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MTEE WATCHMAN, ?stabti?hed April, IS50. kBe Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' M?date* Aug- 2,1881.] SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1885. THE TK?E SOtTHR?X, E??'abllkhe? ?nc,' 1866'' Kew Series-t?l. lt. Xo?U. "'-J' -BT TBS Watchman and Sautitron PubUslting TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. }o? Square, first i user tioa--51 00 Trery suteequ?nt ins?Ttioh.."...;:.V.... 50 Contracts for three montes, or longer will ?? made at reduced rates. . Aff?6mmra^^n^w^i<^snbaerTe' private j oterests will be charged for as advertisement. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Marriage sotieer and notices of deaths pub? lished free. - r v ior joh work or contracts for advertising address Watchman and Southron, or apply at tbe OfBce, to N. Gr. OSTEEN, r, r. . .. jffnstness Jffaoager. IN THE PASTRY n :t r - - mm Qr \ \ - I .y?<UITar?.<fee^ft? delicately and nat? .?gUr-Ocftttlt fr-t^rklcfc thry^re ??do. DB STBESGTII AND TRUE FRUIT . " ' ??v ?V?TH? ....... .. e W??adr% Powder Co., , :-? Chicago* Itt? St. Louis; Mo. : KAJCCftS or Dr. Pr?t^* LopuHnYeast Gems, Bert Dry H*y Ycart. The nest dry hop yeast in the world. Bread raised-fay A?y?t> tight white and whole? some li*e, fear godmother's delicious bread ~ OfcOCERS ?ELL THEM. . * . ir- ^ ??PAUSO ?r TM* - . Pfice~Baking Powder Co., ~ - -st. tout?? ?to. 1TKAOC MAR* ^ REG13TCHCD. ^AJLT ?OW TREATMENT ^^^'i^si??aH, Asthma, Bronchitis, j .. dyspepsia, Catarrh, Headache, Deb?li y, Rkeumalism, Neuralgia, and all (Jfotmc and Neroons Disorders. . A CARD. ?w&5?S53 : ? .- " i - '.-.'rv ---'f-.-^ . - ': - .,We, the undersigned, having received great i and penoaoeiit benefit from the use of "COM? POSED OXYGEN," prepared and adminis? tered by Das. STU?CKY & Patas, of Philadel? phia, and being satUhed that it is a new dis l co very in medical science, and all that is claimed for it, consider ita duty which we ; owe to tbe.many thousands who are suffering . from chronic and so-called ''incnrable" dis -.ease? to do all that we can to make its virtues > known and to inspire the pablic with co ca? dence. ivr/^'We bare personal knowledge of Drs. Star key A Palen. They are educated, intelligent, and cocscientioos physicians, who will not, we are sure, make any statement, which :hey .do not know or believe to be true, nor pub? lish any testimonials or reports of cases which . are not genuine. ;; :.:-,Wil.D.. KELLY, .. .?Member of Congress from Philadelphia. I : -T.S.-ARTHUR,. . - Editor and Publisher "Arthur's Home rt ??> ?; *. 'Magazmc," . Philadelphia. Y. L. CONRAD Edjtor of "Lutheran Observert" . Philadelphia, u. -Pfln*A.DEi.PBjA. PA., JC?K 1, ?882. .In order to meet a natural inquiry in re? gard to oar professional and personal stand* ? igy,-aad-io-grveTOCTeaged confidence in our statements >nd in the genuiness of our testi -'lo?ffhr?and reports of cases, we print the . above card from gentlemen well and widely : known and of the highest personal character. ii Om "Treatise on Compound Oxygen," con taimng a history of the discovery of and mode of action of this remarkable curative agent, and a large record of surprising cures in Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchi ? .tis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of Chron? ic diseases, will be sent free. Address Drs. STARKEY & PALEN. 1*0$ ? i lil Girard Street, Philadelpnia., Pa. JT? H. Folsom, L. W. Folsom. -;-ESTAB'D 1868. ?gi FOLSOM & BRO. Practical "Watchmakers and Jewelers, "Main'Street, opposite John Reidys, ... -, SUMTER, S. C. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ?9 tr ? td ? cr o tx* UM O cr o o ts o vj Ciochs, S?verware, Jewelry, Spectacles, Cv?ery, Fishing Tackle, Violin Strings, Machine Needles, O?s, dec . i Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. MOTHER'S GIRL. Sleeves to the dimpled elbow, ?g Fun io the sweet- bice eyes, To and fro npon errands, - - ? - The little maiden flies. Now she is washing dishes, . Now she is feeding the chicks, Now she is playing with possy, . "Or teaching Rover tricks Wrapped in a big white apron,. Pinned in checkered shaw!, . H ac gin g clothes io the garden, Oh,: were she only tall ! ... Hushing the fretful babyy Coaxing his hair to curl ; Stepping around sp briskly, Because she is mother's girl. Bunting for eggs in the haymow, Petting old Brindle's calf, Kiding Don to the pasture, With many a ringing laugh, >. Coming .whene'er you call ber, Running wherever sent, Mother's girl is a blessing, 'And mother is well content. OLD TIMEST Arp's Reminiscences of Fifty Years. Atlanta Constitution. A sweet little girl from Marietta writes me a nice letter and begs me to write something for the children just for the children. I never look upon a flock of happy, well raised children without wonder? ing if they knew fe ow well off they are-how much better off than their grand-parents were some fifty or sixty years ago. I would like to sec old father time set his clock back a half a ceutury"just for a week and put, everything like it was then, and I would walk around and have lots of fun out of these little folks. I don't believe they could stand it a whole weet, but Jt wotildxio them good * to ?icy. In the firsi place* they- would have to get out.of their comfortable houses with plastered walls and large glass windows and coal grates, and get into ?maller houses with about two rooms in front and a back shed room, .that .had no fire-place and no ^e'Umg and a'wmdowwith a wooden shutter, and in that shed room they would have to sleep, and the wind would come slipping in all night and lass their faces eyer so nice, They would- have tbitak? off ali their pretty* clothes, and wear country jeans and li?s'ey and they would have to go to [the~rslKiemaker&- and have some coarse, Tough shoes made of country leather and no high heels nor box toes nor/huttons. -But they would be good and strong, and two .pair would 4ast any boy or girl a whole year^ one pair would do them if they greased them now and then and [ went barefooted during summer as we used.to dp-all the store stock ingsvwould have to be dispensed with, j and the elastic too. aud they would i put on some good warm- ones that | were knit by hand, and be tied up | t with a rag-no nice hats from the ? - milliners, with pretty fio weir aud J gay ribbons flying, but jthe ?iris would have to put on home made j bonnets nicely quilted, and the bo vs ! have to wear home made wool hats . or seal skin caps that would last two 1 or three, years, and stretch bigger as j their heads grew bigger. There* would not be found a store in the . whole state where ready made cloth- . ing could be found-not a coat, nor a pair of pants, nor a shirt, nor a skitt, j nor a doll, nor hardly a toy of any . kind. I suppose that some few things . for children might be found in Au? gusta, or Savannah, or Macon, but j the country stores wouldeut have anything, not even candy or oranges er a box of raisins. A boy could : find a dog knife or a barlow, and be 1 allowed about one a year, but the ! little girls couldent even find a thim? ble small enough nor a pair of sc is- ' sore. Children were not of such con- 1 sequence then, especially giris. 1 would like to see the clock set j back for one week and see the boys cutting wood and making fires, cut- f ting wood half the day Saturday for ( Sunday, "and Sunday morniug sittiug * down to learn some more of the Short- ( er catechism about justification, and 1 sanctification, and adoption, and some ( more verses in the Bible, aud that ? poetry in the primmer about In Adam's fall We siu'ned all. 1 The cat doth play < And after slay. Xerxes must die And so must I. ( Zacheus, he ^ Did climb a tree \ His Lord to see. j I would like to see one of these !r boys wake up some cold morning and j < when he tried to make a fire and stir- ?, red around among the ashes to find a j ! coal, he couldent find one, aud what ! ? then ? Not a match in the wide, j ' wide world, for there was none in- ? vented. Wouldeut he be in a fix ! j j Well, he would have to run over to j j the nabors, if he was a town boy, and j j borrow a chunk. If he was a coun-[ i try boy he would have to walk a !, mile or so, maybe, and nearly freeze ? i to death before he got back, and if it j ] was raining his chunk would be apt j - to go out on the way. I would like ! < to see these boys and girls studying j j their lessons by the light of one tallow j caudle. No gas, no kerosene, no oil I of any sort-only one flickering light j of a candle, or maybe only a light- ! wood blaze in the fireplace ! I reek-: on they would study hard and study j ] fast and go to bed soon and get up I early in the morning and try it again. I would like to see them sit down to write a letter and find nothing but an j old goose quill ior a pen-not a steel i peu in the world. I would wateh the j poor fellow as he tried to make a pen j out of the quill, and after he had cut ; it to a point see him try to split it in j the middle with his knife, and split it j too far or not far enough, or on one side and then throw it way in dis pair. It would all be fun to us old folks, but it wouldent be fun for the boys or the girls to be set back. But there j are old people living now who do tbe same old things and live the same! old way. Colone] Campbell Wallace j ; still uses the quill pens and makes them himself, and I wish you could > see how nicely and how quickly he , Can do it. Our school teachers had ! < to make the pens for all their scholars, j i aud it took about half their time, for j 1 they had to mend them oftener than f ' make them. When the first split wore out he had to split it again and trim it down to a new point. Iiis knife was always open and ready. Poor man ? Ile died before the steel pens were inveuted and never got the good of them. But we were used to these ways and never thought hard of them. Judge Lester used to run over to our house of a cold morning and say to our mother : Please mam lend me a chunk of fire, and I used to go over to his house and do the same thing. But we didn't let it go out often. We knew how to cover up fire in the ashes so as to keep it till morning. I remember going over to Forsyth county once when an old Indian lived there, by the name of Sawnee. He didn't go off with the rest of the In? dians, but lived on a mouutaiu called Swauee's mountain,tmd he had some grandsons about our age. George Lester and Cicero Strong were with me, and we gave au Indian boy some money to show us how they got fire when their fire went out. He took two dry hickory sticks about a foot long and as large as my thumb and a little bunch of dry grass, and started off on a run,,, and rubbed the sticks together so rapidly that you could hardly see them, and the friction made fire and caught the grass, and be came back in haifa minute with a blaze, in his hand. I used to go down to the store" at night with my father, and he had a tinder box nailed up by the door and would strike the steel with the flint and inake a spark and letit.fall on apiece of punk and light it, and theo he would light his caudle from the punk. But matches came il?ng after while and slopped all that. [ remember the first matches that :?me to our town. They were called Lucifer matches for some folks ;hougbt that the "old boy** had something to do with them and wouldn't use them. They smelled strong of brimstone and were sold at l? cents a box. Now ten times as nany sell for a nickle. But about ights. Dipping the candles was one if the notabJe^events of the year. It ?eas.- almost- as... big a thing as hog billing. . The boys prepared the canes )r reeds about 60 in number, as large is the little finger and nearly a yard ong They were smoothed at the points aud put away iu a bundle to iry. When the time come, the first sold weather in the fall, our mother would get out the candle wick and kvind it round a pair of cotton cards sud ways and after a good deal was wouui would cut one end with the scissors and that made the wicks when doubled just long enough for a candle. Three or four canes were dieu interlaced through the back of m old fashioued chair to keep them steady while she looped the wicks around them aud twisted their ends ;ogether. Seven wicks were put on ?ach cane and when the cane was ;aken out and. held horizontal the viofes hung down and were about two uches apart. When all the canes ?rere full they were laid upon a table .eady-for-dippiug. The tallow was nelted in a big wash pot. Some beeswax was added and a little atuin. )ld planks.were placed on the floor vhere the dipping aud dripping was ;o be. Two long poles or quilting Tames were placed parallel on the jacks of chairs and were wide enough ipart to let the caudles between and lold up the canes The big pot had :o be kept nearly full all the time, i cane of wicks was let down slowly ? the pot until the cane rested on its ?dges. Then it was lifted up and al owed to drip awhile and then placed is number one between the long poles (vhere, if it dripped any more, it was >n the old plank. The first course vas long and tedious, for it took the oo6e cotton wick some time to ab? sorb the tallow. After that the pro ?ess was rapid. Tallow would hard Mi on tallow quickly, and at eveiy lipping the little candles got larger intil after while they were large mough at the bottom ends to fill a candlestick, and that ended the job. They were left on the poles over light aud then slipped off the rods ind placed in the candlebox or an >ld trunk. Seven times sixty made 420 ear? lies, and that was the year's supply. Duly one candle was usual for the ?able in the family rocra. The read? ing aud sewing was all done by that. The boys were allowed a piece of jue to go to bed by. Nobody sat ip until midnight then. The night svas believed to be created for sleep and rest, and the day for work. There were no theaters nor skating rinks-no reading novels half the light, aud lying in bed until break? fast next morning. The rule was to 50 to bed at nine o'clock and get up with the chickeus. Bul now we couldn't read by candle light. It takes at least two lamps, and one lamp is equal to ten candles. But I j we got along pretty well. All thc j < substantial things were as good as ? j they are now. Good water-good air-good sunshine and shower good health-good warm clothes good bread and meat, and milk and bulter-good peaches and apples good horses to ride-good fishing and swimming and hunting. We dident have railroads and telegraphs and telephones and sewing machines, and so forth, but wo dident need them. We need them now for the world is so full of people that the old ways wouldn't feed and clothe them. The right thing always comes along at the right time. If the clock was set back I wonder how this generation would manage about the cooking business. Fifty years ago there were j no cooking stoves. The ovens ai;d skillets aud spiders were big heavy things that had to be lifted on and off the fire with a pair of pot hooks. They had heavy lids and the cooking was done by putting coals under? neath and coals on top. It took bark and chips to make coals quick? ly and our old cook used to say. "Now get me some bark, little mast? er, and I gib you a bikket when he done." There was no soda or tar? taric acid or baking powder. The biscuit were made by main strength. Fhe dough was kneaded by strong f c 5 o a f c 0 0 i| o i t d c c i i a i ?1 i c 1 arms, and sometimes it was beaten with the rolling pin until it blistered. When the dough blistered it was good and made good biscuit. I can't say that we have any better cooking now than we had then ; but the stove makes it a great deal easier to cook. The boys had no base-ball but they had bull-pen and cat and town ball and rolly hole and tag and sweepstakes and pull over the mark and foot races and so forth and they thought there was nothing better. They had the best rubber balls in the world and made them themselves. Some of them could bounce thirty feet high. They were made by cutting an old rubber shoe into strings and winding the strings into a ball and covering it with buckskin. But after a while the rubber shoes were not made of all rubber. They were mixed with some? thing that took some of the bounce jut and our balls degenerated. There was an old man living near us who was called "Lying Tom Turner," and :ie told us boys one day that when lie was a boy he had a rubber ball ;hat he waa afraid to bounce hard for 'ear it would go up out of sight and ie would lose it. We asked him what became of his bail, and he said te bounced it one day most too hard ind it went up in the clouds and was jone half an hour, and when it came lown his little dog grabbed it in his nouth and it rebounced and carried he dog up wild it out of sight, and he iad never seen the ball nor the little Jog Rince. Well, I don't know which times are he best, the old times or the new. It s very nice to have a nice house and nee furniture aud nice clothes and lots )f nice story books and to ride on the. ;ars, but in the old times, people lidn't hanker after such things and hey were easy to please aud were in io hurry to get through life, and there vere np suicides and very few crazy oiks, and no pistols to carry in the ? rip-pockets. Nowadays there is a keleton in most every house. I don't nean a real skeleton but some great )igtrouble that throws a dark shadow >ver the family. There were not any ?xciting books to read, no sensation 1 lovels that poison the mind just like ?ad food poison the body. There were ' mt half a dozen newspapers in the rhole State and they didn't have 1 vhole columns full ol murders and su? eldes and robberies and awful fires hat burned up poor lunatics and all 1 ither horrid things to make a tender ; leart feel bad. There was nobody ! rery rich and nobody very poor, and ? ye had as great men then as we have low. . i If the clock was set back, and the ! ittle girl who wrote to me wanted to jo- to Augusta with her grand-pa to ; 'isit lier kinfolks she would have to jet in the mail coach and jog alon?: all 1 lay and all night at four miles an hour < md pay ten ceuts a mile, and it would \ ake two days and nights, and she vould be tired almost to death and so' 1 vould her grand-pa. Well, they just 1 ?ouldri'tgo. But now they can go as ? ;heap as to stay at home, and'do it in ess time, as the Irishman saicf. 1 But the clock will not be set back, md so we must all be content with hings as they are and make them bet? er if we can. BILL A BP. ? Spoopendyke's Pie. 'My dear,' said Mr. Spoopendyke, olding his napkin and pushing bis hair back from the table, 4my dear, 'ou are a pretty good housekeeper, and ?Dee in a while you contrive to cook up ; fair meal, but you have no business ooliog around a mince pie. There lever was but one woman who could uake a mince pie, and that was my uotber.' 'I thought this was nice,' returned ?Irs. Spoopendyke, with just a little [uiver resting on ber lip. 'I got it out if the cook book-* 'And you'd better put it right back ti the book as a warning to other ama eurs,' continued Mr. Spoopendyke. 1 lon't say that this is especially bad, ?nly it doesn't meet with all the re? quirements of pie as they were instilled uto my young mind. You might work t on foundling hospitals that never had toy mother, but it hasn't the soul I ised to get out of pie when I lived at mme.' 'How did your mother make the nince pies dear?' asked Mrs. Spoopen lyke. 'If I knew what she used, per ?aps I could get up one of which you vould eat six slices instead of four.' knd with this purely feminine dig, Mrs. Spoopendyke looked modestly iownvard and began folding knife beatings in the table cloth. 'Come !' exclaimed Mr. Spoopendyke, umping impetuously from his chair. If you've got the ingredients, I'll show ,'ou how to make a pie that will draw iow?9 of envy from the ueighbors,' and Mr. Spoopendyke led the way to the iitchen. 'Where's your chopping tray ind the apples ? Fetch me the hand guillotine and the beef! Look alive jow, my dear, and we'll startle the world kvith some revelations on the abstruse subject of miuce pie !' 'Let me put this big towel around pur neck, so you won't grease your ?lotbes,5 suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, Jraggiug out a huge crash towel. .What's that for '/' demanded her hus? band, contcmplr^ing it with no amount )f favor. 'Which end of thc pie is that ,hiug supposed to have influence with ? Cf I make up my mind when I get Jirough that this pie w;ints to be shaved, ['Il put on this skirt, but in thc mean- j :ime I want room for all my limb.*, j Now,' he cootitiucd, as ho dumped the j Dccf and apples into the tray and went it them vigorously with thc chopping inife ; 'DOW you watch the p roce t.-d in gs md note how this pie begius to assume iroportinns.' 'Didn't your mother peel the apples Defore she chopped them V asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, quietly. 'Eh !' ejaculated Mr. Spoopendyke, ? ;lowiDg up a little and locking into the ; ,ray distrustfully. 'Of course not,' uud ie resumed his labors with still more mergy. *If you did, there's where you nade your mistake. I suppose you ? >eeied the beef, too, didn't, ye ? Though j [ don't know,' and he stopped short and i egarded his work attentively. 'It itrikes rae this meat would chop ?uer if I some one had dropped a pile drive it ooce or twice. Anyway, yon want year meat too fine, and I < this will do,' and Mr. Spoopendyk the tray full of lumps on the table rolled up his sleeves. .What will you have now, dear ? quired his wife, tenderly. .Some flour and water,' replied Spoopendyke, cheerily. 'It's the ( of a pie that is its genius, and I'm g to turo out a slab of pastry that wi a mounumeot to the artist.who is w iug this job. Gimme the flour water, while I feel as one upon w the spirit of a successful pie rests Wy!' Mrs. Spoopendyke brought out material and once more resumed thc lation of pupil to the* exercises. .Anything else, dear?' she asked Mr. Spoopendyke wet down his ? and jammed his fists in the paste. .Nothing but profound silence,' torted her husband. 'The chief troi with the crust to your pie is tjiat allow your attention to be distrai from it at the critical moment. I, the contrary, will stop boxing this 01 coat for that mince meat just at the i ond it reaches flakiness,' and he slami in more flour and plunged again i his ambitious efforts in .the way crust. 'There ;' said he when he I fought it to the consistency of sand ? mucilage and rolled it out into I thick chunks. 'There is the triun of pie over puttering ! Lead out the ] whom the gods would hooor, and li see how the combination of heredit intelligence and acquired brains will when it's cooked V Mrs. Spoopendyke handed him a j pan iuto which he dropped bis bott crust, and then poured in the mil meat. .Got to lift your teeth pretty high get around some of that meat, he < served aa he tried to poke the I un into position with a stick 'I'm i sure whether mother used to grate t meat or crack it with a hammer, but don't make so much difference. It's t crust that talks, wheo you come to co versation on pie. Now, you do thi and he marked out a sprig on the t crust with his thumb; %nd wheu y get it on, thus, you pinch it around t edges, so. See *? My mother used have an old wheel out of a wood? clock, and she printed landscapes holes all over the pie. But tb at iso necessary. It adds luster, but i dignity, to the performance. Now, x put it in the oven, this wise, and in short time we will have accomplish^ results in tho immediate line of pie.' 'It is really wonderful how well ye remember how your mother made them smiled Mrs. Spoopendyke. .You won't feel badly because it bea yours ?' said Mr. Spoopendyke, kindly 'You won't cry V and he chucked h< ander the chin, and opened the stovi ?oor cautiously to see how affairs wei progressing. .I'll try not to,' replied Mrs. Spoopet 3yke, casting her eyes down, aod su| pressing something that sounded like ?ob. Let's see. You stick in a brooi splint, don't you, wheo you want t know if the pie is done ? Where's you broom ? Show me the happy broom tbs is to be immortalized by testing thi grand apotheosis of pie !' * Mrs. Spoopendyke produced th broom, and her husband, carefully se lectiog one of the splints, jabbed awa at tbe upper crust. 'It won't go in,' he remarked, rathe dolefully, selecting another with si mila results. 'The trouble is with th broom. Haven't you got a broom tba knows something about its business, o is this one of those brooms that won1 wor??' and be broke up several mort splints in a vain endeavor to p?n?tr?t the pie. 'Hadn't you better try the han die, dear?' suggested Mrs. Spoopen dyke. 'No, I hadn't better try the handle dear!' mimicked Mr. Spoopendyke 'Come out here, and let's see what's thi occasion of this uncalled for resistance ! and Mr. Spoopendyke hauled his pie ou of the oven and fired it down on th< table.' 'Got an idea you're goiog to b< assassinated with a broom splint, haven' ye ? Think you're a sort of a bulwarl of American liberties and bound to re? sent foreign intervention, don't ye ' Well, you ain't ; you're only i measly pie, and you're goiog to have something stuck in ye, if it takes a cole chisel and a cannon !* and Mr. Spoopen dyke stabbed at it with a fork, and then with a cbopping-knife, without produc ing the faintest impression. 'You're up io pie, what d'ye s'pose is the matter with the thing V he asked, turning ou his wife. .If I'd been your mother, I should have put some lard iu the crust," re? turned Mrs. Spoopcudyke, compla? cently. 'I don't know how you're going to get lard into a crust that, you can't penetrate with a bayouet!' retorted Mr. Spoopendyke, upon wlioui it began to dawn that there was a hitch somewhere. 'I've almost forgotten how mother did try pies to sec if they were doue.' 'Did she ever try a club?' inquired Mrs. Spoopeudyke, timidly, 'No, she didn't try a club !' roared Mr. Spoopeudyke. 'Come hither, my gentle pie V he howled, plantiug his fists in the middle of the apparatus 'Listen to the voice of the siren inquiring with? in !' and he dropped it on the floor, and planted his heel on it. 'Front door closed for repairs ; entrance at the back !' and he kicked the whole business to the ceiling. 'Your mother must have been very vigorous tor her age,' observed Mrs. Spoopendyke, calmly. 'It's to?se gastcd lumps of meat,' snarled Mr. Spoopendyke, picking up his pie, and examining its knocks and bumps attentively. 'I thought they'd melt when subjected to iutensc heat. Anyway, the inside of that pie is all- ? right, if 1 could only get the lid off. | Got anything I can get under the edge j and litt thc roof off litis business Y i Gimme that opcuer ! Give way, now ! j Whoo ! Once more ! Ki yah ! All to- j gcther, now! Whe-e-e! There she j comes!' And the crust gave way, re- I vealing chunks of beef and apple par- j iogs, half cooked and still steaming. *I suppose your mother put in the spices after the hired man had wrenched j the pie open,' remarked Mrs. Spoopen dyke, solemnly. 'You do, do ye V squealed Mr. S poop eodyke, squatting down and resting his bauds on his knees, while he grinned in his wife's face. 'That lamp of quick? silver you call your mind, bas got around to where it transacts the suppos? ing business, has it? P'raps you don't like the pie ! I s'pose you've got some fashionable notion that you don't care to associate with this pie! Well you needn't. I don't force unpleasant ac? quaintances on my wife! I believe in making home a paradise, I do ! Go forth, pie !' and he shied it through the window, glass, sash and all. 'That suit you ?' he yelled. 'Does your moral na? ture feel relieved by the absence of the pie you have been instrumental in cast? ing upon the chilled charities of an un? sympathetic world ?' *I guess that pie eau take care of it? self,' suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly. 'The next time I make one, I'll try and have it just as your mother used to.' 'You'll fetch it !' roared Mr. Spoop? endyke, stamping up and down the kitchen and slapping the flour off his coat. 'You never bad any trouble with things after I have shown you bow ! Some day I'll pour lard in your ear, and spice in your eye, and leave you in the oven to reflect on how you'd like to be cut off from intellectual social inter? course, just because you ain't half baked !' and Mr. Spoopendyke slammed the door after him, and mounted the staircase with heavy tread. 'I don't care,' murmured Mrs. Spoop? endyke, as she swept up the debris, 'I don't care. If that is the way bis moth? er made pie, 1 don't wonder it left a strong impression on his mind.' And with this charitable view of the situation, Mrs Spoopendyke sat down to the consideration bf whether she'd bet? ter make a false train to ber new black silk.-Dralces Magazine. An Orchard Fertilizer. The best fertilizer I have used for fruit trees is made of chip-dirt from the wood-pile, and old ashes. I mix in the proportion of one bushel of the ashes to three of the chip-dirt, stirring well with the shovel. About two bushels of this mixture is to be spread around each young tree, giving large, well-grown trees more. The manure is .applied at any season. Po not pile around the trees any litter or rubbish that'would harbor mice. In summer keep the weeds from around the trees.' Experi? ence has taught nie that this fertilizer serves a very important purpose, . not only in supplying the trees with suitable food, but in mellowing the soil, and helping on such crops as I may choose to plant in my orchard, lt is au excel? lent fertilizer for any crop, annual or perennial, and the ashes (from hard? wood), supply the trees with the ele? ment they most need, and the soil lacks, namely, potash. It is a pleasure to see how a young orchard will thrive after an application of this fertilizer. Sometimes I burn logs to get ashes for this purpose, and if I have no chip-dirt, I go to dead oak or hickory, and scrape together the fall? en bits of bark, and the rich earth around the tree. It is a very good sub? stitute for the chip-dirt. It is obvious that this material is rich in thc elemente of food of trees. I believe in keeping fruit trees well fed, and that a large space arouud each tree should be given exclusively to the tree from which tc* draw its supplies. I never plant close to my trees, preferring to have them branch low, and to trim down rather than up-B W. JONES tn American Agriculturist. ? - i i - . Strange Coincidences. OD last Monday while a negro was plowing with Mr. A. D. Kennedy's horse in what is known as the old Si Perry field near the depot, the horse iu passing and old well in the field stepped too near the edge of the well aud the loose dirt caved in, throwing the ani? mal into it. The horse's neck was bro? ken, by the fall, causing death in a few minutes. In the afternoon while a colored man was plowing up a field near Gen. Ken? nedy's house with Gen. Kennedy's horse drawing the plow, the horse sud? denly begau to flounder as if falling in? to a hole. He soon disappeared from sight, aud on investigation it turned out that he had fallen iu to an old well that had been covered over with some poles aud brush, lt was about twenty feet deep, The horse was killed bj the fall. It is rather a queer coincidence that two horses belongiug to two broth? ers should meet with similar and such unusual accidents on thc same day, in differeut places. The negroes who plowed the horses were also brothers - Camden Journal. Cleveland as a Masher-The Louis? ville Report. "President Cleveland has perfectly lovely eyes," remarked a Louisville so? ciety bolle yesterday, who is just back from Washington. ..Indeed7" said her listener. "Yes: and the prettiest teeth you ever saw. They glisten like pearls, and he knows how to show them, for he is always smiling in the most fasci? nating manner imaginable, liischecks are rosey ? too. and he has a bec-u-tiful dimple in his chin, to say nothing of a j superb moustache and a hand as .soft and white asa woman's. Allin all, he is a very handsome man, and just thc sort of a fellow to ke?-p the women at his feet. Ile knows his powers of fas? cination well, and is as vain as a pea- j cock. I don't mean that he is vain in ; fiie ordinary way. Just thc opposite. His vanity is of thc autocratic, digniiicd sort that is sometimes called self-respect, and it pleases rather than offends." "Is he easily impressed hy women?" "Not a bit of if. I tried him des? perately at the ball, but he wouldu't flirt at all." "Hut if he should ever come to Louisville," added I Iris most charming ' young lady, sotto voice, "we'll bring j him down."-Louiscille Commercial. ->?? ?? . mm - Mr. James Wilson, of Anderson county, caught a carp in Rock river last Wednesday. It weighed three and three-quarter pounds, and was caught ? i with a hook. 11 What Our Editors Say. A Disgrace to Columbia. News and Courier. Columbia suffers this week the unen viable distinction of being the scene of a tournament in which the gallant knights are clad in feather armer and carry their lances buckled on their heels, while the admiring public is mostly represented by "sporting men," from the- principal cities in the South. Not to put too fine a point on it, a "grand cocking main" between Geor? gia and North Carolina is being fought at the Capital of South Carolina, and no one, so far as reported, bas interfered to prevent or stop the disgraceful exhi? bition. The first match battle took place on Wednesday, and the manly sport will eontinne from day to day until Saturday night, or until the victims are exhaust? ed. There are two hundred chickens on the ground, and as that number will guarantee at least one hundred fights, it is evident that there will be plenty of sport for those who are brutal enough to enjoy it. It is likely that, as usual on such great occasions, a great deal of money will change hands between the sporting men referred to, and it is probably this feature of the sport that makes it most interesting to the majority of those en gaged in it. The more money that changes hands, therefore, the better, and in order to stimulate its transfer and to enlist the interest of a greater number of persons, the Neics and Courier earnestly recommends the mu? nicipal authorities and respectable citi? zens of Columbia, as well as the county officers of Richland County, to read and apply the law contained in Sections l,7u3 and 1,709 of the Revised Stat? utes of South Carolina, wherein ample authority is given for arresting and fin? ing heavily every person engaged in the cruel business. The Barnwell Paradox. .News and Courier. The trial of Freeman for murder at Barnwell Courthouse had an unexpected" result. There was a strong expectation that bc would be acquitted, and on the trial an effort was made to prove that he killed Clayton in self-defence. This, however, was a failure; as the prosecu? tion proved that Clayton was unarmed, and, according to our : understanding of the testimony, the accused himself could not swear positively that Clayton had a pistol. It was perfectly plain that the killing was eith er a murder or an aot of self defence. A verdict of acquittal would have been intelligible, and so would a verdict of murder. Eut the verdict of manslaughter, with a recommendation to mercy, is a paradox and contradic? tion. It bas every appearance of a mis? erable compromise between a faint de? sire on the part of tue jury to f alfil their official obligations, and a strong deter* mination to save the accused from the gallows. his something gained, to have ob? tained a conviction for manslaughter, even with a recommendation for mercy; But the thoughtful people of the State must see foe themselves that, unless the law is more rigidly enforced and law? breakers are held to a stricter account, the State will not stand still, but will go backward, and will become more law? less every y?ar. It is in order to stimulate public at? tention and to fix the mind of the. pub? lic upon the administration of justice that the Nea.? and Courier publishes so full reports of the murder trials in South Carolina. The object is to lay before the public the evidence in the cases, so that by this evidence the ver* diet can be judged. There is no pleasure or satisfaction in censuring juries, or in suggesting, that criminals who have plenty of friends and can pay large fees to law? yers have a better chance of escaping punishment than those who are friend? less and penniless. Our sole wish is to raise public opioion to the point of compelling verdicts which shall be according to the evidence, and the evi? dence alone. Confidence in the Courts and the juries will then be re-established and crime will decrease, because it will be felt that no one is too high for the arm of the law to reach or too low for the law to notice. The President and Polygamy. Wilmington Star. Mr. Cleveland has sounded a note concerning the Mormon ulcer on the body politic that ought to lead to im? portant action. Thus far polygamy is practiced in open defiance of the laws of God and mau and tn the teeth of newspaper denunciation and pub? lic opioion. It is iudeed a most sing? ular and astonishing fact that a body of people should openly defy decency and law and the powers of the Gov? ernment and with the utmost impuni? ty. The whole people of the. States are really involved iu the speedy settlement of this vexed question. As long as polygamy is tolerated and un? punished so long is there reproach and danger for the people at large Thus far nothing amounting to any? thing of real consequence bas been done to stamp out Mormon polygamy. The Republicans have had charge since the 4th of March, 1S61, and with all of the powers of the Government at their control they have left polygamy as bad if uot worse than when they fouud it. lu fact Mormonism has grown and spread, and to-day their emissaries ami propagandists are more active, confident and aggressive thau ever be? fore. Why have not the Republicans done more ? Why have they for a quarter of a century allowed this fungus growth to deepen and widen and be? come more vicious? After their great failure to cure or mitigate the curse they aro now accusing thc Democrats of a want of sympathy in the work of extirpation. This is cool, to say the least. But President Cleveland is not a man to trifle with anything he puts bis hands to. He has already given aj? blast from his bugle the echoes of j ; which are being heard in Utah. There 11 is one thing he can be relied upon to do -to execute faithfully any law that ex- I is ts or that may be enacted that bears < jpo^ the polygamous infamy. He has < io toler^uce for such a crime against ?i I Heaven and humanity, andie wilt I found faithful even aisong 'die fait?ei I Republican Presidenta. If . ?ongt?t will do'ito duty we venture ta. say- tS President Will ?clo his duty. The ?eai ocrats will sustain bim-in aft c?twt?tu t??nal measures to eradicate the ?or and punish a violation ?f Um. It eins of S?at? Newir Beonettsvflle h rflsnra^ rfg?t anead The town has a colored skating rial and two cemeteries. From September ? to Ma?ch ??inef? werelO,3?l bales of ?otto? ?o?d fr?t? wagons io Lancaster vltfage. Leading agricu?tur?s?t-from' ???f) part of the Stat? bave promisea to at? tend the meeting of the Farmera* Asso? ciation at Sumter on.the lith of Aptrf, Unknown thieves , broke into :tii house of Costeo Parker, a successful colored farmer, of Clarendon, and stole several months' supply of prov?s?ona. . William P?ndergras?, a e??ored boy thirteen years of age; of. Clarendon county, was instantly kilted- on March S by the accidental discharge j&f bwg?fl? while he was huntiifg rabbits! : Two fanners living in Abbev??f? county, near the etfg? cf the Ttotej Greek neighborhood, went up i? Ander son county last week in search of seeu* corn. Tbev succeeded in getting the great amount of three pecks. Seed*, cors that is worth planting seems to' bo' quite ?carce eierywhere; & - : ; . The publitf scnW h"c*w^ Mount Olivet Church, a few mt??s below Cam? den, was accidentally bt?r?ted on Friday March ?3. All of tEfe bo?fe, fnraita?e/ 4c, were saved. A little daughter ?ff Efr. Bock BoletrV of (/rangebrirg county, ffve yean of age; was so badly burned Wi week wh?V playing around the fireplace tfcftaW died in a few o'o?r?.. . - ... Some unknown person pclled tmt ti? brick between the pil?ara o{ jn?? ?aptisi Church in Lancaster las^^eek;wenY under the building and kindled a fin. The fire went oat without doing vaj damage;. .r \:^~?;t An Welt whiskey peddler M 0*<?*f his wagon in Uniou county, N. C., near the Lancaster, line, on March 13. ; TnV wheels of hts wagon pasieoT overh?? ?edi, killing bim iust?ntly.. ; Bis drag? on contained three - barrels of. whiskey.'' : The Orangeburg rima, and pernp* erat says: "j?jiews agent.in''. Char?es* ton, S. C., >a? sent to' yfat?i^? the I'ofoce "(^^ last week. This ts a good move??aid we hope oer-city : council will pro&fcit the circulation. of .these J?gf^t 45'Off town. - \ " ,\1 - ~ The Orangeburg, Tiim^and pernod trat s*ays: '"""**phfo? ;Sa?^ljr^^r Sfi?fvjSi woman , living about four m?le? ft%tf town, left her house one oigbUaatareck with her four children in b^- paring her absence the' house caught fire ana burned down. One ot the children* was aln?os^coo?pletel^ ^urufc |ripr while the other- three are *a[ badly burnt that they are expected tadio. - . To M? ?tew ^P^d??-T BUI Nye Turns tue Qovernmcait Over, to Mr. Cleveland. " -* The painful duty of turnTn^.oTer .to yon the ad mi nitration- of. ^he. United. States and the key.to tbe .front ' door bf the White House b as "been assi^neu to m?.T T?u 'will' find key hanging inside the storm door, ami th* eteterr? pole upstairs in the baymog of i the barn. It is .exited that jpn: witt baye such changes in your Cabinet and other furniture as yon may soe fit?. The asparagus bed, however, will a?act a little top dressing in the ?j?ing, ano* yon can do as you see fit about .put*ing pillow shams on 'th'e'p?e.pf?nt'1^.;'5??t? your attitude tovrara^^ you will of course;bav?y on r-d wu ideas, and a suggestion from me at this-.time would be entirely pot of jdace. GOT* ern the people with a firm' yet gentle' hand, and put a little rai poison down! cellar where it will do the'most good. I have - made a great many aogges*' tions to the outgoing administration rel? ative to the transfer of the Indian Ba* reaus from Department of the Interior to that of the Sweet By-and-By. Tbcf Indian, I may say, ba? been- a great, source of annoyance to me, several of their number have jumped one of mf most valuable mining claims of White river. Still I do not compJai? fJkd: This miue, however, ? am convine?d would be a good. paying property fi properly worked ; and, should you, any time wish to take the army V?'d such other http is yo?~nnrJ neetf ?ng recapture it from our re? brdt??^* t would bc glad to give you a cqutfolfei? interest zn it. , ; You will observe, on ,takinjg po^s-' sion of the administration, that the navj is a little Kt weatbor-fe^tf .?00* wormy. I would suggest that it be newly painted in the Spring. If it had been my good fortune..io, r?c??v? af majority of the so?trag?s. of. the people for the ofi?ce wbT6b Jou cfdW bbfd r should have painted \be air j re?. Still,- that need oot influence foo m the course which you may see St to adopt. , You will also find a half tp?'( ot cot! left over, and an old ai ^fli tye ,woea* shed, which a m?n fromi '?hTo" ?eft^itn* t?s to have ground. Of cedric yon do" not make a business" of r?eemt? pres? ents, but you cannot ref nee to': reeeive these as a slight testimonial ot. ?cgard; and not iu the n?tur? of ? bribe. Th?re are many affairs- of gr?all mo-" ment which 1 haye not eftutoera&d in this brief letter, because I felt some Et? tie delicacy and timidity ?oon'i appear? ing to be at all dictatorial or omcioof about a matter whertin Hie public' might charge me with interf?rence. ? hope you will receive the.foregoing in a friendly spirit, abd whatever your convictions may b? ?'fon great qnea* tions of national i Die res ti, either for eigti or domestic, that yon will not under* , take to blow out the g?s oh r??r??g; and that you will in other ways r?alis?' the fond anticipations which' are no?>' cherished on your behalf bj a mighty people, whose ?ggreg?te eye ls now ort to you. ... , B?Lt Nt*. " P. S. Iou will be a little surpriaed DO doubt, to find oo soap in the laundry dr bath rooms. It probable got in to ihk campaign in some way aud wis awoni*' 5d.