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THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER,
BY W. A. LEE AND IIUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1870. VOLUME XVIII?NO. 7.
THE COQUETTE.
or JOBS (i. (Alt
"You'ro clover at drawiug, I own,"
S'lid my beautiful cousin Lisette,
An wo sat by tho window alone;
"But any, can you paint a coquetto ?"
"She's painted already," quoth I;
"Nay, nnyl" enid the laughing Lisette;
'Now, iidiio of your joking, but t?y
And paint ino a thorough coquette."
"Well, cousin," ntonce I began
In tho ear of the eager Lieelte,
"I'll paint you as wt*ll us I can
That wonderful tliiug, a eoi]uette."
"She wears a most beautiful face,
C'()f (>nnriU) " ratil (Iip I \
\ 1 _ 1" - 'J ""V.VV,/
And isn't deficient in grace,
Or else alio were uot a cuqucttc.**
"And thenshe's ?laiutilyJma.lo
(A ainile fiom the dainty Liscttc)
15y people expert in Iht trudo
Of forming a proper coquette."
"She's tli<? winningest ways with tlx? lioaux,
(' Go on," bniJ '.lio winning hisctto,)
I>vit. 'here i?n't a man of tliotn knows
The mind of the tickle coquette.
'SMi* know# liow t"> v.-eep and to sigh,
(A sigh from the tender I.isette.)
Hut her wooping is all in my cy> ?
Not thai of the cunning coquette ?
"In dimf n ~r "
("it hush." Ilio frownii-g
"Willi ineioly the ghost of n heart?
Eaough for a thorough cot|tulle.
' There?<lo not be angry?you know,
My <lenr little oousin Li suite,
y ?u tohl mc n tin niont ago
To paint you?a thorough coquette."
DARED AND DEFEATED.
,;Yoti will meet Wifftor Sutton at
The Hoses; enter in 110 rivalry with
him."
This was tho postscript of 1113- father's
letter, anil tho 0110 cloucl in tho
bright ho i ;on of my hopes.
I was twenty-three years oM, just
released from college, a little pale ami
woary with study, and bound for that
paradise of the earjj), mv widowed '
lister Margaret's homo?Tho Hoses.
1 was to-spend the summer with
3Ing; and the prospect had boon or.c*
of infinite delight. Jiut now 1 heard
that Sutton was there.
This Walter Sutton wan a 3*0linger
uroiLier 01 flag's deceased husband, a
millionaire's son, and a Parisian by
education.
At twenty ho Lad been familiar
with the Mabilo. At twenty-six ho ,
was pronounced tho handsomest and .
most dissipated man in London ; and
now, a 3*ear later, I was to have his (
companionship for the summer at tho j
house of my sister, 3Irs. Margaret ]
fSutton. j
The man had always had a fascination
for me, while I despised him.
His Apoliau beauty, his knowledgo of ,
tho world, his coolness, daring and *
fearlessness, I regarded with wonder. ,
But I had senso enough to weigh ]
these against his evninisin l.:
w -J ? J J
encd reputation, and his rakish man- j
uer, which told its talc of unhappi- (
ness, and to keen cpiietly on my way, ]
unenviou3 of his buccoss. At tho ,
timo I wont to The Koses I was, .
moreover, les3 liable to impure influence,
for I had just lost the noblest
and dearest mothers.
It truo I did not rolish meeting
"Walter Sutton, but I was not ono to
borrow trouble. It was Juno weather;
"green and hluo were glad together
and I was free. My horse arched
his beautiful neck, and trotted
slowly and proudly along tho road,
while I looked across the sunny fields,
watching for the first sign of my sister's
mansion?trees rustling, flowers
blooming, and birds singing
around me.
Suddenly I saw a carriage whirling
in advance of me. I recognized the
man on tho box and syurred forward. I
l gained it. Tho stalely lady
within it looked up, threw aside her
uablo veil, andcricd, "Lewis!"
"Are you goiDg liomo, Maggie ?"
"Directly."
"I am with you."
At that mouieut I bccamc conscious
of the earnest gaze of a pair of golden-brown
eyes. My sister was not
alone in tho carriage. A young girl,
with her lap full of water-lilies, and a
largo straw bat shading tho fairest
and loveliost of cot. Iw?;/1a
- ? _ V UV1|
Wo looked inquiringly at each other
but for once, my admirable sister for-'
got the demands of society. In her
pleasure at seeing mo she omitted tho
introduction, ana leaning from her
aeat sho questioned mo oagerly regarding
occurrences at homo. .She
uad not been there sinco my mother's
unoral had taken Y>laco in tho wintor.
Suddenly a light phaiton whirled
by ub, tho driver of which lifted his
hat as ne passed, giving a piercing
look into the carriage. I followed it
and I fancied I saw the young girl's
hand tremblo among tho lilies ou her
lap.
"Yon know Walter is with us,
Xiewis?" remarked Margaret, a little
cloud on her face.
"Yes. lie is looking well."
"Ho always looks well," said Mag,
significantly, t
W* wore entering tho Avenuo.
Two splendid rose trees guarded tho
gate; the rustic trellises hold anjarch
of blossoming vines above their
heads.. I questioned Mag us to the
gardon.
"My gardenors say that they havo
'been very , successful this year, ;I
think ifapprepiate the roses moire
than usBAitais year, for Alice enjoys
.tiium bo iuuuu.
My aletor tumod as she spoke, with
a fond smile tot the gttlftt her side,
and then remembered to say, "Alice,
this is my brother Lewis.- Mr.
Verner, Hiss Lee."
up tot Wine again, and my took of^2S?mlrfttion
was tewarded with A Jiittle
/smile, se sweet ihat X then and there
fell ii itsd^nei*. 'k ,
We OmMre through clouds of perfumefo
the doer. There were ladies
and gentlemen npon the broad terrace.
-M-*
*- ? *
I
"I lmvc other gucste"/' said Margaret,
aside.
I had met sowo of them before?
ail nice people. Tho summer promised
to bo gay. I know that I was
very happy that evening, singing
with Alice Leo. But tlioro was an
evil influence in tho house. I soon
felt it. Sutton's wealth and extravagance
bred a spirit of envy among
the young men; his sneering sinilo
blighted our pure and simple pleasures,
and it exasperated tho masculine
portion of the company to observe
the influence thisMephisstophelea
1i;i(l nvr?r tlm Iio;iii1 il'nl iniim>i>iit i???.
mantic girls whom they loved.
There were those of the men whom
he seduecd sit the. Htsirt. They copied
his vices in less than three weeks.
Then followed dissatisfaction and
heartache among men and women.
lint 1, who from the lirst declined
to ]>lay cards and drink in Sutton's
rooms, felt uncontaminalcd, and free
to seek that priceless treasure in life,
a pure woman's love.
i tried to please Alice Lee, and succeeded.
In July wo wero engaged.
And then 1 just began to understand
how good and sweet my darling was.
1 remember that I camc homo from
fishing one day, with a lace nearly
blistered by the sun. Alice, in her
cool, white dross, with violet ribbon
at the threat, peeped out the door at
me as I came up the garden, where 1
had delivered I ho spoils of the day
into the hands of flair's cook, and
held up her pretty hands in mock
horror. In truth, I was something
of a spectacle, with my white linen
suit illuminated with the juice M
strawberries?tlso pantaloons thrust
into the legs of my muddy boots?
plentifully besprinkled with the dust
of country roads, and liercely sunburnt.
Hut I had boon gone all day,
and Alice made up a face to kiss i;u\
"No." said I; ' ! will excuse you,
since I have a blistered nose, and I
am covered with dust."
1 was quite in earnest, and tried to
hold her oil", fearing her delicate dress
would get soiled if she touched me;
but she won her way to my breast.
rubbed a liiuo place clean on my 1 oreIs
c.id with Isor embroidered handkerchief,
kissed the .spot and laughed in
my eyes.
"Dear Lewis," paid she, "it's you,
and I'm not afraid of dirt that will
wash oil."
The merriment softened in her
lovely face.
' Lewis," sho said softly' "don't
Lhink I love you for your clothes, or
your complexion, or your whiskers,
which all the girls admire, but because
you tiro good and true, and I
[eel that I cau trust you. Do you
know what mado mo Iovj you at
5rat?"
I shook my head.
' Because, all Sutton's wiles to draw
f*ou over to his ect failed. You adire
honesty and purity, and have
maintained them so nobly, that I
honor and admire j*ou. If you were
i blacksmith I'd marry you and live
n a hovel!" And with her beautiful
?yes sparkling with tears, my darling
hugged me, and then pushed mo oil',
and then ran away to liido how she
w:.b crying.
Blissfully happy I stumbled up
stairs, plunged iuto a bath, and divested
myself of all stains of earth.
JtJut when 1 when 1 went into my
dressing-room I perceived the fumes
of Sutton's cigars. They wero of a
peculiar brand, and no ono smoked
tliem but himself. lie was sitting in
the south portico, close to the door
where I had met Alico. How long
had he boon thcro?
My hand trembled as I brushed my
hair. Shoald 1 have been ashamed,of
it? I think not. Sutton had a reputation
of taking horrible revenges,
and I had so much to lose.'
But after a moment I braced myself,
mentally and physically, and
sat down to read. I was too tirod to
go down stairs. But the fumes of
that cigar sccmcu to have got into my
head; tho pago was Lazy and indistinct
; I could sec nothing so plainly
as Button's Greek profile and lij'aeynthinc
hair, and suspecting I was
ill 1 at length threw down tho volume
and went to bed by starlight.
I was ill for a fortnight with a low
nervous fever. Aly valet took mo in
charge, but Alico camo in every day
with Margaret, and did mc more
good with ten minutes* petting than
Kugene's most patient attention accomplished
the whole day. She kept
flowers At my bedside, and stretched
proprieties to tho utmost to seo me.
At first her smiling eyes by my pillow
wcro delicious; but ono day I
saw she regarded me in a troubled,
wistful U'fiv nrwl nflovworils f diHfrov
ered that alio was growing palo.
"Whc.t is tho matter? tell mo pot!"
I said.
"Ob, you got well bo slowlyeho
said, a transient flush on her delicato
chock.
I did not dream what persecutions
sho was undorgoing whilo I lay there
but she would not worry mo with
any complaints; bravo, faithful, loving
littlo heart.
1 was nearly well ut last?sat up
all day in my room, and sent word to
my iriends below that i would bo with
them tho following day.
At midnight tho radianco of the
moonlight awoko mo from a deep
sleep. I could riover sleep in a room
flooded with tho light of tho mo(5n,
I rose, threw on my dressing-gown
and was preparing to closo tho shut
ters, whon I distinctly perceived the
pungent odor of chloroform.
Now if I l)ad been in tho body o]
the house, I should have decided thai
some unfortunate person among tht
many inmates of the house, had ex
perienced a midnight attack of tooth
ache: but there were no chambers ir
the south wing but Alice Lee's anc
mine. . Mvefy pearly tooth in her ro
sy mouth was perieotlysound, I knew
so J was puzzled.; jTne. pert rovela
tion was the propinquity of a horsed
neigh.
' The horses belonging to tfce hoaM
Were, or ought to have been,' at a dis
t$nce fYom the house,- in a well-lock
s
ed etablo. This horse?nny, t\y>of
them, and an elegant phn>ton?L4ould
at tho front gate. At first I diu. not
rccognizo tho ecpiippage. '
But I was impressed to beliove
thoro was something wroug. A lark
of Sutton's sot, I docidod to bo, whon
I atjlongth rocognized tho carriago.
I dressed and sat down by tho window,
watching tho horses toss their
heads under tho larches, their silver
' trippings glittering in tho moonlight.
Suddenly >Sutton went walking rap-1
idly down the walk, bearing some- j
ming iu ins arms wrapped in a clonic.
It might have been the figure of a
corpse, lor any life or motion il appeared
to have, llo sprung into the
carriage, placed himself ho as to supi
port iiis burden, gathered up the
reins, and whirled rapidly away.
The instant lie was gone a horri.
hie suspicion broke over inc. I sprang
up and rushed down stairs. The
chamber in which Alice slept was
full of the scent of choloform, the
window was open, and a long, glass
door leading directly into the garden.
There was chloroform among the
roses. Alice was hot there I
If an oath ever escaped my lips it
did then. Never thinking to alarm
the house, 1 rushed inthe stable,
expecting to lind the hostler awake.
15ut 110 : the man was sleoninir sound-1
ly in 11is loft ?Sutton's horses had not
been stabled that night?and only my
violent bcleaguerincnt brought Jiim
down. Bridling the ileetest and |
liercest horse in tho stable, I sprang
bare-back upon him, and tore out
upon tho trail,
Tho long road leading over the hill
stretched white ami empty before me
but by that way he must have gone.
My noble black Hew after, snorting,
and striking lire from the stones.
The birds were twittering all along
the way. 1 noticed that,"and knew I
could not bo far behind him. ttuddenly
I hoard the click of a carriage
wheel. The next moment 1 pulled
nn < l>/\ i ao/I <1 <**?< I
v*|?5 jvyi t?IV 1VUM , wnv; J/cVLIi I
lay over a stexp lull, tlio other entered
the woods.
I was close upon him, I was sure of
that; but I eouM not decide whether
he had gone over the hill or entered
the woods, which looked dark and
murderous enough. 11' 1 made a mistake
lie would escape me. Just then
I heard a cry? a woman's piercing
shriek. Jfy heart leaped up; I plunged
into the woods. That was his
way.
It was narrow and difllcult, and I
knew ho had taken it in hopes to escapo
me. lio must have heard the
thundering of my horse's hoofs behind
him in the road. We boanded
under tlio boughs. Soon I saw tko
carriage ahead.
It rolled rapidly along, yet swayed
heavily on its springs, us if badly
driven.
I shouted stop "Stop!"
Tlio next moment a pistol shot
whizzed by me. I could inako out
the figure of Sutton standing in the
carriage for a moment. Tho next instant
in wna ." one. In mv rnrrlrlrKs
? 0 J ?- ?
speed the bough of a tree struck mc
in the facc ; but I heeded nothing until
I was besido tho pliaiton. Sutton
was not within; but my darling, all
wild and white, stretched out bcr
hands to mc. My horso, in spito of
his speed, was manageable, I galloped
close to their heads, aud contrived to
stop tho flyine bays.
"Where is Sutton ?" I asked.
"He fell or sprang out; I do not
know which. Oh, Lewis eavo Die
from him!"
"You have nothing to fear now," 1
answered. "My darling be biavel"
tt J u
ball through m3r head. I fastened my
horse to the back of tho carriage,
got in, and turned the heads of the
horses. They were whito with foam,
but obeyed the rain without much excitement.
I wrappod Alice more carefully
in a cloak, and guided them
swiftly towards homo.
Suddenly tho bays swerved 'and
seemed to leap over some object in
tho road, and instantly tho carriage
passed over some obstruction. Alice's
wild eyes flashed their terror into
mino; a sickening thought passed
ovor inc. Reining in tho horses I
leaped out of tho vehicle, and retraced
my way for a lew steps. Something
dark lay among the decayed
leaves. It was the corpse of a dead
man?the dead body of Walter Sutton.
lie had been flung from tho carriage.
It is not probable that he attempted
to escape, for he was heavily
armed, and would have far sooner
taken my life than have been defeated.
He had probably driven over a
stump, or log, and been thrown to
tho ground ; and I had ridden ovor
him twice 1 Thoro was a boot' mark
on his forehead, audthe wheels of Hie
phajton had passed directly over his
1 broast. Bat that fiuo, scornful smile
was oa his lips, as I gazed at tho dead
i face in tho moonlight, as if, even in
death, ho cherished his revenge, and
was yet confident of compassing it
But tho abduction of which ho had
dared ho had bceh defeated in ; and
1 happy in our marviago, Alico and I
? had no fear of the dead.
I I ?
Tho bill to change tho judicial cir>
cuits as passed tho Senato constitutes
> tho various circuits as follows; First
i ?Alamo, New Hampshire, Vermont,
. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
, Cincinnati. Second?New York,.
. Third?Now Jorsey, Pennsylvania,
> Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Fourth^-Missisaippi, Louisiana, Texr
as and Arkansas. Fifth ? North
t Carolina, Soatli Carolina, Georgia,
> Florida, Alabama and Tennosifce.
- Sixth?Ohio, Miohigan, Kentucky
ami West Virginia. Seventh?-Ilhr
nois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Eighth
I ?Minnessota, Iowa, Nebraska. Kan
sas 4fld Missouri. Ninth?California,
T Oregon and Nevada.' The Sapreme
- Qoart Justices, except the Chief Jtisi
tice, are required to reside in their
repective circuity t&A the Qhief Jus?Miosis
to be known as Chief Justice
-Iof the Supycmo Court of the United
- States. ,
ft
(From t'to (Jnlnxy, of Mny.)
Tlie Story of the good Littlo Boy wlio
did not Prosper.
BY MARK TWAIN.
Tlio following has been written at
the instance of several litorary friends,
who thought that if the history of
"The liad Littlo Boy who did ]S*ot I
Uomo to Uriel'," (a moral sketch which
I published live or bix years ago) was
worthj' of preservation several weeks
in print, a fair and unprejudiced companion
pieeu to it would deserve a
similar mortality?Editor:
Onee there was a good little hoy by
the luimo of Jacob Jilivens. llo always
obeyed his parents, no matter
how absurd or unreasonable their demands
were; and he ndways learned
his book, ami was never lute at Sunday
school, lie would not play hookey,
even when his sober judgment
told him it was the most profitable
thing he could do. None of the other
boys could over make that boy out, he
acted so strangely.
lie wouldn't lie, no matter bow
convenient it was. He just said it
was wrong to lie, and tint was suilicicnt
for him. And he was so honest
that lie was simply ridiculous. The
curious ways uiiii jacoo mul surprised
everything. lie wouldn't "p':iy
bles on Sunday, Iio wouldn't rob birds
nests, lio wouldn't gi>*o hot pennies to
organ grinder's monkeys; he didn't
seem to take any interest in any kind
of rational amusement. So the other
boys used to try and reason it out and
conic to an understanding about liim,
but they eouldn't arrive at any satisfactory
conclusion; as 1 said before,
they could only figure out a sort of
vague idea that he was "afflicted,"
and so they never allowed any harm
to come to him.
This good little boy read all the
Sunday school books; they were his
greatest delight. This was the whole
secret of it. He believed in the good
i:? -1_ i ' < -- - - > '
nmc U'JJM invy JIUI ill llio midday
school books ; lie had every confidence
in them, lie longed to como across
one of them alive once; but never did.
TJiey all died before his time, may be.
Whenever he read about a particular
good one, he turned over quickly to
iho end to see what had bccomo of
him, because he wanted to travel
thousands of miles to gazo upon him ;
but it wasn't any uso ; that good little
boy always died in the last chapter,
and there was a picture of his funeral,
with all his relations and tho Sundayschool
children standing around .the
gravo in pantaloous that wcro too
short, and bonnets that were too large,
and everybody crying, into handkerchiefs
that had as much as a yard of
stuff in them. He was always hoaded
off in this way. llo never could soe
one of thoso little boys, on account of
ma tiying as in tne lasj. chapter.
Jacob had a noblo ambition to be
put in a Sunday school book. He
wanted to be put in with pictures representing
him gloriously declining to
his mother, and she weeping for joy
about it; and pictures representing
him standing on his door step giving
a pcnn}r to a poor beggar-woman with
six children, and telling her to spend
it freely, but not to bo extravagant,
bocause oxtravaganco is sin, and pictures
of him magnanimously refusing
to tell on the bad boy who always lay
in wait for him around tho corner aB
he came from school, and welted him
over tho head with a lath, and then
chased him, saying: "Hi! Hi!" as ho
procoodod. That was tho ambition
of young Jacob Blivcns. Ho wished
to be put in a Sunday-school book. It
made him feci ft littlo uncomfortftblc
sometimes when he reflected that the
good littlo boys always died.
Ho loved to live jrou know, and this
was tho most unpleasant featuro of
being a Sunday-school book boy. lie
knew it was not healthy to bo good,
lie knew it was moro fatal than consumption
to bo Bupcrnaturally good,
.as the boys in the books wero ; lie
ho knew that none of them had been
ablo to stand it long, and it pained
nun xo inimc that 11 over they put in
a book ho wouldn't ever sco it, or
oven if they did get tho book out before
he died, it would not bo popular
wi'hout any pictures of his funeral
in tho back part of it. It couldn't bo
much of a .Sunday-school book that
couldn't tell about the advice ho gavo
to tho community when he was dying.
So at last, of course, he had to mako
up his mind to do tho best he could
under tho circumstances?tolivo right
and hang on as long as ho could and
have his dying speech all ready wheu
tho timo eamo for him to die.
But somehow, nothing ovor went
right with this good littlo boy; nothing
ever turned out with him tho way
it turned out with the good little boys
in tho books. They always had a
good timo, and tho bud boys had tho
I broken legs; but in his easo thoro was
a screw looso somowhero, and it all
happened just tho other way. "When
he found Jim Blako stealing apples,
and went under the tree to read to
him about tbo bad little boy who fell
out of a neighbor's apple trco arid
broko his arm, Jim fell out of tho troo
too, but he fell on him and broko his
arm, and Jim wasn't hurt at all, Jacob
couldn't understand that. Thoro
was not anything in tho books like it.
At onco, when somo bad boys pushed
a blind man ovor in tho mud, and
Jacob ran to holp him up and receive
his blessing, tho Elind man did not
givo him a blessing at all, but whacked
him over tho head with hip stick, j
and said ho would liko to catch him
shoving him again, and then pretend^
ing to nolp him up. ^his was not in
accordance-With atiy of the book*
Jacob looked them all ovor to see. .
One thing that Jacob wanted to do
was to finer lame dpg that hadn't
any place to ntay, find waa hungry
and persecuted, and pet Mm, and have
that -dog's imperishable gratitude.
adu a* iqsi ao xoum one ana wiua iuppy;
bwght Wift hoae ?n4
fed him, tmtTwheo fa# .mm goAnt to
pot him th6 dog fl?\T at Mm and tore
nil the fclothet off hira oxCopt thde'e;
that wcro in front, and mado a ppoc
v^^^w"",w"w',l^l^^g1
V
tncl\of him that was astonishing,
ilo examined authorities but could
not unUorstand tho matter. It was of
tho fiamo breed of dogs that was in
tho boqks, but it acted vory difToroiitly.
Whatever tho boy did ho got in
troublo. Tho very thiugs tho hoys in
tho books got rowardea for, turnod
t- ? *? ""
uui> lu mm 10 oo ino most unprolitaf
bio things that ho could invest in. |
' Onco ho was on his way to Sunday
school and saw Bomo bad boys Btarting
off pleasuring in a bail boat. Ho
was filled with consternation because
he knew from his reading that boys
tliat wont Bailing 011 Sundays invariably
got drowned. ?So lie ran out 011 a
rait to warn them, but a log turned
over with him and slid him into the
river. A man got him out pretty
soon and the doctor pumped the water
out of him and gave him a fresh
start with his bellows but ho caught
cold and lay sielc abed nine weeks,
lint tho most unaccountable thing
about it was that the bad' buys in the
l>oat had a good time all day, and
then reached home alive and well, in
in the most surprising manner. Jacob
lilivcns paid there was nothing
like these things in tho books, ile
was perfectly dumfimndcd.
When he got well he was a little
discouraged, but. ho resolved to keep
on trying, anyhow. Jle knew that so
far his experiences wouldn't do to ^o
in a hook, hut lio hadn't yet reached
tlic allotted leruv of life lor good little
boys, and he hoped to be able to make ]
a record yet, if lie could hold on till
his time was fully up. Jf everything
el.se failed, he had his dying speech to
fall back on. I
Jle examined his authorities, and
found that it was now time for him to
go to sea as cabin boy. ITe called for
a ship captain and made his application,
and when the captain asked him
for his recommendation ho proudly
drew forth a tract and pointed to the
words: "To Jacob Jilivens, from his
affectionate teacher." But the e:iptain
was an ignorant, coarse, vulgar
man, and he said: "Oh that bo Mowed,
that wasn't any proof that he
knew how to wash dishes or handle a
slush bucket, and he guessed he didn't
want him."
j. ins was altogether the most extraordinary
tiling that ever happened to
Jacob in all his life. A, compliment
from a teacher on a tract, had never
failed to move the tenderest emotions
of ship captains and open the way to
all offices of honor anil profit in their
gift?it never had in any book that
ho had read, lie could hardly boliovc
his senses.
This boy always had a hard time of
it.. Nothing ever camo out according
tp Jiis authorities. At last, ono day,
when ho was around hunting up little
boys to admonish, ho found a lot of
them in an old iron foundry fixing up
a little yoke on fourteen or fifteen
dogs which they had tied together in
long procession and were going to or-*
namcnt with empty nitro-glycerino
cans mado fast to their tails. Jacob's
heart was touched. Ho sat down on
one of those cans?for ho never mined
greaso when duty was beforo him?
and ho took hold of the foremost dog
by tho collar, and turned Ins cyo on
wicked Tom Jones.
But iustat that moment, Alderman
McWcltcr, full of wrath, slipped
in. All tho bad boys ran away; but
Jacob Bevons rose [in conscientious
innocecno and bogan ono of those othor
stately Sunday-school speeches
which always commence with "Oh,
sir 1" in dead opposition to this fact
that no boy good or bad, ever starts a
remark with "Oh, sir I" But tho Alderman
never waited to hear tho rest.
Ho took Jacob and gavo him a whack
in tho rear with tho flat of his hand;
and in an instant that good little boy
shot out through tho roof and shot
away toward tho sun, with tho fragments
of tliOBO fifteen dogs stringing
after him liko tho tail of a kito.
And ihcro wasn't a sign of that
Alderman or that iron foundry left on
tho faco of tho earth; and as for
young Jacob Blivcns, ho novor got a
chanco to" make his last dying spcech
after all his troublo fixing it up, unless
ho mado it to tho birds; because, although
tho bulk of his body camo
down all right in a ti*ce-top, in an adjoining
county, tho rest of him was
opportioned around among four townships,
and so thoy had to hold five inquests
on him to find out whethor ho
wni r1rn.fl nv nnt. ntwl lintv it. nrroii-rnH
You ncvor saw a boy bo scattered.
Thus perished tlio good littlo boy
who did tho best ho could but could
not como out according to his books.
Every boy who over did as ho did
pi-ospcrcd, oxccpt him. Ilia caso is
truly remarkable. It will probably
never bo accounted for.
^ ^
Couht is Over??On Saturday
torminatod ono of tho most trying
and disgracoful visitations that a rcspeetablo
community has ever been
called upon to endure. An infliction,
tho contemplation of which was never
entertained, and tho reality of
which wo Bupposo could scarcely have
l\Ann AAttru/t Kir 4 K A irr\ An f nn/lnrtt
UUUU I/UIIVWIVVU VJ, Kfjf l/UV tUWO V UiUVllb
and thorongh rcconstructionist of all
tho now regime. iNino days of tho
twelvo occnpicci in tho session wero
consumed in tho murder case, a caao
unparalleled almost in the annals of
murder, tho murder, of an inoffensive,
harmless old man, brutally struck
down in tho dead of night whilo on
his round of duty as watchman at the
No\yberry depot, and .whoso body was
thrown oat to become'a foast of ravenous
hogs. A murder that was ac
kqowledgsd and confessed by two of
tho prisoners, and proven on at least
three of the four, And to-pay. those
criminals stand unconvicted, remanded
to jail on a mis-trial I There
is no safoty fpr life or property, now
that justice is prostituted. The privilege
of challenging tho jury was carried
to extent whjch never before
court, an4 ??
great pain to the community; and a
repetition of whibh, it is hoped, -will
never again he witnessed.?Newberry
Herald. ?;
The Southorn Staple.
From tho timo-when bo good a furmcr
as Cieorgo Washington had o
hundred cows in his yards, and yet
bought bultor for his table, tho South
has ueen a standing illustration of a
system that scorns to bring wealth,
but in fact leads to penurj'. Ten
years ngo, she wont to war, trusting
mainly to tho fact thai sho could do
one thing to perfection?grow Glean,
long staple upland cotton ul a cost oi
less than ten cents a pound. .She had
not then learned that national strength
depends on doing many things well;
she is not in a way to master that
lesson now, though it. has been enforced
with tho lrloomv rliplnrip. nl
j the cannon. She has yet to learn the
! omnipotence of concerted action and
j diversified industry. For instance,
! the last decade has proved conclusivei
Jy ihiit England will put no limit on
j the price she is willing to pay lor a
I certain amount of goo.d American
I upland. Jlcr spindles and looms arc
'all-titled l'or just finch cotton as
I America can grow ; and if she must
' pay a gold dollar lor a. pound of it,
| she will pay the dollar rather than
! dispenro with the cotton. The scan!
ly crops of 1807 and l.SGS reduced
the supply in her factories s<? she has
been willing to give twenty-live cents
a pound, Jiut the 3,000,000 hales of
l.SG'J have gone so far to till the void
that the price has declined, and may
descend to a point at which the production
of cotton hy free labor hccomcs
uuprofitahle. if in January
and February the planters of the
South could have met in convention,
talked these matters over, and agreed
| to plant less cotton, and more ol
! <?L-n < I 1 ?
. iikj \iwui*i iiavi: con!
trolled iho price and held it at twen
! ty-fivo cents and over. As it is, tlx:
old infatuation of one crop, one stylo
of farming, lias crept back upon the
Southern mind, and with it, in many
cases, an exaggerated estimate ol' the
importance of the Southern staple to
the welfare of tho world, instead ol
this being true, the cotton crop, as an
element of national and international
strength, ceases at 2,500,000 bales.
When cotton is cheap, England uses
choice American for both warp and
woofj now she mixes it with the
short and kinky staples of less favored
climates. When cotton is cheap,
it creeps as a dull adulterant into all
our fabrics, it hardens the surface and
chiUs tho warmth of our woolens, il
takes tho gloss from our silks, il
makes our linens limp in texture, il
uiiwo uvuvi ituu muro lasting gOOUt
out of t lio general market, discourag
ing tho wool grower, tho silk worm
foodorandthe llax producer?delaying
tho introduction of ramie and
of mohair as profitable American sta
pies.
All this subtle mischief a greatcroj
of cotton works in tho world, while
tho curao.of one-sided and exhaustcc
tillage rests over all tho cotton fields
Tho planter will float corn a thousanc
miles down Western rivers, and ther
haul it fifty miles over muddy am
narrow roads, that ho may cling witl
a closcr and moro ruinous devotion U
his single staple. Ilis cattloare Bmal
and bony. They pick a scanty living
in tho eanc-brake, ticks worry them
mosquitoes tormont them, and poach
ors kill thom, so ho learns to depend
on Kentucky for his beef. Ilis hogf
aro wild and restless all summer, gain
ing no flesh and but littlo bono. Ilif
;c r? ' ? ? ?
uuin jo iiiouuKjiuii u iui' ma jjiow nurses
and he learns to depend on Cinciunat
for his pork.
Ho needs artisans of all sorts neai
him?wagon-makers, tanners, shoe
niakors, ropo walks, plow-makers and
cotton-wcavcrs. But theso persons
find that, while wages aro a little
higher, food is a good deal dearer
that the roads arc narrow, and dust}
when not muddy; that tho streams
keep all who aro not well mounted
weather-bound for a day after cvci*}
rain; that tho undraincd swamps
brcod myriads of mosquitoes; and
that where tho lands aro rich they
abound in malaria. Arguments like
theso must continuo to drivo tho mochanic
from tho cotton Status, certainly;
while, in addition, he is made
to feel that neither James Watts, nor
George Stoplienson, nor liobcrt Fulton,
if landless, would bo as mueb
honored as the wild owner of a tho*uBand
acres.
"Wo aro awaro that tho South lias
.suffered from tho struggle and starvation
of a long war. Wo admit that
the proclamation and tho surrelidoi
destroyed a vast amount which, b>'
tho constitution, as it then read, was
t T.1 1 - * r* -
rar uo it irom us, wiic
justly prize tlio thrift, tho enterprise,
tho invontlon, and tho.progress of the
Northern character, to draw invidious
distinctions, or fan a scctional prido,
But wo wish to show tho South how
sho is chcatcd by that insane loyalty
to old, tyrannous, and now uncrown'
ed, King Cotton. Sho wants bread
and ho gives her a Htono; she asks o
fish and gets a scorpion. Cotton givet
her gold, but for all important endsol
national nowor that gold is dross. II
buys nothing of that which makef
nations groat and keeps them, so. Il
has littlo power to fell forcstB, to drair
swainpe, to bridgo streams, fill schoo
houses, and change villages into citics
Tho fundamental mischief in thai
sunny, and for tho moat part fertih
land, ia not the negro, nor the Bureau
nor thp bayonet, nor the armv worm
bat a political cconomy. fal$o in it)
first principles and ruinous in iti
working. The Soatb spends so mod
on Actors and shipping merchants
she keeps ort the road such longtrainj
Of wagons; she supports sueh an*ar
my of steamboat, hands aBd sailor
and clerks and brokers an4 insurance
agents?lu short, ab& pays go large i
Bhare of what she earns in origer.fc
get a cKanceta buy what she, wants
that'sn<> miut oontinue to Vmwv,lo^
cabins ana ride in fori d lo -patbp. iWlha
she most needs is a atatesm^, iar-fec
greatness and dtew her fbet fttto it.?
,Jiew York TiiOuni,
s
Gon. Jordan on the Cnban Situation.
General Jordan's intorviow with
Secretary Fish lust woek upon Cuban |
. affairs was altogether pleasant.?
. Though informal, there was a good
i deal of conversation relative to tho re- j
, sources of the insurgents and tho
courso pursued by tho United States j
i government. Gonoral Jordan is to |
; boo tho Secrotary again upon tho sub>
ject. Tho rccont. proclamation of Do
, .Rodns, Captain-Gon oral of Cuba, det"
daring free tho slaves of tho insurgents,
in characterized by General
Jordan as a mcro Lrutum falmev, as
; Iheso very slaves have already been
frr?>il I.olli !i\r lliwi-" m-idlfira niul l>w
... ' ?? "V
their masters and by tho Cuban gov'
eminent. Tho Cubans, according to
i General Jordan, have a very complete
civil government, organized in all its
departments. A coast-guard of Cubans
observes all arrivals and departures,
and none can come in or go out
, without being known. The General
has the fullest faith in the final success
of the Cuban cause, and cites the
fact that no Spanish-American rcvolt,
ed colony has ever been subjugated
by Spain. Tho principal dilliculty is
in the matter of arms, tho number of
these being very limited. The Uritish
government has, for purposes of its I
own, issued careful instructions to all i
its colonial authorities not to permit
any shipment of arms to the Cubans.
Whenever there arc arms ready to be
supplied to tho Cuban General Jordan
declares that the revolution at
once breaks out. The steamer Upton,
which sailed lately with 'JOO or MOO
! Cubans, has, by this time, received on
the high seas a supply of 5,000 arms
j to be landed on the inland. Many of
! the negroes and Chinese, tfl' whose
I fitrlil litif /i nnli I i<\ j (- ...... 1 I .1.. ?
i -j-mii vi'-.i vjviiviiii juiu;ui
I speaks very highly, are armed solely
, \vil!? Ihc niuchct., a short sword tnan,
ufacturud in Jlarlford, Conn, and
with this weapon they arc very elective
in close combat. There are
, o(?,000 coolies in Cuba, and all are
, ready to embrace the Cuban cause.
in respect to food I hero is no dilliculty.
Tho supply ol' hed' is excellent
and inexhaustible. The hogs are
equal to the host American animal,
| and arc plentiful. There arc also
enough of fowls to make an impor,
tant elements of food. Tho insurgents
are destitute of codec, the plantations
being all in the western part
j of tho island. General Jordan says
[ tho destruction of property in the
theatre of war has already been very
' great. Many plantations have been
totally destroyed. ' Tho revenuo of
J. tho Spanish government in carrying
on the war is derived from tho sugar
, and colfeo plantations, which aro
worked by slaves against their own
I will, and often against that of their
masters. Spanish garrisons. ar? ..cmlilnvo/l
rrn n v/1 otirl AnfnwnA ^"
|/.VJ wv? WW gliuiu UIIU VXUUltig lUiO Itt"
bor of the slaves, thus used to dofeat
theirown emancipation. Among the
various Spanish goncrals and Officials,
General Jordan regards Valmascda as
must the ablest, though tho most
cruel and ferocious, of them all. According
to General Jordan the late
winter campaign, on which Spain expended
so much money and resources,
resulted in a total loss to tho Cubans
of ono or two hundred men. As for
tho surrenders of which so much is
said by the Havanna prosB, General
Jordan says they are all bosh ; that
there aro no capitulations by persons
of influenco or valuo to the Cuban
cause, and that thoso porsona who
talco tho amnesty are persons living
under tho immediato control of a
Spanish fort, and too pooi' and holp.
loss to re mo vo. General Jordon gives
a very gloomy picturo of tho atroci
I tics practised upon prisoners.? Wash.
j Cor. World?
j WALKING ERECT.
| "Walking ercctly not only adds to
[ the manliness of appoarance, but devolopcs
the chcst and promotes tlio
i general health in a high degree, bo^
cause tho lungs, being relievod of the
prcsKuro mado by having tho head
1 downward and bonding the chcst in,
" admit tho air freely and fully down
" to their very bottom. If an effort of
I ii.~ ?:?.i i , -
tuu iiiiuu is inuuo lo in row uic
shoulders back, a feeling of tiredness
and awkwardness is soon experienced,
or it is forgotten. Tho nso of braces
to hold up tho body is necessarily
pornicious, for thoro can be no braces
which do not pross upon somo part of
tho person moro than is? qui to natural;
hcnco it cannot fail to impedo injuriously
tho circulation of that part.
But were tliero nono of these objections,
tho braco would adapt itsolf to
tho bodily position, liko a hut, or shoo,
or now garinont, aud. would ceaso to
bo a bracc. (
Ta seek to maintain an crcct poeitioo,
or to recovcr it when lost; in a
manner which is at onco natural,
easy and ofilcient, it is onlv necessary
to walk habitually with tho cyos
1 fixed on an object ahead, a little hfghk
cr.than your own, tho eve of a house,
' tho top of a man's liat, or simply
^ keep your chin abovo a horizontal
' lino, or, it will answer to walk with
| your hands behind you; if cither of
' theso things is done, the necessary,
1 easy and legitimate effect is to relieve
' tho chest from pressure, the air gets
a in moro easily, develops it more fully,
and permeates the lungs moro. e*teny
sively, causing a more perfcct purifij
r cation, of tho Dlood, imparting a high?
er health, more color to tho ch$A/
J and compelling a throwing out jaflHe
3 toes.. To derive the. highcft]b^6itiefllj
1 from walking, hold up the&eag, k;c$p
>. tho mouth shut and move
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? "A Treatise uport tho Chtfctiati
, and contains nikygrtvT)bicaI i(k6k5h 61
I tho authors ffie ^nptamtioft- > oftttti
t work
1 dwoiiid^sl^'w raa^yh6ng^n-u
-Tright wKit* tfcsfWthbr urKMfttfrocally
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SCRAPS.
Gen. R. E. Loo, has rcachcd l is
hoiuo ivt Lexington, Va., fVotn 1 .;
visit South, much improved in Ucullii.
Bishop Simpson will Icavo Amnv .
on Juno 8th, to proside over tho <Jv;
man and Switzerland Contcreiu ,
which meets on Sunn lGth.
A newly invented cotton gin in fr .
Louis is Baid to diftpcuso with t!,v
hand labor of picking cotton
tho bolls.
A Southern paper announcos tb. ,
the editor ia fortified against siui!
liil.cH. Sfimn nnn 1... i.: i...
? uuo OV;il Li liilli a UfcU
rol of whiskey.
Mrs. Stovcns mado tho astoundir.
dcelnnition, ut u recent women's} sr.'frage
meeting in San Francisco, th. .
"women could not bccorae men il' th y
tried."
.Surveying parties arc busily engr. ed
laying of tho ronto of the propo
ed National Itailroad from Phiiu'Je.
phia to Now York, in opposition
IheCanidcn and Amboy.
Tho Palalka (Pla.) Herald is cru'ii
Lably informed that thero is a ma',
j living in Orango County who men .
| arcs nine feet and six inches in height
I and otherwise proportionately large
In Cincinnati, 1>. P. Hodman, Jr.,
has obtained :i veldict for SS,0()0 in
snit against IE. C. Culbertson, for seduction
of his wife.
A young lady being a.-*kcd by a rich
bachelor,' "If not yourself, who woul i
you rather l>eV" replied sweetly a*-:<A
modestly, ''Yours truly."
It appears from recent investigations
that tho Southern Methodist
Church is rapidly losing its colore i
| membership. there boiii" but.
7,000 members this year, aguiust S:.',000
last year.
Tho Mississippians are world U:j
and maneuvering lo negotiate a transfer
oi' Mobile to that Stato, in wliicli
event Pensaeola would be tho seaport,
of Alabama. The (Jovcrnor has sent
a commission lor tho purpose to Alabama.
The Mormon authorities, at Salt
Luke, took forcible possession of tLo
United States Court in that city on
Tuesday, but surrertderod- after a parley
with tho Judj^o and Marshal.
A Mr. Wilson Wallace/ of Mceklcnburg
County, N. C., while .on his
way home from Charlotto, was forced
to dismount ft-om his horse, on account
of sickress, when ho was assailed
by four colored men and robbed
of nearly $-1,000.
General Walker, Superintendent of
tho Census, in his instructions to Assistant
Marshals says thatr no graver
offenso can bo committed by them
than divulging information acquired
in tho discharge of their duties.
The. work of enumeration commences
on the first of June, and intermission
of duty will bo sufficient cauiSe for removal.
The Assembly adopted a pastoral
letter declaring that the obstructions
preventing fellowship with the Northern
Churches wero not created by tho
Southern Church, and they could not
allow tho Southern Church to bo
placcd in a false position. Tho Assembly
adjourns to Huntsville, Alabama.
Mrs. Mary Powell, in her lecturo
on tho Indians, makes a curious statc~
: ?
uiuuii tuiiuviunig uunurui), wiutlll Ul'O
fastened to birch bark and their
limbs kept confined till they are two
years old. "I have socn," she says,
"as many as two hundred of them
togcthor at one time, and no noiso .
came from their lips. They nro healthy
and comfortable, and havo no
need to cr}\ Their arms of courso
aro not confincd, only their bodics^ind
legs." ,
Important railway works is-r Peru
aro progressing most favorably. Moro
than forty miles of road aroj ironed
betwoen Molondo and Arequipj^ and
nn connJ distnnnn is fnn 4.?;ia
Scvcntoon locomotivos and Boveral
hundred cars aroin daily motktti 'on
tho road, and by tho first of July? it is
cxpectod. that tho first train*, jyill
reach Arequipa from tho coast, $pd
prosago tho prosperity of that liith-,
erto unfortunate city.
K >
r A firo occurred at Codar Kcj^s, Fla,,
on tho 20th, which caused considerable'
loss. Tho fire originated On
4V,? ? . T_.-S_C ?''1
uvi.iu viiu Diumiici' uuuiauur^ wuuu
discharging freight at tho. wharf of
tho Florida Company. The . wharf
and tho shed of tho Company <w.er?
cntiroly destroyed, with about* ono
hundred and sixty bales^sea. island
cotton, four carloads of goods,tbirtyfive
tioroes lard and ibrty barrelsflou^ > .
mostly covered by insurance, ti
The Tier ah?* now^'telegrams from
China forwarded by \?ay of Boipbay,
India, and through tiie Atlantic pablo
from England, gjTf^^ost; jflatfejrlng .
and cheerfttf acoflitrnts of ib^ prospect
of the tea and silk, crpps ;ln ; ?he, cm,- ,
pire. ^ TbiH*'glorious news for thqIadloS/
^t may bavotbe.offect of revolutwbi?ipg''
tl?0 aspect o?, the JW9- .
^&jnjt^^tsj^
I - ,wK?k ICwaia',;'.Writ08'/abonit tih.a
mw. > Orftne : 'insanity,". <asi< follows ? Intortity
osriai'nfr *m? toindroasa
. fin tipjworia,??ad Jmese'iB Mtgioafc* ':
irktavA OM foAil/Murar-AnV wnrrtArAta^.. i
jbOna*wortlr mentioning1, atanV into.
OETannsrh^tfi yoUkiU6d *>iisan,itwaa
po?fuWa tbat yoit .w??# itfisano^-b^t
now3ci? a mao it U evideaoe
, tbiU.yoa,?r<v,alafa*ija.bIn the^e daysv
flwiuy w4
^ high ?ntfrbt a tending ntwln anything,
Iboy oatt ;|fcukkj^WMaoum> apd 'mml
' JkiSMO ttw IlmlM 4#lum. : Jtfpom
I*M JA kigk tamdtog*; saBftpder* Ms
' fortune id dlaipaAio*, iMtdbaes his^
' 6arMrc?Hih ctsr3nf3toia? tor/a- bullet^,
twapokw^abWratJbu" ia- what w^
7 ike tronblo.witb Mm* ? i'.i i.*ui?-[ y ;'.u\:
!<; ' .cm.l