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There was a little night-blooming flower, That thus spake to a bright-beaming 6tar; "From earth's loneliest wild and lowliest bower, ? see thy brilliant orb from afar; But thou from thy home of radiancy Canst not, in thy gorgeousness, descry One so insignificant, little as me So diminutive and small am I." The pure and resplendent star replied. In tenderest love: "0, meek flower ol' earth. Thou art little, but do not thyself deride As one possessing no merit, worth ; Thy Maker desiirns thee, a beauty and charm; Although so far distant from me thou art That I cannot thy roseate petals warm With smiles nor gaze down into thy heart. "There is One, without whoso kind, loving care A sparrow cannot fall to tho ground. Has clothed the lilies in robes more rare Than earth's monarchs in all their glory crowned I Though thou bloomest in darkness of the night, With no eye to greet thee-none to behold It is in God, thy Creator's sight. That tnou dost thine exquisite charms un? fold!" Thus many pine in their solitude For recognition and honors from men. And sigb, with a restless wish to be viewed A nd loveti and admired by human ken, Spend their lives in efforts fruitless and vain To gain renown while on earthly sod, Who, freely as light and air, could obtain The higher honors that come from God! -James Homer Kennedy. THE HAUNTED CORRIDOR. "I don't believe a word of it!" said Aunt Rebecca. The wine-like glow of sunset yet illu? mined the great bay window; but the rest of the apartment was already on shrouded in the gray shadows of the night, in whose misty indistinctness the Luge chairs of carved oak looked like gigantic monsters from some for? eign shore. "I don't believe a word of it!" re? peated Aunt Rebecca, with more em? phasis than before. "A ghost story, indeed!" "Tell me about it, Violet" said young Hazlewood. "It is not much of a story," said Violet, **only years ago, long before my great grandpapa built this house, the site was all one unbroken wood, and there was a tradition that a beau? tiful girl was murdered by her lover. Her grave, they said, was beneath the foundations of the house, but I scarce? ly credit this part of the legend." .Of course not," interrupted Miss Rebecca, with a toss of her false curls. "I have no patience with the relics of superstition." "What are you looking for aunt? Have you dropped anything? Shall I call for Harris to bring a candle?" asked Violet, a moment afterward coming to her aunt's side. "Nothing, nothing," said Miss Re? becca, with a little embarrassment in her voice. **Come-don't stay here any longer in the biting cold, unless you both want a week's medicine and doctor's visits." "It is not cold, Aunt Rebecca," pleaded Violet, **and the starlight is so beautiful on the stone pavement." Bat a peremptory summons from Colonel Orme himself, who had just waked from a comfortable nap beside the glowing fire in the library to a sort of ^ague wonder as to "where Rebecca and the young people could possibly be," speedily settled the matter. "Never mind, Violet," whispered Charles Hazelwood; "by-and-by, when your father has gone to his room and Aunt Rebecca is busy with her curl papers in her own special dormitory, we can have a starlight stroll through the ghost's territory!" * Violet gave him an arch glance as she tripped after Aunt Rebecca into the hall which led to Colonel Orme1 s bril? liantly-lighted library. "I wish Captain Hazelwood wouldn't remain out there," said Aunt Rebecca, anxiously. "He will catch his death of cold; and, besides-" "Besides what, Aunt Rebecca?" "Violet," said thc maiden lady, "I wish you would go down and see if the housekeeper has prepared that posset for my sore throat, that's a good girl. I think 1 shall go to bed. Violet went to execute her aunt's be? hests. How peacefully the distant hills and valleys slept in their snowy mantles that glorious December night! It re? minded one of a lovely painting exe? cuted with brushes dipped, in liquid pearl, and shaded with "pencils of glimmering silver! At least, so they seemed to Charles Hazlewood. But then Charles Hazelwood was in love. The tall old-fashioned clock in the hall was striking twelve, when Aunt Rebecca emerged from her door, tread? ing on tiptoe, and carrying a dim light in her hand. Now, Aunt Rebecca, in nodding false curls, laco coiffure, and 18-year-old style of dress was a very different sort of personage from Aunt Rebecca, with her head tied up in a silk handkerchief, her false curls laid aside, and a long white dressing robe enveloping her lank figure; and the latter was by no means the moro prepossessing of the two. Probably some such consciousness swept across the good spinster's brain, for she shuf? fled with accelerated rapidity past the solemn eyes of the grave old family portraits on the wall. "I am sure I dropped them some? where here," she murmured, pausing in front of tho bay-window. "How provoking! There g^oes my candle out! But I believe I can find them, however, the starlight is so bright. Mercy upon us! what 'is that! The ghost! the ghost!" Aunt Rebecca fled shrieking down the corridor, her hands clapped over her eyes, before which was im? printed the appalling vision of a tall figure sweeping past all in white, with a crimson stain at its pallid throat. The house was aroused into instantan? eous commotion, lights flashed into brightness at the various doors? and an eager circle of inquirers surrounded Aunt Rebecca. "It glided past me like a gust of wind!" she shrieked-"all in white, with that dreadful mark of blood upon its throat! It's a warning-I know it's a warning that I haven't long to live. Oh. what shall I do? What shall I do?" "But I don't understand what you were doing in tho ghost's corridor at this time of night," interrupted Col. Orme, staring at his sister. "Well, if you must know," said Miss Rebecca, with a little hysteric sob, "1 dropped my false teeth there, just at dusk, and I didn't like to look for them there, with Violet and Captain Hazel? wood standing by; and so-and so-" "Oho! that's it, ch?" said Colonel Orme, laughing. *Upon my word, Sister Becky, you are rather over-par? ticular for a woman 50 years old." "Only 49, James," interrupted Miss Rebecca with a shrill accent of indig? nation. "But the ghost?" inquired young Hazelwood, who had just arrived on the scene of action, with rather a flushed brow and embarrassed air. Upon which Aunt Rebecca gave way to the combined influences of her broth? er's unkind remark and tho fright of ghost-seeing, and fairly fainted, with? out further notice. According to the usual custom of womankind on such occasions. Colonel Orme and all the other gentlemen were hustled out into the hall, while the victim ofthe female i officials was deluged with Eau dc Col? ogne, stilled with burnt feathers, and vigorously treated with hot flannel. "She's coming to, poor dear crea? ture!" was the final verdict hurled at Colonel Orme through a crack in the door. "Well, Tm glad of it, Tm sure!" said the Colone], dolorously, rubbing his hands, "for lt's cold out here in the hall. Why, hilloa! is this you, my lit? tle Violet? What's the matter? You haven't seen a ghost, I hope?" "No, papa," faltered Violet; "but-" "Suppose we three adjourn into the library, Colonel Orme, and 1 will un? dertake thc task of explanation," in? terrupted Charles Hazelwood, while Violet's cheeks grew like Hame. "Well, may I venture to inquire what all this means?" interrogated the be? wildered Colonel, when the library door was safely closed. . .. "It means, sir," said Charles, laugh? ing, yet a little puzzled how to pro? ceed, "that Violet, your daughter, and I were just looking out at the stars, in the embrasure of the great hall win? dow, when we saw some one approach? ing with a light. Violet went to seo what the apparition meant, when Miss Rebecca (whom it proved to be) drop? ped her candle, and ran shrieking away." "So Violet was the ghost, eh?" said the colonel, repressing a very strong inclination to laugh. "You see, papa," interposed the young lady, * I wore my long cashmere mantle, for 1 was afraid of taking cold, and it was tied at tho throat with red ribbons, and-" "And Aunt Rebecca took it for franted that you were the murdered eroine of our family ghost story," said the colonel, archly. "But allow mo to ask you, young people, what you were so much interested in?" "Well, sir," said Hazlewood, "I had just asked her if she would'nt marry me-don't run away, Violet-and sho said *Yes'-that is, if I could win her father's consent." ??Well?" "And I would like to know what her father says to the proposition?" added j the young- officer laughingly detaining j Violet, wno was struggling to escape. "He says," answered Colonel Orme, "that your intrepidity in facing tho ghost deserves some reward, and ho kewise supposes that his daughter must be allowed to have her own way. Ta?e her, Charley, and don't spoil her! No thanks now; but let me go and see after your Aunt Rebecca." "Papa!" whispered Violet, as he ! rose, with his nand on tho door. "Well, my dear?" "Don't tell Aunt Becky that-that-" I "That you were the ghost? Just as you please." And he went, chuckling, to inquire after his sister's health. There is no evidence that he ever did betray Vio? let's secret, but two things may be re? garded as settled facts in the records of Aim wick Place-one is that Aunt Rebecca strenuously denies the exist? ence of ghosts, and abhors the very sight of her niece's white mantle with cherry trimmings; the other is that she is particularly careful never to pass through the solemn old haunted hall alone after sunset! Bogus and Genuine Butter. Dr. Charles M. Cresson, the well known scientist, says there are many i vegetable matters which are harmless that could bc used in tinting oleomar farine, butterine and suerine, so as to e able to distinguish thom from genu? ine butter. Ko mentioned that the col? oring matter derived from the alkanet root was entirely harmless, and if used in coloring ar?ilieial butter in the same proportion that an nat to is used to color genuine butler, would give it a delicate pink line. Water street com? mission men generally favor some method to distinguish" thc "bogus" from the good. Three-fourths of the butter now sold in Philadelphia is artificial. Some of the stuff is only one half butter, the re? mainder being common lard. In many cases the composition is simply beef fat, chemically treated, with no moro genuine butter in it than is contained ia axle-greasc. "The way in which oleomargarine, butterine, and all arti? ficial butters are sold," said President Macdonald, of the National Butter. Cheese and Egg Association, "is an outrage upon the consumers and thc dairy interests of the country. The imitations arc sold to the butter dealers and grocers at from 1G to 25 cents a pound, and they buy knowing exactly what it is. Their customers uro not so fortunate. I do not know of a retail dealer in this city who does not sell the artificial article as the genuine product of the cow. What eftect would it have to compel thc manufacturers to distin tinguish the artificial from the genuine, by making the former a pink color? Why, it would, simply kill the business. Who would buy pink butter? Not even the boldest boarding house keep? er. It is ridiculous to talk about but? terine keeping down tho price of good butter. The bogus is foisted upon tho consumer at twice its value, and, in addition, tho buyer is deceived ns to the stuff purchased. Philadelphia housewives have always been preju? diced in favor of tho print rolls. That makes this city a fxood field for tho ar? tificial article, which is printed nicely. A majority of it comes from Chicago, though New York furnishes a fair sun Ely. If Governor Cleveland signs the ill now in his hands, prohibiting tho manufacturo and sale of imitation but? ter, the industry will bc killed in that state." President Macdonald suggest? ed that it would be an excellent thing for butter buyers to ask the seller if the butter was genuine. If the answer was given in a hesitating sort of a way tho customer should not buy. In a short time, bethought, the dealer would bo brought to a realizing senso that ho was swindling his patrons. A visit to several butter commission houses on Water street developed thc information that to change the color of the artificial article would result in a death-blow to its manufacture. One of the largest dealers said if it were tinted differently from the genuine he would resciud ail his standing orders. He would not have a pound of pink oleo? margarine in his plac; only al manu? facturers' risk. Almost lb per cent, of his sales consist of thc butterines. Thousands of families aro supplied with fancy rolls of apparently fresh butter, for which they nay big prices, under thc impression th nt it is the gen? uine article. Three families out of four do not iret what they expect, and nono are thc wiser for tho experience. Tho big profit in selling butterine und like compounds are a temptation to the gro ceryman, and he sacrifices his honesty to make money.-Philadclpfilda Record^ Old John Ingmanson, of Sycamore, 111., used to hold Christino Nillson on his knee when she was a child in Sweden, and when he went out to sell his tinware, she went with him and sang to draw purchasers. Sanguino Dakota papers predict that the emigration to that territory will amount to 300,000 this year. BILL ARP. Married and gone. It is the same old story. Love and courtship. Then comes the engagement ring and a blessed interval of fond hopes and happy dreams and then the day is fix? ed-the auspicious day that is never to be forgotten-a day that brings happiness or misery and begins anew life. Then comos thc license, the ? permit of thc law which says you may marry, you may enter into bonds; The state approves it and the law allows it and it will cost you only a dollar and a quarter. Cheap, aint it, and yet it may be very dear. Then comes the minister, and the happy pair stand up before him and make some solemn vows and listen to a prayer and benediction, and they are one In a moment the ti listing maid has lost her name and her free will and is tied fast to a man. Well, he is tied fast, too, so it is all right all round 1 reckon, but somehow I always feel more concern about the woman than thc man. She is a helpless sort of creature and takes thc most risk, for she risks her all. We gave him a cordial welcome into the family, and wc kissed her lovingly and bade them good-bye, and the children threw a shower of rice over them and an old shoe after them, and they were soon on their way to the land of flowers. She was not our child but was almost, for Mrs. Arp was Hie only mother she ever knewr and wc love her. I sat in my piazza ruminating over the scene and i wondered that there were as many happy matings as there seem to bc. Partners for life ought to be congenial and harmonious in so many things. When men make a partnership in business they cant get along well if they are unlike in dispo? sition or in moral principle, or in bus? iness ways and business habits. But they can dissolve and separate at pleasure and try another man. A man and his wife ought to be alike in most everything. It is said that folks like their opposite, their counterparts, and so they do in some respects. A man with blue eyes goes mighty nigh distracted over a woman with hazel eyes. I did, and Pm distracted yet whenever I look into them. But in mental qualities and emotional qualities and tastes and habits and principles and convictions and the like they ought to class together. 1 Indeed it is better for them to have the same politics and religion. And so 1 have observed that thc happiest unions as a general thing are those where the high con? tracting parties have known each other for a long time and'have assim? ilated from their youth in thought and feeling. When a man goos oil" to some watering place and waltzes a few times with a charming girl and falls desperately in love and marries her offhand, it is a long shoot and a narrow chance for happiness. Why, we may live in the sanie town witt, people and not know as much about about them as wc ought to. I never made an}- mistake about ruy choice of a partner for the dance of life, but I've thought of it a thousand limes that if Mrs. Arp had known I loved codfish and got up by day break ev? ery morning she never would have had me. lt was nip and tuck to get her anyhow and that would have been the feather to break the camel's back. Well, I'm mortal glad she dident know it, though I am free to say that if 1 had known she slept until the second ringing of the first bell for breakfast and was fond of raw oysters, it would have had a dampening effect on my ardor for a few minutes, only a few. Bat 1 have seen some mighty clever people cat oysters raw and sleep late in the morning. But still a man and Iiis wife can harmo? nize and compromise a good many of these things, and it is a beautiful illustration of this to see Mrs. Arp cooking codfish for me and fixing it all up so nice with eggs and cream, and it is a touching evidence of rav undying devotion to her to sec me wandering about thc house louelv and forlorn every morning foran hour or two, and forbidding even the cat to walk heavy while she sleeps. TUat codfish business conics to mc honestly from my father's side, and my mother put up with it like a good considerate wife, and wc children grew up with an idea that it was good. I've heard of a 3'oting couple who got married and went off to Au? gusta on a tour, and thc feller stuck his fork into a codfish ball and took a bite, lie choked it down like a hero, and when his beloved asked him what was thc matter, replied : 'Dont say anything about it, Mandy, but as sure as you are born there is some? thing dead in the bread.' Well, wc can make compromises about all such things as habits .'ind tastes, but there arc some things that wont compromise worth a cent, lt a girl has been brought up to having a good deal of freedom and thinks it no harm lo go waltzing around with every gay Lothario who loves to dance, and after she gets a feller of her own, wants to keep at it and have polluted anns around her waist, she had just as well sing farewell to con? jugal love and domccstic peuce, for it is against thc order of nature for a loving husband lo stand it, and ho oughteut. There is another tiling that ouirht to be considered, and that is agc. A few years makes no dif? ference, but an old man had better be careful about marrying a young wife. He wont bo happy but about two weeks, and then his misery will bc gin and it. will never end. lt may be belter for a woman to bc tut old man's darling than a young mail's j slave, hut she had helter bc neither. When a young girl manies an old man for his money sin; lias gone back j on herself, for money dot?t bring hap? piness. Monej' helps, bul money with a dead weight is a curse-an aggravation. I was talking om; day to an old man, a Frenchman, who had j made a hermit ol' himself and was j living: all alone in the woods, ami he I . said : 'Mine friend, 1 have make one ? grand meestako. Minc first wile j whom 1 marry von I vas young vas j an angel from beaven, God bless her, | but mine last wile vas a devel from' | and he pointed downwards. 'I vas old ! and s>iie vas young. I bad money and she had none. I marry her in Laste and repent at my leisure. I try to !ivc wid her for tree years but we were not compatible. It was against de order of nature and I find myself j a fool and a prisoner, and so I geeve j her half my monies and run away j from her and hide in dis vilderness and herc viii I live and here viii I j die, and von I go oop to St Peterand j tell hcem how dat vornan devil mc j on earth dc good man viii open dc garden gate and say come in my brother for you have had tiouble enough/ Country marriages arc generally happier than those made in cities j among the families of the rich. Children raised to work and to wait on themselves make better husbands and better wives than those raised-in luxury, lt is mighty hard for a man j to please his wife and keep her in j good humor if she has been petted by lier parents and never knew a want, and had no useful work to do. She soon takes the ennui or the connip? tions or the 'dont know what I want,' and must go back to ma. A young lady who never did anything after she quit school but di ess for company and make visits and go to the theater or the dance will nevet make a good wife. This wife business is a very serious business. It is right hard work to play wife. Thc mother of six, eight or ten children has seen sights. She knows what care is and work is, and one of these do nothing women cant stand it. If she is not a used up institution \rith one child, two will finish her and if it wascnt j for condensed milk the children would j perish to death in a month after they i were born, and sorter like the cows in Florida. 1 heard a Florida man say the other clay that a Florida cow dident give enough milk to color thc coifec for breakfast and they had to raise the calves on the bottle. Get? ting married ought to be a consider? ate business. Folks oughtent to get married in a hurry, neither ought they wait four or five years; six months is long enough for an engage? ment I dont mean children, 1 mean grown folks who have settled down in life, and know what they are about. There is no goodlier sight in all na? ture than to see a good looking healthy young man who is making an honest iiving stand up at the altar with a pure, sweet, good tempered, affectionate, industrious girl, and the parents on both sides approving the match. Then the big pot ought to be put in the little pot and everybody rejoice. BILL A RP. - ?- i ? - Bilious on Blaine. Poppycock is perhaps the fittest term j with which to characterize thc Chicago j platform-Detroit Neics, Iud. Wc arc sorry for it, and wc believe j thc Republicans will ali bc sorry for it j ucxt November.-New York Herald. Moreover, we do not believe Blaine will receive thc uuited republican sup? port, by which only can he succeed at the polls.-Rochester, N. Y., Herald. Believing that Mr. Blaine would bc a bad and dangerous president, wc hope to sec him defeated.-Boston Herald, Ind. Rep. That Mr. Blaine cannot bc elected wc look on as certain. Whether he can bc defeated without ruining thc organi? zation which is being prostituted in the service of his selfish ambition remains to bc seen .-New York Keening Rust, Rep. Wo believe Bayard would beat Blaine in New York and Massachusetts, and with some north-western tariff reformer, like Ellas, of Wisconsin, as second on thc ticket, cory thc country, in thc ex? pressive phraseology of thc track, 'bauds down.'-Louisville Times, Ind. With unabated devotion to thc great purposes for which thc Republican par? ty was organized and has mantained, we declare our inability to support the nomination, either in the present as? pect of thc political field or in any which now seems likely to present itself -Boston Advertiser. Rep. Mr. Blaine does not represent, has never represented, and probably uever will represent, tho considerable portiou of his party which is governed J>y priu ciplc rather than by sentiment, and without whose votes no republican can? didate for president can bc elected Buffalo, N. Y. Exjircss, Rep. Blaine's nomination niean9 a disas? trous defeat for the republican party, and from that defeat thc party would never recover except under other leaders aud perhaps under another name. Thc party has assuredly fallen upon evil days, lt has been stained and dishon? ored by men who have no part in it save for their own selfish and iguoble pur? poses.-Now Yrork Times. Rep. These nomiuatious arc revolutionary. They arc such as the Republican party has never before presented, and will car? ry dismay and alarm to thousands of men who have regarded this as the party of safety, of integrity, of princi? ple and of high moral ends. They portend deserved disaster and thc de? feat, of thc Republican party and a re? volution in thc national administration. -Springfield, Mass. Rep. - i- i < - A Big Fish. One day last week Calhoun Hunter, j colored, caught a gar-fi.-h. in Tiger riv- j cr that measured ll feet 1(1 inches in ? length and weighed lUf lbs. Thc way j it was caught was somewhat curious : j It had partly swallowed a cat fish, tail first, but it liad stuck in his throat, and j tin; gar could not. get it up or down. ? The cat-fish swallowed the hook on j FTuntcrs linc, and notwithstanding both fishes made desperate efforts to get. loose, they wore landed safely ami Cal had a big fish treat from them. ; Fishermen tell us if was thc largest gar-fish they have heard of being caught for many years.---Union Times. - - - ium -^mm~-- - . The Wheeling Register predicts that | tho Democrats will carry West Virginia by not les> than 15.U00 majority, no ! mailer whom they make their candi- j date for Brcbidcut. i What Our Editors Say. Youthful Depravity. Pee Dee Index. The attention of parents is invited to an article published in last week's InO.cx under the above caption. As will be seen from this article a startling condi? tion of affairs exists among thc boys of our neighboring town of Sumter. The philosophy of this youthful depravity is no doubt found in the fact that the parents of this generation neglect their children. Parents, fathers especially, | immersed in their pursuits, do not stop to say a word to their boys, un? less it be in the way of abuse for some misdeed. At the family fireside that social, friendly iutercouse is not culti? vated which is calculated to make a boy respect his parents and love his home. At home the boy is ouly noticed unless it is desired to send him on an errand or to chop wood, livery morning he is turned out like other cattle to roam through the town or neighborhood, lit? tle mindful of whoso pastures he may feed upon. Ile is permitted to go wild. All at once, with thc suddenness of lightning, the news come home that this boy has been guilty of some crime that brings shame to the father's cheek, and throws disgrace on thc family. Eveu then the j^her and mother, while crushed under thc disgrace this young rupscalion has brought upon them, never for one moment realize that they are the cause. But sir and madam, you arc! That boy asked you for a Ssh and you gave him a serpent, he asked for bread and you gave him a stone. He asked you to consider him, what God intended that he should be, your second self, that you should care for him, instruct him, watch over him, make him your companion, love him. You have done neither. His youthful mind has thirsted for these things, but you have thrust him aside. Don't think you have fooled him into think? ing that you care for him. You can't do this. His youthful intelligence dis? cerns every slight, and be drifts into the streets for companionship, for pleas? ures for attractions. He finds thom in the saloons, the gambling dens and in yellow back novels. Arc you aslon ished that at at once he 'brings up' as a thief in the sheriff's hands or a drunkard on the streets ! Do not bc. it is all cause and effect. You have sown the ^:nd and are now reaping the whirlw d. These hasty observations are made more especially for thc benefit of thc parents in the town of Marion, but have application everywhere. Watch your boys if yon dont leant a repetition of thc Sumter scandal. A Question of Good Faith. Abbeville Medium. If thc two mills tax for public schools should be abolished, where would South Carolina stand iu the opinion of thc country ? Could she hold up her head after such a breach of good faith ? The solemn promise has been given that the schools shall bc supported and built up Was it a vain and empty promise, made to de? lude our owu people and the public in general ? Would it not be shameful to acknowledge such double-dealing? There is something sacred in public faith. It cannot bc recklessly violated with impunity. Thc sentiment of thc most enlight? ened States of our Union is in favor of popular education, Every State has a system of common schools for the sup? port of which high taxes are willingly paid. In this day of progress, ?South Carolina must not sti-nd/ alone and fight against light and knowledge. It co . IK is true that negro cly Uren get thc ad? vantage of our system, but it is also true that 75,000 white children aro learning the rudiments in our schools. South Carolina must not stop in her onward course to a better day. She is politically and morally bound to pre? serve her good faith. The Democratic Primaries. It should be remembered by candi? dates generally that thc Primary elec? tion is only as it were a family affair, where the individuals of thc party indicate their choice of those men whom they wish to put forward as their candidates at the general elec? tion in November. Every candi? date, should remember that they are not engaged iu a race with Rad? ical thieves and scoundrels, but in a fair contest with broth er Democrats who are probably as solicitous of the welfare of South Caroliua as them? selves. Differences of opinion have existed among the best mcu from the founda? tion of the world to thc present time. If such were not thc case society would lose its vital forces, progress would cease, and apathy and conges? tion would seize the body politic. Men speculate upon results from different standpoints. Let us there? fore proceed upon thc idea that those who disagree with us are not nccessa rily dishonest or stupid, but that they are only exercising thc same freedom of thought and action that wc claim for ourselves. The personal record ot every candidate is a legitimate sub? ject for consideration with thy voter: but be careful how you asperse -any man's good name upon hearsay evi? dence or upon evidence of any sort, that, cannot stand thc crucial test of truth. Thc circulation of slanderous and. il]-natured reports against a candidate for office, bc it said for the good name of humanity, generally recoil upon tho slanderer and benefit the persecuted ma it. \\ e snail not, pretend to enter into a dissertation upon what, should consti? tute thc qualifications ot' candidates, because it is a well established fact that, elements of character, ability and fitness aro frequently lost siglo*, ot* in the passion and excitement nf pop? ular elections. But we do say that the best interests of South Carolina are identified with the Democratic party, ami that the best interests of the Democratic party demand that all contests within the party should be conducted iu a fair, manly and hon? orable manner. The weapons of de traction and unjust abuse should have no place in a Primary campaign. We make the above suggestions for the good of that party by which alone can wc hope to foster our civilization and retain our present prosperity, and wc sincerely trust that whoever may be defeated or victorious on the fourth Tuesday in July, all will unite in har- i monious accord to resist the party of corruption and cement the unity and fraternity of the Democratic party in Aiken County. Flornece Times. 'He drinks too much,' is the ob? jection which is now most frequently urged against applicants for busiuess positions, and decides the case against them. They are not drunkards, by no means. If they were they would stand no show at all. Business men have got clear by thc point where they will employ a man who gets drunk. But j they are now drawing the line at the [ man who is in the habit of driuking. He is a good salesman or a quick and ? accurate bookkeeper ; pleasant, obliging and all that. But he drinks too much, 'ile is just what we want, if he would ouly let whisky alone,' or 'would not fill himself up with beer.' 'Yes, smart fellow, a real good fellow, but he sets 'em up too often.' 'Yes, thc place was vacant, but I promised it to another man. lie is not what 1 want altogeth? er, and is not as smart as the other man, but he doesn't drink.' 'I've got through making an inebriate's home of my establishment. I cnn get men who don't drink and I prefer them. I've undertaken to reform half a dozen blight, smart young fellows, but it always cost me more than they were worth, and I never succeeded after all. I won't have 'cm around.' Such are thc remarks which now prevail in the business world, when the question of employment is concerned. The man who makes a business of drinking who cannot let a day go by without 'taking something,' and that pretty often, is being counted out in com? petition Even employers who drink themselves are not furnishing occu? pation for driuking clerks and assis? tants. The News and Courier says of our crop outlook that "There is every pros? pect that thc crops iu South Carolina this year will be so abundant as to more thau make up for thc losses of 1S83 in some parts of thc State there are complaints that the cotton looks badly, but personal reports from the State as a whole give tito assurance that the plant is doiu^ well, and that, with favorable O' * seasons henceforth, tho yield will be abundant. Along the line of thc South Carolina Railway, between Branchville and Augusta, the outlook is as good as has ever been known, and from other districts we receive similar statements. The recovery of the State from thc depression caused by bad crops last year eau not fail to be rapid, inasmuch as thc farmers will have small-grain crops and crops of vegetables and fruits to supple? ment the cotton. A large crop of oats lins been sdenred, and we are informed that the fruit crop pronns*^ to bc enor? mous. The peaches haverieen injured somewhat by thc heavy rains ; but it is a splendid year for fruit, and melons along the line of thc South Carolina Railway will play an important part in the year's operations. A substantial improvement in thc general condition of the State is exhib? ited by the small number of failures and the trifling embarrassments which have followed the short crops of last year. Had the people been heavily in debt or indulging in speculation, there would have been widespread distress. In spite of the stringency of thc money market caused by thc failures in New York and elsewhere, South Carolina has kept the even tenor of her way, and is in po&ition to enjoy to the utmost, the blessings of favorable seasons. There is a happy and prosperous time before us, and, if a Democratic triumph in November bo added to abundant crops, thc measure of thc public content will be full to overflowing." The Steamer Bear's Bill of Fare. Thc following was the bill of fare of the first day's dinner on board of thc steamer Bear, of thc Greeley relief ex? pedition : Consomme royal, lfors-d o ivre varie. Fillet de saule Normande. Cournedos aux truffes. Dindes r?ties. Cranberry sauce. Charlotte aux pommes. Fromage Fruits assortis. Cafe. That's nice for a starter. Couldn't get anything better at John Chamber lin's or Solar's. But when they get up in thc voiceless waste of Arctic icc. where the reindeer hoofs it over thc frozen face of thc earth, and the polar bear friskily assimilates icebergs as his diurnal meal, thc bill of fare is mighty apt to be something like this : Bootsolc soup. Tallow Candles. Dessicated Dog. Fried Lampwicks. Walrus Hide in oil. Frozen Fish. Eskimo stuffed with sailor. [ Washington IL itel cd. - - ? turnt - Said Col. Mooney (who has beer, lunching with Hubert 0. Thompson upon frogs' logs :) 'Everything you soe is of some use in this world, even thc frog.' 41 don't agree with you.' said Mr. Thompson. 'Of what use is ti)'.? mosquito to us?' Col. Money: 'Ah ! my dear boy, you take a wrong view of if. Just think how useful we arc to tho mosquito.' A Massachusetts man has invented a ffoh?? that can be hean1, a distance ot" five miles. He was determined lo get something that would sound loud enough to wake his servant girl up in the morning. - 11^ -ll - 'Do you paiut yet?' asked an old friend of a femenino artist whom she had not seen before for many years. 'Yes,' was thc answer. 'I still paint, j I paint the children red, and I put it on ! with my slipper.' ( Scientific Miscellany. Thc relative efficiency of electricity, gas and oil for lighthouses is to be thoroughly tested in England. Dr K?nig has attempted to show that the first real observation of a color? blindness was made by Goethe. A German authority gives thc great? est depth of thc Atlantic as 8341 metres, or a little more than five and one-sixth miles. This measurement was made in 10? 39' 10" north latitude and 60? 26' 5" west longitude. Lieut. Julius von Payer, one of the discoverers of Franz Josef Land, has given up Artic exploration for art, and lins just completed aseries of four paint? ings illustrating the last polar expedi? tion of Sir John Franklin. A recent calculation shows that a man weighing 140 pounds and running a mile in six minutes performs work ibout equal to that of a half-horse engine ; while a walker sustaining five miles an hour for a long day does work equal to that of a quarter-horse engine, and consumes only one-twentieth of the weight of food or fuel. The number of volcanic vents in ex? istence on the globe was placed by Humboldt at 407, of which 225 had been active within a century. The Asiatic islands were supposed to con? tain about, half of the latter. More re? cent estimates allow over 900 volcanoes to the indian Archipelago alone. Tn Berlin electricity has been applied to the hatching of chickens. The eggs are placed in a circular box. or incuba? tor, over a coil of wire, and the wire is heated by thc electric current. A ther? mometer automatically regulates the temperature by cutting the wire coil out of circuit when the heat becomes too great. Changes have been observed in the spectrum of Sirius which indicate that the star is moving away from the earth much less rapidly than formely, and that it oiust therefore bc travelling in a closed and comparatively small orbit. Forty-five stars were studied with thc spectroscope last year at the Greenwich Observatory, for the purpose of detect? ing any changes which may occur in their apparent rates of movement. Several accurate photographs of lightning flashes have been secured by Mons. Hebert Haensel, of Reichenberg, Bohemia The flashes are shown as long, continuous sparks, and in one of the pictures the point where tho spark met thc earth may be seen. The land? scape is clearly defined in the photo? graphs, affording a means for calculat? ing the length of the lightning path through the air, which in one instance, was estimated at more than a mile. A British scientific expedition is about to undertake the exploration of New Guiuea, which, although thc largest island on thc globe except Aus? tralia-and possibly Borneo, is one of the earth's little known regions. A route of 1,000 or 1,200 miles across the island has been mapped out by the par? ty, and it is expected that the trip will occupy more than a year. Places which have already been visited by Europeans will be avoided. In view of the liability, of steamships to collison with icebergs in crossing the Atlantic. Mr. ll. A. Proctor suggests the use of the sensitive heat-measurers of Edison or Langley for giviug warn? ing of the proximity of ice at night or in fogs. One of these instruments in thc bow of a vessel would indicate a change of temperature with the iceberg a quarter of a mile or moro away, and might be made to attract atteution to the presence of invisible danger by causing a fog-horn to be sounded-or otherwise, as might be necessary. Thc keen perception of science, Mr. Proctor thinks, may thus be put on guard over our safety when our natural senses fail. Well may wc doubt the success of thc alchemists of old in their search for thc 'elixir of life.' but if the views pub? lished in England by Mr. W. O. Daw? son arc correct, modern science at least appears to bc able to retard thc progress cf old agc. Mr. Dawson tells us that thc changes which produce old agc are due to an excessive action of thc oxygen we breathe and to the accumulation of lime salts io thc body. Ile does not state whether thc oxygen effects may bc in any degree counteracted, but he believes that life may bc prolonged by reducing the calcareous deposits to a minimum. This ho would accomplish by a plan suggested by Mr. de Lacy Evans. Thc plan is to avoid food con? taining a largo proportion of earth salts -such as thc meat from old animals and to use daily, after middle life, sev? eral glasses of distilled water containing a few drops of phosphoric acid. Distill? ed water is necessary on accouut of its great solvent, power. Nine Tombstones in a Row. There is a curious old graveyard at Fallsburg, N. Y., and in it are aine gravestones standing in a row, bearing thc following inscription : Mary J. E. Kyle, born November 1$, 1842, died November 23, 1SG1. Sally Ann Kyle, born May 15,1845, died December 1, 1861. Tabitha E. Kyl?, born January 8, 1856. died December 1, 1861. Solomou Kyle, born April 15, 1S50, died December % 1861. Benjamin Kyle, born January 19, 1S51, died December 6, 1861. Hannah Kyle, born November 13, 1857, died December 8, 1861. Lydia Kyle, born December 12, 18.35, died December 9, 1S61. Charles Kyle, born July 20 1S53, died December 12, 1861. John Kyle, born July 27, 1843, died December 15, 1861. This was the family of Dr. Bcnjamia Kyle. The deaths were all from diph? theria.-Nae York Sun. What kind of a dog is that?' asked tho major of a colonel as he saw a lean hungry looking canic poking his head and neck through thc front gate. 'That's a watch dog,' observed tbe owner proudly. *Is he a good watch dog?' 'Well I guess so. It takes mv wife and myself over half our time to watch him for fear he'll eat up every? thing in the house.'