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Ips?im watchma?* Kstat>n*h?a Aprii, i s?o. Consolidated Ing. 2, .1881.1 'Be Just and Fear not*Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's. STTMTER, S. G., TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1885. THE TBC E SOCTHRON, Established June, 18??? New Series?Tol. IT. No. S?. ./r Published mrr Tuesday, ?BY THS? is : \ Watchman and Sovthron J^Mls?ting C. Company, SUMT?R, s. a : TBRM8:.;. p?r aanuot?in advance. -AnvSBTISSMKXTS . 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Price Baking Powder Co.? Chicago? IIb St, Louis? Mo. - A e Mar sc . -a:.--sr. .?* - REGISTERED. H09 A BEy TREATMENT For ?oyisurntion, Asthma, Bronchitisy Dyspepsia. Catarri. Headache, Debili ty, Rheumalif?Ti, Neuralgia, and all iJEr\M?&?nd Nervous Disorders. A CARD. / We; "the undersigned, having: received great '. and permanent heneS t from the use of "COM* ?GOB$ OXYGEN," prepared and adminis : ' tered'bv Das. Stabxxy * Palin, of Pbiladel pbia, and being satisfied t?nt it is a new dis covery in medical science, and all that is ,- claimed for it, consider iba duty which we owe to the many.thousands who are suffering from chronic and .so-called "incurable" dis eases to do all that we can to make its virtues known and to inspire the public with confi dence. V ?Wenavo personal knowledge of Dra. Star .^ey fc.Palen. They are educated, intelligent, and conscientious physicians, who will not, r we are-sure^ makeany statement, which they - MJonotknowor believe to be true, nor pub lish any testimonials or reports of cases which are not genuine. ; W^D. KELLY, - ^ - '?. fJS?a?frof Congress-froviPhiladelphia. ; : ARTHUR, ' *.: Editor and Puhl?her "Arthur** Borne ^Magazine," Ph?addphtA. ' V. 1,. CONRAD . Editor of "Lutheran Observer." i . *, Ph?adeipkia.. 3teK???tPHiA, Pa., J?xe % 188 . , ?ni etfSer to meet a natural inquiry in re gard te-ear professional and personal stand ing, and to^give increased confidence in our :?tatemeffte and in the geuoiness of our testi i?mteaia!e?ano reports cf cases, we print the above care fco? gentlemen weil and widely ioowtt and of the hijrhest personal character. Oar "freaSteon Compound Oxygen," eon : ?.? tain?ag a ?&?otery of the discovery of and anode Of ftc? of this remarkable curative agent, and a targe record of surprising cures in -GooseatptEoz, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi tis, Asthma, e?c, and a wide raogeOf Chron c diseases, .wi&fce -centfree. Address "?rsi ST?RKET & PALEN. r 3*03&. 1 G?rm*dJ5lrtet? Pk?adetpnia^ Pa. ' "V? M- F^m, ' ' Im. W. F?ls m. . -?STAB*D IS68 F. H.F0LS0M 'iJiirt^-Vactd?aakers and Jewelers, Mous-Street, opposite John Rexaus, SUMTER, SL L? W?LTH?M o Clocks. Silverware. Jewdry. Spectacles, ^ ? l?t?fcry; Fishing Tackle. Violin Strings, Machine. Afeedles, r:?eea?r?Dg of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry v^?i ^^pwvfQy done and satisfaction LOM THAT SEEMED HOPELESS. "My dear micie, I am delighted to be at home again. What splendid easy times we shall have, and What dinners! I Uncle. I will tell you?ander the rose? it dont pay to go abroad; but mum is the word, though, for it is fashionable, you know. But on my honor as- a Tre * vanion, I was almost poisoned on frogs ! and things. I met the Leightons and Esterbrooks, and all the first families in Paris, but, like myself, they were 'doing' it for the fame of the thing. Tom Tre vanion sat in his uncle's study, with his feet on the mantel, and a costly meerschaum in his mouth from whence issued a delicious perfume; for T?m was a connoisseur in the weed. "Hand me that dressing-gown, old boy, and I wiU make a regular night of it,-and forget Paris and Louisq Vilhers." "Old boy, indeed! Tom, you have grown disrespectful since you left home, j&et your dressing-gown yourself, sir!" f ^Porgive me, Uncle Hal; I am just -,w2d with gladness at being home again and mistook you for Pomp." "You~are an" insolent young dog. "Who is Louise Villiers, pray?" "A charming French girl, uncle. I thought of making her my wife, only women are. so troublesome, tagging rouna after a fellow all the time. But, ? uncle, she is divine; there is nothing in j ; England to match her." ^umphi" ?Uncle Hal's favorite word?"there has been an addition to our family -since you left. I did not mention it in my letters, because I thoucht it best you should finish your travels. Haydn Vaughn, my old col lege friend, died in India and left his child in my care. She has been here a year." . "The deuce she has! What sort of a girl is she?pretty?" "The girl is without friends. I pitied her loneliness, and I?I?in fact, we are to be married in the spring." "Married in the spring?'' "Tom, you .must not speak so loud. I thought I heard someone i?t the door awh??e ago, when you were talking of women Deing troublesome. Pray be carefuL" A rich voice humming snatches of song, and the click of a solitary boot heel along the hall, and Tom pricked up his ears. "What is that, uncle? It sounds like a larne opera-singer." "Humph! I'll risk my life on the lame ness. It is Miss Vaughn." . The door opened with a bang, and a black-haired, crimson-lipped, saucy looking girl entered, carrying her gait er-boot in one hand and a tack-hammer in the other. "Guardy,you are heathenish! Here I've been limping up that long stair case with nothing on my foot but a silk. stockine. There is a peg in my shoe, ? and my neel is bruised to a jelly with it. el tried to f>oke it out with this tack hammer, but it will not move." 2?O more notice of Tom than if he had been a piece of furniture. "If that is your game, my dear, I am with you," was Tom's thought as He no ticed her utter indifference. He settled his boots more firmly and puffed away at his pipe. ; A few desperate pokes, and the re fractory peg was out. "Where are you going through this rain. Mav?" asked her Guardian. "To g?t some candy. This is real candv weather, guardv." "But, my dear May, I wouldn't go out in such a storm." "I would." She seated herself on a low chair, and coolly putting on her boot, began lacing it u? before Tom's very eyes. Then she looped up her dress through an elas tic, exposing a red balmorai and a dainty ankle, and tying a crimson hood under her ehm, turned to the door. ; ^'Good-bye, guardy; good-bye, Mr. Boots." Tom laughed uproariously, while Mr. Tre vanion said: - ''Why, bless my soul, boy, I forgot to present you to May." 'Never mind about it now, uncle, but dont forget it at dinner." Tom took unusual pains with his toi let that night, and he was a very hand some man. His thick, glossy, brown hair, and long heavy beard, were sub jected to a merciless brushing; and a magnificent blaek neck-tie embroidered wit -white s?k was arranged as killing ly as possible- May, in a crimson meri no, and her shining black hair arranged in a knot at the back of her head, was superb and indifferent Around the fair throat was a tiny collar of the soft est lace fastened by a diamond star. "May, this is my nephew, Tom Tre vanion. Miss Vaughn, Tom." May inclined her stately head, while the handsome Tom bowed before her." "I am glad to find such a valuable ad dition to my uncle's family. I had feared this house would be lonely." "It relieves my mind to know that you are pleased. I believe some young men find women troublesome in a house." "Confound the girl, she is laughing at me. I believe she heard what I said about Louise Villiers. I wish she was not so confoundedly handsome, how ever." As time passed on, Tom found him self very faint about the region of the heart. If May was superb at night in a crimson merino, she was divine in a* rose-colored wrapper in the morning. Tom forgot about the French and fell madly in love with his uncle's promised bride?tnat is how it was. He wisely kept his secret hid, though, for the wicked black eyes had a way of hurling lightning glances at him that was exasperating. "If she only eared a speck for a fel low, I'd?I'd- But no; that would be dishonor. Brave old Uncle Hal, I would not step between you and happi ness if I could." " As the weeks wore on, Tom saw plain ly that May did not love his uncle, though, she did not know it yet herself. She had never known any otKer love but that she had borne her father, and when Mr. Trevanion asked her to be his wife, she, feeling lonely wid deso late, gave him her promise, knowing nothing of that otherself who, some where m the length and breadth of the land, was waiting for her. It had been a dismal day. A kind of drizzling rain had fallen all day, and a ! dirge-like wind was keeping it com- I any. For once Miss Vaughn was sad, ; ut if she had thought anyone noticed it, the red mouth would have smiled de- ; nial. She had been silent all th e after noon, and Tom thought he once saw her lips quiver. He crossed over to where she was sitting, hoping h?r sad mood would make hef more comeatable. " What dismal weather it is, May. It - gives me the heartache." "What is that?" Voice and eye were unwavering, but Tom could have sworn he saw her lip tremble as she spoke. "If you don't know I shall not en lighten you." Tom was exasperated. He also thought she had no heart. May looked out of the window, and by-and-bye she eighed a little. This time he saw the proud lip quiver. Tom was a noble hearted fellow, and he pitied the lonely girl?pitied the proud young heart, that, ache as it might, would never let it be known. He had watched her closely, and^knew that underneath her elfin ways a warm, passionate heart was beating. One night he saw by her eyes she had been weeping, and as he stood by her side he laid his hand on her shining hair. It was a manly face, strong and true. "May, you have been weeping; it grieves me to see it.?' Eyes and voice were full of tenderness, but she would not see it. "I am going out, May;- can I do anything for you?" The voice had still that indescribable tenderness that deep feeling always gires. _ _ . . 1 I " Yesj if yon pass where they are sold, bring me some ginger-snaps." He sprang to his feet, and a muttered ., imprecation burst from his lips. Mling his hat down over his eyes as he passed into the street, he strode fiercely on. * He met a few boon companions, but his gloomy brow gave no encouragement for them to tarry. "AVhatfs to pay now?" said 25ed Ster ling to his friend Lennox. "Trevanion looks as fierce as a Bengal tiger.'? "Got in debt, I reckon. Come, Ned, let's go to a play." Poor Tom knew to his cost what was to pay. The insipid little Parisian was nowhere. She had been cast into the shade by this fascinating May Vaughn, and Tom's thoughts were something after this nature: "I love this brilliant May, and she loves me. She may school lip and eye, but I can read both. She is unhappy; there was anguish in her eye when she spoke of those abominable ginger-snaps. saw it brooding dumbly through all her acting. That girl is wretched; she does not love my uncle; she cannot, and yet there is but one short month be tween this and her wedding-day. Oh, woman, woman! man's blessing and his curse! I shall leave here to-morrow; it is all that I can do." ; ,He returned from his mad walk silent and moody. His uncle sat reading the paper, and May, without ? vestige of color m cheek and lip, sat with her dainty little feet on the fender, and the last magazine in her hand. She did not look round as Tom closed the door, though she knew his footstep. VPluted trimming is still worn, guardy. I think I shall have my new dress trimmed so. Ah, Tom, are you back? "Where ?r? the ginger-snaps?" T?m hastily left the room with never one word of answer. "T?m is getting to be an insufferable puppy, with his moody brow and tragic airs." ; "An insufferable puppy," echoed May, but her lip trembled. Mr. Trevanion laid down, his paper and went over to whera May was sitting with her eyes fixed, on the fire. He laid his hand on the bowed head, I but she sprang to her feet, the small hand by her side now clenched fiercely, "What is the matter, I say?" "My headaches, sir. If you will ex cuse me I will go to my room." Sh?'flew?pthe broad staircase, and her white face was a perfect revelation. Tom, pacing up and down the study floor, saw it as she passed, and shivered. Reaching her room, she flung herself face downward on the fioor. She neith er fainted nor wept; she did not even moan; if she had unclosed the firm-set lips for an instant she would have screamed. Her dumb anguish was a thousand times worse than tears. She had promised to be Mr. Tre vanion's wife through gratitude, be cause she was lonely and desolate, as he had said, and knew not till too late that life would bring any other love. That she hau* learned to love this handsome Tom Trevanion was a fixed fact. How or when the love crept into her heart she could not have told; but she knew to her sorrow that it was there. She had tried to put it away from her, to forget the tender face; but she found her own heart a rebel, and all she could do was to keep the sad secret from Tom and his uncle. She avoided the study now, so they met only at meals. She went down one night in the twi light to the almost unused library. The street lamps.were lighting, and she stood with her face pressed against the window-pane, watching the lamplight er as he went his rounds. It was a wan face, and Tom^ooming up softly behind her. looked upon it Z^z lv. J to garner it to nis Dreast. "Oh. if it was any one but brave eld Uncle Hal that loved her, I would?but this is dishonor." The closed eyes saw nothing but a heart-picture she was looking.at, so Tom could gaze his fill at the sad face. The tired eyes suddenly unclosed, and she looked up to see the tender face bending over her with an expression she could not misunderstand. There was perfect silence for many minutes. Tom stood with folded arms and tight shut lips. What could he say that would not be dishonor? M^aythen made a movement as though she were going to leave the room: "May, I am going away to-morrow. I leave on Monday for Paris." . She trembled so that he put his arm round her, and then, as though unable to resist it, he drew the beautiful head to his breast. She just let it stay, fox she knew it was the last time; that dreary last time. "My darling! mine in this sad hour, if never, never again. I love you. May, most deeply, and I am leaving you be cause of thatlove. I ought no? to have told you this, but you know it. and it seems some consolation to put it into words. It would be dishonor in me to try to win you from kind Uncle Hal, and dishonor in you to be so won, for he has set his heart on you, May. We must part, though it rend our hearts in twain, and now. for I hear my uncle's voice, and I have no further strength left." He led her to a chair, and pressing a kiss upon her pale lips, staggered al most blindly from the room. It was a fearful storm of feeling, requiring all his love for his micie to prevent him from rushing back and claiming May. That he liad no right to do so he knew, save by the passionato love he bore her. Two hours later he entered his uncle's study. The old man ;$at smokmg with closed eyes. "Get your pipe, Tom, and let us have a good, cozy time." rl cannot, uncle; I am not well to night. Uncle Halbert, I start for Paris on Monday, and I have come to say good-bye to-night. I must go to Dover to-morrow." "Is the boy mad? What in the name of common-sense would take you off again? Why, Tom, you are ill. What ? is it, boy?" "No matter, uncle." "Tom, I'm tt?e only father you have ever- known. I command you, by a father's right, to tell me what this means. Are you in debt, my boy? If so, speak; if it is a thousand pounds I will pay it; anvthing, rather than have you leave me.1*' "Uncle, don't press me; just let me go quietly. I give you my word, which never was broken, that it is nothing of debt or difficulty of that kind. It ie only a private matter of my own." "I must know it, Tom." "Uncle, it will grieve you." "Xo matter, boy." The old man rose and put his hand affectionately on the young" man?s shoulder. "Come, boy, out with it." "Uncle, I love May Vaughn. It is be cause of her I am going away. " It is all lean do. 1 fought against it, uncle; but, God help nie^ my love was stronger than my will." "Does May love you?" ? "I never asked her, uncle." "Sit down here a minute, Tom, while I go to ray room. You must have funds . to travel with, you know." Tom folded his arms upon the table and laid his head upon them. ;*The worst is over now," he said. "I have told my uncle all, and parted with May." Mr. Trevanion went straight to May's room and knocked softly. "May. I want to speak'to you just one moment, my child." She came" to the door, surprised at this unusual proceeding, but too wretch ed to care much. "May, would you just as soon marry Tom' as your guardian?" It was a startling question. May would have fallen had not Mr. Tre vanion. caught her in hi? arms. *You see, May, t?e f*>o?sh. fellow has fallen in love with you, and as he is too honorable to try to steal you awav. ?rom me, he is determined to be off to France again. Tom is my only, sister's child, and if you could love him. May-" The old saucy look came back to May's eyes. "I will try, sir." "Then come with me." ? He led her along the hall, and enter ing the study, said: "Here, Tom. I'll forego my claim if you can make it all right with May. I could not see you go, my boy." He closed the door, and with a rare delicacy left the lovers : lone. Over that interview we will draw a veil. By mutual consent the knowledge of their mutual love was kept from Uncle Halbert. and he thinks to this day that May married Tom to please him. May and Tom have oeen married five happy years. May is little like the May of this story save in form and feature. She is gentle and quiet, and has given over all her mad moods, subdued by the power of Jove, and Tom likes her best so. Sometimes, when in the fulness of her young life, she would fl^h out into some of the.old gay moods, Tom would put his arm tenderly around her and say: "Don't, May, my darling. I love you best in your new mood. The saucy, de fiant May Vaughn has passed away, and i in her stead I hold to my heart my lov ing, tender May Trevanion." - * m r How Intelligence Progresses. From the lowest to the highest creatures, intelligence progresses by acts Of discriminations; and it contin ues so to progress among men, from the most ignorant to the most cultur ed. To class rightly?to put in the same group thin g3 which are of essen tially the same natures, and other groups things of natures essentially different?is the fundamental condition to right guidance of actions. Begin ! ning with rudimentary vision, which gives warning that some large opaque body is passing near (just as closed eyes turned to the window perceiving the shade caused by a hand putjbefore them, tell us of something moving in front), the advance is to developed vision, which, by exactly-appreciated combinations of forms, colors, and mo tions, identifies objects at great dis tances as prey or enemies of this or that kind, and so makes possible ad justments of conduct for securing' food or evading death. That progressing perception of differences and conse quent greater correctness of classing constitutes, under one of its chief as pects the development of mind, ie equally seen when we pass from the relatively simple physical vision to tho relatively complex intellectual vision? the vision through the agency of which things previously grouped by certain external resemblances or by certain ex trinsic circumstances come to be more truly grouped in conformity with their intrinsic structures or natures. Unde deloped intellectual vision is just as in discriminating and erroneous in its classings as undeveloped physical vis ion. Instance the early arrangement of plants under the heads trees, shrubs, ^herbs: size, the mutt conspicuous trait, 'being the ground ^distinction, and the assemblages formed being such as united many plants extremely unlike in their natures, and separated others that are near akin. Or still better, take the popular classification which puts to gether under the same general name nsh and shell-fish, and under the sub came, shell-fish, puts together crusta ceans and mollusks; nay, which goes further, and regards ?? fish the ceta cean mammals. Partly because of tho likeness in their modes of life as inhab iting the water, and partly because of some general resemblance in their tastes, creatures that are in their essen tial natures far more widely separated than a fish is from a bird, are grouped under the same class and under the same sub-class.?Herbert Spencer in Popular ?Science MontlUy for February. Battered Flour. A Connecticut company makes flour all ready for baking biscuit or straw berry shortcake; it only lequires to be mixed with milk or cold water and the batter is ready for the oven. The pro cess of the manufacture is interesting. A quantity of wheat flour is sifted and dumped into a large tub. Butter cut into large cubes is added to the flour. Then the white-coated operator weighs out certain mysterious quantities of baking-soda and fine table-salt, which goes to swell the contents of the tub. Then the mixture is placed in a large, polished cask, which revolves slowly in one direction, while a sort of dasher in side moves in the opposite direction. The cask revolves abou^t thirtyminutes, at the end of which time it is opened. It is found that the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed; every particle of moisture contained in the butter has been evaporated, and the mixture is as fragrant as new-mown hay. It is then placed in bags and boxed for shipment. ?Hartford Times. Oh, elopements are very funny when its somebody else's daughter who is concerned. What are parents going to do for the safety of their susceptible daughters? I'll tell you. Employ wo men as coachmen. That solves the problem doesn't it? There would be a gain in comeliness right away and an advance in the cause of woman's rights besides.?Clara Belle. Frosting. Cake. In the window of a "delicatessen" store on 3d avenue recently, says the New York Sun, there appeared the head of a large poYker, ornamented with flowers and vines in an extraordi nary manner. A wreath of red and white roses rested between the ears. There were lilies and pinks in his jaws until his teeth were buried out of eight, and a minature sunflower covered his snout. The proprietor of the store smiled when asked aboutit, and picked it out of the window without saying a word. The questioner then saw that it was simply a cake ornamented with different kinds of frosting. "There is an art in frosting cake, as well as in painting," said a confection er. "It takes an artist to imitate na ture so closely as to deceive the eye. The process of ornamenting a cake is very simple. Sugar of various colors is mixed with tho whites of eggs te a thick paste. The mixtures are put in cone shaped bags six inches deep. In the apex of each bag is placed a tin, cone-shaped spout, the small end of which is round or star-shaped or serra ted or Hat according to the purpose for which we use it. Holding the bag in one hand and steadying it with the other we squeeze the mixture through the tubes. The shape of the tube helps us in forming the design. Thus flat tubes serrated on one side are used for leaves. Little round mouthed tubes serve to make vines and tendrils. To build a rose we use a thicker mixture, and form the rose from it exactly as a sculp tor would model one in clay. 1 some times make a rose with nothing but a small bit of wood not much larger than a toothpick. In fact the tools used in elaborate pieces of confectionery are nothing more than what I have told you, but we have to serve long as ap prentice befare can do the worku * What Our Editors Say. Have we any Personal Security in South Carolina. Abbeville Pr?ts and Banner. In view of the record of crime and with the fact that no man is ever con victed of assault upon the person?no matter how murderous?we are led to inquire if we have any law for the pun ishment of aDy crime, except for offen ces against property ? It seems that so far as personal secu rity is concerned, that we are without restraint, and the only protection which anybody has is his ability to beat down an armed foe who may strike an unex pected blow. In Laarens last week va rious cases of murder were brought for trial. (The first was that of a negro who had killed another. He pleaded guilty to man-slaughter * and was sen I tenced to two years in the penitentiary. I The next case was that of N. D. Franks for killing a negro, and the third was I Wm. A. Nettles for the same offence The two latter were found not guilty.) [ When white men go scott-free for killing anybody, we cannot but cora ! mend.Judge Cothran's act in r?dacing the punishment of the negro in the pen itentiary to the least time allowable by law. The News and Courier says the negro put in "a plea of manslaughter, which Solicitor Duncan mercifully ac cepted." Of coarse if he had been a I drunken white man, instead of a negro preacher, his deed would have been no crime at all. How different is Judge Cothran's- sentence?and how much more just?than was that of another. Judge In which he sent a negro to the penitentiary from this county for throwing a rock at a white man, who had gone into his house and threatened him?the white man not being hit or hart. We are not now speaking so innch of the discrimination for or against the white man or the negro, as we are re marking apon and deprecating the pre sent condition of public sentiment which paralyses the arm of justice and defies the law that should give protection to every citizen, It seems that from the failure of our juries to do their duty that any drunken man may seek his victim and shoot him to death with no other danger or trouble to himself than that which is incident to the farce of going into court for an acquittal. No matter how bloody the murderer's hands may be, a jury can be found that will remove the blood spots, so far as a legal process can doso. Can there be any doubt that there never was ? time in this State when life was as little regarded or when blood was so cheap ? Bat, as sure as there is an overruling Providence, a reaction mast take place and this wholesale mur der of inoffensive people must stop. If the people of the Democratic party jn Sooth Carolina are either on willing or unable to preserve law and order, the arm of the General Government at Washington must intercede. The Con gress of the United States mast enact such laws as will remove the trial of murderers from oar own State Courts where the felon's neighbors and rela tives may be allowed the privilege of sitting on bis case that the assassin may be turned loose on society. It is the duty of the National Government to see that the ; citizen is protected in every part of its domain, and if the State of South Carolina is incapable, unwilling, or lacking in the moral qualities to in sure to the citizen peace and protection to life and property, then there is no other alternative than to have the Gen eral Government take charge of all mur der cases and transfer them for trial to such placee as will give the citizen and the murderer full and exact justice. The Congress at Washington has of late been wasting much valuable time in discussing the railroad question while the assassin and the murderer has been abroad in the land doing his bloody work without let or hindrance in every quarter of the Nation. Let the law making power of the Nation give atten tion to the protection of society, to the preservation of law and order, and to the casting of its shield around the very life of rts loyal subjects. The killing of a human being who is loyal to the Nation is an offense against the Nation itself; in pne sense it is treason, which the Matton should resent, and which act it does resent if committed by a foreign power, but the Govern ment offers no protection to us against our own native born citizens who may carry pistols, and are ready at any mo ment to shoot a neighbor. Much has been said of the advanta ges to be derived from the inauguration of Cleveland as President, and we hope that this matter of protecting the life of the citizen, in all parts of this great Nation, may receive his early and ear nest attention. If a foreign Nation should wilfully'put an American citizen to death, the act would be sufficient rea son to throw the whole country into war, and yet thousands <tf irresponsible drunken home-born men. with pistols in their pockets, shoot down their vic tims with impunity. By the Hundred Thousand. Nexo York Sun. Several hnudred thousand citizen? of the United States are to-day indulging hopes of obtaining office at the hands of Mr. Cleveland. There is not a village or a hamlet in all the Union so small and insignificant that it, does not con tain some more or less eager seekers after places where they can draw public It might be inferred from this grent and widespread lust for office that salaries under the Government were great, or that the aspirants for the places were generally unable to make their living otherwise?that it afforded new proof that the number of the un employed was extraordinarily large at this time. But with a few exceptions, the Government pays only moderate salaries, and the vast majority of those who are \working so hard to get them are nor. spurred on by necessity. They are doing very well as they are, and yet they are neglecting their business and boring their friends to get signa tures to their applications for places in the public service, at home or abroad, which they could not fill without break ing up or hazardjng their present oc cupations, and in which they would ! obta?u osi a ?)a re living. heii hold; od these offices, too, would be very insecure if tbey got them. They might be turned out io four years, if not be fore. They might be taken far away from their homes, even to straDge countries, and so lose the advaatages tbey have gained where they are. And yet these hundreds of thousands of men fasten their hopes on Washing ton as if a gold mine of untold richness had been opened up there What con tented them before brings them only discontent now. They may have gone on proudly refusing to ask favors from anybody, but oow they struggle to get their petitions for place to Washington, as if their lives depended on it. One of the chief causes of this greed for office is undoubtedly the prevalent notion that Government service re quires little work. The applications for what are or are supposed to be sine cures are especially numerous. Foreign Consulates are in the greatest demand, because it is thought that they mean a life of ease in genial climes ; and many thousand of our Democratic and Mug wump countrymen long to travel in fereign parts at the expense of the rest of us. Tbey study the list of Consul ates and hold family consultations as to which is the most agreeable fur people jof their tastes ; and wives and daugh ters meditate over the wardrobes the climate of their dreams will require. But, as a matter of fact, very few of these places, either at home or abroad, are" at all desirable. The ordinary Government clerk leads a life of monot onous routine, and the less he has to do the worse off be is. The average Con sul is poorly paid, and must endure an exile from his country and friends which soon becomes irksome to him. He is not the important functionary he sup posed be would be; and when the novelty of his place has worn off-, he is . apt to weary of bis life among strangers and long for the enterprising activity to which be has been accustomed at home. He has dropped out of sight and is forgotten. The public service also begets habits which are very injurious to a mao, which tend to weaken his self-depend ence and unfit him Jot anything else. Old office-holders are all at sea when they lose their places. They have been under fostering care so long, have so long led lives of routine fixed for them by others, that they lose their own power of initiative. Tbey dare not take the risks and assume the re sponsibilities which other men regard as a matter of course, and which help to harden and strengthen their moral muscle, and enable tbeni to win success. Washington is to-day full of dependents on the Government, who would be almost like women deprived of the protection of their husbands if they lost their privilege of drawing their monthly supply from the pay-roll. Tbey have forgotten how to work, and bave acquired the habit of leaning on some body else. We therefore have no hesitation in saying that those who are disappointed in getting the places they are struggling for, will in general be better off as citizens of a Democratic republic than those who are successful. They will be better fitted in the long run to sustain their part in a country where every man must fight his own way. The New Senate, New York World. The change in the Seoate since the adjournment of the Forty-eighth Con gress is sufficient to gire the. Chamber quite a new appearance. The Senators not in the last Congress who now occu py seats are Evarts, of this State ; Payne, of Ohio; Blackburn, of Ken tucky; Eustis, of Louisiana; Jones, of Arkansas ; Stanford, of California ; Spooner, of Wisconsin ; Teller, of Col orado, and Wilson, of Maryland. The seats of Logan, of Illinois; Blair, of New Hampshire, and Slater, of Oregon, are vacant. So are the seat's of the three well-known Senators who go into Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet?Bayard, of Delaware ; Laniar, of Mississippi, and Garland, of Arkansas. Six empty chairs and nine new faces naturally alter the appearance of the body. But tbe most striking change to the eye must be the presence of Vice President Hendricks in the Chair and tbe return of Mr. Edmunds to tbe floor. In debates tbe Democrats will miss Mr. Bayard, Mr. Laniar and Mr. Gar land. The Republicans lose none of their orators. They gain i this respect in the change of Lapham for Mr. Evarts, and of Camerou, of Wisconsin, for Mr. Spooner. The Democrats have an accession in the experience and abil ity of Mr. Payne, and ihcy retain Mr. Vest, of Missouri, who is a most excel lent debater. The Republicans have able and expe rienced Senators in Hawley. Dawes, Hoar, Sherman, Ingalls aud Edmunds, and they have, beides, several sharp efficient politicians of the calibre of Hale and Frye. The Democrats of the new Senate will be put upon their metal to hold their own against the enemy on what, certainly for one-half of Presi dent Cleveland's term, will be the bat tle-grouud of the two parries. Concealed Weapons. Ailcn Recorder. In our local colnmn will be found the account of a homicide directly traceable to the practice of carrying Beeret deadly weapons. Scott and Parmentn might have settled their quarrel in a fist-and skull fight, without serious damage, had it not been for the presence of the dead ly pistol. We have ?lwaYs been an ad vocate of tbe Secret Weapon Act, but our advocacy has been founded oil the supposition that the law would be res pected and enforced. Such is not the case. A large percentage of our popu lation habitually go secretly armed, and upon the slightest dispute or difliculty the handy pistol or razor is whipped out j and used with, damaging effect. We | understand that a large number of ne- ? gr? women in this vicinity carry knives, I razors or other weapons. It is not long eince that Trial justice 0. C. Jordan was badly wounded while in the discharge of his duty, by a razor in the hands of a negro virago. Since then another dem- j onstration has been made with the pis- ? tol, and now comes the killing of Par- ! mento by a ball from a pistol which he ? had been carrying secreted upou- bis i jctaooV j, Is ?t not time to either repeal the Act or enforce it with all the vigor of the law, reinforced by a healthy public sen timent? If the law is to be only partially enforced, it is worse than a dead letter, and it would be better to remove it from our Statutes and thus place all elements of the community on an equal footing. As it now stands, the conservative citi zen who habitually respects the law is at an hourly disadvantage with other members of the community who arm themselves with the same regularity they observe io patting on their coate or other garments. Under such a con ditio of things no one knows what a chance word may bring forth?indeed, in many cases there is reason to believe that disputes are provoked because the aggressor knows he is armed and can therefore hold his adversary at a disad vantage. In the name of law and order, and of the best: interests of oar County and State, we call for the general and vigo rous enforcement of this excellent law, but if public sentiment will not sustain it, by all means let it be repealed so that every man ?an protect his own life, without forcing conservative citizens to violate, when they desire to obey, the laws of their State. . Barnacles. * New York World. When a ship has been a long time afloat it will become so covered with Barnacles as to interfere with its speed. Then it is necessary to resort to scrap ing in order to get rid of these worth less and injurious excrescences and pat the vessel io soand condition and good sailing order. Barnacles are the great trouble at Washington. The have been gather ing there for nearly a quarter of a cen tury. They are of the true family of sessile crustaceans, being attached to the Government without any sensible projecting support, and having a thick crust o?r shell of imprudent self-suffi ciency. Their peduncle is the United States Treasury, and they cling to it with a wonderfully adhesive power. They are tremendous suckers. The Washington Barnacles bave been supplied by the families of Repub lican Cabinet officers, Senators, Con gressmen and other public officials, by broken-down Republican politicians and by the dilapidated branches of Republi can club 'society.' They are to be found in every department and every public office at the National Capital. They draw their support from the Fed eral Treasury instead of from the family pocket. Their principal occupation is gathering and circulating petty scandals and gossip and receipting for their sala ries. They are creatures as completely broken down in character as in purse and have generally been east oat of decent society before being taken into the Government employment. Civil-Service Reform demands that one of the first acts of President. Cleve land's Secretaries shall be to so thor oughly scrape their several Depart ments as to get rid of every single one of these worthless, Treasury-sacking Republican crust?cea. Darlington Noes. And now that the Democracy is in power and no mistake, let it be laid down as a rale, that whenever an office is to be bestowed let it be given to the one who put his shoulder to the wheel aiyl achieved this glorious victory. We want no office, and don't know that if we did we could get it, bat we do want to see the good and trae men who dc want places, put in tbeni. Those who held back in the trying times of politi cal excitement, who were either too un patriotic or too elegant to get down and push the Democratic wagon through the Radical slough, must content them selves with their self elevation and re main in times of victory in the same qniet nooks, where they idled during the turmoil of the conflict. This is the opinion we think of most of "the boys," and so let it be. News and Courier. It would be a very wise thing if the next Legislature should pass a law, similar to the one now in force in North Carolina, requiring the payment of a fee of ?250 as a condition precedent to entertaining any application for an act of incorporation The payment of such a fee would not, of course, entitle the applicants to receive ? charter, bot would s?rve to give them a standing be fore the Legislatore, the object being to discourage special legislation, and to in duce persons forming companies to ob tain their charters under the general Incorporation law. As there are al ways, however, some persons who want special favors from the Legislature, or special dignity, it would be a very profitable business indeed to require the payment of some such amount in each instance. The Mistress of the White House. In looks Miss Cleveland reminds one of Anna Dickinson; perhaps because she wears her hair in the same i?tyle. Yet there is nothing mannish about her, and in private she is rather too modest than otherwise. Her voice is .clear and her articulation distinct, making her a fine speaker. She has given frequent lectures at the Elmira Female College, which have been very popular with the young ladies. Her name is found in the last catologue in the faculty an lec turer on mediami historv. The conn try may congratulate itself upon having so intelligent and public spirited a Christian woman iu the White House. David Dixon, the Progressive Southern Farmer. The late David Dixon, introduced several innovations in cotton planting. One of the mo.>t important was the training of his hands, in days of trained labor, to pick cotton. His orders to each cotton picker were to pick two separate pods at the same moment, using one hand for each, and never to make a second catch at any one pod. If the entire lock was not taken at ouc oatch let it go, on the principle that all of the next was worth more for the time spent than a fractional part of the first. In this way he trained hands to pick fourteen bales of cotton, avcrago round, in one season. Some of his best pickers would galber ove? two ! ba?es? ?e?' ?&a& B% ftftfc&f a very, heavy yield, per acre, however,' and being of the cluster variety was easy, to take from the pod. . He; kept lite stock to make manare, and besices oth er varieties were five bead of sbeep-tQ every working > hand. ...l?e fari?ed ? principality of p(ft000acres, on.the ?pro tection* system?that is, he, never in? ported anything consumed.,?n bis place which his own ?ab?r could - ?rodace. He began with a total capital of $?5,00&\ and in fifteen years by cultivating poor land had accumulated". ?500.000,' h?vV. ing^lived generoosIyV mean?^hile,.He was a moat useful citizen and a nooie man. Among other equally remarkable things Rev. Joseph Cook, at his regular - lecture at Boston on .Mooday^morning^ said: "One thing learned in the* South and it is this: The Democrats in the South are respectable and the Re publicans are not. If in the Northern States you draw up a line of Republic cans and Democrats I think any respect^ able person would arrange himself with the Republicans, [Applause.] Nojr don't cheer. I want to add that if, in the Southern States, you draw ep a linfe of Democrats and Republicans any decent men, loving respectability, would* at once go over with the Democrats." [Applause.] ? : ? > ? . ? We beard the other day of a belliger ent gander in the flock of J. F. Stepn ens, Carroll County, which met with." a singular accident three weeks ago. Making fight at a heifer in .the lot be seized her by the forehead, when the heifer, by a dexterous taro of the hor?, strack the gander's h eck and cat out the windpipe, leaving it hanging down like a snout. The old gander's wound healed over with the windpipe still hanging out, through which be breathes,-aod he seems to be as hearty as ever. ' ?M m?rn?m^?? The pressure of office-seekers upon Mr. Cleveland continues to be of aright vigorous sort. Yet there is no need to be alarmed for the President, A Phil-; adelpbia newspaper gravely informs the public that he carries the foot of a grave-yard rabbit in bis pocket, and it would not greatly surprise any one to learn that he toted a razor in his boot. Ao inspecter, who had been explain ing to a class that the land of th? world was not continuous, said to the' boy who happened to be standing near-. est to him : 'Now, could your father walk round the world t1 4No? (?t/ was promptly answered, 'Why !tio?r I 'Because hVs dead,' was the altogether uolooked.for response.?All th? Teat Round, At a sewing circle all the women1 were talking, and some of the subjects got hopelessly confused. > For instance, the subject of crickets and church choirs, *I. never heard such a horrid noise as they made last Sunday,' said one woman, referring to the choir. 'Nor I either/ said another, thinking she referred to the Fall crickets. *They say they make that noise frith, their hind legB.'?Chveland Leadet; The Yukon River, in Alaska, is to long, says Lieutenant Schwatka, that if its source were at Salt Lake its. waters might empty into New York Bay, ana* its month is so wide that New York would be on one side and Philadelphia on the other. Alaska has a coast line greater than that of all the 'regt of the* United States, adding together, the At lantic, Gulf and Pacific seaboards. Since we have commenced lying about Alaska here i* another : In Southern Alaska rain falle daring' three days of the week. The other four days are damp and'foggy. The winters* are comparatively mild. ' *' He had just bad his hair cat and re turned home. 4Hum be says, after' examining himself in the glass critical ly! guess I shall have to go back to' the barber's shop again. This'ii never' do!' 'What's the matter? says hi* wife : 'has he cut your hair too long * 'No confound htm ; he's gone and cat it too short. I'll make him cut it over again.'?French Paper. A chemist of Munich has invented a process whereby a white powder, which has all the properties of qoinine, may be produced from coal. It always bap'-, pens this way. Just about the. time *' product of nature becomes so essential that apprehension is excited lest the natural supply may fail, or its price be come so high that the poorer man can" not buy it, somebody comes to the res cue with a sufficient recourse. S..Warrep Smith, of Abbeville conn-" ty, was caught by a circular saw the other day and badly used up. He came as near being killed as any man* could and not be killed. Willie Holman and Tom Scott of Williston, Barn well County, are good* fox hunters. On seventeen boots this season with seven dogs, they have caught sixteeo gray foxes. long est chase lasted four hours. A Newberry farmer proposes to make a new experiment in raising cotton! He will prepare his land and plant, hie seed in the same way that he would for wheat or oats, and after the plants .come up, run a harrow over it once or twice, thus saving the hoeing and ploughing, Mr. John Elerbe, who lived near Cash's Depot, in Chesterfield county, was run over and kilted by a passenger train three miles from Cheraw on the evening of the 25th ultimo. He was lying on the track and is supposed to have been drunk, as a flask of whiskey v was found in his pocket. ? mole attached to Mr. Branson V tram-car jumped off the trestle,'which* is eighteen or twenty feet high,'* few days ago. The batnestring broke . which relieved him from swinging tft the air. lie reached the groond iii safety and ra? honte ?fiinjured.? HT? / io ?v sb u re1 Record. A Miss t?egfey, wfro worfccd io the Charleston Bagging factory, t?a?* ft?f hair catf^'ht in a revolving phaft ?mS&?? orday. Her scalp, r??iedio'g both eye. brows and her left ?a'r\ was i&fi com pletely fr&Vi.h?r bead, ??a'v??'g U?e skull espose-i. $U'? h kept uodtr the ?nfiuw. ??;cV of ?W?^tbctics and 4s M?l?ve. ??> ,?