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f,B*" ?V. 4. LEE AND Ull(iH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3.1873. " VOLUME XXI?NO.
CUDDYt
I . ,
WE HAVE added all of the new
NETS to our MILLINERY
handsomely trimmed by MRS. MAG
fcs a Milliner is too welMcnown in thi
room will bo under the charge of M
be foarid to exhibit the Stock, as w
at moderate prices.
MILLER & I
April 16) 1873.1-tf
SPECIAL
IF A LADY wants to bay a WD
where, she would do well to go t
WHITE B
and look at their Extensive Stock of
White Piques, Newport Strip
Croquetts, Yosemites
T.omns ond
Mulls, Nansooks, &c., &c.
April 16, 187.% 1-tf
J. B. & W.
WILL BE
NO. 2 GRAN
Are prepared to show to their friends a
Staple Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes aid B
Also a Select Stoc]
la the Dry Goods Line will be fouud,
CALICOES, BLEACH
BROWN SHU
TICKI?
OSNABURGS, and many otli^r thi
In the Grocery I
BACON, FLOUR, MOLASSES,
NEW ORLEANS SYRUP
MACKEREL, 1
RICJ
POWDER AND SHOT, and everythiui
Also a complete Lot of C<
ORANGES; LEMONS,
JELLIES, BRr
SARDINES,
CRACKERS, SHEE
both French and Common.
We have on hands BAGGING and T1
Come one! Coineall!! we think we
Sept. 18, 1372, 53-tf
CARRIAGE MAfINI
"lyOW offer a LARGE and SUPERIC
jL^ price from $140 to $225, with all tli
WAGONS OF ALL SIZES, made by ti
MATERIAL IN THE COUNTRY, anc
They also offer .or sale A LIGHT CRj
LOW FOR CASH.
They keep constantly on hand MET A
NY and WALNUT COFFINS, and oth
. Their hearse with one of the Firm wil
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
WALLER &
MERCH^
GREENYVO
ARE now offering to the public in th
line of all the Goods generally net
THEIR S
. V'1
have been selected with great
READY - MAI
A FINE STOCK OF
A good at
Groceries, Hardware, Cj
To which the attention of purchasers is
WALLEJ
Feb. 19,1873, 45-tf
Board Reduced to $3 Per Day,
Columbia Hotel
COLUMBIA, & C.
THE Proprietor of this well knowr
first class Hotel would respect
ully inform bis many menus ana ui
travelling public generally, that h
hu.H this day reduced his rates o
Board from $4 p?*r day to 63 per day
apd at ih& HQ.DW time pledges himsei
\ fX) Bp are no pjiins in the managemen
of the house to sustain its reputatioi
as a first class hotel in every renpeei
. WM. GORMAN, Proprietor.
. i July 30,1873, 6t
S. D. WILSON, D. D S.
6FFER8 his professional services t
?he citizens of Abbeville and surround
tag country. All work done in firs
class order, and satisfaction guaranteed
OSkec QV4? ttye New Post Office.
,OOlai '-' i 10 ;
DRESS MINE.
shapes and styles of HATS AND BONDEPVRTMENT,
which we have hud
(GlE SASSARD, whose taste and skill
?community to say more. Our salesISS
JANE RAMEY, who will always
ell as make and fit dresses in the best
ROBEDTSON.
,"NOTICE.
[1TE DRESS, before purchasing else0
the store of
ROTHERS
es,
, Striped Victoria,
Organdies, White Grenadines,
1 Dfircoc
?; nvuftiiiwi
FOUND AT
iITE RANGE.
select Stock of Fall Goods, consisting of
oots, Crockery, Groceries & Provisions.
k of Confectioneries.
[ED AND
tTINGS, COTTON PLAIDS,
fGS, KERSEYS, JEANS AND
ngs too numerous to mention.
- ? ?m i?
iiue win uc xuujulu)
, sugar,
l.ard, rio and java coffee,
e, soap, candles, starch, soda,
g in the Grocery line.
mfectioneries, consisting of
bananas, cocoa nuts,
lndy peaces,
oysters,
:t cakes, candies,
[ES, which we will sell low.
can suit you.
1 ANT) REPAIRING.
>R STOCK ot JitUouv.S, ranging in
ie modern improvements in the business.
?e best MACHINISTS, and of the BEST
I after the latest and best styles.
IKE-KECK CARRIAGE, of good style,
LIC BURIAL CASES, and MAHOGAt*rs
of cheaper style.
1 attend all funerals. <
[Nov. 3,1871,28BROTHER,
!lNTS A.T
01), s. c.,
leir uew and handsome building, a full
ided In this community.
TOCK OF
rt s
care, and unusuaJly attractive.
)E CLOTHING.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
ssortment of
rockery, and Glassware.
invited. Give us a call.
I & BROTHER
| Barnwell & Co.
[ I At the New Post Office.
HAVE in store and to arrive,
1,000 BusheJs Corn,
j 10,000 lbs. Bacon,
All grades of Flour,
e Meat and Grist,
Syrups and Molasses,
? Sugar and Coffee,
i Fish, Salt, Nails,
', &c., &c., &c.
f Feb. 16, 1872, 4o-tf
.'NOTICE TO DEBTORS
OF
iB#MA AA Vf VAJI W Wl
ALL persona indebted to the old firm
of BARNWELL &, CO., are earnestly
requested to come forward at
once and Settle their accounts with the
new. firm, who are authorised to receipt
$he same for tfee old firm.
JJarawsli & Co,
t Feb, 20, 1873, 4d-tf
i- Advice to Cigar Smokers.
,lt /*iO TO PENNEY'S to buy your
?y CXGAKS.
I AM DYING.
The following beautiful poem we copy
from the Memphis Bullet.u. It is rarely
we find such contributions in the
columns of a newspaper. It is sweetly,
beautifully sad:
Raise my pillow, husband, dearest?
Faint and fainter comes my breath ;
And these shadows stealing slowly,
Must, I know, be those of death.
Sit down close beside me, darling,
Let me clasp your warm, strong hand,
Yours that ever has sustained me.
To the borders of this land.
For your God and mine?our Father
Then shall ever lead uie on?
While upon a throne eternal,
Bits His loved and holy Sou ;
I've .had visions and been dreaming
O'er the past of joy aud pain,
Year by year I've wandered backward,
'Till I was a child again.
Dreams of girlhood and the moment
When I stood your wife and bride,
How my heart thrilled with Love's triumph,
In that hour of woman's pride.
Dreams of thee and all the earth-chords
Firmly twined about my heart?
Oh! the bitter, burning anguish,
When I first knew that we must part.
It has passed?and God has promised
All thy footsteps to attend!
He that's more than friend or brother,
He'll be with you to the end.
There's no shadow o'er the portals,
Leading to my heavenly home?
Christ has promised life immortal,
And 'tis lie that bids me come.
When life's trials wait around thee,
And its chilling billows swell;
Thou'It thank Heaven that I am spared
then
Tl.o t'lt then feel that 'all is well.*
Bring our boys unto my bedside;
My last blessing let them keepBut
they're sleeping?do not wake them;
They'll learn soon enough to weep.
Tell them often of their mother,
Kiss them for me when they wake;
Lead them gently in life's pathway,
Love them doubly for my sake.
Clasp my hand still closer, darling,
This, the last night of my life,
For to-morrow I shall never*
Answer when you <tall me "wife.'
Fare thee well, my noble husband,
Faint not'neatn the chast'ning rod:
Throw your strong arm 'round oui
children;
Ktep them close to thee and God.
ADDRESS
At the Laying of the Corner-Stone of
the New College Building of the Wil
liamston Female College, on the 27th
August, 1873, by W. Christie Benet,
President of Cokesbury Female College.
We have had the pleasure of examining
the manuscript of this
able and eloquent address, which
fully sustains the reputation of the
author as a gentleman of fine tal- 1
i I. l 1 .1
ents ana scnoiarsmp, auu regrei
that we can find room only for the ,
conclusion, in which he discusser
the popular fallacies which prove
to be obstacles in the way of female
eJucatioii:
1. One fallacy is a too limited
conception of woman's capacity tor
acquiring a literary education. Is ]
there one man in a hundied that ,
does woman justice in his estimate |
of her mental parts? Ladies, it ,
behooves us of the sterner sex all (
to cry, "Peccavimus, peccavimus/" (
and to crave forgiveness; and surely
you will readily grant it, for thr {
truth must be told that woman has \
not done herself justice either, and ,
man has valued woman . in this .
respect by just that standard of ,
value put upou woman by herself. ,
The generally received opinion?if ]
not actually expressed,-at least-vir- .
tually acquiesced in?is that woman's (
intellectual powers are inferior to
those ot man. Such an opinion \
rimrht have been admirable seventv 1
?0? - 4 # V .
years ago, but m view of what wo- j
man has done in that interval, j
without having entered the courtB |
of a University, and in spite of un- |
ceasing and bitter opposition, he iB ,
a bold mau who would dare to en- ,
endorse such an opinion now;?not ,
a bold man?rather let me call him (
bv his proper name, an ignoramus, j
There is no tield in the world of ,
literature, science, and art, in which '
weman's fair hand has not labored
and gathered goodly fruit; nay,
more, she has beautified and improved
uot a few of these fields.
In letter-writing, woman has proved
herselt the superior of man. In
poetry, in song, and in drama, woman
has left shining proofs that
not on manly shoulders only does
the mantle of the muses fall. In
history and travels woman has
earned a distinguished place. When
Sir Samuel Baker dared the dangers
of the African desert and jun
gle his faithful wife went with him.
Among writers on divinity, too,
Mrs. Hannah More occupies an
honorable rank, while the name is
legion of those pious women who
have gone to distant lands as missionaries.
Even the giddy heights
and abysmal depths of science have
been gauged by woman, and only
a few months ago a lady died leaving
behind her few men that were
her equals in astronomy. Then
every one knows that the field of
fiction has as many female laborers
as male. And the laurel that universal
consent placed on the brow j
of Sir Walter Scott was never in
danger being removed until a
George Elliott showed that she, too,
was among the prophets. Surely,
if woman has done so much in
! spite of all her educational disadvantages,
we should see greater
thiugs than these, were we to give
her the same facilities so plentifully
afforded to' man. We believe woman
to be of the same flesh and
blood as ourselves; let us, with a
good grace, and before we be forced
to do it, let us acknowledge that
she is of the same brain and mental
i force,
2. Another fallacy is our conception
of what constitutes a liberal
education for a woman. Are not
the daughters of the civilized world
brought up more to be ornaments
in society than than to be powers
therein ? Hence the preponderance
in female education of the merely
ornamental, to the exclusion of the
more substantial. It is expected ot
every young lady that she should
perform music creditably on the
piano or guitar, but whether or not
she is well versed in the Jiterature
of her own language, few care to
inquire. Who ever heard of a well
selected library formingpart of the
trousseau of a bride ? We do not
say that sound learning would mar
the marriage prospects of a young
lady, but have we any more right
to say that it would be an attraction
in the eyes of young men.
Examine for yourselves the full
extent of meaning convened by the
phrase, "an accomplished lady/'
and you will confess that limited,
flimsy, and unsubstantial, indeed,j
is the curriculum thought sufficient!
,'">i 10 O f ll? !
1W1 IVUIUilll. VUllllg lllb won IV"
years, however, a reaction has set
in?a strong desire has been growingstill
stronger, that woman should
learn everything, should traverse
the whole field of learning, and
schools and seminaries publish in
iheir yearly circulars an appalling
roll of studies.
"The languges?especially the dead, j
TJtie sciences?and most of all the
.abstruse,
The .arts?at least all such as could be
&ud
To.be the xnost remote from common
<uee."
The array of studies is enough to
make the stoutest tremble. One is
almost forced to believe that we are !
-* /> A n.Mf Af /1AH1. I
I bVUlBLUg LUC V^llIJl^OU III L \Jl V,VI*Ipressing
ladies' feet, applying the
pressure to the brain. Of the two
systems now in vogue?the too
limited and the too comprehensive
?it is hard to say which is the
worse. Iu the former, to know
one thing completely, pupils must
remnin wholly ignorant of all the
rest; in the latter, the pupils get a
smattering of Everything, and end
by knowing nothing jvell. The safe
middle-way is to combine a minute
knowledge of a few things with a
general knowledge of many things.
3. And this brings us to the third
fallacy?that of supposing that a
girl's education completed at an
when her brother is just entering
the university. The too prevalent
nustom of exposing girls to a hothouse,
training and pushing them
an to premature young-ladyhood, is
one of the greatest obstacles in the
way of good female education. At
the age when her brother is con
A., si I V a /tnl I A/1 a XPhaaU rA.iM n
iunleu lu uc cancu a x' i csuiuaij, a
Ljirl is supposed to able to scale the
cliffs of science and dive into the
depths of philosophy. The education
of woman will^iever be thorough
until as long time is afforded
them tor the compietingtheircourse
studies as is allowed to men.
4. The next" popular fallacy I
shall refer to is one which happily
is not so wide-spread as it formerly
ivas. I refer to the idea that once
ivas the ruling one?that large
jchoola might do for boys, but girls
must be taught in small schools.
[11 Britain, and Europe generally.it
the present time, girls aro educated
at select schools and private
boarding houses, and America has|
taken the lead in their reform at
[east. And a great' reform it is,
for be assured that, important as it
I* ^nnnl^nra if ia nf no
lb IU 11I1U gUUU LUUVU^lOj *V AO V* UV |
less importance to find gobd school-1
fellows. I doubt if the best ofi
teachers be able to make a really
?ood school without having a large
number of scholars. The number
of pupils at a school ought always
to be large enough to allow tne
growth of a healthy public opinion
among the girls?say from 100 up-1
wards. A small school breeds narrow-mindedness,
and encourages selfishness
and all the pettier feelings;
while in a large school public opinion
will put down and destroy
everything mean and selfish, and
exalt and encourage all the nobler
traits of character. Two bad girls
can do more harm among twenty,
than twenty can among two hundred.
5. Another popular fallacy that
needs to be eradicated b one, allusion
to which in his assembly will,
? i u ?.
i trust, oitena no one. onouiu
do so, however, it will only confirm
and endorse what I am about to
say. It is wrong to suppose that
girls can be properly educated
only at those schools identified with
the religious denomination to which
their parents belong. Sectarian
schools and colleges belong to a
system that is dead, and ought to
be buried. The time haa passed,
even in the old countries of Europe,
tth mi the churches were looked on
as the heredtiary instructors of the
young; and America surely will
not long sufter sectarianism in
schools, to drag out a superannuated
existeuce. The time
j has come when, in the true spirit
| of enlightenment, we must be sut.isfiedwith
placing Christian men
and women as teachers in our
schools, forgetting to what particular*
sect they may belong. For
after all there is but one religiou
and one morality, which are one
and iudivisible; and it is this, or sc
much of it as has been revealed tc
his mortal sight, which the Christian
teacher strives to teach, leaving
it to his pupils or their parents
to choose the special set of aogmas
upon which they may think it necessary
to pin their faith.
6. But, ladies aud gentlemen,
while indulging in desultory reflections
on these topics one evening
lately, I was curried away in
the spirit, or in the clouds of my
tobacco-pipe, into theyear 1973, and
1 t ! T flfuv ft viftirm i\f tin*
- ? ? '"V.VM W4 VUV (/7I/Uf(y
scAoo/, the coming teacher, the coming
woman. In a spacious enclosure
surrounding a beautiful group of
college buildings, played 250
healthy girls from 15 to 20 years
of age. Apparatus for gymnastic
exercise met my eye in various directions
and many a silvery laugh
!and ringing cheer sounded through
ground. As I reached the main
(entrance, a bell tolled, and al its
summons the merry groups left off
their play and passed into the class
rooms. I was introduced to the
Principal, and saw in him the coming
teacher?a ripe scholar, he had
graduated with high honors at the
University, bland, courteous aud
manly.
VTho' -modest, on his unembarassed
brow
Nature had written 'Gentleman."
A Christian in walk and conversation,?for
without the spirit of
Christian geutleness. his Latin were
a sounding brass and his Greek a
tinkling cymbal. With cordial
welcome he ushered me into his
private room and kindly gave me
all the information I deaired about
the College. The Faculty consisted
of ten teachers, six male and
tour females, all University graduates.
The course of study extended
over five years, and included
a thorough philological study of
English, Latin, Greek, German,
French and Italian, geometry,
arithmetic, a little algebra, writing,
drawing and music, history, philosophy,
science, poetry. After a
pleasant conversation together, he
invited me to come to his house
land meet some friends ot his. I
| went, and in bis elegaut parlor I
met the best people ot the country,
distinguished statesmen, wealthy
land-owners, learned divines, law
vers, doctors, aud 1 could not neip
wondering to see how much higher
was the good teacher's social position,
than was the statuslof hia profession
one huudred years before,
tie was a iuan of wealih too?the
wolf never stood at his door. And
then his wife?in her I saw the coming
woman. She was young and
fuir and learned?a graduate of the
same University with her husband
?she apoke to m^ in simple, sweet,
jiomely English; aud X heard a
French gentleman present praise
ber choice Freneh and Prussian
accent. She held spirited discussion
with a German on the poetry
of Uoetne; Homer and Dante, aud
made him confess tha Horace and
Kobert Burns were sweeter singers
than the oilier three. And yet iier
voice was ever soft, gentle and low,
an excellent thing in woman. And
her lair lingers were quick at needlework,
and nimble in all a housewife's
cunning. And she could
draw sweet music from the ivory
key-board,. and sweeter strange
music from the life of her husband;
and she slow ot heart to understand
mischief, but her feet ran
swift to do good. And she was
simple with the simplicity of girlhood
and wise with the wisdom
that cometh only of the Lord?like
Mary she had chosen the better
part.
During the evening I asked my
friend the Principal, to what
Church belonged the honor ot
building and supporting the College.
The antiquated idea amused
hiin, and smiling he informed me
that the Free Masons had built and
richly endowed it; that a Board of
Trustees composed of Free Masons
wisely controlled the appointment
of teachers, to whom they gave
large fixed salaMes. Waxing familiar
I ventured to say, my dear
sir, excuse the impertinence, but
kindly inform me what ^your salary
is,''?Before he had time to ani
swer, I awoke, and behold it was a
dream.
Thus faded my scholc in nubibus?
my school in the clouds. And
here too must end my address. I
do not forget that
"Brevity is very good
When we are, or are not understood."
And I must take care not to do
what Goldsmith's hero did, who
no wnnf nn I
JlU<J uccp iui UAO uvui^iOj onii >rcub uu
refilling,
Aiid thought of convincing, while they
thought <?f dining,"
finish my address appropriately by
| acting as the mouthpiece of this
jlarge assembly in conferring our
blessing on the College whose cor!ner-stone
we have laid this dny
with solemn ceremonial and under
favorable auspices. May this Female
College of Williamstou begin
to-day a prosperous career. May its
influence be felt as a mighty power
throughout the State in bringing
nearer the brighter day for Female
Education of which we have been
speaking. May its teachers be
in thpir (ypnnratmn otritrii^v fA
ft Awv ?1* V* I faVMV* Hflij DU&YlUg IV
'keep themselves acquainted with
the btst thoughts of the age?remembering
that it is their duty
j and iheir high prerogative to wel11
come, encourage ana help forward
! the future intellectual triumphs of
Female Education. May they be
wise also in the wisdom that com jing
from above, whence alone true
I wisdom cometh. May its Trustees
i be?what shall I say of them ? Oni
ly this?may they be Free Masons,
worthy and well-qualified?working
together in that brotherly love
and unity which is so good and
pleasant; may they emulate too the
example set them by the Masonic
Trustees of the school I saw in a
vision. May that vision be prophetic
of the future of this school?
ot its Faculty, its Trustees, arid its
sweet girl graduates. Then, when
\v? shall have gone the way of all
the earth, and a hundred years shall
have passed, there will perchance?
the 27th August, 1973, be congre
gated here, a large assembly to celebrate
the centenary of the College,
and to bless us who are here to-day
tor having according to the. little
light we have, and so becoming
solemnity laid this corner-stone.
A LEHND OF MAMMOTH CAVE.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
"Come closer, Stewart."
The man went closer to the bed
on which the woman who &poke
lay, propped by p'.llows.
"1 am listening, Maria," he said;
"I am listening my dear."
uArn I your dear?" she gasped.
"Really, truly, you loved me, StewV'J
ui i:
"Haven't I behaved as if I did ?"
said he softly. "Have I ever given
you any reason to think I did not?"
"No," she said, "no; but I was
rich and you poor, and I was old
and you young, and so I can't help
thinking." *
"Don't think that way any more.
Try to be calm, my dear," said the
man.
"Calm !" said she. "I am going
to leave you. I am going to die.
Don't you know that, Stewart ?"
"No," said he. " While there is
life there is hope*"
"I'm dying," she said"but
we'll meet in heaveD. You'll be
mine there, and I shall be young
and beautiful again. Steward promise
me that you'll come to me as
I leave you, no other woman's husband."
"Don't think of euch a thing,
Maria," said he; "it's horrible."
"But swear," said she. '.'Here
is the Bible; swear. Lawyer Grey
is in the other room yet. He has
made mj will iu )Our tavor, but
vou know, Stewart, I could call
him back in a moment No other
woman shall have my money to
spend. It" you think of marrying,
I'll make inv will over."
"How could I think of marrying
with my wife dying?" said the busband.
"I'm not a brute."
"Then swear," said she; "here,
put your hand off* the Bible?say
this after me:
"I swear before heaven Dever to
marry again while I remain upon
earth."
The man she spoke to was young
and ardent. lie had married a
woman fifteen years his senior for
the sake of her fortune, but they
had been happy together?she had
been even personally agreeable to
him. Now, she was dying, and he
had nothing but grief in his heart.
He believed he should never wish
to have another wife, and he desired
to make the anxious woman
happy.
"Maria," he said, "surely I will
do it, it you think it will comfort
*' Vionfl nnnn
J 1/U , UUU JJt iaiu Ulu uuuu
the holy book.
"I swear never to marry again
while I remain upon earth," he
said.
Then his wife put her arms
about his neck and kissed him.
"In heaven, dearest," she whispered.
These were her last words.
After she was dead, the widower
lived alone in his handsome house
for some time, and grieved sincerely
for the poor lady whose generosity
had only been equalled by
her love for him. It was not uutil
a year had passed that he began to
si,end liia laro-e fortuue as though
~l O w
be were its exclusive master.
Then, however, he decided upon
a trip to Europe, and, upon his
resolution, spent many months
abroad. Rich, a widower, and
very handsome, he was not allowed
to remain without friends during
his travels. People soon discovered
that he was a very agreeable person
and ladies luvished their smiles
upon hirn. None of them, however,
tempted him to wish his vow
unuttered. He was not to be won
by any of the arts which belledom
so well understands. If he ever
loved, it would be because love
came unsought. Long before he
had coolly decided that he could
be happy with all agreeable women
with whom he had no thought of
falling in love, and he did not belong
to the susceptible order of
mankind.
He had taken an oath never to
| marry while he remained on earth,
land he had no intention of perjuring
himself. So he flirted coldly
i enough with the pretty women,
;and each time dropped the amusement
quite unscathed himself.
I He returned to America as he
lhad left it, and, with the fever for
'travel still strong upon him, determined
to make a tour of the United
! States.
Where he went, and what he
saw, we leave the guide-books to
tell our reader*. Enough that, after
marw days, our hero found himself
in Kentucky; and in the quiet ol
a Kentucky parsonage, whither
chance had led him, met, for the
first time in his life, a girl against
*
'
whose charms he found no weapons
of defense. She was the pastor's
daughter?a young brnnette, with
crimson cheeks, and eyes soft as
black velvet. He looked at her,
and loved her, and in an instant
his oath recurred to him. "He had
vowed never to marry while he remained
apon earth."
The thought soon became tortore
?bat for that vow heaven seemed
to open itseit Deiore mm. why
had he taken it? Why had his
dead wife demanded it ? He almost
hated her for the act. He despised
himself for his cowardice. Yet he
dared not break an oath.
Meanwhile he hannted the steps
of the young beauty and made mad
love to her. Soon he discovered
that she returned his love, and then
he told her all his miserable story.
She wept, but the dread of the oath
was upon her also. Love they
might, but they could never marry.
Here was a tragedy indeed.
The daughter 8 cheek paled; the
lover wore a look of misery; papa,
the pastor, noticed nothing, and
sruiled upon them as usual; and
suns arose aud set, and summer
flew by on airy wings, and the dead
woman lay in her grave at Greenwood;
and her widower hated her
memory because of the promise she
had forced from him.
You all know what and where
the Mammoth Cave is?the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky?where
the guides keep travelers from losing
their way; carry blazing torches
which reveal strange stalactite-hnn?
r o 9 . ?
chambers aud mysterious corridors
that seem to have been cut by some
giant 8 tools from the firm rock.
Hither it pleased the Rev. Mr.
Bray one day to take his guest, and
with them went Rhoda, his daughter.
The girl had never visited
the cave, bhe was full of curiosity.
The guides, with their torches,
walked before. The three visitors
followed. Rhoda clung to Stewart's
arm.
Sometimes, in the obscurity, he
placed his hand upon the hand that
rested there. They paused in great
chambers, where their voices sounded
strangely hollow. They crept
through, narrow passages into grand
aud wonderful places that sparkled
as though hung with jewels. At
last they paused.
"No lady has ever been any farther,"
said the principal guide.
"Indeed, few of the guides know the
way beyond this spot. "We are
very far below the earth."
He mentioned the ! distance. It
was something astounding* It
struck Mr. Bray as a text for a sermon.
I '"My dear children," he began,
"think of that. We are no longer
upon earth ; none of us are any
longer upon earth. Awful thought!
No longer upon earth!"
Then Stewart seized Rhoda's
hand.
"My darling," be said; "listen;
do you hear? My vow holds me
no longer. I am free here. I only
swore not to marry as long as I was
upon earth. We are as much be
neath it as though we were in our
graves."
"It is true," said Rhoda.
Then they both clasped the old
pastor's arms and besought him to
marry them. He had no idea of
the motive, but he rather liked the
sensational.
He had m irried people in odd
places before?in a boat, a steeple,
in a graveyard. He agreed The
guides stood by as witnesses, and
the words were soon said. Rhoda
was Stewart's wife.
"And I have kept my oath," he
whispered, and he kissed her. "I
never married upon earth."
As he uttered these words one
of the guides shrieked aloud and
fled, dropping the torch. The
other, witu anoatn, loJiowea snit.
There stood amidst the group a tall,
ghostly figure?a woman in her
shroud. She stretched forth her
bony finger and pointed to the
bridegroom.
"You never married upon earth,""
she said, "aud you shall never live
there. Follow me;" and she vanished
in the shadows of the cave.
Au hour after the guides, attended
by a strong body of believers
and misbelievers, and fortified by
plenty of whisky, ventured into
the cave again. They found the
Rev. Silas Bray, more dead than
alive, aud took him home; but
Rhoda and Stewart were never seen
on earih again. And there are
Mammoth Ca^e guides to this hour
who believe that sometimes, at a
certain day of the year, there is
likelihood of meeting two ghostly
figures wandering hand in hand,
who ask you the way to earth in
| tearful voices, and before you can
answer vanish with a shriek.?N. Y.
Ledger.
A wretched little hoy, ten years
old, ragged and almost barefooted,
drifting along the streets of Detroit
one day recently, was asked
where his father was. "Dead."
"Where's your mother?" "Run
flwflv.'' His interlocutor exnressed
sympathy, and observed that he
muBt feel lonesome. "Not a bit of
it; there's going to be the biggest
circus here next month yerset eyes
on J"
A minister took for his text,
'"The flesh, the world and the devil.'
He informed his astonished audi'
ence that he would dwell briefly in
" the flesh, pass rapidly over the
1 world, and hasten as fast as he
: could to the devil.*
AUDITORS.
It is well known that about a
month ago C o m p trol ler-Gen eral
Hoge called a meeting, or convention,
of all the county auditors bf
i the State. The object of that meeting
was, by mutual consultation,
counsel, arid comparing notes, to
itltrnrlllPP a atm^m in
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business of the various county auditors.
Heretofore, there had existed
a great variety of styles dadoing
business in these ^offices. .In
many cases there was not tyutfc close
raents of the law that'there slioutd
be, and some of the" auditors lind
.::ade r o report to the comptoll#*general.
There were many other
things which needed revision and iffr
correction, to secure the most effective
discipline, if we may use ;
the word, and administration. Tfie
convention was called, and was attended
by all the auditors of the
State, except two, who were ilUt the
time. Sufficient time has now
elapsed to show the wisdom of such
mi . j -
a, movement, ine auditors were
:>enefitte<l by consultation. A uni- ,*
form sytem has been introduced, a W?
brief, simple and complete style of ^
reports has been adopted, ana the
methods ot gettiug at the taxable,
property has been greatly improved.
The result is, that all the county
auditors have given in reports to
the comptroller-general, except,
two; they are far better reports
than were formerly made; besides,
the auditors of most counties are
reportiug a considerabJe increase jn
property. In some counties the ill- .
crease in the landed property returned
this year is fully twenty per cent.
on the last assessment. This is a
very important matter. There * is
no good reason why every fifth man
should escape bearing his share of
tbe burden 01 tne (government.
Another thing will result from this*
finding of such large quantities of . , '
property which has remained untaxed
for several years. The unpaid
taxes on that property will be
due, and will in good measure restore
the deficiencies from the previous
tax levies.? Union-Herald.
Cows and Calves. s
Much has been said and written
about the best treatment of calves,
and so many have advised their im** .
mediate removal, that we thia
spring ventured to try it Out of
four so treated (all. h?iferst wojfth " .'
?100 eacli when they Were dropped.)
one died before it was a week
old, another is scouring so badly
that we have but little hope of its
recovery, and a third is ailing and
weakly. "We have had quite enough
of this treatment, and shall return
to the custom o? leaving all calves
with their mothers, until they are
at least three days old, and longer *
if necessary to start them fairly and
vigorously on the road of life, a
practice which has hitherto produced
the most satisfactory results.
I have also experimented?until I
have regretted it?on another theory
of some modern breeders of Jersey,
that is, to milk the cows quite
li'mo r\4 nalninn if nrtftQl
UU IAS tuw tlUiVy VI vu&f *
ble. In every case, I am convinced .
that real probably permanent
injury has resulted. The idea advanced
was that. & Jersey cow baa
no other purpose but to bring
calves and to produce milk, aua
that she should be trained to the - .
fullest and most persistent exercise
af the lacteal function. The subject
has been presented to' me so
long and so persuasively, and by
men whose opinion seemed so well
worthy of respect, that I had come
to more than half believe it, and
have tried the experiment this *
spring with several animals. In
every case there has been trouble
with the udder, und thus far the
flow of milk is less than it was
after the previous calving. The
calves have not been materially
affected by it, but the mothers have
been in every inbtance. Hereafter,
we shall endeavor to dry off all the
cows a moDth before calving. Up
+<-v fliof imu it ia U7?ill t/v IfflPTl the
i mi Ik flowing (if only a pint a day),fc
and with Jerseys it is almost always
|easy to do this; but after that the
! milking should cease, and the odder
I should be allowed to become entirejly
empty of milk preparatory to
| the commencement of its new pejriod
of activity? "springing" regu,
larly and naturally, and haviug no
trace of the old love when it begins with
the new.?American Agriculi
turist.
< > ? The
Courier-Journal furnishes
the following "answer to correspondent;"
A youthful correspondent
desires to know how we would
like-to sail with Professor Wise on
his balloon voyage to Europe? If
you will go my dear boy, and climb
the least of the many gold pieces
| that would be required to hire us
to take such a voyage, you
will find that its sunfcrit is wrapped
in perpetual snow,
An Oregon paper states that the
rage for the "ie" termination has
come to a disastrous conclusion in
one family in Portland. A farmer
named Ake christened his eldest
'girl Belle. She had some cards
'printed in the "ie" fashion, and? .
well, after looking at the result, she
: concluded Bell was pretty pretty A
for her, and burned them.