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MANIN~.CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 86 lollyhocks. A flaunting. gra('evess tiower. you say? Ah. well, it 1i, ;- so; And stli it so:ns out yesterday. That morning oi: ago. I almost see the cottage yet. The windinig pt h-an Margaret. A light-wine-ibreee sailed gently by; The lark's clear note afar. Thro' the blue spaees of the sky. Slid like a fallinz star. I never saw herlook so ftir: Ab, if I told her, would she care. Withifi a scarlet hollyhock. A pollen-laden bee, plupplungin i ade the blossom rock. S5SOpsh('Vhd e Sat1ile at n'. And with a motion swift and light She caught the silken petals tight. Loud hummed the bee with angry wing "Why thus so ill content? The sweets you soucht.poor foolish thing." She said, "are all misspent:" My heart leaped up to hear her speak: A sudden cour.-ge dyed mny cheek. "Dfarling!" I ceried, "Oh, let him fly, And take me in.his piace: Fast prisoned in yc.ur hezrt could I Ask any sweeter grace? I could not struggle to be fret. So dear a jailer holds the key. Her cheek flushed like an op'ning rose, No word her bps did say I saw her little hand unclose, The glad bee tiew away. Ah. me: 'twas forty years ago My hair is gray-y.t this I know: I've roamed thro' many garden bowers And blooming fields since then In summer wild-wood gathered flowers, And in the munmin glen Pulled harebells fromt the moss-grown rock. Yet most 1 loved the hollyhoek. -Mary A. P. Slansbury. LOVE TO RESCUE. "We'll take You in," said Betty, with a patronizing air that was quite new to her, "because you have been so kind. 3- I have got us all the boughs to deec rate with. But you mustn't tell any body, George. Mr de Vaux and I want to astonish the natives to-night." It was George Knox for whom she opened the door of tbc new barn, that marvelous structure of Mr. Spraoue's, an outgrowth of fancy farming onlarge capital. There it stood, like a palace of agri culture, painted pure white, with lattic ed windows of emerald-green, and an airy observatory at the top, surmounted by a gilded weather-vane. The barn had just been finished that summer, but the crops were all in and half threshed when Betty made up her mind to have a harvest-home. There was plenty of room for dancing in the wide area between the mows, w, hen the farming implements and machinery were mo'ved out of the way. "Walk in, Mr. Knox," 'said Clarence de Vaux, with the air of one to the man ner born. "Miss Betty and I have been doing the decorative inside." George winced at the constant asso ciation of his name with Betty's, and looked jealously at the girl's fair face, which had never seemed farther from him than now. "She will never care for me," George said gloomily. with a desperate look at his brown hands and homely clothes, thrice ugly by contrast with the dainty elegance of Clarence de Vaux. He w 'ent into the barn marvelling, vet fRll of de'sr::ir. It never occurred to him that he had any part in the beauty of that in terior, though he had loaned his team and spent a whole-day cutting boughs and gathering tlowers for Betty at her command, wit!hout even know ; what she was going to do with them. '-Doesn't it look pretty?" Betty de manded, as they stood insiide of the barn, and she took a few giddy turns with De Vaux ov'er the well-waxed floor. "This is Mr. tie Vauxs doing. He is quite an artist. I assure you.' -'Ah, now. Miss Betty!' cried De Vaux. pullng his mus;;tache. "Spare my blushes" "It looks beautiful ," George said simply... And for a momi.-,t his honest eves shone with pleas' The scene w.as ai .. pretty one. All around( the w~uiis were ar'ranged im promptu seats: thet walils were hung with green boug~hs and autumn leaves, with fruit and grain, aund farm inple ments gaily' decked with ribbons. Chinese lant-rrn, uapeniid from the :afters, and a chandelier, made of laths :Ieveriy nailed to;eher, suppor'ted a hundred wax candles. -You will hatve to be careful about fire," suggested George mtildly. "With all that hav in the mows, the least spark would'nmke a m>aze in a minute." "There won't be any danger, I guess," Betty said carelessly'. "Would you like to go up in the cupola. George? There's a loveir view from there. You can see Ranke's bill and the mill-pond quite plainly. Won't you come up. Mr. de Vaux?" "No, I thank vou " De Vaux said lazily. "I amt ico tired for stairs. If you'll exes'se maeMiss B-tty, I'll wait Ior von below." A look of pique c'ame over Betty's face, but she managed to hide it. and went on up the staircase with George. There wvas a lovely view up there, but he had no eves for it. lie had been longing so for a moment with her alone that fie pressed close to her side, and looked down into the witching face that had broken his peace for ever. "Betty," hie said, in a voice that trembledl fronm very love. "what is the matter with von lately? You are not the same to me :s von use to beL.' "Why, nothinzt'" she answered in feigned surprire.' -You'r'e full of no tions, Georget.' "No, I ma not." he said decidedly. "I know w.hen vou are kind to me and when you are not. Betty, you know that I love vou with my whole soul. I have never asked you to be my wife,, just because your father is a rich man, and I am only a young farmer who has his way to make. Bitt if I thought you could care for me a little- Oh, Betty, do you think vyou could?" IHe had seized her hand, and was lookinig w.istfu!!y into her fair face, with a great hunger on his lips to taste the sweetness of that tempting mouth so near his own. He was a fine fellow, and Betty knew it. He had never looked nobler than he did at that moment: but De Vaux was a gentlematn with invisible means of support: his hands were white, and he could dane- the lawn tennms quad rilles beautifully. "I am sorry,~Georo-e," she said hasti ly.""I am very fong of you, but I-I do't think I eould care for you ini that 'W.". Ic dropped her haud instantly, and a strange whiteness came over his bronze skin. "Is it this Do Vaux?" he asked huski lv. "Are vou engaged to him?" "No," said Betty with a warm flush; 'I am not exactly engaged to him. but "-I understand. Shall we go down now?" They cane (Iowa in silence, and found Clarence de Vaux smoking a cigarette. -You ought not to light that in here," said George L.'ernly. "You'd better throw it away." "-Sir!" said Clarence, giving him a prolonged stare. "I smoke where I choose. "Then you had better choose such places as can not be jeopardised by your folly," said George curtly. "Betty, I wouldn't let him smoke in here." --I don't see any harm in Mr. de Vaux's lighting a cigarette if he wish es." she said with a resentful flash of her dark eyes. "You must not allow your personal feelings to provoke you to rudeness, Mr. Knox." "I had no intention of being rude," George said quickly. "But I warn you that if you are not careful to-night this barn will be in ashes to-morrow." "You are a prophet of evil," said Betty carelessly. --If you are ready, Mr. de Vaux, we will go in. Are you going, George? Well. good-bye. I suppose we shall see vou to-night?" -I hardly think so," George answered. And, lifting his hat, he left them to walk back to the house together. The evening brought with it a fine September moon, mellow and full. The ladies and gentlemen were all in cos tume, and Betty's dress was wonderfully becoming. "You look like a poem incarnate," whispered Clarence de Vaux. as they glided over the floor together. "Won't you give me a few moments in the cupo la when this is over? The moon is per fect, and the land.scape is divine to "6Oh, dear!" cried Betty. as a breeze swept through her curls r-nd drifted them backward. "How cool it is up here! I wish I'd brought my shawl." "Shall I get it for you?" be Vaux said devotedlv. "If von will be so kind. It is a white cashmere, hanging on a peg by the door." He started down again with alacrity. The band was playing a merry tune as he made his way to where Betty's wrap was hanging. It was just slightly above his reaseh; but he jumped for it, and succeeded in bringing- it down-only something else came with it. A Chinese lantern hanoing near was caught in the fringe of te shawl, and flitted off the wire, fallino over the beam right into the midst o? the hay mow. In an instant the place was in flames. Like magic a confagration seemed to be conjured up. roaring around the hue rafters and breathing forth a chosing mass of smoke. There was one wild scream. The music ceased with a crash, and every individual rushed towards the one door, Clarence de Vaux among them. They had but one thought-to escape from the burning structure. Betty, alone up in the cupola, was all unconscious of her danger until the smell of smoke sent her to the staircase. A few steps down, and she was con fronted by the fire, which shut off her a wld for help, she ran up stairs ao'ain, and clambered out on the roof. &ut there was no help for her there. The barn was gabled, and its slanting roof made it impossible to take a step without immediate danger. They saw her below, and a shout of agonised helplessness went up to meet her cries of terror. Down on her knees Betty dropped. "Oh, God, help me!" she prayed; And then she heard a voice that had always carried comfort and security to her heart. "This way. Betty,"- George Knox cried. And then his strong' arms threw about her a heavy horse-blanket, whose wet folds protected her from the flames while he bore her through their midst down the fiery stairway and out in the cool night, where she was safe once more. Betty never knew how they made that perilous escape, for when she came to herself, they told her George could not see her. He was horribly burned-poor fellow! -and raving' wildly.; Clarence dle Vaux had vanished. Public opinion, condemning him for his base desertion of Betty in the hour of mortal peril, had branded him a cow ard, and he had left town in a hurry. It was some weeks before Gcorg'e Knox again opened his eyes consciouslIy on the world, and saw Betty wringino out the soft linen cloths that had coolea his burns and slowly tempered the rag ing fever in his head. "Betty!" he whispered. "Are you safe?" "Yes, dear," she answered with a smile whose gladness George felt in every ,part of his being. "fYou saved me. Not a hair of my head was hurt." "Thank Heaven!" he said softly. "I tried to spare you, Betty. I loved you "I know you did," bhe said kneeling down at his side and taking one of his poor bandaged hands in hers; "and 1 loved you too, George, though I was not quite sure of it. But I am now," she added tenderly, "and, George dear, if ,you will take me now, I will marry von whenever you like." "Oh, Betty!" he cried. "'My darling, are von sure?" Se bent over him with a look which there was no miistaking, and then George felt the lips he hLad coveted presed to his own in a fond willing "Yes, dear'," she answered, "I am quite sure." M'. Sprao'ue's barn was in ashes, hut people sai5 he was a rich man and could stand it. i-e was yvery fond of George Knox, to whom he lookled for the practical reali sation of all his own brilliant schemes of agriculture; and when he heard that it was the "barn fire," as it was known afterwards, which gave him his son-in law he said it ad paid. PRO(RESS1VE EUCHRE. It is Proml.sed a "iure l'opular Seasou ThN Winter Than Ever. This winter the interesting game of progressive euchre promises to be more popular than ever. and hundreds of par ties are organizing to play in many parts of the country. Its fascination is independent of that which, to some per sons. belongs to ordinary euchre, and consists in the briskness and range of the competition. as well as in the merri ment and physical activity which it in variably provokos. In order to give a just idea of the game let us describe a particular instance in which it was played with success, not because this in stance is in any respect remarkable, but because being a fair average one, it will represent many others. The host or hostess, then, standing in the drawing room in the presence of, say twelve, six teen or twenty ladies and gentlemen who have been invited for the evening, holds in one hand a number of pieces of pasteboard to be drawn successively by the ladies, and in the other hand a sim ilar number to be drawn by the gentle men. Suppose the number of players is sixteen, or four at each one of the four small tables, which have been placed diagonally across the room, and on each of which has been laid a card re presenting one of four ometrical fig ures, say a square, a circle, a parallelo gram, or an octagon. Each of these cards has two dupicates, which, after being cut in two, are held for distribu tion in the hands of the host or hostess. The ladies proceed to select each a piece from eight pieces held out to them, the gentlemen select in like manner from another eight held out to them, and the fun begins by their attempting to match the pieces so selected. A gentleman, for instance, who has drawn half a square, goes around to find the lady who has drawn a similar pattern, and who, when found, becomes his partner that particular table on which lies a ;are. In like manner. two other .lavers are selected for the same table, Makin the usual euchre party of four. The table on which lies a circle obtains its sitters in a similar way, as do also the tables on which are lying respective ly the parallelogram and the octagon. The table nearest the front door is said to be at the head of the row, and the corresponding one at the other end of the room is said to be at the foot. The players being thus seated four at a table. one of those at the head table strikes a bell, and the game begins. Everybody plays as fast as she or he can, and the excitement is great un til the sound of the bell announces that a couple at the head table have finished their game. Immediatelv all the other players stop playing, and the winners at each table change places and take the table next above them, the ultimate object being to get at the head table. The losino couple at the head table go down to t'ie foot, and at every table the partners change, so that your partner in the previous round becomes your ene my in the round now beginning. The delightful haste and confusion t caused by this sudden change and ener- i getic effort to advance are accompanied ( by much laughter, and the spirit of i competition is soon in full swing. The < couple at the head who have won a I game take from a small box containino t vafers in the shape of red stars, one ;I I the stars and stick it to their card to in- i dicate the fact of their triumph. The ; more stars any player has on his card ; the more success he has won. But the i couple who lose at the lowest table of t all are compelled to indicate their dis-1 grace by affixing to their card half of a little redl paper seal like that adjoining signatures in legal documents. The1 more of these wafers or seals any couple< has the greater is their ill-repute. 1 The gaune continues in this way until the time previously chosen by the host< or hostess has expired. This time is t usually two hours or two hours and a half, when the final reckoning is taken and the prizes awarded. To the lady and gentleman who have won the most t points a prize apiece is awarded, andt this may be of any description c: cost, although good taste seems to dictate that its pecuniary value be not lare To the lady and gentleman, on tie other hiandi who hiave lost the most while sitting at the lowest ta'ble, and on whose card therefore, is the greatest number -of half-seals, a mock prize apiece is awarded, consisting, say, of a cheap doll fantastically dressed, or other ludricous exponent of unsuccessful effort. The presentation of these prizes is often accompanied by humorous speeches, in which the real or affected merits of the successful or unsuccessful prayers are dilated upon in serio-comic fashion; and when the persons seleeted to make the speeches of presentation is apt for the task, the merriment often becomes hila rious. Supper is then served, and dane ing may follow, or the game may be re newed. Most young people, however, prefer to close the evening with some fresh sport. To any person who has never played progressive euchre. the pitch of excite menit to which even our grandmother and grandfathers often succeed in ele vatin~ themselves would be almost past belief but everybody at all familiar with this festive gamec knows that the physi cal activity and the buoyancy of spirit created by its requirements are unequal ed even by blind-man's-bluff. The in tellectual conditions unider which pro gressive euchre attains its happiest con summation are of a high order also.1 Euhre, like checkers. is an intellectual game if played in the righit way. It is a mistake to suppose that whist'or chess has a monop)oly of the intel"hetual ele ment. There is as much dif~krence in the miethods of players of ordinary euchre as in those of the players of ordi-1 nary checkers; and when, to the usual1 conditions, those active and jovial ones of progressive euchre are added, the pleasure is- immnense. - Harper's Ba Trhe Chinese minister at Washington is Mr. Isas, Jr.. though he is considera bly over 64). His wife is only 29. The oily English sentences the iiinister can use arc "HIowv do you do," "Good-by," and *"Chiampagnie is good." Some members of the legation are careful buy. ers of fine gems. Josephine Jenkins, who writes Boston prss is a niec of N. P. Emperor William's First Lore. The second volume of Mr. Treitschke's "German History," whicIh has just a peared, contains an intere-sting episode in the life of William 1. The most beautiful ard. :e-omplished of all the 1oung 1adies of Frederick William HIIs court was the Princess Radziwill. Prince William was passion ately in love with her, and, although it might have been adjudged a splendid match had the parties been born in a cabin, objections were raised again.t it by the royal family on account of in equality of birth. Nothwithstanding the fact that the adziwills was one of the oldest and wealthiest of the noble families of Prus sia, and that in the days of Frederick the Great a Hohenzollern had married a Radziwill, the law in relation to royal marriages had undergone a change since his time, it having become tie rule that only the daughters of reigning houses and those of former sovereigns should be considered eqjual-born with the sons of emperors and kings. For Eve long years every effort was made by the relatives of both sides to meet the objections raised against Prince Wil liam's haopiness. At the request of Prince Raidziwill, the celebrated attor aey Eichhorn wrote a legni opinion in which the equality of birth was- made plain, but his opinion was ~ opposed by many eminent legal authorities on the >ther side. The ->roposition was considered that Prince August of Prussia might adopt ,he Princess Radziwill as his daughter, but five of the ministers replied that it as their duty to declare that such idoption did not change the blood. In the meantime. Frederick William [.'s third son, Prince Karl, had mar ried a princess of Wiemar, and the rrand ducal court of Saxony now made t known that if Prince William per isted in his intention the children of Prince Karl would insist upon their rcrogative of royal succession. Affairs ere assuming a serious aspect for the oyal lovers, since a dispute in the sue ession might involve the permanency )f the Hohenzollern dynasty. At the irgent and repeated entreaties of his :ounselors, Frederick Willin III. re uctantly consented to use his kingly muthority in the matter. This was in 1826, when the present emperor was Lbout 29 years of age. In a letter filled ith fatherly and tender sentiment the ng represented to his son that inas nuch as every reasonable effort had >een made, and made in vain, it be :ome his painful duty to ask him to sac -ifice his noble sentiment of regard for he young princess to the interests of he royal house of Hohenzollern. Upon the receipt of this letter Prince Villiam was profoundly affected, but, as dutiful son, when he had sufficiently -ecovered from the shock. he informed is father that he was ready to comply ith his request. Bishop's Ring Around the Sun. If there is nothing new under the sun, here is at least something new around t. For the last two years close obsery rs of the sky have noticed that the ioonday sun has been surrounded by a :orona of dusky, coppery, or reddish ight, as it has been variously described, he circle of most distinct color having radius of about fifteen degrees, and nelosing a brilliant, silvery or bluish rlow close around the solar disk. A imilar appearance of much less intens tv has been occasionally noticed iound the full moon cn 'very clear vinter nights. The most experienced observers of ky-colors are aigreed that this corona vas not visible before the latter months >f 1883. Von Bezold, of Munich, who as considered the most competent neteorologist to prepare a schedule for bservations on the colors of the sky for he recent German Arctic Expedition, ys that, in spite of the close attention u had previously given to the appear nce of the usual whitish glow around he sun, he had never till recently seen he dusky ring. Thollon, of Nice, who and made a special study of the sky tround the sun for a. series of years, de lares confidently that a change occur ed in November, 1883. Baekhouse, of underland, who has a careful record of >arhlia for twenty-five years, confirms his opinion. We may, therefore, safely ucept the conclusion that the change of olor from the blue of the open sky to he intense glare of whitish light close tround the suii, was until lately effected ithout tlge appearance of any reddish ;inge in the transitional area. The new corona, to which the name >f "Bishop's ring" has been given after ts first observer, has never been a very onspicuous affair, anUi therefore has not ttaied the popular attention that it leserves; but it could easily be seen uvery clear day last winter, and has re eatedly been noticed since then in the atter months of 1885.-.-Wiliam M. Davis, in Popular Science Monthly for Febrary. A Lawyer Baffled. Jim Mc Snifter was being tried in aan Antonio for trying to bribe a col >red witness, Sam Johnsing, to testify "Yosy this defendant offered vou bribe of $50 to testify in his behalf?" uid Lawyer Gouge to Sam Johnsing. "Yes, sah." "Now repeat precisely what he said, asing his own words." "He said he would git me $50 if I- -" "He can't have used those worL. R didn't speak as a third person." "No, sah; he tuck good keer dat dar was no third pusson p resent. Dar was anly us two. Defendant am too smart to hab anybody listenin' when he am talking about his own reskelity." "I know that well enough, but lie poke to you in the first person. didn't ' I was de fust pusson, myself." "You don't understand me. When' he was talking to you did he use the words, 'I will pay you $50?'" "No, boss: he didn't say nuftin about 'ou payin' me $50. Your name wasn't ientioned, 'ceptin' dat he tole me ef eber I got inter a scrape dat you was de best lawyer in S.an Antone to fool de "Yud an step down."- Texas Sift The 10-year-old Emperor of China is THE FREE-TRADE MOVE31MENT. An Open Letter to the South Caroeuia Congressmen. In accordance with a resolntion of the Executive Committee of the Free Trade Association, a copy of the fol lowing letter has been mailed to each Senator and member of Congress from this State: HEADQUARTERS FREE-TRADE ASSoCIA TION OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COLMIA, S. C., March 4, 1886. My Dear Sir-The Free-Trade As sociation of South Carolina believe that of all causes assigned for the present deplorable prostration of inlutrial in terestsin the United States, none is mo: e disastrous and far-reaching than the system of so-called protection under which a grevious tariff, imposed avow edly as an extraordinary nar measure, has been perpetuated through twenty years of profound peace. They believe that this wrong endures only because unrealized and unexpos ed. They have therefore resolved to urge upon the people of South Caroli na in public meetings, the propriety ofdemanding of Congress a speedy abolition of artificial barriers and gaov ernmental toll-gates, by which the traffic of the world is diverted from its natural channels, and man is deprived by man of his God-given right to secure the fullest returns to his labor. Feeling assured that as a custodian of South Carolina's interests in the Federal Congress you are desirous of maintaining her past recird in this matter, and of removing obstructions to her material progress, the Free Trade Association warmly invite your aid in their work. They trust that you will consent to] deliver at least one public address at such time and placein the State as may be most convenient, discussing the burdens of the tariff, setting forth the position of Congress in regard to its repeal in whol or in part,- and sug gesting the means by which your con stituents may most efficiently co-oper ate with you in securing relief so greatly needed, yet so long deferred. By order of the Executive Commit tee. I. MEANS DAVIS, Chairman. A TALE OF WOE FROM IRELAND. Maidens Naked and Starving--The Inhabi tants on the West Coast Subsisting on Moss and Roots. The English Government has placed gunboats at the service of Mr. Tuke in his work of relieving the inhabitants of the islands along the western Irish coast. Indescribable distress has been developed among among the people inhabiting the Arran lee, off Galway, who besides having hardly anything but moss and sea grass left to eat, re without fire and often without clothini and shelter. It is not rare to find girls of seventeen and eighteen kept in en forced hiding during the daytime be cause bereft of every thread of cloth ing, long ago bartered away for seed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller children. Fishing-Inspector Brady re cently went among the miserable peo ple of Arran to distribute relief fur nished by an organization of Iri-h police. His funds ran short and lie still had so much pitiablE wretchednets to relieve that he appealed to Mlr. Bussey, who is charged with the dis tribution of the raised in America through the New York Sun for the impoveribhed fishermen of Achill and Boffin Islands, and begged him to di vert part of his store for the benefit of the Arranese. This Mr. Bussey was permitted to do, and he reports that in order to save the lives of scores of people, now dying of starvation in those Western islands, it is imperative that relief on a large scale be at once organized. THE WRONG MEN LYNCHEE. A Shocking Discovery Made Too Late to -Do Any Good. The horrible murder on Christmas Eve, 1881, when three children were murdered at Ashland, Ky., which re sulted in a lynching, is recalled againe by developments, about to be made which will demonstrate that Neal, Craft and Ellis were innocent of the crime for which they suffered. For sene time seven gentlemen have beeni employing a competent detective to sift every theory and investigate every lew. Their work has beenm crow ,edi with success, and it is claimed that the arrest at the real criminals will soon follow. The evidence is said to be conclusive and will show that the triple murder was committed early in the evening; that the perpetrator went to the house by appointment with one of the girls, who had pre viously on on intimat terms with one of them, and that the triple murder fol lowed the unintentional killing of the boy for resisting the assaults on the girls. The arrests would have been made before but for the excited state of pnh!': keeling on the subject. The suspecten parties hold very respecta ble places. -Stewart Pringle, a noted Confed erate negro, died in Morehuse, Parish, La., last week. lHe went through the Mexicon war with Col. Butler, of South Carolina, and was in the Con federate army with Capt. H. D. Brig ham. He was Southern to the core. Twould never admit that the South was whipped, but would always say that the Confederates were overpower ed. After the war he was a staunch Democrat. lie loved to talk of Lee and Jackson, but Stonewall was his favorite. He had a canteen from which Jackson drank, and no money coud have induced him to part witb it. __________ -On Friday morning. wvhen the keepers of the New Orleans jail made efforts to arouse Ford and Murphy, condemned murderers, they could not wake them up. After an examni nation, the physician conclnded the men had taken belladoua. At 9:30 Murphy had rallied a little, but For-d was still unconscious. The men were taken to the gallows in a half-conscious state, and had to be supported while the noose was adjusted aroun~d the neck of each. At 12:45 the drop fell. snd both men died instantly. What is the Right Thing To Do? Th' lilea ,'f marriage a; the object of i e-an end for which girk: are to be trained -appears often to be the very .umbling-block in the way. If they ar'e allowed to grow up thinkinc of mar riage only as a possibility. as an incl dent in their lives which may or may not happen, will they not be better pre pared for whatever fortune has in store for them? Freed from that anxiety about their future which characterizes m:ny1v Voting women now unconsciously influenced by the popular idea that mar riage is the only suitable destiny of wo man, there wouflil seem to be a chance that they might be trained to be happy, whether they were married or single. While acknowledging that a well-as sored marriagre i without doubt the trult and )et life for both man and woman, can it be denied that an un happy union is the greatent of sorrows In a woman's life. to say nothing of the train of evils which it brings upon others! If this idea that marriage is the great object-the ncessily of woman's life-could be removed, there would cer tainlv be more suitable and fortunate unions and fewer of the hasty. ill-con sidered, unwise ones. So long as two people who know little of ach other's 1Int character, tastes and habits, and n, Jiing of each othcr's antecedents will rashly join themselves for life after an acquaintance of a few weeks, so long must we look for the horrors of the newspapers, the scandals of the divorce courts and the life-long martyrdom of those who bear the ills that they cannot fly from. if girls did not learn from th'o'e ibout themn, from much of their readiL'. fr'o'm tile very atmosphere of soety ithat -her were expected to mar ry so rd',i. f they would hardly deem it poseihh- to aike slich a rikk as that of mirri' without due consideration. They wodld wait for the certainty-that it 't. :i right thing to do, and that the riglt persons for them had appeared. Let them feel that the end and aim of their lives is to be lit to be women and to fill their places as such in the world that so much needs both good women and good men. and there is no fear that they will not be quite equal to the situa tion, if they tind it best for their happi ness to marry.-Henrielta Davis, in Good Housekccpin fl. An Antiseptic Climate. One of the most curious results of my observations is that the climate of Da maraland possesses what we might call an antiseptie character for several months of every year. The quality is an attendant of th'e long annual drought. Every living thing sufiers during that period for the excessive heat. and much comfort is impossibie. even in theshade, while, in place: exposed to the warm winds, the thermometer has risen to 129 degrees; and the sand. unmoistened for six months. becomes so hot that I have seen eggs hardened in it. This arid heat is opposed to the propagation of ferment. for it dries ui) everything that is exposed to the wind before it has time to sour. No manifestations of tu berculosis are known. Wounds of every kind heal renmarkably quickly and well, withbout enough sippuration taking placet: to make the balages .tiek. The manner in which large, neglected wounds heal of themselves would form an interesting study for a professional surgeon. I observed a case of a Herero whose right lower arm had been shat tered in battle by a musket-ball. The healing p aroess had worked itself out in such a way that the whole lower arm with all its muscles had become wither ed and useless, while the uipper-arm - bone was whole and covered at its lower endI only with the brown skin. All the mtscles" andl ligaments of the elbow joint had vanished, while the shoulder muscles remained, so that the unpleas ant spectacle was presented of the man appearing to gesticulate with his bones. 4 A woman lived at our station whose feet had been barbarously cuit off' in some war several y-ears before, so that - her captors might more easily get off the iron ornament whichi the Herero women wear on their ankles. -Althotugh the woman had to lie helpless for a long I time, her wounds eventually healed up,. and now she has been hopping around on her knees for thirty yeatrs.--C. G. Builner, in Popt'!ar .Scienzec M~onthly for' February. You Ought (t Kmvr You:-self. C If von iil prsi<: in burniing for a long time a kerosene. oil haup. or filling - your bed-room itih heated gas, you need not pr1pare to re:tire with i-cry strong hopa. of getting a good inight's rest. If von will allow at vase of flowers 3 to remain there ovetr one dayv without t chaging ithe water, or, if vou'will haveC any plumbier's wvork in your room, in stead of using a p~orta'le washstand, basin and pitehecr, it is all to no purpose that you insist that vou atre very prm- f dent in regard to your health. As to c the question. --Howv much outside air shall I let into my room?" wve have nothing to say. If von are an invailid, your doctor must tell you: if vou are well, and enjoy a sound mind, you can judoe for yourself. You know, or ougt to knowv, how nmieh von can bear. Only see to it that the air is fresh; tha uwhat yout admit is atn im provement on what vou send ut ar garet Sidne'i. inl (,'I /n !aus- niiutq. 2 CAN'T BE BEATS rHE DRIVEN WELL MAKES IT EASY to get wvater. o Well Cleaning. Cheap ! Darable! CALL ON T. c. Sca1Te,U SUMTER, S. C. JACOBI HOUSE, FLORENCE S. C. M. IJACOBI. AGT -L verr stabee in conuectuon, Fe e INSURANCE AGEiNT, MANNING, S. C. V 9m. Shepherd & Co., 128 MEETING STREET DBABLESTONY SO. CA. STOVES, TOVES STOVES -AT WHO LESALE ANM RE TAIL' --o - Tinwares, House Furnising Goods, otware, Kitchen and Stove Utemsil. Er Send for Price List and Cireu Lrs. . C. H. CLAUSSEN & C., tBEm Mo17 Wl CRull Faco17, CHABLESTON, S. C. - W. A. Reckling, A.R T I S T, 110i MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. ortraits, Photographs, Ste reoscopes, Etc. OLD PICTURES COPIED AND ENLARGED. Sept 16 EDE L BROS., RICHMOND, VA., Manufacturers of robacco & Cigars, And Wholesale Liquor Dealers. GRAND CENTRAL HOT EL, Don12t3.bia, S. C SV. H. FISHER, Prop'r. NOTICE TO FARMERS. I respectfully call to the attention of the 'armers or Clarendon the fact that I have cured the Agency for the Corbin 1i-k [arrow, Planet Jr. Horse Hoe and CulI' aor, Johnson Harvester and the Coi ental lieape-r. I have one of each of tim'. istruments for display at my stables, and rill take pleasure in showing and explaima 2g the'ir utility. No progressive farme~r mn afford to do without these imipleme~ur-. W. I. B-ELL, Agt., Apr15 Manning, S. C. Notice I I desire to call to the attention of the Mill [en and Cotton Planters of Clarendon~, iat I have secured the agency for this onty, for the DANIEL PRATT RiE OLVING BEAD GIN. Having used ls Gin tor several years I can recommend as the best Gin now in use. Any infor laton in regard to the Gin will be cheer ally given. I can also supply the people f Clarendon with any other machinery rhich they may need, at the lowest pri. arties wishing to purchase gins will titd to their interesto iver their orders eariy. W. SCOTT HARVIN, May 5 Manning, n. C. . . B. Havswoun, Sntr b. -. H'AYNSWORTH & DINKINS, LLIORNEYS AT LAW, MiNING, S. c. JOHN S. WILSON, ttorney and Counsellor at Law, MANNIwG, s. C, jsaat 3. . SCOTT, Lttorney and Counsellor at Law, MANING, S. 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