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tM S?MTKR WATCHMAN, Esttbttalmd April, 1S?0.
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Consolidated Au?. 2, 1881.1
SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1886.
THE TRUE S??TSROX, ?stabi?sfc'ea Jane, 1868
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TAX NOTICE.
TIB TREASURER OF SUMTER COUN?
TY gives notice that his books will be
i open from the FIFTEENTH DAY OF OCTO?
BER, 1886, to the FIFTEENTH t>AY OF
DECEMBER.. 1886, for tbe collection of
Taxes for the Fiscal year commencing No?
vember 1st, 188?, in Sumter Coon ty,
The following are the rates per centum of
the levy:
2. For State purposes-fire and one-fourth
mills OB every dollar of the value of all taxa?
ble property.
2. For Co?Biy purposes-three mills on
?very dollar of such value, of which the pro?
ceeds of two and one-half mills are to be ap?
plied to ordinary County expenses, and of
onefourth of a mill to paying the deficiencies
of the fiscal year ending October 31, 1885,
and of one-fourth of a mill to the payment of
^-^hCrcbst of opening and constructing a public
highway from Privateer Township across
Tocotaiigo Swamp to Concord Township.
3. For support of publieschoola-two mills
on every dollar of such value.
4. One dollar on each taxable poll, (to wit
_ between the ages of 21 and 60 years.)
"The Treasurer will in person or by deputy
attend at the following places and times for
? the collection of the said taxes:
Stateburg, Tuesday, November 2.
H. Sanders' former office in Rafting Creek
Township, Wednesday, November 3.
Smithville, Thursday, November 4.
Scarborough's Store, near Tirzah Church,
: Friday, November 5.
Privateer, Saturday, November 6.
Mayesville, Monday, November 8.
Reid's Mill, Tuesday, November 9.
Lynchburg, in Lynchburg Township,
Wednesday, November IO.
Shiloh, Thursday? November ll.
Lewis Chapel, Friday, November 12.
Kechanicsvi?le, Monday, November 15.
Bishopville, Tuesday, November 16.
Maouville, Wednesday, November 17.
Manchester, Friday, November 19.
Wedgefield, Saturday, November 20.
And on the other days, from October 15th to
December 15th, at his office at the County
seat. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH,
Sept. 28. Treasurer of Snmtpr Ho.
COTTON GINNING
AT $1.50 PER BALE.
IAM NOW PREPARED TO GIN COT
ton with despatch at my Gin near town
for $1.50 per bale.
Patronage solicited and satisfaction guar?
anteed. W.ERVIN BR?NSON.
Sept. 14._
SIN INSURANCE,
. A WHITE & SOU? are prepared to
Xxt take Insurance Risks on Gins and
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COTTON BUYERS,
Are paying very highest Market
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Farmers will do well to see them before
telling. Office over B. J. BABNXTT'S Store.
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The following Second-hand Machinery, in
good repair:
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ESTABLISH EU 185?.
FURNITURE DEALER
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S. C.
WOULD THANK HIS FRIENDS and
the public generally for their liberal
patronage in the past, and hopes by law prices
and fair dealing to merit a continuance of the
same.
He bas received already a large and varied
,assortment of HOUSEHOLD
Furniture
for the Fall Trade, to which weekly additions
are being made, and there can be found
IN HIS WELL STOCKED ROOMS as great
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' He bas bought bis goods DrRECT FROM
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trade.
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Call at bis store and be convinced by a per?
sonal examination of goods end prices that
these assertions are true. He takes pleasure
ia showing customers^ aron nd.
THE UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT,
Is complete with a large number of styles of
Coffins and Caskets, from the smallest to the
largest sizes made, and at au- reasonable prices
as the same can be bought anywhere:
Calls promptly attended; to, day or night.
X D. CRAIG.
Oct 5 _^_
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/V matched; aadt weil broken oxen and a
log cart. iL R. THOMAS.
OUR STANDARD BEARERS?
State Ticket.
For Governor.
JOHN PETER RICHARDSON of Clarendoa
For Lieutenant Governor.
WILLIAM L. MA?LD?N of Greenville.
For Secretary ?f State.
W. Z. LEITNER of Kershaw.
For Comptroller General.
W. E. STONEY of Berkeler.
For Treasurer.
T. S. BAMBERG of Barnwell.
For Attorney General.
JOSEPH H. EARLE of Sumter.
For Superintendent of Education.
JAMES H. RICE of Abbeville.
For Adjutant and Inspector Generat.
M. L. BONHAM, of Abbeville.
For Congressman, Seventh District.
WILLIAM ELLIOTT, of Beaufort.
County Ticket.
For Senator.
MARION MOISE.
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W. O. CA?N, H. F. WILSON,
H. G. SHAW, A. MOSES.
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W. R. DELGAR.
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J. M. ROSS, T. J. BAKER.
J. O. DURANT.
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tOVE'S LARCENY.
As Cupid, on a Summer's day,
In idle sport was flitting
from place to place, be chanced to Stray
Near where my love was sitting.
"Nowr here's a face," Dan Cupid cried,
"To shake my filial duty.
Vor Mother Venus founds her pf id?
On far inferior beauty.
"1*1! paint a picture ere I go,
Of these enchanting features,
And thus admiring gods shalt know
The loveliest of their creatures !"
From out his quiver theu he drew
His palette and his brushes ;
Then from his rose-leaf stole the hue
To paint my lady's blushes.
To catch the color of ber eyes
Hebesitated whether
To rob the violet or the skies,
Or blend their tiats together.
That problem solved,, another vexed
His mind, and set bim racking
Bis feather brains, for sore perplexed,
He found bis canvass lacking.
Impatient to display his art
(Bis subject well excused it,)
The roguish god purloined my heart
And as a canvas used it.
-A. W. Gundry, in Life.
mum
A Change of Heart.
The school-directors of district
No. 19, Perry Township were hold?
ing a meetiug.
Nobody would have thought ft.
The chairman was leaning against
bis front-gate with his checked shirt?
sleeves turned back and an axe in bis
hand, surveying the other two mem?
bers of the board, who stood outside
the fence.
It was a meeting, nevertheless j
and its object was nothing less im?
portant than the selection of a teach?
er for the fall term.
'Lyman Doty spoke to me about
having the school/ 6aid the chair?
man dubiously.
'Lyman ?oty !' echoed Steve
Tenny, a stalwart young fellow, with
thick brown hair, white teeth and a
square chin, to make up for his lack
of downright goods looks. 'Why
Lyme Doty couldn't teach a baby.
He quit school before I did, long
enough, and he hasn't studied any?
thing but potatoes and winter wheat
since, that I know of. Better stick
to his farm-eb, Larkin V
'Guess you're right/ responded
the third member of the board, a lit?
tle man with a cheerful face and a
tuft of gray bair sticking straight
out from the chin.
And the chairman nodded his
agreement.
'Well/ continued little Mr. Larkin
with an air of importance, Tve bad
au application that I guess will
suit. It's a spit of relative of my
wife's and justis nice a girl as ever
was. Smart, too She got a certifi?
cate for two years, last examination.
She'd make a splendid teacher, Molly
Sanborn would/
'Sanborn !' 6aid Steve Tenney,
sharply, 'Any connection of the
Sanborns over on the river V
'That's where she's from/ said
Mr. Larkin. She's old John San?
born's giri-him that died last win?
ter/
. Steve frowned.
'You won't put her into that school
then, with my cousent V he said, de?
terminedly.
'WhatT said Mr. Larkin, with a
gasp, while the chairman stared.
' What would yoi* think,' the young
man responded, 'if a man sold you
fifty head of sheep, at a good price,
and halt of them died off in the next
week, of a disease he must have known
beforehand V That was the trick
John Sanborn served me. And he
laughed ia my face when I wanted my
money back. No sir ? I can't con?
scientiously consent to putting any of
the San born s in that school. Bad lot
in my opinion V
Mr. Larkin's small, bright eyes
snapped.
'Old Sanborn wasn't any too
straight, and everybody knows it/
he admitted. 'But what's that got
to do with Molly is more than I can
see. She's as fi?e a girl as you ever
set eyes on ; not a bit of her father
about her/
'WeW, well, fight it out between
you,' said the chairman good natur?
edly, and returned to bis wood-chop?
ping.
The tall young man and the little
old one walked on up the street to?
gether, talking briskly.
Mr. Larkin was t.ot and indignant ;
Steve was cool and immovable.
'There don't seem to be any mercy
in you/ said the former, almost tear?
fully, as Steve was preparing to turn
. in at his gate. *lt they'd been left
.well off, it would be different, bat
! tliey're poor as poverty, and Hotly
needs the place the worst way/
'You hadn't mentioned that/ said
llie young man, taming back. 'If
that's the case-'
Mr. Larkin walked away triumph
ant five minutes later.
But Steve Tenney had surrendered
. with a bad grace.
'I couldn't hold ont after t?rat, you
6ce,' he said to Ins mother, relating
?the story over their tea 'r 'but I don't :
?approve of it. There's not much
good in the Sanborns, or I lose my
. guess V 1
Sclioor began two weeks later,
: when thc first cool wave was depop^ ?
' elating front porches and increasing
the attraction of kitchen stoves.
Steve Tenny held to his opinion ;
concerning the new teacher and :
acted accordingly.
Jle did not call at the scftoo^howe j
the first day, as was Ivis custom-, to
leave the register and see if anything
was wanted-the chairman having ;
: turned these duties over to h-is :
younger coi league.
'} le sent the register by a boy, and ;
was utterly indifferent as to whether ;
any thing was wanting. Mc turned
the subject when the new teacher was
?mentioned; and he avoided Mir. Lar?
kin's comfortable home, where the
. teacher boarded.
? r3he little man made him a cadi,
; however, a month or 60 after school
?had begun.
'Gkuess you'll have to own up to
being in the wrong, Steve/ he began
' We hain't had a teacher for years
that's given the satisfaction Molly
does. The children, just rave about
Uer-all of 'ern/
But Steve was unimpressed.
'My opinion has yet to be altered
he said, rather stilly.
And Mr. Larkin looked discourag
ed.
She spoke about needing a ne)
broom and water-pail/ he said, as h
rose? 'I told her she'd better com
to you about it.'
'That school-house had a new broot
last term, and a water-pail terr
before last !' said the young directoi
emphatically.
Ana Mr. Larkin took a discomfite<
leave.
The next Sunday evening, th
young man, sitting in a pew of th
small wooden church with his mother
and allowing his eyes to rove abott
during the rather long sermon, sud
denly discovered a new face, and sa
studying it for the remainder of tb
evening.
It was that of a young girl-not i
remarkably pretty girl, but fair, an<
fresh, and innocent, with a bright in
telirgence in the dark eyes and i
sweetness in the full lips.
'Who is she V was his first ques
tion, after the services were conclud
ed, addressed as it happened, to little
Mr. Larkin, who had come in late.
'That?' the latter repeated, ir
astonishment. 'Why, that's oui
teacher-that's Molly Sanborn
That's my wife she's with, don't
you see ? I am waiting to take 'em
home.'
Steve Tenney found himself wish?
ing quite frequently after that thal
the new teacher would eome to him
about the broom and water-pail.
Not that he should furnish them ii
he should find that they were not
needed ; but he felt that he should
not object to an interview with the
teacher.
He even mentioned the subject to
Mr. Larkin, carelessly, when he met
bim one day.
' Well, you see,' was the response,
'she sort of hates to eome to you.
The way you felt about her having the
school has got all around town, and I
s'pose she's heard of it. She can't
help what her father was, Molly can't
and she's real sensitive/
The young man looked disturbed.
That afternoon he left his work at
an early hour-not, however, admit?
ting to himself his purpose in doing
so-and strolled down the street,
turning off-but be persuaded himself
that it was not intentional-in the di?
rection of Ibe school house.
'I might as well go in and see
about that broom and water pail,' he
said to himself, when 1^ stood oppo?
site the little bare-looking building.
And he went accordingly.
The little teacher looked consider?
ably startled when she opened the
door to him. She dropped the spell?
ing book she held, and her voice was
hardly steady as she expressed her
gratification at seeing him.
Evidently, Steve reflected, some
idiot had pointed him out to her at
Church the other evening. He sat
down in a front seat, feeling unpleas?
antly ogreish.
She was bearing the last spelling
class. How pretty she looked, stand?
ing there in her dark-blue calico dress
and white apron 1 What a sweet
voice she had ! though potting out
'hen, men, pen/ to a long line of
fidgetiug youngsters could hardly
show it to the best advantage.
Wheu the class was dismissed, and
the last small student had rushed,
whooping, down the street, the teach?
er and the young director stood look?
ing at each other with some awkard
ness.
'I thought I'd come m/ said Steve
at last, apologetically, 'and see if any?
thing was needing/
He did not mention the fact of hi?
being some six weeks late in the per?
formance of this duty.
The girl dropped her eyes timidly.
'I-don't think so,' she murmured.
'What a brute she must think me !'
Steve rejected, with some self-dis?
gust.
Ile turned carelessly to the corner
where the broom stood.
'Isn't this pretty far gone V he said,
with a conscience-stricken glance at
its stubby end.
And thc little teacher nodded.
'Your water pail seems to leak/ the
director went on, indicating the empty
bucket and the wet floor.
'Yes/ the girl assented.
'I'll see that you have new ones/
Steve concluded.
And he was rewarded by a grateful
glance from tl>e teacher's soft eyes as
alie took her lvat from its nail.
He took her lunch basket from her
hand as they started away together }
and having taken* it, cotdctbaffdly sur?
render it short of Mr. Larkin's gate.
Ile was a little reluctant to surren?
der it even then. For their first awk?
wardness had quite worn off; their
walk had been far from unpleasant ;.
and they were feeling very welt ac?
quainted.
He walked home rn an agreeable
absorptiou, repeating to himself the
things elie had said, and recalling her
pict ty way of saying them.
Ile did not pause to consider that
it was otd John Sanborn's daughter
of whom he was thinking T lie was
only conscious that she was a bright
young girl, whom it wae ebarmihg to
look at and listen to.
His pleasant mood was rudely in?
terrupted by little Mr. Larkin, who
dropped in that evening.
.Lyme Doty eouldn't have the
school,' he observed, with a chuckle,
'but it looks as though he wae going
to have the teacher Y
'What?/ said Stever with a sud?
den, unexplainable sinking of the i
heart.
'Ho's hanging around considerable*,
anyhow/ said Mr. Larkin. 'Went to
visit the SCIH)O1 last week ; and ho was
asking me to-day whether Molly's got
any way of getting home Friday
night, lie said he'd just as lief take
her in his buggy as not. Molly gen?
erally walks? but I guess she'll be
glad of a lift/
.You don't mean Co tell rae/ said
Steve warmly, that she'd have any?
thing to do with him V
Mr. Larkin stared. What could
Steve care with whom old John. San?
born's daughter had; to do t
But he only said deprecatingly :
'Wei!, Lyme's a good, steady fel?
low.'
'Humph !' Was the scornful rejoin?
der.
The young man mused long and
seriously when his visitor was gone,
and went to bed with a lighter heart,
having come to a firm conclusion.
When the new teacher closed
school the next Friday wight, she Was
feeling rather worn out, as she was
apt to feel at tire end of the week ;
nor did the prospect of her four miles'
walk home serve to cheer her.
She locked the door and started
down the path with a sigh.
A neat little buggy was coming
briskly up the road. Molly gave a
start as the driver pulled tip the horse
and sprang to the grouud.
It was the young director; and be
was coming toward her.
'I won't make any excuses, Miss
Sanborn,' he said with a humorous
solemnity. 'I Won't say that I'm
going over to the river on business,
and happened to think you might like
to ride. The truth is that it's a care?
fully laid plot. Will you be an aider
and abetter V
The little teacher laughed appre?
ciatively as he helped her into the
baggy.
'I must stop at Mr. Larkin's and
leave my dinner pail,' she said, de?
murely.
Mr. Latkin was standing at the
front gate. He stood staring at the
young director as the latter assisted
the teacher to the ground, and sat
down on the horse block to wait for
her.
'Lyme Dory was here after Molly
just now, he said, almost gaspingly.
'I sent him down to the school
house.'
'We met him,' said Steve. 'Yon
see,' he added, making a bold attempt
at carelessness, but speaking never^
tbe!c8S in a shame-faced way, and
avoiding the little man's eye-'you
Bee, I feel as though it's my bounden
duty to keep Lyme Doty away from
her. Pure impudence, his hanging
around h er that way.'
The littl? teacher came tripping
back, and the ycung director's buggy
whirled away in a cloud of dust.
'Steve Tenney's taking Molly home
in his buggy/ said Mr. Larkin, join
iug his wife ,in the kitchen/ and sink?
ing dazedly into a chair. 'I guess
the world's coming to an end !'
'Steve Tenney ain't a fool,' his wife
responded, practically. 'I knew he'd
get over that ridiculous notiou of
his-=and especially after he'd seen
Molly/
'Says he's doing it from a sense of
duty,' pursued Mr. Larkin, chuckling
slowly as the humor of the situation
dawned upon hfrn. 'Wonder how far
his sense of duty'll take him ?
'I shouldn't be surprised at any?
thing!' said Mrs. Latkin mysteri?
ously.
The Larkinses-and perhaps, Lyme
Doty-were the only people who
were not surprised wl?en the new
teacher gave np the school at the
end of the term, and was quietly mar?
ried to the young director.
The chairman of the school board
is wondering over it yet-.Emma A.
Opfer.
John Esten Cooke.
A BEAUTIFUZr TRIBUTK TO THE- MAB VIR?
GINIAN.
Augusta Chronicle.
Wheu Col. John Esten "Cooke, laid
down tbs* burden of this life for the re?
freshment of a higher one, there passed
frjQi the gaze of mortals orre of the
most valiant, knightly and gifted of
men.
After the battle of deadly implements,
he began the battle for bread in a high
and noble way. His sword was
sheathed and his pen became the
mightier and more magical weapon.
He essayed poetry, history and ro?
mance with distinguished credit and
srgmd ability, shining most as a nara
tor of the great deeds of Lee and Jack?
son.
We trust that his bright spirit Eas
met iu the wonderland of eternity the
heroes he krrew and wrote about in this
material sphere. How would the old
commanders welcome him, &nd what a
greeting the Chevalier of the Lost
Cause, the peerless Stuart,, would ac?
cord !
The rd?bm and jargon fashions of
composition are hay i og. a temporary run,
in these times, but another generation
will return to the writings of John Ee
ten Cooke. With sabre and pen, he
did a man's duty for Virginia and the
South, and now, surrendering to thc
conqueror of conquerors, he crosses the
silent river that Jackson saw in his last
moments, to repose in the shade of the
trees adorning the garden that fades not.
mW* ? I ?? -
Not Neceswrry to- Dfrotrm .
Many persons have wondered that alb
animals seem to possess an instinctive
knowledge of swimming, and that man
alone lacks this gift. It is not neces?
sary that a person knowing nothing of
the art of swimming should drown, if
he will depend upon the powers for
self-preservation with which nature
has endowed him. When one of the
inferior animals takes the water, falls
or is thrown in, it instantly begins to
walk as it does when out of water.
But when a man who cannot "swim"
gets into the water he makes a i'ew
spasmodic struggles, throws up his
arrasyand drowns. The brute, on the
other hand, treads water, remains* on
the surface, and is virtually insubmer
gibie: In order, then, to escape drowns
iug, it is necessary to do as the brute
does, and that ie tread or walk water.
The brute has m advantage as to-his
relative weight in respect to the water
over ?ian, anti yet the man pprish.es
while the brwfce lives. Nevertheless,
any aron, any woman, any chi?'d. who
can walk on thc land may also walk in?
the water just as readily as the animal
does, and that without any prior in?
struction or drilling whatever. Throw
a dog in the water and he treads (or
walks) the water instantly. The brute,
indeed, walks the water instinctively,
whereas man has to be told..
Naturally clocked stockings arc the
most striking,-Boston Bout..
What Our Editors Say.
Too Soon.
Camden Journal.
No Vacancy io office takes place
but what there is a perfect regiment
ready, eager and willing to *er?e
their country-of course, as candidates.
Honorable ambition we admire. A
man without it is like an ejre without
its sight} but often there is to? much
expansion, and objects are sought
after by the eager applicant where
capacity is lockiog-the position of
judge we especially allude to. lt is
one high and exalted, lt has been a
literal crown of glory and honor upoa
South Carolina's brow, and to day, ex?
cepting radical times, bears no tarnish
from its pristine splendor. But it
does seem to us that an ornoo of such
dignity requires experience and age,
and the young aspirant should h o?d
for a time bia thirst for houere so
high.
Winnsboro Jfivci and Herald.
Col. Elliot the Democratic nominee
for Congress from the Black District,
is putting in souse good work for him
eelf and for his party. He is making
a determined fight, and while it is noe
probable that he will be elected, he cer?
tainly deserves success, and would be
an able addition to our present delega?
tion-.
Greenville News.
8omebody writes' a long letter to
the News and Courier attempting to
contradict Mr. Tillman's statement that
tho taxes of 1885 are $320,000 more
than those of 1880. That is what we
want to see and hear. Let the discos- ,
sion come down to facts and figures.
But we will go beyond Mr. Tillman
and dare anybody to contradict us and
compare figures on any equal terms.
We assert that more money is now be?
ing collected front the people sod spent <
for State and county purposes than was
collected and spent ra any year of radi?
cal rule, exceptiog two. The figures .
will show that. We have printed them
and can print them again.
Marion Star.
That Charleston bas suffered and !
suffered greatly, is true and desertes I
and ha? the heartfelt sympathy of the |
entire State ; but while her calamity I
came in an instant and bad the added |
horror of sudden disaster, yet the earth?
quake leaves her in scarcely worse cir- ^
cumstaoces than the rest of thc State.
The wealth of the State is almost en?
tirely agricultural, and that industry
was never more depressed* than at pres?
ent. Excessive rains and bad seasons
generally have cut off the crops of the
State fully one-third of thc reasonable
expectation of the farmers. The earth?
quake has injured Charleston about :
one-fifth of the estimated va lew of her
taxable real property,
Under Each circumstances to have
imposed an extra session of the Assem?
bly for the purpose of rebttrding an
injured city, fed and supported by a
worse injured country at the expense of
this impoverished State, would have
been little short of an outrage.
Spartanburg Herald.
It has been proposed by the Columbia
Register and seconded by the News and
Courier to call another session of the
Legislature in order to submit a consti- :
tutional amendment to the people at the
erection next month e rapo wer rag the
legislature to raise three or four million
dollars Zo be' loaned to the people of
Charleston at a low rate of interest, lt
is to bc done by Issuing State bonds.
The plan meets with little approval
throughout the State press. The cost ,
of such an extra session would be very
heavy. In a few years we will have to
re-fund our present debt, amounting to
over six oaHlioos. Our present hope of ;
reducing taxation is to re-fond the debt
at a lower rate of interest. To double
our present debt H to defeat this hope.
Of course the whole State sympathizes
with stricken Charleston, but this is not
the mode ia which it has chosen or will .
adopt to prove it. Besides it is doubt?
ful if this would prove beneficial to the
city. We are informed by the relief j
committee that all who are ima ble to
repair their houses have been assisted
as much as the committee deemed need?
ful. The otfrers- can manage to repair
their homes. It seems best that they .
should a v 60 out of their own resources.
To tempt the people with money at low .
interest, induce them to borrow heavily
and1 b?rden themselves and- the property
of the city witfr a debt of three or four
millions of dollars would be to place an
incubus on tho city which would crush
out its life. Better to bear the burden
like mea now, and have it over with.
This seems to be the view of the ;
Charlestonians themselves. So far no
request for an extra session has come
from the members of the legislature
from that County, from the city, nor
from the people.
Earthquake Bonds. ;
?blevMi Press uml Dunner.
Our city contemporaries the Newt
and Courier ami the K'jjitfcr are labor?
ing earnestly to-induce (*3PO vernor Shep?
pard to cali an extra session of the
Legislature. it is desired that the
organic law of the Staf-e may be so al?
tered as to allow the General Assembly
to authorise thc ponpiVto assimo liabil- i
ity for the recent! losses which Charles?
ton Im sustained by ?ho earthquake. <
So far, very few of tho country news- .
papers have give?- expression on the I
subject, but a* far as- they have doive I
so, they aro almost a unit in opposition I
to the measure. Thc proposition seems* ;
so much at V:JH;;!>CC with li\e public in^ t
terest, and is based on so slight a pre- t
test that we think the people would j
have no trouble in pet fling the ?jues! roa,
rf it should bc submitted to thom-. t
The M-aycr of the city has issued Iiis f
proclamation saying thut there is no 1
fifrther need of gifts of money ?o rc- c
lieve thc distressed*. Thc proposition t
then, to secure the bonds of tho State t
for 'CHttTVeston su-Rerers.' must in fact c
bc for the benefit of Charleston specu- i
lators or property holders. c
The mechanics, laborers 5-rtd other r
poor people must be in a better condt- I
tiou now than ever before. Owing to s
the great, demand for labor op all kinds, I
skilled meciianics and- common laborer* i
ace receiving- uncommonly high pay, s
and none af them are without employ
ment.
Whlie the amount of money received
by the charity committee is immense,
we do not recollect to have seed ai)
statement as to expenditures except in
the matter of a few rations and some
soup to the poor.
If the bonds of the State are to be
issued at four per cent, for the benefit
of the Charleston merchants, who lend
their money at high rates of irrest
to the country people, the profit of such
a proceeding will be immense to the
city, while it will be correspondingly
damaging to the country people.
Greenville News:
Mr. Cleveland is a very practical,
hard-headed, common sense kind of
man. There is no sentiment about him.
We dare say be did not understand how
a message of sympathy from him to
Charleston would do any good. We
do not understand it either. Neither
do We understand wby there should be
soy bitterness of feeling in Charleston
because Mr. Cleveland refrained from
going to the telegraph office and pend?
ing three or four sentences to Capt.
F. W. Dawson or somebody else at a
cost of a dollar or so.
We see he sent $20 to the Confed?
erate home with a polite private note
expressing his good will, just as any
other gentleman might have done, and
such condu3t is to our mind the perfec?
tion of good taste, which is another
name for good sense. Several people
might take a valuable hint from Mr.
Cleveland's dislike to advertising him?
self on all occasions and his evident hor?
ror of slopping ovei;
Senators Hampton and Butler, are
both poor men, we believe. They may
have sent what they could afford in a
modest manner or they may have felt
unable to send anything. That is their
own affair.
Our Graded Schools,
Columbia Record;
Among the many attractions of Co?
lumbia there is none greater than that
offered by her graded schools. All the
children of residents have an opportu?
nity to obtain instruction in all the com?
mon school branches of ?ducation, free
of charge, in these Institutions. The
teachers, the methods, and all the ap?
pliances are first class iu every respect,
and there is no school, public or private,
anywhere m the world, that can offer
better advantages than the Graded
Schools of this city. Even the' poorest
child in the city thus has the opportu?
nity of getting au education, such an
opportunity as in many other places the
money of the rich oaunot purchase.
Every head of a family who does not
reside in Columbia, and who has BO
equally good school wit hm reach of his
present residence, would do well to
move to Columbia simply in order to '
educate bis children. The benefits they !
would thus gain would be of far greater
worth to them than any number of dol?
lars he might save or make.
It is to be hoped that before long the
school fund will be sufficient to author?
ize the Trustees to furnish the pupils
with all their text books, so as to re?
lieve them even of this charge.
Hot Wholly Bad.
Orangeburg Times and Democrat.
Wc live in a very wicked world.
There is no doubt of it. The news?
papers spread out before us, each day,
the sickening record of sra and shame
and suffering and sorrow. A person
who habitually scans the record of
crime, is tempted to conclude that
there is very little good in human na?
ture, and to accept, .without much pro?
test, the doctrine of total depravity.
But there ie- sn other side to this ques?
tion. Much of the evil that exists is
only superficial. There is implanted in
human nature s genome respect for
that which is good. The most depraved
man or woman feels the force of this in?
fluence, in a greater or a less degree.
Every intelligent person possesses an
intuitive kaowlege of right or wrong,
and though af! may not have the moral
courage> or the strength of will,- to fol?
low the right, few are so fost to the
prompting of their better natures as not
to respect sincerity and conscientious?
ness, in whomsoever found, ft is only
those of perverse or shallow minds who
lose all faith in human nature. Injus?
tice an<i wrong may blffnt the childlike
tratet that belongs to youth and inex?
perience ; but no genuinely good and
upright man or woman can become a
confirmed misanthrope. That disillu?
sions wiH; come, is armong the. inevita?
ble results of a growing experience.
l5ut it is possible, in 6pite of the dis
enchantments of the lengthening yeaTs.
to- preserve, in a large degree, the crust
and credulity of youth ;" to keep- the
''milk of human kindness" that is io
our hearts from being soured. Life is
brighter and happier and holier for
those who succeed in doing this, as
well as for those with whom such per?
sons are brought into contact.
Fooling With Fire.
iVVtr? and Courier.
There is every probability that there
would have been a serious- riot in Rich?
mond, if the Knights of Labor of Dis?
trict 49 had insisted on taking Farrell,
their colorod brother, into thc par?
quette of the Richmond Theatre. By
threatening to go to some other place
of entertainment, they had succeeded
in iuduci*D? the proprietor of the hotel
o? which they were staying to give
Farrell equal accommodations with j
themselves, and probably thought that
:hey might as well put an end at once
r-o any manifestation of what they con
rider an unreasonable prejudice. If
hey expected to conquer Richmond in
his summary way, they' failed com?
pletely.
The Sou?hern States, with regard to \
Tte colored people, are in a widely dif
ercnt position from thc Northern and !
Western Scares. Thc free admission cf ?
:olorcd people to those paTt's of a thea- '
rc which are habitually reserved for :
he whites, poiiit>t?4itmestionably toso- '
sial equality. Social* equality means
niscegenation. Thc general mixing .
>f tile two races Would'destroy thc best j1
pi alines of whiles a-nd bhtcks alike, and
eave the Southern country in posses- i 1
A'on of a nation of mongrels and hy
>rids. There is no ^uch peril as this j
n other parts of thc Uuitcd States. A . ;
dujjle drop of ink produces; v*ry little- ? I
effect on a bucket of water.- TK?s ia*
the case with the ?orth and West.
But when there is more ink than water,
there is no mistaking the effect or deny?
ing the defilement. This is the case
with the old Slave States. The Oppo?
sition to social equality as the avenue to
miscegenation is simply the assertion o?
the determination of the white people to
keep their race pare for their own salie,
and for the sake cf tte country.
The race problem, as it exhibited it?
self in Richmond, presents no serious
dimculty except where it is dealt with
by persons who have more zeal than in?
telligence, and who judge others by
their own narrow views and limited in?
terests. There? no irritation or clash
in Charleston,.for instance, ia the ab?
sence of meddling by well-meanin* bot
ignorant outsiders. AoJ exacerbation
that may occur will be the result of out?
side influences a?d be' incurious to
blacks as well as whites*.
Brave Bulgaria
Columbid fUcof'?.
No one can help admiring tSe spirit
of the people sod government of Bul?
garia in defying the power of Russia
and in carrying out their patriotic pro?
gramme of insisting upon the suprem?
acy of the constitution and laws of their
country over the arbitrary will nf a
foreign potentate, however august and
imposing. Whatever expectation -of
support they may have from other
powers, or whatever may be the foun?
dation of their confident attitude, they
have taken a stand against an unscru?
pulous act of tyranny, aad will have
the sympathy of the civilized world.
The reply of the officers of the Bul?
garian army at Sistova to Gen. Kaul
bars's invitation to meet him and hear
a message from the Czar, that he must
address the Bulgarian government, has
the ring of American freedom about it.
And the anouncement that the Czar bas
declared that he 'will not go to war for
the sake of the disorderly Bulgarians'
sounds like the growl of a disappointed
bear, who dare not take what he eagerly
wanta and expected to get.
Giving Hick Name's.:
Charleston Dispatch*
What on earth is more disgusting
than to hear men called by nick names.
These silly appellations are given in
childhood as fancy terms of endearment,
and they cling beyond manhood, and
sotfnd very ridiculous in after years.
There is a great deal in a name. It re?
flects the sentiment, social status and
intelligence of those who give it. Sear
sible people never make fools of them?
selves,'hence you never hear of them
doing things that are eitfrer absurd or
unreasonable. It is both unreasonable
and absurd to give nick names. Just
imagine a man with a beard* befog call?
ed -'Sonnie'7 and ?-Tot/* whick is the
case in this very aristocratic and highly
conservative city. There is a father of
a fam Hy-some almost grown daughters
^who-goes-ty the name of "Bttbber.'**
Another case is of a married mao-, sin?
gularly unhandsome, who ir called
ttBarling.,'i This endearing term is*
applied to him by his devoted" wife, pery;
fectly unconscious, or seemingly so, of
the ridicule she is provoking. Another"
.case is of a man, who* has a family of
grown sons and daughters.- and' himself
. weighing two hundred and forty poundv
? befog calfed <*Shug." Not long ago
there was a lady at a sociable, who pery
( 8istently referred to her husband who
. Was a little bit of a maa, while she was
nearly two htfudred pounds in weight-"
as "?ucky." Every time she did $of
apparently with the utmost unconcern,*
:shre caused laughter. When a man
has a beautiful wife of petite propor?
tions, and with manners in accord witb
her inviting face, there is some excuse*
for his applyhig a tender term* to her,
;and evea then it Ss out of place in puo
lio. It is a great mistake to give chil?
dren very fanciful names. They "fiV-^
while the child is young and is dressed
in juvenile gear, but when it grows
:into youth and adult age, how silly Hf '
sounds to hear H called by these ?anti
geously" aesthetic designations: A
; pretty child with a fancy name will' do,,
but if the child be homely and' not of
trim figure, mercy, what a misnomer !.
Nothing sounds better or shows the*
possession of desirable rjratities of bead
and' te3rt more than to cali a child* by
its real name, never mind how** common'
place it may be ;' it makes** the child
realise that it has a substantial relation
to society. Americans do net need
long names. The shorter they ave tho
. better. Every thia 5 here should: stant?
on its own merit. To bear a wife
call her husband John, or Henry, or
whatever else it may be, is to our mind',
thc highest" exemplification- cf sound
sense.
-?Mfr- *>-^t^
The Total Shocks in* Charles
ton?
Thc Charleston correspondent"of tn?*
Baltimore SUJI telegraphs as follows ::
It is one month ago to-day since Char?
leston was prostrated by an earthquake.
During that time the Suns' correspond-^
ent has kept memoranda of the va?
rious shock-s. and*- thc record- may be of
interest. On the night of the 31st of
August there were at least five distinct
shocks, counting the two which did alt
the damage, and which were only sepa?
rated by a few seconds. Tuc other'
shocks occurred as follows: Septem?
ber 1st, three severe shocks ; on thc 3d,
three ; on the od, two ; 4th, two ;. 5th,
one; 7th, two; Sth, one; 10th, one;
12th, one: 15th, two; 21st, one,
(severe:) 223; one: 27th, one ;? 28th,
one: SX)tb, one. There were two
shocks prior to the 31st of August,
enc on the 27th; which was very
perceptible' at Summerville, but which'
was feh by comparatively few people'
h. the city, and one on the 2Sih, which
ff as generally felt all over tibe city.
Tin's makes a total" of thirty distinct"
shocks that have been felt here since
August 27th. They were about equal?
ly divided as to time, referring to day
ind night. This, it will be seeo, is a
earful record for one month.
-nm ? i nm -?
Tilt; strawberry was introduced'
into Et-fflatid from Flanders* in* 1530.
Tlic domestication ofbufifeilo calved
is being attempted in Arkansas.
By a law made during the reign of
Henry III, all persons Having ten
pounds yearly income* were* obliged^
to bc knighted-or- to pay a-fine.