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What can a maid so lucky lack?
What can I wish that fate hold back ?
Youth will fade and beauty wanes;
Lovers, flouted, break their chains.
Health may fail and wealth may fly yon,
Pleasures cease to satisfy yon ;
Almost every thing that brings
Happiness is born with wings.
This I wish you ; This is best
Love that can endure the test,
"Love surviving youth and beauty,
Love that blends wath homely-duty ;
Love that's gentle, love that's true,
Love that's constant wish I you.
Still unsatisfied she lives,
Who for gold mere silver gives,
One more joy I wish you yet,
To give as much love as you get,
Grant yon. Heaven, this to" do,
To love bini best who best loves you.
Don't Go West, Young Man !
Even California Cannot Compare
With-Carolina.
A .Sumter correspondent of the News
and Courter, lately returned from Cali?
fornia, writes that paper as follows :
If. the dissatisfied farmers of South
Carolina could cross the Continent as
your correspondent has done, they
would be more content with their own
State on their return home. From
Western Texas to Middle California the
tourist travels over vast, wastes of arid
land, which is mostly unfit for cultiva?
tion. As far east as San Antonio,
Texas, irrigation is necessary, and even
on the vast plains of that* State, where
it is usually supposed that immense
herds of cattle graze and wax fat, your
correspondent, learned, to his surprise,
that ten acres of pasture land was neces?
sary to maintain each cow, and that,even
with that area of pasturage, the animals
had to be fattened before they would .be
St for beef.
Across the boundless deserts of
Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
and Southern California the traveller
looks from the cars upon expanses of
sterile sand or rocks, with hills in view
"on either side, "but generally without
sign of human habitation? aave only the
railroad stations af long intervals. The
.eye becomes fatigued with the vast un?
titled landscape, where no smoke arises
from any settler's- hamlet, where no
water'is seen, no cattle graie, no plow
.furrows disturb the dire monotony of
the view ; even cattle are unseen and
no tree grows. Your _correspon?*?tnrj
has ))??n in every County of ?outk/tjar
? pl ina, ao(| uowhjrerin her.lrm&i'-can jbe
r^ound such absolutely bayreir lands :as
the Southern Pacific Railroad traverses
for a thousand mileror more. In some
places water "steamed by the engines
in large tanks, because it cannot be had
ja-sufficjentquantities along the lina of
the.railroaa* to furnish th? ?ocomo?ves.
One naturally wonders how a railroad
can live where -there is so little local
freighter passenger business, and were
it not fdr the large terminal trahie and
transportation such corporations could
oct survive. Sanguine persons there
are who believe that with Artesian
wells, water can be obtained for. irriga?
tion, and that the lands -now so waste
may then become productive ; but your
correspondent is of opinion that were
such the case it would require niilliops
of people to occupy these immeasurable
.tracts where; no timber grows, and
m3Dy years of hard labor to convert this
arid plain into fertile farming lands and
homes.
California .herself, with great wealth
a Dd -a^p?rtion? of* very-jyiroductiv? soil,
does not offer inducements to the agri
! cultnrist which would justify a prudent
! mau in moving from lands which, if
less rich, are more sure, from soils
which are always watered by 'the- first
ram and the latter rain,' to a country
I where rains are always uncertain, where
the seasons are divided into the wet and
..dry, the wet season being from Septem?
ber to April and the dry from. April to
September, yet with this strange pecu?
liarity that iuinr~ often "fair*to comein
the season when they are due and ex?
pected, and sometimes put in an appear?
ance against all rules arid when least to
be looked for.
* * * * * *
Land which is arable commands very
high prices, often reaching ?300 per
acre, whilst farm labor is very dear and
seasons uncertain. Irrigation, always
expensive, is not always attainable.
Hence the successful farmer,-or ranch?
man, as he is here callee!, must be also
a capitalist, satisfied with a small return
upon hts large outlay. Some of the
wheat ranches are of immense size and
cost ; such as return an annual net in?
come.equal, to ten percent, on the value
of the property are deemed satisfactory
as investments.
How to Have Pis?i Dinners.
Seth Green says : Nearly every far?
mer raises chickens. If he is a good
manager he will have a chicken dinner
when he feels like it the year round,
and will have some left to raise him an?
other stock the next year. But if he
kills them all as soon as they are large
enough, he will go without cnicken for
the balance of. the year. The same is
true offish although you cannot see the
fish to couBt them, as you do your
chickens, yet the- fact remains that there
is a certain number of fish in each lo?
cality, and when that family of fish is
caught they are all gone. You can no
more expect to have fish dinners from
those waters thereafter, than you would
chicken dinners after the chickens are
all killed. Now let me teil you how to
manage, and you will have a fish dinner
whenever you will. Never take any
more fish than you want to use, and
perhaps, if they bite well, a mess for a
friend. Then stop fishing when you
have got enough. If you catch a small
one, take him*carefully off your hook
and put him back in the water. Don't
throw bim down in your boat and take
him ashore, for the purpose of counting
him, and throw him away. That little
fish, if put back again, would grow to
be a large one in time, and the man,
woman or child that does not put the
little .fish back is worse than a brute,
for the brute, with few exception.., will
not kill anything for fun. I want the
readers of th is article to ask themselves
whether they ever left in ? the boat any
little fish that were too small to cook ?
If you have, never do it again. Show
your manhood, too, by informing other
parties that yon may see doing it that,
in the gratification of their pride, they
are wantonly destroying the lives of lit?
tle fish. Say to them (if you do feel
too indignant.to pucker your mouth to
say it ) "Please do not do so again."
Dp not expostulate harshly, for kind
words have the greatest weight.
ton Plant.
Liberty Enlightening the
World,
This, new Wonder of the World,
which is now being loaded on the
French transport, Isere for shipment to
this country, is the largest 'statue in the
world. Some idea of its magnitude may
be obtained from the fact that forty per?
sons- found standing-room within the
head. A six-foot man standing on the
level "bf the lips only just reached the
eyebrow. While workmen were em?
ployed on* the crown of her head they
seemed to bc making a huge sugar-cal?
dron, and-they jumped with ease in and
out the-tip of the nose. Fifteen people
might sit round the flame of the torch,
which elevation can be reached by a
spiral stairway within the outstretched
arm.
The London Daily Neics, in speak?
ing of it, saysr "It is out and away the
largest statue of modern times. The
Colossus of Rhodes was nothing to it.
It could oarry the 'Bravaria' or the
'Hermann' in its arms. It towers to
the skies from the yardi -of the Rue de
Chazelles, where it has. been eight years
in construction, and the view from its
coronet sweeps clear of the six-story
houses and beyond the walls of Paris."
The weight of this stupendous statue
is 440,000 pounds, of which' 176,000
pounds are copper and the remainder
wrought-iron. It is expected to arrive
iaj?ew York about the 25th of May,
where it ^w?kj>e erected on Bedloe's
Island, this being tbe^irTOCttiOQ sdcgted
for it by Gen. W. T. Sherman, who was
appointed by the President to make th
selection. When placed in position it
will loom up 305. feet above tide water
the height of the statue being 151
feet, that of tbe pedestal 91 feet, and
foundation 52.10 feet.
This imposing statue, higher than
the enormous towers of the great^Brook
lyn Bridge or the steeple c. Trinity
Church, which is the loftiest in th
Mjty of New York,-higher, in fact
than any^of the colossal statues of an
tiquity,-by its rare artistic proportions
as well as by its stupendous dimensions
will add another to the Wonders of th
World. A word should be said of its
artistic merit. The pose, stride, and
gesture, with its classic face, are pro
uounced perfect ; the drapery is both
massive and fine, and in some parts is
as delicate and silky in effect as if
wrought with a fine chisel on the small
est?scale. -
The conception and execution of this
great work are due to the great French
sculptor, M. Bartholdi, who has devoted
eight years of his life af'I most of his
fortune to this great wor?, and whose
generous .impulses,, which must boon
scale- commensurate with this noble
workV prom ptctfhim td make such a gi ft
toibe"United Sfates. Tbe committee
in charge of the construction of the base
md pedestal for the reception of this
great work are in want of funds for its
completion, and have prepared a minia?
ture statuette, an exact counterpart of
the original, six inches in height, the
figure being made of bronze, the pedes?
tal of nickle silver, which they are now
ieli vexing to subscribers throughout the
United States for the small sum of ?1
2ach. Aside from its being a lasting
souvenir of this colossal statue, it will
Drnameat our homes and bear testimony
that we have contributed to the comple?
tion of one of the grandest works of
nodern times. All remittances should
be addressed to Richard Butler, Secre
;ary American Committee of the Statue
>f Liberty, No. 33 Mercer Street, New
Fork. The committee are also prepar?
ed to furnish a model, in same metals,
;welve inches "in height, at ?5 each, de
ivered.
We feel assured our people will be
>oly too eager to testify their grateful
sense of the friendliness of this mi
?animous offer on the part of the French
>eople, and to reciprocate the kindly
ind liberal sentiments in which it origi?
nated, by thus aiding in an active pros
icution of the labors that may be re?
quired to give the statue an appropriate
)ase and.pedestal. Now is the time to
lo it. Whoever wishes to have the
lonor and pleasure of contributing to
he erection of the grandest statue of]
my age, to say nothing of the senti
nent that should be welcomed abd en
:ouraged, must net promptly, for the
noney will be raised as sure as the sun
ises. Every subscriber sending ?1
frill be supplied with a miniature coun
erpart of this great and imperishable
itatue of
'LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING TUE WORLD."
In Old-Fashioned Chairman
President Cleveland has a way of
inducting his Cabinet meetings that is
n perfect keeping with business habits,
t is said that he frequently raps the
nembers to order when they wander too
ar from the subject under discussion,
md calls their attention to the fact tbat
hey can't afford to spend all day at a
Cabinet meeting. One day last week,
.fter the President had had occasion to
dminister a little of this sort of discip
ine, as Secretary Lamar was passing
Iowa stairs in company with a brother
Jabinet officer, the Mississippian re
?arked, with a twinkle of Bis eye.
Our committee appears to havo a chair?
man this session.' 1
Morning Lignt is Breaking."
The letter below was written to the
New York Freeman by T. McCants
Stewart, and contains items of interest
to oor readers.
Letters from tbe South are insipid if
tbey are not full of skulls and cross?
bones. I have almost decided to let
this be my last conj mnn?cation, as I
have notbiug spicy or exciting to write.
Nobody will interfere with me any?
where, on the ears or in the streets, in
the city, town or coaotry, and of coarse
I am not the" man to 'raise ? row/ On
leaving Washington, D. C., I put a
chip on my shoulder and inwardly dared
any man to knock it off. In a crowded
car, I fairly foamed at the mouth imag?
ining that the cona'actor would order
me into a seat occupied by a colored
lady so as to make room for white pas?
sengers, some of whom had to sit on
their baggage. But no imperial con?
ductor or insolent brakeman came. ?
white Virginian made for my seat.
Ah ! said I, here comes the tug of war.
To my surprise he politely asked : 'Is
this seat engaged, sir V I, with a smile
and gentle manner, said : 'No, sir; but
I have some bundles, (my overcoat lay
on them,) and it would crowd us to
share it. Of course I can't occupy two
seats, and if you insist I must make
room/ I was astonished to hear bim
say ; *Never mind, sir,' and out into
the smoking car he went.
Well, so it has been going. For the
life of me I can't 'raise a row' in these
letters. Things seem (remember I
write seem) to move along as smoothly
as in New York or Boston. Two reas?
ons may be given : Fir3t, South Caro?
lina has never fallen into the depths of
of proscription and oppression out of
which Grant lifted ' her, and secondly,
there is no political campaign on hand,
to disturb the harmony which always
prevails between the races in the South
in the absence of political effort and
strife. If you should ask me, 'Watch?
man, tell ns of the night,' and if I con?
fino myself, in making answer, to the
limited observations which I have made,
I would say, 'Tho morning light is
breaking.'
After ten years from my first coming
here, I return to Sumter, see the coun?
try from the railroad; and tako a buggy
and ride out for miles into the woods,
visiting the hats and cozy cabins.
What strikes me ? Improvement every?
where. I see better churches, better
preachers,* more intelligent worship of
God, improved homes, undiminished
thirst for becoming better teachers;
4$^eyery man seems to be baying land
frnm f?7JT i.ijH Ul .lo the plantation of :
five thousand acres. I ".have a church
in mind which ten yeafi^g0 was not
worth three hundred ?Mlaray fl*ow it
is as neat a chapel as one wants to wor?
ship in, with attractive grounds, with
sweet-toned bell and with an organ for
which they have just paid five hundred
dollars.
Scores of friends who had nothing
ten years ago, are now owning from one
to two-hundred acres. Young men
have grown up and married, and tell
me with pride not only of wife and
children, bat also of house and lot jost
paid for. I am writing in the private
room of my friend, William J. An?
drews. Fifteen years ago he started
life with a wheelbarrow, on which he
took ice cream around. Ten years ago
he did a small business in a little hired
room. To-day he is in the heart of the
town, and his cash business runs up to?
wards fro rn'twelve to fifteen thousand
dollars. Then there is my other friend
Zach Walker. Ten years ago he own?
ed simply bis home in town. Now he
bas a large imitation brick store on
Main street, which he rents to a white
clothier, and around the corner, next to
Mr. Andrews, he runs his own grocery
store. He is on the board of aldermen,
having been elected by white Demo?
cratic votes. He is, and he has always
been a radical Republican. But why
dwell ?. These are not exceptional cases.
While others may not be so high up the
ladder of success, yet they are on the
road.
Reminiscences of the Attack
on Fort Sumter.
General Ripley was in immediate
command of the guns that opened the
attack on Fort Sumter. He had his
headquarters at For.t Moultrie, and in
the sards of Sullivan Island there were
several quite formidable batteries. A
Captain James was in command at Fort
Johnston, on the other side of Sumter.
Gen. Ripley talked interestingly yes?
terday concerning some of the minor in?
cidents- of that notable day. He bad
been an officer of the regular army aod
had served in Mexico with Robert An?
derson, in command at Sumter, Sin?
gularly enough, however, General Rip?
ley, the Confederate, was a native of
Ohio, while Major Anderson, the Fed?
eral soldier, was from the slave State of
Kentucky. General Ripley had mar?
ried and bad lived for many years in
South Carolina.
"I had ordered," he said, "some
cocked hats for our uniforms, and on
the day before the attack 1 met a boy
with a box in his band running towards
Fori Moultrie. 'Whcrc'll I find Gen?
eral Ripley V he asked me. 'Aod
what do you want of him?' said I.
'Why,' said the breathless youngster, *I
beard they were to start fiting on Fort
Sumter, and I must get that bat to him
before they start in.' Ile thought, the
attack could not be made unless I was
io full regalia. Well, as it happened, I
was awakened an hour or two before the
first shot was actually fired by a false
alarm .that the signal to be<;iu hostili?
ties bad been ?riven aod ? rushed oat in
i
my nigh: clothes and caught up that ,
bat on the way. That was all my ?
uniform-a cocked hat and a night i
gown. I had time to dress, however,
before the signal came, lt was to be a
rocket from Beauregard's headquarters,
near Charleston. The rocket flashed at '
ibout 4 30 in the morniog. My signal ?
:o the batteries on Sullivan's Island was ?
Lbrec lanterns hoisted on a staff in Fort
Moultrie. We were all ready and al
wost beforo the rocket showed ia the .
lark background of sky tho lanterns i
went up. Yes, I felt the gravity of ,
;he moment. 'That begins the war,' I -
said to myself. 'What will be the end
?
"The first shot was from an eight- ?
inch cannon close by my station in the
fort. It struck fairly tbe masonry of
Sumter. A moment later and all the
batteries on the rstand opened, and at
the instant we saw the Sash of the guns
of Fort Johnston. The greatest war in
history had began.
"Major Anderson paid little attention
to us for the first half hour. He con?
centrated his fire on Fort Johnston.
That gave me time to get "my aim accu?
rate, and from that we had it hot and
heavy. Finally my batterios set fire to
the barracks, and it was only until we
smoked him out thal Anderson gave in.
The black and dense column of smoke
mounted at least a hundred feet in the
air. We got down two or three fire
companies from Charleston to put out
the .fire before the formalities of surren?
der were gone.through with.
Louis Biel.
Louis Riel, the instigator of the pres?
ent rebellion of the Indians and half
breeds of Manitoba against the Cana?
dian Government, is a man who has
had a remarkable career. He was born
in Manitoba, in 1844-all that portion
of British America being then under
the regime of the Hudson Bay Compa?
ny. He is of French ancestry," but has
some Indian blood in his veins. He is
well educated, bold, and insinuating in
his manners, in fact just the man to
place himself at the head of the French
half breeds when they resolve to resist
the intrusion of the Canadian people
when their government purchased the
territorial rights from the Hudson Bay
Company in 1869. It was thought by
many that some of that company's offi?
cials were inciters of the revolt, owing
to their discontent at a new Govern?
ment being set up where they had so
long held undisputed sway. However
that, may have been, Biel commanded
the half breeds and took possession of
Fort Garry. He established a provin?
cial government, seized all the property
at the Fort, the value of which amount?
ed to hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and when a number of loyal civilians
attempted to resist him, they were put
down and one of their number was shot.
When Colonel Wolseley now General
Lord Wolseley, and the Canadian mili?
tia, 1,000 strong, appeared in front of
Fort Garry, Riel fled and the provincial
government was dissolved. . At that
time some concessions were made to the
half-breeds of Manitoba-each of them
getting 240 acres of land. . This was
satisfactory to the insurrectionists. Thc
present outbreak is owing to the fact that
the half-breeds of the remaining por?
tion of the Northwest were not similarly
treated. What Riel now wants is to
get fdr the other half-breeds what the
insurrection of 1869 got for the people
of Fort Garry. The outbreak of 1885
i fi fill^?flifefe to *?e Poa"Di?D Govern
ment, as it is cIaTm^hat tb.eJ
of the trouble brewinpS2*^asthe
fall of 1884, but took no^fcffl??Pl40 ?
settle the claims of the Indians.
T?e Joke of Idle Soldiers.
We were lying in winter quarters,
and had days and days of nothing to
do. I did not play cards, but my tent
mate did. He also had three special
friends who played, and their meeting
place was in my tent. There they met
day after day-in the morning, in the
afternoon, and in the evening until late
at night. Our tent was built for per?
manent quarters. In one end we made
a door eighteen inches wide by three
feet high. On the opposite side was a
fireplace built outside of small sticks,
like stonework, and covered inside with
clay mortar.
The boys, as usual, were at their
cards. I took a friend into my counsels,
and we procured a shell which had
blown the load out without bursting.
We fastened into this shell a long fuse.
I then told my friend to go away sev?
eral rods to an empty dry goods box,
and strike upon it so as to make it sound
like the booming of a distant cannon.
"Hark!" said one, "dyou hear that ?
That's from Lee's battery on the left.
We may have other business than card
playing by daylight."
Just theu "boom I" went the old dry
goods box, and instantly I dropped the
shell, with the burning fuse, down the
chimney. The shell fell upon the fire
and rolled under the bunk on which the
boys were sitting. "Tch-tch-tch-:**
went the buming fuse. The boys
thought it a message direct from Lee's
battery. Two tried to jump through
the door at the same time, and blocked
up the narrow door so that neither was
able to get out. A full evacuation of
the tent was finally effected and a re?
treat made-not, however, in good or?
der. No one was killed, but the boys
waited behind distant trees for more
than thirty mortal minutes momenta?
rily expecting to see the tent blown to
atoms. After awhile these heroes came
together, and in the council of war they
held on thc field of fright it was decided
that they had been the victims of fraud.
But there was no more card playiog :n
my teat.- Welhloro Agitator.
Fast Time.
For some time past the time between
Charleston and Columbia has been four
hours by the two competiog lines-the
Atlantic Coast Line and the South Car?
olina Railroad. About ton days sinco
the Scfath Carolina Railroad changed
their schedule, making the run in three
hours and fifty-five minutes; and on
Monday the Atlantic Coast Line short?
ened its schedule, making the run in
[bree hours and fifty-three minutes,
At once the signs of a test of speed were
apparent, and, without notice to its
?ompetitor, the ?South Carolina Railroad
schedule was agaiu shortened, and on 1
Tuesday they caine in in fine style, hav?
ing made the run of 130 miles in three 1
[lours and forty-nine minutes. But thc
aver wide-awake Atlantic Coast Liue, ]
aaving accidentally learned of its com- :
petitor's change, shortened its schedule 1
ind made the run from Charleston, be- ;
ing 137 miles by this route, in three 1
hours and forty-three minutes, lt is :
rumored that tho South Carolina Rail- (
road now proposes to shorten their time
o three hours and A half, while the At?
lantic Coast Line say to the public
"they'll be thar too!"-Fairfield News
ind Herald.
It is* difficult now to tull when the
jfeat Russian"war is to KomarofT. J !
What Our Editors Say.
Political Appointments.
Greenville News.
"In the collector&bip of the port of
Charleston we have another illustration
of personal feeling. Here the wishes of
the people appear likely to be contra?
vened by the personal dislike of Senator
Butler to Legare J. Walker, ? most ca?
pable man and exemplary citizen, who
is lafgely endorsed for the position by
the business men .of Chasleston, and
whose petttiou represents nine-tenths of
the export business of the port. Cap?
tain Walker's friends becarae so pro?
voked at the coarse of Senator Butler
that they adopted the dernier resort of
calling upon Senator Hampton to see to
it that the people's wishes were not frus?
trated by his brother Senator's unseem?
ly course. We understand that Senator
Butler is so determined in his opposition
to Captain Walker's appointment that
be stated that Walker would never be
collector of the port of Charleston except
over his (Butler's) political corpse."
Columbia Register.
Well, Senator Butler is not more
than twenty feet high (politically) and
don't weigh more thau a ton (politi?
cally.) Suppose the people adopt the
notion to stretch bim out and let Cap?
tain Walker do the walking over. It
wouldn't be hard to do, would it?
But by the Registers reasoning in thc
case of Edgefield County vi. Thomp
son, Governor, the choice of the people
has nothing to do with it. Where pow?
er lies there responsibility rests, we are
told, and the executive has only to con?
sult the senators and go ahead. The
law puts the power in the President's
hands. Why should be respect the
judgment of the people ?
In a popular vote in this State Capt
Walker would beat every competitor ten
to one, just as Williams -would have,
according to allegations, beaten Durisoe
in Edgefield. But we have been taught
by the Register that the people are gen?
erally incompetent to select their local
officers notwithstanding they are consid?
ered competent to choose the g?nerai
officers who appoint the local ones.
If it it can be established that per?
sonal dislikes influenced the selection of
a collector by our congressional delega?
tion the people should 'demand- that the
judgment be reversed. . And if it i's re?
versed ia one case, it shonld be ia all.
Williamsburg Record.
This town needs a dog-killer. Mr.
Naen used to have the reputation of
being an adept at this business, but
-since bis removal to Florida a dead dog
is as great a sight as a useful one wo?ld
be now. These useless'pest's are eating
all the young poultry in town, some
persons having as manyas fifteen or
twenty destroyed in one nig*
out for dogs.
?lood.
Sun: .
The Spectator of London makes this
very true remark at the beginning of an
article in which it tries to analyze and
explain the absorbing interest war has
for mankind :
"It must, we fear, be admitted that,
except with a very few men upon whom
the feminine side of Christianity-the
side which preaches resignation-has
taken a strong bold, Qr who realize with
painful thoroughness the horrors insepa?
rable from battle, war, as such, has for
cultivated mankind a distinct intellectual
charm."
But it is not so much an. intellectual
charm as an animal excitement, the sav?
age human passion for watching a fight.
Even men who take only a languid in?
terest in the most important of ordinary
events feel their pulses quicken at the
prospect of a gigantic struggle between
the armies of two great powers.
We do not doubt that millions of peo?
ple throughout Christendom, humane
and tender-hearted people, read with
keen disappointment the other day the
news that Mr. Gladstone was likely to
succeed in bis purpose of avoiding war
at almost any cost. Their appetites
bad been whetted for the conflict; they had
instinctively taken sides with one or the
other party, and were impatiently wait?
ing for the first hostile gun to be fired.
They had read with pleasurable excite?
ment even the reports that the Russians
were building great miliary hospitals
near the expected seat of war, for that
seo ned to them to indicate pretty surely
fch.? the bloody business was about to
begin.
When, therefore, they were told that
the trouble was likely to be settled io
the council chamber, and not by ?bot
and shell, so far were they from rejoic?
ing at the prospect of a peaceful result,
they felt as if they had been cheated
out of one of the greatest pleasures of
life, and had lost a gratification to which
they were entitled. It is true that very
many business men and speculators in
neutral countries were disappointed be?
cause they had looked forward to get?
ting material profit out of the expected
war, but in general the public longed
for war in their secret hearts simply
from sheer love of watching a contest
of tremendous proportions, and which
might eventually inflame all Europe.
They merely displayed the instincts
of the natural man, and they are in?
stincts which refinement, cultivation,
and even the influences of ChristianTry
have never been able to conquer. War
violates the principles of religion, turns
men into wholesale butchers, and jet
the Christian world is as enamored of
slaughter, as eager to hear of bloody
battles, as the Greeks and Romans were
in the days of Alexander and Caesar.
If thc passion has yielded to anything,
it has not been to the loving teachings
of Christ, but to thc hard and selfish j '
laws of trade conducted in a spirit which
does violence to thc Goulcn Rule.
Would there not be at least a secret
rejoicing in the hearts of the vast major?
ity of American Christians if to-morrow
the Sun should announce that Mr. Glad?
stone's concessions had proved unavail?
ing and that thc English and Russian
armies were actually marching to speedy
con?ict ?
The Columbia Trouble.
Abbeville Medium.
lt appears that the people favor Mr
Leaphart for the place and Senator j f
Hampton proposes to have Wade Hamp- ? (
tou Gibbes, a relative of bis, put in the j ?
place although he DOW bolds the respbur : \
s?ble and lucrative office ot" Treasurer ot
Richland county; : -
. Leaphart has held a subordinate place
in the office for years with capability
and to the entire satisfaetton-'of the peo?
ple. He has discharged ?ll his duties
and, as we understand, accepted the
place under Wilder at the earnest solic?
itations of the very best people of the-i
city. Be is certaioly endorsed by them
BOW and by all means should he promo- j
ted. Fair play can admit of no other '
course. He is up in years and has
spent the best part of his life in tbe
place, rendering faithful service to the
people. Gibbes has an office which, will
give bim a comfortable support and he
should not desire to oust Leaphart.
Let him bold his present pnsitition and
give Leaphart some acknowledgement
of his long and faithful services.
The War News.
. Lancaster Ledger.
It is gratifying intelligence to the
Southern planter that the threatened
war in Europe is about to be settled by
arbitration. The prospect of a peaceful !
settlement of the questions at issue be- '
tween Engfand and Russia'bas already
bad a tendency to bring down bread
stuffs and raise the price of futures in
cotton. A war in Europe at this time
would be severely disastrous to the
planters of the South, having already
experienced two short crops of their
main staple, they cannot brave another
year of misfortune. With the smiles of
a kind Providence upon us this year we
may be able to meet just obligations,
otherwise, a total wreck will necessa?
rily follow almost every industry. We
hope for the best. Let us work with a
will.
How Barrios FelL
The widow of the dead dictator,
Barrios, arrived in San Francisco last
Saturday, with a number of friends
and her servants, on the way to New
York, in which city she will make
her permanent home.
Their storied of the disaster all
agree on the following .points: The
village ofChalchuapa, between sixty
and eighty leagues from Guatemala,
was strongly entrenched by 5,000
San Salvadorans. Barrios, leaving
his main array of 8,000 in the rear
commenced an attack whb artillery
on the afternoon of April 1, but
darkness fell before any advance of
infantry had been made. The assault
was continued at daybreak of April 2,
and with a picked body of 800 Gua?
temalans the first trenches were
taken by 9 o'clock. The victory was
a bloody one, nowever^3UWll?tti^
^9^^^?S^5heh Bar
rios^^aftfrVan informal council of
wffi^eaped on his horse, drew his
sword and cheered on bis-men.
There was a gallant charge past the
first in trench ment and the second was
taken with a rush. A strike was
made up a wooded elope for the third,
when from the trees above a volley
blazed out and the attacking troops
were cut down like grass. When
the smoke lifted Barrios was seen
sitting on bis horse almost alone.
Two of the few left unharmed were
a bugler and Dr. Fitch, the Presi
dent's chief.of staff, who related the
story to a corespondent: Barrios
waved his sword, and at that instant
there came a single sharp report from
a tree well up to the right, and Bar?
rios, screaming, fell head long from
his horse. As he fell he threw up
his hands, and blood gushed from his
month and nostrils. The sharpshoot?
er's rifle bullet had entered his right
shoulder and traversed his body,
cutting thc aorta in its diagonal pas?
sage. After the scream and fall
Barrios made no other movement or
sound. The Dictator was dead.
His adopted son, Gen. Venancio
Barrios, and his son-in-law, Urniano
Sacho, rushed to where the dead
man lay. Again the trees blazed cut
and two men fel? across the body of
the President. Almost before they
touched it others ran forward to se?
cure the body, but it was not until
fully a score of Guatemalans had
fallen by the bullets of the invisible
enemy that the corpse was removed.
Then firing ceased, and both armies
retired. The total loss on both sides
viras about 500, of which 400 were
Guatemalans. The news of Barrios'
death was received by his widow on
April 3. The body followed on April 6
and was buried on April 8, Mrs.
Barrios leaving the day before the
funeral. Her departure indeed was
something of the nature of a flight,
and everything in their behaviour and
surroundings show haste and lack of
preparation. She, her family and re?
tinue will leave on Monday, so that
New York will probably see them in?
stalled in their Fifth Avenue mansion
by May 1.
Silencing a Rooster.
An amusing story is told of Dr. Cy?
rus Edson, of the health board, which
has as yet never appeared in priut. It
was during his service as an undergrad?
uate, and before his father, ex-Mayor.
Edson, bad been raised to the chief
office io the municipality that the epi- j t
sodo referred to occurred. The family I j
resided at the time at Fordham Heights, j ,
and to a certain extent enjoyed the ad- ? ?
vantages of rural living. That is, they
would have enjoyed it had it not beeu
for the pride of the barnyard of^a near
neighbor. This rooster bad the ill- ?
manners and bad grace to disturb thc j r
iratutinnl slumbers of the Edson family
;very day. With the first streak of j
lawn he would hop down from his perch : a
>n an old sonp-box and crow uutil the Ja
pery hills revcrbratcd the sound. Dr. j C
Edson and other members of the family ! c
?xpeuded lung-power, old bouts, soap- j 1;
lishes, and other pieces of portable j h
bedroom furniture in their efforts to ii
iilenee thc feathered fiend until they g
cvere well nigh exhausted. Then Mayer b
Edson tried to buy the precious bird, j ]\
Dut thc neighborly neighbor would not ! g
joli him. Finally thc young disciple | s
)f ?Esculapios determined that through ; \\
lim should the family find peace. Ac- j s
jordingly one morning he arose just be- j
ore daybreak, and gliding cautiously |
lown into his neighbor's back-yard, bc ? p
iuccecded, by the blandishments of j
ruice and the liSerai U6e of sweet corn, 'l d
IB gett?og ms Hands on the rooster/
This done the rest was essy. Taking
his dissecting ease from bis pocket, ber:
selected a keen-edged . scalpel ; and
tweezers, and holding thc bird between
bis knees, ?ought the animaFs -throat.-1
Taking up' the vocal cords with the*
tweezers, it-was but -the werk: of au
instant to sever them and let thc roos?
ter go. . . J
That day and ever after the sleep of
tlie Edsdn's were undisturbed: Yoang
Cyrus, however, lost moFe rest than for?
merly. He could not resist the temp
tation every morning thereafter of get-'
ting up and- watching th?- disabled biraV
as it fiew from its . perch-to the tor/ cf
the fence, and flapping its wrings, tried'
to crow. For him it was- better than a
circus.-New York Mail ana Express.
Knights- of Honor;
-. . ...i
The Supreme Secretary in his report
to the meeting of the Supremo Lodge
at St. Louts last week shows* that there
were on the first day of January of this
year 2,500 working lodges in the count
try, with a total membership ofl28,848?
Since then twenty-five new lodges .have
been added, and there bas been a net
gain of 2,260 members, making a
present membership of 131,180. -I>ur>
ing the year 1884 twenty assessment^
were called, which yielded an aggre-^
gate amount of $2,709,551, and the
number of deaths was 1,409, The
Supreme Treasurer presented a financial
statement, which shows since the las?
annual meeting there bas been received
?2,409.696, and the disbursements
have been $2,264,120, leaving a bal*
ance in the widows* and orphans' ben-r?
efit fund of ?145,575. Thc general^
fund report shows receipts q??r&$3t'
expenditures ?14,573, and abalance
to the credit of this fund of. $22,006.
A Woman Thrashes a Sheriff.
? widow named Lynn of Washington
Township, Fayette County, Penn., har*
lng failed to keep up the payment of
installments on an organ which she was
buying, the sheriff proceeded to put up
a notice on her.house that he would.sell
the organ on a certain day to meet the debt.
He was interrupted, by Che widow, who
ran Out of the house armed with a horse
whip and severely cowhided bim.. The
Sheriff shouted for .help, appealed for.
mercy, and uttered, epithets which would
have been quite out of plaee at a prayer
meeting. . This was hot enough thoughr
for young Master Lynn, seeing the
Sheriff helpless and submissive,-rushed
in C^proved himself a valuable ally tor
h^nig|j^jr-f^^m^
last the wide wand S?r son stopped to
t?ke breath and the Sheriff took a run;
He did not stop till he was out of sight
of the muscular widow, and ic the su?
burbs of Fayette City. ..-.
A Southern farmer who has been
travelling through Ohio was surprised
to note the- absence of tumble down
stables, barns and fences. The farm
houses looked like town or city dwel?
lings, with nice yards, -flower gardensr
evergreen- hedges, shade trees and car?
pets of grass. The traveler saw several
reasons for this difference. In the
South the farms are too large. A poor
man will occupy four hundred acres of
land and perhaps owe for one half. He/
tries to cultivate too much and neglects
all. In Ohio the farms are small..
Thirty, fifty or one hundred acres make
a good farm. A man on thirty acres
makes a good living for -himself and
wife and lives in a style of comfort and
ease that the poor class of farmers in
the South know nothing about. When
the Southern farmer finds out that fifty,
acres well kept will yield more annual
income than 200 acres cultivated in a
slack way he will at once begin to bet?
ter his condition. Most of our unsucv
cessful farming is due to the fact that
we try to utilize too much land.
A Deficiency.
It bas been a frequent boast of Mr..
Clews that he is a self-made man. W.
R. Travers heard him on one occasion,
ind immediately dropped into a sort of
reverie with his eyes fixed on Mr. Clews*
bald pate.
.Well,, what'3 the. matter, Travers?*
Clews asked, somewhat impatiently.
.H-Henry,' Travers inquired, .'d-1
didn't you s-s-say you were a self-made
m-mao Y
'Certainly; I made myself/ Clews'
replied, warmly. .
.Then when you were about it, why
l-didn*t you p-put m-more h-h-hair onj
Me t-top of your h-head V-Neic York
Times.
The Wise Juryman. .
A juryman who had assisted in reach
ins a wise conclusion in several cases of
importance was complimented by. the.
lawyers on his wisdom, and he replied;
'lleally,. I deserve co praise for whafc
jfou mention, for I was sound asleep du?
ring your arguments.'
Moral : The less lawyers the wiser
:he verdiot.-Free J'ress. -
Dr. Bio Lewis is quoted as sayings
hat some years ago he laid some 1,000
eet of paper pipe two inches in diame.-.
;er, to convey water from a spring to his
jouse and bara in the country. It has-;
lever leaked, and has never imparted
my perceptible tr *e .to thc water,
fhis pipe is made of strong paper
.pound into pipe form and thoroughly
oaked tn tar.. It becomes so hard and.
?trong that it will bear a pressure al?
most equal to iron.
Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, got into
. tremendous rage last week and said
ll kind of ugly things about Mr.
)levelaud and the ? administration gea-,
rally. Sena?or Eustis did not have as,
arge a share of patronage given bim as .
e thought he deserved and hence the .
locator's wrath. The newspapers ara
:uyicg him mercilessly fur this out-,
urst, aod if Mr. Eustis bad remained,
a this country, (we believe he has.
one to Eurone.) ho would doubtless,
oon find out that President Cleveland;
ras not the only person who did not
t?nd.in awe of his presence.
_ i ai II ? ai- -? .j
How full or how empty, our lives de
end, we may say, on Providence^,
luppose we say, more or less, iuiprovi
encc.-Boxet.