Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IHK 3?MTKR WATCHMAN, Established April, ISSO. lBe Just and Fear not-Let a.* the Ends thou Aims't at. be- thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's THE TRUE SOUTH KON, Established ?une, 186?? Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1 STJMTER, S. C TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1886. New Series?Yol. TI. Ko. 21. Jt Mattinimi at?^t^rmL Putt?shoA 70 7 Tue*d*y, * sr m GK OSTEEN, *? S.?HTEK, S. C. TSRMS: Two Dollars per aDnum??n advance. A D vY R I S S M S S 8 . a* Square, first insertion.$1 00 ~Brf r^pib??qu?n t insertion......:...-- 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will 'be Biade at xeduced rates. All communications which subserve private teres ta will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will he charged for. eimt?jrBmisGiimEssEs. \I/?KRE WB SPEND ALMOST HALF W of our life should be made as comfort able as possible, and* for the parp?se of aiding-*his good work, arcs making some money, we now offer the'best COTTON BAT TING MATTRESS ever put upon this market. ' Three grades now made?$5.00, $6.00, $7.00. Sample and fall information at Store of Treasurer, A. Moses. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case, or money refunded.'. SUMTSR COTTON MILLS. WELCH ft EASON. . -r Family Grocers. 185 and 187 Meeting, and 117 Market Sts. CHARLESTON. S. C. Invite attention to the following BARGAINS. CUT LOAF SUGAR. 14? lbs. for $1. GRANULATED SUG A R, 15* lbs. for$l. ^?NFECTIONSR'S SUGAR, 15* lbs. for $1. TOfTfiiX; <j. 35GAR, 171bs. for $1. LIGHT 8ROWN SUGAR, 19 lbs. for$l. GOO? BROWS SUGAR, 20 lbs. for $1. 2 lb. TOMATOES 90 cts. a dozen. 3 lb. TOMATOES, $1.10 a doxen. GOOD SSG?RS, $1 for a box of 50. These are onlv a few of ;he many attrac tions we are constantly opening, and , house keepers wjll find it greatly to their adrauta^e - to* send for a copy of onr mon th ly Price List j and consol t ii always. *'Ko [charge for peeking ordrayage. C. BART ft CO., Importers and Wholesale Dealers in FSIT IT ! . CHARLESTON, S. C, Are receiving by steamer and rail from the North and West full supplies each week of CHOICE APPLES, PEARS, LEMONS. PO TATOES, CABBAGES, ONIONS, NUTS )? /OF ALL KINDS, Etc., Etc. ^^OfdeVs solicited and promptly filled., Kov9 _"_ HMfWFANT TO HOUSEKEEPERS! I HAVE OPENED A GREEN GROCERY ON LIBERTY STREET, NEAR MAIN. . I will keep coosuatly -on band Fresh Tennessee Beef, PORK, TEAL, MUTTON, AND SAUSAGES. Give mea eaH and'save time and money. Goods delivered free. I. O. WiESTON, Nor. 9 ix ? ~~* Sumter, S. C. F1LLAND WHITER iti y 1rs. WITS ai Miss ULLES Are prepared to furnish their friends and patrons with Triaimtd und Uatrimmed. HATS AND BONNETS FEATHERS, FLOWBRSj RIBBONS, &c, , in great variety. ! sho w|Twith lease re/ "and examine odr stock before pur chasing elsewhere. October 26._ D i Kiic;. 1856. ^FBR?ITURE DEALER . > UNDERTAKER, Maik Strbbt, SCMTXK, C ^S?T ?L?: THANK HIS FRIENDS and ff thepeblic generally for tbeir liberal patronage in the past, and hopes by low prices ad J*ir dealing to merit a continuance of the He has received already a large and varied assortment of HOUSEHOLD Furniture ' Iii Sin Fall "Trad*, to which weekly additions areabereg- made, and there can be found IN &.'WELL STOCKED ROOMS as great a dfcpmy of FURNITURE OF ALL GRADES as m Ae ?wKat tit y bouses. Hebasbooght bis goods DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES, at lowest prices to be had ( I and proposes to give bis customers the full beae?k of his bargains. PARLOR SUITES, Wood and Marble-Top Bed Room Suites, Bedsteads, Mattresses, Spring Beds, ^ Chairs, Sideboards, Sofas, Lounges, Safes, Boreaos. Washstands, Pictures, Picture Frames, Window Shades, and all other articles supplied by the fumi lore trade. ??AL?O, WINDOW GLASS AND PUTTY. Call at hi* store and be convinced by a per sonal examination of goods and prices that these assertion? are true. He takes pleasure in showing customers around. '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 as reasonable prices as the same can be bought anywhere. Calls promptly attended to, day or night. J. D. CRAIG. ^ FOB SALE. 4lrtfec0WS^ ALWAYS ON AN T?90MA8, WedgeMd, S. C ,. .?.1 ' -- HPfti IHCHV ttfcs >-, ot obtain ??.ma??, n Mtwxlisli^ iparr wi Owogaj W ?t ^ fii?*t mtA^vin^tipg Agency of LORD ftTHOMAS. ABBAIO BITTERS Combinine TROX with PURE VEGETABLE TOXICS, quietly end completely CLEANSES rad E5BICHES TELE BLrOOIJ. Qniciens tteact?onoft?ieUTer sad Kidneys. Clears the complexion, makes the siin smooth. It does not injere the teeth, cause headache, orprodnco con ttlnnllon?ALL OTHER IBOS MEDICINES DO. physiciens and Drnigiete everywhere reeommexid it. Da. N. S. Strooxxa. c?~MarJon. Jla?-. says: "I recommend Brown's Iron Bitters as a vataabJe tomo for ecirichin? the blood, and removing all dyepeptio aymptoaa. It doee not hurt the teetlt" SteSSj and it ban proved thoroughly satisfactory." MB- "V^-CBnore, 16 St. Mary St.. New Orleans, La., ays: -Brown'? Iron Bitters relieved me in a case of blood poisoning, and I heartily eommend it to those rjee?Webk>?drmri?er. M MB W. W7Mox_HA?i,Tuecnmbia, Ala.. _ays: I have been troubled from childhood with Imparo Blood and eruption on my face?two bottles of Brown's lion Bitters, effected a perfect core. I cannot epeak too highly of thus valuable melieme." Gemane has abc^ Trade Markend er?eeed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BK? W V CIU-OIUAX. CO, llAXTIMOKE, MD? A FINE_ Florida Tonic ! Mr. FOSTER S. CHAPMAN. One of the landmarks of the Georgia Drug trade, now of Orlando, Florida, writes: "I can hardly select a single case of the many others to whom I have GUINN'S PIONEER BLOOD RE NEWER, but what hare been satis fied; and I find it the best remedy for all Skin Diseases I have ever sold, and a Fino Fl?rida Tonic. "FOSTERS. CHAPMAN, "Orlando, Fla." A CERTAIN CURE FOR CATARRH ! A SUPERB Flesli Producer and Tonic! GU1J??TS PIONEER BLOOD EN E WE Cures all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheuma tism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine.. If not in yoar market it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles $1.00: large bottles Si.75. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed "macon medicine company. Macon. Georgia. For Sale by Dr. A. J. CHINA. July 13. Sumter, S. C. TAX RETURNS FOR 1886-7. RETURNS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AND POLLS will be received at the following times and places : Privateer, Tuesday, January 4th. Bloom Hill, in Manchester Town ship, Wednesday, January 5th. Wedgefield, Thursday, January 6th. Stateburg, Friday,. January 7th. Gordon's Mill, Friday, January 7th. Mayesville. Monday, January 10th. Magnolia, Tuesday, January 11th. ? Lynchburg, Wednesday. January 12th. Shiloh, Thursday, January loth. Johnson's Store, Friday, January 14th. Scarborough's Store, Saturday, Jan uary 15th. BeiiTe Mill, Monday, January 17th. Bishopville, Tuesday and Wedaes day, January 18th and 19th. M ano vtlle, Thursday, January 20th. Smithville, Friday, January 21st. MechanicsVnie, Saturday January 22nd. Sanders* Depot, Wednesday, Janu ary 19th. M. Sanders' former office, Thursday, January 20th. AS?' At the Auditor's office in Satnter on all othrr days from 1st of January to 20ih Feb ruary, inclusive. Parties making Returns by mail or by an other person will please give full first name of Tax-payer, and the Township the property is in. W. R. DELGA R, Nov. 30. Auditor Sumter Countv. THE SUMTER HIGH SCHOOL . FOR BOYS, Affording superior advantages in ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, g*and the CLASSICS, will reopen MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1836. L. W. DICK, ri nei pals. A. C. McINTOSH, ' ipri U TUITION?From $2 to S5 per month. BOARD?with the principals, S12 per mo. For further information apply to PRINCIPALS SUMTER WGH SCHOOL, Lock Box No. 49. Aug 3-v Sum;er, S. C. THE TEMPERANCE WORKER, j Removed from Coiuvibvi, S. C. ? Live, Temperance Paper, Published Semi-monthly in SUMTER, S. C Under the Editorial management of Rbv. H. F. Chreitzberq, g.w.c.t. or i.o.g.t. of s. c. Assisted by an able corps of Editors. The patronage and influence of all friends of Temperance is solicited. Terms only 60 j cents a year. To advertisers de?iring a wide circulation, it offers au excellent medium. j Qa business,, address N. G. OSTE N", j Publisher. c In the pure soul although it sing or pray. The Christ is born anew from day to day, The life that knoweth H?m shall hide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. CHRISTMAS. Han;? up the vine and the holly, Sign the cross over the door. That joy coining in with the Christmas, May go from the place nevermore. Gather love gifts for the children, Guar? well the mystical way, That the Christ child comes at the midnight To bless with bright favors the day. Bring in good cheer and be merry. Dance and ring ont glad song ; The stars of a Bethlehem desert Looked down on a Christ happy throng. Go ye in hovel and highway, Guests to bring in to the feast ; Angels shall unawares greet ye In those the world counteth as least. Sound the sweet Christ loving anthem Echoes will bear it on high? To the ansels made joyous forever By Christmas of love in the sty. Bow down and worship the spirit Of the feast, the invisible King ; Lo ! J Te eometh in scarlet and purple To gather a world's offering. Marie Lb Baro*. AN EDITOE'S CHEISTMAS. This is Mr. Worthington's story just as he told it to a number of us one Christmas eve ning at his house. Mr. Worthington isn't Mr. Wbrthington at all in real lifo, but a very famous man whose tongue and pen carry great weight: My first journal was a country weekly in Doonville. A ^flourishing and fearless" jour nal, was the way my kindly disposed contem poraries spoke of it in their "able" pages. Its name was The Trumpet, and I speak only tho plainest truth when I say that it gave forth no uncertain sound. I was a very young man and very ambitious. I thought I know exactly what a forceful weekly newspaper should be, and I hadn't the least doubt of my capacity to construct and manipulate such an engine of reform and advancement. That is the way of tho very young, God bless them. Before they havo had a band to hand en counter with life they feel so strong and con fident they believe they can do anything, and this very belief, mark you, is what makes tho phenomenal successes we so often admire and wonder at. Tho Spaniards have a proverb, "He who expects good luck will get it," and it is a? true a sentence as over was penned. Belicvo you can do anything, and you can, if any one can do it. Success, like tho art of swimming, is largely a matter of confidence. I worked very hard on The Trampet I was business man. editor and staff. I liad very decided i leas in regard to Lettering the world, and started out with tho praiseworthy intention of extinguishing several "giant wrongs," under which I plainly saw that so ciety suffered. We all have the reformatory spirit much stronger in us in youth than later on, for the reason, perhaps, that we haven't fully measured the strength of our antagonist, the existing system of things. I was sincerely anxious to thorough^ represent all worthy local interests. To that end I scoured Doon ville night and day, and "wrote up*' all sorts of things that never before had been described by pen, or immortalized in type. I wanted to wake up my fellow townsmen and women to the interests that la}- close around them, and of all things I wanted them to properly appreciate The Trumpet. I intended to issue a magnificent Christmas number of my beloved journal, twice its ordinaiy size and brim full of the most alluring hoi ida}- matter I could create and rake up. To perfect that number I almost worked myself into a decline. Looking back upon it now, from tho standpoint of what I beg to be permitted to call mature common sense, I commend myself heartily for the in dustry, zeal and confidence I nursed into respectable development in those old, hard', working, moneyless, days on The Trumpet. Among other attractive features for my Christmas paper I determined to write up the very poor of Doonville. I could thus be the means of conferring two benefactions?giv ing the rich a chance to taste of the blessing of giving?for it is more blessed to give than to receive?and also open tho way for the poor to be helped. And ou Christmas, yon know, all hearts are said to be tenderer and more generous, and man y are glad of on op portunity to do something for the needy. Doonville was a small place, and so very prosperou? that I scarcely know where to go to hunt people so poor that I dare intrude upon them and tell their wants in my "valu able and widely circulated** paper. Many of its citizens were very rich, and none whom I personally knew had fallen below decent and tolerable poverty. But down below Doon's mills, on the river bank, were some broken down houses about whose doors I bad some times seen very ragged and very dirty chil dren playing. I determined to go thither and investigate. I had this thought in my mind as 1 was go ing to office one morning just two days before Christmas. I determined to go out that afternoon and begin the search. I hadn't gone far when I met "Calamity" Parker. That was what I called him when my Speech was without bridle, for I held him in great contempt. He was a tall, thin, broken down creature, who posed as a gentleman ond moved about with a solemn, unhealthiul gait and dis tributed religious tracts. He always seemed to me a frightful excrescence on society, al though he had the discretion to say but little. It fretted my progressive spirit to see him crawling around thrusting his weak litera ture under more intelligent and busier peo ple's eyes. "Tho day and generation are be yond tracts," I said to myself, "and here is this thread l>are fraud keeping up this relic of fogy ism." I despised him so heartily I could hardly speak a decent good morning as he passed me. I think ho felt that I disliked him ; but he had cultivated the unctuous af fectation of godliness ond an appearance of patience and sweetness under slights and taunts, and invariably returned a smile for a frown. That very habit mado him detestable to me. I began to think about him as 1 went along. lie had only *>ccn in Doonville a couple of years, and I had never heard of his doing anything but distribute tracts and preach on tho street corners down by tho mills. I concluded that it was timo he was abolished. Accordingly my first work on reaching tho office was to write a half column editorial article on "religious frauds," in which **io practico of ttact distributing received merited castigation. I drew a picture of the typical tract man, of which Parker was the model, which wasn't calculated to make his path in Doonville any smoother. This incisive, and I may say "aule,*' article, which was certainly a flaming j sword of righteous wrath against the tract fraternity, was to adorn tho Christmas num ber. The n I started out in my search for pov erty in a self satisfied spirit. It is delightful . to do something that wins one's own appro bation. I found tho row of old houses all locked and tenantless savo one, tho last one and the worst one. It was in a state of dilapidation so hopeless that its owner hadn't even thought it worth while to shut it up. The result was that it was tenanted without hi*> permission having been asked. A family j j of dull brained, sallow skinned, chronically j indigent, half dead creatures who had been crawling westward in worn out wagons drawn by dying horses, had taken possession of it by permission of necessity. They bad reached Doonville Just as their horses suc cumbed to the inexorable, and there they were, sick, freezing, starving and dying in a stato of destitution unspeakable. I saw through tho windows that the house was inhabited, though the only figure I could see moving about was more ghostlike than human. On pretenso of borrowing a match I knocked for admittance. A match! such a thing was a far off, undreamed of luxury to the family within. There was neither fire nor food in the house, and tho wind, tho rain and the snow came in at will through the glassless windows. Haven't you noticed that the very elements conspire with poverty to make his victims wretched! A skeleton man sick unto death lay on the floor, his head on a bundle of dry leavea Two famished children, ill and feeble, were on the semblance o? a bed in another corner of the room. A very old woman sat helpless by the side of the sick children, whose emaci ated and miserable mother groped about feebly trying to give help to tho others. Tho only one who seemed to lave nay life to speak of left was a wan and ragged little girl with delicate features and big, old eyes. I got fire and food for them, and did all I could for their unmediate relief. Then I rushed to the office of The Trumpet and wrote such an account of them as would be sure to send the good people of Doonville to their door with abundant relief. It was a long and graphic article, and realistic to a startling degree. We were not illustrating newspapers then as now, so I could only pic ture the suffering of this family in words. However, I gave the article tremendous head lines and a prominent place. The Trumpet was issued tho next day, which was the day before Christmas, and it went forth on its work of arousing the pity of Doonville for the family in the old house by the river. I was very busy all that day and could not go to see them. But when night came and I lay down to rest I had the satisfaction of feeling that they were provided for, and that I had been tho instigating cause of their relief. I fancied the surprise and sorrow the benevo lent Mrs. Barclay would feel when she visited them, carrying aid. as she was sure to do after reading my article. And how dis tressed, I thought, Mr. Archibald Doon would be when ho realized that so sad a case of want existed in the town of which he was so proud. And others?ever so many others ?would be equally interested and equally helpful. In imagination I saw the philan thropists of the the community, one after an other, going down to the old house by the river side carrying aid and sympathy. Tho next morning was Christmas. It was cold and clear, with a sharp wind blowing traditional Christmas weather, called cheery in stories, I think, but very uncomfortable for those who are thinly clad. After break fast I started down to see my poor friends by the river. I wanted to help them, but all I could do would be but a cipher in compari son with what had already been done. But I thrilled with the pleasure I would expe rience in seeing their improved condition, knowing I had had a hand in it. How forlorn and desolato tho house was, even as seen from afar off! And oh! the dreariness of Christmas to those within! A man approached the house just ahead of me. A second glance told mo that it was the tract distributor. I felt a spasm of wrath at sight of him. How dare he mock those wretched people with Ins printed twaddle a?K>ut the nreciousness of their souls when their bodies ueeded food, and fire and cloth ing? THE THI.V LITTLE GIIIL OPENED THE DOOR. He knocked, and the thin little girl with the pale, delicate face opened the door, came ? out, and shut it behind her. The tract dis tributor took off his hat, she looked up at him, and I knew she spoke, though 1 was aot ! near enough to hear what she said. I no ticed, too, that she raised her hand in ges ture?a solemn and intensely dramatic ges ! ture, it seemed to me, for one so young to make unconsciously. A queer sort of chill crept over me. The tract distributor opened the door and went in, but she stood outside, and was still standing there when I reached the door. Somehow, when I was quite near her 1 could find no words tc utter. She seemed to understand, and pointing to the door, said: "You can go in if you want to. Father died this morning!" I stood speechless in the presence of that child's tearless sorrow. "But help came to you yesterdayr I said, my heart sinking as a possibility I had never thought of flashed into my mind. "Yes, he?the man who has just gone in carne and was very kind. Ho stayed by father all night, and was only away a little while; but father died while ho was gone." "And?did?did?nobody else come yester day?** I stammered. "Nobody else," said the child, looking up surprised at the question. I felt ashamed to go in and face the tract distributor in tho presence of the dead he had comforted and whom I had left for others to comfort?others who never came. tie greeted me with gentle kindness, and as I clasped his hand in that woeful dwelling I inwardly bent before him in self-abasement. We went out together to plan for the funeral and procure further aid for the liv ing. "You did a good work when you wrote about these people;" ho said, "and I thank you, for otherwise I should not have known of their existence in lime to bo of help when the}' needed it most." With what shamo I remembered ray article on religious frauds, of which I had been so proud only two days before. From that hour wo became warm friends. As I learned to know Lim well I looked back in amazement at my former conclusions in regard to him. "Calamity" Parker, indeed! It would bave l>een more fitting had I named him Beneficent Parker. His life was n bene diction?unobtrusive and self-denying; he gave of his abundant sympathy and slender worldly means without reserve. Nor was his never failing patience and sweetness of spirit the cloak of hypocrisy, but tho result of years of spiritual aspiration and discipline, which I havo never yet begun to attain. His habit of I distributing tracts was merely tho outward manifestation of a helpful spirit?a hain't contraeteti in a bygone day among simplo people. It hurt no one. For aught I know it may have benefited some. Why should I assume that because a man had an inoffen sivo habit, of which I disapproved, that ho was a fit subject to bo insulted in the public prints, derided behind his back and sneered at when he was present? It was tho igno rance of youth, my children?youth, over-con fident youth, which thinks it knows every thing and often knows nothing. I bad not then learned that each one has his own way of doing good, and has his rights too. Neither had I learned that it is foolish and wicked to judge people whose real lives wo do not know and cannot know?or to judge at all. It was some timo before I got over my sur I prise at the apathy of the philanthropists of ; boon villo in regard to that wretched family. I was at a loss to understand how they could ! j eat their Christmas dinners in comfort, after j j reading about the distress of the jxH>r souls in j I the old bouse. 1 did not then know that | people unused to seeing poverty are slower to lend a helping hand than they who see it everyday; that when we have not tho poor always with us wo forget how be benevo lent and sometimes grow very selfish. Geeteude Gaurisox. In midnight hour and with adorers few He doth inaugurate is earthly reign. Who comes the ancient promise to pursue, And man's lost heri tance restore again. THE LEGEND OF CHRIST CHURCH. Near the southern coast of England, Rising dark from hills of green. An ancient church with Norman towers By the sailor's eye is seen. Seven centuries have written Strangest stories on each stone, Making thus a vast palimpsest With rank ivy overgrown. Of the legends, rarest, sweetest, Is the story of its birth, When the mighty frame was lifted Skyward from its native earth. In the time of William Ruf us, Norman monks both brave and good, Laid with zeal its strong foundations,? For its timbers hewed the wood. Day by day there labored with them One who from tho forest came; No one know his home or nation. No one ever asked his name. As wild violets on the hillside Bloom when southern winds have blown. By the deft blows of his chisel Flowers sprang from solid stone. And the woods felt all the magic Of his gentle artist hand ? Yielded shapes that filled with wonder All the skillful Norman band. When at eventide the master Paid the wages of the day. Heeding not, the wondrous stranger Wended to the hills his way. Then the puzzled workmen queried: "Who is this, who asks no hire, Yet whose perfect skill leaves nothing Truest art could e'er desire?" None gave answer to their question. But as whirling mountain snows Heap great drifts among the gorges, Steadily the church arose. Till the hour came for placing The great beam which spans the nave; For its length the oak tree, bowing. All his mighty fiber gave. No oak on the hills of England Towered so far above his kin As this monarch, strong, sound hearted, Fit church walls to enter in. Ah! we all fall short in something, Measured by the law's demand. And the oak beam failed in inches By the distance of a hand. When that toilsome day was done, Mournfully they plodded homeward; Lingered there the Silent One. How he labored in the starlight. While cool night winds round him stirred, While the world in silence slumbered. Their is no recorded word. But the first faint flush of sunrise Showed the beam set in its place, While the stranger met the workmen Wit h a smile upon his face. Speaking low, in accents gent?o. Like some distant anthem's strain: "Unless the Lord doth aid in building. All the work of man is vain." As the mists drift from a landscape. Swept the dimness from their sight; Knew they then 'twas Christ, the Master, Who bad labored through the night. _ B. W. A Legend of the. Flight Into Egypt. "Arise, and take the child and his mother into Egypt," and they fled through the solemn darkness of the night. The next day they camo upon a man sow ing corn. Some mysterious influence at tracted him to the travelers. From tho countenance of the mother, or from the ear nest eyes of the child she bore in her arms, a softening gleam of grace descended into his heart. He was very kind to them, and per mitted them to cross his field, and the young mother, folding her babe yet more closely to her heart, leaned forward, explaining to him that they were pursued by enemies. "And if they come this way," said the sweet, love voice, "and ask if 3-0? have seen us - "I shall say you did not pass this way," was the eager interruption. "Nay," said the blessed mother, "you must speak only tho truth. Say: 'They passed me while I was sowing this corn.*" And the travelers pursued their journey. The next morning tho sower was amazed to find that his corn had sprung up ar.d ripened in the' night. While he was gazing at it in astonishment, Herod's officers rode up and questioned him. "Yes, I saw the people of whom you speak,* said he. "They passed ? hile I was sowing this corn." Thou tho officers moved on, feeling sure that th?' }*>r??ms seen by the sower were not the Holy family, for such fine ripe corn must have been sown months before. Ruth OTonxor. Mirre Christmas is bere, with a amilo and a cheer. Let all your old troubles and quarrels lie ended; For the friend that is near hare a greeting most dr?ar. And breathe a good wi; b for ti 10 foe who's of fended. Though with him wns the nplto. And with yon was Ihc right, In kindness of spirit fcr-ive him to-night* For whoever makes pipa 'neatb the evergreen tree A prince of good fellows, aa.1 welcome is he* W?iat Our Editors Say. Are .'Knights Unsafe Leaders ? Atlanta Constitution. TJie Constitution has no differences with the Knights of Lahor. On the contrary, its only relations with the order have been such as establish con fidence and a sense of mutual obligation. The principles on which the order is established, are ideal io their excellence, and administered by its supreme officers ander these principles, it is the friend and not the enemy of fair employers and of intelligent capital. The trouble is, the knights are con stantly misled by a gang of local d?ma gogues or lantern jawed tramps, whose only interest is in agitation, and who thrive only while their dupes are starv ing. It was a crowd of those pestilent fellows that the other day committed the sixty thousand workingmen of Obi* cago to sympathy with the murderous anarchists, and a similar gang that io Philadelphia broke np a corporative enterprise, through which an intelligent experiment was to be tried under most favorable conditions. In inciting and mismaoagiDg strikes, however, these curbstone statesmen are most danger ous. The scandalous conduct of Martin Irons in the southwestern strikes is fresh in the public mind In the Chi cago packer's strikes it is now demon strated that a local politician named Butler, ordered these strikes on or off to help his candidacy for sheriff, and that Powderly'fi orders were pocketed, and the men kept starving, that the rascal's campaign might be benefited. In New Jersey the glass blowers have formally withdrawn from the knights because of the vicious and foolish conduct of a knight named Coffey, who has plainly irritated mat tere for selfish purposes. Over his pro test, the glass blowers are going back to work. In the great tanner's strike, which resulted disastrously to the knights, the same mismanagement was noticeable. In Augusta, Georgia, thousands of women and children are still suffering from the unwise and sulfish leadership of the foxy Meynardie, and it is hinted that the investigation now pending wi?l show that there was something worse than unwisdom in the matter. In every case these strikes have been ordered without reason, and resulted in disaster. In each the smooth, treacher ous band of the professional agitator was it work. In each the Just cause of organized labor has suffered unjustly. It is painful to see the great body of workingmen?the bone and sinew of every community?led like s?eep by tramp conspirators, who are not worthy to tie the shoes of an honest workman at his bench. These fellows have no interest in labor, beyond what they pick up in its agitation. They have no interest in communities or in men. They are tramps in the worst sense of the word. The Knights of Labor will do well to put real workingmen in charge of their affairs, and to take these workingmen from the benches or the forges, or the shops in Atlanta, where they have long been known as sensible, sober, conservative men. Theory And Pact. Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Blaine, without making any personal investigation, and trusting solely to bis own prejudices or the perversions of other men, loudly pro claimed that negro labor was paid starvation wages at the Sooth. This was done to make political capital at the North among white workingmen. The Chattanooga Times was prompt to nail this false statement, with ir? ! resistible facts and figures. Since then j Mr. Blaine has been fairly overwhelm ed with disproof of his assertions. Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, a practical man, honest withal, and not a bit of a demagogue, accepted an in vitation to visit the South, and did so. 1 He was astonished at the change for the better in eleven years, and did not hesitate on his return to sound the praises of this section, not only for in dustrial development, especially in the mineral and manufacturing regions, but because of the fairness with which negro labor was rewarded. His testimony, completely at vari ance with that of Mr. Blaine, has proved conclusive. The workingmen of \ the North know Mr. Keilcy to be a truthful man and their friend. Both Mr. Blaine aud Mr. Kelley arc llepubiicans and Protectionists, so that partisan differences have nothiug to do with their testimony. It is a pity that Mr. Kelley is so far advanced in years as probably to be not available as a Presidential candidate, lie would be much more acceptable to the masses of his countrymen, North or South, thau Mr Blaine The State Collego. Times and Democrat. The State Senate has passed a bill charging the method of electing the trustees of the South Carolina College and changing a tuition fee of forty dollars to all students able to pay From the Senate the bill will go to the House, where a desperate effort will le made to kill it. We hope, however, it will pass. Our people are too poor to be taxed to educate the class of boys who receive the bounty of the State in college. Tiie Times and Democrat is now, and always will be, a strong ad vocate of education, but it wants the maVses educated, not a select few at i Columbia. We are in favor of improv- [ ing the free common schools to the highest efficiency and believe that every ? dollar spent by the State in the way of f education should bo devoted to this end. If the Sfate was rich and had a good | coiiiuion school system, then we would t bj in favor of a State institution of higher education, but as long as our people are poor aud our common school system is but a name, we shall oppose with uil our power the main tenance of a free State College. We take no stock in the nonsensical claim made, by some that tlsc South Car olina College is intended to educate ; poor men's sons. The facts in the case do not. hear out. the claim. In fact it is impossible for a real poor man's sou to enter the college from the simple ; fact that the State has not provided the mean*for th* p?>?r boy to prepare him self iur the lowest cU&s. in. the, college. FOR CAS Desiring to Make a 01 FOR THE NEXT AT AND BELOW COST, Dry Goods, Notion Overcoats, Hats, Hardi Will not sell Groceries at Cost, 1 Figu J. B. ( Main Street, Next Door December 14 Is there a free common school in Or angeburg County or in the State of Sooth Carolina outside of the cries that prepares boys for this college? Tf there is, we baye never heard of it. Is there a boy in the South Carolina College to day who entered that institution direct from the free common schools? Let the friends of this so-called poor man's college answer these questions. With these facts staring us iu the face, we see that it is impossible for the poor man to send bis sons to this college unless he cao afford to send them off for sev eral years to a preparato) school which, of course, a poor man can't do, as it would take more money than nine ten thf of our farmers make to do it. For these reasons and others we hope the bill that has passed the Senate will become a law. It is equitable and just. We go even further than the bill, and would like to see a tuition fee of not less than sixty dollars charged to all stu dents, as we do not believe the State should furnish free higher education to anybody. Give the' poor boys of the State a good common school education, and those among them that have brains and energy will get to college somehow. Sa? Story in One Chapter. Abbeville Prete and Banner. Several months ago Mr. W. S. Gregory, an industrious printer, under took to establish a newspaper in the town of Woodruff io Spartanburg county. He worked bard, made a good paper, but received very little money for his services as the following notice will testify. Last week the Woodruff Progress contained the following : * 'Notice.?Having failed in my bus iness, I am now without a dollar, and would say to those to whom I am in debted that I have secured work else where, and will pay them as fast as I can make the money. Mr. A. C. Har ris can explain the matter to you. Re spectfully, Ac., W. S. Gregory. -Dec. 3d, 1886." Mr. Gregory's experience is not dif ferent from that of many other printers | who have made the effort to print news papers in small towns. The day may have been when such enterprises might have succeeded, but, if so that day has passed. Formerly a journeyman printer, wi :h the aid of an apprentice, could take a font of long primer and a hand press, and print a newspaper out of which a living could be drawn, but times have changed. Tbc day of strong compe tition from the city papers has come, and the country editor, to make a suc cess anywhere, must make a large out lay, and must bave a field sufficiently large to to secure something like eight hundred or a thousand cash-paying sub scribers, with a fair share of advertise ments and job work. Thirty years ago five hundred or six hundred dollars will buy a reasonably good country office, but now two thousand dollars would buy an indifferent office which will be short of many of the needed articles. Thirty years ago a column or two of original matter was sufficient. Now, the editor of a successful news paper mnst write an indefinite amount of matter and give much local news. Besides this, he must have the aid of correspondents in various sections of the territory from which he is to receive support. Thirty years ago, country printers went to press by twelve o'clock of the day before publication. Now, in order to give the latest news, they work late at night, or go to press at the last moment. Under the changed condition of af fairs, little towns cannot support a local paper of their own. If the local paper is less newsy and less attractive than other papers, its subscription will be limited to a small number. If it is made the equal of the city papers, the I expense will be greater than the income. Patriotic and public spirited citizens may, out of their private funds, keep a newspaper alive at towns like Wood ruff, but they may soon tire of this, when the inevitable will result. Breaking up the Democraic Party. AbbeviUe Press and Banner We do not understand why the whis ky eleoient in this State talk so much about breaking up the Democratic party. We do not understand why a man's opinons, likes or disikes, of the temper- j ance movement has anything at all to d? j with a man's political principles. We j are certain that every temperance man with whom we are acquainted is a Dem ocrat, and we arc furili ur certain that no temperance man in Abbeville county has any desire to break up the Demo cratic party. We think the whisky men io the Abbeville county are equally loyal to the Democratic party. Then where is the danger of urgmg temper ance laws and temperacc principles. One of the greatest evils connected with the license system is the plan of giving the towns the license fees, and then taxing the people of the county to settle in court the murders, fights, and other difficulties resulting from the license system. Abbeville town has received thousands of dollars in license fees, and in consequence, the people of Abbeville county have been taxed thou OST H ONLY. lange in my Business, flfer THIRTY DAYS, MY ENTIRE STOCK OP s, Men's Clothing, Caps, Shoes, and ^are? )ut will sell them at Very Close res. ?ARR, North of Monaghan's, sumte r, s. a sands of dollars in the way of Court expenses. If we are to have license, let the county get the money as the county has to pay the expenses. Greenville News. We judge that the celebration of Christmas has already begun in Charles ton. We base that opinion on the fact that the editorial page of th? News and Courier of yesterday contained an able and eloquent exhortation to-the boose to pass the canal bill, while on the first page there was a long special from Co lumbia showing that the same house' had killed and buried the bill pleaded for. The Work of tne W. C. , XX., Governor Richardson received a ca}i yesterday morning from Mrs. Chapia and Mrs Neblett, representing the Women's Christian Temperance Union of tbe State. These ladies were charged by the convention which met in New berry during tbe Summer with present ing tbe petition aud resolutions adopted by them on the subject of certain prison reform, and their visit yesterday was to discbarge that duty. They were, of course, graciously re ceived and entertained by the gallant Governor, and in turn treated His Ex cellency to some pleasant temperance talk from woman's standpoint, and the ladies expressed themselves as. greatly pleased with their interview. The petition is numerously signed, and the resolution is as follows : 'Resolved, That as reformation more than punishment is the course to parane with youthful*criminals, the W. C. T. U. of South Carolina respectfully memo rialize the next Legislature in behalf of the women and juvenile criminals coo fined in our penitentiaries and jails, that the women be separated from the meo and the juveniles from the older and more hardened criminals, leaving the remedy to the consideration and good judgment of the Board of Directors of prison and penitentiary work, and ask ing the careful attention of oar Repre sentatives to a matter so vital to oor humanity, Christianity and civilization. Mrs. Cbapiu's lecture last night at the Y. M. C. A. Ilail on the subject os 'heredity' and hygiene, was well re ceived by the select audience which- as sembled to bear her. Mrs. Neblett followed Mrs Chap?n in a very interest ing talk on the work of woman in tbe cause of temperance and religion. To-night Mrs. Chap?n will speak in the Representares ' Hall in the Agri cultural building.?Columbia Register, Dec. Znd. A Feast Without Wine. Col. Hoyt of the Baptist Courier.who was in attendance at the re-union of tbe 'Wallace House7 recently in this city, th us speaks of a notable feature and a verj pleasing one on that occa sion : As a conclusion of this interesting re-union, the members and their in vited guests had a social banquet at the Grand Central Hotel, in which there were two notable features. First, the committee of arrangements decided that t here should be no speak ing at the banquet, and that the ut most freedom of social iuteicourse should prevail, without formality of any kind. Second, that no wine or liquors of any description were allow ed at the table. It is probably tlacs first occasion of the kind in South Carolina, when a party of gentlemen connected with the political history of the State were assembled in a social way that intoxicating liquors were expressly excluded, and it shows the progress of the temperance seutiment in our State. Further, it was fully demonstrated that gentlemen could freely enjoy themselves at a banque* and find abundant themes of animated conversation and the repetition of witty anecdotes without recourse to the sparkling champagne or the wine that giveth color to the cnp. It ia simple justice to state that the credit of this remarkable feature is due to the good sense and judicious man agement of the committee of arrange ments, consisting of Gen John B. Erwin of Lancaster, Maj. D. F. Brad ley of Pickens, and Hon F. A. Con ner of Abbeville, and it is further in order to state that these gentlemen, were the recipients of many warm ex pressions of approval for their admi rable conduct of this interesting re union.? Columbia Register.' Read article copied from the Co lumbia Regixler Than*5 God a brighter day is dawning for South Carolina. Gextleme.\t4 in behalf of the thousands of suffering wives and mothers in South Carolina, we thank you for such a wholesome example. May it be tl*e inauguration of a new departure from tyranical and time honored customs which deserve to bo iaid aside. ?Temperance Worker. Two thousand Doctors promut at tlw banquet of the American Medical Association in St. Long?, and no- wim* or other intoxicating drinks on the table. Thi.uk of iL