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BY Wl A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE S. C? WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER iO. 1873. ^ VOLUME XXI?NO. 22.
rails? i
WE HAVE ad Jed *11 of the
NETS to our MIL LIN J
.'handsomely {-mamed hy A] US.
as a too well-known i
? JCH ??A nn>lap I Jin r'linnrG (
uV/UIH yviYi yv/ uuuvi ^
be founl to exhibit the Stock, ;
i<jtyle at moderate prices.
MILLER i
'April 16,1873. I-tf
SPECIA
IF A LADY wants to buy a
where, slio would do well L<
WHITE
and look at their Extensive StO'
Wltite Piques, Newport S
Croquetts, Yosen
Lawns i
Mulls, Nansooks, &c., &c,
April 16, 187-% 1-tf
J. B. & W
WILL
NO. 2 GIU
Are prepared to show to their frier
Stapls Dry Ms, Hals, ml <
Also a Select f
k
In thft^Dry Goods Line will be fou
CALICOES, BLE,
BROWN S
TIC
OSXABURGS, and many oth
In the Grocci
BACON, FLOUR, MOLASSES,
pw ORLEANS SY
MACKER.
TOWDER AND SHOT, and ever
- - * I T .i. .
Also a complete .Lot c
ORANGES; LEMONS,
JELLIES,
SARDINES.
CRACKERS, ?
both French and Common.
We have 011 hands BAGGING a
Come one! Come all!! we thin 1
Sept. 18, 1372, 53-tf
CARRIAGE MA if
g^SEAL, 5
"Wf&N offer a LARGE and SUP
pricc from $140 to Si'ii"), with
wagons of all sizes, made
MATERIAL IN THE COUNTRY
Thev tUso offer for sale A LlGrM'J
lowifor CASH.
They keep constantly on hand M
NY and WALNUT COFFINS, an
Their hearse with one of the Fir
ALL WORK WARRAN TED.
WALLERT
mehc:
GREENW
t? - H k '
ARE now offering to the public
line of all the Gouds general
THE!
Ml
have been selected with ,
READY - M
A FINE STOCK
A gc
i. t . )
Groceries, Hardware
To which the attention of purchas
wall:
Feb. 19, 1873, 45-tf
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Board Reduced to $3 Per ]
Columbia Hoi
COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE Proprietor of this well k
first clase Hotel would ret
ully inform his many friends an
travelling public generally, tin
has this day reduced his rati
Board from 84 pnr day to S3 per
and at the same time pledges hi
to spare no pains in tho manage
of the house to Huatain its reput
as a first class hotel in eveiy rei
WM. GORMAN, Proprie
July 30,1873, fit
~E>ENTI8TK "
OFFERS his professional servii
the citizens of Abbeville and surr
log country. All work done ii
etos order, and satisfaction guara
Qfflec ovja the New Post Office.
\
now shapes andstylcR of IIATS AND BOXBUY
DEPARTMENT, which we have had
.MAGGIE SASSA RD, whose taste and skill
n this community to say more. Our salesaf
MISS JANE RAMEY. who will always
.is well as make and lit dresses in iho best
iROBEDTSON.
X NOTICE.
WHITE DRESS, beforo purchasing clsc)
go 10 the store of
BROTHERS
ck of
itripes,
lites, Striped Victoria,
tnd Organdies, White Grenadines,
J. ROGERS,
BE FOUND AT
1MTE RANGE.
ids a select Stock of Full Goods, consisting of
iM Boots, Crockery, Groceries & Provisions.
Stock of Confectioneries.
nd,
trtiFn i\n
HIRTIXG?, COTTON PLAIDS,
KINGS, KERSEYS, JEANS AND
er things too numerous to meutiou.
y Line will be found,
HTTP, SUGAR,
EL, LAJM), RIO and JAVA COFFEE,
RICE, SOAP, CANDLES, STARCH, SODA,
ything in the Grocery line.
? Confectioneries, consisting of
BANANAS, COCOA NUTS,
BRANDY PEACES,
OYSTERS,
IIIEET CAKES, CANDIES,
iwl TTT^ft whfnh wn will sell low.
c wo can suit you.
V; ^.-"*'Wn REPAIRING
IGN & ROBERTSOT^^
I ii i
ERIOR STOCK -ot uiuuiJiS, ranging in
all the modern improvements in the business.
by the best MACHINISTS, and of the BEST
{, and after the latent and best styles.
L1 CRANE-NECK CARRIAGE, of good style,
tETALIC BURIAL CASES, and MAHOGAd
others of cheaper style.
m will attend all funerals.
[Nov. 3,1S71.28?
& BROTHER,
EIAISTTS A^T
ood, s. a,
in their new and handsome building, a full
!y needed in this community.
[R STOCK OF
600SSJ
great care, and unusually attractive.
ADE CLOTHING.
OF BOOTS AND SHOES.
>od assortment of
>, Crockery, and Glassware.
era is invited. Give us a call.
ER & BROTHER.'
Day Barnwell & Co.
Jgj At the New Post Office.
HAVE in store and to arrive,
.Bushels Corn,
nown 10,000 lbs. Bacon,
mwt- All grades of Flour,
I , Meat and Grist,
, Syrups and Molasses,
lt he Sugar and Coffee,
.'8 of Fish, Salt, Nails,
day, &?., &e., &c.
mseir Feb. 16,1872, ?-tf_
?= NOTICE TO DEBTORS
KJ)OCv#
tor. QF
Barnwell & Co.
ALL persons 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 authorized to receipt
the same for the old firm.
a Barnwell & Co.
. Feb. 20, 1873, 4G-tf
ound- Advice to Cigar Smokers.
ifS1 CO TO PENNEY'S to buy your
i|j CIGAKS.
The Monnier "a la Mode."
I saw her Inst night at a party,
1 (The elegant party at Meade's,)
And looking remarkably hearty
For a widow so young in her weeds;
. Yet I know she was suffering sorrow
I Too deep for the tongue to express?
I Or why had she chosen to borrow
So much from the language of dress?
; Her shawl was as sable as night,
.! And her gloves were as dark as her
I fttllLU l.
And her jewels that flashed in the light
Were an blui-k as a funeral pall;
Her robe hud the hue of the rest,
(How nicely it fitted her shape !)
And the grief that was heaving her
breast
Roiled over in billows of crape.
What tears of vicarious woe,
That else might have smiled in her
face,
Were kindly permitted to flow
In ribbons of ebony lace.
While even her fan in its play
Had quite a luxurious scope,
And seemed to be waving away
^ The ghost of the angel of Hope!
Yet rich as the robe of a queen,
Was the sombre apparel she wore;
I'm certain 1 never had seen *
Such sumptuous sorrow before,
And I couldn't help thinking the beauty,
In mourning the Jovtd and the lost,
Was doing ht%- conjugal duty
Altogether regardless of cost.
I One surely wouid say such devotion,
Performed ut so vast uu expense,
Betrayed an excess of emotion
That really is something immense;
And yet as I view, at my leisure,
Those tokens of tender regard,
I thought?it was scarce without measure?
The sorrow that goes by the yard.
AhJ, grief is a curious passion!
And yours, I am sorely afraid,
Toe very next phase of the fashion
Will find it beginning io fade.
Tho' dark are the shadows of grief,
The morning will follow the night;
Half-tints will betoken relief.
Till joy shall bcsymbolled in white!
Ah. well! it were idle to quarrel
With fashion or aught she may do;
And fO 1 conclude with a moral *
And metaphor?warranted new?
When measles come handsomely out
The patient is safest, they say;
And the sorrow is mildest, no doubt,
That works in a similar way.
That Engineer.
MARY I1ARTWELL.
"2s ow, George," said mother,
"when you ran into Chicago to-day,
"I don't want you to forgit that
lanib's-wool. Them store-keepttrs'll
try to pat you off, and say
they don't have no sech goods on
hand this time o' year, bat I want
you to follow 'era up, and git it,
for I want to' go right to knittin' j
your socks for next winter. There's
uothi-n'- -aa&ka as
line, hard-spun hmb's-wool."
"Not even yak, mother ?" asked |
George mischievously, as he snatch- j
cd up his hat aud belongings, as if!
the alarm of lire had been sounded.!
liL don't know nothin' about yak.
That may do for wimmin's wear,
but for men's, there's nothin' like
hard-spun lamb's wool."
"I'll remember," promised
George, fully primed and charged.
"Now, good bye. Home on time
at nine."
The old woman's cheek had a
flush like winter apples. George
| took- a hasty nip at it?ne aiwuys
did when he started on his trips?
looked at her with his big, cherishing
eyes, received a mother's unspeakable
reply, and dashed olf to
his engine.
It was a little after sunrise. Ilis
boots rang alongthe pavement, and
his whistle rang along the breeze.
George whs handsome and strong,
as twenty-two has a right to be.
lie wore a blouse instead of a business
coat; and that great, fresh,
downy rose?his face?would soon;?
be coated with the locomotive's!
breath. Bat he wus a wholesome, |
splendid man.
r>/ii-l.or>c .Tniinin tliftilirlit ?f? RllO !
was sweeping the front steps of her
paternal mansion as he passed.
Iler hair was gathered atop her
head in a curly coil, some crinkles j
of it just dropping over her fore-!
head. The sleeves were pushed
back from the pink, round arms?
for women, as well as men, when
then go to work with a will, begin!
like a pugilist.. Jennie had. per;
morning complexion on. As her
eye met George's she put on an .
additional morning complexion.
George touched his hat, Jennie
bent l;e head shyly. The young
man t-quared his shoulders and
walked 011 like a brigadier-general.
"That's a nice girl," he communicated
to his sleeve. "Mother
thinks a heap of her. She's got
more sense than half of 'em, rnothe.
says. And she's 6mart ana modest
like in her ways. Mother
says she's uncommon pretty, too."
These opinions of mother's bo
edified him that he had not gotten
Jennie out of his head when he!
leaped on his engine. Bat I suspect,
if mother's verdict had been
against her, he would have stood'
her lawyer. He was only making
mother compliment his choice.
He was skulking behind mother!
For some young men are shy!
While he and his iron horse, and
his row of baggage-car and passenger
coaches rushed across the land
that hot day, nobody looked in the
|engine-cab for romance; yet there
the fire of the world was glowing
;under a dark blouse. Nobod\
looked into it for integrity and
worth ; yet there stood six feet of
integrity and worth, which had
come up to manhood through
thick and thin, and had carried his
mother to comfort, and which kept
liis character like his burnished
;eDgine. Neither did anybody look
i in that cab for heroism; but it was
there, potent and still, like electricity
in a cloud/ Ah, my countrymen
are capable of somethings !
As for locomotive-engineers, I suppose
there are men not of the best
among them?as among parsons?
but the deeds of some do speak
for them. Isow when one's mind
has rut: in one channel for a length
|of time?or I might say, in more
appropriate figure, when a train
I has gone over a great deal of road,
some results are generally arrived
at.
So it came to pass, when George
dashed up street in Chicago after
hid mother's lamb's-wool, while his
engine cooled, and the train was
being made for the home trip, that .
he dived into a jeweler's store, atid
asked sheepishly to see some rings.
"Kings, eh?" murmured the
salesman, looking amiably at the ,
man of soot. For Chicago isu't
afraid of coal-smoke. The men <
who bring .her the dollars do not
always come in elaborate toilet. i
"Kings," emphasized George,
"and don't be afraid of your highpriced
ones, with stones in 'em." i
("If I' give her one," in the pa- <
rpntlipqis of his sleeve. "T want it !
to be o ring that'll last, and always
be fine and handsome, and do to .
go down in the family, like mother's."
Diamonds, emeralds, opals, pearls
were flashed in his face, but still
bis fingers went searching. ,
"What's this?" he asked, pick-!
ing up a small, strong circle, with
amethysts set around it. "Looks <
like a grape, sort of, when the sun
shines through it*" i
tiTKnt V +1 >aqq nmo fh vcfa I
X 11411/ V'Uj IIU/OV Ul V UillUUiJOlWt
Not as expensive us these jewels,
but a very firm stone."
"Thissuits rue*' observed George '
diving for his wallet, "this is what i
I was looking for."
So he paid for it, and darted out I
to hail a passing horse-car, tucking |
his little morocco case under bills, <
away down out of sight, as another
secret was tucked under his left ?
breast-pocket. i
As he rushed back across the 1
afternoon landscape, curbing his j
iron h< rsewith this bi$giving him ;
rein by another motion, making
the villages resound, watching his
road with a keen, yet tender eye,
Georgc!s mind rose to no greater
height than meditation on how he (
should give the ring to Jennie. (
'Tlfa.sk her to take a walk?no j
I won't. Don't want nobody to ,
see me. I'll shake hands with her, ,
and sort~bT^!ip"1t 6u"~'h~er finger, <
and then cut! Hang me! no, I*
won't neither. Let's'see. I'll go
there a Sunday night and stand lip ~
to it, and have it out. If she'll .
have me, all right; if I ain't the j
man, I'll put it and my heart in my ,
pocket, aud reverse engine on the ,
marrying question." ,
And just at this crisis o?r thought j
he saw cause for reversing engine
indeed. j
Some men are rash to villainy, j
The conductor of a construction
train, which ought to be lying on a (
switch a mile away, thought he .
could make the next switch before ^
the Chicago Express came by. So
1%/% if 1-Ta fflt<\ /lia I .
IJC tl ICU 11# J.AC OU1 V1VCU ILJV UIOaster
to telegraph his resignation '
to the Company next Lour, and ugo ,
West." _ |
George?hair flying back from ,
hi* forehead?hands like lightning j
?eyes and mouth set, reversed his ,
engine, whistled the brea'is down *
?the fireman ran back?the en- ]
gineer of the construction train :
jumped?but George stood up to the *
alarm signal till engine reared (
against engine, the baggage-car fell 1
011 a gravel-fiat, and human yells
went up out of the Express from (
mouths which were saved, but never
a sound from the engineer who
had stood at his post and saved
them-?and now lay half under his j
dear old Number 8, wrecked with ,
it :
"There's been an accident,"
cried Jennie, rushing into his moth- (
er's presence, and causing the dear ^
old lady to push her glafeses quite ,
into her hair. "A telegram just j
came?" ,
"Not George !'* |
"The Express! oh, don't, dear! j
No one was dangerously hurt but j
the engineer?it was a collision? j
he saved the train, they say! Oh, j
don't, don't let it kill you (
."Where's my bunnit?" groped
the old mother.
"Here's your bonnet?and yonr
shawl." Jennie wrapped both
this this and her arms around
George's mother. Those tender
young touches brought her ou Jennie's*
neck.
c Don't you leave me! Its agoing
to kill me to see him lyiu' under
them wheels, all tore tip! Tne
best son, and go d and kind as an
angel! Oh, how'll we git there?
Uh, who s agoing to take me to (
my son!"
"I will," promised the young \
woman, breathless and white, a re- j
lief train is going up."
What they thought all that long ]
time they rode, hanging to each I
other's hands?this childish wo- i
man, and womanly child, I kno.v 1
not. I?oyou think at all just be- i
fore you open a black-bordered letter?when
some awful choree .
threatens you: Do criminals
think when the noose is round
their neeks? We sometimes exist
without living.
It was warm summer dusk when
the reliel-traiu slid slowly up to
the wreck. The passenger coaches
stood intact. Men were chopping
at the engines and broken flats.
The people who had swarmed lor
hourd, and nearly Killed a man
whom they were determined to
lionize, now partially hived themselves
in the new train.
"Mother!" breathed George,
from- from his bed o'f coats, over
which a surgeon stooped.
Ttifi noor old woman srmn wild
ly round like a top, till Jennie
rightied and propelled her to George
""rjjhe lamb's-wool's in my pocket,"
he whispered, with a merry
twinkle in his suffering eyes.
"Ann moth, pull out my purse, and
give {the little case in the corner ,to !
Jenrtie." "Open it." motioning (
her nearer his lips. "I bought |
thntjfbr you this afternoon," nis |
voice just reached her, "'and I was (
going to offer it, and ask yon to i
marfy me. Take it now, and I i
dou't ask any questions with it. ?
No woman would take up with a 1
smashed affair like me." y
"Oh, George!" replied the wo- (
man, blazing out ot all reserve, 1
Eind jpiercing him through with her !
/t 1 . rtt i i? .1 '
eyes or love. "iou epieuaiu?
lier$?Uarling! I'd rather marry
you|now than any other man alive !
And I'll work for you and your
moflier, too, George!"
Upon which the engineer, with
the passion of a man whose whole
life:is drawn to a single point,
gathered her face over one of his
shaking hands, and made a full
rose of the mouth, which he kissed
cd?kissed till the whiteness round
his lips stole over his whole face,
and he glinted.
Jennie sat still under the stars,
holding George's head, soothing
his mother, and thrilling at the
doctor's favorable verdict. Though
lior fjinp wjih nil KtrnnlvPd hv
her sweetheart's fingers, she was 1
feeling soome kinship to the great
people of the earth, through that
sngineer. ?
For. a woman always values her- ,
self according to the quality of the i
man who loves her. And a King I
ivill inaA'P a Queen, whether he be i
King of Spades, or King of Senates,
or King of Engine-cabs.
(
Thoughts for the Month.
% I
Unlike the last, the present month i
- alls for great industry and activity '
3ii the part of the farmer. Harvest- '
ng crops already made, planting 1
hose of fall and winter, and prepa3tion
of land for next year's crops,
?ueh as turning under weeds, pea (
/ines, etc., now demand attention.
A. word of caution to our young
friends who have little farming ex- ,
Licrience. Cotton picking will be ,
under full had way by the end of the i
month. It is an excellent rule i
never to let the opening get much i
ihead of the picking?keep close i
A rnocAn ia ttrA -flr-vl/l I I
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?1. The sooner it is picked after
t is opened, the cleaner and nicer
it will be, and the less the danger
:>f being beaten out and lo9t"bv
storms; 2. The days are now long
\ik"I warm, and a hand can pick
much more in a clay than in the
short and cold days of October and
November. When cold weather
jets in, cotton picking is one of the
nost disagreeable jobs to be done
311 the farm. Cotton picked now
trill be green and damp, not fit to
L>e put np in bulk, nor to be nicely
ginned. In bulk it will heat, ginned
it will "nap," that is, gather in
little knots, a feature greatly obi
_ i x _ i . i mi. _ _ . l
ecien to oy purcnasers. me onjy ,
remedy is to sun it?that picked in (
^he forenoon should be spread in |
:he sun all the afternoon?that pick- I
2d in the afternoon, not having the I
Jew upon it, may be put, away at j
jnce, if not packed in large heaps. 1
To avoid risk of fire, ginning 1
md packing should keep pace with 1
:he picking, and the bale, as soon '
is packed, distributed in different t
places. The gin house is the most
iangerous place to keep cotton;
jxperience since the war has shown .
:hat intentional or accidental fires j
ire most apt to originate there* It )
;ias greatly surprised us to observe t
;he numerous instances during the t
past five years where farmers have f
ost their entire crops by keeping 1
t ginned or unginned in their gin 1
:iouscs, tlie number of such cases j
-v/iim/tc urn linliotrn lorrmi? i?i dcnircr'i<\
TT V MX/UV > V (Ul^Vl IU V* V?'* ^
:han in any previous year. If prices .
we at all satisfactory, the safest and \
Derhaps the best plan is to sell as ,
ant as it can be prepared for mar- 1
:et. As said just now, the danger 1
Tom fire is diminished, the cotton t
,veighs well, and the money it r
jrings can be used at ouce to pay 4
icnest debts, or put at interest. [
Farmers as a class are far behind 1
merchants and other in "turning '
;heir money over." We have "
lenown them to keep hundreds and "
;housands of dollars in the bands ,
:>t their commission merchants for [
months mid sometimes years, losing r
the interest entirely?tearful that,
if loaned out, they could not get it }
when they wanted it. Of course ?
prudence should be exercised in 1
the matter, but there is no <*ood J
reason why farmers should keep |
their money unprofitahly locked np (
more than other men do. .
As soon as corn is dry, gather t
uid house it?the longer it remains 1
in the field the greater the quantity 1
which will rot. Some of the ears
will always be on the ground, others
will be standing erect so that \
the rain can penetrate them, and <
still others exposed at the end to <
the ravages of birds and.other animals.
These if gathered promptly
may be saved. If house room. is
ample, store away in the shuck; it
will keep better, and the.shucking
will be good for rainy days in winter.
Besides time can not bo well spared
from cotton picking to shuck it now.
As opportunity offers gather peas?
now is u good time to pick thoso in
?ir
lenueci tor scea 11 ripe, vv nip-poorwill
peas sown early are ripo by the
1st of August or sooner.
FALL CROPS.
Oats sown last autumn were, badly
winter killed?in the first plaee it was
too dry for them to make much
growth before cold weather, and the
first was suddeD and very severe.
The winter also was one of the coldest
known?it would not therefore
bo fair to judge of the cortainty of
full oats by lust winter's experience.
Jur own observation is that, properly
managed, it aw sure as any crop w?
raise. Soruo uncertainty attaches to
ill. Corn is eminently uncertain, cot;on
ofteu fails, ai|d spring oats are
r'ery unreliable. Wo urge our readjrs
to sow full crops of oafs, and to
lo it during this month. Every day
tf delay aftor the middle of September
increases the uncertainty of the
;rop. At the risk of being tiresome
,ve repeat the condition of success?
prepare the land well?if Dot alreadj' <
ich, make it so?it is useless to sow ;
all oats on poor land?on such land '
hey are almost sure to be winter '
cilled?manure will carry them safely 1
,hrough. Select a variety not liable ,
.o rust?sow in drills and All the '
irills in part only, when covering the
feed?this protects tho plants from
- old and from being lifted out of the (
ground by frost. During dry weather
^raze moderately with sheep or calves
jntil cold weal her sets in, and in the
ipring give a moderato top-dressing
>f somo ammoniated fertilizer. If
they should fail it will be known in
time to sow the same land in spring
iats, wnicn can men iau ucu- iu mi
:he preparation and manure applied.
* CLOVER AND GRASS.
Wc have 'discussed tlicso crops at
inch length recently, that it is- unnecessary
to do more than remind the
eader that this is the month to sow
lotli clover and grass about the midile,
if the weather is too hot and dry.
FALL PLOUGHING.
Whenever the ground is damp
?nough, two horso turn ploughs
'boirld be kept constantly going,
jurying tho weeds before they havn
matured their seeds. If hands canlot
be spared from the cotton field,
jire extra hands enough for this
Durpose?no work on tho farm pays
setter than fall ploughing?it is a
uxury to work in the spring land
.urneu III U1U Kill, kb 10 cu luvou auu
nellow.? Cultivator.
F::etful Babies.?Pabics often cry
without any apparent reason ; but u
nother can usually discover a reason
f she stops to think about it. And it
ti worth stopping to think about, no
natter if" tho housework or sewing be
Jelayed awhile in consequents. Perlaps
sh3 has eaten something thai
lisjgroes with its stomach; perhaps
t is thirsty, for little babioH are often
;hirsty and will drink a teaspoonf'ul
)f coid water with the greatest eagerless
and be quiet and satisfied after il.
Perhaps its little sock is tied too
:ightly. as my baby's was the other
la}' I found a.deepred mark around
ler ankle, which at once explained
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ILT lI'eUUMlUBS. 1UUIO Iinuiji' liiuii
mything else, the flannel band around
ts bowels?if happily one is there?
)! its skirt band, is pinned too tightly.
[ know a baby who has cried a-great
leal since his birth. I think the chief
cason of it is because he has ftf\vayn
jeen dressed too tightly The mother
iaid to me ofco afternoon, when the
?hi 1 d was so cross she hardly knew
,vhat to do: "l'vo a great mind to un
iress him and put on his night-gown;
le is real good then." So she did, and
10 commenced to be good at once.
Mothers should search for all such 1
)0ssibl0 causes when their babies get :
retful. They should not be too ready
.0 attribute their crying to nervous
emperament or to hunger, for it is
nore likely to be cansud by the prick
>f a pin or an overfed stomach than
iither.
~o
Tiie Late Bishi p of Winchester.
? It is related of the bishop, as an
llustration of his ready wit, that some 1
fears ago, when visiting at the couny
seat of a well known nobleman,
he bishop allowed himself to be perutaded
to join a shooting party. On
lis return his noble host mentioned
hat Jiis gamekeeper was a Dissenter,
Hid although he did not wish to inerfere
in the religious opinions of bin 1
mployees, still as all the rest of the
lervants went to church, he should
ike this man to go. Would the bish- *
>p speak to him? If he used his well
mown persuasive powers, doubtless
10 miirht overcome the scrunles of 1
" ~o " - - r
he keeper as to entering a church.
The bishop expressed himself delight- 1
;d with the request, and proceeded at 1
>nce to tho keeper's cottage. Enter- j
ng with his usual frank and kindly '
greeting which few could resist, he
ionn established himself in the good
graces of his humble host, and ??radilly
led the conversation to spiritual .
natters. At length, when ho thought <
ie had MifTiciently gained the con?
idcnceofthu man, his lordship said.
'By the by. how m it that J don't see '
,*ou at church? You know it is our I
- n* I i
luty to look after these tmngs. sure- 1
y you don't see anything in the Biblo
iguinst going to church?" "No, my
ord; neither do I.see anj'thing in the 1
Bible to warrant a preacher of the ,
jonpel in going out shooting; the '
ipostles never did" "No," replied
he ready-witted bishop, "true, they
lad no garno in Palestine in those
Jays?they went fihhing instead."
The peculiarity of a Peoria ghost is
ihat it nightly silently* steals away
?vith a scuttle of coal and two sticks
jf cord wood.
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Another Fox Hunt in Ireland.
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Editor Abbeville Press aiyiBanner:
A week or two since you published
a notice of the refaark'able
success of some gentlemen' in
catching two foxes in less than
two hours. Sinec then we learn
another remarkable fox hunt has
taken place in the same locality
with a somewhat different result.
A party of young gentlemen made
all the preliminary arrangements in
securing large packs of hounds for
the exciting chase of the fox, aud
at the appointed time the "horn of
the hunter" was sounded, and tfce
dogs responded. The swiftest
steeds of the community were
mounted and. the party set off in
high spirits to the "happy hunting
grounds." The dogs were soon
reconnoitering, and. after some
two hours of search one of the
leaders of the dogs gave the sound
which all recognized as the signal
that the trail of the game had been
found, and in an instant the whole
of the forty or fifty dogs were in
pursuit. Teeriders spurred their
cshargers and followed at the swiftest
speed attainable, jumpirg fences,
gullies, &c., &c., as is the custom of
the fox hunter in this most exciting
chase. Finally the dogs suddenly
came to a halt where they
had something "at bay." When
the riders galloped up they were
astonished to find their game up a
tree. This they could not understand
as a fox never climbs a tree.
After much discussion the party
concluded (as they had no axe
with which to cut the tree down)
to wait until daylight when they
could see their game. At the approach
of light our fox hunters
were chagrinned to find up the
tree one of their neighbor's Thomas
cats. The effect on the hunters
can be better imagined than described.
X.
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What a Boy Knows About Girls.
Girls are the most unaccountable
things in the world, except a woman.
Like the wicked flea, when
vou have them they ain't there. I
can ciplier clean over the improper
fractions, and the teacher says I do
it first rate, but I cau't cipher on
a girl, proper or improper, and you
can't either. The only rule in the
arithmetic that hits their case, is
the double rule of two. They are
as full of old Nick as their skin can
hold, and would die if thc-y couldn't
torment somebody. When they
try to be mean, they are as mean
as pursley, though they ain't as
mean as they let on, except sometimes,
and they are a good deafc
meaner. The only way to get
aiong wim a girt wuen sue comes
to with her nonsense, is to give her
tit for tat, and that will flummux
her; and when you get a girl Humniuxed,
she is as nice as a new pin.
A girl can sow more wild oats in a
day than a hoy can in a year, but
the girls get their, wild oats so vn
after a while, which the boys never
do, and then they settle down as
calm and placid as a mud puddle.
But I like girls first rate, and I
guess the boys all do. I don't
mind how many tricks they platan
me?and they don't care eitMj.
The hoitytoityists girls in th? world
can not boil over like a glass of
soda. By and by they will get into
the traces with somebody they like,
and pull as straight as an old stacje
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So let them wave, I say; they will
pay for it some day, sewing oil buttons
and trying to make a decent
man of the fellow they have spliced
themselves to, and ten chances to
one they don't got the Avost of it.
A fellow coming from the ten of
the Alleghanies in winter, was aalced
whether it was as <-<>M there as in
the city. He had probably been to
srme march-of-intelleet school, for he
glanced at a thermometer. ''Horribly
eld," said be, 'for they have no
thermometer there, and of course it's
just as cold as it pleases."
Ar. exchange remarks that notwithlanding
the iact that the recent tornado
in lo^a blow the feathers from
iho poultry, wo have yot to hear
ii niu<jle instance of a woman n.
her false hair. The morul of w iei
is, thut chickens should use ha r-j in
ivhen venturing out in a tornado.
The Shelby Courant says: "Boift?
ire like boys, the more you squeeze
hem the more they don't go away.' '
\ young man at our elbow, wn<
Might to know, says "they are lik< '
*irls, tlie more you squeeze them,
the more they want to be squoze.
The members of a Lodge of Good
Templars in Springlield, Massachusetts,
chew so much tobacco that
the owner of the hall occupied b\
them refuses to lease it to then,
ugaiu.
A chap from the country, on beinhanded,
by the hotel water, a bill itfare,
told him that ho would defei
reading it uutil after dinner,
Suspicion is a treacherous associate.
Catching the Early Train.
One of'the greatest delights of;
boarding in the country for the
summer is the pleasure a man derives
lrom his efforts to catch the ' \
early morning train by which hemust
reach the qity for, business. When
he get out of bo<][ he
at his watch, and finds be has
plenty of time; so he dresses leis-. . ,
urely, and sits down to breakfast \.,j
in a caltn and serene state^f miiid. u
Just as he cracks be
hears the up-train. He stefltgffirUs
out his watch, compares - clock,
and finds thati.it: is eleven ^ ?.
minutes slow, and that lie lias only
four minutes left in which to get to
the depot. In a fearful hurry he vtries
to scoop the egg out of the ' ~
shell, but it burns his the' ,u
skin is tough, and after' fooling;-*
with it for a moment itnjwbeg into'- '?
a hopeless mess, and he gets Hiia y.:
lingers smeared. He drops flip,..,.;
whole concern iii disgust, grabs ?. V
hot roll, and.scalds his tongue with Jt
a quicK montfttul ot coffee; then* J
he stuffs the roll in his mouth; white12''
his wife hands him his satchel,Bntlu
tells him she thinks she hearp th$ .
whistle. He plunges madly arounjl,
the room looking tor his umbrella,' V:"
then kisses his wife as well as he \;
can with all that unswallowedllrea#
distending his cheeks,^ says goo^ {
bye to the children in a lump, aj:<l i; '
makes a dash tor the door. *frist ,0
as he goes to the gate hefmjls that
he has forgotten his dnster, aiicf.he
charges back after it, snatched i?""'
up, and tears down the gravel walk " {
in a frenzy, lie doesn't like to ran f it
through the village,, because that s
would be undignified; but be walks
furiously. He goes faster and feat*.V
er. Half way down he does hear '
the whistle for certain. Ho wants '
to run, but he knows that he wilt >
start up the yellow dog. there by the* :
sidewalk if he does. Then he actually
sees the train coming in at the- ..
depot, and he feels that he mis' '
make a rush. He does. The yellow
dog becomes excited; and tearn;
after him. Six'other dogs. join dtfec - *
chase, one after another, aud bark . *
furiously, and frolic around his legs..
Small boys contribute to the excitement
as he gees past, by whistling.
on thcr fincors. anrl tho mpn *rt
work on the new meeting houseknock
oli'to look at liim and laugh.
He fuels ridiculous, but he must.
catch that train, lie feels desperate
when he has to slacken up until. ,
two or three women, who are on
the sidewalk discussing the servant
girl question and the price of butter,
scatter to let him ]pass. He arrives
within one hundred yards of the
depot with duster flying in the wind>
coat-tail horizontal, and the yellow:
dog nipping at his heels, just as
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on extra pressure, and resolves.to:
make that train or perish. lie.
reaches it as the last car is going
past. lie seizes the hand rail, is >
violently jerked around once^or
twice, but finally lands on the step
on his knees, and is hauled in by
his coat-collar by the brakenr.au, r
hot, mad, dusty, with his trousers
torn across; the knees, his sbinB
bruised, and three ribs iu his umbrella
broken. Just as he gets comfortably
into the car the train stops,
backs up on the siding, aud lies
therefor half an hour, while the engineer
fixes a broken valve.
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HEINE.
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In Mr. Stern's Scintillationa from*
Heinrice Heine occur the following
sparks: * * *
Wit isolated is worthless.
In art, form is everything; matter,
nothing.
"W"e must seek the history of poets
in their poems,'and there had
their deepest confidences.
Victor Hugo is the greatest of
French poets.
Byron's death affccted me deeply.
He is the only man with whom I
found myself in sympathy.
njougui is iiivisiuiu nature; nature
is visible thought.
The young girls say: "The gentleman
must be very rich, for he is
very ugly." In like manner the
public says: "The man must be
quite learned, for lie' is excessively
dull." This, in many instances,
accounts for the success of the Germans
in Paris.
I am firmly convinced that a blaspheming
Frenchman is a spectacle
more pleasing to the Lord thau a
praying Euglishman.
In b ranee, courage is polite and
well-bred, and honesty wears gloves
and lifts its hat.
JSTapoleon's words at St. Helena
?that in the early future the whole
world would resolve itself into
American republicanism or Russian
imperialism?nre a most discouraging
prophecy.
" The fold u- doors of the French
salon are open to the most notorious
Messalina so long as her husband
patiently ambles at tier side.
Pretty womeu without religion
are like flowers without perfume.
There is only one writer in whom
I find something that reminds me
of the dire tness of style which is
found iu the Bible. It is Sliak
While translating tho Bible. Lui-ro.'itcfl
the German language.
Psychical pain is more easily
borne than physical, and if I bad
my choice between a bad conscience
and a bad tooth, I should choose
the former.