f -. m i UOMlCL m wjMiH thMta, irfKf'tha object o fj Indioated bj me—ry note wbea icqabad. I. Artlolea for pnbiioation sboaM bo writtoo ia a rimr, h^ibla haad, and on only om abU of tba page. 4, AM abangca ia adTertiaaaMata aiaet »acb an om Fiiady. VOL. VIL NO. 35. BARNWELL C. H.. S. C, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1884. $2.00 a Year. Taspsoruk a. a a NAMING THE BABY. What nha!l we name her,'little wife? What shall we call this feather of life? Little new-comer to LUliput-land, Lying as light a« a kim on my band. Whose quaint wee face with its rosy skin But measures a finger from brow to chin, While a span from the point *f her button nose Will reach the tip of her tiny toes. What shall we call her ? She’s too small, I think, to have any name at all. Coukl we peer down on the vale of tears, Draw the curtain that hides the years ! ■ fTSTTiri egja -wws«r^ ■" nuana ' ~T - J vrrvv s ' "X .S 111' 'llIV xi w u What is our darling's destiny ! Is she heiress to high estate ? Will she be taking a king for mate? King of the people—she their queen? Boysl is the name of Josephine. Will she, meek, with a sorrowful heart, ( boose, like Mary, the better part ? Will she be gentle, tender, true— Ajeopy, dear little wife, of you ? Will she be dauntless, brave and strong? Will her spirit escape in song, t'ai oiling gayly in golden words All the joy of the sun-loved birds? Will her hands give erst unknown Voice to canvas or life to stone? Khali we christen her Florence, Fan, Constance, Dorothy, Margery, Anne > Watch the weirdly flickering flame^ Bead her fortune, choose her name. What shall be? Ah, pYaps ’tis r well None of us can the future tell Put there’* pleasure in painting yet Fancy portrait* of our pox they made s good investment. Listen I” The music had begun again. At first it came stealing out with such a low, plaintive ft^pud, one might easily have fancied that it was only the* night wind creeping softly round the walls of the little cabin; then it swelled into some thing louder, deeper and more solemn; but there was a subtle, yet indefinable something in its nature which caused the listeners to thrill with exultation and grow cold with dread. It seemed as though a spirit more than mortal, had .taken possession of the little instrument, and through its deep voice was breathing out a prophecy of approaching disaster. Leyton felt a sudden breeze against his cheek and noticed, with alarm, that a dark storm-cloud had arisen in the west. There had been one storm since his arrival from the East, and he dreaded to see another. A heavy sigh at his el bow caused both men to turn in that di rection. Lame Joe had come np noise lessly behind them and stood leaning against a rock. He, too, was listening Hijd wiping an occasional tear from his eye; for the music had grown sad and dirge-like as a funeral hymn, with a. lingering, a quivering anguish echoing through it which betokened that the soul of the musidMflftua speaking through her music, |, But, even as they listened, the char acter of the melody slowly underwent a complete transformation, and from the depths of sorrow and despair it burst forth in a glad, exultant strain—a wild, free flood of music. It was like the triumphant song of some captive bird which has beaten long its weary wings against the iron bars of a cruel prison- house, but, finding itself at liberty again, breaks forth into song as it wings its way toward heaven, above the olodds and storms. That was the end. Leyton and Mark, Spencer passed on The little girl’s present mood seemed tc them too sacred for intrusion; bat lame Joe stopped (or the good-night Idas which'the child was accustomed td be- stow upon him. Poor old Joe ! he was very lahfe. One nagrnfig, and there .leg.had been left upon.the bettfsield-C&^wio hailed its advent with a sigh of re- Btf^that one wee Joe Minion. Crashed, •iu-uised and sorely wounded, he dragged himself from s heap of debris and looked about him. No one was stirring. Near ly all the others had chosen safer placet than he and wan siafpttg soundly, now that- the wild strife which had taken place so lately between the elensenta had Fredericksburg, and its subetitate ■.rude wooden stamp; but rneh as ft he would gltdly have worn if to spHnten it Lite Cohdh’e jarviee, had tha child 'permitted it \ In spite of .Ms affliction Joe Minion was a genial AM lUh, with a kind word and helping hang for averybody ; yet . half the miners in that little namp coold have told of a time erhen^fhere was ndt s mofe inte&perate man or harder ohar- aoiit her, was this child of seven years. Like a rare, sweet blossom she was growing up in that wild place with a halo of beauty and purity about her young life that commanded almost adoration from the few rough, yet kind- hearted jieople. Nature was kindly, too. The sun never kissed her soft little cheeks too roughly, and jta most scorching ray only added a brighter tint to the long, fair hair which hung in waves below her waist, the pride and admiration of her friends. Yet it was hard, even for a stranger, to look unmoved upon the great blue eyes, so pathetic in their blindness, and know that Lita Cohen could never see again. I think Lita herself minded it most alter Warren, the poet of the camp, bad l>een telling her of the rngged graudenr of the country atiout them, and de- scrilied thgvingular beauty of the flowers which he brought her day after day, or when one of her big, bnrly friends laid in her hand Die pictures of the children —the children whom she had learned to love as brothers and sisters. She had known about them %U a long time, ever since she could remember, and they often sent her friendly messages and little presents which she used to sit holding in her hands, a strange wistful ness in the big blue eyes, a great ache in the little tender heart, at thought that she must always feel but could never see. The little girl eared a great deal about all her friends; hut lame Joe was her e prime favorite, perhaps because he was lame. He had grown lamer than ever of late, and was failing very fast; yet nobody had told Lits of it; uoliody conld bear to break the news to her. Bhe used to sit at his side by the hour, listening to him or repeating the childish stories which Warren had read to her. One day while she was sitting thus, pat ting his wrinkled cheeks with her soft hands, she stopped euddenly, with s puz zled look in her faee, as though a new thought had struck her. "The men say that the minea of this district don’t pay well enough, and they will shortly break up and go into an other country. What will you and I d* then, Uncle Joe?" A tear trickled down the old man's wan cheek. He, too, waa thinking of a journey into another country, and it wrenched his heart-strings to think of leaving Lita behind, but he wiped away the bright drops with,the ragged sleeve of his coaly, and choking down the sob in his throat made answer : “You will go with them, Lita, my child.’* “And you, too, Uncle Joe. What would you do here without me ?” she asked, laughingly, as she dung tighter to his hand. “Not much, to be sure, little one— not much.” Hestroked her long, silken hair tenderly, wishing that he might be able to tell her what no one else wanted to; but he had not the courage, and presently the little girl said : “It is getting chilly, Uncle Joe; let’s go in.” . -* ^ But the old man went away and did not see her again until evening. He bade her “good night,” and slowly fol lowed the retreating forms of the two gentlemen,, Leyton and Spencer, won dering why she looked so pale to-night and dung so tightly around hia neck at parting. He felt a strange chill imss over hipx whenever he thought of the music, but, by-and-by, he fell asleep and forgot it all. The threatened storm came; auoh a tempest as had not swept the valley since its settlement, five yean before. But the sun shone out brightly the next one, at least, “LHa I Lita I" called the dd man pit eously, but there came no answer. On his hands, with all his remaining strength mustered into the effort, he crept to the spot. No child was these. Slowly, every breath s pain almost un endurable, he drew himself to the top of a log to look. He saw her, and was not long in gaining the spot. Taking one limp hand in hia and clasp ing it tightly, he sank down at her side, though there was a smile upon his face; the pain was all over. He had followed his little friend in her long, long journey, bad gone into that other coun- try. A little later the miners, awakened by the faithful Nannon, who had jnat recovered sufficiently to crawl from the ruins, began a search for the missing. Away beyond the scattered remains of the cabin they found thenr—the two so strangely contrasting; one so old and gray, the other like a gleam of light as she lay upon a bed of tangled grass and thining sand, the pallor of death upon Iter fair, young face, and the glory of the sunshine in her golden hair. r i ; UOIJfti ALL TO PIECES. One •! 'the Nm«4 »r«*r Jahra. Practical The Late Madame Anna Bishop. Madame Anna Bishop, the singer, died at her home in New York on Tuesday night Bhe had been sick only three days. On Sunday she accompanied her husband, Martin Schultz, to church and upon returning home she found awaiting her in her parlor sn old friend, Mrs. Laird, mother of Colonel George Laird, whom she had not seen for many year*. She was overjoyed at the meeting, and the two, seating them selves upon a sofa, talked over their friendship of past years. Madame Bishop suddenly complained of a severe pain in her head, and in another mo ment, lifting her hands, fell back nneon- scions. She remained in this state till her death, which her physician sain was produced by apoplexy. She leaves no children. The body will tie buried in the village cemetery at Red Hook, Duteltees County, N. Y., where Schultz has a summer home. She will be laid beside her son, who was buried there some yean ago. Madame Bishop’s maiden name was Anna Rivere. She was bom in London in 1814, and at sn early age married Sir Henry Bishop, well known as a composer, conductor and as the arranger of the Sicilian air to which Payne wrote the words of “Home, Sweet Home.” Madame Biahop first appeared on the concert platform in 18J7 and some years later made an extended tour in the course of which she visited this country in company with the cele brated harpist Boscba. In 1850 she gsve s seriee of concerts in New York.- which were exceedingly popular. Since that time ahe has appeared in nearly every country fci the world, and has sung in nearly every civilized language. The incidents of her life and travels were in teresting in the extreme and few women were more'entertaining than she as con versationalists. Her last tour around the world was begun in 1875, and since its completion she has lived in New York with her second husband, Mr. Schultz, whom she married in 1858. Hoi last appearance in public was at Stein way Hall in 1883.—Tribune. Exclusion of American Products. Foote, the English comic actor, made a wager that fie would upset the dignity 1 of a certain head waiter at the principal hotel in Bat h, who had the name of be ing the most dignified man in Britain. Foote went to the hotel with three frienda—an engine*-! who had Imt an eye, a cavalry oflio*r who hud lost an arm, ami an old aea Captain who had lost a leg. Tlio pr» cions quartet en sconced themselves iu the four corn ers of the room' and bawled for the waiter who came in with a more than ordinary assumption of dignity, as a tacit protest against their unceremonious treatment of him. “Waiter 1” cried the one-eyed engineer, “come and take of! my eyeglass;” adding, as the waiter swelled with indignation, “and while you're abont it, just take out my eye.” “Your eye, Sir?”echoed the startled dignitary. "Yes, my eye; don’t you understand English? Look sharp.” Eye glass and glass eye came away together, and the waiter reconnoitred them doubt fully as they lay In the palm of his hand, like a man eyeing a wafen that has suddenly stopped. Just then the one-armed dragoon shouted in hia turn; "Waiter, take off my glove; and now, that I # think of it, take off my arm.” Glove and hand gave way at the first touch, and the waiter, appalled to see his customers all tumbling to pieces like a mosaic puzzle, was tnrning hastily away when the one-legged sailor roared: "Waiier, poll off my starboard boot.nnd you may as well pull off my leg, too.” The poor waiter shndderiugly complied, mentally rejieating every prayer he could think of. Instantly the previously loosened straps of the cork leg gave way, and down went the man of dignity on hia august back with the artificial limb quivering in his clutches. It was enough. Forgetting everything iu his agonized longing to escape from the chamber of horror*, the ill-starred waiter, costing a terrified glanee at the frog men** which strewed the carpet, sprang toward tne duor. But before he conld reach it Foote him*..'- the length and flexibility of whose neck might have aroused the envy of an ostrich—twisted his head right round over his shoulder, and-called oat in a voice hollow and un earthly enough to* frighten a Bengal tiger, "Waiter, come and take off my hat, and while you’re at it, take off my bead 1” Unman nature conld War no more The martyred waiter gave one yell worthy of a Cherokee Indian ami made bnt.a single bound from the top of the stair* to the bottom, upsetting not only hia dignity, but himself so thor oughly that to the day of his death he was never was quite hts own self tgain. H Varieties ia Faskioas. WOMAS SUFFRAGE DEFEATED. Reading That Ruins. SENSATIONAL AND TRASHT LTTF.RATI'RE WHICH DEMORALIZES THE YOUNG PEOPLE Hot waa it with little Lila?: With an eflLrt poor Jo# eat np and looked. Where had stood a dwelHug-piaai fart night waa only a heap of ruins now. The bill reported to the United States Senate from the Committee on Foreign Relations, by Senator Miller, of Cali fornia, in response to a resolution of the Senate of Janaary 22 last, directing that committee to report such legislation as shall protect the United States against those governments which have prohibited or restrained the importation of meats from the United States, provides that there shall be instituted, nnder the di rection of the Secretary of the Treas- nry, a system of inspection of salted pork and bacon inteded for exportation, and to be exported within sixty days after the date upon which the same may have been salted and packed, so that the fact of the innoxious and wholenome character of the article shall be estab lished by the best, highest and most re liable proof, this inspection to be made at the principal ports of the United States by the customs officers; also that the Presided of the United States be authorized at his discretion to exclude from the United States by proclamation any product of any foreign State which by unjust discrimination prohibits the unportattoo of any product of the United States. It provides farther that the importation into the United States •"Atiout half a dozen of the sensational papers of this city," said a New York stationer, "have a circulation of over 600,000 copies weekly. The circnlation rises and falls like the mercury in a thermometer. When blood, murder and captured maidens fill every page tha presses are kept hard at work, bnt if any thing like sensible matter is published, which takes place only once in the his tory of a paper, the circulation goes down. The most 4riood-enrdling, im probable storm are l he beat for the pub lisher*. The work girls are the readers that make papers pay liest. "Millions of copies of sheets of this descriptien are sold weekly. The l>oys’ paper* are trashy and sensational enough. I will admit, but they are eclipsed by the journals for young women. The plots of the stories are sometimes ex tremely offensive, the dialogue is senti- mental to an idiotic degree sod the de scription of the personal appearance of the hero and heroine often occupy half the serial. There is not a working girl iu New York city who does not purchase two or three of these papers every week. Of late years the illustrated police week lies have begun to lie read by boys of a tender age. Of all evils this is the greatest A good many newsdealers, however, refuse tosellaoopy to mimrs.” A long narrow scarf mage of jetted net* with or without an adging of jetted laoe, will be worn in the street around the neck instead of the^ Spanish lace scarfs ao long In vogue. Jetted net plastrons in Iflklrt shape, pointed or square, in a soft puff, are made with a standing laoe band or col lar to put on over any alftplj trimmed dress of black silk, surah, or satin. These cost from glifiO to $7 in the shops. t Moliere vest of jetted net laid over silk and edged srith jetted laoe may be made of a fourth of a yard of jetted net, and is a pretty and dressy addition tc black corsages. An entire basque of jetted net without lining will lie nsed in the snmmer jnat as^erseys are, with skirts of black silk or Batin that may or may not have dra pery of this net Sometimes such a waist is made to fssten behind. There should be a separate lining of satin surah to lie worn nnder this transparent waist, and tbia may have the sleeves only basted iu, ao that they may lie easily removed to leave thin net sleeve*; there may also lie a yoke cut separate at the top of a low lining, which can be lim'd or not, a* the wearer wiahea a high lining for the daytime, or only transpar ent net -over the neck in the evening. The neck and sleeves are trimmed with full frills of jetted lace. White pique oollam for ladies are now made in all the shapes that are faahion- sble for linen oollsrs, but thoae in the high close gar rot shape are prefened; these have square pique cuffs to match. Colhtt buttons of old silver, with de signs of antique heads, are made to match the coin pins and bracelets now in use. One of the novelties in millinery ia a cork foundation- or frame of the bonnet covered over with a thin veneering of wood. New basket straw bonnets are bronzed or gilded, and are now made so fine and pliable that they are tient into small crowns and naed as the smallest capotes, wifh a cockade bow of coqneli- cot velvet ribbon for trimming, Persian vests are added to new liaaqnes of Jersev cloth, and these are some times made of iridescent lieads in Per sian designs and color*.—Harper't Bz* zerv . How Beck Became a Meaator. Tfc* Ma—a*Sa*c«i« II A lUJariir ••M AppaaeS la fl at IM. The Massachusetts House 6T Repre sentative* dispose*! of, for the session,the proposition that iu the conduct of mu nicipal affair* women shall have all the political rights and privileges that now belong to men. This action grew out of an adverse report, for which a favorable bill waa offered. It waa the most deci *ive that has ever beep had on this snli- ject, the vote standing 50 yeas, 144 nays, and 11 pairs. Last year the rate was 60 yeee and 127 nays, and 20 pairiL It will lie seen that this year with a total recorded vote and expr.wsed opinion of 11 leas than those of last year, the ma jority against the measure waa increased by 17, and the minority for it waa leaa plied 10, showing a total loss of 87. The Journal says that, ao far as the records show, woman suffrage in any form waa first presented to’ the General Court of 1867, when tbe House, by a vote of 44 to 67, refused to indorse it. From that time to the present, cxocpHn the years 1874 and 1875, Tmn 'suTijecl, in dbmd shape, has Wn acted upon by the House, which has, without exception, re jected it by a vote that has varied mate rially. Isist year the vote for municipal woman suffrage was proportionately smaller than it had ever lieen, and now it ia proportionately much less than it waa then. . The average vote for the fif teen years of which there ia record has lieen 71 ia the afliraiatfoe and 118 in tbe negative. Yrt with these figures ami their growth staring then in the face, there ia no reaaon to suppose that tbe advocates of woman suffrage will cease to urge their claims upon the next Legislature and upon many more that will follow it. It was expected that the measure' would be defeated, bnt the vote against it was surprisingly large- It waa thru made np: Yeas—25 Republicans, 28 Democrats, 2 Greenbackere. Nays—86 Republicans, 56 Democrats, 1 Inde pendent, 1 Independent Democrat. Of those who paired—6 Republicans, 8 Democrats, 1 Independent, sod 1 In de pendent Democrat, favored this exten sion of suffrage, and 7 R puhliogra, S Democrat* and 1 Independent opposed. HIE HUMOROUS PAPERS. WHAT WE FIND IN THEM 1 OVKUTII1M WEEK. KEEPING DUCKS. An Irish gentlethan visited the munic ipal court, and walking up to tha judge on the liencb, said: "Joodge, tbe wather pipe at the hydrant beyant me house luu bursht, and it has flooded ; cellar and ia drowning me hina. name is McCarthy, joodge.’' Tbe judge sympatifized with him, and Was sorry far the damp life bis bens were leading, but told him he would have to go to the board of public works and eomplefai. McCarthy went away, but tbe next morning he came liack to toe judge end told the some story abont the "watber” and the “bins,” when the ]ndge said, "I told you to go to the board of public works aneedy re volt among the slave dealers. - It was this revolt which was crushed by Qeasi Pacha, who shot Suleiman. Zobehr’s son. He also slew all his officers except one, who escaped, and is now supposed by some to tie the Mahdi. ttJiuliehr was kept as s State prisoner 1 *4 at the capital. Ten yewrs passed. An other pretender annihilated the Egyp tian forces ami menaced Egypt itself with invasion. Then tha officials at Cairo, being manifestly without re sources, applied to the distinguished angry with me that rather than see me captive. Would he go back to hia home ? elected they turned in and chose Beck. ” A Home for the Poor. Dime. Both were in actor, and both received hia attentions. When they discovered that he was a married mas they decided to renounce tbe world. ' lives blowing off at any. 'When this dies out for an iostsnt the rigging noise will nse and fall, sojnetimes a fhriek and aometiraee » bom. ” Mrs. Alice M. Lincoln and other charitable Boston women have been try ing their handa as landlords of the wont class of tenement-houses. They took a dilapidated, disreputable build ing, holding 27 families,, and so sub-let it ss to clear above all expenses, 6 per cent, on their investment. They hive been runnftg now between four and five years, and have mads it so successful that they have recently hired a second building. They made their tenants scrub up and keSp their rooms dean, and they tuned in what they nude over 6 per cent, in the way of improvements, among other things giving tenants who hired two rooms at fl.25 two more for 75 cents, in order to discourage Jndtf- criminate herding. In spite of their strict requirement* about cleanliness and their ejecting tenants who refused to comply with them, who were habitual drunkards, or who did not pay their rent promptly, theirbloek has beau bill most of the time, and their reserve fund, above the 6 pur sent, interest, hue never been entirely exhausted. Ones grown unnaually large, and tbe distributed * pair of blankets end a hand-basin and pitcher to eeeh family. Aside from this they have given only H in charity dqfing the foam yearsi «eqd have not remitted a week’s rent. * •* ‘ - - — floyETnrivo hronf^khoetifeart Wheel: It cannot do much warn Qfitjl it nets tiftdi 9 Would he summon his faithful Nubian* to bis standard ? Wonld he lot pity's sake do something to stay the advance of this fanatical plague ? Yes.* He would do all thia. He wonld lead, in the Khe dive’s name, tbe Black Contingent of the Soudan expeditionary force. Very good, Mill tbe Ministers; but leave ns, prey, yonr wife and daughter as hostepea— shall we my ?—for your good behavior. Yes. By all meant, said Zobehr. Keep them and welcome. Bnt secretly he cent off his spouse to Sna^jm; not aoac- eretly, however, but that tbe Vixier heard of it, and so Zobehr himself arrested. However, he was afterward set free again. A Stail lu LlfSt “Well, son, did you get any esses to day ?” asked a father of e son who had been admitted to the bur about six months ago. “No, father^ none jet I am very much discouraged.” “Perhaps you don’t use the peeper methdR to get eases. You should never appear upon tbe streets without carrying in your bend e sheet of cep paper folded up so m to look like % legal docu ment; rash about as if you wuru loaded IfriBag nut a deed nr fnasethhig, and when in court never fail to cock yonr fact up on the table, brash up your hair and look wiser than the judged!you can. That’s the way those fellow* who succeed to l*w 99 w«|l fill dte" • * the time came tor you to—to leave off, and then tbe matter would—would sort of regulate itself, yon know.” A BADGE OF MOURNING. “Well, Brown was a good fellow and I am sorry he is gone," said a Western editor to tbs proprietor of the -heper. “He wwrked bard ell hie life and died poor, the way of , with considerable fecKng, “Brown good printer and it will be hard to AH his place.” “I suppose we ought to attach some thing to the door in the shape of a tiadge of mourning for a little while,** suggested the editor. "It wonld be s good idea, tmt I don’t believe there is anything about the place that wonld answer the purpose, and in the present feeble financial condi tion of the concern 1 don’t feel like put ting out any money for crepe.” “No,” mused the editor, “it would be better to settle np book salaries first, list now I think of it, I know just the thing.” “What is it ?” asked the proprietor. “We might hang out one of the com posing-room towels.”—Philo. Call. BOUJTD TO COLLECT SOMlSTBlNG.^ A colored man entered a grocery and ’. asked for a cash oontr ilmlion oi twenty- five cents toward tbe erection of a colored people’s church edifice. “Where is it to lie located the grocer. “Wall, that hasn’t bin dun decided on yet.” ' “jYhat is it to cost ?” “Hsin’t figgerud on dat, a ah.” “Who is the pastor f * “Dun forgit; but I reckon we can find one.” “Who is the bead man of this enter prise?" “De, head man ! Wall, Ise bout da head man, I reckon.” “I am not mtisfled with your explana tions,” said the groom. “How can.I be oeftain that you won’t appropriate the money to your own purposes “Am dat what bod den you?” “I contone it is.” “Well, sah, we kin git bber da* party easy. Instead of hftking a cash contri bution jnat weigh am out '’two podMa of crackers wM inatrakabifba to tom to de Build in’ Committee. Urn obdat oonnwittee if I ada’t nobody t>\4h'V'- Mroil Frets PYcm. Mt- THK AMENDS MpNORAKiEL A stranger traveling 00 ’ through the backwoods < very mu4h impressed with itv thakeKfcfed between the' the natives. Tbe s^jne had at to tbe privileges of tho ha seemed to make liberal tee of i up to a shanty, the stranger 1 unkempt specimen of humouRy: “Why dent you keep of your house?" “Look here, streamer,” the Arkansas man, putting km 1 his pockafa, “ef you my family ain’t ftttau for hop data with, jnat < •ay it." Tha afaragar the native by oMMafflm Jfcut the waa a fit mandate tea bog. «d tha neual greeting of: “Ughtymfcuafmt have anma afaamoua beer. lhMa )diumt tem under tbej * % 4 I theutfht