The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 24, 1885, Image 1

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S?SrM S0KTKR WATCHMAN, Kstabiished April, issu* . "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aixna't at be thy Connoys, thy God's and Truth's.** THK TRUE SOUTHRON, Estsbinbed ige?. QTTMTT7.-R. s. C.. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1885. * New Series-Yoi. if. Ko. 30. ' w-I-------^ \, . _ -ax SB?-. . Watchman emd Southron Punishing -5: " fefev ^ompany^. te; SUMTER, S. a vcr :.;.^t??Ms:- ' Two Oolbra fer annum-In advance, : ??. : ,* * ? r i* a x K.? r a. 0?a S^wre.#rst insertion-.$1 00 ~ 50 --Contracts fbrthree numAs, or longer will W?*sle^ sedated mes. A&fommamcatfons which subserve prirate test? "will be chored for a* advertisements. ~"' wries nod tributes of respect will be cnatfgedfor. : . - .-;''* Marriage voices ?nd notices ef deaths pob ?sbed?ree, ' - y; \ ; , r - : ^org?? work ^contracte for ftdjwrtiwQp ^r4*t??'4RalBfaiw? ?n? &x-?Afo?, or apply at :; r*e ^Office, to N. O. OSTEEN, y .:. . - = -itosines5;Msjnager. ? ? . THC TCSTt . . Ttw-aeaatopiovnoa * ta>ts:^>Tetxotfltw?t?lwtho tWW ? T3w oo?ur .*& aiH. - -4 ghesafctwtl SofcS *?> ^^^^^yy DOES NOT CONTAIN A?MQNIA. na as?uftpjujaas rua ytEVEft as? ^IIUIKHUL ?f - :LT? fciwmfaghome? fer ?. qttarter'of a ?ratez?: 1* feat ; USTOF THE OTflL PBICE EASING POWDER CO., IfePnes's Recial FIST??ISI E??rscis, lr.#te- ?pjRn ?aast aim' For I-t?ft*. Haattfcy Bi***. The Best I>ry ?oj> - -T-eMC in. tho ww:i . -, * : ?*-?AtE BY GROCERS. CHICAGO. - M -: ST. LOW?. Tho*best dry Imp yeast ta the world. "Bread .raised by thfcysast is Kcht, waite and whole som? foe- got grandmother's Ideliefcbs bread GROCERS SELL THEM. Pitee Baking, Powder Co., ; Bans al?L'Tffi^'s ?^S?BI xlaTons^ Biirafis, ' ? .' ?Stocaso?in* '}^-Jfyr Consmntion. Astninh. "Bronchitis,1 \ L'ytpepsia. Catarrh. Headache, Del/?li ?'.. <jp.? Rhcuyiali?ni. Neuralgia* and aV Chronic and Nervous Disorders. I m CABDV "We," the undersigned, having receirai great ?od pertnanent benefit from the ase of **COM POUND OXYGEN," prepared and adminis-. k tiered byTD*s. STARKEY ? PAITOA of PhiladeJ-. phis, and being satisfied tb<*t it is a new dia ;icot*ry in medical -science, and all that is claimed lor it, confider it a '-duty which we owe to the roany thousands who are suffering frota^ebranicand Lso-caSJed "incurable" dis- ! eas? to do that we can to make its virtues ! known and to inspire the public with confi? dence.*'. *>..'-> ?' ' - We hare personal knowledge of Dra. Star key* Palen. They are educated, intelligent. ?nd conscientious- physicians, wbo will not, we are sore, make any statement, which they db not know or believe to be true, nor pub? lish any testimonials or reports of cases which are aol genuine. WM. D- KELLY, Member of Congres*from Philadelphia. T. S- ABTH??R. Editor and Publuh+r "Arthur'* Hom MagazinePhiladelphia. - V. L. CONRAD Editor of "Lutheran Ob*erver^ Philadelphia. PEILXJHCLPHIA, PA., Jess i, 1S82. In order to meet a natural inquiry in re g?O? ?fe -otrr profwts?omtt ?od .*personal stand ingj and to give increased' confidence in oor Statements aod in the ?enu>oess of our testi menials"and reports of CM^e^, we print tb? .bof^cwrd froof genr?emetr weir and* widely knowe and of the highest per^onn? character. Our "Treatise on Compound Oxygen" con? taining a bistory of the discovery of and mode of action of tb is remarkable curative agent, ?and a^arge record if surprising enres in Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi tis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of-Chron ic?isease3, will be sent free. ' V Address Drs. STARKEY k PALEN. 1109 k Hil Girard Street, PAiladelpwia., Pa IV H. Folsom, IM W. Folsom. -ESTA FD T868 F, H. FOLSOM & BRO. PR t?t?cal Watchmakers and Jewelers, Main-Street, opposite John Reid's, SUMTER, S. C.? ALTHAM 7 HI tr o ta o et o o' tr s. s I ?3 Clochs, Silverware, Jewelry. Spectacles, Cutlery, Fishing Tackle, Violin String*, Machine Needles, Oils, ?c. Repairing of WaJobes^ Clocks and Jewelry ttjoOpt?^ dono an? saf?afacl?oa . s ? OHIiY A BOY. Only a boy, with his noise and fon, Tbe veriest mystery under the son; As brimful of mischief and wit sud glee As ever? hua-tan frame can be, And aa hard to nunage as-sh! ah, met ?Tis bard to tell, Yet we love bira wel?. Only a.boy, with bi* fearful tread, Who cannot be driven, bot must be led; Who troubles the neighbors' dogs and cats, . And tears more clothes, and spoils more bats Than would stock a store. For ?r year or more. Ouly a boy. with !*is wild, strange ways, With bis idle boors on busy days; Witb his queer remarks and odd replies, sometimes foolish and sometimes wise, Ofteo brilliant tor one of his size; ! As a meteor-hurled From the planet world. Only a boy who wi?H be a man If Nature goes on with her ?rstgreat plan If water, or fire, or some fatal sna?? \ Conspire not to rob ns f>fthis, our heir, Oar blessing, oar trouble, our rest, our care, Our torment, our joy, "Only abey!" "I have Contd a place, mother," .?aid Jimmy Harness, as be came in at Ute door wilt, a bright lace. -The .door through!3Bdiich*be entered wag a low one, 8nd the house iuto which he came waa & small,: iplai?c cottage lort | the ed^ottbe town. .Mrs. Harness wa* one of the* poorer women* of i) un can, a widpw witb four children.. Jiiiuny was the oldest child, now just" -ten" . . While they were sitting.at break? fast: that morning, Mrs "Harness had said, "This is Jimmy's birthday;" and tliree voices iustantly and in concert asked, * How old ls he?" f< "I think Jimmy can answer for him? self." said the weary, but kind-looking woman;. "how old are you, Jimmy?" and as she a?a?n spoke the eyes ail turned toward the eider brother. ? '.Ten!" be answered, and he spoke not lightly,.but as though ead and se? rious thoughts had come into bis; mind. ??ter-breakfast and prayers, which Mrs Harness uever omitted, Jimmy said to. h is mother, when the other children were not.byV'I thiuk I ought to do something to help you to get atong; mother." . i Mrs. Hartness was comforted to bear her boy 6ay that, and she did not let bim know she was glad. She rather said, "I would not want you to give up your school to help me to keep the family " "But i can study, too," said Jim? my, "and what do you think I could get to do, mot her?" "I am sure 1 do^ not know," his mother replied. "If you could get to be errand boy in one of the stores in town it wbuld be as good as any? thing. I think." "i'll try that," he 'said, and went into the other room, picked up his cap and went out. ? f?e. did not know it, but bis mother left her work and went to the window and watched him going up the road. There-were tear-8 in her eyes when she turned to her work again. Then, soon leaving her work, she went int?? a little bedroom, and kneeled ?down and prayed that God would direct IHT boy, and keep him ia whatever he un? dertook. I t-was nearly sunset when ?nmmy came home to announce bis success. That evening was one in that little family not soon* to be forgotten. Jimmy was to go to work in Barton & Boyd's store the next morning. He was to get five dollars the first month, and, if he gave satisfaction, 'would get seven dollars the second. He. proved to be ait acceptable boy to his employers, and his wages were several times advanced during a pe? riod of two years. There was a clerk in the store that Jimmyjdid not like. Why he dio! not like him, he could hardly tell. Ed? ward Miller was the most popular clerk ol any in all the stores in town, and aman in whom everybody had coufi?ence. But Jimmy ^jought^ he seemed?to shun him,-and treat him/as. though he was afraid of him.. Over two years had passed away since Mrs; Harness* boy had entered the store. lu that time be bad given his mother, uearly 200 dollars. One evening he was very late coming home, lt was bed time,, and his mother had begun. to be uneasy. : When he came in it was wit ii a sad 'look, and his mother asked him why ? he was so late, and what was the mat? ter. Without answering, he took a chair and sat down by her side, and put bis face in ber lap and began to cry. After a while he told her that he bad been, discharged from the store, fie was accused of being dis? honest. When they were about to close the 6tore that evening, Mr. Boyd called him into the office, and told him that he had been .seen taking money out of the drawer, and they did not want him any longer. Jimmy asked "Who saw me take money?'' Mr. Boyd said he did not wish to say j who it was. "Did you or Mr. Bnrt >u see me?" inquired the boy further. "No," said MT. Boyd, "neither of us saw you, but we have good evidence that you have been doing this." "I told him, mother,"' said the heart? broken boy. "that 1 had never takeu a cent. 1 pleaded with him to keep me, and said that they might watch me as closely as they pleased, and I would Ie*ve in a moment if either of them ever detected me in stealing. But Mr. Boyd said it was of no use; they had consulted together, and 1 must go. Then he pa?d -me off, a/id 1 lefthand, mother, I walked through the town for two hours, I could not come home. What will we do?" It would not be true to say there was silence in that room for a time, though no voice was heard to utter a word for many minutes. There was the plaintive sound of subdued weep? ing. The mother's tears fell on the cheeks of her son, and his were wip? ed away with her linen apron. * Then she raised his head and kissed him. That kiss was appreciated as no Other had been, and it had a meanirig in which none in the years gone by had. j "I believe yoi* bav? been honn?t, my | boy*~go, and; to some other; j^lace try ?gain, and: ? will have faith in you-."' | : It was several days before J immy j went out into the street. It would I not be very far wrong lo say that he was sick. . Though he bad a good con science, yet his feelings were so hurt that he could hardly took up with the confidence of an innocent person. Had he become discouraged and ceas? ed trying to do good, and at last be? came a dishonest, worthless fellow, it would have been no more than ma? ny a one would have done. Blit he was of better stuff than this. Ina few weeks he heard of a place where a boy was wanted, and made appli? cation, but was asked if he was not the boy who was discharged from Barton & Boyd's for stealing money. "Yes," he said, "I am, but I did tot take any money." "Oh, well," said the man, "you would say so, but-well-you are most too sharp-looking a boy to be honest; we will not employ you " If there is anything that hurts a boy and prevents him from making an ef? fort to be a man, it is to be falsely accused of anything that is wrong. Jimmy went away and resolved, that, as the world was large, he would try in some place else. He went into t?fe country and worked on.a farm for several years. He then rented a small farm, and moved his mother to il,'- and they worked industriously, and managed well, and by the time he was twenty-one years of age he was' able to start a little store iii a small village. . His business habits were such that in a short time he had . the custom of nearly the entire commu? nity f One day a man, in appearance about, sixty years of age, walked into the store and asked for .Mr. Harness. "That iV roy name," said one of the half dozen men standing near the' stove, "and 1 believe you are Mr. Boyd" . . "Yes, sir,-and I.have come to ask you to move to Duncan, and become i parfner i.n our store, and take charge yf all the business." Theil Mr. Boyd went on to say that they bad lately learned that Edward Miller was a bad man. He had left them about a year after they had dis? charged Jimmy. He went to another town, where he bad practised pilfer-j lug until he was discovered, and only allowed to escape in the greatest shame after he had refunded much that he had taken from his employers. He had made a confession when in a dangerous sickness, and had among other things said that he had falsely accused Jimmy Harness, and that he did not see him stealing. "It was* upon his statements altogetlfer," said Mr. Boyd, "that we discharged you, and we had 6nch confidence in him that we thought he could not lie,". In a few weeks James Harnes was living in one of the best houses in Duncan, the sign on Barton & boyd's etore was changed, to react. Barton, Harness & Co., and when Mr. Boyd died. James bought the interest of Mr. Barton, and the increasing busi? ness *ras carried ou in the single name of James Harness. - ? --- The largest funeral that' was ever known in Duncan was when Mrs. Harness, in her ninety-second year, died, and James had the minister say in his address thatrit was his mother's kiss, and her words on that sad but men orable night, "Go* and I will have faith in you," that saved him. and in? spired bim to success.- Belfast Wit? ness. THE BAD BOY. He Attemps to Play a Lone Hand in a Florida Hacket-and Gets Euchred. ' "Send a shilling's worth of . wafer crackers over tu the hospital quick,*' said the bad boy to the grocery man, as be came in with his face all muffled up, walking like a person who has been sick unto death.. . ^ . "W.Bat hospital?'1 asked the grocery man, as he began to do up the crackers. \ "Why, over to our bouse, of course," said the boy, as he took a few crackers out of the scales and began to nibble them. "We are the sickest crowd you ever see. Pa has been off "bis feed for about a m oath, and be hired a doctor to recommend a trip to Florida. The doc told ma confidentially tbat unless pa got- out of this climate pretty soon be would not live tili Spring, and ma didn't ?a? t to lose pa right io the inclement season, so she, nighed and began to mead up his Summer drawers aud fix things, so he could endure a tropical climate. Pa seemed resigned to his fate and has looked awfal sick. I found three other fellows down town, chuma of pa's, wbo ?ere going South too, and I heard pa sod them talking about: bow they would paint things red down there and have a high old time, and wbeu? I spoke of rt at the table pa's appetite began to im? prove aud be looked as though he could eat me without any horseradish. After dinner be called me into tbe woodshed arn;: said I ought to have more sense than to trifle with the feelings of a sick man in that way. H ? said he supper jd be was on his last legs, and ba wauted to go away io peace and try aod add a fe? moments to his life, and he didu't want no kicking abuut bis going. He gave tue a dollar and said for me not to make no more remarks, aod tbeu he' winked at mc. The next day ma hal some company, and the wi m m en got to talking about tbe South and asked ina why.she didn't go with pa, and ma said >he was well and hearty and didn't have to go. Then tbe wimmen whisp? ered a spell, and ma went to the tele? phone aud telephoned to her doctor and he came, and pretty soon ma was in bed with her lungs bandaged and ber head tied up and hot water bags at her back and feet, and when pa came home he Was scared. The doctor badi-such a mournful look on his face and seemed to be so anxious, that pa took him in the bath room and said: 'Now, doc, I want you to tell me the worst, ls she dan gerousV .The doo said it was not his na? ture to unnecessarily frighten any one, but he said doctors often had a duty to perform, that they would prefer to trans? fer to other .shoulders. He said he would prefer to wait before expressing an opinion, hut he thought it was safe to say that unless the patient bad a ohaqige of climate at once, be should ask to be allowed to withdraw from the case, a? he? did not jik? ta H respond ble for what seemed to bim to be si murder iu keeping a delicate woman a climate^tbat wad forty degrees bel tero half tho time by a penurious h band. Pa was toucb?d. I could j that much through the keyhole. 1 doc said pa would have to approach I matter delicately and not let ma ko abe was dangerous, or she wouldn't j but just go in the room sort of cheer and laugh and say, * Banner, if you n hurry up and get better, and pack T you can go with rae to Florida.' 1 doc said ma would probably refuse, I pa must insist. Well, pa went in w! a laff he had borrowed I guess, cause didn't sound like bis at all. and he st what the doc told bim, aod ma was b ter right off. She said sbevdidn't wu to go so faraway from her dear boy, I if pa though it best she would get and pack her grip. Pa went out anc told ma she bad-played it pretty fri most as fioe as pa did, and I was gpii to tell pa about the win?men putting t idea into ber head, and she said th would spoil all, and then I told hei wasn't feeling very well myself Iatel Ma smiled and asked me what my sym toms were, and I told ber when I skat all the afternoon my legs ached like t toothache, and when I slid down hill ? the evening my ears rung, aod I hi night sweats, and my hands were cha ped, and I felt faint before break fa: and bad a corn on. one toe, and n lungs felt as though they wanted grea ing with fresh orange juice, and co chills came over me about 9 o'clocl when. the school bell rung, aud II memory was failing so I forgot to sp] the kiudling wood, and I ' told ber if bad time I could think of twice BS mar things that ailed me as she and pa bot Ma said I was evidently in a bad stat and abe wanted me to go, but she dido ' want to spring too much on pa at one so I better go into decline, and m oj around, and shiver, and then see a do tor and get the doctor to go to pa i confidence and ask him if be didn't wai to save the life of bis little boy. So went .to see a horse doctor that works ; the livery stable, who saved oar co when she got a carrot stuck in. bi throat, and he said be would seep about me. Pa and tbe horse docu worked in the same ward in politics la fall, and got pretty familiar, aud whe pa come: home and found me soak in my feet in mustard water, and lookiti like the last run of shad, though I neve complained at all, pa said be guessed better go down to the store and get new pair of pants and go with him an ma to Florida. Then I knew the hon doctor had been getting in his work o "So you are all going South, a who family of frauds, ?*h?n said the grocer man, as he bit off the string from tb paper of crackers.^ "Yes, that's the intention." said tli bad boy, as he grabbed a raw turni aod peeled it and began tocatas thong h? had fasted for a week. * "Yes, we are goiog unless we gt confounded well,''and he went out wit bi? hand sled to catch onto a pnssin sleigh, but happening to remember th: be was sick he wandered aimlessly dow the sidewalk, occasionally giving ver to a hark-from-the-tombs cough that li had been practicing on, which cause people to turn and look at the bad bo with compassion -Peclcs Sun. ^mt II -? Islam's Death Struggle. New York Times. 'In the last days/ said Maha rn mee unconsciously echoing almost the ver words of Scripture, 'there shall com great trouble and distress, and man wars * The grim prophecy is now ful filling itself in tbe progressive down fa of his empire and the terrific con vulsioc attending it. This it is which give such a formidable sinificance to tb Mahdi's present crusade aud other Mus sulman outbreaks All alike are sing) combats io that world*wide' battle wbic is the death struggle of Islam. Of th 110.000.000. souls peopling the Moslei world-i. e.. 40.000,000 in Brilia India, ,10.000.000 in Central Asia 6,000,000 in Afghanistan, 8.000.00' in Persia, 5,000.000 in European Tut key, 2,000.000 in Algeria, 1.750.00' in Tonis and Tripoli, and the. rest ii Arabia, Asiatic Turkey and Equatoriii Africa-fully one-half are already eithe directly or indirectly under Cbristiai coutrol, and the remainder, dreading ? similar fate, arc girding themselves fo the great conflict upon which hang the destiny of their race aud their re ligton. It is a grievous error to suppose, a many do, that these scattered million have no power of coagulation. Mo bammedaoism possesses* five secreteo cities of proprgaudists, as thoroughly or gauized aud disciplined as any Nihtlis association. Every pilgrim caravan t Mecca bears with it the emissaries o one or the other of these gloomy broth er hoods, and Mecca itself is and ha long been as fully recognized a place o meeting fur Mussulmen plotters as Part "for conspirators of another kind. The? stern apostles preach incessantly that ls lam is in danger and that its disciple most rise as ooe man to defend it. whil< the formidable "Darkawi Society" o Morocco-which, from its savage zea and persistent advocacy of the most vio lent measures, may be held to represeu the "dynamite party" of Mohammedan ism-goes so far as to men ance openl] the Sultan of Turkey and other Mussol mau Princes who have ul I'?wed them selves to be swayed by the influence o tbe accursed "Kafirs of Frangistan' (European unbelievers ) Through the action of this great reli? gious Freemasonry-which is still verj imperfectly understood by most Euro? pean statesmen, and pooh-poohed us ah solutely mythical by not a few-not ont fibre of Ulam can be jarred without the shock being felt -throughout tbe whole body. Russia's overthrow of Turkey, France's annexation of Tuuis. England'* pressure upoo Afghanistan, Italy's Rec Sea crusade, are texts which these fierce missionaries never fail to improve to the utmost. At this very moment the la? test news from the Soudan is being dis? cussed in the rice fields nf Bengal, in the bazaars of Candahar, on the bound? less steppes of Central Asia, beneatb the clustering palms that overhaog thc Euphrates, by swarthy, wild-looking men. who mutter with set teeth and fashing eyes that the green standard ol tho Prophet will soon bo unfurled once more aud the spears of the faith fa; be red with infidel blood. Islam ia indeed doomed to die, bnt its death struggle will make the whole earth tremble. What Oar Editors Say. President-Elect Cleveland. Allanta Constitution. We observe that even the most mali? cious organs of the republican party have ceased their vagrant criticisms of President-elect Cleveland They have probably discovered that their malice ?either represents oor affects the public sentiment of the country, which seems to hare the fullest confidence, not only in the patriotism, but in the discretion of the new -president. The truth is, the attitude of Mr. Olevelaod, since bis election, bas been such as not only to invite but to justify the confidence of the country. His conduct has been pre? cisely that which should characterize the president of the republic. By neither act or ?ord has he betrayed the instincts of a partisan; on the other hand, he has not failed to emphasize the impression that he proposes to do every? thing in his power to restore democrat? ic simplicity and economy in. the ad? ministration of public affairs. During the past month. Mr. Cleve? land' has been engaged in taking a cen? sus of Democratic opinioo, so to speak. He has consulted with all of the demo? cratic leaders and with most of the ?democrat congressmen, and he has lent a ..patient ear to thc advice which has been freely tendered. He has betrayed a decorous anxiety, if not to meet the wishes, at least to learn the views of those who may be presumed to represent, in some degree, democratic popular opinion. He seems also to have made a deep impression on those who have met bim. Without exception those who have visited him have come away convinced that he is a man of strong convictions and settled purpose so far as motives are concerned, aod (hat bis administra? tion will have the advantage of the strength and fairness that belong to Mr. Cleveland's character. There is an impression, too. that Mr. Cleveland will endeavor to build up the democratic party, not by merely parti? san methods, bat by convincing thc country that a democratic administra? tion is best for all classes-for the rich, the poor, the farmer, the manufacturer and thc business man Already the party is beginning to feel sore of its strength, and the feeling of confidence1 is largely due to the discretion of the president-elect. Pernicious Custom. . Lexington Dispatch. Physicians are more " earnest than ever in their protests against the custom of kissing. They say that lives are daily sacrificed and diseases very fre? quently communicated by promiscuous osculation. It cannot be doubted, they contend, that a larger portion of the human family than non-profession? als will be ?ie ve is afflicted with maladies which are easily communicated to oth? ers by the contact of the lips and the inhaling of the breath. The infect? iousness of consumption is generally admitted, and thousands of beautiful mouths, as tempting as roses, conceal thorns ju the shape of fatal disease germs. The osculatory greeting of women among' themselves is especially condemned, and also the habit many vile mouthed persons have of kissing every innocent child they meet There are good reasons why the custom of pernicious kissing should be abandoned besides the one advanced above. It is not likely, however, that tbe dic? tates of common sense t>r the warnings of physicians will have much effect. Custom is a good deal more powerful* than reason and sanitary conditions. Kissing will doubtless continue for ages 'to come, and the doctors will collect millions of fees for services rendered i those who will owe their taking off to kissing. As people will not stop kiss- j ing. the wise should at once seek for something that will paralyze the mi? crobe and .prevent infection when it is necessary for the act of osculation to be performed. Io this connection we warn the fair sex to understand that the odor of cloves on a young man's breath is not conclusive evidence that he has been indulging in a forbidden beverage : it only indicates that be bas fortified himself against infection or contagion, and is ready to assist in perpetuating the time-honored custom of the land. The Doubting Thomases. Columbia Register. It is peculiarly the case in South Carolina that there are always a set of over-wise people, who know that things can't be done until they are run over by the facts. It bas occurred to ns to recount a few of these incidents as they have happened during an ordinary life? time When the South Carolina Railway was undertaken it was looked upon by people of sound sense as something that none but dreamers should believe in. Yet there are over 200 miles of it to-day, and at one time it was the longest road in the world. When the Wilmington Road was undertaken it was considered prepos? terous to build it without going through Charleston. Yet there is tho Wilming? ton Road to-day, 100 miles North of Charleston Tho Greenville Road, when under? taken, was looked upon by many peo? ple as a financial impossibility ; but Judge O'Neal built it through every difficulty When the Charleston and Savannah Road was undertaken many believed that it would be found impossible to build it, and if built that it would rot out for want of use The Barnwell Road, with its grading, was looked upon for years as a finished \road on which there would never roll a oar, and after the war the whole thing 'went up' and went up for good. It was bought out for a song and made into a tram road. To-day it is a good and most useful railway link. The Port Royal Road was looked upon as Davant's bobby. To-day it is an excellent road, serving large communities, and it ts yet to become a most important thoroughfare. gao during tb? war, wu considered a dead thing when the tremendous re I verses of the wat overtook ns We now hear its ten or twelve trains a A convention of. South Carolina's wise men put it on record, that with the fourteenth amendment in force the South would never make anotber#cottoo crop Since that pronuuciamento, the South bas touched 8,000,000 of 400 pound bales. The soundest of men were loud? mouthed in proclaiming that there was not a ghost of a chance in 76 for rescu- i iog the State from the Radicals. We all know what was done. How many wi*e men were there who honestly ridiculed the idea of eyer elect? ing another Democratic President? Cleveland goes into office in less than sixteen days. Everybody knows that scarcely any? body believed that it was possible to reorganize the South Carolina Univer? sity. At one time the Register stood almost alone in its defense, and our up? country brethren had pity on us. Well we see the old college redivicus, with 200 students in attendance. The big ditch was a laughing-stock for most of the up-country editors, and the poor Register had a time of it. with them. Now they get mad and say bad words over it, but the thing goes right on to completion. Nobody bad much faith io the or? ganization of the Agricultural Depart? ment when the Register started the movement. .There it is to-day the most pronounced fact of our govern? ment. The graded school system here was spit at and dispitefully used, rejectee! twice by a popular vote aud decried by some of the 'intellectual giants,7 but here it is with its fifteen hundred chil? dren to-day, and 'come to stay.' ? Put a pin there again Tor the Register. ., Is it not time to learn that where there is a will there is a way and that these doubters are as little to be regarded as the gnat on the ox's horn ? Moral-The Midland Road is a certain fact. England as a War Power* Wilmington Star. In view of the war in which England is engaged, aud a supposed threatening outlook lu Europe, it is interesting to know what, her war etreogtb is at pres? ent. Lord Hartington last year said in a speech that there were 111,000 men in active service at that time, and a re? serve of 29,000 efficient men. In the Statesman's lear Book of 1883-4, the figures' vary. The regular forces are placed at 127,811. aod army reserve, first-class., 33.500; second-class re? j serve 0,000. The militia is estimated at 142.874 ; the yeomanry at, 14.404 ; I volunteers 247.921-total 575,310 of home aud colonial force. In India there is still a force of 61.64.1-total* ! 636,951. It is claimed that in case of invasion England could command of militia and yeoraanry405 000. Anoth I er writer thinks that about 173.000 men are now in service! Still another esti? mate places the forces at 185,518 ; di? vided as follows : English. 128,548: Scotch. 16,520; Irish, 36.302. and 6,148 of other nationalities. The Indian force of over 60.000 men is not counted If England were to become very se? riously involved so that her great re? sources and fighting qualities were to be fully taxe^she and her dependen? cies could do wonders. When she was at war wich our colonies she bad several nations pitted against her at the same time. She was at war with France, Spain, Holland and the colonies. At that time her population was but S. 000.000 If necessary England could put 2.000.000 men in the field. In a Novel Predicament At the recent term of the court, at this place. Lydia Peterson, a colored woman, was convicted of hog stealing and sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary; She bad io ber arms an infant eight months old. The Sheriff asked the Judge for instructions as to what disposition he should make of the child, aud was told to seud it along with its mother. He did so. but the superintendent of that institution would not receive it, and telegraphed the Sheriff to that effect, whereupon the Sheriff telegraphed his deputy to bring the child back. Now, tbe question is. who is going to take care of it? Sup? pose it were only a few weeks old and could not live withoot tbe attention of its mother, what would be done with it? It is the first instance of the kind tbat has ever come under our observation. It looks like a little matter, but there is a human life at stake. Tbe occurrence is a novel one. Since the above was put io type the Sheriff's deputy has returned, and says be gave tbe child away to a negro man who lives near tba Penitentiary, who bas a wife but no children and who promised to take good care of it. This is as humane a disposition as could be made of U.-Kingstree County Record. The Sun. The son is more than one hundred times the diameter of the earth. The combined planets, many of them many times larger than the earth, are r?s nothing to it. It seems a ball.- of ?ire ; upon it are seen spots, aror.ud it are perceived strange lights* yet we have little idea of the natur? of ?hat we see. The sun is a mystery yet. What is a man to the earth he Vives on ? What is the earth to the solar system ? But what, again, is t'je solar system to the universe ? Every star we see is a sun, perhaps as Urge or larger than our own, perhaps surrounded by a system of planots more or less like those the names of which are familiar to us! Above us, across the blue heavens, stretches a faint white belt, like unto the first faint forming of a cloud. As troDomsr? tell os that this Milky Way is a congeries of distant stars ; that the stars we see are bot the portion of the galaxy nearest to ns, that the sun is one of these stars, and that the solar system, with all the other stars, is probably rotating around some central point which we are as yet in ignorance ok Yet mao, the tiny habitant of thie tioy globe, believes himself the object for wMcb the universe elisia ?-Philadle* hia Record? Lt or tbe Watchman aaa soutnron.j Utah and the Mormons. I Utah is 325 miles long. 300 wide and has an area of 87,750 square miles. Salt Lake Basin-sometimes called the paradise of the farmer, horticulturist and fruit-growers-extends from South of Nephi to Bear River Gates. Cache Talley lies to the North-East and San pets Talley to thc Sooth-East of Salt Lake Basin. The major portion of the population lives in these sections and along the base of the Wasatch moun? tains. The population of Utah is esti? mated at 180,000 peopfc. The people of Utah depend to some extent upon its mineral resources, but also avail themselves of its excellent grazing facilities, and Have many profit? able farms ant* orchards : the Mormons having bee ti remarkably successful as farmers. Large herds of cattle and sheep find sustenance. . Tba grazing land; are almost wit h oui limit aod ex? tend to all parts of Utah. There are some 500,000 sheep which yield nearly 3,000,000: pounds of wool of which nearly one-fourth is worked up by Utah mills. ?bont 50.000 Head of stock cattle averaging $20*each iii. vahie are driven out of Utah, every year. It is said i hat op to 1870 most of the Utah sheep came from New Mexico, bot since then fine wooled Spanish Merjno ewes have been brought., io from. California, fine-wooled bocks from Ohio, and long. wooled bucks from Canada.. The ter? ritory of Utah* has very extensive grat? ing lands and the stock interests will undoubtedly become exceedingly impor? tant.^ The climate and soil of Salt Lake Basin are peculiarly well adapted to fruit growing. The trees are vigor? ous growers and generous bearers; the crop very sure. In the South, on the Rio Colorado, grapes do well and wine making is a growing business. The climate resembles that of Southern California, where cotton, tobacco, or? anges, and semi-tropical products gen? erally, are successfully cultivated. Small fruits, all kinds of berries? grapes and currants do remarkably well iu the valleys of Utah. All the crops of the latitude are successfully growo in Utah. I was informed that in 1879. 1,976,152 bushels nf grain were raised on 116.994 acres. Utah is noted as a.potato pro I docing section. The Mormons have bad wonderful success oo their farms? aod it is a settled fact that-Utah is to be and is ? great agricultural and pastoral country, as well as a' famous mineral section. . Those who wish to invest in farms and stock will find this section well worthy of their attention. The physical features of Utah, mountain aud desert and salt sea, are peculiar and of perennial interest. Leaving Ogd*?n, where direct commu? nication is made with the Central Paci? fic, the railway follows a fertile valley with highly c?ltrVared farms stretching over its Igogth and breadth. On the eastward rise sharply the broken crests of the Wasatch Range, while close at hand on the West Hes the inert expanse of the great Salt Lake. Mysterious in spite of all the learned, th?orie regarding its origin and life, it appeals to the imagination ?of every traveler. Soon it is left behind, the plain broad? ens, and Salt Lake City is reached, where the ?traeger may weil pause to examine the stately buildings, the pala? tial homes, the broad, well-shaded streets, and attractive surroundings, Salt Lake City is built on the lower slopes of a mesa running down from the Wasatch mountains to the shores of the great Salt Lake. There are over 100 miles of streets .in it, each of which is 122 feet wide and along which natural little streams of water course their way musically. The city is ten miles square aud it is systemerically laid out into ten acre squares, where elegant residences stand iu the midst of beautiful lawns. It is, of course, peopled mostly by Mor? mons, and the buildings they have erec? ted, such as the Tabernacle, the unfin? ished Temple, and Brigham Young's home, are places which are always visi? ted. The Tabernacle, Temple and As? sembly Hall occupy a ten aere square which is surrounded with a stone wall fourteen feet high. The Tabernacle is oblong in shape, is immense in its pro? portions, and is visible from every part of the city. Its roof resembles au up? turned boat, and its seating capacity is fifteen thousand. Patti had an audi? ence of twelve thousand when she sang in it a few years ago. The seats are modelled after those io most of the finely constructed theatres and rise gradually from the front. In tbe western portion of the building is the huge organ, the second to the largest in the United States I am informed. There is a large mirror ia' the front of this organ, in which the movements of thc leader of the choir can be seen by the organist. The choir is composed of over two hundred singers and the instruments are, the or? gan, four violins, four flutes, a cornet, a hurp and the bells. Just imagine Glory! Glory! Glory! Glorv! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Hal?e lujah ! Hallelujah \ - Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ? Haileiujah ! Hallelujah ! Glory Hallelujah ! First song by over two huo3red of the finest cultivated voi? ces, tbe? played by the organist, then by Cue violinist, then by the flutists, tiien by the cornet, then by thc harp, then by the bells, and then all join in a grand and a soul-thrilling chorus. The day on which I attended services at tbe Tab-made was Communion Sun? day, aod the congregation was estima? ted at over ten thousand. On this oc? casion the doctrines of Mormonism were sophistical ly discussed by several of thc leading Mormon Elders who, io their efforts on that day to promulgate the doctriues of Mormonism, stated with a great deal of unction that it was man's duty to people the world; that God wan? ted a heap of people to worship Him, therefore it was man's sacred duty to go to work and please God in this respect, by doing his share toward populating the world; that Christ while on this earth bad more than ooo wife; that Mary and Martha were two of bis wives; and a lot more just sueb stuff which is not worth relating Mormonism, which ls divided into so many stakes and each stake into so many wards, has adherents not only in Utah but in Nevada, New Mexico, Arixooa, \ Colorado, Southern Califoitsia. Oregon, Idaho, Mdntana? Wyoming and Wash* j logion* TvHt?fiosafri i few iu Mittotttx. I vf o Conferences are bela once ajear io Zion, Salt (Lake City. The attend? ance oo these occasions numbers upwards of f twenty thousand, and'the music v played then is said to be grand and an? gelical. I am inform?e! that their church organisation is complet?. According to the Mormon religions creed, President Taylor. Brigham Young's successor, represents St. Peter? * Hcgh Cannon, St; John, and Joj?p?,~ Smith, St. James. President Taylor lives in. the Gardo Mansion which was built by Bright tn Yoaog for his youngest and favorite wife, Amelia, but which, alter his death, ? the church managed some way to get possession of. President Taylor has nt wives. Three of them live with htm in Salt Lake City. The other three are scattered around at convenient points in Utah. . * The new unfinished Mormon Temple has been in process of construction for thirty years, i? over a million and a . half of dollars have been spent upon it so far. It is.built of. granite, massive v and beautiful. The Bee Hive and Lien House, Brigham Young's former man* . sioos, are of light-colored Brick and sur? rounded by high walls. Brigham Young and several of his wives are -buried in a ten-acre square situated in the heart of - - the city. j To see Salt Lake City at its best one mnst climb to tbe'rock-cr?wned summit of Ensign Peak. This pointed moon tain rises directly back of the town, and from It we may look, down, upon houses, streets, trees, and beautiful squares. At the right ;Ites the lake, dull-lined^ ; motionless and passive amid its grand * surroundings. Huge islands of rock dot its surface, but no signs of life are to be seen. To the South stretches tho beautiful valley, mountain guarded, fer? tile and bathed at t's lower end in a thin - bine teil of haze. (Jloud-patches lie ort the fertile slopes,; the mountains are full . of canyons, the Jordan is a narrow'line of silver, and above the scene 'stretches. ' the blue arch of the sky: To the East of Salt Lake City, and- elevated suffi? ciently above the valley to command an r~ extended view of ail surrounding artrac tiops, is.Fort Douglas; and beyond that Ensign Canyon, from whose mouth the Mormons bad their first view of tbe aVv; in? cluded region, which they ?hose for their home. The Lake is reached bf crossing the valley wEere Oqu?rsh mountains efidl] ? Here there is a lon^ s??d b???h*, where1 ;'. delightful bathing Waf be eojb^?i. ;: ' ' In appearance the Mormons 'are'a1 long and sallow fac^ looking set of peo- . : pie and are mostly Scandanavians.. r.:. Their principal occupation is farming, ; aud one-tenth of their yearly produce goes into the coffers of {?e ycEu^i This is exacted of them by ^e Elders who aresopposedto.be in direct com? munication with God. . . Alfares Young, a graduate oc ?ale College, aud a yoong lawyer, and tbe ;' brightest one of Bi ig ham Young's sons. at a Democratic meeting held previous f to my visit te Salt Lake City, made a speech in which be de no on edd Mormo? n's m as a fraud a burning shame upon ? civilization. And I am reliably informed that Yoong concluded his remarks at . this meeting upon Mormonism by as- . serting with all. the vehemence of his ' fiery spirit "that the practices of his father were b?d enough but that those ~ of President Taylor were worse and should be stopped. The following is an ?ttraet front a . newspaper report of hts remarks: .Mr.Yoong attacked the despotic and . undemocratic supremacy pf the Church with a power and eloquence that sjpealt hopefully for the future when he and those like-minded shall make their in? fluence felt. At the very outset he asked, "Is there a union of Church . and State in. this Territory Y and while great excitement prevailed in the audi-* en ce h e startled them with the cr ushing reply, "There is no State here-it W ali Church." He then at length showed' that there is nota civil officer inf the Territory who stands there on hie own merits, for all were the creature** of the Church that the People's Party/ with its 18,000 majority, was but Presv ideot Taylor standing at its bead,. an<? the others are naught but ciphers. He/ then turned to the polygamie system^ which he denounced as one of the great ' wrongs of the Territory. With W-f . daunted boldness he said, "We arraign; the polygamie leaders as false to their children," giving as the unanswerable proof that "three-fourtbs of the children* boro in this community arc born in polygamie relations, and when they, s come before the courts of the country ! they stand there as nobodies. Hiseam I cst and radical speech was loudly ap-" ? plauded by the crowded audience. It io ? dicates that in the heart of the fool nest' of Mormonism there is growing a senti? ment of rebellion against its arbitrary and debasing system. It is the hand? writing on the wall betokening the doom of the evil, and most strike ter? ror into the hearts of the crafty leaders. We hope that the fearless, young men * who have dared to arraign their ?op? pressors will not fall victims to their malignity, or prove in their own on-, happy fate that the Mormon doctrine ?f blood atonement is yet in fell force.' ^ Tbe Mormons are almost in arma against Young for making this rspeech." Tbe total population of Salt Lake' City is estimated at thirty thousand. D. K. AV Embarrassing. *I intended to tell Jane* to fcriftg at fresh bucket of water,' said the wife ot* Professor Nottiebead, looking up from her sewing. .You doubtless mean a bucket of fresh water,' rejoined her busband, /t wish you would pay some little atten-? tion to rhetoric. Your mistakes are embarrassing.1 A few moments later, the professor said : m ;r .My dear, that oicture #ofcld show to better advantage if you were tb* hang it over the clock.' .Ah,' she replied *yoo doubtless roeajd if I were to hang it above the clock.. If I were to hang it over the clock? ore couldn't tell what time it is. I wiatt i you would pay some little attention td 'rhetoric. Yoormistfkeseiee?bsrts3?i j ing.--Arkansas Traveler.^ I No min ejter offended anHnrii ?tm? science, but first dr last it wis reveo^td . it>a him-for dotog\ '^? t?Ml