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* 7/-!c?5Sgjg ! v^JIk5?? ^1 I VOL. XLII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1885. .. INO. 13r ' vt Patiencc. Have patience, heart! That were no rofe that ivere not first a closed bud. Hovr comes the day? Not with the noonday sun o'er head, But s'owrly stealing up the cast, in faintest rf-fi. Have patience, heart ! Whit so thine own life's duwuinj: ?ocd. Have patience, heart! Sick not at morn to make the day as bright as noon. Force not the bud, before its time to be a rcse. IIow slow.'y, when we watch the sky, the dayJiirht grows: !f And yet, for all. indeed, the sun goes down too soon. Have natier.ee. heart! . ? . For ruin vii! come: thine cwn self knows bow tcar-civt s fall. Seek not to stay thf- clouds before they've sp'-nt their rain. Or else across the sky the clouus may come again. V Have patier.c?, grieving heart I for good must come to all. . ... Have patience, heart! What though no kisses fall upon thy tired eyes, * And love holds not its rose to thee, nor day is fair? ifiuuiu iiuv. j'V4iuw utvuo H^;?A?V.HO purer ;iir. 0!:, heart; bo sure 'twill wait fcr tliee ?.n Paradise. ?Amy E. Biaaebard, in Harper's Weekly. BILL'S CHILD. No one ever knew where the child came from, or even its name. One dar a sloop freighted with brick was unloading up town, and a hand on deck was tossing bricks, two bv two, to another man on the dock. All of a sudden a wee little chap, not more than 2 years old, came toddling along, got right in the way, and was knocked over by the flying bricks. Bill Forster, who was handling the load, was a rough mar.. It had not been exactly his fault that the child had been knocked down, still he felt very sorry for it. The little fellow's head f was badly cut, and he was stunned. He was carried into the cabin of the sloop, and there lay quite motionless. The Captain of the sloop sent to the police station, and the surgeon came. The child' was carefully examined. The sursreon said the case misrht be a serious one and that the little boy had better be taken to the hospital. Forster; had a sister, who worked in a laundry, and at once he sent for her. Molly Forster hurried down to the wharf, took the child in her lap, and listened breathlessly to what the surgeon said. The cabin of the brick sloop was not a handsome place to look afc. It was dirty and siovealy, hot and close. Molly Forster set about making it tidy, bhe opened the little windows of the cabinf and kept off the crowd who were swarming in the narrow quarters. ? She fanned the child,laid it on a coarse ' pillow, having lirst spread her clean apron overit.and bathed the poor baby's t J ~ 4-^ t <-v ^ Iltruu, tu awauvii. IUC ximv VI yiuuu from the wound. "If," said the surgeon, "you could keep the child perfectly quiet for a while it would be all for the better. I am afraid to jolt him in the ambulance. Maj'be he will come to before long. It is rather cooler hero on the river than in the hot wards of a hospital. Can you take charge of him until I come back? I will see you this evening.1' Molly had already torn up her handkerchief and bandaged the ' - child's head. -Sow she foliowecTtfie " " surgeon's directions. The doctor was a humane man, for when he left he put a half dollar into Molly's hand and told' her to buy some ice to cool the water she was using on the bandages. Molly Forster fanned and fanned that little sufferer, and bathed its head, and was tender with the child. About sunset the surgeon came again, and just then the child opened his eyes. "Well, that's a good sign," said the doctor. "Now hadn't you better advertise him since no one has eome for him? Somebody will claim him, I suppose. 1 can arrange for you to keep him if you want to." Although the accident was reported in two brief lines in all the newspapers, *-> fVirt ^ ft'Vvnfe rvf fKa ik-uotauvi?a^ buv vuvji M vi. ??MW police to find the parents of the child, no one ever came for it All that night Molly Forster nursed the child. Occasionally Bill would push his hard-lined and weather-beaten face into the cabin window and look wistfully at the little child. He never went to sleep that . night, but kept walking up and dowfl ' the deck. At daybreak he said to . Molly in a hoarse whisper: "Molly, take that kid to your room. It's got to be done." Bill Forster, who was a man of 40, I have said was rough. 1 do not know how it happens, but handling bricks seems to make people coarse and rather brutal. Bill would take not only one glass of whisky, but as many as he could drink. Mixing with a crowd of men worse than he was who frequented rumshops, he was much given to fighting, an.d his facc was as often as not disfigured with a black eye or a cut lip. Bill earned ab^ut a dollar and a quarter a day, and when the week was upjie never had a penny left. Pe-haps Molly working as hard as she could at the wash board or the ironing board, earning 70 cents a day, and feeding tL-e child. That shamed Bill. It happened that the little boy's short frock had been stained with blood. Molly had carefully washed it, but still Bill thought he saw stains on it and that worried him sick. Next week, when he saw his sister, wno was waiting on tne wnan lor aim with the little fellow in his arms, he said, "See here, Molly, its kind of hard on you, having tp feed this little fellow. Bread and milk and potatoes costs money, and nursing him takes away loJs of yonr time. Anyways, a dressing of that kid would be just ruination to you. Here's a dollar and a half for ^ his keep, and here's a dollar besides, and buy calico or something and make a frock for that child, and mind you burn tne one lie's got on, and next lime I sees iirru let him be looking priaie. Won't you?" 'It's mighty good of you, Bill?and just yoa wait I'll rig "him out. He isn't a bit of trouble. When I'm at work I take him to the laundry, and lie's a real pet there. I used to be afraid he was kind of dazed?but don't yon bother, Bill, he's all right, for he takes to playing now. He's only quiet on account of his natural sweetness? all real good children's that way?and 1 loveliira, just as if lie was ray own baby." On the next trip up the North River Bill Forster pondered a great deal over the child. The fact is, the child,whether he was awake or asleep, was never for a moment out of Bili's' mind. He if .Bill had uecn a little drowsy ana stupid that corning from too much l: - .1 u_< iiuuur Lilt; U^V UtMUlC nucu tuo juhub chap got in the way he (Bill) would have been more careful how he threw his bricks. The week after Molly had taken charge of the child Bill resisted the temptation to go on a spree and gave his sister a dollar and a half. That was the first time for years that he had ever saved a cent. * The week after that Bill did even better. There was haa never thought much about anything before, and it was hard work for him to think at all. Maybe because for more than one-half of life his brain had been muddled by liquor he had never set it working. As the empty sloop floated up the broad river, slowly moving with the tide, Bill sat in the snaae 01 iae capping jiu uuu axgueu with himself, and the general conclusions he arrived at were by no means flattering to himself. - "The beginning and tho ending of this here is rum. I've wasted nigh on to 25 years of my life. Why hasn't the boom of that mainsail knocked the stupid brains out of me before this? What have 1 got to show for 40 year of lifoP .Tn^r hfirft r:icr<rf?d nnd brink 1 *"v * v v""' - ~ OO I soiled clothes I stands in. Came near ! murdering a, child, did you, you goodfor-nothing beast? Djdn'D have no j better souse nor that? A herding with j drunken sailors, you big blackguard, ! and not knowing nothing better? Just i fitten to toss bricks from on and off a sloop. That's the best you kiu do. You took a drink this morning, and you feel sharp set for another just this I blessed minute. You can't get it because you are on the river where grogshops ain't floating round Ain't you man enough to go to Haverstraw and no matter what happens say Bill Forster, don't you take another drink no matter if another fellow does stand treat? There's lots of things that kid wants. There's a whip,likewise a pair of shoes, and when Winter comes llan- j nci. petticoats and wool socks, likewise | Christmas presents, jnow, you loaicr of a Bili Forster, every time you see the bottom of a glass ain't you guzzling down something that little shaver wants? Maybe it's just like you,you j white-lirered purp; you'll be letting your sister be a taking of the victuals out of her own mouth so as to feed'em to tiiat child, and it was me as shoved tire kid on her. Maybe you'll be hunting around for moro babies to knock over with bricks vou good-for-nothing i : t>?>> When Bill had called himself a Port- i uguese he had poured the last drop j from his private vial of wrath on his own head. Bill helped to load the sloop with brick at Haverstraw, and -although it was a hot, sultry day and the work was heavy, he never took a j drink. The other hands might come back, smacking their lips ana bantering him, but he stood firm. "No use, boys,11 said Bill. "I did the business for that baby?and once is enough. I have srot to take kcer of = T- - . . ? XT t iuiu. ic scanus to reason. ixuuc ui you is family men like me. I kin stand as much running as the best of yon, but don't you try and rub it in too steep! I hain't the reputation of being sweet-tempered, and mebbe I kin teach some of you manners." It must be stated thai there really was no necessity for Bill's excited words, for the hands on the sloop seemed to take in the situation at once, and rather respected the way Bill assumed his self-imposed duties. Down the river Bill was thinking what name the child ought to have. Should it be George Washington, Ulysses Grant, or Moses? He knew all the names of the steamboats goin^ up to Albany, and to call the child yAlbany'' A +> 1 U -V win/1 fhof Mrtllv j3lu julow uo iuauv uy u. i.i-lva. vu?*v should have the naming of the child. "She's got most rights to him, anyways." Then he felt kind of melancholy with the idea that somebody might come later and claim the child. Bill had ne^er read a story book in his life, so no romance of a rich lather and mother coming in a carriage to demand their lost baby presented itself to his imagination. BUI became parsimonious, and that week saved almost every cent of his wages. He begrudged himself even the tobacco he cnewed. He only kept sufficient money for his most meagre wants. He never took a drink and declined being treated. To Molly he gave his money. Sure enough, the little boy, when Bill next saw him, had on a new frock, and with. what pnae Aioiiy exniDitea him to her brother!' "He just looks like a daisy, Molly. Isn't he prettv! Kind of sleepy, ain't he, Molly?" "He does sleep a good deal, but that's natural, Bill. Much you know about babies! But, Bill, what's this pile of money for? 1 ain't spent all you gave me yet I don't want it and the child don't. His cost for keep is so little. It's mighty good of you,Bill; ** -?^ ?w ^ ?TAn non /yiTra Viim tAULVC UVYT JVU VkUJ. gi?v uiui 4* bit of clothes. As you say, when Winter comes the poor little lamb will want thicker things, and they cost more money. Here, I ain't going to take this, depriving you of your hardearned wages"?and Molly made a motion as if to return the handful of silver. "But, Moll, just hold hard a minute. He mayn't want it now. Supposin' work was slack and I didn't earn nothing. You have got to keep the cash for the time the boy grows. He's got to go to school, and has got to look as nice as any other boy. He's to be hed uiuuieu?AUUW aumctuui^ iukjlv JJUA handling bricks. Don't ho do a lot of sleeping, Molly?" inquired Bill anxiously. "Oh! don't you keep worrying about him. He's been playing ever so sweet. Maybe he's one of them children what talks late in life, and they, so I bear tell, is always the smartest in the long ran. Fact is, Bill, I have a surprise for you. He never said a word before yesterday. I was afraid myself he was kind of dumb.1' Bill averted his face and then looked out on the water, for the brother and sister were talking on tho dock. 4'But?but, to-day. Bill he said 'muddor' so sweet, and then he said it over and over again, and held out his pretty little mouth to be kissed. Ob, Bill, his senses is coming back to him, slow, but sore;7' and Molly cuddled the sleeping child closer to her breast. Bill kept right on in the good way he had planned for himself, and never swerve' a hair's breadth. Molly was his savings bank. Brother rfnd sister contributed to the child's support. In a month iixll was richer than lie naa ever been in his life. Then he insisted that Molly should rent a better room. The one she lived in, he said, looked out on a dingy, dreary back yard. ' Stands to reason," said*Bill, "that a baby should see horses and trucks and things a-moving about in the streets. It makes 'em lively." "Little Bill"?so they called him (Molly insisting that her brother's name should serve for the child)?improved, but too slowly for big Bill. The police surgeon was called in, Bill T* 4.? :?:-4-. ; i?:? ^ rOrSLBC .ILlSlSULUg UU JkJilJ lUg mm u ICC. The opinion the doctor gave was a guarded one. "There is manifest imfrovement?not, perhaps, as rapid as should wish- Yoa are a capital uurse, raa'arc, and I am sure your krudness and attention will help the child. He will come round, I believe." The cool weather came,; and w!tn lowering temperatures the doctor hoped the child would gain strength. The cicatrice on the head had quite healed. Slowly the little boy seemed to acquire new words. Molly wondered at them at times, and thought that sho had taught them to the child; but then again the little fellow's adopted mother was cf-o-H-lerl hv irnrrfc shf> felt miitfi certain the child had picked up somewhere else. These new words came to the child at first vaguely. Ho would repeat them over and over agaiD, at first hesitatingly, then giving them a slight emphasis, as if to fix them on his mind something like a little bird that pipes the first faint time it lias heard. The child was more awake now. This change delighted Molly. It?oever was fretful. The child would lay quiet, ? -1* ?Ul?i/\ At?Ao u'ula Anon fr\v lmnrc WltU 1LD UAU<J WO tr iuv A>\s l. UVU1V) without a whimper. So it went on for another week or two. Bill, who was always coming and going, when he left Kew York for a trip up the river, was happy, for the child was bettering fast, so he bcliev ed. It was an October evening when, as the brick sloop was being broughc up to the wharf, Bill saw Molly leaning against one of the big wooden posts of the dock. Bill was busy with the hawser, but at once he saw that his sister did not have the child in her arms; more than that, she was crying. Bill chokcd down his grief?he seemed to know at once what had happened. One last hope there was. Maybe it was so cool that Molly had been afraid to bring tlic child with her. "Bill," said Molly, sobbing, "the poor little fellow has gone to?to heaven. It was last night. He called to me and said: 'Good-night, mud-der; good-night, far-der?now I am going walking in garden?good?good night!4 Oh, Bill, he had never spokcu so long . a string of words before?lhen lie played for a moment with a ring on my linger, and then he added. 'God jless iar-dcr and mud-dor, and then he looked so lovingly at me, and arouud the room as if searching lor you?and then he died?so quid! Bill! Bili! don't you take on so! It was an accident, and God ami his iitLe child have no fauit to lind with you." J General Grant's Ksticeace. He was uovcr a secretive man until ' the positions of responsibility in which 1 he was placcd compelled him to bo chary of giving expression to his opin- : ions. He theu learned the force cf the philosopher's maxim that the unspoken ' word is a sword in tho scabbard, while , the spoken word is asword in the hands : oi one s enemy. In the field there were constant vis- > itors in camp ready to circulate any intimations of* the commander's move- ] ments, at the risk of having such vnl- ' uable information reach the enemy; in 1 the White House, every encouraging j expression to an applicant for favors j was apt to be tortured iuto a promise, j and the President naturally became ' guarded in his intercourse with gener- ' al visitors. When questioned beyond ' the bounds of propriety, his lips closed like a vice, and the obtruding party ! ? - ? 1 ~-?*- 4 A. *-? 1 rtll CM f ^ ? il?> HJ1L LU iUi i<uv out/o^\juvuu conversation. Thesecircnmstaucespro- ' claimed him a man who studied^ra be ! ! uncommunicative, and gave him a rep- J fairly be a+tdSutcT" to him. He was ^ called the "American Spiiynx" and s "Ulysses the Siiect," and he was pop- : ularly supposed to move about with 1 sealed lips. When accompanying him through New England the summer after the close of the war, it was soou seen thai 1 the stories of his reticence had pre- < ceded him. The trip was the lirst of : those grand ovations with which he was 1 always greeted bv the people through < whose communities he travelled. The > train stopped for a few minutes at a < small town in Maine, and the people, ^ as usual, took the opportunity of ex- 1 tending a greeting and delivering their 1 words of welcome. As the General ^ stood in the doorway of the rear car, a < tail, gaunt-looking woman elbowed her 1 way through the crowd till she got near J the platform. Here she stopped, and put on a pair of spectacles with glasses ( in them that looked about as big as the 1 lenses in large telescopes, and taking 1 J i~?<- 4.1.? n 1 / it guuu jluuix at luu *jruiici*u, oaiu, ing for breath as she spoke, "Well, ? I've come down hjcre a-runnin' right 1 on the clean jump, nigh on to tew mile, 1 just to git a look at the man that lets * the women do all the talkin'."? Gen. s Horace Porter, in Harper's Magazine 1 for September. t Trying to Save the Property. "In case of lire carry mc out," is painted in large yellow letters on a 1 cumbrous, and valuable-looking chest j in a Chatham street shop. The shop- i > keeper, as if iiappiiy conscious of a j great achievement on his part, stood c back of the center of attraction smok- i ing a full-grown Connecticut cigar. A i seedy-piece of humanity came aimless- s ly along the street and stopped to gaze 1 at the queer-looking letters on the 1 chest Then, as if propelled forward f 1 ? mAtinn rt U\ SUIIiU UlilWVi.lV/ax uiuw*v? x uouvu into the store and bsgan to lift the i chest with all his mi^ht. g "Git out there! vat yon want?" 1 excitedly exclaimed the proprietor, .s rushing forward- i - *'? Tl_ J_?_l ? 1L.1. I "Wiiy, Sir, i s uoin jist as mat uua s said. I seed this sign and that fire?" e "What fire?" t ' "Why, that fire there," and he i pointed to where the cigar of the ex- t cited man, which he had dropped in his hurry, was burning a hole in the carpet With one stamp of his shoe it was extinguished. But the tramp still ^ lingered. Moses," again said the proprietor, ? after srlancins: at the tramp and then } at his'clerk, "give that feller one of them cheap cigars?the cheap ones, mind?and then put him out" The tramp took the cigar and walked out without any unnecessary helping, and with a beaming smile upon his dirt-begrimed face.?N. Y. Tribune, How Webster Paid His Debts. Daniel Webster is said (although I \ don't fully credit the story) to have j made a bet with Eiizur Wright in 1844 ? on the genuineness of a letter which ? purported to have been written by ? Burney, the liberty party's candidate z for the presidency. Burney having de- j nied that he ever wrote such a letter, ? Mr. Webster sent Mr. Wright $200, } the amount of the wager. It happened c ? so the story is told?that Wright j was in debt at that time to one of the c Appletor.s to the amount of ?100, and T taking the money paid liim by Webster t he w<Lt to lift his note- He explained c to Appleton how he came by the mon- t ey, and Appleton, breaking ::: to a c laugh, said: "That is pretty good. c This is my monoy. Some of ns yestcr- r day made up a purse for Webster, and g I put in this $200. Now half of the r money comes back to me in payment tof another man's debt."?Ben Perley ? roore. . t s Srnast's Ijovo lor Horses. When ho first entered the White House as President of the Lnited States he owned over a hundred head of horses, which lie kept at his farm near St. Louis. The foreman of the stables in which the horses were kept was Albert Hawkins, who is now coachman for President Cleveland. Albert say3 General Grant was a11 excellent judge of horscfl?isb. It was a difficult matter to dcceivc him ;n a , linrco tmrlo hoMiKd ho w.i-; fnrrilirir with all tho points that arc considered j in examining them. He could look in- j to a horse's mouth and tell his exicl | age within a few months. He always insisted that his horses should nevei be ill-used, either in or out of the staOie. They were given the best kind of food. furnished with large comtortaDie stai'.s, and regularly exercised. Any nun who was known to ill-treat or mispse one of his horses was immediately dsmissed. The General took a fancy to Albert because he was always kind aad gentle in dealing with the stock uirS:? his charge. After the General became President he sold many, of his liors/s. in St. Louis, and directed Albertio come on to Washington and assume control of the presidential stables. .* The General s favorite horses wjre Cincinnati, Egypt, and Jeff Davis. lie former was as gentle as a lamb, and le knew and obeyed the General at dl nnf) llllflnv ill Vftn mcf ?l n/TS. UiiU UUUUL !?** Vifc vuMts/***MVW Cincinnati was a good saddle horse, in addition to being a first-class horsem harness. The General could ride h m to any point in the cit}', jump off iis back, and leave him standing unhitched for any length of time. No matier how long the General l'emained away, when he returned Cincinnati was there waiting for him. He did not pay aay | attention to circus paraaes, ana was not to be frightened by noise and confusion on tlie street. When the General directed him to stand and wait for aim, Cincinnati would not budge till the General had mounted him. Dur- ' in^ the General's second term in the White House arrangements were made for an equestrian statue representing General Grant mounted on his favorite war horse, Cincinnati. Every day for nearly a month the General would go down to the stable, have the bridal and inrMIe rmf-. r>n flinoinnnfi. and off he would go to meet the sculptor. On several occasions Albert accompanied him to a beautiful spot in the vicinity of the Soldiers' home, where the cast was made, and General Grant frequent* [y visited the presidential stables, went into the stalls, and talked to his horses just as though they were human beings and were capable of understand J i :.J TWa itig every vr'Uiu uu s;uu w lucui. o-uu Jelf Davis horse was a terrible kicker ind biter, and the stable hands were afraid to go near his stall. His feed bad to be passed in to him through an idjoining stall. The General, however, had complete control over him, and ho ;ould enter his stall, handle him as lie iesired, and, in fact, do anything he wanted with him. Old Jeff knew his roice, for as soon as the General entered the stable he would throw back his jars and move around restlessly in his stall until the General showed him some attention. Un several occasions ?hg atabla h.iuda triad?to -i)o?oi?o- -.rcf:" )j imitating the General's voice, but as >oon as he discovered the deception he made his heels play a lively tune on the side of the stall.?Boston Herald. Bags Instead of Closets. _____ In closets which are not provided tvith drawers and wardrobes where iresses may be hung or laid away from ill danger irom uust or crowuing, uags tvbich will completely envelope the iress and protect delicate fabrics are a aecessity. Sucli bags must be long jnough to hold a dress-skirt without folding, and wide enough to give room :o all kinds of frills and flounces. Any kind of material will answer, but musin or print is most often used. Cut Dne siae 01 uie oag iiiree lacucs longer i ;han the other; seam together, bind iround the top, work four button-holes icross the longest side, which buttons iown on the other like a flap. The jottom of the bag now becomes the ;op, seam, it across again, and in the :asing so made run a flat, narrow .tick; at each upper corner sew tape oops by which to hano; the bag on two looks in the closet. To wide tapes, ;ewed near the casing, pin the dress>kirt by the band and also the waist, jy which even part of it will least muss ;he trimming. After the dress is care:ully pinned in place, pull down the iag over it ana duuoh me nap across lie bottom. Bags for the various-small articles in dtchca and wash-room, which need v sping together, should bo made of jmc dark, strong material, and of a )lain, square shape, and furnished with :urtain rings sewed around the top to ? ? m im a!% Vvrt AHA UXL LIIU uran xu. uuuix L/U^O ULU lseful receptacles f for clotlies-pins, mall clothes-lines, 'strings, and the lundrsd and one things which must tc ;ept in some placc where they can be bund in a hurry. Bags for the store-room and for holdng bundles and scraps must be of itrong stuff. The former of firm, closey-woven linen, sewed in. a turned earn, and provided with tapes for tyog up, several inches below the -top o they may be turned over and tied :losely, effectually preventing the earance of any undesirable object, an'r nate or otherwise.?Mrs. L. A. France, n Good Housekeeping. P-aris To Health. In health, Paris is on a level with a lundred other places. It has nothing >f its own to offer. Its climate pre;ents a fair average of the qualities and aults of central "Continental weather; he air is drier and more vivifying thar. hat of England; extremes of heat and :old are sometimes felt, but they arc infrequent; strong winds are rare; and hough fogs have become somewhat acjlimatized of late years, the air is on ;he whole fairly bright and pleasant 3nt the same atmosphere may be found ilmost everywhere along the samopariliel of latitude. The sanitary condiions are 2-ood: the sewerage is excel ent; the water is abundant and pure, ind the precautions against infection ic ill its forms are minute and well apjlied. The material conditions of life ire, however, growing so much alike n all large towns that wc arc living sverjwbere under more and more simlar influences, and it may be said with >ut much inexactness that, so far as Europe is concerned, what used to be sailed especially a healthy or unhealthy )laco is becoming difficult to find. Epilemics comc and go in Paris as they lo in other centrcs of population, but hey are seldom traceable to local :auses, and usually assume a general iharacter. But all these qualities are nereiy uegauve; tuey impi) iut* ixltence of objections, not the presence of ecommendations; Paris possesses no >ositive advantages in -climate or lealth, and English people will not be empted to live in it for reasons of that ?Tlie. Fnrt.ninhtlii Review. TRAIN TALK. "If you write stories for the paper," said a Kock Island Railway freight conductor, "let me tell you a true one that came under ray observation last winter out near Des Moines when I was running on mo lowa envision. This is no railroad yarn, but a fact I saw it with iny own eyes. One day we were running along and I was in the engine. As we began to cross a bridge wc looked ahead and there was a little girl about six years old clambering over the timbers. She had some school books in her hand, and was evidently on her way home from school. The engineer, whistled, when she turned her face'toward us. I'll never forgeHhat face as long as I live. It was just as white as the snow on the iee in the ereek thfrfv nr fortr feet he ? ?r ? J ? -7 J ? low her. But slie didn't scream, nor try to jump, nor do nothing. She just [ ioosea ac us witn a sceauy giare as ir ' she'd stop the train with, her eyes that !. w? wore xmablo to do with onr brakes. At first we were afi-*so broke up we? hadn't any idea^what to do, and I believe we'd of stood there like posts if she hadn't suddenly stretehed out her little arms toward us in a mute appeal for help. Well, sir, that broke the charm, and we all started up wildly. I swung way out as far as I could, holding by one hand, and with the other motioning her to get downdown between the timbers. Would i you believe it? That little thing fol-H lowed ray directions as if sheM been a man. And she took her time to it, too, and climbed down as deliberately as if she'd been at home. She was none too quick, though, for her little brown hood, with a red ribbon fluttering from it, had no sooner disappeared between the timbers than wo thundered over her. " 'Let her out, Bill,' I shouted to the enoineer. 'let her out lively, or that o T ? little thing will never be able to stick down there till we get over the bridge. Turn her loose!' "So Bill he let her out, but she'd no sooner reached the bank than I jump-, ed off and went heels over head in a snow bank. I got back to the bridge as soon as I could, and waited for our long train to jret by. Don't mind tellin' ye that as 1 stood there I did something I never did afore?yes, sir, I stood there and prayed that that little one. might be able to stick it out till I could get to her. Bat I guess my prayers are no good, for when the train was by I rushedVout on the bridge, "over timbers by the dozen, ex r?r?r>Hn<r ovflrr minilto. tn Sfifi that little J/vv?iae " ' """J red ribbon. But it never showed up. Tears began to fill my eyes so tbat I could bardly sec the crosspieces?I have a little girl of my own, you know ?but on and on I went, and no brown hood or red ribbon could I lind. Then I turned aud looked to the ice below, and there she was. Yes, she had fallen thirty or forty feet through the bridge. "How I got down to her I dou't know, but 1 got there. I lifted her up* iu my arms. Her eyes were closed, but she opened them, looked at me a second, and said: " 'How did you get down here?' iTfcis-questiott-woiild have made me laugh if 1 had felt sure she wasn't hurl;" but as it was I hurried up the bank and to the caboose. She said she wasn't hurt much, but I knew she couldn't teil, aud we started for the next station. 44 'I'm going home, ain't I?' she inquired, after wo had lixed her up in our bunk. "I told her 'yes,' knowin' that minute that we were going right by her house- I was in such a hurry to get to a surgeon that I thought it right to deceive her. Pretty soon she went off to sleep, and she looked so deathly lying there that all of us went to wipin' our eyes like women. 44 'Boys,' says I, 'if she never wakes up 1 11 quit the road. I never want to see tbat bridge agin.' " "And you have quit the road?" "No, I'm at the old business. Sho got well, and all the spring used to watch for my train as she would for her papa coming home from work. We neve; passed her house unless she was out waving that little brown hood at U3 and making that red ribbon dance. Our engineer used to whistle ior ner regularly, ana sac got so sue could tell that whistle as far as she could hear it Once in a while, when not in a hurry, we'd stop our train and have a talk with her. She said she loved us all, even the old engine, due sue nas never sec ner 1001 on me track since that day sho fell through the bridge. This is a true story, and the little girl's name is Lily."?Chicago Herald. The Bet Was Off. A few days ago, after a couple of esteemed citizens, who are close neighbors, had arranged to pass a few days with their families at a lake in Oakland county, ono oi them offered to wager a box of dgars that he would catch the largest hsh. The wager was a *. promptly lUtLCU, uuu m-Ab uujr urn; ui the gentlemen put in an appearance at a fish stand on the market and said to the dealer: "Have you got a fresh pickerel weighing about fifteen pounds?" 'I have, sir." 'Well, 1 want you to put him on ico and ship him to me at Lake. I propose to catch him on a hook out there." 'Very well, sir. I think I'll ship the two together." "The two?" "Yes, sir. Mr. (mentioning the other esteemed citizen) was here an hour ago, and bought one weighing twenty pounds. It will take less ice to pack the two in the same box!" The lish were paid for, but the bet was declared off. ? Detroit Free Fress. A three-year old boy at Jx)uisville promises to be gray-licaded before he reaches his teeas. The child has attracted much attention from the neighbors, who say they never saw anything of the kind before. Physicians say that, even in families where turning gray during youth is hereditary, they have not known of a ease where tho peculiarity was exhibited in one so young. The boy is a healthy and lively little fellow, and his patriarchal condition does not seem to annoy him in the least. The mortal remains of the faithful Esther and her kinsman, Mordecai, rest in a little shrine at Hamadau, Persia. They are covercd each by a wooden ark, on which arc small pieces of paper like labels, covcrcd with Hebrew characters. They arc placed there by the Hebrew r>il<rrims. Ail arc under a small dome *somc liftv feet high- The building is of red bricks, the walls much patched by mud; the blue dome is of tiles. These tombs are held sacred by the Hebrews in Persia, and thousands make pilgrimages annually. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. THE TOBACCO EXPERIMENT. Prccauilona to be Taken to Make it Successful; There is no plant which has a wider climatic range than tobacco. On this Continent it grows wherever planted from Canada to Patagonia, but with variations of types due to soil, climate and exposure." In the United States we have almost endless varieties of the same distinct plant Otiio tobacco resembles Maryland, but the one is easily distinguished from the other, and both have their chief sale in Europe. The dark tobaccos of Virginia are different from those of Keutnck)1-, and the tobacco of Tennessee differs irom DOtn. ^ven m tne yellow tobacco of Virginia and North Carolina distinct varieties with distinct names exist, and in western North Carolina the tobacco varies iu different cootie?, although originally grown from the same seed. . It is impossible, therefore* topredict what the Sooth Carolina tobacco of the future will be, and in what material respects variation from the parent lJ tun p uuu^cu lit iuc umciuut localities of tha State. Like all plant other life on our globe, tobacco, even in its assisted struggle for existence, will, in its evolution to the most attainable perfect species, accommodate itself to the influence of the soil upon which it feeds and the air which it feeds, and it can only survive as a permanent type of the plant' family to which it belongs, subject to these editions. Thus-the tobacco of the "Winston district of North Carolina is rich in flavor and substance and of an orange ana somewnat; recuuen color, while that of Western North Carolina ? thinner and a brighter yellow, and licks the excellence of flavor of the foimer. Perhaps the tobacco of the Pieimont of Sonth Carolina will more j neajiy resemble the former than the latter I trist sincerely that yoar commis- J sionersof agriculture will place at the ( disposal of the farmers carefully pre pared iusructions as to the sorts of to- j bacco besiadapted to the several divisions of sol which characterise the State from tie sea to the mountains. It were a lostof precious time and of money for you- people to embark in blind experimeits with seed and conditioos unsuitab? to their several localities. Given suitable soil and climate the acquisition of ^he highest attainable type of tobacc<. may be greatly hastend and assisted >t the start by a judicious selection of ^eed grown on similar soil elsewhere. With the same /tova oftoe tVlia in tho - ** vttiw mtvt wv4SUUIi Ui bCCU from yoar home grown pant as was exercised by your island planters in the progressive creation oi Sea island cotton, a type of tobacco wi? be developed better suited to the soikand climates of South Carolina t?m one grown from continuous imputation ( nf sppd frnm Virginia and else>ho?o ~"? * ?3 ugiv* Tobacco now-a-day9, if we excefc the , sun-cured wrappers of Virginia a?rth ' of the James, and- the cigar leaVof J other States, must be cored -ia bang, heated by smoke-Qght flties.. jCbfe-:i*?U supply of wlJHrisa^sideratjbff iqjf, ^ prime cconom^afid importaaoB-" f . "\ It is an error geaerally receifed that1 . the soil of any. part of South .Carolina , resemble that of the celebratgi Vuelta \ Abijo of Cuba,' of the Vall&y of the . ^ouuecticut, or oi .Lancaster conuiy, Pa. The Cuban, the- Consecticut and . the Pennsylvania soils are/similar, the formation being- tria$$ict.-and of w hich formation I can cliscovef no trace any- ; where in South Caroitna. Doubtless , the terraces of your river lauds will produce good "cigar- tobaeco from ; Havana seed. Certainly, if it can be ascertained that tMefce. ."soils resemble ; the cigar leaf soils-efGadsden county, \ Florida, which ?" tbe past produced , cigar leaf almo^ia excellence to that J n-f' norano Tifo- /?OT10n? nf 1 fiRO orir-AC i the profit per &re from tobacco grown < on Florida as the largest in the ; United States. There-is far less differ- , ence betwgln; jthe climates of South l between t^'ciimates of Sonth Carolina and-^Florida than there is be- ( tweea Connecticut and Cuba. : As?'ij<y everything else, so is it in f agricaftfcrt 'dangerous to generalize , from/ isolated results. Individual fanwr^ in North Carolina growing j ycIJW&obacco have realized $200 ana , oaivi vfif ivio ottdvocrck Uiyi^'^4 OVlb) J vt \UV U f VI "qV |/I4VV for wfcjcb the crop of this State sold in tfjfc reason just closed was not more than thirteen and a half cents a pound. At these figures an average of five hundred pounds to the acrc for the whole State to be about $22.50 net. It is not to discourage the farmers of South Carolina that I give these deductions from facts. It is better for them to start their experimental crops of tobacco on the basis of moderately estimated profits than upon greatly exaggerated expectations derived from exceptional and rare instrnces of enor illU US. & Ctlii 1IO Xh 10 glYCU. VUIJ IV t? few very skilled and painstaking farm- . ars to achieve such remunerative re snlts as are quoted by newspaper , writers as if they were the general . rule. The great majority of those who j till the soil with us in the South are j but indifferent cultivators, or else their . efforts are crippled by inadequate cap- j ital. However, if the men who take ' hold of tobacco in South Carolina can, ; with the altered conditions 01 labor, do { for this plant what their forefathers did for rice and sea island cotton, then as- j snredly will South Carolina become a j great tobacco State, bnt they have everything to learn, !md the first steps j towards success mnst be taken in a ( spirit of patient investigation. Science ( cannot altogether supply the place of . experience. It can, at best, only inch- , cate the short cuts by which this richly dowered danghter of time and experiment is to be wooed and won. The botanical chemist, as a rule, has left tobacco severely alone. He has analyzed the ashes of the dead leaf, but there has been no vivisection of the live plant, no analysis of its sap, which is the blood whereby it grows. A natural born alchemist at a roaghhewn log barn discovered in a moment of inspiration the temperature (recorded by a twenty-five cent thermometer) at which the golden yellow of transformation was to be canght and fixed in the leaf as an enduring color. The whole cultivation and caring of tobacco is thus more or less a tradition. In ir, as in much else, we to-day only stand upon the threshold of fntnrc pos siDiiiues. | On the 23d of this month the West- i ern Xorth Carolina Agricultural Fair s will open at Asheville. Unusually < large premiums will be offered for ex- i hibits of tobaaco, and an admirable ] opportunity will be afforded to any < of your farmers interested in the culti- 1 vation of tobacco to see how onr far- j famed golden leaf is prepared for mar- ] Ket, ana now it is sold on our ware- < house floors. "Within a circuit of a'; few miles are hundreds of tobacco barns, in some of which, possibly, curing may still be going on at that time. In conclusion, those farmers in the Piedmont of Sooth Carolina who -f h-ic vpflr fhr flip first 'time tried prow- ' ing tobacco, must not be disheartened j if their leaf does not come out uniformerly yellow. This difficulty has been common, more or less, to the whole bright tobacco belt. Even in this mountain region, where every condition for making a crop of excel lent color prevailed, the same persistent reddening exists to some extent this season. J. E. Hamilton". . Asheville, N. C., October 10, 1S85. m Pine Straw Manure. {From the Augusta Chronicle.) In the Chronicle of September 25 the following appears: t;Mr. P. J; Berckmans says that pine straw renders manure almost valneless. Southern farmers should know this and be wise accordingly." At,the_August .meeting- ihp.Pichr. mond Ccamy Ageicoltural1 Society^ the subject for "discussion being the "Management of Cattle," the question of material for bedding purposes was broached, and in my comments upon the very able paper of Mr. Staples, who was the essayist for that month, I stated "that pine straw as bedding material was undesirable, as it rendered the manure almost valueless, and, if used in large proportions, it often proved an injury to the land." Your reporter gave the correct words, but by publishing them has placed you under the' necessity of rer ceiving the explanation 01 the reasons upon which I base my assertions, and if you see proper to" publish these, I will thus be enabled to reply to several inquiries which have lately been made upon the subject. In an essay upon ''Manures," read in 1870 before the Richmond County Agricultural Society, when leferring to animal manures, 1 said: "Although tills term, strictly speaking, moans only such as are produced either from the excrements of animals , or from their flesh, blood or bones, it ( is usually applied to manures proanced from the excrements of animals ! and the admixture of straw, leaves, or i Dther vegetable matter used as litter, . fhis hoinor mmmnnlv fpvmprl ef-a'hlo manure. The quality depends mucn ] upon the food given to ca'th, as well , is upon the nature of the litter used. ! rhe richer the food, the richer will be j :he manure produced.. Wheat and oat ( straw, oak leaves, hay, grass, corn , 3taJks, and similar vegetable matter, . should be freely used for litter. A.void j pine straw, pine sawdust, or pine ( shavings, all being injurious lo land j from the. resinous principles the con- , ;ain." j This assertion gave rise at the time < io considerable discussion and a reply j ;o mauy arguments against it was "i. i i. _ J __ _ /-ri. 7 _ r puousueu jii ujc vnromcie. jl cannot better answer the queries lately re- ( reived than to refer to my reply. "Pine straw as a mulch is good. As j i disintegrating medium for very stiff , ;lay soils, impermeable to air, "it can ae" beneficial, but only for that pur- . aose. Tbe_ leaf of the pine is com gsaed of silicate~(a-hard mineral substance) YegCtiibte-fibre a?d rosin. Both Bilicate and vegetable base arc insolu- . ble, hence not available as plant food. The ashes of pint straw, submitted to , analysis, give less potash as a result , than the ashes of any other vegetable, the proportion being 0.45 in 1,000 ] parts. Wheat straw, after the grain is formed, gives 3,90 of potash in 1,000 parts, and before the heads arc formed yields 4.70 parts of potash; corn stalks contain 17.5 parts; cow peas from 20.0 to 25.0 in 1,000 parts; oak leaves 1.53; willow leaves 2.35; elm and mafile leaves 3.90 parts of potash in 1,000 nnrf-c PAtofA rinnc ova iIca vioh ?n LJUllO. iVWW ""U J potash. Potash being one of the main { constituents of the plants wc usually , p-ow as agricultural crops, it is cvi- t Jeut that a soil deficient in it cannot < be productive and pine straw cannot rive what is required, because it can- { "iot undergo a transformation which ivould make it soluble and thus be absorbed by plants. "Referring to the analysis of soils }f different couutrics, it is shown that resinous matter is contained in some sterile soils, and in such rust attacks wheat, rye or oats. "This is so well known in portions in Europe where pine woods abound 1 ir? V\ ft ll>ft * r*1\ft ft?tft -Miu >Yuci c uic iuuauuaiiw aic UUULCUCU :o be the best agriculturists in the 1 ivorld, and as careful of producing s ind saving manures as are the Chinese, ! hat no tiller of the soil however short 1 )f raw material to bed his cow or pig, tvill allow any pine straw to be used ' for that purpose (this article is used . for fuel only by the poorer classes); j ;hev well know that rust would be the \ esultif used in the mauures. One of 1 ? /? a ? t 1 )ur tenants covered a part ot a neia cvith pine straw, and for several years ifterwards could not raise either wheat >r clover on it, notwithstanding heavy nanuring afterwards. "Five years ago I planted Irish potatoes aud gave them a heavy mnlchng of pine straw, the ground being [veil manured previous to planting the potatoes. The straw was plowed in luring winter and the ground planted n com the following spring, and that portion previously mulched produced itaiKs two leet smaller tnan tne otner 1 portion of the field which had, how- j jver, never : een manured before. The : second year the field was sown in oats, ] icd the* difference in the yield being ] less than half upon the mulched por- ] :ion. < "The same result has been noticed ( in the vegetable garden, where several ] ilasses of vegetables, especially peas, < :ould not be grown successfully when ( using manure made with pine straw? | svhen manure made with either oat ( straw or oak leaves was used the yield 5 s?as always better. "I could say more, but deem these remarks sufficient to sustain my opinion, which is the result of personal ^ experience, although it may conflict , svith that of others." tliic ttoo mint' vnare aave passed and nothing has occurred * Lo change my opinion as regards the ; iack of value of pine straw for manure < material. Pine straw which has been J subjected to the drippings of cattle has j loubtless shown good results in some soils, and in some especially moist sea- . sons, and upon certain crops, but this j is due solely to the fertilizing properties which were taken from the stable in combination with the straw and Jespitc the presence of the latter in the soil, The writer caused the hauling from the city, lor several years in ' succession, of from three to four hun- ' 3red heavy loads of livery stable 1 manure and had to discontinue the ' practice, owing to the barren results 1 Dbtained. The average material used ' for bedding being pine straw and pine 1 shavings, which, in many instances, ? proved a decided injury to the soil, as aririrrprt hv thp. snhspnnpnf infArinr yield produced thereon?especially' i grain crops. Having paid dearly for my experience, by an outlay of an average of $300 a year, for at least ten - years, besides the cost of, hauling heavy loads a distance of five miles t from" the livery stables to the farm, I believe that 1 am entitled to the opinion expressed at the heading of this article; and if a careful comparison ig made with using manure made with pine straw upon a given, portion of a field, and with manure mSde' with wheat or oat straw, corn stalks, oak leaves or pea vines, using equal proT"\rtvfirvnp r\f* T?Aonlf r?rvnft?? pvi UVXIO Vi UciL/JJj lug 4gouiu 17xu for itself. Yours repectfully, ' . J. P. Beeckmans. Frnitland, near Augusta, September 30, 1885. ' / ..... . THE MINISTER TO SEAUf. "What Doctor Carry Says of the Recent Objections to His Appointment. The Rev. Dr. Carry, the newly appointed Minister toJSpain^spent a day and Assistant Secretary of State, his p^decessor, and with. .Mr. "W1I- * liams, .United States Consal-General to '^r Cuba. To a reporter of the Associated Press, Dr. Carry said he expected to leave for his post on the oih Novem Der. "ii is saiu, sir," remarxea tne reporter, "that you were once in command at Andersonville, and were in part responsible for the cruelty prac- Jk ticed toward the Federal prisoners." "I never was in Andersonville in my life," replied Dr. Curry, "and I never had command of Federal prisoners in X my life, except such as I captured mysplf and fhrtsp T trrrhWI nvor t?i. niv?i? MB I cannot imagine how such a story got jH its start. I shall be glad if you will XB make my denial broad and emphatic." JM "The "critics of your appointment," ' continued the reporter "question the propriety ol sending Baptist clergy near a court 80 strongly Catholic."' , "The criticism is unjast," was the reply. "It would be a strange thing \ if the strongest denomination , in. the . country?you know we are the strongest?were "to be disqualified for diplomatic offices on religious grounds. A man s religion, 1 noia, is a tnmg Between his God and himself, and one with which the Government has noth- , ' ing to do. I am a little surprised -at the criticism too. The hardest struggle I have had when in politics was as a candidate for the Legislature in Alabama during the "Know-Nothing" excitement. The issues, you remember, . were two?one a proposition to deny to foreigners the privilege of natualizaiion after six years residence, and the Dther proposition to disqualify Romanists from holding office. My county was a pivotal one, and my competitor :he ablest man on that side of the . / ' State. My success was very gwitifyng." "Were you an anti-Know-Nothing!" "Ypst T Wat; i ohflmniAn T r-an'f. fiae >f the Catholics, bnt of the principle of Americanism, which is embodied in :he Constitution, of eqnal rights and privileges for all." ,N "Of conrse you anticipate no objection from the "Spaniards to yonrrecep- p tion?" _j I "Ccrtaiuly not. The Spanish. Gtov- ? . - -4, eminent knows my mission has nothing * ; ;* to do with religion." ' " at"I am very much gratified by two things, I may say three things," continued Dr. Curry. "When I was obected to on the ground o? being autjttown, so strong a Republican paper is the Providence Journal vouched for ne and said I was all right Again, Mr. Washburn's card was exceedingly gratifying, coming from a Republican eader, himselt having been eight years i Foreign Minister. But the expressions of approval from the colored people of the South have been exceedingly learty and pleasing. My long connexion with the Peabody funrf lias made ne widely known among them and hey have taken nains to exDress their ipproval of my appointment." "Shall vou renew negotiations for a reaty with Spain?' "I can say nothing on that subject" Divorced at Seventy-Three. In the Superior Court at Hartford, _,oun., last week, Deiore Judge otod3ard an old and feeble woman, with ^ottering steps and bowed bead, took ier seat in the witness box and briefly old the story of her husband's deser;ion seven years ago. She gave her lame as Emeline Mallison, and said >he was seventy-six years old and the tvife of Elisha I. Mallison and had ived in West Hartland for many rears. Her husband formed an intimate acquaintance wit'a Widow Mary Rice, of fiartlaud, and after living n fh ? oomo hnncn lior in and he removed to Granville, Mass., uid is now, as was shown by the testinony, domicilled with the widow. His "age is seventy-eight. The old adv, with her sou and ..'S wife, rode ;o Hartford in an oym baggy, and eft home at two o'cIock. in the mornng in order to get to Hartford at nine. Rlartland is onlv twentv-fonr miles from Hartford, bat it is a billy coun:ry. Mrs. Mallison's face lighted *p when the Court told her she should iave a divorce and also $250 for aliiioov. Do You Know a Man >v nose wne is rrouoiea witn aeoimy, lervousress, liver complaint or rheumatism? Just tell him it is a pity to et the lady suffer that way, when Brown's Iron Bitters will relieve her. Mrs. L. B. Edgerly, Dexter, Me., says, 'Brown's iron Bitters cured me of Jebility and palpitation of the heart." Mrs. II. S. McLaughlin, of Scarborough, Me., says the bitters cured her >f dnhilif.r. Mrs. PTni*^5ncr nf Win/? iam Centre, in the same State, says it jured her of dizziness i* the head. * So .t has cored thousands of other ladie3.* She Did it Herself. On Wednesday night Mrs/ Gates, svife of John Gates, sheriff of Mausield county, Ohio, armed herself with i rawhide, and with her brother ?tarted in pursuit of Robert Ritchie, a rounrr man who was formerly deputy sheriff. Meeting the object of her :ft<i \I ??c rarr o jvuivu^ Aut c* v^4 uivo o yjL wiUVi ui v ty a evolver and ordered him to stand till lis sister concluded the thistisement. When she exhausted herself Mrs. Gates permitted Ritchie to depart. The :ause of the trouble was slanderous ' remarks made about Mrs. Gates. Terrific Explosion of Gat. A terrific explosion of gas took place n No. 2 slope of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company at Plymouth, Pa., on Wednesday morning, caused by a miner, who entered an abandoned portion of the slope, which was marked iangerous, with a naked lamp on his iicacl. One man, Dennis Tilns, is lead, and fourteen are fatally bnrned. ?Work on the Hudson River tunnel is to be resumed this winter.