Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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tttiVITEK WATCHMAN fttabUt?ed April, ISSO. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims'! at. be thy Conn:rys, thy God's and Truth's "_IBt SQCfBKOK, B.t?Mieh.?r J.??. K&* Consolidated Ans. 2. ISSI.] STJMTER, S. C. WEDNESDAY. DEOEMBER 28, 1892. _ Sew Series-Yol. XII. No. Publish:! 3vor7 ^ocuios&ay, bt . Gr. OSTEEN, S UM TE H, S. C. rms : f wo Dollars per annum?in advance. ADVERTI8KKBNTS. >Be Square, first insertion.$1 00 Ciery subsequent insertion. 5? Contracts for three months, or longer will M m*3e at reduced rates. All communication-- which 3ubserve private nterests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be harmed for. TBE S?I0M)S NATIONAL OF S UM TER. STATS, GITV AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, SC M TE it, S. C. Paid, up Capitai.$75,000 00 S?r???s Fund. 11,500 00 Transacts a Generai Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAYINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per ceni, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, July and October.* R. M. WALL ACS, President. L. S. Carsok. Aug. 7 Cashier. em op SUMTER, S C. C?TY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking ousinees. A?s? h*s A Savings Bank Department. Deposits of $1.00 aud upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, W. F. Rkams, President. Cashier. Aug 21. Wt l AUA S 5 DENTIST. Oisce OVER BROWNS & PURDY'S STORE. Entrance on Main Street, Between Browns & Purdy and Durant & Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30 ; 2 to 5 o'clock. Sumter. S. C , April 29. NEW LUMBER YARD, IBEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND the puolic generally th>tt my Saw Mill located on the C. S & . R. R.. just back of lav residence, is now in full operation, and I am prepared to furnish al! grades of Yellow Piae Lumber from unbled timber, a: prices according to grades Yard accessible on North side of residence. J. B. ROACH. Feb 18_ NEW Marble COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE HAYE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the parp?se of working* Marble and Granite, manufacturing IMI?, H 1 And doing a General Business in that line. A complete work-shop has been fitted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEAR POST OFFICE Aud we are now ready to execute with promptness ail orders consigned to us. Satis faction guaranteed Obtain our orice before placing an ord^r eisewher?. W H. COMMANDER, G. E RICHARDSON. June 16 MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, * COUNTY OF SUMTER, Tx the Cocut of Common Pleas. HaU.lt I. Dinkins?Plaintiff, against RvOt. E. Mtddrow and The tS?uonds National Bank of Sunder. BY VIRTUE of a decretal order made in the above entitled cause and dated March 8th, 1892, I wi?! sell at public auc tion in front of the Court House in the city of Sumter, in said State, on Monday, Jauuan 2 1, 1893, being Salesday, between {he hours cf II o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the following property to-wit; "All that piece, parcel or plantation of land, situate, lying and being its the county of Sumter and St:?te of South Carolina, bounded on the North. East and West by lands now or formerly of James E Cu Teli ?n, and on the Suuih by ?at:d.- formerly of the Estate of T. Eugb.-h, deceased, but now owned by Mrs. James W Eaghsh and con taining oue hundred and forty-four acres, More or less, the same being the plantation whereon the Said Runert E. Muidiow formerly resided." Terras of Sale?One-half cash, the balance in one year from the day of sale, ih time portion to be secured by the boi ! of the purchaser and a mortgage of the prvtn ises^oM ; the bo'.d to bear interest (torn ht day of sale, the purchaser to Lave the option of paying h?s entire hid in tvtfi : purchaser to pay for all necessari papers a*id recording JOHN S. RICHARDSON, Master fur Sumter Co. Dec. T, 1892-4'._ MASTER'S SAL?7 State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF SUMTER In the Court of Common Pleas. Alfred ./. China, assignee?Plaintiff, against Wisdom G"ss?Defendant BY VIRTUE of ft decretal order made io the above entitled cause nn.i da ed Uc tober 8th, }S9l, I wiil sell at publicauctiox in front of the Court House in the City of Sumter. in said State on Monday, Jaouar) $d, 1893, being Salesday, between the bou ? of 11 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'cloik in the afternoon, the fbllowing property to-wit; "All tbat piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, iying and being in Sumter County, in the State aforesaid, containing seventy three (73) acres and bounded on the Nortb by t-he Mtle Branch ; on the Northeast by land now or formerly of A. A. Solomons ; on the East by land of George W. Brunson ; on the Southeast by land of Marion Moise ; on the South by land of J. J. Bussard, and on the Weet by land of Mrs. Olivia K. Green.'' Terms of Sale?One half of the pur? chase money to be paid in cash, the balance on a credit of one year from the day of sale, the time portion to he secured by the bond of the purchaser a?d a mortgage of the premises ? sold, the bund to bear interest from the day of sa^e and the purchaser io have the option of pa\ing his emiie bid in cash, purchaser to pav for ali necessary papers and ecordiog. JOHN S. RICHARDSON, Master Sumter Co. Dec. T. 1892?4L. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD, -ONLY One Dollar a Year. During ?8S-3, the Weekly Uerald will be I without question the best hu.? cheapest family journal published iti America. Jt will be profusely U rostrate* hy the best artists in the country, and will bea marsine of liier-* tu re, art and news' absolutely unrivaled in its excellence. Tie MUM Inpral Will be graphically described nnd artis cally pictured, whilf the ?:rtat feature of the j cooaiug year's history, the World's Fair, WiU be eiven particular attention. So complet** will be the descriptions of every thing connected wi'h the great Exposition, and so f-ue to the reality the many illustrations, that a pe?nsal of the Weekly Herald next summer will be ?Itnost as sat:siac;ury as a visit to Chicago. Prizes JEacli Week Will be awarded for the best origionl articles on agricultural subjects. Each issue will contain a pAge devoted to practical and scier, ti?e farming. Tne Woman s Department will unexcelled in practical suggestions to mike the home more Attractive. Every week there will be a numner of I special ?.nicles on ait topics of hu:n?n inter est. Among the novelists who will write stories for the Weekly Herald ?re Jerome K. j Jerome. St?pn?ak, Mrs. Gnmwood, Edwin ! Arnold, John Strunze Winter. Mnrie (torelli, ! Helen Mathers, Florence Warden. Humt Nis- | bet and Hamilton Aide. SEND FOR PREMIUM LIST. Address. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, New York Herald, New York. Subscribe . ANTED! RAMES! For 200,000 st^ers EEKLY yONSTIT?TION. Published at ATLANTA, GA. THE FARMERS FRIEND, A HOME COMPANION. I Has already 15G 000 Subscribers?The Lar gest Circulation paper IN of a>iv We?-klv News THE "WORLD THE GREAT SOUTHERN WEEKLY ? its Agricultural Department is the best ia I the ?hd?i Its Women's and Children's columns are of ; unusual ri-mir-stsc interest j Its Spedii Features coat more mouey than is j psid t*y any ten Southern papers combined ! for genital reading matter, I t? Netcs Columns cover the world. Bill A rp w rites for it. ! Dr. Talmad??e preaches tor it. Joel Cbatidlrr Harris (Uccie Renitis). Wal hice Rr-e? and F:a:ik L. S tan ton are ! regularly employed by it. i A. M. Weir {S- rge Pianteti) has a weekly j letter. f Mark Twain. Rob?,-: Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Frank Stock tot:; Richard Malcolm Johr:s'ur:5 and ?h* bes-t iiterarv ge nius of the worid contribute to i:s columns. It is a Magazine, AND EVERY ISSUE IS AN EDU CATOR. Only A Yeitr. Agents wanted in every locnHty. Money for Kreuts in working fur it. S E XL FOR SAMPLE COPIES. SEND I &*c'n9 the addresses of Ci? !yourself and five neighbors O.A I irlio traiti Free Copies-. NAMES j Write for Agents terms. #&~C\ubs of C fur $3 a year. ADDRESS, Constitution, ATLANTA. G A. CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS, ?"" ^?^ DESICN PATENTS, '^' ^ COPYRIGHTS, etc. For information and free Handbook vrrite to ML"NN" & CU.. ??U Bi.oaI'WaV. Xkw YciiK. O?i?est bureau for securing patents in America. very patent taten out by us is broueia before tne r*ul>l:c by a notice pven free o? charge in the Largest circulation of any scientific paper in too world. So?endidly illustrateci. >"o intelligent n:an should be without it. Weekly, a ve.ir: SL50S?Z months. Address ?fc CO., i.?l" bush eus, Util BrCFUway, 2sew York City. THE DICTIONARY HOLDER Did you ever learn what fabulous resulta prew cut o? tht manufacture ty Mr. Noyes of an ornamental stand to hold tht dictionary ? The?*ory r??'l* l:ko ? fable, but to t"?l it one must ask another question: Have jr?? ever noticed the advertisement toi the Aormoior Company, which starts out as follows; 45 sold in '83 2,288 sold in *89 6,263 sold in '90 20.049 sold in '91 60,000 bo ?o5d In '92 ^ A Steel WindmillTand Steel Tower every 3 minut?e. CT These figures tell tne s'-Cf} of trie ever-growing, ever-going, everlasting Steel Ac-motor. Where one goes others follow, and wo "Take tne CountryV* Weil, that establishment helos.? to La Verne W. Noyes, and the means with wbieb it was l*oilt wp until it is UM third laisest user of steel in the West ? being only excr^ '.e-l by t?o of the great Harvester companies] wa? wholly furnished by the Dictionary Bolder bu*:r.e?. brings us back to the H A 1er, suggests inquiry as to how it ' and :ield and ?tili holds th* fi-M. increasing rapidly from y??r t.->c.ir The secret of Unt success istli:?;: Kr. ?ores has ma-'ea iii-->t (?erfect, artistic and meritorions article. n.J. bas maintained a liigb stand? of sce?enco and suj.pl.ed the arricio ata low ?.'ir*.. The n.erit of these Dictionary Holders bas beeusoKreat that they l.tera?y ? tiiemaslves and in si.ch cre-.tq^unti ties that a sm*.l yrt? t on **ch one iiis raade t!<e ??**nlt ?>> ? mentioned^ They have sor.e t o al nx .st every HabiUble portion o? the pioiie, ven totho remote i-iands of ?&g^ JOS F RH A . WM C. DAVIS. REAME Sc DAVIS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Manning, s. V, Atting to business in any p?rt of the State. Pwcu?e in U. .S. Conn's. Sejit ?1?i "G. W.DICK, D.D. S. Office over Bogin's New Siore, SJiruA??CK <?? main .sri{+,a; SU ER. S. C. OfficeHours.?9 to 1;30 ; 2:30 tcy5, Sept a Highest of all in Leavening Poi ABSOLU' INSURE YOUR GINS ?IN THE Assurance Company, OF LONDON, THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD That,takes fire risks on Gins. For particulars, etc.. apply to AURONT HOSES, AGENT. P. S.?We do also a Gene ral Fire Insurance Business, and represent the ! MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE of New York, I the largest in the world. I Aug. 17. ANNOUNCEMENT. ROBERT T. CAR.R, Desires to ? form the public that he is fully equipped and prepared to do i TIN ROOFING, PLUMBING, REPAiRINQ PUMPS, j a"d at?ything nettai h done in a first-class i plumbing and 'inning shop. Sign and DeCO j rative, Painting, Calsonii:.intr. etc. Also SETTING FANCY WOOD AND MARBLE MANTLES. TILE HEARTHS. FACINGS AND (>RATES. ! Makes a specialty of putting if! Electric i Bells. Annunciators, &c. ROBT. T. CA RR. Shop at J. Can's Mill. Communications left at Walsn k Co's .Shoe Store or through post office will receive prompt attention Oct 26?o iH?N MIXTURE ! Vv7HAT IS IT? THE PUREST AND BEST TONIC IN THE WORLD. ]t builds up the system, it purifies the j blood, it beautifies the complexion. TRY IT, AND HAVE NO OTHER. Only 50c. per bottle. For saie by all your Drujitrists. THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Manufacturers and Proprietors, i April 20. Just Received A BIG STOCK OF Colgate9s Fine Extracts I FOR THE HANDERCHIEF, I SUPERIOR TOILET SOAP. J. S. H?8HS0N & CO., o na? ha Block. M A ?N STREET, June 22. SUM TER, S. C. ! ? ? ? ??OO?Q ! ?ra e? BK?a "??nggA^ O-filli o I m]j ? temo aro very small, yet possess all *J^e vir M tues of t!io largei* Tut fa Pille \ 1 ; 3 lia / bora ?o popi .ar tornii y 3-ears. ^ ?Their s?zo and sugar-coating com-* r.ic??il t?ec^i? for the ?se of children and pcrsonsTvitn vreak stomachs. For I ? Biek. Headache ? j tlicy aro invaiuablo as:t.tcy canse tho A ! food to assimilate, nourish tho bodyQ ami passoffnniura?ly v.ithoutnausei ?or griping* ?votli eizca of Tut fa Pills a aro sold by all druggists. Doso small. Price, ??3c. 01?CO, 'M I'urk Place, Su Y. Tin: Sumter Institute* E INSTITUTE has opened i jj^ under very auspicious circunj ? ne boarding department is well aj.poi:: ? and ?he rooms are rapidly filling up. Thosi lesirttig rooms should apply ai an early day The Art room has heen enlarged and refitted ?ffordtiig ai:i[i!e iiyht, and ail necessary tacili j ties for good work. Sp?cial lessons in Painting and Drawing, e?ch $15 a term; in Book-keeping-, Steno graphy, Typewriting;and Penmanship, e.icl $i0 * term; Instrumental and Vocal Musi( ; eace $20 a te-n?. w:d $3 for use of instumeo ' for practice Elocut on $7.50 a term. Studentp will he received for any of the.--' ! Jpf?ial Sourire ??.: mu tinte dur it ig the jear j arili vw solicit patronage ol tht? \oi_yg ladle.1 j ot i:h,e-?"i'M uc,! regularly* entered in the school For Furi per information >n>t'l\ to ?j. frank Wilson, ! Presidenti. FOR SALE. E . ?.R TWELVE HEAD HORSES ANI Mutes, uiii i?e s'>:d by Mrs. Leobon . \,c('ut;.:. tn, administratrix, <-! esta e E. H ; McCotcban. Apply !<> J Bbrndwg Jones, a Sumter Cotton Mills Pec. 7, 1892. NOTICE. rp HE SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRA JL ON: will he in his office on Sale,day o e:.iti mouth, for the^pnrpnse of i-suing eertifi cates o! Registration to all persons who h>iv? become t wen tv-one. vent s, of age since the lasl General electiun A,'. ? tra listers to'liuse wht have changed p! u ?. ) ?j-idenre W-..S JAMES. N?r?..'.-:: ?roMReflystration. Dec. 7. Z-t. ver.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Huw to Grow Tobacco. ! The Tobacco c-op, so peculiar in : its requirements for success is par tieulaily sensitive and exact as to the food which is given it in the shape of M innres and its idiosyn crasies iti this line commences even in the Fiant Bed where the actual i foundation for a profitable crop is ' laid, because without a good supply of well developed stocky plants, the i chances are, even with fair seasons j and proper selection of Types suited to the land, failure is probable Stable Manure, until recent years, has been the stand by for the Plant Bed and to its u-e can be easily traced the manv failures in f^f^tt i *?? a supply of plants; this .Manure is usua ly applied when the bed is made, it lays there exposed to the I elements and its fertility in many instances is washed out by the laths' or leached out by the winds and the sun-leaving the plants without proper sustenance just at the time when it is most needed. Again the fly, which is tiie greatest curse of the Tobacco I plant bei, is more or less attraete:! , ! and harbored by the manine. Ex ! perience teaches ne that instead o? I tihing manure it is better to prepare the bed without it and apply in its place by thoroughly incorporating j in the soil about 100 pounds of high- ! ? ly concentrated fertilizer to the space ; of about 30x30 yards, then if for any ; reason the plants seem to be back I ward in their growth make- an ap ! plication by sprinkling a weak solu ! lion of nitrate of soda over them, j the proportion we recommend is five pounds of the nitrate salt to a j barrel of water. This application ? shows immediate ^ood effects. The j plant bed being now started, we will j turn to the fertilization of the main i crop: We can commence by boldly ' saying any application of ferilizer i of less than 350 pounds to the acre ] where no manure is used will no? i pay in increase of quantity or im provement of the quality in the Tobacco to justify its use, but from ? the above quantity per acre, up to ? a thousand pounds to the acre will ! pay handsomely provided a proper i fertilizer is used suitable to the ; type of Tobacco to be raised and the I land to be cultivated. Neatly every I section lias its favorite' brands, but ; to the manufacturer to whom demand for Tobacco iert'.lizT conn's one day from a section raising all "Yellow'' I ami the next day ?rom the >?lnp ; ping" centres, what to recommend j is most perplexing, as the honest j manufacturer from a sense of duty : a- well as pride, naturally wants to r< commend only that which will give his customers satisfactory I results. It has been estimated that an average crop of Tobacco is sup posed to renn.ve from the soil : 30 ' lbs of ammonia 35 lbs. of potash : 8 lbs of phos. acid per acre?or i about an equal quantity of ammonia and potash, but only about one fourth j of phos, acid as cither of the other i essential plant foods. j Now let us look at the average ; fertilizers sold for Tobacco and we ! lind they contain abort 8 to 10 per I cent, phos acid, two and a half to j 'three per cent, ammonia, and from \twu to three per cent, of potasi; 1 Evidently in the use of these ferii ! liz' is the planter pays for about ; twice as much Phosphoric Acid as his crop requires and gets about j half as much Ammonia and Potash ! as is necessary to replace that taken : from the soil and these in wrong : proportions. So long as these Ferti : listers are used ii is not to be uondeied j at that the Tobacco planter com i plains at the cost of Iiis Fertilizer j and the smallness of his returns. ! In ihis connection we would add, as I strange as ir may seem, that m some j of the States where Tobacco is a I staple product that the Agricultural ; Departments in those States require ! all Fertiliz-ern, irrespective of the i crops to which they are to be applied ;%to contain from 7.00 to 8 00 per cent ! of phos. acid ; this compels the j farmer to buy for his Tobacco crop j considerable more phos acid than j his crop requires or cati us". I ! looking over a back number of Mie Southern Tobacco Journal, I mi tice that a well known authority on Tobacco recommends the following formula per acre lor the crop when it is giowu in average rotation oh ordinary land: 160 ins, ?cid ?. <? (22 lbs. av phos acidi: 150 lbs nitrate soda (25 lbs, ammonia) ; 1 l'i lbs. high grade sulphate Potash (77 lbs actual potash ) This computed by the ton would make a fertilizer containing ? 00 per cent av phos phoric acid h' ?0 per cent, ammonia 17 00 potash- .-and would c-'^l ?-vS, per ton. At the present prices of the above named articles, this fer.'iii'ser in the phos, acid and ammonia we should say, is vevy nearly right, in every particular but it contains IO.imv per cent moie of potash than the crop could possibly consume or remove from tl-e soil, this IM) t'Oi percent i;f potash is equal to 2-00 lbs at the pi??ce vA actual potash per lb , 5 een's, is equivalent to ftljO.Ou per ton (?l in otlier words while tin; pot aslv * not lost il put. in tin.1 soil, the planter wko us^s ihe above firmila in iuv opinion, will lie paying ??1.0 01) pei- low. jijore lor this Tobacco fertili zer than would be necessary f>r Uis pr?sent cn*l>, and would be simply hanking his lami wi h potash- to be drawn from in after years. In looking over the fiomulas o? ?.'tr?izers manufactured by my firm ut 'I'oLuicoo?oovcting; lile Pennsyl vaiiia, M ay land, Kentucky West Virgili?, Virgina, ami North (Jaro lina Tobacco r-ectious?I lind Ihat lijoso averaging phos. acid 4*00 per cent., polari? fee from chlorine G.00 per ceni. , ammonia 5 00 per cent., have paid best, producing moro evei crops in growth wit Ii leaves that lu\c matured well, smooth and silky, which were easily cured ami free burning when working up : such a fertilizer on the sanie hasis as the above, including the cost of mann factoring, bagging and d ravage, can be supplied at ?.">0 00 per ton I would warn Tobacco planters against u*ing fertilizers for Tobacco that contained potash in the form of manate, it has a tendency to make the leaves green, brittle and stringy Lovf grade tankage should also bo avoided, as from its uso fungus diseases are invited. The Mayland Agricultural Experiment Slat ion wfll soon solve tue question of adaptabili ty of fertilizer to the types of Tobacco and its relative value on different soils Last spring my firm made them ten different kinds of manufactures for Tobacco tests, some were in the shape of complete manures, some j contained only potash with chlorine in it, some with potash entirely free from chlorine, others with two or three plant foods in relative different proportions; these tests were sent to careful Tobacco planters, having different soils in the s-Veral sections of the State in which Tobacco was raised ; pa?t of the crops being worked in the ordinary way ami part being by improved methods. Harns for curing we:e built, but the results at this time are not ready for the public, or I hey would bo given herein. As these tests must he of he greatest imp?t tance to every intelligent Tobacco planter, I would suggest to those to whom they many be of interest that they address .Major il. E Alvord, Director Mary- j land Agricultural Experiment Sta ! t?o?, College Park, Md . for a copy of his report as soon as ready. ? IV. S. Powell in Southern Tobac co Journal. New-Year's Gifts in China. The custom of giving presents, and particularly that of exchanging New-Year calls, is essentially Chi nese. The coincidence of these two rather peculiar acts of brotherly love ' coexisting in Holland and Scotland ! should furnish cause for thought. It is a little singular, certainly, that the Chinese, who are not an overcharitable or forgiving race, should enjoin the forgiveness of all debts at the beginning of the new year. It is an amusing spedarle in Chi natown to see the creditor merci lessly hunting down the debtor during the few days that remain No one is exempt from this necessity, for in order to pay his own debts he must in turn collect what ! is due to him. The debtor who can ! not fulfil his obligation by New-Year ! goes into bankruptcy by the opera I lions of a custom stronger than h w. lie undoubtedly cams the con ! tempt of his fellow men, but at least j i he is free from their persecution, j His deb s are forgiven, with quite i as much sinceri tv as could be - . ! peeled under the circumstances Besides this painful phase of Chi nese yuletide, there are other pre parations to be made for the fitting celebration of the great three day festival, beginning with lue first day ? of the the first month. The red i peach paper which has been removed from the doorway must, be replaced, and therefore about this time the professional letter-writer of the Chi nese quarter takes his station on the street corner, and is busily employed in writing pen ten ces of good om*?n. Natura ly some of these gentlemen are more popular than others, a letter writer who claims to have passed one of the inferior civil service examinations, or who at one time has been connected with a fashion able joss house, bei ig more in demand than he who has picked up his smattering of knowledge at school, or by what is an important factor in Chinese education, self help It is quite customary, also, to bring these red paper slips to the jo s house, where for a trifling fee I hey are stamped with the seal of the joss. Certainly it is wait h taking some trouble with a little piece of paper which is to do duty f?? an entire year ; for as soon as the sips have been prepared and stamped, they are glued to the doorposts, j against the lime when the evi I spirits .'shall return and mike the list state i of the man worse than the first. ! The moral which the Saviour point [ed out to His disciples tha* so?*k modtc effort is inevitably followed I by reaction unfavorable to true j spirtual development is fully borne out by the h story of tie? Chi ?oye peopie ?H Barden Mcl> r.voll, in ! l i ai } er's Magazine Fifty Hours Time Required. _ ! People do not read the J?hlo. Tho : are afraid of it. Thousands of church j members never rea l it. Oilier th?u j -amis but seldom. It is nor a big ho ik is to length as -o many seem to think i Ir is indeed a '"big hook'' ia the light ofetortiity ami th.; do-tiny of the iin I mo:ti.I soul You enti r?ad riie fidile through in h> ?vs in my hours, think you? V>u who have not trie! ir think it wuuld lake a year or iwn years longer .j I'here are twenty-few hours in a day. It will not rake much over two days to i rea 1 ir Bible Header says rhu '-the actual time required is fifty hours, ! an I ess y?>u read ir. as you would a novel, j in which case y>u can get through it in j forty hours Try a hook at :> timo j The fifty chapters of Genesis may be ; read in rwo hours and twenty mi nares, ?and every one of tiki Lund red and fifty Psalms may be read in three hours ; The longest book in the N-ew Tesra i meat may he read iu an hour and a I half, and the shortest in just, one min ute. If the New Testament was p, :nt ? ed in attractive type, ami put in tlw I hands of a rapid reader for rite fi'-st time, he would devour it in?nine hoars. 1 '?nWilUWigt?nMis$ttty?'i'i. A Mare's Nest. 0, fhe wicked, wicked town! Here it is again. A surveyor lias made the startling and wonderful discovery that while there are 2,010 acres in the town of Newberry o?ly S03 are returned for State and (Jounty taxation. it's awful, isn't it ? That's what the discoverer thinks. But let us see. There are somewhere about 200 acres of streets in the town, which are of course not taxable. There are somewhere about fifty or more acres of public square, belonging to the county, and church and school lots, not taxable. A large portion of town property is not assessed by the acre, but by lots and buildings. Somebody has simply found a mare's nest. But the discover of the lost acres insits that the public streets ought to be taxed : that the streets by which taxpayers' lots are bounded ought to be counted as part of their lots, as is done in case of farm lauds and public roads in the country. In the country public roads fo:m a very small fraction of a piantati.>u or farm : but in town the public streets adjoining lots a^e frequently more than the lots themselves. Take, for instance, the lots fronting on tfie public square. Suppose, however, the streets were counted in as part of the lots : nobody would be helped or hurt. Take a lot !00\30 feet Add half the street in fr- nt of it and, if a lot, half at the side of it?and call the lot, say, 120x50 f et?and so assess it. It would not be worth a dollar more on the market, and there fore would not be assessed at a dol lar more, and would not pay a dol !ar more of tax. There is nothing in tins mare's nest either. Where Civilization arid Sav agery Meet. Upon the 1500 miles of the shore of Luke Superior there are living now less than 150,000 persons, and these are mai?iy io bustling cities like Duluth, Superior, and Marquette, in industrial colonies like Calumet tand Red Jacket, or in struggling little ports like F.>rt William and Fort Arthur. Even there the wilderness and primeval conditions are face to face with the robust civili zation which is shouldering its way as capital is accu-tomed to do rather than as natural growth usually asserts itself. Not that, it is not a wholly natural growth which we 6ud at all points on the lake shore, for it is all in response to the inexorable laws of supply and demand. Vet the communities there have sprung into being far apart from well-settled regions in answer to these laws. Thus it happens that today oce may ride in an electric streetcar to the I stariing-poirjt for a short walk* to a trout stream, or one may take the steam railroad, and ia an hour aligli! at a forest statioo, breakfasting there, but enjoying for luncheon a cut of the deer or a dish of the trout, or the par tridge which he has killed for the pur pose. It is. so to say, a region wbe:eio the wholesale fisherman with his steam boat di.<turhs the red man who is spear io? a'fi->b for supper, where the wolf blinks iu the glare of the electric lamp, and where the patent stunippuller and J the beaver work side by side The strange condition is most start lighfly illustrated by a recent occurrence in Michigan, iu the sanie region. Close to a wa-ering resort which is crowded i:i summer by persons from all over the West, some tneu were cutting timber in the winter. Two brothers were among them One hit himself with au axe, cutting open an arte>y in his leg. The other hurried away for surgical help. When the messenger returned, nothing bur, the bones of his bro hjr were left. Wolves, atrrac-cd by the scent of his blo :d, had eaten him up. It is thus that there is forced upon the corn prehension the practical newness 1 of this giaut fresh-water sea, which geologists would have us belive is millions of years old', and which even history mentions in detailing the ex ploits of men who died iu the seven teenth century D'if, with the youth of this new civil zation have come the vigor and enterprise needed to develop industries and ?; rear cities of which all the people of all the States, new {and old, any well' .vel proud ?Prom ! 'Broth -r t.? rie S?a.'' by Julian Ralph, ! in Harper's Magazine for April. A Good Joke on a Doctor. A few days since a Western city clerk happening to meet a physician of the place, the latter mentioned that he had" a small c'aim against j the corporation for attendance upon ' a ci tv patient, lie was told to maKe j out his Dill, send it in and it would ? be paid at the next meeting of the j board of aldermen The cle*k liap j petted to complain during the iuter I view of being a little under the Sveatlier; the physician took note of his symptoms, ami said that upon reaching his olii;;?; he would write him a prescription that would put him lo'iights, and which he would send by tin' b ?y who would bring tin* bill. ? afternoon of the same d iy a boy called at the clerk's office at the city hail, and left two pipers, mentioning who sent them. "All right,f' said the clerk glancing at the papers that were thrown his desk. Now the chit- ?graphy of most physicians is not plain, but that of thi> particular M. D. was a ero?s between th-e usual medic ne style and the characters used by Clwuese astronomers aud lauudrytuen.. When live detk cam*: to examine the two p.spilts he was nwcU puzzled to make out which* vv;?.s. the presen" lion and which the bill. Sotnezig j7*g characters that appeared' np ?n one of the papers le.i him to think it the prescription. II?; took it to the drug store and handed it to the clerk-, who turned it. in several directions, and* then s'iid. "This is lrt>iri! Di-, is it not?'1 Being ah swered in the ailmnative lie was at once cheerful, and soon handed the clerk a big; power to be taken at night, and a bottle of some dark liquid to be taken irt the morning For two days our clerk looked rather pale about the gills, but felt on the whole that the medicine had done considerable good. At the next mee>ing of the board the doctor's bill was presented, but about all that could he made out of it was that it called for $7. It was referred as usual to the proper com mittee to be examined and reponed upon at the next regular meeting, when a favorable report was made' and $7 was allowed. The next morning the doctor came to the clerk in high dudgeon, and said; "How is it that you cut down my bill? 1 see by the papers that the board only allowed me $7." The clerk said the bill was allowed just as made out, and to prove that it was right, handed it to the irate physicican. The doctor looked at it for some moments and then exclaim' ed May I be hanged" if 3'ou and the board of alderman heven't been at work for two weeks on my prescrip-. tion, and have at last allowed" nie $7 on it. "Yes," cried the now aroused and excited clerk, "and may I be hanged if I didn't take your infernal biil to the drug store, and they allow ed it there and gave me a dose that near physicked me to death The best joke was that the drug gist's clerk, when questioned about making up the prescription, said: "When I get such a looking paper from Dr.-, I always put up a big power of calomef and rhubarb, to be followed by the black diaught, and this is the first time there has been a fuss about it." An Old Time Merchant. "In the last forty years," said an old time merchant the other day, "no change in the iri'e.ehahtile business down East lias been so marked as the establishment of fair dealing between the merchant and the customer. Forty years ago wlien I entered a dry goods house in Boston as"a sales man, the invariable rule which infiu enced our work' was, 'Sell something no matter how nor what/ but sell ; The head of the firm spent the day perched on a high platform which afforded him a view of the entire store. Jbveiy customer and every clerk was thus subjected to a rigid surveillance. If a salesman failed to make a bargain the old man would pounce down on him with, 'What did that customer want V1 " black silk shawl, s'r," was one of the replies which I remember to have made. " 'Well, didn't we h?ve what she wanted V " -No, sir.' " 'Then, why on earth' didn't you sell lier a fine-tooth comb ? thundered the olii mah "Something must be sold to eveiy7' man ihat' enters' that door.7 "A few days later there came to my counter a Portuguese woman, swarthy and round, accompanied by on admiring sailor. She wanted a shawl. Those were the days when black'silk shawls were all the rage, and I hastened" to show her the stock Nothing seemed to please her, how ever, and I w.is in despair. I ob served the old man's Cold grey eyes glaring at rr.e from'the pial form., and redoubled my efforts to drive a bargain, but it was no use. The woman couldn't speak very much English, but she looked her impassiveness in a manner that spoke louder than words". Incidentally it struck dismay to m} heart, dismay which increased ten fold when, with a final shrug, she,and her escort started for the door. ij.;i?ors jvi t home from a erase always have money, and the consequence of missing so rich a piise were indeed peri ous. It was no arguing, how ever, for the woman was plainly not attracted by anything in our stock. "Driven to a mild form of depair, I followed them to the door, casting" my eyes right and loft for some chance attraction. Suddenly I ran across a pile of those big figured ami srailv flowered red and black table cloths which were so generally used in those days and pulling the gayest of them from a pile, threw it over the shoulders of the retreating woman with an exclamation o? profound ad miration. She took one look at it and beamed wHh joy Her escort beamed, anil my delight knew no bounds. " \ much V asked the sailor, eagerly, pulling some money from his j pwck**t. ; ' 7 \ , these tablecloths cost us j only 0:> cents a piece. 'Go as high as $2J V I asked, noting the in creasing delight of the woman, as she surveyed her new gl??lies. ?' 'NO ; ?1 ">,' he said, j "-Well," I replied, after hsesrrtati-ng, 1 split the difference and call it ?17.00/ He consente?! and paid, and arm in arm tini pair departed, happy beyond the poweer of words. The old it an was d lighted and my fame as a silesm ?n spread among my fellows. in (iroso days nobody thought of the means in the all pervading desire to attain the omis, and the ovan who could sell a 94fc cent tabi? cloth ?>r a ?1.7 shawl was indeed a Itero-. Tue next morning, while I was refi cting in a contemplati ve sort of wav upon the delights of fmv1, to n;v Iunior I saw my two. customers of tie1 day before eire? frl-x; store ami advance toward rue rapidly It Ifetsiu-d across my mind at once that th.*y h<vd been told c>f the deception that I had practice I and we ye com ing back for satiis?actiou. ?fusi whai forni that satisfaction would take I bad no means of ascertaining, but I was-fcerribly frightened. The sailor was fo*emn t in the group, and be sides-the Portuguese woman of th? day before, another woman accompa nied hem In my fright I pictured thi* second wonitu as the Cue who had told'lhhni of the swindle. If was to?" latti' tu' rAJte} ? V ??tis?* my ground. Oii? h:>w I wished t? be . a thousand miles away. By that time Uiey had come to a standstill, and the sailor was directly7 in front of me. 'YVan't another,' was ali h? saiu".1** Breaking a Sheep Thief. A stranger wbo was up in the 'Por-* sum Ridge couhtry' th? other day fell iof with an old resident of the section acfdf' engaged him in conversation. After discoursing on a variety of subjects, from politics down to the latest a?igt";-" borhood gos.-dp, the old resident said: "Stranger, ? reckon you' never'" knowed old ib Sykes?* "No, I never did," th? efranger re-* plied. 4* You've heard*'tefl of'im' ? Mow?** "I do not remember' that V etkt have " Ham ? "That's qtare. thought shore'most eve'body bad h?afd V o?d* Bob -i's a moury noted'mat* " 'Indeed: Por what U tie voted??' "For bein' the boss sh?ep 'th??f o" this"* yere section " "Sheep thief "Azackly. reckon.' sf rang??', ft 'u i be niouty hard to figger o?t jest"** how niany'sh?ejfo?d'B'iJa has stole in his time. He's stole 'em from ever'-" body for ten miles around, an' be j?si' keeps right on at if/y^ar ah yfeaf" - out. Ke stole some from me once." **Ouly ouce?" "That's all, L broke him' off righV on the'start. You can't gue>s how?" "Threatened to h?Ve bini arrested; ? suppose?" "No' DbtmV t?* tr?e kind " "Threatened to shoot him?"* "Nary." "Then what did you"do?** "Wal, s?r, old >b stole mf b\ieip\ one night, ah the next niornin l missel 'em. I knowed in a minute that he'd* got "em, so I determined' to' git' eVen" with hiijj an* put a stop to his brotberri' 'lougo' my property. I fingered' dc& a plan in no time, an' takin' my old pis tol, I went over to Bob's* h'?u'.se.-* B ib'was settih' in th? c?roer by the fire place au' . ? Sykes was cooking breakfast " " 'Mi's Sykes, says , iVe com'?**., over to take breakfast with yoi?* ab* if you've any mutton,- want some. F of powerful fond of it, says I, eo'please'* cook a.plenty.' "Wal, Mi's Sykes she went to. work' a slicin' an a-fryin o' mutton* an1 tow her to keep at it till X said"stop', 'cause' I wanted a plen'y. So she sliced an' friend till she got oibsi halt" a sheep' cooked; then I told her sbe might sfcep* . for awhile. Sbe looked skeered, an' with her eyes* stickle' out like knots'* she says: ?* * Shorely you" cao'f, eat aft thatf mutton much less wan tin' more.. . " don't know," says I, 'PU se?.9 "Wai, when if1 was all on the table"" jest ready to set down to, f draws out tny old pistol au' p'intiu" it at Bbb's?yaf to him:, " 'Bob set up thar: now an* pitch" int?> thbt mutton.' . . 44 Bob see bambim an* h? turned pale an' begun to shake, bui ohe giknee into that old pistol barrel settled him^ an' he done what I" said. H? eat,* ?b* eat, an' eat till he'd eat enbugn"' for d dozen men: then he storjs, lays down his* knife an fork, au looks up'at cue sort1 cf pitifu*. like sayin':' " 4 I can't eat no morel' * ? 4Ves you kio, says l. "Ajnybo?/ that loves to steal j&eep like you' do ought to eat a whole1 one. Eiat on, s?yd* I, brmgiu' the old pistol iuto line riiff his fa"?te\ "He let into it agin aw' ior a goodJwt-? eat right along. Tbeo h? jets up'agrsV an looks at me appeaHo like, ab' ?aysr " *1 jist cao"t eat uo more. Fin' plump chuck fall.' " -Oh, yes yW kin. say* f. *Yoa ain't half eat yet. You're awful fot?d o' mutton, I kuow, says I, an' this is voy sheep'ae' my treat an* I tri'eanfor you. t?", have enough once. GO into it ?g?ibV says I.* 4,Wal, sir, I kept the old cussa-eatia' mutton till he couldu't git anothef bite down him au' as fast as he put it in* his mou-bit run ou?." Diet .bini' qui*,' then an" tola* him I wouldn't be bara on him because it was the first ttmej" but if Y ever caught him stealin' sbeep* from me again I'd make hiui eat a whole mutton, if }' bad' to rain it down' him with a pole." "Did he ever repeat the offense?"" the' ? stranger a>kcd. , "Uirdly lie deals' sheep from* other folk's but he never bothers about' m e any more. He knowed meant' what I said, au' you b?t he d'?u*t want' to eat more muttou at the p'iut o' a? pistol.'7 ? ? . ? - ?n a nutshell, the work of the pres ent legnature is about this: The order-" iu? ot an election "or a coustitutiouaV cou vent ion:'a railroad bill (hat is goiugr to raisb a big rumpus" a factory labor bill that will give dissatisfaction to* operatives and employe-;' and the in crease of a barf nii? in the State' tax levy. More than anything else, in?' this we see lots of campaign maferia? for the next ehc-ion, and unless the legislator" spend "the next sessimV undoing what tb?y' Have" don?' a? tli?'?T the^e is a lively time ahead of them.' ? Yorjfvrue Enquirer. (?iimmV t i*t?h1~. ^ <?.?ii.l '.)? k? ??re ti ore than ski? 'Ic^wib?u" ?'g up?'?n . 'fi ci It 1 ; oindisioR. ?? ?fi5 vital .* jrttis. It the ' '? Ii? inactive, ywit have a" Bili.ms L*?ik. il t??at" &totuach be ?liso-nlere^ *..? 'uve I*>>pic fi'.ok anil if>???:r Kiilneya Ke a??'iCtetl vu have a jittiCiieil L'??k. Secure sjimkI health and you ws?lhavegoi?-! look.*. Electric. Bitters is the greut alterative an.I Tonic acts i?ire?"t?y un ihc^e vt'a? ?r">:ir s. ('ufes ? ?," B??f??nes, IJuil*" n?ili pive.* a ?<uh1 co:nplexio??* Solii at J. F. \V.* D?:LoVuic's Drug ?t?fe, .5(?c?" p?r hoirie. _ 4 - - --^mm> - Arjsw?r This Q?estionl Why do so many peoule'Wff aroiind" u*t"* st'"t:?s to iire*vr to-.sn!??r ?tid t?e ciaiie miserable by hi ige*?ioi*i Constipation, IVfcZZiness lbss_ d? Appetite, Comii.g up o? ihn Food, Wll?w Sk.u, when fur Toc. ve will sell thfui'?hiloh'V . Vitalizt-r, guar? h teed to cure them. Sold hj* A. R China, ?aluter, S" C. For Over Fifty" Years.* Mrs. WinslowV Soothing Syrtip has fceett* ns?i tor childrrri te'tfthiiijr. ?: j-o<?itiei the? child; softens the g?:m?.' a?i?ya .\11 p?in, eure?' wind colic, n?d is 'he '-est remedy foa Diarrh a.' Tu>nty-five <ynts a '?ottte. . IF VCrZi KM'ti A< Ut S, ?? * ??? ?!1 worn ?>ut, n^Uy ?-'?>??? i f'?rno?l? ?^,"it'iitf?sicrat<icb?litv try Ii?iO**y> t HOS i HT EUS. l?fvi? cure you, cleanse your liver,, and glfO ftijoodTiiiiKi-Tue.