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% % THE ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. BY W; A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C? FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1870. VOLUME XVIII?NO. 10. MEASURING THE BABY. BY EMMA ALtCS BR0TCSK. , Wo measured the riotous baby Against tbc; cottage wall? A lily grew at the threshold, And tbe boy wnsjustaa tall. A royal tiger lily, With spots of purple and gold, And a heart like a jeweled cl.alice, The fragrant dew to bold. Without the blot-birds whistled High np in the old roof-trees, Zn?l to and fro at the window The red rose rocked her b^es; And the wee, pink fists of the baby Wert nerer a moment still, Snatching at shine and shadow That danc?d on the lattice still I His eyes wferc wide as b'uebolls? ' ilis mouth like a flower unblown? ' Two little bare feet, like funny white mice, ( Peeped out from his snowy gown ; And we thought, with a thrihof rupture That yet had a t^uch of pain, %Vhen June rolls around with her rqpes, We'll measure the boy again. Ah me! in a darkened chamber. With the sunshine shut away,* j Through tears that fell like a bitter raiir, "We measured the boy to day ; . And tho little bare feet, that were dimpled . And sweet as a budding rose. ' <Lav side by side together," I In ihe hush of a long repose! i Up from the dainty pillow, ? j White ns the riding dawn, . Tlie fxirlittle face lay smiling, Witli.the light of heaven thereon? And the dear little hands like rose leaves t Dropped from ?? rose, lay still, #, Kover lo snateh at the sunshins k That crept at a shrouded silll ; . We rafasnred tbo sleeping baby With|;'ibbons as while as snow, 0 tor tho shilling rosewood casket b That waited hira below 5 And out of tne darkened chamber Wo'wcnt with a childless moan?* To the bight of the tiules* angels 81 Our little one had grown 1 f; Hearth and Iloine. E tl TRUMPED BY A TIGER. ? ' ' * 6l "My dear Bverslcj-, wliat in the si \vorld have you been doing -with your-self all. .this morning?" cried Fred g lSfl.n/1 ilfltlH Pen 0 r>.??Mva>tv?iiMj A uoiviun u uuiicctur UI IL. B. il's. province of "Wellesley and t( Pcnang, as his friend sauntered slow- I iy into the breakfast room; a long a iow apartment., as the fashion of* bungalow demands, its walls hung with tl untlCrcd stags' -heads and huge buffa- a; lo horns, stands of rifles, guns, rods, u And all the eqnipment dear to a sports- ai tnan, while the Chinese mattings on p the floor was scattered with skins of n various animals: deep French lattices 11 opening on two sides upon & qroad ai veranda, shaded by many clusters of tl jessamine and passion . vine. From r< this a step descended on a Eloping lawn, somewhat burnt bjT the heat of r; mn Imlinn Hiin hut. ~ *> ? AKV/UIIIU^ gull 11^ __ till it met the cool waters of the* w strait that separates Pertang from the j0 main land. AcrosB the water?dim { and bluo in the noonday haze?;rose- h, the distant mountains of * Quedab, m while nearer b fringe of betel and co- },, coa palms lined the opposite shore, pj The jungle had been cleared*in the vi- ^ cinity of the house, leavine"scattered a, groups of palms and wild shrubs to Y, relieve the eye with the.ir luxuriance of leaf tlV-i- H " ' * * " * . oxttic, rcaumeu oancuiana, turning * to bis sister, who, seated at the foot of tbe table, had raised the loveliest .' pair of gray eyca in /ill India, as _ Evoraley entered, greeting"him with a cold good morning, bas been more ? than naif inclined to leave yoa to r1 breakfcst alone." lE ' 'I beg your pardon Miss Sandiland, a< but I trust my game bag may recom- r,? mend mo to mercy," Baid Eversley, jc quietly seating himself and beginning ? his breakfast. I "I had no Idea it was so late,, but after a couple of hours' capital sport 8\ smong.the snipes, Banda, the sbikarru, jjV found the tracks of a tierer. Wo fnl. 11 ^ . - O ? 41 lowed them down to the water's edge, where he appears to have crossed back to the main land." J have not heard of one on the 8? Island for the last three years," said " Sandiiand. "Once upon a time we P( used to have them frequently,* but ^ the jungles are two much shot through now-" tt "I would advise you, nevertheless, Miss Sandiiand," replied Eversley, "to a! be careful .how - you extend your ti wmuu unattended ; neighbors of this inscription Are not pleasant." ai "tThank you, Captain Eversley, I c) have no doubt a tiger, would be an' r< unpleasant companion ; but I am not " at all afraid qt meeting one near Soon* h da. May I give you another cup of & tea?"* r ' ? "No." . v <* "Well, then, I will ..leave you and Fred to finish your breakfast and che- cl vyvo wgWMVit M "What's the row1, Jim-, between you find Kate? I thought- yon and'she * were going to get 06 capitally, and bj yet at the end of stxweefc* you both appear more' crnahlngly polite i' &n ?vQr." ' ' v Eyersley was lighting his cheroot b from the jOM stick on the mantle- 11 piece; lie emokedquietljrfbr a win. i ute before he answered:*' "I don't mind telling.yon, Fred, old 1 fellow, though yon know I am not a good bandit confidences. The long c and sho^t of the matter is, that I'm o in lofe witb Ka?, your sister.** ? dtC9 U LI - ^ ? -pmrnu raao to J on. bbe M the pr0ttl6?t and bMt giA'ritt the Presi- i denei<%and y ouknow. Jim there in < no ra*ft ?woald TBthe*; ?*e her marry i lbj? yourself; but I can't see how ] yoar being 1a lore with 4?er . account* . for, the exoeesire. politeness between > yettJ* aod %ndflgn4jpthi? hand afgtttfffltrfhrtjtn&Jtimjqp* ahonMet. 1 . 412 two friends lookedf at-e&ch. other < irwy nia auraia j Iny chance by^lv < iof IpKil oo?l<?oft bcip it, ?nd to 3 the other n Jgt?t whil? w* Wet* emofc frf fajpB frPgfor' iff ifr* '?^rwu 1 tb% came over toe, j Mtlt^dWKk?T* 1,07 i "1W' ' %'\ * ' '" V ^ <? "By ^ovot but you have queer ideas of your own about lovo making, mastorJlfn. Do you supposo a wo mrtn is going to accept you bcca?ac you suddenly discover you arc in love with her, and blurt out a.proposal like aiannp shot at a jungle-fowl ? My dear bov, half their fun is in discovering we lovo them ; now I don't believe Kato has a bit of nonsense about llOT fttlll VA11 ttTAn'f 4*vwl n?*? I ?? j vtt u vu w uuu an y 'W VJUlllIi willing to givo tip tho prescriptive rights of her sex ; her love raust bo sought not demanded. But what did Bho say?" "She made a mosl dignified courtesy, and thanked mo in the iciest of tones;- but was afraid that she would find too dangerous rivals in tiger Bhooting and pig sticking, to venture to entertain my proposal. I blundered ont that I would givo up ovcry thing"? "The deuce you did I That is better." "But she quietly put a stop to it all, ind, wishing mo good niglit, swept nto tho house, leaving mo more iu n tho dark than ever." Sandiland broke into a laugh, "My lear Jim, 1 don't think your case lopolcss, if you only mauage it righty,, Let mo givo you some advice. "Thank you, Fred, all the samo as f I took it; but I rat her not. I know Ittle about women, but I know this, uui u Jt cannot mako your sister lovo no as I am, I wont under false preences. I lovo her well enough to jive np my own tastes and habits, iut I can't go moaning about liko a ysncptic terrier." "1 daro say you arc right, Jim; n.yhow, you know you havo my est wishes for .your bugc'css." "Well, I must bo off, and write omo letters; but do try and pcrtiado your sister not to vonturo too ir from tho bungalow. I havo told tanda to keep a look-out for. tho racks of that tiger. He swears the rute has swam back, and may not c seen again for months; but still, lie should not expose herself her Dir." " Banda is right. Thoro is no daner now, but why don't you ask Kato ourself? But I must bo off into >wn, and thero come tho horses. >innor at half-past seven, remember, nd I shall not see you boforc." Eversley went- with his friend .to" 10 veranda, and watched him mount nd ride away, followed by his syce, ntil their white garments wero lost raid the dark green shadows of the alms, and turning with a half repressed 6igh, .re-entered tho house, [e walked moodily once or twice up nd down the long room, and then irew himself upon a lounge,, where smained buried in thought. "Fred is wrong," ho said, at laBt, sing restlessly; "X have no chance our tastes are too different. And I as a fool to think she could ever ve a follow like rac, who, at tho ist, was never-half good enough for jr.. It is sheer folly for me to reain here any longer, eating my 3art away by dreaming of that hapness I never could nevm* hncn ho mail steamer ?oes to-morrow, id, by Jove, I'll go in her!" and he alkcd impetuously from the room. Two minutes "later a lovely faco cered through tho folds of the heavy irtain that separated the music )om-an alcove that could only d entered from the larger apartment -and Kate Sandiland, her face Btrugling between blushes and laughter, tld Vfit With tlift ono?*.<i!nn - * j f. a *>M ?UV OUOJJIUlUll Ul U tCUI' i the sweet gray eyes, fled lightly jross the soft matting, and sought ifuge in her own pretty morning>om, wheje she eat for an liouf, sintly gazing over the rich bluo of ie strait, heedless of* the flashing itter of the sun upon the water, the limmcr of tho leaves in the distant xlna groves, or tie wild chorus of ie native boatmen as they palled letr cargoes of^jocoa-nuts and planlins past toward Penang. At last a bright sinile lit up the vect, firm outlines of her mouth, and sing, she drew down, with an iraJrative motion, tho dark Tanfitinn nf. ig windows. Eversley closed his last letter,'and irew it upon the table. ' I havo only, to say good-by now 3d then another leaf in my life is irned." lie stood for a moment with his rmts reatipg upon the back of his iair, while memory poirreda flood of ^collections npon his mind?Kate, loir rides, their walks, the . echo of er. sougs, the flatter of her dress mid the-jessamines, her happy laugh -all came back to him /with such latin ctness. ' Pshaw I HaHoo there!" he exlaimed, going to the door. "Chitty, ill Banda 1 want him. ."Banda,w he said, when the hikar iu appeared, ' boa the aco-breeto prong up ? "Yes, sabib, it j^cool now."' "Welt, then, get my gun, and wo rill have another tarn -among the nip*. By-the-way, dW ycru flnd any nore signs of the tiger this moling?" *, . ... ' . "No, sabib; be has gone back to ib own Jungle," "Well, bring Grouse -with yon; the ildi dbg Is the steadiest retrieVer?. uid meet .me in -a qn*rter of an - boor m the front, Veranda." A* Bveraley appeared where Band ft, vas already waiting for him, , he. ;anght the last glimptfe of a dj^sa Reappearing down one of the iu^ve >aths. 'A ?iK**P?? Who is that, Bandft fi "Miseee Kife nMhJV _ ^Evcrsley^UKJu^hfc^ for ifm? to thtt ridkaem.'?H?s suatk W? m*y eomt IKW^MM pttV h? .Mid c u?4f tdUftg Ap 55 AnboprA.dAhittwaii^.V arorklog up the edged?;'* mild from Soond*; ind M?f ?*d beep kept iraey, wk?n &' stAp* rt>* tome <fct*nc? ofc ftpg dtft, H' i . < . * , Evoraloy brought it down; bat .the bird towered ana pitohod dead a hun' drcd yards fhrthor on tho odgo of n i trip of jungle. Tho old dog was sent to rotriovo it. As they drow near tho spot, and were feathering eagerly along tho brush, the dog, with a yelp and a growl, camo racing back to his master, his tail botween his legs, and ovcry hair on his back erect aud quivering with j rage and fear. "What's up now, Grouse?" said, 1 7?" 1 -- ?:.i. _ l ?- - ,JU? V7i?3i;i<y, Willi u lUUga, ""UO 00, Ola dog. Seek dead." fiat the dog refused to move, rcply. ing wit a doep growl, and gazing intently at the junglo. Evcrsloy walked to tho spot, with the view of recovering tho bird and ascertaining the? object of Grouse's terror. Something on tho ground at tracted his attention. Stooping, lie examined it intentlj', and, then rising called to tho ehikarru: 'Banda, no wonder poor gronso is in such a funk. Kere'aro tho tracks of our friend tho tiger, and not half an hour old, and Good God, Miss Sandiland is out and alone 1" ' T Evorsley was a man of great coo ness and and nerve, but for a raotnen a terrible feeling of fear camo over him. But for a momonfc onlv next, ho was again the mat) jt and decided action. "Draw the charges from jUn, Banda, and load with ball: tnen follow up the track; I am going to ! search for Nfiss SandilUnd." And, seizing the rifle from the sliik- ( arro's hand, he struck across the low 1 jungle toward the path taken by Kate ] crashing through the, tall grass and brush at a pace that would havo distanced any but a sportsman. M Sandiland pursued her way toward a spot, the frequent termination of her evening walks. Onco a mere bridle-track, occasionally used by coolio. fisherman, her brother at ber wish, had carried it to bo opened and enlarged. To-day lost in thought, 1 she had followod it carelessly, until c she found herself upon the gray sandy ] hnnoli nf tho oti-oit ' The sun was setting behind the f bluo line of mountains, and the water I blazed with vivid streaks of red: the s sky, broken into heavy masses of 1 clouds, which was glorious in gold and t purple, and 'all the wonderful blessings t of an Indian sansot. j Kate stood for a while watching f wiCh eager eyes the rapid tranaforma- f lions of shape and color; and then, t tempted by the smothe sand, strolled r along the beach, and Beated herself t upon"a low hedge of rock. She sat long,"absorbed by the. sun- r set and her thoughts, interwetiving f the rich hues of the ono with the va- i rying lights and shadows of the other, \ until the polling clouds warned her \ that it was time to return. I Hut as she rose from her seat, her \ eves grew suddenly glazed and fixed ; 1 the rounded, graceful lines of the fair j form appcarou to Stiffen into marble, r and she s.ood breathless, almost life- t less with terror, half-blinded with tho <] horror of her first glance. She rath- ] or felt than saw that Bhe stood face \ tO fllCQ with n <ir?nf I r - ? "t)""" V Crouching, motionless, upon the I edge of the jungle, not thirty yards ] from whero she stood, "with its bag- l gard, cowardly eyes glaring at her, c lav the gaunt form of the huge beast. \ Flashing thrpugh the girl's brain a came a score of mad, wild impulses, c with lightning like rapidity. Cut she r remembered?she had heard Eversley \ say,.and tho pain at,her heart grew t greater as sho thought of him?that a the only chance of safety was to face t with u steady eye, the treacherous y brute before her. Her ereR hud linnn u fastened upou it with a helpless sort ft of fascination; but now she roused B herself to fix them sternly on the f fierce great orbs: that thrilled her with j their cruel glare. \ \ Her courage rose and sank as hope t and fear alternated; but at last even .( liei'brave ntjture began to fail. She ( felt that her breath carae in long, gasp- a ing sobs'; the li?ht began to Dade a from her eyes; the dreadful form of t the tiger grew dim and indistinct, and c she knew that she was fainting, y With a last effort she roused herself l an*d cried; ' t "Eversley, Eversley! whv are you not there r t "My brave darling, I am here J". t Ana a dark form swept rapidly t past and stood between her ana her ( terrible foe. " t Kate recovered her senses in an in- t stant, andthe scene before her was c never forgotten. The tiger, roused . by the presence of a new antagonist, ] was still croutching with its head be- ] tween its enurmoas: paws, bat the lon? striped back was arched , for a [ spnug, and tho long, lithe tail^ swept j in angry curves from side to side, its y eyes sparkled red with rage, and a f savage snarl that made Kate's blood , ran cold- came from th# wrinkled, -j grinning laws. ; ' , \ Eversley.no rjew hand at tiger , shooting, and, next to "Tiger Bice/' ,i the keenest eye and steadiest hand ; on trigger in India, Btood like a rock, i for what to poor - Kate seemed an 1 eternity, Jthough but a. few swift sec- ; onds, Bntr as he drew the trigger, j-.j tno tiger moved it# J>ea4 with ft Blight. ; nbwara motion, and the ball, imaging the brata buried iteelf }a the ma?-. i eive cheet iyitb a growl that filled 1 the air like thunder, the Ivgh -brute shot fbrirard.'./Bate eloftbd for ey?V bat, tbre.efcoond fc&rwliiaddoae it# : dn^/Graebing thronshiibo-UwnY ^u?tieafl?flSj82CS5^>4 ifr4tm | l" tamed : i v' ' >? - -o.. 4?r^r ti?% v# + presently, with toars still trem on their lashes. "I do indeed thank God, dei and doubly that I am Baved by Fred Sandiland rang tho bell i tiently. "Send Miss Sandiland's maid t< her that dinner is on tho fctablo. whoro is Captain Eversloy ?" ' Evereley, sahib, walk on voi with ^Miesco Kate," i-eplicd Cl with a salaam. Sandiland walked wrathfully a tho room and threw tho glass open. "Ivate, I'm astonished!"?bu stopped short, with a whistle. Ivato roso with a lovely blush throwing her arms round" his ] whispered as she kissed him : "Jim will tell you all about it, Fred." "Jim, indeed !*' exclaimed her b er, sarcastily as sho vanished. "What does it all mean, Ever: I thought 1 knew something i young women, but this is a phase." Everfiley told his story, and to again, later, as they sat together dinner beneath tho jessamines, Sandiland laughed lightly to coi his deeper emotion. "I can't thank you, .my dear fellow; I'll leave Ivato to do that Baid ; and then went on^p his sis great indignation: "bufbelieve Evcrsley, the tignr was the best tr j'ou ever played." And, putting his hands in his p ets, ho strolled down to the bead finish his cheroot, while Kate Sj land paid her debt of;thanks. DICKENS. Reminiscences of the Great Nova [From the Cincinnati Commercial.] To his great abilities as a deli ;or of character, Charles Dickens ;d the power of impersonating Ho had all the natural qualities lrstrate actor, and had he taken essionally to the stago would pr >ly have achieved an unparnll ;ucces3 ^either in tragedy or com fet Mr. Dickens must liavo f hrnilflfh n onrrnwA n/vi.M/1/% ? * 5 ? ?. uuiv/iv Will DU U1 BLUUy raining befora 'venturing before )ublie as a roader of his own sto or it is related io us by a gentle amiliar with the incident, that h< ributed the failure of his first pri ehearsal to the defects of his rea< ather than the defeots of his stoi As tho incident has never 1 nade public, and is known to ^ ew now living, it will not be witl nterest at this time. It was in -ember, 1856, we believe, but cai rouch for tho accuracy of tho c hat Mr. Dickens gave his first rate reading, in tho presence of a iterary friends. Tho reading 1 ilaco at tho houso of Mr. lleyn< tow a banker in Australia, but at irue living in Wympole street, ] Ion. Among those present t Hark Lemon, lately deceased, rell-known editor of "Pimnk /hapman, of the firm of Chapmt lull, Mr. Dickons' first publislW, dr. Hunt, a journalist Of local < >rity. Mr. Dickens had chosen f his "Christmas Carols," the vhich of them we are unable to ,nd procoeded to read it. At the lusion of tRe reading, Mr. Leu ising and advancing towards Dicl eith the remark. "This is horr >ad," seized the manuscript from uthor's hands, and was about hrow it in the fire, when he wfis ested by the remark of Dick but it is really good; the faalts a the reading," and thus one of. lost riOnillftr nf t.lio fn-nnln -rrroa o. rom destruction. A few days a )ickens was entertained at K porth, in Hertfordshire'(Bolwer J on's coanty-seat), and again read tarol. Bulwer did' not like it, Charles Lever, the novelist, Vho .mong the party, was charmed bj ,nd it was owing to his very fav tie opinion of it, thatJDickeng wai ouraged to venture its publicat Phe event showed that Lever wi letter judge of its merits than the hor of the "Last Days of Pomppi Of Dickens' first venture in lit ure, wo are told that when q rnnnrr Ka 4a r> 1 "V *V4 TMIUUU IV AJl* liX he editor of tho London Mori Chronicle, a series of sketches, w vhile thoy displayed; extraordir alent, also manifested the immatu >f tlit writer. Dr. Block decline ipblished a kindly and encourag etter, concluding with a request Dickens should call-and see I rhis he did, and was- first empl< >n the papor to report the proc ngs of police courts, whfch ho vith sucn graphic power that bb 1 band a more favorable and re trie itive employment on.' the Chroi i favorite of the Doctor's, he bee ntimate in bjs family, and fit married Hiss Bloek, nis first 1 Charles Dickens, Jr., the issue Of marriage, died, we believe, abou ?- i-ti'? *- - y DUld ?EVrIU V4WVUIUI, wiiera OB practicing as barrlster-at-law. Dickers'. second wife; from whoj gubaeauently separated, was V . Hog&rfh, daughter, ^qf Jfr. JTog Preeident-of the London Philhkr io Society, and author _ofs a got book of sketches. of the, opera, the causes of the Mto4ra"tIoi>v -to not promote to 'speak it this 1 and it Wfll-ba belter for oU cbttoo If tfeft d#erl? allowed to rents tbd obscurity to vUgh it im hatebw??c^fn?d oy H rtffv/w|nupi ?wMu nfmBW jfaraw&d$,foggy tntirxfoi*, *w Tnorttant.v .c jtr-wm * *? i . rmb'AiiP- tiv ;; >>!'.{ u / bling " 'A likoly somo ono you to oomo into any body'B thoughts in such on urcst, aspect!' ho oxclaimcd. 'Thero, thcrei you. thero I Get to bed poor man, and impa- cease to jabberl' "With that he extinguished his :> tell light, pulled up tho bedclothes around And him, and with anoth^t sigh shut out tho world. And yet thoro aro such . anda uncxplorod romantic nooks in tho unliitty, likeliest men, that even old tindcrous and touchwoody P. J. T. Possibly Cross Jabbered, Thus, at eomo odd times, door in or about seventcon-forty-seven." b ho * * ' - LAGER-BEER. , and rm. _ ? ? - - - ? uwu., iuo namiiacture or tne Ueverage?Its f Chemical Constituents?Its Effects. t dear ^ roth- [From the New York Times.] Thero'is a capital over $100,000,- ? sley ? 000 invested in the manufacture of ibout htgor-beer in this country. Lager- [ new beer, as it is manufactured by tho German brewers, is a fermented bov- ? Id it cage, and consists of tho extract of a after malt (barley germinated by a water-and 'ne> process and then dried in a kiln) nceal hops and water, in which both of , tho first named ingredients arc boiled. , 0i(j It derives its namo from tho custom ?? j10 in Germany of brewing it only in iter's winter and storing it away, or laying . mC) back, that part of it which is destinump C(* to consumed during the summor months, in large cool vaults or ccllars, ? lock- t',? German word lager having tho . h to definition of "stock/' "store" and j mdi- "stand." There are thrco kinds of _ tiro beverage, viz: Winter beer, which is brewed and consumed dur- ^ ing the winter, the lager-beer proper, j( and bock-beer which contains moro j. malt extract than lager-beer,, nnd is ^ [jst. theroforo the strongest of the thi'ce. Tho chemical constituents of lager- a boer are, according to Prof. Justus Von Licbig, tho renowned Gorman ^ nea- chemist, as follows; Alcohol from 2* jj add- 9 to 5 per cent; solid substancos, as fc 5 it. starch-gum, sugar and vegetable al- g( of- a bumen, from 4 to 8per cent; carbonic g| pro- acid fVom 0- 15 to 0. 18 per cont: wa- _ oba- tcr from 88. 5 to 92 per cent. Tho oled proportion -of alcohol contained in it edy. 43 small, as appears from tho above ;one analysis, and in this respect ft widely and differs from distillod liquors. LagerI the hnni**?o a t 1 wwv4 < D|iuituu9 uuvuru^Gj ana is in* ries, toxicatiniaj if taken in excessive qoan- p man tities. According to liiebig's doc- te fr.at- trine It produces in the human body E vate nothing bat fat. Moteschott, the iing well.known Gorman naturalist, says y- that good lager-beer is just as nutri- w jeen tious aa fruits are. Tho hop-bitter h ?ery contained in lager-beer, according to. {\ lout some authorities, imparts to it tonic y No- -properties, which make it an invigor- Bj anot ating beverage. .Lagor-beor, these late, authorities assort, favors tho process ia pri- of digestidn by increasing the quanti- tl few ty of digestivo secretions in the atom u, took ach and strengthens the muscular ac- t,? aids, trvity, when relaxed by sickness or e ' tho long oxerlion. Good lager-bccr is t? Lon- considered by prominent Gorman i, vera physiologists quite as healthful to tho & the human body, as tea and coffee. On g Mr. tho other hand,. hop-bitter has a som- Bl in & nolent effect. It prevents the bevor- i\ and age .from getting sour. Lager-beer ^ iclo- seems to be.altogether a German in w J - IV one vention, and even m-this countrv its ft ingh manufacture is almost exclQsively in- it Bay th3 hands of Germans. I/arge quan- s; con^ tities of it are brewed evory winter, 5] aon> and even, to some extent, during the d, tens summor, in places where there is a ft ibly large German population?for in- \y th0' stancOj in this city, in Newark, N. J., jt t in-Philadelphia, B<imoro, Cincinna- jj ar* ti, St Louis, Chicago, Milwaukoe And ft en8> many smaller places, chiefly at the ^ aro West. The lager-beer brewd and sold ^ th? at Milwaukee, Wis., is considered the ft i^ed 'best and the cheapest in this country n It is the opinion of experienced brow- ^ ers that the quality and taste ofli-ft Lyt- gcr-beer depend to somo degree upon ?h0 J,he water used for it. The sensible a but 'flflrmnnH nf flio <->''' ?nnn??w ?? """ . ? WW VS. vuv VIVA VVUUVfc jr MO rvolM 0( w.as as of this, like those, pf all other na- tj 7"? tioiiB, consider fresh wator the best jj( ora* and healthiest of all drinks. If tboy C1 9 on- inclined to take something stron- C1 :ion. exhausted by hard work e] 18 a or as a matter of social custom, they ~ ii0."* Pr0fep wine to lager-beer. But the ? " wine is more expensivo. As o rule, era- however, th'ey prefer fermented lager[uite boer towhiskey and other distilled Jiock, quors. The quantity of lag6r-beer Kt ^ 9onsumed in'this city is relatively.larbich per than in any other city in the . lary Union, although it cannot be main- J? tained that tho Germans of this. city ? .individually drink, more lager than b ejog the Germans of t)incinnati, St. Louis a that or Chicago. Besides Che home-made ^ beverage, lager-beer manofhetured at P jyed Newark, 3M. J., Philadelphia^ Cincln- * nati, Toledo, Ohio, and other , places 41 dld of this oovntry, and sometimes evdn Sl i00n foreign lagejr-beer imported from Ger- ? maDy, is qr&nk in this city, tioie. I.- c same .. fc . _ ? |5ifJ At last, ttfe ??intervi ewers have i thia found their match. One of these fl t ten P??t8 attempted, the other day, to f t*s? extract material forra sensation ar- f Mr. ticlefroqi the "Big Inguns" lately i nx he in "Washington, out was not re- c Hiss markably successful. The sum of c artb, the information gained from Bed * rndn- Oloud was, that the white man had " P& a few oi the comforts of life y. that 1 f~jg: (EL O.) prefers tae carstOriding 1 rt in an ambulanoe, and that the \ ^2 ?*white m?n is thicker than bUdos j Ml ?a savage foldsd W? rob# wont Jam < i|i? toti^-rlfsott0|l6lp* Here Is & Itfst \ . ^-irpr oor wmtx) &r?Toe vw *tz tfml- * Uplv Urff IjIMA ' '* * * \ <Jwin ; ^' - : v = / ^ -' \ IT I.'. j>fV: " ' . ;-?> >' ^ ? ' T * The Men who Snooped. / Take twenty boys of eixtoon, in oui sity or any city in tho State; 'and le them go to work thrco or four in adr] joods storo, boot and shoo or black smith 'establishments arid print ing officcs. In ten years Uioy wil have to becomo mon of twenty-six *nd the majority of them will bi iftaltf ua a1am/? '?* 1 u t -! ? *vvuv utj (?iu? uiviig 111 mu uuamubB ui ;hey over will bo. Ono or two onlj n each of tho abovo branches as the} )ver will be. . Ono or two only ii Jach of tho abovo branches well es ablished-in business for thotusolvci >r connected with some doing a .gooc >usincss, and tho rost will bo barolj jetting a living "and growling about heir poor success, and that luck ha? jut little, if anything at all, to dc vith it. If wo tako tho trouble to Lscertain tho real facts in their several ases, wo shall find that thoso young non who became masters in their rades, or leading men in their sever,1 pursuits, wcro not afraid to work, .nil wcro determined to succecd. They look beyond tho cloy and rook. .They made themselves valu,blo and useftil to their employers by teing always faithful and roliablo and rilling to do what they could for tho aterest of those for whom they workd. When a press of business camo hoy were willing and ready to work xtra hours, and without sulking and rumbling,, well knowing that busi csb must bo attending to when it. ame, and that thero were plenty of ull times during the year which rould more than ?ounterbalanco any xtra business of tho busy season, 'o sum it all np, these young men lentificd themselves with tho estabshmcnts which they were employed; ecamo useful to their employers, in ict, fixture?, who could be illy spared, na in duo courso of time, having arined experience, were invited to ike a hand with-the already estabshed house, or else boldly striko out >F themselves. Hero then is tho Ics>n, which is, if you wish to becomo jeeessful masters, learn first to bourne faithful servants. A Remarkable "Recommendation." Tho San Francisco Era gives a coy of a peculiar certificate of characsr which one .of its editors gave to meline. It reads as follows: "She has black eyes and black hair. Whenever she comes home from a* alee her eyes are blackor, and she as less hair by throe 01T four bandlls. Pmeline is engaged, and her oung man is the most successful asmilator of butter, and sugar, and lilk that ever emigrated from Ire,nd. He is equal to any demand of lis kind upon his stomach, Emcno has been vaccinatcd, but it didn't \kc. This is the only thing about meline that wo know of that won't ike. SnoonB take, and h?msf.:tr?liArl andkerchiefs take, and she can nail lore pillow eases and forks within a iven time than any other girl of the ime sizo and weight in the laud of le free. Her 'Sunday out' comes vice a week, and she can wash stock igyin the tea-kettle more efficiently lan any living woman. Her way of iking care of a baby is to hold it tip: do down by the leg until it bursts a lood-vosscl! and if she washes win3Ws she never sluices water down on ie pavement unless a man is going y with a new ha't on; then she slings around by the tin-cup full. Emone's moat unpleasant peculiarity is, lat she always blows*the gas odt lien she goes to bed; but it Fa better > encourage this practise, in the hope iat she will suffocate herself some ight. She would be much more offiient as a good, quiot, docile corpse lan as a servant girl." < " ' This was "giving a character*' with vengeance. But the editor reckeni without bis host, > Hei confesses lat this Recommend** must have aen shown to EmelifHPa brother, bexuse the latter has been ''sitting on ur door-step with a discouraging ub for a Week past, and we have one in and out through the alley ate." ; WMttemorefo Rejection. As it is vaguely hinted-that the reiction of B. F. "Whittemore, by the [ouse of ^Representatives, may possilv result in anew election, or the amission of the minority condidate, re think it proper to say that we do ot regard the action of Congress, in bis m after, as any indicatidh that bey wili admit Captain Dunn.to.t)ie eat so properly denied the seller of adetship. ' ^ Whfttemere labors tinder no politial disqualification. Ho jnan accuses iim of."aiding and abetting the rebel* ion," unless his double election, by .a [eluded constituency, fs to be a balm ,nd healing ointment to the wounded eelinn -of JtheBouth. Nor will any me-denv that (Whittemore can iraln lown, without winking, all 'the test isths that were erer invented. - His ase, therefore, Is altogether from that >f Colonel,-? Simpeoil or Mrv.Reed. Choee gebtlemen irer? elected, by ftrgtmajorities over .their Badical op. >onenta, but we're debarred from takngihelrIreatsbyreason of their" di* Xh* net* vrert fcSJiSSt ^eSSSS^S tie ^ U wntoU "> >4* fee boS yij COMMENCEMENT IN DUG WEST. P Examination. t The Examinations in Erskine College, 17 ? and in the Duo West Female College, will - begin on Thursday morning, the 7th, of w - July, 1870, and be continued until tfee af1 ternoon of the following Tuesday. , The following gentlemen have boon re- b' 0 quested by the Faculties of tbe two.Insti3 tulions to attend aa an Examining Com r mittee: Col. J. Norris, Revs. W. P. 8j r Pearson and W. L. Pressly, of Anderson; 1 Wm. A. Giles. Esn.. Rbt. II. T_ Rlonn. - Dr. J. W. Hearst, l)r. A. T. Widemani r; j Dr. John Stuart, W. A. Lee, E?q., Dr. tl I I. Branch, Rev. J. O. Lindsay, of Abber ville; Rev. J. C. Chalmers, of N. C.; i Rev, R. W. Brice, of Chester; Dr. J. L. P1 ? Tamer, Rev. D. G. Phifips, of Georgia. lr | Baccalaureate Sermon. [ The Baccalaureate Sermon will be er . preached on Snbbath, to 10th, by Rev. J. T. W'ghtman, of Charleston, S. C.. Meetiogs of Boards. "j The Board of Trustees of Erikine College, and the Board of Directors of the ~ . Due West Femalo College, will meet a Tuesday, the 12ih, at 2 o'clock p. m. a ' Commencement in Erskine. be Commencement in Erskine College takes place on Wednesday, the 13lh; the exercise*to begin at 10 o'clock a. ro., and closing in the afternoon with an Anniver At pary Oration by Prof. P. F. Pifer, of ha Newberry. Address and Essay. lai Oo Wednesday night, tbo Alumni Ad- bn dress will be delivered by R. It. Heqjp- in hill, E~q , of Abbeville, and the Aluronro , Essay read by Miss Carrie Aoll,*oT Newberry. . y? Commencement in Female College. s0 Commencement in the Due West JTe- i male College . will be 011 Thursday, the 14th-, tho exercises to begin nt 9 J o'clock qq n. m. Anniversary Address, by Wm.-H. Campbell, Esq , of Greenville. Conferring of Degrees, &c, At the close of the exercises in each College, the Baccalaureates, with the con* ferrinc of Derrrfln*. will lw? .tho Graduating Classes by the Presidents an of the respective Institutes. ph A cordial invitation is extended to the bu public; to be present. * " pe Irony and the National Debt. mn ?The Chicago Evening Post says: w-( Del mar can now retire, for a greater thnn Delmar has come. His home . is in the setting sun. His name is $21 robbed of immortally by being -with-- em held?btit ho is "an individual oolong- bli ing in Caliibrnia." He -has solved , the whole finance question, something . . after this fashion: He proposes to the President to pay off the public debt by a grand raffle; one thousand 8tr million tickets, at $5 cacb. to bo dis poacd of aod tvvo thousand million ^ dollai's out of tho five thousand mil- usj lion dollars-to be roturncd to tho sub- im .scribcrs in "giftB." llow easy! |a(j Why didn't somebody think of that before? All that is "necessary is .for . all the men, women^ and children in cal the United States and Territories to of. buy twenty-five tickets apiece at $5 qu a ticket?and whore's the Daby that do can't raise $125 ? ' There is one trifling impediment that occurs to us?but if this California mathematician will* be kind 8ri ebough to bring his gigantic genius riI] to bear upon it for a minnte or two ?01 U J_M1 1 Li ? - " * a win uuuuuuteuiy yaniBn?tnat'ls, that there are only some twelve han- Pri dred million dollars in the whole couri Co try, with which to bny this five thousand million dollars' .worth of tickets, ga This difficulty could be surmounted. r0l however, by selling all the real estate ?farms, cities, lands and buildiqgs? jja between the Atlantic and Pacifio fl0 oceans, which, by the census of 1860, wj was appraised at four th6nsan<jl million dollars.. The alarming-reflection ? is that if all this was put up at auc Gi; tion and sold to the German Jews, at sle forced sale, it wouldn't be likely to ed britJg more than three thousand mil- cot Hons?and this, added to the twelve , hundred millions of bills* and specie, . * urnnM ha aAnva A!r?V?f -1' nvn.U WW BUUJV SIKUII UUUUIOU JXIUKUU . dollars short of the amount needed to ? buy aR the raffle-tickets. The Both- nu childs would own JfeW York, the Bar- . j ing Brothers Chicago, and we Ameri* th< cans could put out and start another coi republic of our own in some unmort- mo gaged land?say in Alaska. On the tic whole?after thinking about it?we are notfcertain lhat the California plan will do; "a \?,, - da< < ? , of Poetry is the morning dream of sh< great minds foreshadowing the fhtute realities of Life: it evokes the phan- ' tasms of all things before the things .da themselves appear; it 1a the prelade to fit thought and tne prechi^Qf of action. -wl Overflowing Intellects, like Ciesar, ?C|cero, Brutuss Bolon, ^nd Plato, begin by imagination and poetry-*-the exu- ' beranoe of mental vigor, ia heroes^ r statesmen, philosophers; and. orators. Sad is his lot who, onoe, at least, in his life, has not been a poet.?Lamartint. ' ' <. ' Or r ;./ ' di Tba-total rcceipts of the govera- ?J mentsinoo it? orgaja!j6atio*i, Mareh* 2 4. Jnnk S/V H iiu u uuu ui?, lyuu, m ? I ? SCRAPS. Bishop Amos is among tho wilJ len of tho Weat, whito and rod. Tho French Emporor is trouble ith gout and rheumatism. A manufactory of castor oil luia ocn established in Galveston, Tcnn. A daughter has joAfe been born to ?e crown Princoss Victoria of Pruaa. A man bit off tho head of a live it on a wager in JUoss eounty,. Ohio, 10 othor day. Drought is severe in tho French ' rovinces, and flour has advanced fivo ancs at Paris. Tho Ecumenical Council voted oi> 10 dogma with tho penalty of anathna against all objectors. Ohio pays $1G,000,000 internal tax, ore than half the aggregate paid by 1 tho Southern States, A "elegant gold mounted set of Iso teeth" is the prize in a raffle at ladies' fair in Toledo. Goncral George B. McClellan has en elcoted President <5f tho AtlaUi and Great Western railroad. Coo, tho lovor-murdcrer of Miss )bie Summers, of Quincv, Illinois, s been captured and lynchod. With-threo thousand citizens, Conbus, Texas, has but one church ilding, and not an ordained minister tho town. There is a copper colored infant a ar old in Cincinnati, whose head is irty-three inches in diameter, pnd and healthy. Ihe editors of the State are to have Convention at the Sapr@mo Court pitol building, Nashville, on Monyt July 11th. Tho Mississippi Lcgislatuvo'has im3cd a tax of fifty cents per bale on .ton raided in that State. General Forrest has nearly" a thousd Irishmen at work on tho Memis and Selma railroad, near Colum8.' A. youth of twenty, at Perryopolis, nn., has settled his board bill by irrying his landlady, a gushing iow. of. seventy. A. man in Detroit who} drew D00 in a gift enterprise was good Dugh. to givo twenty dollars- to the nd man whofcdrew the tickets. rhree murderers escaped from tho I ?"n Wilmington, North -Carolina, ft y or two 6ince. Blankets cut in ips did the business-^ jroorgia has a rival in absurdity to j Fat Men's Association. It is a ipper Club," composed of gentlein who have been rcjecjted by tho lies of thoir choice. A.s the nose is said t<^ be an inditive of genius as any other feature a man's face, somebody asks tho eation, "What great Italian genius esDick Yates' dose remind us of?" fieri, we should say. A. Philadelphia paper: calls on Cone>ss to "utterly- wipe dut the prize\rr. fnr thfi hfinnflf. ?"?f +V.r. 0, ? wv v? v"w . nuviv antry." It would be muoh mono aefieial to the whole country if the ize-ring would- utterly wipe out ngress. < Many of the reforms promised by ldan^ia to the PortugneB hare been ilized. Decrees abolishing tho ftth penafty and court pensions vo appeared, and the right of peti a ana of holding publio meetings 11 be granted in a day or two. ' %. 1 , j Judge Jones, while holding court la cenvillo, North Carolina, went to. dp while on the bench, and distarb* tne lawyers and the gravity of tho irt-room by Bnoring. f The Touncr Men's Christian A<um. tion of Detroit propose building a ck In that city, to cost about one hdred thousand-dollars. ; ' 1 Georgia Judge has had to Request ' > lawyers not to eat jpea-nutg fn his lit, as the noise or cracking and inching disturbs the course of jubrhere are two ?nnoyaneerf that 70 existed, probably frorii the MoonLion of the world, whioh no system laws Soeras adequate to meet? yt weight bread and watered mi1*' It is . recorded of Noam!, the tighter of Enoch, that she was '6 hundred and ninety yeaw old lien the was m&rriea. Courage #wl : . ? : rbert wal b?rar a gcoM to ?>*'? Bat kkm 4*y-~*oo? o^ Asa honatf gander eaae taUWpft,.. , And took Jm* for U* Mw J It is- patent thaij^&r' Congress ill not paisa a j^eufejjMftUHn y > It ire ndt. The times e all that the 3?ofm"WUJ i^hd a embcratid majorfty-to the next 'owe} aiidio *i?ir6f iColijrtV)fcaillty, how&^lofcfce dieted > renonnrfffcolitoerattttoet mem ^ tto laafc 3a?My lo% *?***? of ?xt?su ; * | -"' yk&tti ; ;. ? * . ~ r^lT" ,* ??? .y. ?