liliiC? li THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S30. Consolidated Aug. 2, ISSI.] "Be Just and Fear aot~Let ail the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." SUMTER, S. C.? TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1881 THE TRUE SOUTHRON, EstaWislic?! June/ 1866. Kew Series-Yoh I. No. 2L ?^r;dM egg i ; a*s wee MB-wat-rawsaza-BSM Practical Watchmakers and Jewelers, I Main-Street, opposite John lietels, j D KA LE ns IN ; Watches, Clocks, ! GOLD AND PLATED JEWELRY, | Spectacles, Silver and Platea TSTare, I i FISHING TACKLE, I Sewing Machine Needles, Oils, Etc j r General Repairing done at Conscientious ; Prices. Give ?s a call and bo convinced; Oct 25_*_3m REF UBL IC A AT- S TREE T, j ^^^^^^^^ j SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : Two Dollars per annum-in advance. AD VBRTISEMEXTS. One Square, first insertion.SI 00 Every subsequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private nterests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes o?" respect will be charged for. Marriage notices and notices of deaths pub? lished free. For job work or contracts for advertising address Watchman and Southron, or aoplv at the Office, to X. G. OSTE??, Business Manager. ^F?RT??SrOR M?~ THE PLANTATION KNOWN AS AN? DERSON VILLE, in Charleston County, eighteen miles above Mount Pleasant, most desirably and beautifully situated ou See Wee Bay, with a good landing for ves? sel of 4 to 6 feet draft. The place is quite healthy, with fish and game in abundance, and the soil quite productive, being adapted to both Cotton and provisions. The finest quality of Long Staple Cotton has been grown lipon it. It contains between eight and nine j hundred acre?, a large pat t of which is well wooded and timbered. The place is in need i of repairs : but it has on it a dwelling house, j in good condition, and som- out-buildings. : To a good tenant, who will obligate to put j the place in order, a favorable lease will be j given : or if preferred it will be sold for a j lair price. i For further particular? spp?v to N. G.* OSTEEN. Sumter. S. C. J FTH. FOLSOM, L. \Y. FOLSOM. ; F. H. F?LS?I ? ii A ative-bcrn S?nUon?ens. SJ M 00 05 09 > JUST ARRIVED One Cur Loud or' Old Hickory Wagons, Manufactured hy the Kentucky Wagon Manu? facturing Company, of Louisville. Ky. ; They are made of tbs bes: matt-rial, by . skilled workmen: Every Wagon sold guar- ! anteedfor 12 months. They run lichter, and j are in every respect as good as nay Wayon : made, while at the sam? time their price is as ! low as Wagons of interior grade; Also, on hand, a fine assort meut o?" OF ALL STYLES ANO G il A DES, At price? to suit thc- time? JUST ARRIVED ONE CAR LOAD OF \ Fine Kentucky Horses, some of them extra good drivers-selected . with care for this market. i M0ct25[_^_Vf M. GRAHAM. _ ! j ?HERAA' m DAR?SXGTCN AND CHERAVY j 1 AND SALISBURY RAILROADS. j . l'liESir>ENX^ OFFICE. i SuClFTY JlJT.r.. S. C.. May 23. ISSI. : ON AND A'fXEK Xl M'S DATE; TRAINS j ? on these Hoads will ruo as follows,.--.every except Sunday. Leave Whdesd>oro. S 40 .-. a: ! Leave Bennett's. ? Ol? ? ta ! ' Leuro .Morrea. 9 J? a tu ? Leave .VrF.ir?an. V 25 :< ia Leave Cheraw.... IO 16 a ra j ! Leave Society Hill. 10 ?0 a ta : ' Lea ve Darlington .*. i 1 30 a tu ! ? Arrive at Florence. 12 V0 p m j . ur. 1 Leave Florence. 12 c 0 p tu j Leave Darlington. 1 2d j? iu ' > Leave &?<;it-:T il iii . 2 JO p ic ?J Arrive at?Checaw. 2 of p :a ! . Arrive at Wades&or. -! 15 }> m j ' The freight ?r.iin will ieare Florence :it 0 30 A ? M every day except Sunday: making thc r?>u:id j < trip to Cheraw every Jay. :tud ;.? U'adesboro tts : [ often as ajay bc necessary-keeping out ol the ! t way of passenger tra?a. . ; - li D TOWNSEND, president 1 1 --gnu m tn mm lax- i i . ? m"^8a8BwgMn*w.*w .1 . PAVILION HOTEL, j . CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS POPULAR AND CENTRALLY j ? located HOTEL having been entirely i r renovated during the past Summer is now ! ready for the reception of thc traveling public.'s Popular prices S2 and 2.50 per day j f Snecial rates for Commercial Travelers. - - E. T. GAILLARD, j f Oct 25_Proprietor. ,: THE GRIND CENTRAL HOTEL COLUMBIA, S. C. HAVING renewed my Lease of "The Grand Central Hotel"' for a term of years, f ; "beg leave to inform the Public that the House ' has been thoroughly rc-paiuted, and ts rrov.- j " furnished xvi th new and improved Black ; Walnut Furniture, Wire Spring Beds with / best Hair Mat .res.--?, Vet vet and Brussels ^ Carpets. Electric Annunciators connect with every roora, and the Hotel i? connected through the Columbia Telephonic Exchange with every prominent plate of business j throughout thc City. These advantages, v. .'At competent attendants, warrantine in assuring the traveling Public as good accommodations as the South can alford. JOHN T. WILLEY, Proprietor. j Sept 20 COLUMBIA HOTEL R. N. LOWRANCE, Proprietor COLf/Jf/tfA, S. C. Table, Rooms turd Servants Fust-class. ; HATES REASONABLE. _Sept 20-3m ROBERT H8?0H & S0HS3 IMPORTERS A SD DEALERS IN \ > Brallos, fies asa F?, ; 44 South-Street, Bait Md. [ December & ' f WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA K. K. ON and after Nov. Otb. ISSI, the folluwiu : schedule will be run vn this Koa ii : NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAIL TRAIN. (Daily ) (Nos. 47 Wes: and -IS East.) Leave Wilmington.10 40 p tn Arrive a: Florence. 3 00 a m Leave Floreuce. .. .. 3 20 a :n Leave Slimier. 4 52 a ni Arrive at Columbia. 6 4u a in Leave Columbia.10 00 p ia Leave Sn ai ter.12 OS a m Arrive at Florence.. 1 >>6 a ni Leave Florence. 1 55.a tn Arrive at Wilmington. 6 20 a m This Train stops only at IJrinklcy's. White ville, rlemington. Fair bluff. Marion. Florence. Xiinmonsville. Mayesvilla, Sumter, Culaden Junction and Eaitovcr. TH It o l." G II FREIGHT TRAIS. Daily, except Sundays. Leave Fiorenze. _.H 40 p m Leave Suinter. 2 2S a tn Arrive at Columbia. . ? 30 a m Leave Columbia.-- 5 00 p m Leave Sumter.- S 20 p in Arrive at Florence .ll 10 p tu LOCAL FREIGHT-(Daiiy except Sunday.) Leave Florence. 6 00 a ni Arrive at Sumter. !0 55 a m Leave Sumter.ll 40 a m Arrive at Columbia . 4 00 p m Leave Columbia. 7 00 a m Arrive at Sumter.ll 15 a ai Leave Sumter.12 15 p m Arrive at florence. 5 10 p m A. POPE, G. P. A. JOHN F. DIVINE. General Sup't._ Columbia and Greenville Bail Read. PASSENT ER DEVA lt TM EXT, CO!.I:JID:A. S. C.. August 31. ISSI ON AND AFT Ell THURSDAY. September 1st. ISSI, Passenger Trains will run as herewith indicated, up.in this niau and its branches- Dai ly except Sundays : 42 Up Passenger. Leave Cflambih (A).ll 20 a ta Leave Alst'.a.-.12 2C p ut Leave Newberry. 1 2J p ni Leave Hodges. o 52 p tn L?a ve Del;on . . 5 05 p tn Arrive ai tireen ville. 0 27 p m No. 43 Down Passenger. Leave Greenville at.10 33 a ra Leave Belton.ll 57 a tn Leave i I od gt s. 1 12 p m Leave Newberry. 3 -17 p m Leave Alston...*.. 4 41? p m Arrivent Columbia (F). 5 53 p tu Sr*AUTASB.C?G, ?M?'S ?t CotOTStA lt. lt. Nu. 12 Up Passenger. Leave ADu.n..7. 12 40 p Leave Spartaabnrg.S U & C Depot (D) i 03 p m Arrive Spartanburg lt ? D Depot (E) 4 ?2 p m No. 43 Down Passenger. Leave Spa: tan bu r). Leave Pe?i?l?to?. Leave Anderson. Arrive at ?ieit??n. .ll 4^ a in On and after above date throng'" CMS wit' be tun between Columbia ;a:d lieiidersouviilc with? out change. CONNECTION.-. A-Willi Si.uth Carolina Hali Up.td from ?.?iar-esti?n : willi Wilmington Columbia vt At: gusta U it from Wilmington and ai! points north thereof: with < b?rlotie. Columbia .t Augusta Kail Road from Charlotte and points north thereof. Ii-With Asheville & Sparenburg U?i-l Road for p..?nts in Western N- C. C-WRh A. ? C. Div. lt A h. ll. ll. for all points South and West. D-With A. ? C. Div. ll. ? D. It. lt from At ?anta and b?y??ii?L K-With ? ? C. Div. E. ? D. ll. li fora:! points S*?Uth and West. F-With S-uth Carolina Rai! ibad for Char lesion ; with WUintngton. Columbia i Augusta Rail Read lor Wilmington an t tho North : w i h Charlotte, Colntuhiu & Augusia Rai: Road fo: Charlo!ie and ...e Xor:h. tr-With Asheville ? Spartatiburg Rail 3pad ?rom Henderson vii ??. li--\*.*itl? A. & C. Div. U. ? D. lt. lt. i'ioin Ch a.? loire ? beyond. Standa rd tims used is Washington, D. C.. ivhivh is ?iftccii miaules fasivr than Columbia; J. W. FRY, Sup't. A- POPE, (>er:cral Passenger Agent. Au'?.st 20. ISS!. tr'. South Carolina Railroad, CHAXGE OF SCHEDULE. OX AXD AFTER OCTOBER loth. l$:i Camden Dru xi ch w;i! 'un as follows, until far ther notice: EAST TO COL?JI???A-DAJLV EXCEPT SI'NHAYS. Leave Camden . 7 40 a in Leave Camden Junction. S 4.7> HU: A?rivc at Columbia.Il 00 an: 1VK>T KU'OI Col.UMIit.Y-1>A1!.V MX CK IT I'S OA Vs. Leave Columbia. 5 15 a m... 0 Ut) j, m Arrive Camden J unction, li H' a m... 7 4" p tn Arrive at Camden. I li) p m... S 45 p m EAS P TU CHARLESTON ANO ACGCSTA. (Dai'y except Sundays.) Leave Camden. 3 ;0 p m Leave Camden .June'. 5 :',7 p tn Arrive at Charleston.?0 30 p m Virive at Augusta. 7 40 a m WEST KRo.M CHARLESTON A NI) A t'C 1'STA. (Daily except Sundays.) Leave Charleston. 0 30 a m Leave Angosta. 7 Uti p Hi iriivc Camden June'.II lt? a m Vnive at Camden. 1 10 p m CONNECTIONS, ^o?umi.ia and Greenville Railroad b->:h way-, br all points on that Road anil on the Spar an?urg. Union and CVumbia ami Spartaiihurg md Ashville Railroads, also with the Chai PttC. Columbia ami AUgilSta ??aproad to and rota ;t!l paints X'ortit by trains leaving Camden it 7 41? :: m. and arriving -ii .S -15 p a: CoiMiCt-tiotis made al AuguS'a t . J.il points Vest and St.i.iL : als . at Chattest?.?-! with ?team.rs for Xew Vo:k and florida - on Wed icsdays and Saturi?avs On Saturdays ltOUX-D TRIP TIClvETS are old to and from all Stations at one first class are for the round trip-tickets being gond ???I d' :.da '-" noon, to return. Exeur?ii?ti tickets 'pod. for itf days ar? reguhnly on sale to and rota ail stations at G cents per mile f r round rip. Ti!RO.l'Oil TICKETS lo all points, can he mrchascd bv applying to James-Jones. Accent c Camde?. " D. C. ALLEN, General Passenger and Tickei Agent. JOHN D. PECK, Genera! Sup't, Charleston. S. C NORTH-E?S?bIN R, Ra G?r rjUPSRINTENDENT'S OFFICE, 3 NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD CO. CHARLESTON, S. IL, Nov. 20, 18S1. On a?il utter tilts date thc following Sche? in le will bc run, Sundays included : .eavc^CbaricSton. Arrive Florence. 3 00 A. :.i.12 55 l'. M. 4 f>0 M.ll 55 l- M. 6 15 ;.. :?:.1 A. M. >eave Florence. Arrive Charleston. '_' 40 A. M.G 45 A. :.?. 1 ('5 f. x.fi i- M. 4 00 A. M.S 45 A. M. Train leaving Florence ar 2 40 A. M. will lot Stet? for '.vav passengers. J.*F. DIV.IXE, Cen"! Supt. P. fy. CLEA POR. CnM. Ti- L--t Ai:cnt. E?JBBEE STAMPS NAME STAMPS F GR MARKING CLOTHING v?t h indclliblc ink, or ?br printing vi.-iiit.g ards, and STA y J P.S OF ANY IISXD Call ,,n C. V. OSTEEN. At. ibo Watchrmin and Southron Office. IsTOT AT HOME, T. Lore stood upon the doorstep And twirled about the pin, And whispered through the keyhole, ,:Is any one within ?'! IT. But she was busy sweeping And dusting high and low, And he his books was deep in, So they let him knock and go, III. Better the book uwritten, Better uns wept the Soor, Than such a sweet and seldom visitor Turned from the thankless door. THE ENGINEER'S STOEY. Mayhap, stranger, you hov run over the Pennsjdvany Central Kail road. As you may say, I was born j and brought up on that line, first as ? fireman, then engineer nigh on to twenty years, lt's allers exc?ti?V to ! run a machine, and wen I was a fire? man I used to think it was better to be top of ono of them splendid en? gines than to be President of the United States. The day they first put me on the footboard and 1 took the lever in my hand and knew it was my engine, I reckon I was the proud? est man between Pittsburgh and Altoona. I kinder thought that ev j erybody was goin' co bc out, that day, I to see how the train made her run, and you kin bet ail your specie that sile went smack up to the ni ?nit, thc whole 117 miles. But this kind bl spirit wore oif, after awhile, 'n I settled down into a sober stiddy goin' man: 'n they d'*d say that I wor as safe 7n reliable a man as they lied in the business. I hov to say it, stran? ger; as there's nobody else to do it; elsewise you wouldn't know it. I was turned 23 wen me and Marv j was married. Twenty-eight years ago! j You hov a wife, stranger't ilevn't . got no wife ! Well ! tnayhaps it's j just as well ! I bed Mary some eight j years, but it don't seem like no time, ? now. I left her there in the old j Keystone State, lier an' the boy. j Sometimes 1 think Pd like to go back ? agin, and see the place where they j both lie, but I suppose 1 never shall. | Don't seem as if 1 had thc heart to do ; it. lt wasn't in any church-yard, you 1 know; but a little way up the motin-j tain there was a green quiet spot j among the trees, and they are there \ -not more 'n 100 feet, say, above j the track-and 1 often wonder if] Charley doesn't still dream, when the \ New York express thunders by, that i his old fattier is holding the throttle. \ I put up a snug cabin by the side j of the road when i had a small dearin,' j ann between whiles "l used to plant ' my pettitoes and things, enough to j keep us going", and Mary had her i gurdon. Alary allers took to flowers, ; as 1 used to tell lier, jokin' like, 'cos i she was one of the itally. Our little cabin was in among the j mountains, a good ways from any I other house, and I used to sometimes j think that Mary must be lonely, with ' : me away so much of the time. You ? see, I was allers out three nights in j ? the week. I w cut up in the day j : time, passing my house at noon, and j * down again that night, passing at j ; midnight. But I was home two or j i three days in the week and allers, j Sunday. -The place where we lived ? ? was a wild region of conntrv. and the ! storms we used to have up there, so j < high in the air, was fearful. ! ' I didn't tel! you anything about t'ne j : boy ? No ! Well, do you know 1 took ! . to him the ve rv first moment. And ; ? that's a curious Hiing abuut babies, j i Now- I never fancied 'em much, but 1 : ; tell you, stranger, it makes ail The j1 difference in the world whether it's I . your baby or whether it belongs to j i somebody else. .I've seen a great \ < many of 'oin in' my time, and ace rd- i 1 in' to their parents they was the most ! 1 uncommon babies ; bul I could never j 1 see .much of it. 1 used to laugh a 1 j good deal when people made such j < fools ol'themselves over their children, j but I know exactly how it is now, for j 5 I suppose I was the greatest fool over | 1 my Charley as ever lived. Mary named j s him Charley That was after me. ; 1 Set ms lo me that boy look to a loco- J t motive from thc time he was six ; i months old. His mother would sit ; 1 out in front of the house, with him in . 1 her lap, when I was up at noon, and : ' she'd kiss her hand and wave tho ? < baby at me. By thc time he was o' } vears old he'd got so that I used to i i take him up to ride with me. There j i was a water lank near the house, and i t when I stepped to water he was al-11 I ors there, and Pd ketch him up ?n i t carry '"rn off ten or twenty miles, till ? i 1 met another train, and sumo ol'thc lt boys Yt carry him back home. 11 'T wasn't long afore there was scarce ! ( a man on the road as didn't know : i Charley Latham's baby. They'd pick i t 'itu up wherever they could lim! '*im, i and sometimes he'd be gone nearly j ' ail dav, bat somebody'd set '"im down j r afore night 7n he'd come toddlin' ; i home. Sometimes I think it's queer I how the men used lo take to that i baby. There was fellers just as rough i as bears-brakemen, they'd gel drunk j. and crazy With liquor and cut or { sliobt a mau quicker* n lightning';'n': i section men-up in them mountains j-, them section men were mighty hard , cases. What for fighlin' and quarrel- ? in', thev'd beat Sam Hill. An' vit 1 there wasn't ont.' of them chaps as j won] i speak a cross wold to my j | baby; They was ;d! fond of 'im. and . if anybody took lo imposto' on 'im, : \ why, there'd be a mus quickor'n the | drop of"yer hat. : j Tin-re was ?lil! Walker. You didn't < know Hill Waiker did you? No! I Of course you didn't. Dead now. i Loft a switch open en 'im anti lie run . oil'. Never spoke triter they picked ? .im up. Iii II, he was a crusty old ? bachelor-one of them tellers wat i never ses nothi.i", if he can help his- ; 1 sell. Jiu didn't have no relations, ; I and he was so sot agin everybody the < boys used In say they didn't believe 1 he ever had a father or mother like 1 other folks. He'd hard lint's iii his ' s life, for a fact, and it made 'rn wat I they call a misen-. Yes ! that's it I -a misen thorp., ile seemed lo hev i I a particular grudge for o vc ry bo il j had seen, and asortergeneral dis for everybody he hadn't. Bili p'ii np thc baby fur a ride ono d:iy, when lie stopped at the next st. he was goinJ round oil in' his in and tire little tyke iaggi.n' alter, i in' on to Iiis cont tail and getting self all covered with oil and gre jest like a reg'Sar engineer ; and tl was one of the station men as di like Bill, nohow, and he ses, ses "Hullo, Bill ! is that a left-hande youi'*u ?" They say Bill just turned ashy, sets down his can and roached that feller-jest one, square in juggler, and he didn't git out o' for ten days. One day there c; down from New York a rocking-ho and Mary found it at the water-t with a piece of paper tied to bridle, 'n it said like this: "If. Walker could ever wish for a bab} his own it would bu little Charley That roeking-horse eost Bili a wli month's wages. One of the first things Char learned io say, wen he was begun: to talk, was this : You sec the n on the road used to call one anet 'Tard"-short for "pardner." GI ley i.c caught it, and he always ca! me "Fard." I don't think he e* called me father or papa, like otl children do ; but it was allers "Parc "You and me is pards, isn't we:?' used to sa}'. An' that's what allers called one another, and he w< by the name of "Charley Lathan pani" all over the road. Td be got*D' by the house, on t noon traf ii, an' leaning' out o' t cab watchiu' fer 'im, 'n he'd be c in front, with a white rag or son thing to wave at mc, and I'd see the motion of his lips-I coal di hear for the noise of thc cars-that was say in', -'You and mc is parc isu't we ?" As I was teil'n', Sundays I laid o 'ii in the mormV, after Ireakfa: Mary would liil np a bas";et wi some bread rn butter'n meat ' things, and we three would go off in the mountains and stay all day. \\ used to do this every Sunday, and ; Charley got to calli u* it lils pard day. You see, he got a notion iii it was tho best day in the week, 'c. I was allers home with him. I didn never go to church much - it was long ways ; and then 1 thought Cha ley would got as much religion 1. going around in the woods and arnon the mountains, where the trees an leaves were so beautiful and the rock so grand, as any other way. If tho don't tell us that the Creator wli made 'em all is powerful and go"i too. there ain't no preacher eau do il You went up to tho top of Pike' Peak the cl ii er day. I've been ther too, 'n I'd like io know if a chap ca go up there, among t'n -sc awful pree [li?es and gorges, and look over th country fur IOU miles and seo th mountains around, and the plain 'way <>?? in iront that don't seem {. have no end. and then look al his.-;:/! and say whether lie does real!; amount to a row of pins. You see '. never was any Christian, and neve give Charley no sich trainiu", uni sometimes 1 think* maybe I didn't il? iju?te light by him. But, Lord love you, stranger, wen he went among liic angels, i'm jest certain then wasn't none of 'cm had any deane: ?;oul 'an what he had. There was a place, about three [juarters of a mile from our place, ?diere we used to go a good deal Sundays, and Mary would read the Bible to us and sing. .She was a [.Mod singer, Mary was. We used to jail the place "Devil's Run." It was i sort of a creek, but didn't have no irater in it, 'ccpt after a hard ruin, it came down between two high mountains, where it was steep as ?oiiid be. Wen a storm caine np I've viiown it in half an hour to have six feet <>f water in it. Au' then it would jring down big trunks o? trees and jreat stones, roaring that way you ;ould hear it for miles. lt's got its name because it was mch an infernal place. Often i've jeen woke up at night by a heavy shower, and I'd hear Devil's Run lowling as though it would tear every? thing to pieces. There couldn't bo io worse place fixed for the road, if hey had hunted the whole country ;hrough, tuan right -there. There vas a sharp curve, and on thc outside \ >f it was a stra ighI-np-and-do w n j u'ecipice for hundreds of feet, so that f a train went off it would be smashed : nto kindiiu' wood and ten-penny ui?ls. Devil's linn went underneath : .he track, near the point of thc curve. ! .brough a barrel culvert, and once I here came on a hard storm, 'n the j recs'n stone, and so on, choked up he culvert, which wasn't large ! mo ugh, Ju the water dammed up and .ose, till by 'n by tho whole embank- i nen! gave way, and twenty feet of the ? .oad wen; rippin' down the mountain. They found out the break before any : iccident happened, and the culvert, .vas rebuilt, a good deal, larger than j jefore. But that place the whole j .oad was ufcarcd of, '< As 1 was a tullin', if it hadn't been ? men a wicked pince Devil's Ken was ; he prettiest on?; on the whole numil- j aili. The bed of tiie stream was loop down, 'n full o? ferns and ?-""asses that Mary was allers gather- , a', and we cou!:1, set there in thc ' l?ttest day 'n tho sun could never iud his way through thc trees over? load. As J was tullin,' (marley was born ? i be au engineer. J>v the time he tad got lo be 0 years old he knew the ?ame of nigh ail the pasts nf a ma? mine. He'd learned all th" signals- : dial was used on die road ile knew hat a rn! (lag or a rod light mean; ' i langer. That a lantern, ai night. : swung backward 'u forward, slowly, ; < ic ross tin: track wo ult! bring a train t ?ip. all standin'. Al! thal sort, o'I hing ' I lie'd jesl "picked up hisself. lie knew i Lire sound ol every whistle and bell ; ?n the road, 'ii could tell weal ingiue i til ev bel juged to. and I believe he 1 knew the tread ?d' No. 29 whenever ; ( me wont by. night, or day. No. 1 ?hal was my ingine. I run her about j I ihi""o yea's, and llene wasn't P.othin' I in (? id's wo Hil 1 couldn't git out of' ' J t o i" wo!) she was in a good lin Wo sort o' understood one ano and she li ard ly ever went bael hie. Once in a while sue did, thor, she was a perfect cuss. Yes !" he was 7 that winier. 7 3'cars old a few days bee ?rc Ch mas. After Charley got a y cai two old I allers made much of Ch mas. Mostly I contrived io lay that day so as to be homo with little pard. Some of the boys aliers ready 'n w.iilin' to take' mjr that day-them as didn't hev wives, or children. They'd c and say: "Now Latham, there's j; little parc!, he'll be a wantru' of to-morrow, which is Christmas. I'll jest take your run down, this 'ere basket, why, the boys, ; know, they sos, we ain't get no el nur child, ami we'll scud this ali to Latham's little Charley-" The first lime they did ti mt I i took back that way I stood ami gape? lookin' around, I : Icc? a natural fun!, ; couldn't say a word. And the titi: they used lo send Charley was tonishin": toys and so on. Why, < Christmas-tiuy sent 'im a real si! mug. Oh ! stranger, them days \ such times as i've never bed sin There wasn't no other children a roi for Charley to play with, but me 'ii mother was all fie seemed to care i ?n we'd carry on together ail dav j as if none of us was more'n sev yevrs old. Charley ried a lillie room by hi>:s< where he slept, which had a wind that looked down the track. 1 gn him a railroad lantern, which trimmed and filled h i ?self after showed him how, 'n wen it was i night down he'd light his lantern put it in the window at thc head Iiis bcd. I couid see it a long w before ? gol to the house, 'n you doi know, stranger, what comfort it w wen I was a corni ii' down to see t!? light and know that my little boy w 'yin' lhere fast asleep and cl ream i tiiat the roar of the train was the fo< steps of his old pard flying at for mile an hour. It was my run down Thanksgivii 2VC. 1 was goin' to ?-top off iii tl nomin', and Bil! Waiker was to ia! my train goin' back. Wc stallt from Akoona late in the evening ai i good deal behind, lt had been Sad day. 'i he weather had bei ivtirm for some time back, and began to rain in the mornin'. and lu: rained all dav. By night the wi:: chopped around to the north'n beg;i to turn co!d, so th it wen ve star!c lt was rain in' atol sleelin, with u )Ut]ook fora heavy storm. A dark' light 1 never saw, 'n wen (he coi luctor pulled thc bell 1 sos to m ir c.rn an. "Crazy, this is goin't>> be a rgiy riin." My li rem au wasacraz\ i arum-scar nm sort of a boy, and s hey had nick-named him "Craz rake:" But they soon drooped th Take "n left him Crazy, and tint's th name lie aliers went by. So lie sex t ne. '/Boss' I guess you're rigli .here.*' Cruz}" was one them boy' net's often in desperate tight place.-5 Hit J never known 'i:n was a leard e iotliin' I've never seen :m lo sh O', he white feather. ] don't believe nan or devi! could scare 'rn, but th: light he seemed to be uneasy like. Sometimes there's something make: rou think befoiehand that so?:ictliin< s g?:u' to happen-a kind of-nf )resentment '{ Yes ! that's it. Pre ?entunen'. You can't tell exactly low it is, but if lhere is spcerits ir tccide.nts or disasters, seems ?ike they vas try in' Some way to let folk: ?mow in time, and couldn't quite de t. Everything seemed lo go wrong villi us that night-. The passenger* vas all a-growlin' cos we hurried 'em ip ai supper: and when I pulled out ny machine had the very tdd boy in icr. No. 20, as twits tel lin' ye, was me of the surest engines on the cad, but when she did git into her lides she was more obstreperous 'u a government mule. Ingiiies is like hose se win' machines or planners, ind them things. Thev git out o' :ilter without no reason, and yer :uu't tell w'at's the matter with 'em, inly they jest won't 'u' that's all there s about it. She wouldn't steam, she retied and snorted and loamed, and vonldn't do her work no ways at ail. de and Crazy fussed with her, and corked with her, and coaxed and uisscd her, bul it wasn't no use. Vc kept ra n ni tr behind all the limo astead of makin' up, 'h the conductor wore like a pirate, lie was a eu ;iueer hisseff, and he came out into lie cab ami for five or ten mile lie ussed and worked and coaxed and ; ussod. I believe that iii gi nc knew i :ist as well that Satan was out loose j hat night as if she'd been a real ; ninan, fngines is like women-{ hey can't tell yon why a thing is so, j nd can't give ho reason for it,, but j hey jest know it is so. Mebbe we'd made thirl}' mile or ; icu matter: The rain and sleet and ? ail and snow was coriiitr down fear- ; ul. The waler was pourin' down | he mountain and fill in' the ditches ; nd ninnie' much as you saw it last j right. The wind was bib win* a tor-J iado, .and come leann' through thc , lasses-gulches they call 'em in this ; o? h try-in gusts that would strike he locomotive like a big wave striking , ship, and almost throw her over, t was so dark, foo, that 1 couldn't ? ev seen Crazy on thc oilier side ot he cab but for the lantern, and wen e opened the furnace door. But 1 ad to get. along all 1 could, lt fniildn'l. do to slow up, as 1 was unnin* for a nieelii:' point. Ju*l before yon got to the curve at ?evil's IvUn thei"i:*s a short, stretch ol traight track. Soon ns I struck thal began to look fir the light in Char- i ?w's window, which w;is the other : ide of the run. Stiaiuin' my eyes ? li roughthe -'dark jusi al t!ie point td' i h" curve 1 saw a light swinging < ?ackward and forward slowly across ? lie track. Von know 1 was a-tellin' j < on as everything wont crooked thal 1 light. Soon as 1 saw that light I < mew whal il ail was in a mi "ii it. lt i ame on me with a rush, like. My i ut:r stood on end. 1 blew brakes. screams IV> the fireman, "Ct :zy ! i ?evil's Hun etd vert's gone, by the ? iviir God!'"' Ile jumped 'u sot thc Kr tender brakes, and s?d tne whee a flash. Tlie brakeman bellini! d answer. They was dozin in tire < I reckon. 1 blew brakes agio w blast to wake the dead, and throw over. The drivers ground and gre: under me, but the rails were s! and slippery, and I was forging ai to a gulf 500 feet square down; 150 human lives behind me. I tel i in' ye as No. 29 that night dead square ag'in goiu' ahead; wen I threw her back seems like knew her biz and how much lan her dotti' o?' it well. Women, a is engines. Crabbed, crooked, tankerous cusses wen 'hey (1 want to, but where it's works of* g< ness or mercy cull on 'em and the; right there. No. 29 took hold that reverse with a grit i never s in no eugine afore, ?he put ali tl was in her into every lum, and whole all air took less time than I' tell in" of it till tiie danger was by. When, we stopped within twe feet of the light, which was swim still, backward and forward, sic across the track, I sez to Cra "Who's got that l?utern?" Ivnev couldn't be the trackman, for w just met him three miles below, ; 'cept him lhere was nobody neare ten miles at that time o? night. S gits down from the machine and ri up the road. As 1 comes up 1 see little figure in white. It was s a swir.gin' of the light, backwards ; forwards, slowly across the tra? lie was in his night-gown, just as got (rut of bed, hadn't no hat, a was barefoot. The sleet had froze his hair and his nightgown was s with ice. I comes up to 'im-wt I was took that way 1 could,n't spe; An' he kep' swiugin' the light, ba? waids and forwards, slowly across t track, and he sez to me, he sir "You and me's pards, isn't we ?" look at ;im a min it. His eyes v\ open and looked queer, ile w dead fast asleep. Crazy ketcnes ? or I'd gone over, which it were i legs seemed weak like. Then ? sc down on the rail and Crazy picks i the child, 'n huggin" of Mm up bust right out a cryiu', ho did. Tiie conductor and some of the nu got out of the cars and come who we was It was. slectin' still, ' growin' bitter cold. Tue boys cari cd tho baby into tiie baggage cr wuer<; there was a stove and took <. his night clotiies and wrapped 'ii? t in blankets und great coats. The was a doctor on the train, and he si if we kin git 7mi back to bed withe wilkin' ol' im up p'haps it would h hurt 'im ; but if he was to wak'?, win willi the wet, 'if the cold V ll fright, like as not it might kill ''in 5o the boys takes *im up to carry 'ii to tue house, and I hollered along, bi [ couldn't hov carried a kitten. Th doctor he teils'em io be keorful an not wake 'ho, for it was as m nc ii ? his lifo was worth, ?o Crazy take 'im and two of 'em holds a biaukt over'm to keep thcsleet oil', V on goes ahead willi a lantern, and tw or three more about with lantern so's to light tim way Wen we g< to the break it was just as I expectei track, road culvert, evervfuing gone clean as if cut out with a knife. Til water was pitchin' down the run si feet deep, car ry ia' big rocks au boulders, that bounced and buns pe from side to side and up u te the ail clear out of the- water. It was awfti Lo look at. How the child got ove [lie gap. which was at least I went; feet wide, 1 don't kn nv. A tree bet lome down and lodged crossways tad I suppose he must hev gone ove; m that Wen we come to it wo wa; nost afraid to try it, for if you slip )ed off tho log it was all-day willi you i didn't like to trust tue boys, and 1 jes to Jake, "Crazy, yon won't droj; .?ie baby, will you ?" He poi nb lowe into the break and SL'S .Latham, we'd all been down there, ive ry mother's son of us, but foryeui ittle parri. I'd drop my soul first." Weil ! we got 'hi home safe at last. Mary was asleep when we got to tue muse, and was scared as bat! as me vhen she heard what was up. We )ut 'fui back in his bed and sure ?fougli he never waked up. Next norn in' they threw a trestle over the )rcak and trains was run ni a' agin. 3ut thc doctor stayed with us. Jest ?nt o! his own head, yt u know, but ie seemed anxious. Seemed as though ie look to the child. Don't wonder it that, neither. Moat everybody did. 1 watched by "im all that night, and eward day ? gol out all his old Christ? mas things and set. 'em on to a table lear the bed, where he could sec 'em he first thing. B a t a fe vcr came on ':m, n' wen he first woko np he was out d'his heath 1 speaks to 'im and ses, 'How goes it. Paid ?" But he didn't ;now me. That was Thanksgiving )ay, you know, 'if I sat, there by lim, hopin' every minit as he might anne round, so I could give ;im his hings and wc could hov our holiday est as we used to do. But he kep' ;"ettiif worse from hour io hour. He was sick jest a week and wan leriif and wild from inst to last. I laved with 'im all the time, for I ladn't wits enough left to handle a michino, and the boys sent word not j o bother mysolf about business 'if j hey'd see me through. So, between j em they did my duly and- No 20 j vent up and down in her reg'lar urns j L-st as if 1 was at the lever. You: mow I was telba* about the water-tank tear : lu? house, lt didn't use to be ised much, but that week it seemed ;s ?.'hough fn. re wasn't a train either! vay thai didn't get on! o' waler just ; here, and some ol "oin woiihl come ' iver to soe ale ?ut the boy. And their; vives kept senditf nice things-and ? dev were poor neople, too. . \ ou : oe, somehow j} t ravid ed about as fast 1 .s what little Paid had ilene, stoppiif ' ho train that night, 'if he sich a mite d a child An' it. gol into the news .apers. ami the President' of tho road ...ii?re up to see "im and el! thal, lint ie just went on from day to day, tor loath struck 'im from the lits!, mo? llentas hu stood I lie re in thc winier ain. from his talking" wli ile he was deli- . ions we I?MIII 1 out pretty much all low it was. I reckon he heard the ?Wnu in Ms sleep and the roariif ot ^ tiie nm und that set 'im to dream! OJ'course he knew it was 1113' nig j 'n I liad often told 'im what a i ; place it was-and what to do if a ! thing- happened-never thinking t ' he'd go to doin5 of it hisseif. But : gits up 1:1 his sleep, takes his Iaut< and goes out to meet mo. I'd be sittiu' there watcuin' of :im by j bed, ;n he'd begin first, jest kind j imitteriii', and I'd hear lum say, s< j ly i ?kc-, as if he was talkin' to hisse I 'Fard's due at the run in twer ! minits. I kin get there in time.'' ! 'Pea:ff like it was ali goin' thron j his mind agin and "ne was doin' uv jost what he did that night. A ; could teil wen lie got to the pin I where tiie road broke; for lie ses 'K ; I git over on that log ? Pf I dei ! my pard'll be killed.' j ?heti seemed as though he t? goin'down to tiie curve where 1 ! found him. And he'd shiver like, of thc cold rain was strikin' hum. You see we could mostly feller by walchin' him and ketclnn what said. Onct or twict he shook rig hard, and his teeth chattered. V* thought it was thc Cold he was feeli agin as he felt it ont tiie:e in t night with nothin' on him. Then ! keeps still awhile like he was a wa in'and listeuiu' for . tho train, ai you'd sec 'im hold his breath lean he couldn't ketch the sound. Pr?t soon he speaks agin, gently like, at ses : 'Kin lie sec the light in time V 'N he waits a bit. Next he jiimj right up in bed on his knees ai screams out at the top of his voice ''Stop her, Fard ! Stop 20!' Stranger, Pvc seoir frightful thin? in my time, but I never see any tin 1 so awful as that was. Pule and wil with the fryer on 'inr, that mere bal was ?try in' to make'me hoar, ami ti wind howli'ir and the train roarin ti way it was. An' we'd try to kee *irh still, and his mother would cot; him. and Pd try to quiet him ac he'd scream agin : 'Culvert's gone ? Stop her, Paid !' An' Pd take 'im in my arrns'n he' be all of a quiver Then it seemc like he bec rd me whistle, for lie' ses 'All right : he's blowim brakes.' An' I puts 'im back in bed and 1: lays still a intuit like he was Hstcntn and Sf s :. "lie's a rove rsl tr of 29, he is ! M yard-pard's safe." Tuen he'd shut his eyes aili dre off, and smile in his sleep, like h was satisfied. By-aud by he'd begi and go'all over it agin, and so, da after day, aliers the same, lie seemc to her ft hi his mind ai! the time. Tiie doctor, you know, him I wa a tellin' about, weil, he stopped 0 that night and staid with us the whol week and nursed baby like lie was hi own. 'X wen it was all over thought it was righi, '11 I ses to 'i'm "Doctor! can 1 pay you? "No!1 ses he, "Latham, 3-ou can't. His Hf saved mine. N' besides that, La thain,' ''11 he lilied up like, "beside that, Latham, I've got oue jest hi age. There ain't mithin' you kit give me but that little curl there 01 his forehead.' So Alary takes tin scissors and cuts it oif. lie kissed it 'n ?mt it in his pocket 'n went away. On the night of the break at Devil'i Run, wen 1 got eft" the machine t< see wi.at was the matter, 1 pulls ou my watch and it was 12 o'clock aux three minits. It was exactly a wee! after that 1 took out my watch and il was 12 o'clock and three intuits Some of the neighbors had come iron: around in the mountains, 'n a miuistei from a village about fifteen miles oil'. I didn't give no attention to nothin,' for 1 was stunned like and didn't know how it all was. 1 was settin in front of the house on a large stone where Charley used to sit and wait for me wen 1 was coming by, and 1 lieered a whistle. An' I sec a train. lt stopped near where ? was. The locomotive was No. 29. The boys had her dressed in mourning'. Bill Waiker was runum' her and Crazy was fi ri ir. There was three coaches, lided with the boys and their wives and children. They was in their best clothes, 'n when they came by where I was sittiu'-they ali knew it was little Charley's place-the men took off their hals and the women had their handkerchiefs to their faces. 1 allers knowed they was very fond of him, bm it seemed as though they had lost an only child There was six little boys, all tue same size*, and they luok 'im up, and we all follered up the side of the mountain, lt was a mild day, and the sun shinin' bright. Wc crossed Devil's Kan and came to a place of level ground where there was some large pine trees. It was just over tho" cliff, a lillie ways from the road, say 100 feet, and in plain sight of where he stood waviu his lantern backward and forward slowly across the track when he said, "You and me's pards, isn't we?" Alter ali, it was harder on -Mary j than on me. In three months" time 1 took her there, too I stayed on the line a while after that, bul I couldn't never go back to my house agin, and whenever 1 was goin' by and saw those two heaps of fresh, earth it worked on me so I couldn't stand it. As 1 was tellin,' 1 sometimes think I'd like to go back lhere and see the place once more, but seems as if I ivas afeerd. I don't believe in ghosts, ?mt ou a dark night I'd see my little j ['harley wa vin 2: his light as he did 1 that night when it cost him his life. j To Prevent Skippers. The time is coming for hanging our li?7tuc-hKiili! meat to smoke it. The first : Liiihg to do is to have sonic wafer and j ? rag and a tub: take the joints out and J wash the flesh purr, leaving it tolerably j moist : then have setae black popper, I ?round, and sprinkle it on until it won't j Mick : haag earfullv. and, smoke for fifteen days with small {?mees of hiccory j wood. T'ois has binni my custom for tweurv years, and 1 have novcr beeu \ troubled with bugs er worms in meat, j Thc pepper gives i? a geed flavor. All meat houses should have ?cod floors, clear ol' al! grease and dirt. Kx-Senntor Platt, it i>- generally be? lieved, will succeed Judge Robertson as collector of the nert of New York. j A Young Lady Cured by "Prayer I Slid Married One Year After. Ho>:*:5D.v?E, Nov. 20 -Thc wedding of Miss . Lillie I). Tyler of Damascus. Wayne County, Pa : to Mr. Juan C. Mitchel, of thc same ' town, toole place a day or two ago, precisely one year from the mysterious cureof thc young lady, winch she described to the Press cor? respondent". Miss Tyler had been ari invalid j for upward of six years with a peculiar disease ; which kept '?er confined to her room most of . the tisae: She was treated' by eminent physr i dans fro'? New Vork and Philadelphia,-but in ! vain. I H October. ] S80, she heard of a female j in Connecticut who cured people by prayer' I and to this person .Mi?s Tyler wrote, receiving" . a reply appointing the 26th of November as j the day wfren Lit'?ic should, with her friends; ! pray for her restoration to' he?Ith. The day j cana-, and Miss Tyler was so weak she could; scarcely raise her head from thc pillow. Thc ; company included her family and pastor, Rev. . Thomas-Westcot. At noon they commenced their prayer?, ana' before night the young lady was dirie lo go" a hont thc house; and'. ashef cure bis b?en en tirely effected, she has just re ? deemed the pledge made long ago lo Mr. ! JHtch'eli. a-rd they were married last Saturday j b\ itic same clergyman who prayedso fervent? ly only a' year before for her recovery. Th? case lias attracted widespread attention,- a"nd the story aa told by the bride is true kr every paTticiiTar. A Mmature Electric Lamp. Mr. Edison has just completed and trans? mitted to Prof. F. G. Fairfield of tTie New Vork Colleg? of Veterinary Surgeons an elec? tric lamp wbrcrr ha's the novelty of being probably the most minite ever constructed. The electrodes, or carbon points, are only one j teeth of an inch iu diameter, the object being to obtain the highest . attainable intensity wi iii in th? smallest pcscfbfc space, ii requires a battery of ab?ut forty Cells. Tne flame will not exceed the dimensions of a silver f?Ve ? cent piece, but will concentrate within this linritec area the power of 500 candles. Thc conductors are scarcely larger than a bair, and trrs ?lectrodes ri re adjusted by means of a delicate screw movement, capable of alter? ing the distance of their points from' eae?f other one ten-thousandth of an roch, if neces? sary. The instrument waa made to ilkrmr-3 nate a microscopic objective constructed upo? the newly discovered law cf homologous sec? tions. This lens renders rf possible to obtafa a power of CO. OOO diameters. ?t stich a pow-? er only a section of a colored corpuscle of hu* man blood can bc viewed at a time. Compu? ting the molecule of Irving r?att?r to be about a twenty-millionth of an inch in diameter, Prof. Fairfield" believes it possible to' project thc imago of it upon a screen with the help ot the lamp;, and to take photographs showing thc molecular constitution of such Complex bodies as albumen. A speck in the ocean only is Pitcairn Island, or the ''Isle of Content," nsit is aptly j called. Although only six miles ia circum? ference, it is inhabited by niaety-six of thc happiest persons in the world. The island is situated in a delightful climate about three thousand miles west of the northern coast of South America. All thc tropical fruits grow there in abundance. Thc inhabitants form an Egnlish colony, nnd live a simple, happy life. undisturbed by the strife ot' the world mound them. Money is practically unknown among them. The one magistrale orr the island has a sinecure, fer there are no dis? putes and lawlessness is unknown. Each msn has his own house and ?a'nd. The life is communistic in a way, for all are socially eqtfal and share their goods with each other when ene becomes needy. Shoes are seldom worn by the women. The children, when only a few years old, learn he'w to swim and tumble around in the breakers withost fear or danger. Tiie people are^rcllgioas and wor? ship in a little church, some of their number reading the service cf the Church of Engrand and preaching every Sunday. They are' zc-alcus in succoring shipwrecked sailors, ind seem, on the ".thole, to lead an ideal life of quiet and contentment. Russel M^cCoy, the chief Magistrate, is now visilrns San Francisco. Al! of the musical critics in New Vork and ilrooklyr. are very enth.isiastic ia their praise of Patti as'"Marguerite." Uer triumpts was very'splendid. She got S-?.COO for making it. Here is tbs way she appeared : "Her dress was apparently white satin, embroidered with Cowers. She wore diamonds in Ker hatp? in her ears, on her nock, on her ?rms, and on her wrists and fingers. If there had been any other place where a diamond brooch, pin or solitaire could have advantageously beed put, it would have been. The Ettie lady literally blossomed with brilliants,- and as she coquet? ted from foot to foot, teetering like ? boy with tight boots, ker fortune fairly blazed* upon us. She sang like she always sings like half a dozen nightingales roiled into one: never tired : never at a loss.*' Recent speculation insists that the sun is not a mass of incandescent matter, but ver}' likely a world like our own and inhabited. The light and heat dispensed ar? not volcanic, but electrical. "If." says the Missouri Rcpzib lica?i. "thc sun be a burning furnace.- fed by outside material, or on ijs own substance, its fires must one day die out, and the glorious orb roil through a space dead, black orb : but. if tt be it a centre of reaction for thc ether vibrations caused by the rotation and revolution of the planets opposite and around it, then it will shiue as long as the planets move." Cc Tee drinkers should read the advertise-1 meat in another column headed Good 0-jfec. Ah eel get into a water pipe and stopped a big new England manufactory. Congress should immediately give manufacturers pro? tection from eels. The American Farmer. For Decenter closes thc year with a number of great interest and value. Erery branch of farm work receives attention, and there is something for every taste. Thediscuss:ons of several practical and advanced farmers' clubs (always a feature in this journal) are very instructive The home department is also very attractive to the ladies. 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