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A Family Companioll, Devoted to Literature, Miscellaly, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XIII. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1877. No. 29. e THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, It Newberry, S. C. BY THS TP, GR1NEKR, Editor and Proprietor. Terms, $2.00 per Jul'nt, Invariably in Advance. T7The paper is stopped at the expiration 01 time for which it is paid. T77 The 4 mark denotes expiration of sub otto,. TWO WAYS TO LIVE. There are two ways to live on earth Two ways to judge, to .-c t, to Tiew; For all things here have double birth A right and wrong-a false and true! Give me the home where kindness seeks To make that sweet which seemeth small; Where every lip in fondness speaks, And every.mind has care for aill.. Whose inmates live in glad exchange Of pleasures, free from vain expense; Whbose wants beyond their means ne'er range Not wise denials give offense. Who, in a neighbor's fortune, find No wish-no impulse to complain; oe feel not-never felt-the mind Toenvy yet another's gain ! Who dream not of the mocking tide Ambition's foiled endeavor meets The bitter pangs of wounded pride, Nor fallen power that shuns the streets. Though Fate deny its glittering store, Love's wealth is still the wealth to choose : For all that men can purchase more Are sands it is no loss to lose ! * Some beings, whereso'er they go, Find naught to please or to exalt Their constant study but to show time it was to look forward to! I How many storms would beat along the coast, how many suns would shine, mornings dawn. and I evenings gather to their close, be ~Vore they met again! In the mean that Tom Longworthy came in with a cloud on his face. 'You are ill?' said Letty, regard ing him. 'Not at all, thank you ; only ill at ease.' 'Then you have some bad news.' 'Yes, I have some bad news.' 'Nothing about Laurence?' she gasped. 'I hope not.' 'You hope not ! For heaven's sake, don't you know ? What is it? Dont think you are- sparing my feelings. You are only cruelly' 'The Flying Scud' 'Is lost ?' 'Has foundered. But there's no certainty with regard to Laurence ; he may be among the saved. Letty! Letty ! don't look at me as if I had brought it about. I would ex change places with him gladly for your sake ; I would indeed!' he cried. She left her needle where the ill news found it, and folded away all the wedding garments. And month followed month of anxious forebod ing ; and one or two old seamen straggled home -to their families, battered and destitute, after many hardships, but they knew nothing of Van Everen ; he had not taken the same boat ; some had -been swept away by a wave before the ship was abandoned ; and so by sad degrees hope and Laurence Everen were given up. It was, perhaps, three years and better after the Flying Scud had sailed that Letty, weary - of declin ing invitations and of being asked if she meant to sacrifice herself like a Hindoo widow, joined a par ty of friends going to take their tea in the sunset at the beach, two hours' steaming down the river. She had understood that there was to be but a handful of people, but she found a crowd ; and sitting on the sand, looking at the delicate sea-shell pink of the eastern sky above the tossing breakers, or watching the groups of girls mak ing their table of a sand heap and spreading it with dainties ifrom their baskets, while others gathered drift wood and lighted a picturesque blaze beneath the coffee and clam pots, was a pleasant change from the monotony of her days. Pres ently, while she gazed, a little boat, with the sunset reddening its sails, quenched its speed in the slushy sand,' and Tom Longworthy threw is anchor ashore. 'Letty ! 'Tom!' 'I wish you had allowed me to bring you down.' 'I wish I had ;' and then they fell to speaking of the moon-led tides, about great storms ,and wrecks. 'Do you know,' she confessed, 'their drift wood fire chills me. How do I know but it is a bit of the spar poor Laur'ence clung to?t' 'They are -having supper,'- said Longworthy, turning away. 'Let me bring you something. We have been too gloomy.' 'No ; when I am gloomy, I am in o danger of forgetting. Don't you remember Anderson's story of the poor old maid who used the broken half of a bottle picked up on the beach for her canary's drinkiug ves sel, when it was a bit of the very bottle to which her lost lover had entrusted a tend&er farewell?' 'You don't meani to be an old maid, Letty ?' 'I? The day of my destiny's over. How ghostly the light-house looks ! [ used to think I should like to live in one, once-especially in stormy weather.' 'They will be lighting up present ly ; we will pay them a visit if you please.' And while they climbed the light-house tower, and saw the fishing fleet standing out to sea, and watched the keeper light his lamps, while he told them of the sea birds that beat their lives out against the windows, of ships he had seen go to pieces in the storm, of the times he had put out his boat to the rescue, and his -wife keeping the lights bright alone amidst the gale, their friends were gathering up the fragments and steammng homeward, each thinking that Let ty was with the other. When Tom and Letty came out under the stars, the beach had a wild and lonely as pect; some night bird was scream ing overhead, the gypsy fire smol dered amidst some stranded tim bers, but the sands were deserted. Tom's little craft was the only one in sight, and with the wind dead against them and the tide falling, it would be useless to start for some hours to come. 'We may as well make ourselves comfortable,' said Tom, bringing fresh fuel for the fire. 'I am to blame for this disaster.' 'I don't call it a disaster exactly,' said Letty. 'Do .you see how much our black log resembles a crouching camel? In this weird light I can half believe that we are belated on the desert, and are bivouacking till day. It's rather romantic than dis astrous.' ''m glad you see it in that light. You would make the desert blossom like a rose.' '.? We never flatter those we love.' 'You needn't take pains to tell me that you don't love me,' she laughed. 'I take pleasure in saying that I do.' 'That you do !-that you do!' 'Yes. I do love you, Letty, stretching his arms toward her, for she had risen and half moved away. 'Letty ! Letty ! don't be angry with me for loving you. How could I help it ?' 'You must,' she cried ; 'you mustn't love me. You don't. It's all a fancy. You deceive yourself. I can't a]low you to love me.' 'You might as well say that you wouldn't allow the frost to pinch yo.u, or the rain to drench you. Can't you love me a little, Letty? 'Oh, don't ask me ! don't ! I can't ; it is quite impossible. For give me for saying so. You have always been a friend to me.' 'And always shall be, Letty.' 'Then don't let us talk about love, nor think of it. I shall never marry. 'But if you should change your mind' 'I can never change it.' 'Yet if such a thing should hap pen-women have that privilege, you know-you will find me always the same.' 'But you must be sure that it never can happen.' 'Since you deny me so much, hu mor this vihim of mine, Letty, and promise me that if any change should occur, you will let me know.' 'I can safely promise that,' she replied. 'Thank you.' It is not often that a lover is obliged to impose his society upon the sweetheart who has refused him. One might easily conceive of it as an embarrassing situation, but it did not prove so in the case of Tom and Letty ; they spoke or were si lent, as the spirit moved. He trimmed his boat with a hand as steady as if all his wishes had been granted. They counted the con steBations and the harbor lights, watched the stars set, and the gray dawn shine upon the water, and sunrise .was just beginning to glow in tender lines of color as they reached the town, made the boat fast, and stepped ashore. It was early in December when Letty went into Boston on a visit. She was on her way to the cars, when she was overtaken by Cap tain Crane, a neighbor, just home from a three years' cruise. 'Ship ahoy!I' said he. 'How are the folks at Carbondale ? Don't know me, Miss Letty ? Anything happened since I sailed ?' 'You'll find plenty of change, Captain Crane. rEven Carbondale doesn't stand still while you go round the world.' 'By-the-way, I fell foul of an old sweetheart of yours in Californy.' 'An old sweetbeart of mine ?' 'Yes. Even sweethearts get old if you give them time enough. P'r'aps you don't remember Van Everen!1' 'Don't remember Van Everen !' 'Laurence. Wasn't he sweet on you, Miss Letty? I run against him, just by chance, a week before I sailed; he's given up the sea, he tells me-taken to trading. Guess he's married money, by the look of things.' 'Married money ! Laurence Van Everen! What do you mean, Cap tain Crane i Don't you know that he was lost at sea in the Flying Scud?'. 'Was he ? Then the sea's given him up too ; it's a mutual affair, eh ? He's the substantialest shadow I ever sighted. The Flying Scud was lost while I was off whaling, but I didn't know he was aboard. But, you see, he wasn't born to be drowned, Van Everen wasn't ! His wife can't hold a candle to you, Miss Letty-begging pardon-but I reckon she had solid charms." Letty was in a half-stunned con dition a]l the way to Carbondale, while Captain Crane spun his yarns. Was it anything to her that Laurence was alive-and mar ried ? Did she feel any bitterness that he had given her so much trouble for naught, that he had forsaken her ? She had promised never to marry if he died;- but he was not dead. And Tomn loved her -and she ? Yes, she was grateful to Laurence after all; she felt as if she would like to thank him for having jilted her so cruelly. 'DEAR MR. LoNGwoRTHY--she wrote to him-'when I told you I should never marry, it was because I had given a solemn promise to Laurence Van Everen that if he died I would remain single. But he is alive, and I hope you will pardon LETTY ANDREWS.' 'So the dream departs !' sighed Tom. 'The lost hero returns ; she is going to marry him after years of constancy. She need not apolo. gize for loving him instead of me. It ends like a novel, only I am left out in the cold, like the villain of the piece. I wonder where Lau rence has been all this while. HE always had a plausible tongue; but if she loves him._.Well, I an better go West and change the scene.' But before going West it was necessary for him to run down to Carbondale, settle some family af fairs, and apprise his grandfather of his plans. It was a month since Letty had written her note before he could make up his mind to see her and Carbondale. Then, 'I have come, Miss Letty,' he blundered, 'to offer my congratulations and good-byes at once.' 'Congratulations ? ' questioned Letty, with a perplexed frown. 'Yes. You are looking worn and pale ; I'm afraid happiness doesn't agree with you.' 'Happiness doesn't agree with me? I don't think I ever tried the experiment.' It was Tom's turn to look surprised. 'I received your note' The color trembled across Letty's face, her lip quivered, her eyes di lated. 'You received it !' she gasp ed-'you received it!' 'Wasn't it just a little unnecessa ry, Letty ? I should have heard of it soon enough.' 'How cotld you have heard of it if I had not told you.?' 'Wouldn't it have been in every body's mouth? Can a dead man come to life and nobody speak of it? But I dare say you you- meant kindly, Letty.' 'For Heaven's sake, Tom, don't you see what I meant?' cried Let ty, all of a rose -color. 'Certainly ; you meant to break it to me gently that you were going to marry Van Everen.' 'But Van Everen is already mar ried.' 'Married ! What a dunce I am ! Letty ! Letty ! can you forgive me ?. Can you love such a stupid fellow ? Jove ! a whole month of happiness forfeited by a blunder ! Kiss me, Letty.'-Harper's Bazar. iisallancous. CHAMBERLAIN ON THE WAR PATH. HIS 4TH O JULY SPEECH AT WOOD STOCK, CONN. A Presidential policy, if the term is descriptive, is an anomaly aed offense; it savors of bad faith ; it has a native and histori cal odor of treachery and intrigue. But. fellow-citizens, what is the President's Southern 'policy ? In point of physical or external f'act, it consists in withdrawing the military forces of the United State4 from the points in South Carolind and Louisiana whore they had been stationed for the protection and support 'of the law ful governments of' those States. In point of immediate, foreseen and intended consequence, it con sists in the overthrow and de struction of those State govern ments and the substitution in their etead of certain other or ganizations called State govern - ments. In point of actuals present results, it consists in the abandon ment of Southern Republicans, and especially the colored race, to the control and rule not only of the Democratic party, biat of that class at the South which regarded slavery as a divine institution, which waged four years of de structive war for its perpetuation, which steadily opposed citizenship and suffrage for tbe negro-in a' word, a class whose traditions, principles and history are opposed to every step and feature of what Republicans call our national pro gress since 1866. In point of general political and moral insig nificance, it consists in the pro clamation to the country and the world that the will of the majority of the voters of a State lawfully and regularly expressed is no lon ger the r-uling power in, our States, and that the constitutional guarantee to every State in this Union of a republican form of government and of protection against domestic violence is hence forth ineffectual and worthless. I could frame an excuse for James Buchanan. iIe was the decaying fruit of half a century of North berni subservience to Southern dictation -the poor dregs of a worn-Out politician, whose life had been spent in coweruig submission to the will of those whom he was now called to confront ; but what shall be said of' this President, od ucated by the events of' the last seventeen years, the long and perilous struggle to save the na tion to freedom and justice, the reresentative of a party whose lif'e and inspiration in every hour of its existence has been political justice a[nd freedom for all Ameri can citizens, a President who had literally climbed to his high seat over thie dead bodies of hundreds of loyal men in Louisiana who ad met death in forms far more trying than any battle field in or der that the liberty of which they ad tasted might be kept for their children ? James Buchanan could say he negotiated with those who were in arms against the United S.ate in om-dr that he might by peaceful agencies preserve the in tegrity of the Union and avert a fratricidal war. This President enters upon his negotiations with those who are in arms against the lawful government of Louisiana, in order that he might the more surely betray the friends who had trusted him and the cause he was sworn to uphold. Now, fell>w citizens, I exercise the right of an American citizen -no more--when I say- that a review of this chap ter of our history leaves me in no doubt that the real purpose of the Louisiana commission and of the whole conduct of the Louisiana case by the President was to ac coniplish the overthrow of Gover nor Packard and his authority. Called upon under the constitution, and laws of the country, as its Chief Executive, to discharge a grave public duty-a duty essen tial to the maintenance of the life of a great State, a duty equally essential to the maintenance of human rights and the principles of the political party which had elected him-the President not only ,declines the duty, but he stabs the State that sought his aid, and betrays the principles and men whom he was bound to uphold and protect. Look next at the relations of this adminis tration to the present financial issues. President Hayes has here tofore entitled himself to the con fidence of honest men by his course on this question. Nothing, sir, but the necessity of gaining support. for his Southern policy could have induced him to con template an alliance with the sil ver conspiracy, a conspiracy which regards silver with favor only be cause it has lost all. virtue as a standard of value, and as a cur rency is cheaper than greenbacks. It is the inherent and unavoidable weakness of his present position, the effect of his wretched Southern policy, that be must conciliate an outraged party so far as possible -by yielding now to the demand for the spoils and now to the de mnand for cheap money. Again, the Republican party by all its recert platforms is pledged to oppose the grant of subsidies to private cor porations. Yet no man who to day knows anything of the cur rent of the influences which are gathering at Washington is igno rant of tbe fact that avast scheme is steadily maturing, unopposed, if not favored, by ,this Adminis tration, which aims to take from our public domain and from our public treasury untold subsidies to build a Southern Pacific rail way, a railway for which there is no preseot public need, and from wich private capitalists would shrink with contempt. in the train of this gigantic effort at public robbery will come the re vival of the defunct Northern Pa cific, the building of levees on the Mississippi, and kindred schemes sufficient to again corrupt the morals and blast the prosperity of the whole country, and all this is the price which mast be paid for the privilege of overthrowing two lawful State governments and trampling upo~n the principles upon which our governments and institutions rest, the rule of the majority. Sir, there are laws of moral cause and effect as true and certain as any physical laws. No political leader, no political party can forfeit b.onor or desert principles at one point and main tain them at another. Integrity is indivisible. You cannot be dis honest on one subject and honest on others. Tbe. President's South. ern policy, conceived in his own mind, a shock and offence to his party, reckless of justice and of constitutional duty, if unopposed will more and more weaken the moral bonds which have hitherto, in spite of all its failings. secured to the Republican party the con fidence of the majority of the most intelligent and pat.riotic Ameri cans for more than twenty years. But, fello w-citizens, thbis gathbering is not for me alone. Others, whose titles to your confidence and at tention are older and better than mine, are here. The subject which I have discussed still stretches on before me, but 1 must close. We are summoned to the duty of ex posing and denouncing a great crime-a crime more wanton and unpardonable than the crime against Kansas, which aroused the sleeping conscience of the North, and gave its earliest vie tories to the Republican party. That crime w as committed by a President at the bidding of the party which elected him. This crinie has been committed in defiance of the principles and pledges of the Republican par ty, and in defiance of the per sonal declarations and obligations of the President. No man who counts the cost of arraying himself on the side of freedom and constitutional princi ples is worthy to enlist in this new struggle for the honor and peace of'our country. If I have to-day spoken the sentiments of none but myself, be it so. Silence is for me c.owardice. If, as 1 be lieve, the heart of the nation is true to the old cause, to the prin ciples of free government, to the principles of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, t,hen let it be heard, let it speak by the voices of our leaders. Let the memories which haunt this day be our inspiration. Let us walk again with Adams and Han cock and Jefferson of our early revolution, with Lincoln and Stan ton and Sumner of the later revo lution. Shades of the great foun ders and saviours of our loved country be with us in this strug gle ! Speak to us again your great lessons of patriotism, of courage, of self-sacrifice ! The marble and bronze in which we have preserved your human forms will crumble and corrode, but let your unconquerable spirits never behold the day when a blow struck at the beart of the Republic shall find your childrens' lips dumb, or their hearts dismayed. When Governor Chamberlain had concluded his speech, the Rev. Mr. Stoddard, of Fairhaven, Mass., ai ose and said, that he de sired with all due respect to Gov ernor Chamberlain to say that be believed the sentiments expressed in the address did not represent the feeling of New England. He then called for all those who en dorsed the policy of President Hayes to signify it, and three hearty cheers were given for the President. Somebody then called for three cheers for Governor Chamberlain, and they were loud ly given. Mr.. Wait, president of the con vention then arose, and stated that it should be understood that every speaker was per sonally responsible .for what he said. As for himself he had an abiding confidence in the integrity of President Hayes, and confidence in his policy: Tbese' remarks were greeted by hearty cheers. How A MAN TAXES CARE OF A BA BY.-First, he must have one to take care of. It isn't every man who is lucky enough to have one ; and when he does his wife is always wanting to run over to the neigh bor's "just five minutes," and he has to tend the baby. She hardly gets out of sight before tlpt baby emits a yell which causes the cat to bounce out of the door as if some thing had stung it. ~You give the cherub a piece of sugar. He spits it out and tries to put his foot. in his mouth.,. You give him a shake, and he stops a second. You try another, and he sets up such a scream that the passers-by look up in astonishment. His eyes roll in their sockets, and he stretches out as if a red-hot poker was laid on his spine. The perspiration oozes out of every pore ; your hair stands on end, and the thought comes to you, what if the baby should have a fit? You walk the floor till your knees feel shaky, and try baby talk; but "litty bitty lamby" don't see the fun, and refuses to be consoled. You fear he will burst a blood-ves sel, and frantically pull out your watch and thrust it into his hands, which are trying to pull -your hair out. He stops crying to look at the watch, and you thankfully find an easy chair, and prepare to rest your aching limbs, when that de mented baby drops that much val ed watch on the floor, and sets up a louder roar than ever, just as the appy woman known as your wife comes rushing in, and snatching that long-suffering child from your arms, and stills it as if by magic, while you mournfully gaze on tl'e remains of your watch, and vow never to take care of a baby again until the next time. An editor in Illinois, having en gaged a new reporter, received the followinig as his first effort : "We are informed that the man hoo stood on his bead under a pile driver for the purpose of having a tight pair of butes druv on, shortly afterward found himself in Chiny, perfectly naked and without a cent in his pocket.'' A man of genius never seeks ap plause ; while the little minded of those who have but a small portion of intellect, try by their vanity and conceited boastings to build upon the mental resources of others their own fame and reputation. Howev er, it is for the best, for they soon fall to their proper level-once they reach it, they never rise. It is false economy to purchase articles simply because they are "cheap." One good, durable arti cle will be ten times cheaper than four of those that break at the first handling. Skepticism has never founded empires, established principalities, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith. Flattery is a safe coin which our own vanity has made carrent, and which will never be out of credit as lo^g as there are knaves to offer it and fools to receive it. JIM MYERS. From 1830 to about 1848 there used to trade in stock to South Carolina a Kentuckian named James 1Myers, commonly, and by himself, called Jim Myers. During the last years of his trading he made Abbe ville one of his points. He was a jolly and rollicking fellow, and be sides those looking to his coming for a fine horse or a pair of then, his arrival was hailed with joy by the 'boys,' for he was 'one of them,' although in his last visits he had reached over his fifty birthdays by several. He was full of jokes and stories, telling them well and with out, at all times, special regard to truth ; so that he secured the title and answered to it of 'lying Jim Myers.' He used to tell of his first introduction in South Carolina and avowed his readiness to swear to the truth of the statements. His first visit was in 1830, during the height and excitement of nullifica tion. He was at home a Henry Clay Whig, but in South Carolina abroad he was like St. Paul-'all things to all men' to advance his cause (to-wit, selling fine stock.) He supposed from his reading that South Carolinians were all Nullifi ers and he came down to be for a season one of them. He crossed over the Saluda Gap and his first stoppage was at Hodges, where he found a crowd, and raising his hat he sang out, 'hurra for Nullifica tion,' and the first he knew a huge fellow bawled 'hooray, for Ben Per ry and the Union,' and struck him. He got out by 'explaining' from a severe thrashing. He concluded he had got the wrong end of the story, and prepared to correct him self at once. Going down into Laurens he came upon a cross roads store and grocery where he found a crowd assembled, and alighting and walking in to 'wet,' he shouted, raising his hat: 'hurra for Henry Clay and the Union,' which brought in front of him a flinty little fellow muttering between his teeth, 'whee-ray for Jim Yarby and nulification and dang your buttons,' and gave him a dig under the short ribs. Quite astonished again he asked leave to ,nake an ex planation, which was that he 'was a Nullifier all over,' and which he confirmed by a treat to all such. After these two lessons he never developed his political status until he had sounded the locality and then hie fell in with the majority, lookin'g well always to his personal safety. Myers dealt only in the finest stock pnd his customers were the aristocracy who always had opinions. He always had fine pa cers and trotters, and to introduce them he was neither~ averse nor afraid to stake a little on them. About 1843 he brought with others a pacer for which he asked $300, (and I think sold him for that to John Campbell Martia) and chal lenged with him, for a pace for any distance or amount, any horse in Abbeville. The challenge was ac cepted for fifty yards by two nabobs and patrons of the 'short turf' from upper Trickem, one was Eli Jen-. kins Davis, a prince of that realm, with the privilege of substituting a pacer with -two legs and two arms, a huge fellow with bare feet and coperas breeches, named George Washington Scoggins, present. The gallant Kentuckian 'didn't want a safer bet' The stake was $25 on each side and would have been any higher amount the Trick emites could have borrowed. They piled all they had or could' get. The ground was measured in the flat on the Anderson road above Judge Wardlaw's. At the signal Scoggind struck on his hands from a leap ten feet in front, threw out his legs (frog fashion) and gave a squall from which Myer's charger, ridden by himself, ran back, and before spurs could bring him again to the starting point the stakes. were won by the man-pacer passing out. The Kentuckian threw up his hat declaring he had never won a race that afforded' him half the satisfaction as losing that, and asked leave to add to it a gallon of peach brandy. He said Abbeville was renowned for her Calhoun and other great men, and now he could add his personal testimony to its justice and truth. It was said by him that he hired Scoggins, and took him to Edge field and won back with him double his loss in Abbeville. An elevated purpose is a good and ennobling thing, but we cannot begin at the top of it. We must work up to it by the often difficult path of daily duty-of daily duty always carefully performed. Any work, no matter how hum ble, that a man honors by efficient labor will be found important enough to secure respect. for him self and credit for his name. "Are ycu fond of tongue, sir ?" "I was always fond of tongue, and I like it still" When is a candle like a tomb stone ? When a woman puts it up ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion. and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. Doable columnn advertisements ten per cent. on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribu:es of respect, same rates per square as ordina:y advertisements. Sperial Notices in Local column 15 cenis per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid, and charged :ccordingly. Special contracts made with large edvei tisers, withl liberal deductious on above rate.. -:0: JOB PRIJ TI.1 W DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. TERMS CASH. UNRE.TLD_G A Prur.BAcK.A most amusing scene was witnessed on K street the other day. A lady with a vigorous pullback skirt and an elaborate polonaise was walking up K from Fourth street. In that unaccountable outside pocket which the fashion prescribes shall be train ed to the rear and hung as low down as possible upon the last named garment, she had a new, full spool of threadjust purchased evidently. An end of this, escap ing from the open pocket, caught the eye of a K street gamin-a six or seven year old specimen. He . deftly caught the end, and holding to it, found that it reeled off with. out the promenader' being aware of it. He at once squared himself,' sailor fashion, in the middle of the walk, and as she 'paid off' he 'haul ed in,' hand over hand, to the in finite amusement of half a hundred men who witnessed the operation. In a brief time the line reached clear up to Fifth street, from near Fourth,. and as the lady stepped out on the flagging to cross the street, the end ran off; and she went on with the empty spool, blissfully unconscious of the merri ment behind her back at her ex pense. The cruel men-and by this time a hundred had seen the