The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, March 21, 1894, Image 8
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,1894.
A VILLAGER.
There -?as no lad handsomer than Willie was
The day that he came to father's house.
There was none had an eye as soft an hine
As Willie's was when he came to woo.
To a laboring Hie though bound thee be.
An I on cy father's ground live free,
I'll take theo, I said, for thy manly grace.
Thy gentle voice an thy loving face.
Tis forty years now since we were wed.
We are ailing an gray needs not to be said,
Bat Willie's eye is as blue and soft
As the day when he wooed me in father's
croft.
Yet changed am I in body an mind,
For "Willie to roe has ne'er been kind.
Merrily drinking an singing with the mea.
Be *ud come home late six nights of the se'en.
An since the children be grown an gone
He "as shunned the house an left me lone.
An less an less he brings me in
O' the little he now has strength to win.
The roof lets through the wind an the wet.
An master won't mend it with us in 's debt,
An all looks every day more worn.
An the best of my gowns be shabby an torn.
No wonder if words had a-grown to blows.
That matters not, while nobody knows.
For lore him I shall to the end of life.
An be, as I swore, his own true wife.
An when I'm gone he'll turn an see
His folly aa wrong an be sorry for me,
An come tome there in the land o' bliss.
To give' me the love I looked for in this.
-Robert Bridges.
AN AUTOMATIC LIGHTHOUSE.
There Is No Keeper, but the Bright Light
Blazes Perpetually.
A remarkable lighthouse is the one
which sheds its warning rays from an es?
tuary of the Gironde, in France, where it
stands upon an isolated rock in the midst
of a treacherous reef. The peculiarity of
this lighthouse is that it is unoccupied,
and yet its lamp is burning perpetually.
The famous Eddystone light on the coast
of England, rising from a rock that is
only large enough to afford a foundation
for the structure, is remarkable because
the men having it in charge are able to
leave their confined quarters only once
in three months, when a vessel comes to
them with supplies, letters, papers and a
new detachment of watchers.
It was to do away with this exacting
and lonesome life that the French engi?
neers set themselves about the task of
devising a method by which the useful?
ness of (he lighthouse could be main?
tained without so much personal atten?
tion. It thus happened that a lamp was
invented that would burn continuously
for two months without being trimmed
cr replenished.
The burning fluid used in this lamp is
an ordinary mineral oiL The tube in the
interior of the lamp is furnished with a
wick having a thickness three times as
great as those employed generally in
lighthouses. Around the burning sur?
face of the wick is a cake made of a pat?
ented preparation consisting largely of
carbonized tar. This protection assures
the duration an ? the uniformity of the
flame. A chimney made of mica is
placed around the name, and this in?
sures an increase in the power of the
light. The supply of oil is assured by
means of a reservoir containing 109
quarts,, the lamp consuming 50 grams
each hour. To provide always for the
reservoir being furnished with sufficient
fuel a gauge is fixed at its side that gov?
erns the supply flowing in from another
reservoir at a distance, and this gauge
permits just 50 grams per hour to perco?
late through the little supply pipe into
the supply reservoir.
The diameter of the lantern is56 inches
and it cost $1,490. The intensity of the
light keeps equable until the expiration
of two mernie, when it is necessary , to
visit the lighthouse and replenish the
wick. The light can be seen more than
12 miles at sea. The wick is cleansed
and drawn up gradually by the action
of the tar cake at its mouth. The French
government is arranging topntnpothers
of these houses, and it is also perfecting
an invention by which a perpetual elec?
tric light can be controlled by wires run?
ning through a submarine cable to the
the land.-Exchange.
Hard Deposits In Steam Boilers.
A very simple method of preventing
hard deposits m steam boilers is men?
tioned by M. Schmidt, a French en?
gineer. There are two boilers in use at
tie same time, one being at rest, and
the water in use is very bad, being very
calcareous and magn?sie, with organic
matter, chlorides and a little sulphate of
of lime. Each boiler is allowed to go on
working for about 500 hours before
being cleaned, when it is stopped,
with the water in it, and allowed to cool
down for about a week. The masonry
is allowed to become cold, and then the
tap is opened, also the safety valve, so
that the water runs naturally out of the
boiler, the latter, when empty, being en?
tered and simply swept. The deposit,
being in the form of damp mud, is easily
swept away, leaving the boiler as clean
inside as if it were new.
This method has been in use some five
years and seems to show that the ordi?
nary hardening of deposits in boilers is
due to the absence of water in them
while the mud and the iron are being
heated by the brickwork when the boiler
has been emptied by the ordinary meth?
od under pressure. It is necessary, ho - v
ever, under this system, to be able to do
without the particular boiler for some
eight days.-New York Sun. .
voangeable.
Fragment of a conversation overheard
on Chestnut street:
First Girl-He's sort of changeable,
isn't he?
Second Girl-I should say so. He
wouldn't know his own mind if it came
np to him and said, "How-de-do?"
PhiladelpMa Record.
A fountain that stood for many years
on "the Hain street square in Pawtuck?
et, B. has been removed and set up
in a cemetery. Its base bears in big
letters the touchingly appropriate word
"Welcome."
Some women are awfully touchy. A
widow has brought an action against a
paper which said that her husband had
gone to a happier home.
Reform Salaries.
The following is a statement of the
salari?e of the various State officers, !
and what those will receive who are
elected to office io November :
Governor-At present, ?3,500 ;
hereafter, $3,000.
Lieutenant Governor-At present,
$10 per diem ; hereafter, a per diem
of $8 and the mileage of a member of
the General Assembly.
Governor's Secretary-At present,
$1,500; hereafter, $1,350..
Secretary of State-At present, $2,
100; hereafter, $1,900.
Clerk or Secretary of State-At
present, $1,500; hereafter, $1,350.
Comptroller General-At present,
$2.100; hereafter, $1*900.
Chief Clerk of the Comptroller Gene?
ral-At present, $1,500, hereafter,
$1,400.
Bookkeeper of the Comptroller Gen?
eral-At present $1,500; hereafter,
$1,350.
State Treasurer-At present, $1,
100 ; hereafter, $1,900.
Chief Clerk of State Treasurer-At
present, $1,500; hereafter $1,500.
Bookkeeper of State Treasurer-At
present, $1,500 ; hereafter, $1,350.
General Bookkeeper of State Treas?
urer-At present, $1,500: hereafter,
$1.350.
Superintendent of Education-At
present, $2,100; hereafter, $1,900.
Clerk of Superintendent of Educa?
tion-At present,, $1,200; hereafter,
$600.
Attorney General-At present, $2,
.100; hereafter, $1,900.
Assistant Attorney G?n?ral-At pres?
ent, $1,500 ; hereafter, $1.350.
Adjutant General-At present, $1,
500 ; hereafter, $1.200.
Clerk of the Adjutant General-At
present, $1,200 ; hereafter, $900.
Tags were issued for the following
number of tons of fertilizers by the
State Secretary during the years men?
tioned : 1890. 170,280 tons; 1891,
227,276 : 1S92, 144,435 ; 1893. 200,
995: np to date for 1894.91,000.
"Indications are," says Secretary Tin?
dal, "that the number of tons to be
shipped this year will not fall short of
one hundred and seventy to one hun?
dred at eighty thousand tons.*'
A short time ?go an old colored wo?
man, Louisa Mabry, died, leaving sixty
acres of land about two miles from
town. She had DO heirs and in con?
sequence her property was escheated
to the State. The Probate Judge
sold it yesterday thereby increasing the
funds of the only original Befawm
governor $565. Col Joseph Walker
and Kev. ?. L. Archer were the pur?
chasers -Spartanburg Herald.
For Over Fifty Years.
Mas. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been
nsed for children teething. It soothes the
child, softens the gams, allays all pain, cares
wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar?
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When Baby was sick, we gave Her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became iliss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
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Room of the Y. M. C. A. will be open
daily from 8.30 to 10 P. M.
Dailies, weeklies, monthlies, will be
found there. Also, the Library from
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tooms of the Y. M. C. A.
An earnest invitation is estended to
all to visit the rooms and take advan- j
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