'Such playthings ought only to be given to cbildr:n who have nothing to lose.' The lieutenant then challenged him to fight with pistols. 'Very weli,' the clerk replied, 'I .ac? cept your offer, on one condition. You know I have a wife and children for whom I must care. My income is four thousand five hundred marks. If you will deposit a sum sufficient to yield that interest, I am willing to fight. In that case you must place to my account ninety thousand marks ' 'But,' stammered the astonished offi? cer, 'I have no fortune.' 'Ah, sir, those who possess nothing have no right to ask men who mu*t work for other people to fight duels.* The duel never took place. The Gossipping Club. 'Any member of the society who shall be conviced of knowing more of bis own busiuess than of another's, shall bc expelled from the society without a hearing. .No member shall sit down to his own table, until he has ascertained to a certainty, what his neighbors, within three doors of each side of the bouse shall have to eat ; whether they have paid for thc same, if not, if they expect to. 'Every member who shall see two or three persons engaged in conversation, shall place himself betweeu them uutil he has heard all they have to say, aud report thc same accordingly. 'Every member who sharl sec a gen? tleman visiting a young lady more than twice, shall circulate thc news that they are going to be married ; and said members ave forthwith required to re? port all manner of things about the gentleman to thc lady, and ditto about the ladj to thc gentleman. This will break up matches and afford much gos? sip. ^ ?That it is the duty of every member on hearing a piece of 'scandal,' to take it up at once, and in all honorable ways to give it circulation, and thus accom? plish thc great and glorious purposes of the society.' -- -? +? * ?? - 'What in heaven's name shall we do with our boys?' exclaims Mrs. Liver? more. Why, tan their hides with a keen hickory switch if they disobey, is what to do with 'cm. \. 'If you would freeze,' said George, juggling up a little closer, 'you would make delicious ice cream ' *If you were to freeze.' responded Amelia, with severity, after catching a whiff of his breath, 'you would make a rum punchy