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P VUL.^ ^ " ' TO^SBORO. S." C^'EDNESiUY. OCTOBER 5, 18*^ ^ ^ ^ ^ = ^Q, 10. A >Ia?qu eraser. To the beach when he came All our hearts grew aflame, For he was an Apollo in feature: And the gilding of^birth Brightly crowned all bis worth, And we vowed him an elegant croature. But alas! for the spell From the gilded mark fell From our noble guest, handsome and witty; And we learned with chagrin "We were all taken in By a vender of fruit from the city. THE KtSSJLAiN DOCTOE. Entertaining and Romantic Story from Real Life. i [Adapted trom xhs Gerjiak of mvt-. Elise Poeke.] BY MRS. FRANCES A. SHAW. Translation Copyrighted, 1SS7, by A. 2Vr. KeUoqq Newspaper Co-mvany. CHAPTER V. ,J. HDsGS went on ' 2 t V"'' v Ci> im a3 usual in the' S1!' " \fc- ' house of the Rus^ shin doctor. Desiree took her daily lessous while the guest wa n d e r e d "^2-^' forth with hia sketch-book, declaring that the forest and its environs offered an inex- , i 1:1.1. _x ^ ?: i.i_ wiiu>uum s>lore oi lnieresuug mujjwis. The terrace was his chosen place for aquarelle painting: in the twilight hours he sang to his own accompaniment on the piano. Marianne, who never allowed her hands to be idle, took refuge in her crochet work. Desiree's wanderings with Arnim ceased as the gentlemen took frequent long walks "s together. The two women passed '< \ much of their time in the garden. < \ . i v"TIncIe told you that cur guest had led^ae- tKti-al frivolous life of rich ~ g men in St. Petersburg," said j ; -ee one day to Marianne, as they ( ;aZ together in the garden, and the young girl's deft fingers fashioned a ^ breakfast cap of true Parisian elegance. ; ' What did he mean by that?" she added, bending low over her work and 5 blushing deeply. I "He must have meant that the j young baron had done little else than j ( flit from one ball and assembly to an- ! * H other?that he squandered much money j e EL and indulged in countless flirtations. * ^^One must not look deeply into the ' J ^H^Kves of men. There are few model j B&ien like my cousin." ! i K " But Ussikow looks melancholy and j I H. I can not understand why he has i t Bind no woman to love him and be 1 Bfflped by him in return." Hf " He has found plenty, dear child, ? afiMPout such love lasts on neither side." j : ! "A love that can not remain true is j ? ^ no love at all. This poor man has net | i found the love he sought." j s | "Hilmar is not in the least to be j _ pitied, you foolish child. He is happy i and content. He will some day marry j ' a rich wife. I do not understand why ! a women think him handsome. He can i s in no way compare with my cousin, J & who has the only beauty needful in a j man?that of perfect health. j ^ , "But uncle has gray hair arid his j w whiskers begin" ! t I T, " That is because he has undergone j D so many fatigues," interrupted Mari- j * anne, " because he still studies so ^ ^ hard^ JJe is in all ways the superior f rvf TTilmi1- ran TTcciVnw "W?IV Ipt mC- ^ try oil the cap before the glass. It is j B charming. But that ribbon over the I top must come off. It looks too coquet- j 11 tish for me." * j The same hour found Hilmar and "L{ Arnim roaming through the forest, and talking over Hilmar's choice of his fut- 5 Tire home. "The phvsici ans recommend s the environs of Lake Geneva," said the invalid. r, "That is the best air for yonr nerves," * replied Arnim. "Inwinter you can go a over the Alps to Lake Como. With proper care and the right atmosphere you may soon be restored to perfect health. Most of all, you need rest." Wherever I have sought rest it has seem?*d that of the church-yard. How happy you are. What a housekeeper you have in Marianne." "Does she please you?" "I envy tho man to whose comfort i she ministers-" * , "Then woo and win her. She may be the wife you need.1' "Possibly. But here we are in my , favorite haunt, the forest-meadow. } Just look at that enchanting group oi ] old beeches! Trees grow more beauti- ] ful and interesting with age. Pity it is , not so with men! I would like tc sketch a little here." "Then I will go back to the house. Do stay out late, Hilmar.*' m Elbthal walked slowly home; ^ ate as was his step, his heart ^ ..fc violently. He half regretted hav- ^ ing so spoken to his friend, yet the thought that Desiree might one day take Marianne's place in his house filled him with a quiet happiness. Where could she be more safely guarded, J" more lovingly cherished?this precious j1. jewel of his lost Hortense?than in the vine-wreathed house where her mother had passed such halcyon hours? ; "Heaven has arranged all," cried a C] II voice in his heart, "we have but to }<calmly wait." f, From this day the doctor seemed jr ' more absorbed in his work. Hilmar j, > was given over mostly to the society 0 of Marianne and Desiree. fc It gave him pleasure to know thathis guest took daily walks with the tc two women, that he sat with them on the terrace, reading aloud by the hour, that his conversation was mostly with a* Marianne. What would Papillon say ^ when called upon to greet Marianne as Hilmar's betroliicd? nj The morning shadow fell obliquely m on the strawberry bed, a light wind br was stirring. Papillon went with a m little basket on her arm to gather tha wonted store. She had thrown back 0I her straw hat. Her brow was thoughtful, her head bent forward. Steps ap- d proached. fe " "May I help, Desireef" asked Hil- se mars voice. ai ; She turned toward him a face suf- b( fused with blushes, and placed hex ' forefinger on her lip. _ in "Hush!'' shu wliisperc;!. "I will show you a happy family." io?. & \/ &<[$& MjmiB k y^JLr i M- *7 i^fr "HUSH!" SHE WHISPERED. He drew nearer. Looking sideways over her shoulder, he met two round bird-eyes, fearless and yet entreating. A ground-sparrow was feeding liei young while her mate looked on from a bush near by. "Why do you think this little brood so happy?" he whispered, in Trench. ^ "Because they have a Jiome?a fathei and mother." Something in the voice and glance oi the young girl moved him deeply. "Are you not sheltered here as in your father's house?" he asked. "Certainly. But it is a refuge?no home. Still I am more than grateful. Now let us observe this little family. ihe mother-bird gazes at you as 11 she would say: 'I know you will do me no harm.* " "That is because I ara with you," said Ussikow. "0 no! Children and animals have an instinct in these things. It is because you are a good man, and would not harm any living creature." "Do you really think me good?" She looked at him with dilated eyes, md said, simply: "You are a friend ' ;>f Ax*nim Elbthal." ' But it is the nature of man to lay < ow all that stands in the path of his imbition and his dreams." : "He lays low only to build up anew," said Desirce. "How many a little nest is destroyed ; yj man's hand?how many a home full >f peace and joy. Ask the mothers? ; hey will tell you it is so. A stranger ' inters the united family circle, the 1 leart of the daughter, the precious, 1 :arefully guarded jewel of the house, ] nclines to him ? love rends it from ; 'atlier raid mother?the domestic hap- < jiness has an end. The beloved child 1 joes forth with the stranger in fulfill- . nent of the command of Holy Writ: < Thou shalt forsake father and mother md cleve unto thy husband.' " ] A shudder passed over the young 1 jirl's form?she trembled like the saping in a sudden gust of wind. Then he said, calmly: s "This must be so if love is what I magine it." t "What does Fapillon know of love?" ' sked Hilmar, gravely, his dark eyas t eeking to fathom the lovely face before i iim. "My mother had an old book about Dve. It was written by Constance t aim, a Princess whose father lived at s lie court of poor Louis XVI. and his i leautiful Antoinette. She calls love i he fever of the soul, and passion*, its c .elirium. She declares also that the t xperiences of a woman in this most } mportant chapter of her life can be uderstood only by women." j "I know this book. It once fell s ito my hands and I read it through, t is beautiful and noble, but its ideas of ' Dve are French ideas." I "Is not love love .everywhere, and i est the same?" asked Desiree. Then, p lowly turning from the nest, she 5 assed on with light steps. Hilmar L emained at her side gazing clown at r he bowed head, with glowingforehead S nd throbbing heart s B ^ At ft v larPM j wm h ENOUGH OF BERRY-PICKING. 11 t! "As you have read the Princess b aim's book, you must know her a\ ivorite song?the one she learned c 'om her mother," he said. "It ex- n rt'sses infinite yearnings in a few v mple words." a "Yes, and I know the melody. a\ lamina taught it to me." And, lightly a > a bird, she warbled the first two t' nes: "Comme le jour me dura n Passer loin de toi!" ! "She may ere long know by cxperf- ^ nee what the poet sung," he thought. ?t in contemplation of this youthful >rm. There was something so touch>g, so original, s? almost childlike in jc cr whole personality, in the expression Sl ? her face, that it seemed impossible ei >v the waves of passion to ever break 0 L her feet. And yet what blessedness C] > awaken this heart to love! v, They had reached the strawberrycd?a mass of glowing red among si i-een leaves. Desiree gave a little cry r' dolight. She was again Papillon. t( ""What'an abundance ripened over li ight! The picking will be easy. You tl :ay help," she cried, reaching him the ft is'ket. "I fear you will not show uch skill. Do you really know how o: tell the ripe berries from the green s< ies?" ^ He laughed and took the basket, t] esiree began to pick hastily. For a a: w moments he tried to help; then he c< ;t the basket on the ground near her, v. id sprang over the bed to the bench E meath the old linden. a "Please excuse me from berry-pick- A g. Let me atone for my awkward- I ! ness by reading to you. I have Lamj artine in mj* pocket." "That would be beautiful, but I fear I can do nothing but listen." " Hilmar, where are you? Have you forgotten our engagement?" called the doctors voice from the terrace,and directly after his quick, firm step was heard approaching. "I am waitingfor you," he said, impatiently, with an uneasy side-glance at Desiree. Hilmar sprang up. "I beg your pardon," he answered, with some bewilderment, slipping the book into his pocket. "I was going to lighten Desiree*s task by reading from Lamartine's poems. May I have that pleasure at some future hour,mademoiselle?" Desiree smiled and nodded, waved her hand to Arnim, and the two gentlemen went away. The young girl's eyes followed them on the long path leading to the forest. But it was not the tall figure of her guardian that fixed her thoughtful glance. - A week later at the close of a lesson, Arnim detained his pupil for a moment. '*1 am delighted to hear from Marianne," he said, "that you have become a great help to her in every way. Perhaps you may soon be called upon to take her place." "Is Marianne going to her brother?" asked Desiree. "She once told me . that she might." "No, she will perhaps marry. I "know some . one who is tired of his bachelor life, and wants a sensible wife. Who knows how soon he may take her from us?" : | The young girl turned deadly pale. "You do not believe," she began, then stopped suddenly. ; "I believe that a betrothal will take place before our eyes, and I regard the .< marriage as a very suitable one. 'Hilmar,' as he wrote me, 'is done with ; love.' He wants a sensible woman and a good housewife." Desiree did not answer, but the hand which rested on the table, trembled. Arnim saw this with mingled terror J - anu anger. "1 must really interfere in Marianne's "behalf," he cried, excitedly. "To marry a man like Hilmar is a prodigious venture. Fascinating men who have "been much worshipped by women are not to be reckoned upon. 11 accident throws in their way another woman brilliant or gifted enough to interest them, woe to the poor wife bound to them in marriage fetters' Happily Marianne'f is an energetic, unsentimental nature. She will in any jvent remain mistress of the situation." "Does she love him?" asked Desiree, softly. "I do not know. She is very reticent. But I am sure she would not refuse s iim." r "Has he not yet asked her?" t "No, but he is likely to do so verv r ;oon. His visit has nearly expired." "And Marianne suspects nothing oi ;his?" c; "I think she "must have understood ? he special attentions Ussikow has paid t ier." s "Then they tvIII soon marry?" \ "Doubtless?for Ussikow must pass a ;he winter in the South, and needs a fc iensible companion. You may speedily ealize your wish to conduct your e incle's household. But I would not c :hain you here, my child. We would v ravel and see the world. Where would ^ -ou like first to go?" "To my mother's grave," she whis- } , >ered, hid her face in her hands and, V ebbing, left the room. E They would all meet at supper in tho ^ 'garden room." Hilmar came home j ate from his walk; the doctor lingered jj n his study. Desiree was perfectly y lossessed to help, although assured by s; rlarianne that there was nothing for ^ Ler to Jo ? that in her present j lervous state she would only hinder, .j She dropped a glass and broke it It ^ eemed as if her hands could hold q tothing firmly. f, At last every thing was ready, and a he young girl seated herself at the ^ rindow opening on the veranda. ^ larianne was in the kitchen, deliver- w ng to the servants one of those lectures hat. was ant. t.n nrftftftdfi pvpn' mftfll. , r J 0 'apillon's hands lay idle in her lap; ^ he gazed out into the star-lit darkness ? 'f the summer night. Light murmurs roke the silence, heavy perfumes came }c iorne upon the air. Her thoughts, ai s if wafted by the breeze, fluttered g .ere and there. Again she heard the a] oice which had said: "Are you not ^ ow sheltered as in a father's house?" a] res, Ussikow was right. What could m he expect more? And yet she could ^ ut reflect that this very man was : bout founding himself a home ? a tc ome with Marianne! Was she really lie wife for him? Would he sing his a eautiful songs to her evenings, and rould she sit by with that everlastingrochet, unmoved and indifferent a? ow? Would she not interrupt him rith all sorts of irrelevant questions m s she now interruDted her cousin 01 w :hen he read? How deathly silent nd solitary* it would be when these ivo had left the house! Then she recalled the words and lelody of that song so inexpressibly ' ;d. There were tears in her voice as ie hummed it. softly to herself: "Comme le jour me dure Passer loin de toi!" J*Life for her seemed to have no >yous days in store. A longing, .ich as she had never before experienced, come over her. She stretched ut her hands into the empty air and :ied: "0 mother, if I were but with Su ciU!" Mi A light footstep startled her; a ^ ladow flitted past the open door. She _->se slowly and stepped out upon the C.V, nrace. No one was in sight, but a un ght in the chamber opposite showed v>\ lat the guest of the house had re- helmed. At table. Marianne bore the burden uu E the entertainment; the others t>r< 2emed constrained. After supper do mim announced that a virulent ^ -phus had broken out in the suburbs, ^ nd that he had been summoned to a ^ onsultftion of physicians, vrhic-h en -ould take place the next morning, soi esiree was silent under plea of head- a j che. The gentlemen 'withdrew early. 3 they left, the doctor said, excitedly: "Go to bed, PapiUon, and sleep away your headache. W e must not miss our joyous sunbeam from the breakfast table. Who knows how much I may soon need its cheer?" Hilmar accompanied the doctor to nis study. Scarce had the door closed behind them, when he said, nervously, but in a strangely repressed voice: "Forgive me, old fellow, but this must go on no longer! I must leave Vou. Send me wherever you will, only away from here?the further the better.' Let me be perfectly frank with you. I have deceived myself. Marianne is the most excellent of women, but we aire not suited to each other. And then I will confess to you that my heart has been stolen for all time. Arnim, Move the s*veet creature who calls you u$cle. Give me permission to win her." * Ttie doctor started. Gazing a$ his friend with diluted eyes, he stammered: "The child?you dream!" "She is no child, but the most-, enchanting woman God ever created-for the happiness of man." 3" "And do you believe that Besiree*1 ' "I believe nothing as yet, btrt 3 hope," interposed Hilmar, with impassioned accents. "Allow me to speak with her." i ' For God's sake, not now! Leave me time to accustom myself to the thought that her youth and loveliness may no more brighten my home. Tomorrow I shall be calm.'* "And you do not despise me forgiving up Marianne?" : "No, no!" said the doctor, with a shrill laugh. "-You two could never be ; happy in marriage. Fortunately she suspects nothing of this absurd plan i between us. x*ow leave me. To-morrow we will talk things over. I will 1 speak with Dcsiree myself. Until this happens, promise that you will not exchange a word with her. Your hand upon it." Hilmar pressed the doctor's hand. Upon leaving, he said: ?. | I j ^|;.'jr!|| HILMAR AND THE DOCTOR. 1] t "j^any to-morrow morning jl wiu itart out for a day among the mount- J iins. I will remain longer if 1 can en- s lure the absence from Desiree. Good- v light, Arnim." D a He had scarce vanished when the \ loctor uttered a hollow groan. Sud- ti [en and vivid as the lightning's flash, C lamed up in his soul the consciousness a hat he loved Hortense's child. The it trong man fell upon his knees, and ^ (uried his head in the cushions of his w ,rm-chair. "Lost as soon as found!" te sobbed. ^ This night sleep was a stranger to his it yes. He paced restless through his xr hamber until the morning gray?in a: rild conflict with an overmastering ^ a: lassion. * Marianne had been right?his hour a ad indeed come! Love so long deayed had invaded his life not like a ^ aild spring rain, but rather like a wild 0 empest overthrowing all in its path, tl lis heart was rent with anguish. Whv -S ad he lived, why did he still live? tl Vhat should he do without the sun- -v bine diffusing warmth thrpugh his n' ouse and through his whole existence? ^ l faint spark of hope still remained, p, 'he thought that if the choice lay be-> 8i ween him and Hilmar, Desiree might w ecide for him. He recalled her grate- ai il affection, her loving glances, hei st rdent greetings, the confidences she P: ltrusted to him, the tone of voioe in ^ ?.. - _ v -i. . ? j . ll t -t. _n ? ^ St men sne s;uu: x sduu remain ta- ^ ays with you." Could she forget all this? Could hci ai eart turn to this casual acquaintance, as lis man of whom she knew so little C ood even from his own lips, who had & one nothing to win the treasure of her ive, who confessed that he had been bout to woo another? Poor wrestler! !ow little he knew the heart of worna! as if it ever required time or noble to sed to call forth its love! It comes, M ad it is there! She loves?this is the hi liracle. In ninety-nine cases out of a bt andred she scarce knows why. CTJ "With passionate ardor, Arnim sought ^ > recall from his reading, from his own _j cperience, examples of the devotion of jh young girl to an elderly man?of {J ve that had sprung from gratitude. pc Ah, could she but belong to him for ie rest of his life! Never to leave him oi ore! How he would bear the beloved P* ie on his hands! She should live ^ here she wished. He would not bury ir youth and loveliness within these ur narrow walls. When in the morn- oli g twilight, he at last flung himself to :hausted upon his bed and slumbered, te: dreams he clasped his beauteous irling to his breast, and her sweet lips c:> msperea: "J. remain aiways "wim ; >u!" be [TO BE CONUKx^ED.] an * ' flo A Dressmaker's Attempt to Smuggle. ?0Among the passengers who arrived at ^ jw Yoik on the steamship La Gasconge mdaywas a Boston dressmaker named ^ iss M. Kennedy. When her baggage had ^ en placed on the dock she opened ooe of r trunks, and, taking out a silk dress, 5? relessly threw it on the floor. Then she Pr' ickly picked up a box that had been m( der the dress and handed it to a man, eb; 10 started to place it in his trunk, which mi d been passed. The move was seen by bn ecial customs officers, who seized the box fai d arrested the -woman and man. The ole x contained four handsome hand-em- mf oidered dresses-worth several hundred liars each. The dress that had been ?* -3 ,1 COWII ciSIUU ?Ui iuuau tu rriujj. sily laces and silk and satin dress goods. a inspectress found that 3Iiss Kennedy ~r? d laces, silks, etc., to the value of sev- ^ d thousand dollars concealed on her per- ^ 2. Her other baggage, three trunks and jacking case, were seized, but not opened, le goods discovered are valued at $7,000. do< is thought that the other baggage will Wj ild as much more. " Ya V U | THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. i CAPTAIN TILL3I WS EE VIEW OF THE ! AKGUXEMS ON TEE OUE3TIOX. He Invites a Full Discussion ot the Subjcet j and Predict.-, a Victory for the Friends oi' | the Proposed Institution. To tlie Editor of the News and Courier: j Li my previous letters I have at one time j or another answered or forestalled every { argument which has ever been advanced against the separate agricultural college, and it is disagreeable to have to go over the same ground again. But tbe opponents of such a school in South Carolina, who realize and see that the idea is gaining ground rapidly and surely, continue to repeat the threadbare and untenable arguments against it that have at various times been advanced by "Carolinian," Capt. Paul Hammond and others. I therefore feel constrained to again take j/mv i-Ll vLlTZ) vViati.UYCXOJ' Vi. LLiSUHOsion," whichever it may be called. It is gratifying to note the fact that we : have driven our adversaries to abandon , their first mode of attack, in which ridi cule and personal abuse were mainly j relied upon. "D.," the latest knight ' who couches a lance in behalf of the ( waning cause of the "agricultural annex'' ( and whose articles have recently appeared , in The News and Courier, says the ques- ; tion of the "education of our youths ' should be approached seriously, gravely; . earnestly, reverently." Most assuredly, and I agree with him that., in dealing \ with this question, "a blunder may be I worse than a crime." I contend that the ^ blunder and crime both have been al- ( ready committed, and that alone has J J .1 L- XV _ movea me to ruiueriaise aj:u continue xne r agitation known as the "farmers' move meat." If I have at times overstepped lthe bounds of that "serious, candid, dis- c passionate discussion" for -which "D." p pleads, I have had provocation enough, ^ is jour reader? well know, and I have T ilways acted on the defensive. 1 claim * to have been actuated by an "earnest, j patriotic spirit," and with reason, facts j, md arguments to fully sustain my posi;ior. I have only indulged in invective :>r sarcasm to repel personal assault, or svlien I felt that the injustice practiced ^ igainst farmers required merited rebuke. 1 I and all the friends of a real farmers' f jollege and of agricultural advancement 11 n South Carolina are ready and anxious s ;o meet our antagonists in fair debate, r whether in the newspapers or before the . 3eopl2, and we challenge them to a "joint Ir liscussion" of the issues presented. We r laye nothing to lose and everything to 11 fain by such a discussion, and while ^ heir trained intellects and oratorical ibility n r;y and docs give them the ad- r< I. .- j i a lie justice of ..ur cause, we court the ? ontest. Truth dreads darkness ratlier han light, and we feel that we have both ?' ruth and justice on our side. rri As Chairman of the Executive Com- <4 nittee of the farmers' Association, I ' tereby extend an invitation and challenge , o the Board of Trustees of the South ^ Carolina College and to the Board of Lgriculture to appoint speakers to repre- ^ ent them, and we will clc> likewise; and t_ 7G will further agree to get up mass ^ aeetings of farmers to hear the cause "c nd decide who is right. It will come to 11 iiis at last, and it had just as well come P o it at once; for, as "IV" says: "South Carolina has always been and probably Iways wili be an agricultural State, and f : is a manifest necessity that this probjm be solved with correctness and solved s'~ ith dispatch." j*J The wise disposition of the Hatch ap- h ropriation, which will devolve upon the ^ iegislature at the next session, renders * ; all the more necessary that no more ci; liatakes be made; and if the lawyers ad "the once lordly planters" expect to sc afte that money as the land scrip fund p nd privilege tax are now being wasted, ad as the two experimental stations !a} romise to waste it, it must be after an- 0t ther election has shown that the minor- . y of the farmers are of their own way ^ f thinking. It will not do to rely upon ' le esprit de corps of the lawyers in the ^.r enate to decide the matter contrary to J;1' le wishes of the common farmers, [any of the "once lordly planters" are ar ow common farmers, conscious of the rrors of their own training, and Bour- 21 onism will yet learn that neither class ca artisanship nor political trickery can lo: lake us olf. Letactl his friends fa: ho are fighting to sustain the "annex" hi id agricultural bureau, meet us on the nc ump and allow the whole case to be of resented. If the farmers then decide Is tafc the South Carolina College shall uf. and as it is, we will submit, but not at 11 then. W In the meantime, I will endeavor to th lswer the arguments "D." has presented m; i going to show that the South Carolina fri ollege is now carrying out the Federal wi w in gooa laitn, ana "luiniiing its relirements more fully then the Agricnl- an :ral and Mechanical College of Missis- "F ppi." In the first place, in*til this to Station began there was really no agridtural or mechanical feature attached in< the South Carolina College. President cBryde's executive duties; absorbed all s time and energies, and nothing has :en done and no change made in the pr< Lrriculum since Aagust, 1385, except to aploy an adjunct professor of agricul- fa: re and erect a small machine shop in "p liich applied mechanics are taught by alu e naval officer who is detailed by the lih oited States Government for that pur- cla >se. Everything else is on the same bis d basis, and the whole bias and effect wi] the training has been towards the He ofessions and away from the farm; and his e fact cannot be denied ihat the me.anicai department has developed rather an aie agricultural. at' Now "D." concedes that "South Car- it1 ina is an agricultural Stal e and likely in remain so." Shall we then rest con- car at with a little mechanical training 'Ih )ng win the classical and literarj> leg urse-0, as be; - the best to lit our mo 'uths (10 or I a year) for becoming doi rmers? If agriculture is now our main grc siness, and there is such competition hej long the professions?already over- Th .wing?that there is only "room at the hoi p," why should this agricultural State to ' vote all its energies towards educating far: 3re non-producers, by ;jiving them lo? ch a "liberal" education that they syri )m work and seek to live by the sweat i'ro: somebody else's brow? Have we not uui t enough half-starved lawyers and hoc eacheis now? Why grind out any to i )re? Why increase the army of mer- bu< ants' clerks, who part their hair in the or: ddle because of enlargement -of the in ? iin, but who haven't sense enough to I /IAeorf flin I OIV , J_Li ^JLKJLLb&Uiy J UV.OV1U ImLLVs wa-?.v. 1 homesteads to find an easier way to the ike a living? ma: [f agriculture is our principal business eye iy not educate farmers? Why not de- ?ch te all the money we can spare to train- >To ; farmers and mechanics?the first to this veiop our agriculture, the others to sov ablish manufactures among us and gle e our fanners a home market? Will the i supply of lawyers, preachers and Th< ctors run out? Xot a bit of danger, it a afford, Furman, Erskine, Harvard, hoi le, Princeton, a thousand classical and Rej literary institutions at home and abroad will keep up ihe supply. But nays some adherent of Dr. Thornwell. they viii not be "homogeneous. Public men thus trained "will rot be united, tii- y will not think aiiko, itc.. Arc. There would be no nucleus for a "ring." I grant you: and there would be a healthy current ox new thought and diverse opinions brought baak v. hich might iu time evolve some statesman who can stow us a way io rebuild our shattered fortunes, without depending on "Northern capital and brains'' clone. The only Carolinian who has a werld-wide fame got his education outside the State, and it is easy to believe that if more of our public men had been thus educated there would be less of provincialisms, stagnation and self-idolatry among us. The South Carolina College has produced some great men, but it is sad to see many of its alumni and lacvliy opposing progress and fightii g ihi. battle of Bourbonism. The ivw-v. John Jasper swe ars the "sun do move." Some men in high places in South Carolina are ready to say to the Nineteenth Cc'-iary. "Stop, stand still!" But I have-got switched oii'irom "IV' and his argument;:, end I will try to: get back. I will only say that the South Carolina Colh w- has descended from the < high place upon vhich Dr. Thorn well < sought to anchor it, and mixing median- i ical and manual labor in ever so small a ( Jegree s\ith its purely mental training is : dragging its mantle in the dust for money, i and trying to accomplish the chemical i impossibility of mixing oil and watc-r. i Ihe classical and literary elements have 1 ilways overshadowed and swallowed up i my technical or practical annex in every : nixed school or college that has ever t ;ried it; and so it has been, and will con- i ;inue to be, in this State. I defy "D." i >r any one else to refute the assertion. i And now I make another, namely, that i lot five per cent, of the graduates of the e iterary colleges and universit.es ever e arm. I have abundant proof it' any one r Imputes the fact. Ihe matter then re- I lolves itself into this shape: A college 1 fliich hop:-s or intends to educate men c vho will return to the farm must do two hings. First, make agriculture its lead- 4 ug feature, and second, require manual ( abor during the whole course of study. | e Now, "D." was so rash as to claim that | S he South Carolina College is carrying * iufc the Federal lav? more fully than tie ^ -lississippi College, because it has in a ^ mail way developed its mechanical anlex, and because, us Le alleges, the -Mis- lj issippi College does net afford a "libe- ' al" education. ^ ^ Every reader of The News and Courier S 5 familiar with tho eWise of the Act o! V 8(52, which describes the kind of college I: atended to be established. It expressly c bates that its "lc-.dmg or-jeet shall be to S! :*ach such branches of learning as are u elated to.agriculture and the mechanic 0 rts,"<vc. "Leading! leading! leading!" ? write it in capitals so "D." and all his ^ rother sopb^j-t^-^^it .When they J ome to construe that oft-repeated sen mce they never see 4'loading" at all. e! 'hey cannot attach any meaning to c< practical," but jump with gladdened *c vfw fr!>n a tTAln/lirtnf LassicaJ studies." and -'Liberal/' allough these words are only an escres- 15 mce, and not essential to understand w le sentence. ^ Then, again, they seize on the words ~ > "promote the education of the indus- p ial classes in the several pursuits and :s rofessions of life"?"several pursuits 0 id professions.Here is warrant enough 131 >r teaching anything. But who is to be *c night? The sons of "once lordly plan- -( :rsV"' The sons of lawyers and rich men, :}{ ich as constitute the balk of the stud; ait : the South Carolina College? 01), no! ^ he ''industrial classes," sa;-s the law. ?;' 'ell, who are the industrial classes in 'y Duth Carolina? "D."has answered this ie lestion for me. He sajs, "We are an SG 'ricultural people and iikeiy to remain as ?in spite of booms," A:c. This Federal oney was donated to establish, a col- ar ge?mark you, net an 4'annex" to a Pl liversity?whose leading object should Ia"( i to teach the children 01 the industrial asses to become good farmers and melanics. The classics were not to be excluded" if it was fouc d practicable id the money held out. Military tac23 were "included" and provision made Yc r sending an ofiber of the United States ^ my to teach them. "Liberal" is a mountain, "practical''a * ole-hill, in "D.'s" eyes. "Leading" he nnot see. He is willing for the "once rdly planter's" son to steal the poor ^ rmer boy's chance for an education, it "military tactics" are beneath his :tice. What has become of this army ticer and his military tactics, oh "D. ?" ? he at the South Carolina College man- ? acLuring "dudes?" "Oh, no; he is T-0] our military branch in Charleston." hat is he doing there and why wasn't bo e land scrip fund appropriated to your ^ iiitary branch? Imitating my good tQ end, for I have really fallen in love Uth "D.," he is so "candid." and "earsfc," and "serious," and "reverent," ^ d "dispassionate,"and fair. (?) I will >ause for a reply." But then the mili- ^ ry branch may be fuliiliiijg the Federal v aud educating the children of the :1 us trial classes to become fanners and j Let us see. I saw not long ago in The :ws and Courier a statement of the Th ssent occupation of the Citadel gradu:S for '85 >i ad '80. Only one is now J ming. The rest are following other th< ursuits and professions of life." Alas. kai s! the military students don't seem to all e "agriculture" anv better than their of ssical and literary brethren at Colrnn- ter l. Only one fanner?but his training ev< [1 not help him to get a good start, sta ! has everything yet to learn, so far as mc ; chosen, occupation is concerned, and as ows nothing of either the science or So: ictice of farming. Had he graduated we: the Mississippi College how different, in vould be! The boy at Columbia lolls vie the shade of the noble trees on the vei iipus, and puts only his head to school, cia e boy in Charleston puts his head and ehi 5 10 sciiuu.i, iiuu ui- tiiiuus ..uau uutuixie ?. v st cxperi in handling a rifle; but rifles in < a't assist him lo get a living alter he ceT, .duatcs. The boy in Mississippi puts <y; id, legs, hands and eyes to school, zar e whole boy is taught, and he is taught -cv v to farm on a farm by men who know I "do what they teach,'' not by "book lar mere" and theorists. He never is al- of, ed to lose the habits of industry and i a apathy with labor he brings with him >vei m his humble home, but continue.- aac ring two cr three hours of each day to >f I to ditch, "to fork manure," to miik, rcsi iiake butter, to feed stock, to graft, to con 1, to prune, and do a thousand things san 3pa t'hpm (l.'irit' that wiil be of benerit ifter life. jam t will have been noticed that "D." Je? L all of Lis brethren never omit in Hii ir category of labors the "forking ci ylo Qure." This is too degrading in th. ir mi? s for any white boy to do while at ser ool, and should be "taught at home." stri w, of all tilings on Southern farms seel 5 thing of making and handling and tee] ring barn-yard manure is most ne- in ( sted and least understood, while it is the very life an essence of good farming. Am 3 average fanner knows nothing about con nd cannot therefore teach his son at pen ne. But the editor of the Columbia was gister, who is "D.'s" ally, has discov- ^ ' -?f aa-msTTirm^vr mrJ an?PMMr7FT^jr~??T=CTg ered that "manual labor and attention to the details of farm work are inconsistent vrith an advanced and comprehensive curriculum." ' 'That the students cannot command the time or nervous energy to properly master both." This is news indeed, and CcL Thomas' long experience as an educator gives it great weight. Unfortunately he has had no experience along that line and it is only his opinion. Let us see what those men think who have been studying and teaching agriculture. On the Sth of July past "The National Association of Teacll- . ers of Agriculture and Horticulture" met at the University of Illinois. There were present representatives of the land-grant colleges of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. They adopted, after full discussion, with one dissenting vote, the following resolution: "Resolved, That we favor regular, . compulsory labor by students on our ag- i rieultural college farms, but * before that . it should be required only so far as it is designed to be instructive." The opponents of the separate agricultural college cannot, or will not, understand that the labor is insistf d on for two ; reasons?first, as a means of practical < illustration and instruction inst as medi- i sal students are taught am-.tomy In the 3 dissecting room, or law students practice j in the moot courts before going into the < lourt house. But mainly because if the } student at that formative period of life loes nothing for four year*, but study -5 jooks and cultivate the miad, not three 1 n a hundred will ever return to the farm, ( vhere manual labor and piiysic-,1 energy c ire absolutely essential to success. This ] s the whole thing in a nutsheiL "D." j ays: "It is a question of taste whether t t is better for the farmer's son to pay j noney in college to learn law than to 1 ork manure, cut wood, &c." There is 10 taste in the matter. To educate farm:rs experience has shown that labor is as :ssential a part of the curriculum as che- ? nistay or vegetable physiology, and it is >etter to even "fork manure" than to oaf or play poker and billiards, or smoke igarettes to kill time. _ * t I will notice only one other point that t. 'D." makes?viz: that the Mississippi a College "attracts by its cheapness as I auch as by its agriculture." We will 2 ;rant this, if you please, but if the South f Carolina College only turns out iess than " Ive "book" farmers to the hundred gra- 0 uates, while those of Michigan and s; lississippi can show fifty per cent, who t] arm, it is enough to prove that in this Sl 'agricultural State" a college like these ?: to is more needed and would be of E reater benefit than five South Carolina a Colleges. But; the bonus paid students <2 jt their labor at these two colleges is 0 ailed the "meal tub that contains the k jp," and we are twitted with having Set h p a "barrier across the pathway oi' the tl outn Carolina boy" because we were S( pposed to free tuition in the South g iaroliua College except to indigent f* UUlUOl * ? The bill drawn by me last winter to tl an agricultural at .1 mechanical a] allege in reintroduced w )r good reasons, called for tuition <^t^ not to exceed forty dollars," but allowed ee tuition to those unable to pay. It P' : natural to suppose that the college w ould be practically "free," except for a :w students. Suppose we shall demand hi lat it be absolutely "free" to all, will 5 le charge of inconsistency and class ^ gislation be thrown at us? Of course, cl at with how little reason. There would m a no competition between the agricul- re iral and mechanical college and the ae- is pminational colleges, and consequently at j injustice. The class of students?poor ar .rmers' sons?who would mainly fill up th agricultural college would never think th : trr-ino' crr\ fn tVio Savi^Ii romlino Art oliege or to the denominational col- 0: ges. and if men -who are able choose to a ' nd their sons there let them par for it es , they do at Columbia. at "D." saves his best shot for the last id winds up as follows: 4-Yet how is a & iblic sentiment that would not tolerate be ee tuition only in the South Carolina zi allege going to be brought to the point y-'< teaching a youth free a..d paying him is isides? 1 pause for a reply." You go all have it, my friend, with a vengeance. sc< 5u have forgotten something. South wi irolina does some queer things at times. Yi id you ever hear of a school called the ^ tadei located in Charleston!1 Do you <^r iow that in order to educate sixty-eight pc (or boys this little State of South Carola spends 820,000 a year, and not only th ves them free tuition but boards and ba )thes them besides? "Whether "public ea< atiment" endorses it or net has never bv en and may never be tested, but with th< is stftrinc liim in iliA ortrl du .owledge which. I now furnish him free po charge, that with a similar sum spent th< r student labor in an industrial college, 3 State can help four hundred poor an ys to educate themselves, we will not -i( spair of bringing "public sentiment" establish and sustain such a school, of ith or without fiee tuition, we need it; th or without the consent of "D." and of > "lordly" allies we are going to have e<2 or "fight it oat on that Hue" during a do zen summers. # sel B.'R. TTT.twax. les Roper's, S. C., September 7, 1SS7. m tw UBIQUITOUS ISRAELITES. Sel riti eir Adaptability to All Climates and ^ Conditions. , [t has frequently been remarked, says scn i Jewish World" that the Jewish race ?0 5 a wonderful power of-adaptation to 0? climates. Jews are found in ail parts rec the globe, and seem to possess a very ^ aarkable faculty for acclimatization, cjo m under the most unfavorable circum- ^ nces. * Mesopotamia is considered the ^ > til or CAnntn- r\f tlir. fflrrmT well as the cradle of the human race. a<.. me years ago a small colony of Jews ' re found in the ancient city of Sennar, ,*,a, the; ooath of Mesopotamia, and in she ^r,~ inity of ancient Babylon. Of the se- jC(V lty families composing the colony, one ^ ii led to be descended from King Joan:, the rest from the house of Levi. 2^ jelony of Jews appear to have settled l hinu about the beginning of the third A itury of the Christian era, under the in 1 nasty of Han. In 1704. Father Gon- daj ii, a Roman Catholicmissionary, found of: en Jewish families near Pekin. lar? n 1686 a Portuguese Jew of Amster- no\ n, named DePavia, discovered a sect tooi lews in Cochin China. According to Lei radition preserved among them, they was te descended from a tribe af Jews who Dui I quitted Palestine on the destruction 188 the second temple. From their long thai idence in Cochin they had become his apletely bronzed. These are not the moie as the Malabar Jews. The Jewish and /c-ltr Benjamin, sometimes called Ben- was rln the Second, discovered a colony ox bac rs. evidently of Persian origin, in diss juostau. They were known as "Bab- nen nian Jews, "on account of their having j thai c . T>^i?1 i.7. . rratfcu iidull xsiiuyiviim. jlucj uu- tiuii red tlie essential rites of Judaism, and his ctly avoided intermarriage with other the fcs. In the beginning of the seven- bin: ath century a Jewish colony settled Tiii Jayenne, in the West Indies, one of cot most inhospitable climates in South unt erica. Cayenne was subsequently he quered by the French, who made it a clai tal settlement, and the Jewish colony eno i forced to retire to Surinam. " app Notwithstanding frequent persecutions off, Jews arc still found in Persia, more especially to the South of the Caspian Sea, where the soil is very fertile, but the climate very unhealthy. The principal city is Balprosh, where about 150 Jewish families reside in almost complete isolation. They-trade with their brethren in Great Tartary, and are engaged in the wool nnd silk trade or in the sale of citrons. They, too, trace their origin from the Babylonian captivity; for, according to a tradition still possessed among them, their ancestors settled in Persia in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, and did not respond to the appeal of Ezra to return to return to Palestine. Their mode of life resembles that of the Persians in general. They hold the beard in high esteem and wear long flowing robes. They have several synagogues, and obtain scrolls of the law from Bagdad. The celebrated African traveler, Slungo Park, found a colony of Jewish families in the heart of Africa, about S00 miles from the coast. It is, no doubt, this peculiarity of the Jewish race which induced a French writer on "Medical Geography" to ex press the opinion that "it is questionable whether the crossing of human varieties infers on the issne constant advantages in raloflATl TA SU+ -PA* TAW?U ?-\> fciiC OJLV/X W_LC ucniou race seems in a wonderful manner capable of adapting itself to every change of jlimate, while others are scarcely able to Dear the least change." The Jew is found in every part of the vorld?in Europe, from Norway to Gib alfcar; in Africa, from Algiers eo the >?pe of Good Hope; in Asia, from Co:hin to the Caucasus, from Jaffa to Pekin. Ie has peopled Australia, and has given >roof of las powers of acclimatization mder the tropics, when people of Euro>ean origin have constantly failed to >erpetuate themselves. SIA3IESE AMAZONS. L King's Military Body Guard Composed Entirely of Women. (London Cor. Chicago Tribune.) Among the other visitors to the exhibition has been the Prince of Siam, broiler to the Sang. He is a little man, has n olive complexion, black eyes, speaks English perfectly and has changing man,ers. As an example of one of the good esults of the American exhibition, durig his visit he made a careful inspection f the goods in the main building and pent thousands of dollars on the useful lings he saw which were up to the presnt time unknown to Siam. He gave n order ft type-writers to one lanufactu: or -. rge order for safes to nother, oi^c. ' a steam engine, four ozen carpet sweepers and a number of ther ingenious things which attracted is attention; so that these exhibitors ave the satisfaction of knowing that ley have opened a market forthem}lves in Siam at no greater expense than oing to the American exhibition. The Lshion having been set by the Prince, >rge orders for all these goods he assured lem would follow. It would therefore ppcar that the people in his country, hick very few of us stop to realize is dee as large in its area as France, and population of about 15,000,000 eopI^-i?^tll making rapid strides toard moaero^gfl^ation. He gave us j^forTriftjyn. owever, about the Sing's amazons, Tihe. t oyal Guard being composed entirely of %. ? y-UlCi-L. liilo UH.LUULLUU. CUiifciSUS UJL ttw, losen frem among the handsomest and ost robust girls in the country. They iceive excellent pay and their discipline perfect. They are admitted to serve the age of 13, and are placed in the my of reserve at the age of 25. From at period they no longer serve about :e King's person, but are employed to iard the royal palaces and crown lands, n entering the army the amazons make vow of chastity, for which there is no :emption unless any of them should . tract the King's attention and be aditted among Ms legitimate wives. The ing'g choice seldom falls on the most autiful, but 0? the mc-:t skilled in ilitary exercise. The costume these jrncn wear is very rich. The full dress a white woolen robe embroidered with Id; the cioth is extremely fine and deends as fur as the knee; it is covered th a light coat of mail and gilt cuirass, le arms are free, and the head covered th a gilt casque. When wearing this ess on state occasions their only weain is a lance, which they handle with mderful dexterity. With their undress ey are armed with a musket. The ttalion is composed of four companies, eh company of 100 women commanded a captain of their own sex. Should s captain die the company is drilled ring three days by the King, who apints the most competent to succeed to 2 command. The King of Siam never undertakes y expedition without being accompa;d by his female guard, nor does he er Jaunt or even ride without an escort the same guard, who are devotedly iched to his person. Every member the battalion has live negresses attachto her service, and, having thus no mestic occupation, she can devote herf exclusively to the duties of her proision. There is a parade ground near } city, where one company is stationed o days every week, to exercise themves in the use of the lance, pistol and le. The King attends once a. month at >se exercises, accompanied by his jther, who shares in some degree the rereign power, and distributes prizes those most deserving. When the death one of the parties ensues, the deceased :eives a magnificent funeral, and the jh priest pronounces a panegyric, dering that the deceased by her valor = merited eternal rest in the abode of ; blessed. The survivor receives the igratulations of ner companions; but, a measure ot discipline, is sentenced pass two months away from her comly in fasting and prayer. The military ja-.ization of this" battalion is so pert that the entire army endeavorr to .tate it. An Interesting Case. l remarkable damage suit was filed in ;he clerk's cilice of the City Court to , says the Atlanta Evening Journal JGth* If the facts alleged in the deciticn are estabh'shed it will snow a el plan by which a railroad underk to stave oil' a damage suit. D. H. the petitioner, sets forth that he i employed by the Richmond and iville Railroad Company in July, i. as a riagman on a freight train, and t while he was sitting in the caboose, proper place, on a certain day of that ath. the train ran oil the track at Lula . the caboose was overturned. Lee injured in the shouider, hip and k and his left arm was uerman^ntiir ibied. His spins was also parma.tiy injured by concussion. He alleges : the authorities of the road agreed b in consideration of his injuries and agreement not to bring suit against road for damages, they Trould give i tiie permanent position of conductor, s position he took as "soon as he reered from his injuries,"and occvpied il the 18th day of Apnl, 1887, when was discharged without cause. He ms that the road kept him just long ugh for the statue of limitations to >iy in bis case and then turned him, * " He asks $10,000 damages. i