p ??? ^ ^ ^ ^j | | '- '"^ VOL. IV. NO. 30. POET ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1874. iW? ^?? i 1 ??? ?. i ??.??i?????. >-< ?~mmm^ 1 i I i 1 ? - " " " ?? I Itnma nf Intl?rPKt. ConnubLilitles. . A pretty little maiden ^ Had a pretty little dream, A pretty little wedding Was the pretty little theme, A pretty little bachelor To win her favor tried, , And ask her how she'd like to be His pretty little bride. With some pretty little blushes. And a pretty little sigh, And some pretty little glances From a pretty little eye; With a pretty little face, Behind a pretty little fan, 8ho smiled on the proposal ^ Of this pretty little man. Some pretty little " loves," And some pretty little " dears," ( And some pretty little smiles. J And some pretty little tears; j Some pretty little presents, 1 And a pretty little kiss, a \v,.w> onmp nrettr little nroludes h3 To some pretty little bliss. ? This pretty little lady And her pretty little spark Met the pretty little parson And hie pretty little clerk, A pretty little wedding-ring United them for life, A pretty little hue baud And a pretty littlo wife. THE RED LIGHT. " Maggie, is the light there ?" "'Yes, father." " Is it a red light ?" "Yes, father, but don't go out tonight, pleaso don't?stop at home for your own Maggie's sake." They were father and daughter? these two speakers, and the only occupants of the little cottage that stood by I the cliff, near the booming sea. In a pleasant little cottage, where everything was kept bright and cheerlul by Maggie ; her mother had been dead many a year. They ought to have been nnd wonld have been but for V ""rrji ??? # ? r circumstances "which will be made | kDown as wo progress in our story. ' Quite a number of people lived in the neighborhood of the cliff?one of of whom was named Joe Clay. If there ever was a singular character dwelt on the face of the earth, this same Joe was one. He sold liqnor and when the red light shone from his window you could have had liquor for cash or for credit. Once in a while Joe would have what his neighbors termed "moral fits " come over him and would wake up to seeing how much misery he was causing by his traffic and howwrong it was for him to deal out the liquid poison. At such times the red light was withdrawn from the window and a white one was placed in its stead. If this light was seen you might, as well try to walk off with the State House as to induce him to let vou have a drop of liquor, for he wouldn't do it?neitker love nor money would tempt him to depart from his resolutions. How often and often Maggie wished the white light always was shining there. On the railway a red light signifies danger, as much as did the one in Joe Clay's cottage to the heart of Maggie. "Now what's the use of your wanting to deprive me of having a pleasant I . evening once in a while, Muggie?" said the child's father. " Beoause it is goingto be a wild and dark night, father, and you always appear so dazed like when you come home from the Clay cottage that I fear yon wiill Irico vrrnr wnv niul makn a rmssten and fall over tlio cliff. Oh, it is so lonely here for me when you are gone, ^ and 1 get so uervons and fearful someKB times,-that 1 don't hardly dare to look V over my shoulder?tlio very stillness often makes mo -cry aloud for fear," answered Maggie. "There's uothiugcau harm ye, child: I to bed when I am gone and get to f sleep, and I'll wake ye up bright and early in the morning with a father's kiss." " I could not go to bed, much less , go to sleep, knowing you wero out. Do stay home, and I'll sing to you nil the songs I know, and you shall tell mo all about dear mother." There was a tear in the old man's eye, but ho wiped it away, saying as ' he did so, " Now Birdie, don't feel so badly ; I'll not be gone long anyway, and maybe I'll bring you back something nice." " I'd rather have you stay at homo Lwith me than all the nice things you could bring." "Well, I can't stay foi all that, and all your whimpering and whining can't prevent me from going." " Won't you let mo go with you ?" "No, I won't. A pretty thing it wonhl seem to have a girl in Joe Clay's bar-room. Why 'twould look just us if I didu't know how to take care of myself." Maggie pleaded no more, she knew from experience?poor child?that it would not be of the slightest use, so she was obliged to let her father have his own way and saw him leavo the house going in the direction of the red light. An hour passed and Maggie had never felt so lonely before. It grew darker and darker outside, the wind had risen aod the rain commenced to como down in torrents. Fitful Hashes of lightning would for a moment light up the scene, ^ and then die away only to make the darkness denser than it was before. The windows rattled in the casements and the door shbok as though some one i was striving to gain an entrance. The L child crept close to the fire as though k for protection. The old clock struck m the hour, but Maggie was so nervous I she did not catch the number tolled and 1 so sho raised her eyes to see. As she k. did so she caught sight of a lanteru 0 hanging from a beam. "Thko, if father hasn't forgotten his iSntern," exclaimed Maggie to herself. "How ever will he find his way home without it such a pitch dark night ? 1 Sapposing ho should have started bek fore this?he would certainly lose bis i ~w t HaYlngr a Picture Taken j? Tlio operator is just about t [| draw the cloth. His back is o you. The index finger of his t pied hand marks the place for t ? Every nerve in your body is bra the ordeal. The cloth is dra^ r the noiseless and unseen fingers 7 prepared plate are picking u] e features one by one and tranf s them to its mysterious surface, s an influence is this you are un< 3 which you cannot explain, whicl ^ ens every nerve and unloosens j cord and muscle, and sets fr( r and over you a myriad of sen n jou never knew before. The e the camera glares upon you 1 eye of an offended and threi 0 power. Prickling sensations ? in under your scalp, and a heati d within with amazmg rapidity fin the surface of your body and If u pierced with a thousand pains, r stare at the mark with an intens n threatens to obliterate your d Heavens ! how slowly the time e Your eyes grow weaker and ^ 't filling with water as they die on d know they are closing, but you d help yourself. Will he never p that cloth? A thousand refl e upon your appearance, on the in the street, on things irrevere e /tisnctrmig to vonr comoosure would get into his head and he migb fall over the rocks way down into th dreary moaning waves. Perhaps I fhal never see him again. I know what I'J do. I'll just take the lantern and g after him.'' She did not seem to think of the will storm outside or the perilous and dar road she had to traverse?all she ap peared to remember was that her fathe was in danger and that it was her dut; to rescue him from his peril if it wer in her power to do so. She covered over the fire with aslie and, having taken all due precaution against a conflagration she wrappei herself in her cloak, tied her hoo' closely over her head and with th lighted lantern in her hand startei forth on her merciful errand. He progress was slow, for even with lanter alight and the red light shining in th distance but dimly, the road she tra^ eled was full of deceptive holes, int any one of which she might stumbl unless she took heed where she place her little feet. The wind was high and would ofte strive to whisk her cloak from he shoulders and snatch the lantern fror her hand, but bravely and nobly di this child keep on, praying all th while to God to give her strength to ge to the hut of Joe Clay's?praying Go to keep him there until she had placei the lantern safely in his hands. Ever and anon would her light b thrown on the surrounding objects fearing if her father had fallen on th way she might miss him. The red ligh never seemed so far off to Maggie as i dM that night?it seemed tokeepgoin farther away the moro she advance towards it. What if it should not pre ceed from Joe Clay's house at all bu merely be some " will o' the wisp " at trading her towards the sea and the: into it? At last it shone brighter and brighte and Maggie know she was near her jom ney's end. Then 6lie could hear lou< voices above the storm -then slio ap proached the window and peered inshe could see Joe Clay and four othe men seated around the table, 6mokin| and drinking, but hei" father was no one of them?her father was not in tli room 1 Maggie's heart Bauk within her?: blinding flash of lightning shot througl the sky. Maggie gave one wild, pierc ing scream and fell prostrate below th< window. The scream called the men from tin room and as they gazed out into tli< darksome, boisterous night, this wai the scene presented to their view. A little figure drenched through witl the rain, lying on the ground clasping in her cold hands the lantern. The] thought she bad been struck by th< lightning, but she had only faintcc from exhaustion and excitement. "Why, bless my soul!" exclaimei Joe Clay, "If it haint Mark Gordon'i little gal, Maggie ! What could hav< brought her out such a wild and un cauny night ?" They soon knew well enough, for tin child opened her eyes and, looking /> ^ Avnlmm/ul 14 T NT/ VilUUlluj' iiuuui, CAUUiuicii . a n brought the lantern, father then, ni if the memory of not seeing her pareu came to her mind, she added, " He ii not here. He is dead, and Muggie wil never see him more." " Don't take on so, little one?youi father's not dead?he's sound asleep ii my chamber ; he was drowsy like, anc so I thought I'd best put him to bed Ho wanted to go home, but I was do termined he shouldn't; as ho was per sistent, I jest put him in my room am turned the key upon him," said Jo< Clay. Maggie told her story to the men as sembled there?it struck deep dowi into their hearts and the roughest o them felt a twinge of conscience. "Seo here, my men," Joe Clay says? and Joe was himself the speaker?" i this wee slip o' a gal had died out ii this storm, I should always have fel that I murdered her?yes, jest as mucl murdered her as if I'd shot her dowu Now, from this time forth aud forever more as long as I live on these premises the light that shines from that window shall never bo the danger signal red but the purer one of while, and yoi very well know what that means, eh ?" " It means that you'll sell no mor< Hnnnr 9" nn? of flirt mull. "Precisely so, and von know wlicn ! put the white light in the window yoi might as well try to make mountaini walk as for mo to sell liquor." It was a wise resolve of Clay's?bet tor and wiser still that ho kept hi: resolution. It made the cliff better and the dwellers on it happier. Maggie's father?when he learnet how much his child had imperiled hei life to save his?forswore the use of tin wine cup, and did all in his power t< make Maggie's life far pleasanter thai it had been before, lie never strayec from his hut at night?ho told he: tales of the dead mother while sin listened, and, at their close, woulc sing him sweet songs of home am heaven. * Such is their present lifemay their future be as calm aud peace fill as it has been since the bunishmeu of that ill-omen in Joe Clay's window? j the red light. The Lion ami the 1'nicorn. James I. was the first who united tin i lion nnd tho unicorn heraldicaliy adopting tho latter beast from the sup porters of the Scottish sovereigns. Tin conjunction of those animals on ai ecclesiastical vestment of the period o the Information must be attributed t< ..liftiftna c.MnlifiliL'lii fa41w.>. 4 linn tr\ nni , 11,'ll^lUUO OJ IUUVUOU4 iUiun IUUU IV ?ut heraldic arrangement; the lion typify ing fortitude and strength, while th uuicorn is typical of fortitude an< 1 chastity. As such the former may hav reference to the Lord, " the Lion o Judali," and the latter may be an cm blem of the blessed Virgin Mary. Tin tradition with regard to the unicorn that it never would bo caught, excep bv a virgin, and that if its skin was de filed it pined away and died, is wel known. Its capture was a favorite sub ject with the mediaeval artist. I hav before metwith theso apjmals.as a pow ering for a vestment, I think, amoni t&e inventories in Sir William Dug dale's "History of St. Paul's,"?Note and Queries. it your mind, and take such hoi t you that you cannot shake tb K And yet no move to restore thai 5 He stands like a statue cut froi ?- And you?quivering from the t the foot to the crown of the hea eyes blinded by tears, with p< a tion oozing from every pore, am muscle strained until it seems r to snap and let you down upon tl - a mpss of disfigured and palf I flesh. He need not put up th k now. The opportunity which - trolled to reproduce you in per r is gone. It matters not now g looks, only that you may get av t be at rest. You grow hysteric : e despair. It settles down upon y a cloud compressing your throat a its grasp until your breath surgi x on your lungs as if it would renc - A weight is pressing upon you a struggle to wrench yourself fre the dreadful oppression, and y< ? muscle of your body is in i j' What dreadful thing is this ? Yc s shriek; you The cloth is t thirty seconds have expired, at j are photographed.?Danbury Nt I ? Catching the Sea Lion. j So far as I can learn, says a spondeut writing from the Cal 1 coast, the Farallon sea lions are * disturbed by men seeking prof 5 them. In the egging season one are shot to supply oil to. the la ? the eggers; and occasionally caught for exhibition on the mai } How do they catch a sea lion ? they lasso him ; and odd as it s , it is the best and probably th 1 way to capture this beast. An Spaniard, to whom the lasso or i r like a fifth hand, or like the trunl 1 elephant, steals up to a sleepii gregation, fastens his eyo on t ' gtst one of the lot, and, bidi . time, with the first motion of t 1 mal,with unerring skill, flings hi 3 rawhide noose, and then holds dear life. It is the weight of an the vigor of half a dozen that tugging at the other end of hi 1 and if a score ofv men did no ready to help, and if it were n sible to take a turn of thfe reata a solid rock, the seal would sui away. Moreover, they must ban I beast tenderly, for it is easily ii Its skin, softened by its life 1 water, is quickly cut by the ro * bones arc easily broken ; and it frame, too rudely treated, mai ' hurt that the life dies out of * r quickly as possible the captui ' lion is stuffed into a strong 1 cage, and here, in a cell too na: permit movement, it roars ant 3 in helpless fury, until it is tranf r to its tank. Wild and fierce as seems to reconcile itself to th ' life very rapidly. If the narrot * of its big bath-tub frets it, you nerceivo this, for hunger is it * passion, aud with a moderate 1 stomach the animal does well i ' tivity, of course with sufficient v I Thomas Hood and His YVif 3 I never was auytbjng, deares' J knew yon?and I have been bett< I pier, und a more prosperous mn r since. Lay by that truth in la1 s dearest, and remind me of it > 1 1 . fail, f am writing fondly and w but not without good cause. Fir own affectionate letter, lately re< " next the remembrance of our dei dren, pledges?what darling one our old familiar love ; then a d< impulse to pour out tho overflow my heart into yours; and la least, the knowledge that yon e eyes will read what my hands a writing. Perhaps thero is an ' thought that, whatever may bel - the wife of my bosom will have 1 - nf lior tnn/ln 0 l\IiU? It U^IlICJJH Vi HV4 WUV4V , worth?and excellence?all t f wifely or womanly, fipm my pe 3 v Au Office Holder. ' We are quite serious, says 1 change, in recommending officee to go to Gainesville, Florida. f respondent sends a paragraph fr paper published in that place 8 says: "When the Hon. L. G. t left us for his Northern trip, to i- sent several months, we lost iD 1 .1 Senator, county commissionei, I i- instruction, deputy marshal, e sheriff, deputy county clerk, tr - of school funds, custodian of I treasurer's books, senior conn - and acting mayor. Nearly all 9 business was suspended nntil turn." J ?*' - i > RACING LOCOMOTIVES. 0 with .1 An Exciting Twilight Match Between lowaru Two Iron Horgeg> inoccu- j,flw perBOns who have traveled over h? ey?. either of the two great routes, to wit, ced for Lake Shore or Fort Wayne, from rn, and (jhicago eastward, have escaped notic?* tlie ing the fact that the two roads run side p your ^ gide for a distance of twenty miles iferring t>efore they diverge so much that the ^kat passengers on one train cannot dialer and tinguish the features of friends upon 1 weak- the other train, providing two trains every are alongside. A rivalry has se upon exi8ted between the operatives of the isations two routes ever since the completion eye of the Fort Wayne road. By the time ike the the trains reach South Chicago, the pasar^felt 8?n&?rs a*? ?^v? the excitement evolved of the race. On a recent occasion the ishes to Timts representative was invited to saves it > oil as possible under tho circumstances ij then used for fuel. While thus em i ployed, the different groups of work . men present a fine study for auy ram bling photographer who may chance t come that way. The scene is enlivenci i by songs,* often by fighting, owing t > the great facility with which rum ma; , be obtained in exchnngo for fat o " whale-beef and tho proprietor o ' the station must keep a shar; r look-out at this stage of tk I proceedings on the fleet of small canoe f that crowd around, ready to carry ol t any blubber they can lay their hand i on. , In the case of a female whale, th L sea is often whitened by the milk tha , flows while sho is being cut up. Steak I cut from a young whale are not ba |. eating when fresh, and possess this ad } vantage over other kinds of fish, tha . they may be eaten by Roman Catholic j through Leut, the whale, though ir f habiting tho sea, being a mammal. ; Great numbers of vulture-like crow L blacken the trees round the statior t and regard the proceedings below wit t much interest, descending uow un again to steal any flesh or fat they ca I lay their beaks on. It is often nmusin 1 to see a couple of them fighting over j long strip of beef. Having begun t 1 swallow it at the same time at opposit j ends, thcu perhaps having got dow j some five or six inches of if, each cro' becomes aware of a sudden jerkin , sensation imparted to tho meat froi the other end. One or other must di; t gorge, and then a regular light ensue; B The fishermen of the neighborhoo t cut the meat into slices, nud hang it t . dry for future use. After exposure t j the sun it becomes quite black iu nj B pearance, and very rauk both in sme j and taste; but for all that they seem t 1 like it, and what is more to the pui 2 pose, get fat on it. Pigs, dogs, au . cats improve tho occasion, and all b< come quite round and sleek during tb whaling season. For some days after whale has been taken, every bush an tree near the fisherman's house is hun ? ' ? 1 i " with tins jericeu meat, ruiuer icuimu a morsels for tlio crows that hov< t round ready to take advantage of evei j chance that may offer of filching. The Stars. r Hero is a beautiful thought < - Thomas Carlyle : " When I gaze inl t the stars, they look down upon me wit ^ pity from their serene and silent spac 3 like eyes glistening with tears, over tl y little lot of men. Thousands of gene ations all as noisy as our own, hat s been swallowed up by time, and thei t remains no record of them any mor yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius an t the Pleiades, are still shining in the s courses, clear and young as when tl y shepherd first noted them from tl e plain of Shinar 1 What shadows we ar and what shadows we pursue I" Care for a felon?Take it to the peni tentiary. An Iowa man who was called a fraud 1 has "recovered 13 oents damages.] 1 The Auburn flying maohine is der elared a failure,and its inventor a huml bug. j The sharpest torments ore said to be those caused by trouble which never 1 comes. > Dry weather, high winds and sparks. - Young ladies will please be careful of 3 sparks. Three millions of coooanuts are exr ported in a single year from the island j of Ceylon. Marriage is described by a French cvnio as a tiresome book with a very ^ fine preface. A remarkable spear-head and a silver plate have been discovered in an Indian f grave in South Florida. i It is a common thing, in the voyage 1 of life, to mistake, like Sinbad, a 9 whale's back for an island. ' A nervous editor, whenever he gets ) excited, goes into the composing-room ?.1 1?< (/iAmnnao/1 " 5 UliU UCUUUicn wui^vw^. ' A doctor writes to the Baltimore Sun | that hydrophobia can be produced by J the bite of a perfectly healthy dog. r "The one thing," says Jean Paul, r " which a maiden most easily forgets is 3 how she looks?hence mirrors were in* vented. * Three tons of base ball bats have ! been shipped by a single Vermont * mannfactnrner to the Boston market t this winter. f Eight yonng ladies took the final vows of the sisterhood and four received r the initiatory veil at St. Joseph's Oon vent, Troy, lately. , A Western paper is dead. In its last gasp it gently whispered: " Two hunr dred subscribers, and only thirty-one t of thorn paid up." > Few take care to live well, but many - to live long: though it is in a man a r power to do the former, but in no man's 1 power to do the latter. r "Isay," said a rough fellow to a fop ' with conspicuous bow-legs?"I say, ? don't you have to havo your pantaloons out with a circular saw ? ' ' ' In a murder case in Kentucky 300 ' men were summoned as jurors before \ they could get 12 who didn't know anyt thing and were therefore eligible as 3 jurors. The telegraph message boys of i Albany formed a ring recently, and a oharged and reoeived p-y for over 3 2,000 messages that had never been rc . ceived. 3 If a New York Alderman attends a strictly to business he can in the course t of two years accumulate two race ? horses, eight coach dogs and acomforta3 ble brick house. 3 A Cincinnati editor accusses another 3 of stealing three lead pencils and a sheet of paper. The progress of editorial courtesy in Cincinnati appears to r bo "stationery." 3 A Portland school teacher, to punish t a little boy for chewing gum, compelled b him to chew all taken from the other s scholars, and for one day that boy got i tired of gum. * The St. Cloud (Minnesota) Journal 1 says that several Chippewa Indians o were in that placo a few days since, > " studying civilization and picking up * cigar stubs in front of the saloons." It is relnted of Poussin that being 0 shown a picture by a person of rank, j ho remarked, "You only want a little 0 poverty, sir, to make you a good painty er." r I clasped her tiny hand in mine, I t "-i aiiial<1 l,or from the wind and p from the world's cold storms. She set e her beauteous eyes on me, and with her s lips said she, " An umbrella will do as ff well." 8 Dr. Brown-Sequard successfully ingrafted a cat's tail in a cock's comb, but c there are some coxcombs so firm on the head that not even a tale of sorrow like 8 that could bo made to penetrate or toko hold on them. l Silver was first coined by Phidon, ,8 King of Argas, about 8G0 B. C., the ( epoch of the building of Carthage, and about 140 years after the building of Solomon's Temple. Parson.?This term, now vulgarly h used for a minister of nuy kind, has a d classical origin^ and is derived from the u Latin term "persona ecclesiae," the g rector being a corporation sole, a A young lady in Gloucester is charged 0 with keeping her light burning in thq, c parlor until very late on Sunday night, n in order to harrow the sensitive feelings (v of nn envious neighbor into tho belief g that she had really got a beau. 11 A lady asked ft pupil at a publio ex1 amination of a Suuday school, " What ' was the sin of the Pharisees ?" " Eatd jng camels, ma'am," was the quick re0 ply. She had read that the Pharisees 0 "strained at gnats and swallowed jj camels." A young man recently wrote to the Mayor of Pittsburgh : " I desire to get (j some information in regard to razor j grinding. Will vour Honor Jiloase visit " the place where" they grind them, and ' writo to mo whether they grind on one ^ side or both sides at the same time, what size stones or wheels they use and ? if dry, and oblige." ,t Yon may step out of your Pullman y car to get a breath, in journeying through Nevada, at somo little way station, and stumble over a pile of silver bricks breast high, and worth fifty or a hundred thousand dollars. Yon will >f generally perceive, on very close in - i?j-J spection ol tlio puenomeuuu, a uxiueu. v revolver which has a singular trick of following your movements like a mage? net. ie The latest thing in dolls is a young r- lady of tinted wax, who. when wound re up and given a high chair at the table, re reaches out her arms, seizes a bit of e, bread, and slowly puts it in her mouth, id When she has done this a certain num-^ ir ber of times, it is necessary to open ie her back, remove the food, and wind ie her up again. Would that human e, beings could be relieved of indigestion in this manner 1